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Unedited Episode Notes

 Welcome to the Paul Truesdell podcast, a Paul in a pod. Most of the Paul Truesdell podcast involve Paul the elder, and every once in a while, we have Paul the younger. And so when there's two Pauls, we call it what else the Paul Truesdell podcast, two Pauls in a pod. Let's get started.

I read a post on Facebook where a gentleman that I know said that you should wipe your grocery cart down because of all the drug use out there, and specifically over fentanyl. I thought it was really interesting because it made a lot of sense. And I will be honest, I haven't, at times, cleaned my shopping cart. I probably should, but yeah, that made a lot of sense to me. So I went online and I looked up, and of course, you know, it's by way of Snopes. They say, Oh no, this isn't true, and law enforcement is not telling people to do this. And you look at every one of the ABC type alphabet websites out there, and they're all saying, Nope, nope, nope, nope. Not true. Not true. You can't hardly. Well, there is a chance. It's very low probability. But here's the thing I was thinking about, COVID and mass. Now just think about this for a second. Those masks that we wore right supposed to keep us safe, which it didn't. It doesn't keep you safe. Keep you from spreading. If you sneeze, the majority of your spittle will get in the mask, and mask wearing is completely fine if you're sick and you got to get out, like, let's say you know, you got a cold or the flu, and you've got to go to the drugstore, and you need to go into the store to get some things, and instead of just going through the drive through, so you go in, right? You go in and you wear a mask. Completely fine. I have no problem with that, but I do have a problem with Fauci and everybody in the world screaming and hollering how these masks were going to protect you. Now, just think this thing through. So on one hand, you wear the mask, and you were supposed to wipe everything down because of the COVID virus, but if somebody was using some type of drug and it got on their hands, it was on their clothes, it then transfers to a grocery cart, but the chances of you having an overdose are next to zero, right? You have homeless people that use grocery carts all the time. You see them, right? You see these winos and bums out there. And so I did a little research about how often do grocery stores have a protocol for cleaning their grocery carts? I didn't spend a lot of time I gave up, although I did see that somebody charges between 50 cents to $1 to pressure wash carts. That made sense, right? You're pressure washing carts. And then I saw a thing where somebody had a hold article about the importance of having service a service schedule for your grocery carts. You know, not just cleaning the handles or cleaning everything else. Kids sit in the grocery carts, right? So, I mean, there's a lot of issues there that people might want to think about. On the other hand, you could get so germaphobic and, you know, scared of everything in life, and make sure your life a little bit, you know, isn't worth living. So the bottom line is, I think, you know, ounce of little bit of prevention is ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I think that makes a lot of sense. I will tell you what I carry. I don't carry it on a regular basis, based upon what I've read here. Just now, I am going to start carrying more I used to carry during COVID. I carried a little bottle, little spray bottle, and I had alcohol in it. So simple rubbing alcohol, and I'd spray it very liberally, because it dries real quickly. Doesn't cause any staining. And, yeah, I spray surfaces galore when, when COVID was going on, which I think I probably got COVID, maybe I was down and out for maybe a day at most. But of course, you know, I'm a super spreader, and since I didn't get the shot and didn't get the 37 you know, booster shots, I'm a probably super spreader, COVID, 30 7b simplex, 12. But yeah, the drug thing does, however, concern me. I can see someone like a crazy Walter White using a grocery cart, and somehow or another is cooking meth and winds up getting a raid, and the cops, you know, drag it out to the street, and somebody else grabs it and winds up getting back in circulation. And I don't know, does that stuff stick on very long? Those handles are porous. You know, does it work its way in? I don't know. What I do know is, again, like I said, now it's a prevention is worth a pound of cure. So wiping a cart down, regardless of whether it's for transferring germs or drugs, makes sense. But I find it interesting that somebody writes an article saying, Nope. Nope, that's not the case. Not a big deal. Don't worry about it. And then every other cockamamie news outlet picks up on it. It's identical, maybe a little bit of a spin, but it's the same damn thing again. Like I say, there is no new there nothing new out there. It's the same old crap over and over and over. Hey, it is what it is. Well, if you're like me, you're using the internet as a library, and I do research all the time. I want to share something with you, which I probably should not think is commonly known, but I'm going to share it anyway. If you have a phone or a laptop or an iPad, or you have a desktop, or, say, a laptop with a ...