I listened to part of his testimony, and may listen to some more. But his delivery was IRRITATING, IRRITATING. He spoke WAY too fast. Not as bad as Ben Shapiro, but IRRITATING.
Why doesn’t someone take these two (and there may be others) aside and teach them how to speak? It would not be difficult. There’s nothing wrong with what they’re saying, it’s all in the delivery.
I once heard a tape of Ben Shapiro where they had artificially slowed it down and lowered his pitch. He sounded good. As it is, I CANNOT listen to him.
Yeah—good point about speech patterns.
I listen to a lot of podcasts—and nothing is more frustrating than a speaker that is hard to understand.
In my school days I was on debating teams. Our coaches trained us—speak slowly, speak clearly, speak in short sentences, stick to a coherent narrative—don’t jump around timelines. Pronouns are another “don’t”. Identify people by name—multiple pronouns in a sentence make it very confusing for the listener to figure out who “he” or “they” are.
One other trick—no lengthy introduction, no summary at the end.
Say what you have to say—honor the time of your listener.
The other rule—the more complex the topic the more critical it is to be clear and concise.
It works.
Before I retired I had to discuss highly complex topics with professional audiences.
After I covered a particularly difficult point I would pause and look out at the audience—make sure I still had their attention.
Those tips were critical—because communication is not what you say it is what your audience understands.
I can do that on my phone, at least when I listen to podcasts, or maybe it’s only some podcasts. TBH, I’ve only done it by accident, but now I see that might be helpful at times.
You could check your device(s) and see if any enable you to do that.
I share your observations about Ben Shapiro and stopped listening to him for the same reason. Tucker could use a voice coach to help him sound less like teenage boy whose voice is changing.
Agreed. Ben Shapiro speaks much faster than I can listen.