we need.

There's a new paper that claims that everything you know about the universe expansion is wrong. Futurism is writing about this. Victor Tangermann. Not everybody agrees, but if you've ever followed Scott, stop all the scenarios of if I'm right. How about you give me a reason? How about you do your own podcast and don't give me advice in the middle of the podcast? How about that? How's your podcast doing with all your good advice? Don't be an, it's like you could turn your end and your off just for an hour to watch one podcast. You don't have to be that guy. You really don't. You can simply be a nicer person and then people would like you more. You get invited to more. I'm guessing you don't get invited to anything. Am I right? Probably nothing based on what I've seen so far.

All right. China is pretending it's going to do something about fentanyl. And according to The Hill, D.D. Tang writes that China said on Monday that's going to pledge to crack down on chemicals that can be used to make fentanyl. Huh. What does that remind you of? They didn't actually ban the fentanyl chemicals. They just made a pledge to crack down on it. Well, that sounds a lot like the deal that Schumer got. Well, we'll promise to talk about it later before we don't give it to you. No, I do not believe that China did a damn thing at all about fentanyl. Did they promise that they would do a damn thing about fentanyl? Maybe. Maybe they said they would. Do I think that they will? Why would I think that? They haven't done anything that they said they would do yet. I mean, nothing meaningful. So I'm going to say that's a lie from China. And we'll never see that.

All right. Hey, timing was pretty good. Pretty good.

All right. That's all I got for you today. I'm going to talk a little bit privately with the good folks, my beloved subscribers. For those of you who got here a little late, did you know that the 2026 Dilbert calendar is available right now? You can buy it on Amazon. You'd have to be an American or use Amazon.com, the American version, if you had a way to do that. I don't know if there is, but I hear there is.

All right. Thank you. How did you enjoy the show? Did I tell you anything you didn't know? But here's what I'm most interested in. I'm not searching for a compliment, although I like them. So if you have a compliment, I'm sure I'd enjoy it. But when I did the you're sitting in the class and you're going to take a test, I'd love for you to tell me how powerful that was because as I was doing it, even I could feel it. Like you actually feel good persuasion. You just feel it more than you think it. And I wondered if you could feel that. Okay. Getting a lot of yeses. Good. And that should be one of the best lessons you've ever gotten on persuasion because I actually brought you into it. You know, I didn't just tell you about it. I brought you into the center of the persuasion and you could feel what it was like from the inside. Pretty amazing.

All right. Before I go to my beloveds on Locals, I'll give you a little update. I don't know if this is temporary or not, but today's the first day in memory, probably since June at least, that I've not been in pain in the morning. I'm not in pain. There's not a single part of my body that hurts right now. And that is really rare. If you've got advanced cancer, that's really rare. I'm not on any pain meds. No pain meds right now. Nothing at all. And I don't have any pain. So I don't know if that means everything's working. See, here's the trick. The trick is that cancer is highly variable. So for no reason at all, things will hurt like crazy, but then a day later you won't be in pain or the pain will move from one part of your body to a completely different one. So cancer is real tricky. So the fact that at the moment it doesn't hurt like crazy. Yesterday it hurt like crazy. I was in so much pain at exactly this time yesterday, it's hard to even describe. I bluffed my way through the podcast, but boy did it hurt. The moment, no pain at all.

Now, I've taken the radiation on my back, just one spot, not my whole body. That may have worked. I took the Pluvicto, just the first of what will be six doses. It's a little too early for that to work, but if it would work, I might see the first indications of it after a week. And I did the bioshield with Dr. Sunil Shan and the bioshield should also take a week or two before you see any difference and it's been what, a week and a half. So we're right on the cusp of where I can say it's probably more related to the treatments than it is to some just ordinary variability. But I can't quite say that yet. We're not quite there, but we're right on the edge of I wish I could say, "Oh, this shit's working." It might be. Yeah, I don't really have a second explanation why I'm not in pain. Might be working. And that would be amazing.

All right, people. I will see you tomorrow. And my beloveds, I will be coming at you right now. Assuming my technology works, and it