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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 big screen, everything is different, meaning, what you do when you're on the internet is totally different. So for me, I have a very large computer screen. In fact, I'm getting ready to get another computer screen to stack on top of one of my working offices. I have several working offices, and I want a very large screen, because I have a large desk. I throw papers around. I'm looking at things. I want a lot of desktop space, but one of the things that I do is I use Safari a lot, because we're an Apple Company. Everything is Apple based, and so I do a lot of research, and I organize things into folders, and I bookmark and I use different folders for different research topics that are relevant. So here's what you can do. You open a new window in Safari, and let's say you want to look up tadpoles. So you're going to start researching tadpoles. Why you're going to do it? I have no idea, but maybe you're deciding that, yeah, there's a lot of tadpoles in your neighborhood, and we're not talking about little kids. We're talking about actual hoppy hoppies, okay, those kind of tadpoles. So you're gonna, you decide I'm gonna make tadpole soup. Don't know why you would do that to me. Kind of sounds a little weird. Maybe you're gonna, like, cut the legs off and have frog legs. I don't know. Don't care, but that today was what we're gonna do, right? Something Tarzan and Jane might do with boy and cheetah. So you create a bunch of you're searching. You're going, Oh, well, let me look at this. Let me look at that. Let me go to this. And instead of reading everything right now, what you can do is start bookmarking. But more than just bookmarking, you can create a button, and you can share everything into your toolbar and just add it as a bookmark. Okay, but then you can create folders. So creating folders, there's top level folders for broad research, and you can create folders within folders for subcategories. If you haven't done this, a couple really great videos online. Here's I'm doing. I'm just a podcast. This is Audio, by the way, a podcast should mean iPod, which is, you know, audio. And years ago, you know, the word podcast kind of transferred into video, and everything is a podcast. Now I'm still going to use the word video, cast and podcasts as separate things. So bottom line, though, is, there's a couple good websites out there. You could take a look at how to organize your research. So you get a big, broad, broad category, tadpoles, and then you have a subcategory, how to dissect a tadpole. Yeah, you want to, you know, frogs, how to dissect a frog, how to cut the legs off, how to how to boil it. Do you boil it in peanut oil? You know, like a Southern frog, do you boil it in canola oil? Do you put it in? You know, maybe fat back, or maybe some butter, I don't know, but I do know that you're listening to this and you're probably going, where the hell did he come up with that? I have no clue. All I know is that when it comes to searching and doing research using bookmarks and folders. Yes, folders are really, really cool. Plus, you never know. You know. You might want to keep the frog legs and paint their toenails. They might have toenails. They might want to change the toenails out. You might want to just capture the frogs and and, you know, put a mark on them so you can track them, or put, you know, like a an apple tag on them. You can watch them, you know. Oh, look, my buddy, Fred is over here, and Leon's over here, and Hippity, hoppity is over there. Okay, if you didn't laugh at that, and if you don't remember the fact that I said, using bookmarks and using folders are kind of cool. But again, sometimes I like to make people laugh and smile.
