April 2, 2018· 36 min
An Economist Explains Why Losing Weight Is Kind Of Like Defeating Inflation
Orality
Model
72%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)
Speaker Breakdown
HostTracy Alloway(1,475 words)
M:93%
HostJoe Weisenthal(782 words)
M:94%
GuestMiles Kimball(3,542 words)
M:28%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic33%
literally, completely, very
Engagement89%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
know (57x), your (48x), about (44x)
Parallelism100%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So, Tracy, we've been working ..., And we've been doing Three yea...
Sound Patterns60%
38 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases13%
let me tell you, you know what, i mean
Literate Indicators
Hedging11%
maybe, probably, could
Passive Voice11%
was raised, been fascinated, is interested
Abstract Nouns15%
investment, recommendation, question
Subordination9%
while, because, until
Sentence Length44%
Avg: 16.1 words/sentence
Word Complexity46%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers5%
according to
Impersonal Style11%
563 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style84%
literally, completely, really
Description
A lot of people would probably agree that there's something wrong with much of the traditional advice in how to lose weight -- or at least how it's implemented. The economist Miles Kimball has lost weight using a different approach. He's increased his fat intake and gone for long stretches of time without eating anything at all. On this week's Odd Lots podcast, Kimball, a prolific blogger and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, explains what got him interested in fasting, obesity research, and the similarities between weight loss and fighting inflation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.