July 29, 2016· 21 min

39: The Insurance Market for Modern-Day Pirates

Orality
Model
86%
Highly oral (epic poetry, sermons, hip-hop)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(824 words)
M:94%
HostJoe Weisenthal(793 words)
M:29%
GuestDana Miller(1,650 words)
M:27%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic33%
totally, very, definitely
Engagement68%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, so, now
Repetition100%
insurance (43x), fishing (36x), illegal (27x)
Parallelism90%
So why would I pay for stuff I..., And I'm Joe Weisenthal, managi..., So, Joe, what if I told you we...
Sound Patterns67%
24 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases6%
i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging20%
might, quite, appear
Passive Voice14%
be excited, be thrilled, was called
Abstract Nouns30%
investment, business, verizon.com/business
Subordination6%
because, though
Sentence Length38%
Avg: 14.5 words/sentence
Word Complexity54%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style32%
245 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
exactly, apply, monthly

Description

This week Odd Lots takes to the high seas to discuss how modern-day pirates in the form of illegal fishers are able to take out insurance policies on their blacklisted boats. We speak with Dana Miller, a marine scientist who published a study last month showing a significant number of insured illegal vessels. We discuss how one of the world's most regulated financial industries interacts with one of the world's most lawless and whether new processes introduced by insurers could help boost the world's supply of fish. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.