You know, once upon a time there was a fellow by Matt Drudge. I don't know if Matt's still running the Drudge Report, but I look at it every once in a while, because it gets a lot of views, just like you gotta listen to Joe Rogan. And if you don't have a subscription to Spotify, you missed a. Great interview with the President of the United States. Okay, upcoming President number 47 President Donald Trump. You missed a great interview with the vice president coming up Vance. You missed a great interview with Elon Musk, and the day of the election, he had a comedian on. And I gotta tell you, it was fantastic. Now, these interviews go two to three hours and well, most people don't listen that long. And the type of people that listen to that are generally not retirees. For some reason, I have no idea why retirees are so dramatically different today than they were back in let's say when a person fought in World War One and World War Two. So my father and I'll kind of wrap this together. My father was born in 1915 and I grew up working with him at his work bench and learning how to use tools and repair things. And we would listen to Arthur Godfrey and Paul Harvey and just a whole bunch of different things, right? It was on the radio. We didn't watch TVs on the radio, and I guess I got a love for for radio then. And you know, you can do things like I their dad was cleaning floors. Floors had to get cleaned up, and you've already had to get down your hands knees and give a good, good workout. Same thing in the garage, the ground floors need a good cleaning. Well, you know, some people listen to music. Some people have ear buds in I get that, but I just use any kind of a device. But I oftentimes listen to an audio book and I listen to a podcast. I listen to I don't like listening to music unless I just don't. Every once in a while I'll get into a jam session, and sometimes I'll put those up on Spotify, but you know, it's just one of those things where, you know, it just kind of works for me. Okay, so the point being is Matt Drudge used to be kind of a go to you wanted to see what they were saying. He always had this crazy fixation for clowns. I don't know if he owns the Drudge Report anymore, but every single day of the election, the anti Trump wasn't crazy. And you know what? It's not going to stop, and I think people are going to do less and less. I'll call it drudging, because it's just pure propaganda. Here we go, All the President's Men. Now, why would you put that as a title? Because All the President's Men refers to the Nixon administration, and again, movies and books, Woodward and Bernstein. These are little, again, little gems they put out there to try to screw people over here. Here we go. Soros, protege picked for mega treasury. Sec, okay, you got a guy who worked for George Soros. Apparently he's very conservative. Now you have to trust or not trust the president elect of the United States. And the bottom line is simply this, he worked for George Soros. Okay, one of the companies that we use to clear our business through is Goldman Sachs. So you're going to burn me at the stake because of that. I mean, we use Interactive Brokers, but we also use Goldman Sachs, the sets social ties to the world elites. Well, yeah, no kidding, I want someone who is running around in those circles, because you're talking about high finance, then the guy who has been nominated for, I think, secretary of the defense. He was the NBC guy. Now the headline is, his army unit is rocked by war crimes. Okay, every single thing you can imagine out there, every single thing is just designed to dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig. This is not news, and always remember these headlines have a profound effect on you. Inside the liberal cabinet, most controversial picks of modern times. Okay, it's all designed to make you wonder, well, maybe this? Well, maybe that. It is designed to weaken your support for Donald Trump, if he is your president United States, and he was for the majority, and is going to be for the majority of the people of the country. So hey, how about give the guy a chance, his whole thing of 100 days, the honeymoon that's gone, and then the other thing, that's life. This is what the headline says. That's life that's in capital letters, gets now, giving up, now, giving not giving up now giving pep talks and holiday wishes on cameo. I didn't even know what that is. I looked it up. Went, Oh, wow. Next stop news. Max, okay, bad boy. Image finally catches up with him. Okay, if you know anything about Matt gates, that doesn't surprise anybody, right? But we just keep Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig. Now the next big headline, after they got a few more things ready to go, is, is America now like Roman decline? Okay, just so, you know. And I want to wrap this up here. I've been talking about that for years. Don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong. I'm not anti American. I'm not anti technology. I'm not anti India stuff. You just got to prove me the facts and Quit being such a nervous, nervous Chicken Little that the whole world's ending. I don't buy that, but when it comes to the, you know, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, yeah, we've