ou might be sending me email that I don't see, but your process is not quite connecting the dots. So I would be live streaming there if I could.

Remember I told you that a lifelong weird dream of mine came true. This is the weirdest thing. You know I've told you too many stories about unusual successes in my life, things which were totally unlikely, such as becoming a famous cartoonist, being a number one author, you know, best-selling author, getting invited to the White House. So I've had all these weird, weird things. And the weirdest of all was I always had a dream to be a lyricist. And apparently that came true without any effort on my part, because some of my podcast stuff has been turned into music by adding music to it. And the product is called Meaning Wave. You could just Google it and you'll find the music by Akira the Don. And there's some new music coming out. But Akira messaged me and reminded me that here I'd been crowing about the fact that I had accomplished this highly unusual goal of being a lyricist with no musical training. I don't even listen to music much. I mean, rarely. And it was the most unlikely goal I've ever had in my life, and it actually happened.

But as Akira pointed out, there's something even more unlikely about it that I somehow missed. I somehow didn't even notice that I'm also a vocalist, because it's my actual voice that appears in the songs. That was just samples of my voice. But what were the odds that I would go from literally not being able to speak — I'll remind you of this story. Many of you have already heard it. A number of years ago I lost the ability to speak for about three and a half years to a rare condition called spa