which is what I'm doing now, so it's good enough for commercial use, but I'm still nasally and I still clear my throat and I'm blowing my nose on camera and every other damn thing. So I'm nowhere near perfect voice.

And then yesterday, something happened. And I tweeted it around. Now I think this is a real story. I'm not sure, but I think it's a real story. As you know, I've offered my personality and appearance and voice to anybody who wants to make an AI product, you know, a deepfake. So anybody who wants to use my personality for AI, I've allowed a full public license with no restrictions. So anything you want to do. Yesterday there was an announcement by an AI company that they decided to use my voice as the main voice of their AI products. And the reason they did it is because they'd looked around at all the voices they could use and they decided that my voice was pleasing enough and persuasive enough, and they use persuasion specifically. They thought my voice had a persuasive quality to it, and they're going to build it into their products.

Now here's the fun part. It won't be a recording of my voice, right? The AI will do an impression of my voice, and it will do a really good one because it has lots of samples to pull from. And when the AI does an impression of my voice, it's going to remove all imperfections. There's actually a really good chance that my voice will become perfect. And I don't think it's going to be as big as Siri or Alexa, but my voice actually might get incorporated in AI and it might be perfect because they would fix it to be so.

Now I've actually, if you've listened to any of my audiobooks that I recorded after I had the voice problem, you might say to yourself, well Scott, you did a whole audiobook and they sounded pretty close to perfect to me. I didn't hear anything wrong at all the entire book. But what you don't know is that my voice is imperfect in reality, but the audio engineers take out all the imperfections so you get to hear it perfect even though it wasn't.

So of all the unlikely things in the world, in 2004 I tested the concept of affirmations with something I literally thought was impossible. Because remember at the time it was an incurable condition. It was incurable, had always been incurable. Nobody had ever been cured. Now turns out a few people had been, and I didn't know about it, through a surgery that only one person was doing, and it was still experimental. And that's what cured me. But I actually used affirmations to accomplish the literal impossibility. Literally impossible. And it just happened where it looks like it's happening. Is that crazy? Is it just blowing my mind because it's about me, or is that actually mind-blowing? Because you know I'm fairly well known for talking about affirmations being a big part of my story. But that one was always the one that got away. That was always the one that got away. And I've always wondered about it. I thought, you know, maybe I just imagined this whole affirmation thing being useful. I don't know. It's so strange.

Let's talk more about Snopes. Yesterday I told you that Snopes, I wasn't covering the fine people hoax. And if they had, it would have changed history. Because if they'd called it a hoax, the left would have believed it presumably, and then Biden would not be able to run on it and everything could have been different. But I did find out that instead of the fine people hoax, which they did seem to ignore, they instead fact-checked whether Trump was quote refusing to condemn white supremacy. So that was the angle they took on it. So they took the larger view that included the debates. So they used the debates as the point of focus to take it away from the fact that he immediately condemned the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville without prompting. He immediately, in his own words, immediately said as soon as he said fine people, a few sentences later he said I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis. So that was the hoax, that he was, but when he wasn't.

So Snopes does this whole thing and they say they actually said that whether or not this was true or false that Trump had quote refused to condemn white supremacy depends on your definition of refused. Do I have to say anything else? It was like it's the Bill Clinton defense. Well it depends on your definition of it. They actually use the Bill Clinton approach. And I'm not going to read you everything they said because if you start off with it depends how you define refused, you know exactly what you're getting, right? And the argument has something to do with when they asked him to do it during the debate, he said sure. And then they said, well would you be willing to condemn them? He said yes. Well would you condemn them? Sure. Does that sound like refusing?

And here's the refusing part. Then apparently I think Biden and maybe the moderator or Mike Wallace were both saying, well then go ahead and do it, go ahead and do it. And then he said, tell me who specifically you want me to condemn. Is that a fair question? Tell me specifically who you're asking me to condemn. That's a fair question, right? Because I'm sure he didn't want to condemn the right wing of the Republican Party, right? Because maybe they would have said that, well I think all the right-wing Republicans are racist, so condemn them. Don't you think you have to ask specifically what do you want me to condemn? I think so.

Now they said the Proud Boys. If you remember the debate, that was the one. All right, about the Proud Boys, condemn them. I think somebody else they mentioned. And he said Proud Boys, you know, stand by and something like that. Now why did he not immediately condemn the Proud Boys? There's an obvious reason, isn't there? I mean besides the fact that they supported him. The obvious reason is I don't think anybody knew exactly what the Proud Boys were up to. Because I didn't. A few years before that I did a podcast interview. I was invited by Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys, who's no longer affiliated, but the founder of the Proud Boys asked me to do an interview. And I didn't know anything about them that sounded negative at the time. So I spent I don't know 45 minutes to an hour talking to him and i