his knee-jerk reaction against a party like the AfD because of course of Germany's past. It's difficult to say. I have friends in different levels of society and the people, the handyman, the people you talk to on the street, they have no qualms in saying they vote AfD and it's nonsense what the elites are doing to the people of Germany as a country. You still have, of course, the elites saying, oh my god, the AfD, no way. It's fascism and we can all go that way again and our history and this and that. So I don't know. I think Europe needs to sink a little bit deeper before it really realizes and it may be too late. I hope not.

Do you think that France will become an Islamic country?

Difficult. We also lived in France. I'm vacationing in France at the moment with my family. It is so difficult. I don't know what to say. I really hope not. Europe has changed. Whether they will make a U-turn and pull the handbrake in time, who knows?

I'm glad to be an American. That's all I can say. Well, we're glad to have you. It's so wonderful to be able to be a part of this. Such an honor. Scott, I love you. Thank you, Shelly, by the way, for being there. It was a very emotional simultaneous sip this morning. Thank you, Owen, for that.

Yeah. Thanks, Owen.

Thank you, Owen.

Glad to do it. Let's bring you back in, Owen. Is there any new tech news or anything we wouldn't be watching while we're being distracted by all this international stuff?

Let me look through my tech stories. I don't know how interesting it is, but there's a change in the FCC. They're going to allow higher powered Wi-Fi. It's going to be able to operate outdoors at higher power.

How much of a difference is that going to make?

It's this new six gigahertz band that they're going to allow and I think it's supposed to support things like AR and VR, short range hotspots, automation and indoor navigation. It doesn't really quantify how much stronger it is, but I know there have been restrictions on that and some people complain about that certainly inside their homes. I have that problem where I have my Wi-Fi router in my basement and it doesn't get into most of my house so I have to add more Wi-Fi spots. And even then it's spotty in places. So I'm kind of looking forward to this to being able to put a really high-powered Wi-Fi in my house. Maybe it'll cause cancer, but might be worth it.

Maybe that's what got me. You never know.

I hope not. Yeah.

You know, one of the things when you get cancer, you go around thinking, what did I do? What did I do? But then I remind myself that for men, the type I have is the most common one. So if I got the most common one, it's hard to complain that it was because of some special case.

Yeah. I mean, I've heard a lot about prostate cancer. I know it is very common in men. I certainly hope to avoid it, but from what I've heard, a lot of the cases are, I don't want to call them benign, but they're kind of contained within the prostate. And you don't even really need to treat it, but I know I've heard that almost every man that reaches a certain age will probably have some level of prostate cancer. So it certainly is a very common condition.

I think he just got really unlucky, got the aggressive kind. Marcela, you have a very good book behind you. Over your left shoulder. What is that book?

Wonder who wrote it. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. Can you see my cat? He's down there.

Oh, yes, I can see.

Diego. He's shy. He's named after Diego Maradona, the soccer player, because he likes to fight.

All right. Do we have anybody else that would like to come in?

I believe it's his birthday.

Hi guys. It's good to be here. Thank you for having me on, Scott. It's been a long time and thank you for everything. I just wanted to say I appreciate you. Love you. It's been a crazy ten years and yeah, just thanks for making me part of your community and giving me a special place and I did my best to fulfill the mission and I'm going to keep going here. Whoever is going to tolerate me, I'll keep doing it. So here I am. So here's to you, Scott. Thank you very much for everything.

It's your birthday today. Is that what you said? Yeah, I'm fifty today.

Happy birthday. That's a big one.

Yeah, it is a big one. So just thanks for having me on. I'm going to sign off now. I just wanted to say my piece and keep on watching and posting some memes now. It's been weird that I haven't been wondering what to do with my thumbs right now and I listen to you and here we are. So I'm going to sign off. So thank you. I'll talk to everyone later.

If I would interject a story that I posted today that I think is good news. Might be a little sensitive for the two of you, Scott and Shel, but fentanyl deaths have dropped in the US significantly. It was over one hundred thousand a year and now it's at eighty-one thousand in 2024. And they're crediting Biden's era as far as you know it happened during his term, but I think a lot of that had to do with Trump in terms of putting pressure on China and it looks like they're chalking it up to a supply disruption during the pandemic that the supply of the precursor chemicals got disrupted somehow and that may have caused a lot less supply to come into the US. And I certainly think Trump had a lot to do with that and I think you had a lot to do with that. So I think you deserve some credit for putting pressure on the administration and putting pressure on China.

Good. It seems like it won't take long to fix the distribution problem, but it's a start.

And who do we have down here? Is it Peter?

Yes, this is Peter. I just wanted to say thank you for all the years. I'm here managing two kids and the dog right now as they build train tracks. But I've been listening to you for pretty much all ten years. Sorry for the odd camera angles as I try to keep my kids' faces off camera. But I've been listening for ten years pretty much every single day. And there's a point at which I tried to stop listening to you because I thought, you know, I need to div