# Anyone listening to "The Diane Rehm Show" on NPR? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-listening-to-the-diane-rehm-show-on-npr/444949 "2008-04-11T21:39:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-listening-to-the-diane-rehm-show-on-npr/444949/21 "2008-04-13T17:07:37Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] In fact I think it’s kind of distinctive. [/QUOTE] So is the voice of Chuckie. That doesn’t mean I want to listen to him interview Paul Wolfowitz. (On second thought, maybe I do want to hear that.) ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-listening-to-the-diane-rehm-show-on-npr/444949/22 "2008-04-13T17:33:40Z")
[QUOTE=Agent Foxtrot] Her show comes on during my drive to school, and when I hear her voice, I can’t help but reach for the dial. The topics on her show are extremely interesting and she has very good experts on as guests, but I can’t get past her voice. I understand the poor woman suffers from an extremely rare form of throat disease which distorts her voice, but she speaks. So. Agonizingly. Slow. My guess is that she’d be able to fit in nearly 50% more content if she just doubled the speed at which she speaks. Thoughts? Please share if you love the show or hate it. [/QUOTE] I actually had to change my travel patterns to avoid hearing her in the car. No offense to her, because her show is top notch on quality, but her voice is just hard to take. ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-listening-to-the-diane-rehm-show-on-npr/444949/23 "2008-04-13T19:33:53Z")
I’m a fan of her show, at least the first hour, but what I really can’t stand is the Kojo and Naaaaaamni show. What kind of accent is that? I don’t know what it is about the way that man says the title of the show, but holy crap it pisses me off. And that’s the last thing I need while fighting the road rage of driving through DC. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-listening-to-the-diane-rehm-show-on-npr/444949/24 "2008-04-14T00:28:33Z")
Kojo Nnamdi is from Guyana: > **[Kojo Nnamdi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojo_Nnamdi)** > > Rex Orville Montague Paul (born January 8, 1945), better known as Kojo Nnamdi (/ˈkoʊdʒoʊ ˈnɑːmdi/ KOH-joh NAHM-dee), is a Guyanese-born American radio journalist based in Washington, D. C. He is the host of The Kojo Nnamdi Show and The Politics Hour on WAMU, and hosted the Evening Exchange broadcast on WHUT-TV from 1985 to 2011. > Nnamdi was born Rex Orville Montague Paul in British Guiana on January 8, 1945. As a high school student, Nnamdi and his friends opposed British colonialism, at odds wit... ---
**Author:** ![flex727](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@flex727](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flex727)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-listening-to-the-diane-rehm-show-on-npr/444949/25 "2008-04-14T00:50:20Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Her voice doesn’t bother me, but her agenda does. [/QUOTE] I’ve never listened to more than a couple of minutes of her show. What is her agenda? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-listening-to-the-diane-rehm-show-on-npr/444949.md?page=1)