December 20, 2021· 40 min

Gene Seroka on What’s Happening Now at the Port of LA

Orality
Model
71%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,293 words)
M:28%
HostTracy Alloway(1,085 words)
M:29%
GuestGene Seroka(4,237 words)
M:27%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic17%
literally, clearly, very
Engagement68%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, like, well
Repetition100%
like (49x), what (44x), your (37x)
Parallelism75%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., And also, I mean, we kind of h..., So I know Bloomberg Economics ...
Sound Patterns37%
28 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases3%
i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging11%
may, maybe, appears
Passive Voice10%
are nuanced, are worked, are docked
Abstract Nouns24%
investment, business, chase.com/business
Subordination9%
because, while, since
Sentence Length49%
Avg: 17.2 words/sentence
Word Complexity48%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers4%
according to
Impersonal Style32%
510 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style85%
apply, supply, literally

Description

There's no single measure we can look at to tell us whether supply chains are improving or not. There are some signs of easing (such as the number of containers sitting at the ports) but other signs are still getting worse (such as the number of ships waiting to dock). So what's really going on? And are the White House's efforts at easing the strain actually bearing fruit? On this episode we speak with Gene Seroka, Executive Director of the Port of Los Angeles, who we last spoke to in the summer, about the actual situation on the ground. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.