April 29, 2022· 42 min

This Is How a Locked-Down Shanghai Apartment Gets Food

Orality
Model
80%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,413 words)
M:29%
HostTracy Alloway(1,437 words)
M:29%
GuestDavid Fishman(4,567 words)
M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic33%
very, definitely, massive
Engagement74%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, like
Repetition100%
like (118x), know (88x), people (65x)
Parallelism82%
And I'm Joe Wasenthal...., So when people joke about ever..., But for people who have to thi...
Sound Patterns92%
70 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases3%
i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging11%
could, might, maybe
Passive Voice10%
been forced, are affected, was communicated
Abstract Nouns18%
investment, information, volatility
Subordination9%
because, since, while
Sentence Length44%
Avg: 16.1 words/sentence
Word Complexity46%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style26%
562 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style84%
monthly, carefully, specifically

Description

Shanghai, a city of nearly 30 million people, is currently under a hard lockdown, as the Chinese government sticks to its Covid Zero strategy of limiting the virus at all costs. There have been some shocking images and stories over the past few weeks of frustrated apartment dwellers unable to go outside or get basic necessities. Some of those things have improved somewhat, and now some residents are able to coordinate and make their own delivery food orders. On this episode, we speak with David Fishman, an energy analyst at the Lantau Group, who, himself, is in a locked down Shanghai apartment complex. He discusses how he's been able to coordinate with other residents to group-buy food and obtain basic essentials. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.