out that Hunter? He went to Albania. Really? Yeah. So what? Well, you know, Albania is our enemy. Yeah, well a lot of people go there. You know, he talked to somebody important in the government. Really? That's kind of sketchy. But you know, probably people do that. It's no big deal. You know, you talk to people in the government and they talked about making a deal. And I thought, oh, huh. That's my eyebrow goes up a little bit. But talking about a deal, as you know, people talk. It's not illegal to talk. But they actually made a deal. Oh, we made a deal. He's in Albania. He's talking to important people. He talked about a deal. He made a deal. Well, that does sound a little bit bad.

And the deal would have involved maybe something bad involving our government. Really? By the time you hear the whole story, you've been so indoctrinated into it that you've lost your outrage and you can't get enough outrage going. The Hunter Biden story, if you had heard the entire story like in one big bite on day one, your head would have exploded. Biden would have been driven out of office or never been elected. Hunter would be under investigation. But the way they dribbled it out, we just got used to it.

What I hear is that Hunter Biden was illegally, presumably, trying to make deals with the Chinese government to make money by using his father's name in the worst possible way. I don't even have outrage about it. I have intellectual outrage. Yeah, okay, that sounds very bad on paper. If you gave me a choice, I would make it go away. I think maybe the Department of Justice should look into it. That was my entire emotional investment. None. I have no emotional investment in Hunter because of the way they just dribbled it out and I just kept getting used to it. Yeah, they were just boiling that frog. And I was like, oh sure, it's getting warm in here. Ah, it's just one degree warmer than yesterday. That's only a little bit worse than what we heard.

And now we have like his actual business partner confirming the entire illegality of the entire thing in the most credible way. I mean completely credible. We know that the intelligence agencies intentionally got 50 people to lie and that they changed the nature of the election by this lie probably. Now how outraged should you be by this story? It's a 10 out of 10. It is a solid 10 out of 10. How outraged do I actually feel about it? One. One. And I'm completely aware that it should be 10. It should be 10.

Today when I'm done talking about this, I won't even think about it once. I will not think about it once after I'm done talking today. They did that to you. That's what they did to you. They made you get used to that and you did. Amazing. I didn't think it was possible. You know, I've said this a million times. My mother always taught me that you can get used to anything if you do it long enough, including hanging. Yeah, there was always a joke around the house, but we got used to it. We actually got used to Hunter Biden working deals with China while his dad was vice president at the time.

Bill Gates is criticizing ESG directly. And he basically says that it's ridiculous for these fund managers, people who manage financial funds, to be influencing people who make steel. Because, I'm paraphrasing now Bill Gates's criticism, but he's saying, do the finance people have another way to make steel? Like what's the other way to make steel without polluting? He's like, what is your idea? Do you have something in your desk drawer at your finance department that'll tell them how to make steel without polluting? You either have to not make steel or you better invent something that makes that nobody's figured out how to make steel or just do without it.

So Bill Gates is going right at them. Now why does Bill Gates think that ESG is not the goals? He's not criticizing the goals of having a good environment, of course, because he was the owner of a company. He was the owner of a company and he's speaking at an age where he could just speak freely. Of course it's bad for business. Every CEO will tell you you don't want another layer of management on top of your layers of management. There's nobody in the world who thinks extra layers of regulations gives you a better outcome. I mean at some point, some regulations you need of course, but when you get to some point they're counterproductive.

So Bill Gates is saying, here's some numbers I hadn't heard before, but BlackRock is one of the biggest voices for the ESG stuff. And it's making the socially responsible funds, as the Wall Street Journal says, the centerpiece of its 8.5 trillion dollar business. So you've got finance companies who figured out how to get you to churn because that's their business. I don't know if you knew this, but finance companies, they're not in the business of making money for you. Did