got some real problems here. We have a lot of people who could be doing a lot better for themselves, but they just don't want to. They just don't want to. We have a lot of people who are on welfare. I mean, just pure laziness. I could go on for hours about it, but let's think about this right now. We are the most powerful nation in the world period. We have the military might to take on just about anybody. We could probably do pretty good with a two front war. What we've done very badly is what I would call our mercenary forces. Now, people can you can say all you want about this, but I'm going to give you a different spin on Ukraine, and let's do that next, I'm going to take a quick, short break. Let's get a couple disclaimers out of the way, and then I'll come back and tell you why Ukraine is actually really quite valuable
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so this is not going to be anything heavy, heavy duty. So it's also something that I want those of you who are interested in attending the Truesdell military procurement portfolio. When indexes stink, it's a in person. It's an in person event at the Stone Creek grill, and it's coming up in December. You can take a look at the show notes for when we're doing that again. It's really cool. But let me talk a little bit about Ukraine and the United States. So when you do a little search, okay, here's a search. Is Ukraine, okay? I actually did this way, Ukraine is the mercenary force for the US. Okay, that's, that's the search I came up with. And I did a little search. I used brave as a search engine, rather than Google or the other ones. So here are some things that came up. Are mercenaries in Ukraine. Okay, foreign fighters in the Russia. Ukraine war from Wikipedia, Russia formally protests us, mercenaries joining blah, blah, blah. How many Westerners are fighting Ukraine? So here's the thing that I want you to always remember, never forget when it comes to mercenaries, they've always been around. We've had them. We used them in our Revolutionary War. We're going to continue to use them. And for those of you who were in law enforcement, okay, even if you're in law enforcement, now, I want you to think about this very, very carefully, you were a mercenary. I said, one time at the Tampa Police Department, and when I was in uniform, I was in roll call, and somebody was bitching and complaining about something. It was just ridiculous. And I said, Look, you do realize that we're nothing more than a gang? And my sergeant, at the time, looked up to me and said, Okay, tell me what you think. And I said, Look, you got gangs out there. We're a gang. We were our colors. We have our guns. We're the enforcers. We're nothing more than a gang for the mayor, what the mayor wants we do. And boy, I tell you, it caused a real Huckleberry. I mean, people lost their mind sense. One sergeant, he's now dead, just because we had several sergeants in the room. And he said, you know, Truesdell, don't, don't talk like that. I said, well, but it's true. When you view yourself as a gang, a lot of things are really clear. You know, it's political hell. Deputy Sheriff one time say to me, you know that what you got to realize, Mr. Truesdell, is that you were a city law enforcement officer, you had civil service, you had a lot of rules here. You know, we don't have that. And we basically do whatever the whatever the sheriff wants. You know, this is all about politics. And he said, you know, people like you don't go to jail, people who are successful, people with money. I mean, you really got to screw up to go to jail. We're just not going to do it. We're not going to write tickets. And that's not necessarily the case. You know, obviously, we all know that. There's plenty of those examples, but it's true. We're gangs. So when you have a gang of people like in Ukraine and they're killing Russians, that's our gang. Those are our mercenaries, and that's what. Really important concept I just wish people would get a handle on, is that we, here in the United States, we don't need any more military people coming from overseas, because, you know, you have this thing where, if you're an illegal alien and you wind up becoming a member of the armed forces, then you serve with honor, you can then wind up becoming a US citizen. There's a whole process for that, and that's kind of cool, right? We need to do some more homegrown people. The reality is people from Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee. They make up the lion's share of the of the people in the military, okay? And the people who do hardcore fighting, yes, they come from Iowa, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana. I get that. But you know, people that are hardcore fighters tend to be bred and grow up in environments that that's the case, hunting, survival techniques, of course, you can make that if you live in Compton or some of those places, Detroit, Chicago, here. You're in the wilds there, and it's all about survival. But I digress. The thing is, where I'm going with this. We need to think. And if anybody with the Trump administration is listening, or anybody in a political organization is listening, except for some of these Republican