last, right? I bought a little extra time with the testosterone blockers, but they fail after a while. Predictably, they fail. So I'm in that failure range where things are getting much worse, but my solution is getting closer and closer. No, it's not a solution. It's a chance of a solution. Maybe a good solid 30% chance it buys me some meaningful extra time, but we're only talking months. We're only talking months.

If I were one of the rare people where the tumors just disappeared, which could happen by the way with that drug, it's just not the common experience. The other thing you need to know is that I've upped my painkillers. I won't be more specific than that, but wow, am I high right now. I am so high on painkillers. Legally prescribed painkillers. So for the first time that you've seen me in months, I'm in no pain whatsoever. I have no mental pain. I have no physical pain. This is the first time you've seen me out of pain since a year ago, probably a year ago. So I'm having a really good day and I had a good night's sleep and who knows what's going to happen next.

So there's a story by the BBC that says your hormones might be controlling your mind. Do you think they needed to do that study to find out that your hormones might control how you're thinking? That's literally the most obvious thing in the world. No, you didn't need to do that. Just ask me, Scott, do you think that people's hormones will affect their thoughts? Yes. Yes. But they're taking it further, trying to figure out how to change the hormones so it'll fix your mental problems. But yes, your body is your brain, as I tell you often.

All right, here's another one. Did they need to do this study? Eric Dolan from PsyPost is writing that negativity drives engagement on political TikTok. How many of you were unaware that if you do negative things on TikTok and social media, you get more response than if you do positive things? Didn't everybody know that?

But I would like to introduce a competing thought. Being as I am a professional humorist and professional writer and specifically a cartoonist who writes short, punchy, funny things, I believe that when I do a positive post that's all upside and makes people feel good, those are just as viral as the negative stuff. What's different is it's harder to do. It's really easy to do negative stuff. You're usually just forwarding something that somebody else sent around. But if you wanted to do something that would make people inspired and happy, you could do it, but it's sort of a high bar. If you're not a professional writer, you're not going to hit that too often. But if you are, positivity can sell. It's just much harder to produce.

Well, almost every day I tell you there's a new study about hallucinogens doing good things for people. Here's one. This is also Eric Dolan in PsyPost. That long-term ayahuasca use is linked to distinct emotional brain activity and higher resilience. Now, what's different about this? And by the way, I don't recommend ayahuasca. I'm pretty sure that that's one of the more dangerous ones. I'm not an expert on this, but don't take this as a recommendation. You should look at the risks. But the people who are long-term users of it, I guess some people do it more as a lifestyle, religious kind of thing, their brains are actually different and the difference is a positive. And this is also interesting. Apparently they can use machine learning to determine just by looking at your brain if you've used ayahuasca for a long time with 75% chance that they would get it right. So it actually changes yo