tituting weed for stronger drugs? Maybe. I don't know. Maybe it works the other way, but I don't have data on it. Maybe the government is giving out fewer Subutex prescriptions, so fewer people are getting hooked. Maybe. I don't know. But certainly there was action in that direction.

But I'm going to offer the most provocative idea for why maybe ODs went down a little bit for that one year. I think the most likely explanation is we're off the pandemic. Don't you? 4% sounds sort of like just coming off the pandemic high. I don't know if it's real, but I would offer this possibility: all the junkies are dead. You can't kill somebody twice. There might be a logical end to how much the overdose problem can get. In other words, there might be a natural cap to it, and we might have hit it now.

Let me make a bad analogy. If you try to kill a head terrorist like a Bin Laden, it's not really going to stop things because there'll be a second in command. If you kill the second in command, it probably won't stop things because there'll be a third in command. But in theory, the quality of the terrorist goes down every time you kill one, you know, from the top down. Bin Laden, perhaps he was really good at it. Zawahiri, maybe he was really good at it. But when you get to maybe the fifth or sixth terrorist down in the organization chart, I think it probably starts falling apart. Like that fifth best terrorist isn't quite good enough.

But it could be that with the, that's a terrible analogy, maybe the worst I've ever done, but I think the overdoses are limited to people who would have a propensity to it. Once you run out of people who have a propensity, you don't make new ones, right? The people who are never going to become an addict are not going to wake up this morning and something changed. They were born people who were never going to be addicts because there is such a genetic component to this.

And if you take, let's take alcoholism. Alcohol is around 10% of the public. If alcohol killed you at a high rate like fentanyl does, it does kill you but at a higher rate like fentanyl, wouldn't you start running out of drunks? I think you'd actually start running out, you know, if the population has become stable. So it could be that.

Here's my favorite story of the day. Explorers say they found what they believe is the remains of a World War II ace pilot who was down in a jungle ravine. Now he was fairly famous for his exploits as a pilot, but here's the best part. His name is Richard Bong, B-O-N-G. I think his friends probably called him Dick. And if I were going to be a World War II flying ace and my name was Dick Bong, I would feel like I was the coolest person in the world. Well, you know, until I got shot down and died in a ravine in a jungle. But until then, cool name.

So I will be celebrating tonight in the man cave with the rest of the local subscribers, and we will do something, I don't know what, but something that would be appropriate to honor Dick Bong. Maybe some tubing kind of a thing. I don't know. You maybe could come up with an idea.

Well, do you remember when Marjorie Taylor Greene got into a little shouting match in Congress with eyelashes Mickey? Her real name is Representative Crockett. I think it's Jasmine Crockett. And she was talking today and there was some open hearing, and she was touting her credentials. She said, I currently hold an honorary doctorate. I also hold a juris doctorate, a bachelor's degree. She technically holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Civil Air Patrol, and I actually practiced law for almost two decades, in addition to serving on various boards, in addition to being a prior state lawmaker.

So this was in the context of telling somebody that she doesn't understand why you have to choose between qualified and diverse, because she's saying very clearly that she has lots of qualifications and she's diverse. She's Black and she's female. And so why can't they just do more of that? You