I'm so happy that this thread exists. I listen to The Daily despite the bias, and I loathe Marbaro's voice and manner of speech. In fact, after at least a couple of years of listening to this show, I honestly cannot tell what he is saying for his sign off: "here's...what else..you need...t'innerday" is my best transliteration of his bizarre halting/super-rushed final line.
Please don't tell me what he's really saying though
Are we finally piling on the Breathless Michael Babaro?
To quote Lizzo, it’s about damn time!
bop wrote:
hank jr wrote:
I am with you. I don't understand why he has the flow he does when speaking. When he's ordering lunch, does he....talk....like this.... "I'd like...a, cheeseburger...with...no pickles...and.....french fries. and a drink."
I also hate his relentless use of the sound "huh" and "mmmmh" when he's letting someone else talk.
+1. Thanks for chiming in. Feels good not to be alone on this.
Thanks to the others for the suggestions.
I H A T E his voice. He sounds like a valley girl robot! I often am like "why did I stop listening," and 10 seconds in, I am like UGH! His voice is nails on a chalkboard. I am from Boston and I HATE the bOston accent. It is the podcast version of the Boston Accent!!!!!
Never heard of this guy until seeing this thread but I pulled up a clip on YouTube. Yeah, the OP has a point. This guy is mega annoying.
When he does his interviews, he sounds pretty normal --- it's when he is talking on his own (introducing the show, reporting on news of the day, etc.) that he has this annoying halting way of speaking. He had one show several years ago where he had a speech coach on and apparently that's how he got this annoying speaking cadence. He must know that his listeners are annoyed with his speech pattern so why he doesn't stop it is beyond me.
Guest: So yes, you could say that Congress passed the bill because of bipartisan sup...
Barbaro: MMMMMMMMmmmmmm!
Guest: ...port.
Omg I heard her for the first time today, reporting on the Trump indictment. I was legit concerned about her: She sounded so weak and lethargic and distracted and almost sick. I couldn’t really listen and get the meaning of what she was saying.
While I appreciate your opinion I was curious as to how this might disproportionately affect black, brown, and the LGBTQ people.
For NPR, I really dislike Glenn Weldon who hosts art/culture stuff for the art desk. He sounds like a teen pretending to be an announcer. There's speaking clearly and then there's whatever Glenn does. I have heard the same cadence done by the YouTuber Adam Ragusea? Maybe it's a regional dialect I'm not aware of?
No real issue with the content, just dislike listening to the host.
Barbaro has a separate contract with APM, which then distributes to NPR. The podcast and the NPR series are separate products under the same brand. So Barbaro works for both NYT and APM. Like many journalists, he has more than one outlet sharing his work.
Regarding his voice, this is nothing new to public radio. Between vocal fry and the off pacing, it is often a technique used by radio personalities to develop a differentiator.
A couple years ago, they had a segment called “Driving While White”, in which white people called and told their story about when they were pulled over by cops but not ticketed or arrested. Some were actually crying, saying that if they were black, this or that would have happened. Cringiest radio I’ve ever heard, and I consider myself fairly liberal.
Right, like Paul Harvey wasn't annoying AF with his overused shtick.
One of NPRs problems is that they always use the outcome data to suggest racism without mentioning the variables. Drives me nuts.
“The so and so police department is racist because they stop blacks 20% more than whites”
The laziest of takes is how ____ (insert anything bad) will disproportionately affect black people.
If blacks are poor, then anything bad is going to be even worse. A heat wave, a blizzard, a tornado, a recession, a depression, you name it. If it's bad for everyone, when you are poor it's going to be even worse for you (black or white.)
Adjusting for crime rates, aren’t whites disproportionately searched then?