executive committees, where they all have their head up their behind and couldn't find a basic sentence to make any sense with no matter what they use. Here's the thing, here's the thing, you gotta have mercenaries. We need to find a way to get these drug dealers out of Mexico. Okay? We gotta find a way to do that. We need to, in essence, colonize Mexico. Got a lot of people there, and those people can fight. Let's make them our mercenaries. We have the people who are in Ukraine, you know, people are saying, well, you know, we wouldn't have this if, if we weren't trying to make Ukraine part of NATO. It's right on the Russian border. You know, talk all about, yeah, you know, Cuba, the Cuban Missile Crisis. And one of these days, I'll go in at great length about this. This is really designed for people who are my age. If you're in your your 60s, 70s or 80s, you might remember some of these things. Okay, kind of connecting the dots. I'm going kind of quickly with this, but look, I got no news. I got news for you. I hire other people to do dirty work. No, I'm serious. Think about this if you need to change the oil in your car, Earl, Texas, gold, black tea. Who do you go? You go to a place that changes oil. Very few people get out and do it anymore. Nobody gets under the car and undoes the little nut and put the oil in the drain pan. No, oh, no. We stick a pipe down there. We have a pump. We clean it out. My point being is that dirty jobs. Remember that guy that TV show, dirty jobs? A lot of people don't want to do dirty jobs. One of the things a lot of people don't want to do is send their kids off to get killed. But the people that are in charge, yeah, they got connections. So my point is, we need mercenaries. We need a lot of private war mercenaries, and we don't need to have them always be Americans. We don't you know the Wagner group, the Russians. I mean, those are some nasty people, right? So here's the thing, you can't have them directly part of your military, but you do want to have some people, okay? You do want to have some people who are allies of yours, allies, and saying, You know what? Okay, we're gonna be your cops. We're gonna help enforce things. We're your mercenaries, and you pay them well for it. Rather than having Americans die, let's have somebody else's kid die. You know, first off, the reality in life is the value of life is a whole lot less in other countries than it is here. Now you're going to get some crazy lip target who's going to say, oh, but every life matters. No, it doesn't, folks. No, it doesn't. My life is a hell of a lot more value than this. The guy who's standing on the side of the street begging, who steals and as is just has never paid taxes, and there's a drain on everybody. If you don't like that, I don't care. That's the truth. Those are things that we have to talk about. Those are things I think are worth, you know, having a real serious discussion about, and not a lot of the crap that you read on drudge. Okay with that. What's going on here. Okay,
ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, one and all. What do you say we get out of here? Go to Paul truesdell.com that's right. Paul truesdell.com I've revised the website a little bit. Everybody did a nice job on that. It's got a few more things to update. We kind of got sideways and busy for a while. I got a little bit out of control. Here's what you do. Go to Paul truesdell.com, you'll see the word hello. Then you see the word contact, and then it says the important stuff. I want you to click on the important stuff. When you go the important stuff, what are you going to see? Guess what? You're going to see an embedded. Player for this podcast, the Paul Truesdell podcast. This is episode 384 That's right, 384 you'll see that we have a little item there called Modern Warfare and local impact that actually got a lot of plays. I would encourage you to do that. We did a cute little thing, monkey shines and stinker. I'm going to be doing a series on that. I think that's something you might want. It might get a kick out of pure luck, piles and piles of cash. So there's lots of things there for you. If you go up and click on Events, you'll see that tomorrow, Tuesday, November 26 anytime between 9am and 9pm we are going to have a an event, and it's the military procurement portfolio. We're going to do a preview. And if you want to attend that, just simply complete the form. And if you'd like to go to our casual breakfast conversation in Stone Creek at the grill, uh, complete the form right now. If you clicked on that, by the way, previously it said 9pm to 10:15pm that's wrong, wrong, wrong, that'll be changed here when I get this thing up and done. Hey, we talked a little bit about what the Truesdell military procurement portfolio is all about. It's an investment approach based on separately managed accounts. Take a look at what I have there, and again, enjoy the video tomorrow. Be like, about 10 minutes long, and that is encouraging you to make a reservation to go to the workshop. It's not a workshop. It's a casual breakfast conversation at Stone Creek grill. Okay, listen, it's Monday, and I have got a lot of work to do. You've got work to do. Typical new Tyler tube out of here.
