or in other people's misfortune. That's not true. I do like finding humor in other people's misfortune, but not if they know about it. I think it's very impolite to laugh at people's misfortune if they're likely to hear it. But if nobody knows, sometimes other people's misfortune can be funny because at our base we're very small and terrible people. But don't let anybody know about that. We'll try to keep up a good front.

Okay, but here's the story. Do you recall that the Biden administration had an employee who was the first gender non-binary official, an individual named Sam Brinton? Now Sam is the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy.

Poor Sam can't get any real work done because he spends all of his time telling people where he works. He'll come to work and the phone will ring and say, "Who is this?" And he'll say, "Hello, this is Sam Brinton, deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy." Hello, hello. And then the caller is hung up because they just don't have that kind of time.

So that's the first problem. First problem is title too long. I don't know how he gets his work done. Second problem: he is accused of stealing luggage from an airport carousel. Now you might ask yourself, what kind of person who has a nice job steals luggage from a carousel? What are you going to find in the luggage? Get yourself a really sweet hair dryer? Like, I mean, he doesn't have any hair actually, but what would be the point of that?

Well, it turns out there's an expensive kind of luggage which I never heard about, a Vera Bradley suitcase, which could be worth over two thousand dollars. Would you recognize a two-thousand-dollar suitcase if you saw it? I don't. I don't feel like I would even recognize an expensive suitcase. They kind of look similar to me. But apparently Sam, according to allegations — we only know the allegations — stole that suitcase. And not only is they — I think Sam is a they — not only is they on video, video security, taking the bag, but also on video using the bag on a few different occasions. So there doesn't seem to be too much confusion about what's really going on. Actually stole the bag.

Now here's the punchline. The punchline doesn't require any addition. All right, I'm just going to tell you the story, the actual details as we know them, and that's the punchline. All right, I'm just going to put two facts together. The person who is the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy didn't know that the airport has security cameras. Didn't see that coming. Probably thought to they self, well they are never going to find they. They will take this bag and they will never know who took it. They will be walking around with this brand new twenty-three-hundred-dollar bag, and want on everybody who thinks they can stop me. But it turns out that the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy never saw this coming. The whole video security game. Didn't see it coming.

So that's the punchline. I got nothing else to add to that. Didn't see it coming. All right. I'm glad we've got people who can not see five minutes in the future in charge of our nuclear assets.

So if you noticed that ESG is dying right on schedule, does it seem unusual to you that I declared that I would kill it before the end of the year and it looks like it's limping into December pretty wounded? Now does it? I've asked this before but I'm going to lead into something here. Does it feel like I sometimes control the simulation?