me call it the simulsip. And it happens now.

Go.

Well, here's a little thing that snuck up on you. Many of you know my story that a number of years ago I lost my ability to speak. I won't go through the whole story, but it was an exotic problem called spasmodic dysphonia. And I could make noise, but it wouldn't be intelligible. My vocal cords would clench when I tried to speak. It's a rare disorder. And it took me three years to figure out what to do. And I found the only doctor in the world who had a surgery that could fix it. It was risky, but I took it, and they fixed it.

So there are tens of thousands of people in the world right now who can't speak, can't have a conversation, because they don't know that that one surgery that fixes this exists. You know, they go to their doctor, their doctor doesn't know about it. So I did spend a lot of time doing some outreach and trying to tell people that it exists as an option, etc.

But here's what I wanted to tell you. During those years when I couldn't speak, every time I got in my car, almost every time alone, I would repeat an affirmation. And the affirmation was that I, Scott Adams, will speak perfectly. Now, this was a ridiculous affirmation for two reasons. Number one, prior to having any voice problems whatsoever, I had a terrible voice. So what are the odds that I would go from not being able to speak at all all the way past my normal terrible voice to something closer to perfect? Very low, given that the problem with my voice was literally incurable at that time. It was literally incurable. You know, when I first got it, even the doctor who cured it didn't have the cure yet. He was still around trying to find it.

But something happened in the last, I don't know, it feels like the last few weeks, which is, I don't know if it's because my allergies are not bothering me, I don't know if i