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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 big screen, everything is different, meaning, what you do when you're on the internet is totally different. So for me, I have a very large computer screen. In fact, I'm getting ready to get another computer screen to stack on top of one of my working offices. I have several working offices, and I want a very large screen, because I have a large desk. I throw papers around. I'm looking at things. I want a lot of desktop space, but one of the things that I do is I use Safari a lot, because we're an Apple Company. Everything is Apple based, and so I do a lot of research, and I organize things into folders, and I bookmark and I use different folders for different research topics that are relevant. So here's what you can do. You open a new window in Safari, and let's say you want to look up tadpoles. So you're going to start researching tadpoles. Why you're going to do it? I have no idea, but maybe you're deciding that, yeah, there's a lot of tadpoles in your neighborhood, and we're not talking about little kids. We're talking about actual hoppy hoppies, okay, those kind of tadpoles. So you're gonna, you decide I'm gonna make tadpole soup. Don't know why you would do that to me. Kind of sounds a little weird. Maybe you're gonna, like, cut the legs off and have frog legs. I don't know. Don't care, but that today was what we're gonna do, right? Something Tarzan and Jane might do with boy and cheetah. So you create a bunch of you're searching. You're going, Oh, well, let me look at this. Let me look at that. Let me go to this. And instead of reading everything right now, what you can do is start bookmarking. But more than just bookmarking, you can create a button, and you can share everything into your toolbar and just add it as a bookmark. Okay, but then you can create folders. So creating folders, there's top level folders for broad research, and you can create folders within folders for subcategories. If you haven't done this, a couple really great videos online. Here's I'm doing. I'm just a podcast. This is Audio, by the way, a podcast should mean iPod, which is, you know, audio. And years ago, you know, the word podcast kind of transferred into video, and everything is a podcast. Now I'm still going to use the word video, cast and podcasts as separate things. So bottom line, though, is, there's a couple good websites out there. You could take a look at how to organize your research. So you get a big, broad, broad category, tadpoles, and then you have a subcategory, how to dissect a tadpole. Yeah, you want to, you know, frogs, how to dissect a frog, how to cut the legs off, how to how to boil it. Do you boil it in peanut oil? You know, like a Southern frog, do you boil it in canola oil? Do you put it in? You know, maybe fat back, or maybe some butter, I don't know, but I do know that you're listening to this and you're probably going, where the hell did he come up with that? I have no clue. All I know is that when it comes to searching and doing research using bookmarks and folders. Yes, folders are really, really cool. Plus, you never know. You know. You might want to keep the frog legs and paint their toenails. They might have toenails. They might want to change the toenails out. You might want to just capture the frogs and and, you know, put a mark on them so you can track them, or put, you know, like a an apple tag on them. You can watch them, you know. Oh, look, my buddy, Fred is over here, and Leon's over here, and Hippity, hoppity is over there. Okay, if you didn't laugh at that, and if you don't remember the fact that I said, using bookmarks and using folders are kind of cool. But again, sometimes I like to make people laugh and smile.
You know, once upon a time there was a fellow by Matt Drudge. I don't know if Matt's still running the Drudge Report, but I look at it every once in a while, because it gets a lot of views, just like you gotta listen to Joe Rogan. And if you don't have a subscription to Spotify, you missed a. Great interview with the President of the United States. Okay, upcoming President number 47 President Donald Trump. You missed a great interview with the vice president coming up Vance. You missed a great interview with Elon Musk, and the day of the election, he had a comedian on. And I gotta tell you, it was fantastic. Now, these interviews go two to three hours and well, most people don't listen that long. And the type of people that listen to that are generally not retirees. For some reason, I have no idea why retirees are so dramatically different today than they were back in let's say when a person fought in World War One and World War Two. So my father and I'll kind of wrap this together. My father was born in 1915 and I grew up working with him at his work bench and learning how to use tools and repair things. And we would listen to Arthur Godfrey and Paul Harvey and just a whole bunch of different things, right? It was on the radio. We didn't watch TVs on the radio, and I guess I got a love for for radio then. And you know, you can do things like I their dad was cleaning floors. Floors had to get cleaned up, and you've already had to get down your hands knees and give a good, good workout. Same thing in the garage, the ground floors need a good cleaning. Well, you know, some people listen to music. Some people have ear buds in I get that, but I just use any kind of a device. But I oftentimes listen to an audio book and I listen to a podcast. I listen