Part one of a two-part interview with Dr. Jody Shipka, who was the featured presenter at the Digital Writing and Research Lab's 2014 Speaker Series.

An interview with Collin Brooke, the featured speaker at the DWRL's 2015 Speaker Series event. Dr. Brooke talks about Kenneth Burke's master tropes, connections between rhetoric and network studies, and the concept of entropy. Dr. Brooke will be hosting a workshop on rhetoric and networks at the 2015 Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute in Madison, Wisconsin.

In light of the proposition of the State of Texas's House Bill 3389, which would limit the distribution rights of smaller Texas breweries, the Zeugma podcast team interviews head brewer Bob Galligan of Hops & Grain Brewery in Austin. We discuss the tight-knit community of craft beer brewers and drinkers in the city, and the future of the craft brew movement in Austin and beyond.

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Austin, Texas: home to live music, weird vibes, and many, many food trucks. In this episode, we interview food truck experts on both sides of the register in order to discuss the rhetorical appeal of food trucks and why that appeal is so successful here in Austin. From the patron's point-of-view, food trucks are a polarizing part of food culture. For the people who run the food trucks, the truck is a fun and practical way to do what they love. Warm thanks go to our new food truck friends at Melvin's Deli Comfort, Hey!... You Gonna Eat or What?, Mighty Cone, and Skinny Limits.

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Canvassing, fundraising and philanthropy are practices that rely heavily on emotional rhetorical appeals that have been around for millenia. Beginning with Aristotle's discussion of emotion in the Rhetoric, we ask several experienced Austin fundraisers what has changed and what stays the same when raising cash for a cause goes online. What do classical emotional appeals look like with modern media?

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In Austin, Texas, the honky tonk offers more than inexpensive beer and a place to two-step to the sound of the pedal steel guitar. For locals, it also provides a retreat from the fast, commercial rhythms of the metropolis growing relentlessly around them. In this episode, which continues Zeugma's investigation of Austin's "weirdness," we visit a couple of honky tonks and reflect on their history and their contributions to the city's cultural life. We also speak with Christine J. Warren, whose book Honky Tonk Debutante: The History of Honky-Tonk Music as I Care to Tell It (2014) chronicles the popularization of the jukebox and the heyday of the Texas honky-tonk community.

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Since its founding in the late 1830s, our home city of Austin, Texas, has been known by various names--Bat City, the City of the Violet Crown, and the Live Music Capital of the World, to name just a few. In this episode, the Zeugma team explores the history of Austin's nicknames and some of the ways that the city has transformed itself into a hub of tourist and musical activity. We also hear from a few Austinites who question whether or not the city is living up to its reputation for "weirdness."

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"The Intersection of Rhetoric and Technology." This is a phrase we bandy about in Zeugma, the Digital Writing and Research Lab, and the broader field of rhetorical study. But what, exactly, does it mean? On what map is it located? In this episode, the Zeugma team takes to the streets to find some answers.

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