ng sound interesting and the secret is that you punch words randomly and it's the randomly part that blows your mind. You're like randomly? Shouldn't you punch the important words? Yeah doesn't seem to matter. I mean you could but it's the variety that's really drawing people in. So when Joe Biden does his whisper thing that everybody makes fun of it totally works. It's just that he whispers things that aren't important. If he made his whispering light up with his also most important points you know that were shocking or something that would be better but he often says ordinary things in a whisper. It's a good technique. Now I don't know if you notice because I'm conscious of it now but I try to go up and I try to go down and I try to give you a lot of variety but I also give you pauses like that because they drive you crazy don't they? When you're expecting something and then you get the pause like that it just makes you crazy but it also makes you pay attention. So I mean I don't pause that long usually.

Now in terms of the actual voice production the trick to use is the humming happy birthday. You've heard me say this before. If you hum happy birthday so that it produces a hum in the mask of your face it's called you know sort of the nose mouth part that gets your voice production out of your throat and larynx and lungs. Because if you produce your voice in the lower part of your body let's say from here down if that's what's doing most of the work it will sound tight and constrained and people won't want to listen to it. But if you hum happy birthday and then talk directly after it in the same production way you get something closer to a perfect voice. I shall demonstrate. And now the next thing I say is almost perfectly produced because I've moved my production up to the top of my head and when I move it up here it sounds more confident, more clean, more sonically appropriate. I don't know in some way it just sounds better. But now let's see if I can take it back. So I'm going to bring my voice production down. Now it's down here. So now I'm going to be talking on my, it's hard to actually do it wrong now. I've done it right for so many years but there is a technique and part of the technique is to not be too low which is counterintuitive. You would think that a male voice would sound better if it's lower and there's something to that. I mean we do have some preference for that. I think it tells you there's some testosterone there or something but far more important than how deep your voice is is how confident it is and how clean it is. If your voice is both clean and confident then you sound masculine enough. Method acting tips yeah and the way you breathe also will change how you talk. That's a Mel Gibson trick. You should breathe the way you want to be acting. So if you were playing an actor who was afraid of something work on how you would breathe if you were afraid of something and then when you talk you'll be talking in the way that a person who is afraid would talk because you've breathed that way so it just puts you in the moment. You think the head chest voice description is the opposite. I think if you look into it you'll find out that I'm right. It does sound I realize it sounds counterintuitive but that's actually part of the point is that it is counterintuitive.

All right. Any more secrets from behind the curtain? I'm not going to tell you any more secrets from behind the curtain. I mean I can't think of one that fits the need but there is a secret that is seeping out from behind the curtain and I can see it but you can't see it yet because there's a pattern that you haven't noticed. There's a certain pattern that's sneaking out so you'll see it in some news. I think I've seen it in several news items and so far nobody has connected the dots. If they ever do it will be the biggest story in the whole world but I don't think it's ever going to happen. And the beauty of it is that if you don't know the story there's no amount of evidence of it that you'll be able to put together. You just couldn't put it together. Let's just say that a lot of the things that happen in the world spring from the same source or sources and it's just not obvious but someday it will be. Someday it will be.

Am I still good friends with the psychic? No I haven't talked to the psychic in years. Did your spasmodic dysphonia affect the sound of your laugh? I mean it affected all of my sounds but I don't think it improved it n