January 5, 2023· 40 min

Flexport CEO Says a ‘Great Recession’ Is Here for Global Shipping

Ryan Petersen

Orality

Model

88%

Highly oral (epic poetry, sermons, hip-hop)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,394 words)

M:29%

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,595 words)

M:29%

GuestRyan Petersen(4,654 words)

M:27%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic23%

definitely, absolutely, crazy

Engagement68%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, like, so

Repetition100%

like (153x), know (82x), they (76x)

Parallelism81%

And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So, Tracy, it seems it seems Y..., But I I think I think they've ...

Sound Patterns67%

57 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases5%

at the end of the day, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging8%

may, relatively, could

Passive Voice2%

being loaded, are picked, are imposed

Abstract Nouns18%

investment, community, business

Subordination7%

because, although, until

Sentence Length38%

Avg: 14.6 words/sentence

Word Complexity46%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style32%

573 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style77%

apply, supply, definitely

Description

Back in early 2021, Ryan Petersen was one of the first people we spoke to on the Odd Lots podcast about supply chain snarls and high shipping costs. The founder and co-CEO of Flexport has since gone on to become a go-to name in the world of logistics, making headlines after he tweeted about what could be done to fix congestion at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. (A Bloomberg Opinion columnist called it the "tweetstorm that saved Christmas.") But fast forward two years and it seems like we're on the verge of a sharp reversal for the shipping industry, with freight rates now plunging and container traffic to the US down almost 20% last month. On this episode, we talk catch up with Petersen to talk about what he's seeing in the industry right now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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