to I don't like listening to music unless I just don't. Every once in a while I'll get into a jam session, and sometimes I'll put those up on Spotify, but you know, it's just one of those things where, you know, it just kind of works for me. Okay, so the point being is Matt Drudge used to be kind of a go to you wanted to see what they were saying. He always had this crazy fixation for clowns. I don't know if he owns the Drudge Report anymore, but every single day of the election, the anti Trump wasn't crazy. And you know what? It's not going to stop, and I think people are going to do less and less. I'll call it drudging, because it's just pure propaganda. Here we go, All the President's Men. Now, why would you put that as a title? Because All the President's Men refers to the Nixon administration, and again, movies and books, Woodward and Bernstein. These are little, again, little gems they put out there to try to screw people over here. Here we go. Soros, protege picked for mega treasury. Sec, okay, you got a guy who worked for George Soros. Apparently he's very conservative. Now you have to trust or not trust the president elect of the United States. And the bottom line is simply this, he worked for George Soros. Okay, one of the companies that we use to clear our business through is Goldman Sachs. So you're going to burn me at the stake because of that. I mean, we use Interactive Brokers, but we also use Goldman Sachs, the sets social ties to the world elites. Well, yeah, no kidding, I want someone who is running around in those circles, because you're talking about high finance, then the guy who has been nominated for, I think, secretary of the defense. He was the NBC guy. Now the headline is, his army unit is rocked by war crimes. Okay, every single thing you can imagine out there, every single thing is just designed to dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig. This is not news, and always remember these headlines have a profound effect on you. Inside the liberal cabinet, most controversial picks of modern times. Okay, it's all designed to make you wonder, well, maybe this? Well, maybe that. It is designed to weaken your support for Donald Trump, if he is your president United States, and he was for the majority, and is going to be for the majority of the people of the country. So hey, how about give the guy a chance, his whole thing of 100 days, the honeymoon that's gone, and then the other thing, that's life. This is what the headline says. That's life that's in capital letters, gets now, giving up, now, giving not giving up now giving pep talks and holiday wishes on cameo. I didn't even know what that is. I looked it up. Went, Oh, wow. Next stop news. Max, okay, bad boy. Image finally catches up with him. Okay, if you know anything about Matt gates, that doesn't surprise anybody, right? But we just keep Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig. Now the next big headline, after they got a few more things ready to go, is, is America now like Roman decline? Okay, just so, you know. And I want to wrap this up here. I've been talking about that for years. Don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong. I'm not anti American. I'm not anti technology. I'm not anti India stuff. You just got to prove me the facts and Quit being such a nervous, nervous Chicken Little that the whole world's ending. I don't buy that, but when it comes to the, you know, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, yeah, we've got some real problems here. We have a lot of people who could be doing a lot better for themselves, but they just don't want to. They just don't want to. We have a lot of people who are on welfare. I mean, just pure laziness. I could go on for hours about it, but let's think about this right now. We are the most powerful nation in the world period. We have the military might to take on just about anybody. We could probably do pretty good with a two front war. What we've done very badly is what I would call our mercenary forces. Now, people can you can say all you want about this, but I'm going to give you a different spin on Ukraine, and let's do that next, I'm going to take a quick, short break. Let's get a couple disclaimers out of the way, and then I'll come back and tell you why Ukraine is actually really quite valuable
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so this is not going to be anything heavy, heavy duty. So it's also something that I want those of you who are interested in attending the Truesdell military procurement portfolio. When indexes stink, it's a in person. It's an in person event at the Stone Creek grill, and it's coming up in December. You can take a look at the show notes for when we're doing that again. It's really cool. But let me talk a little bit about Ukraine and the United States. So when you do a little search, okay, here's a search. Is Ukraine, okay? I actually did this way, Ukraine is the mercenary force for the US. Okay, that's, that's the search I came up with. And I did a little search. I used brave as a search engine, rather than Google or the other ones. So here are some things that came up. Are mercenaries in Ukraine. Okay, foreign fighters in the Russia. Ukraine war from Wikipedia, Russia formally protests us, mercenaries joining blah, blah, blah. How many Westerners are fighting Ukraine? So here's the thing that I want you to always remember, never forget when it comes to mercenaries, they've always been around. We've had them. We used them in our Revolutionary War. We're going to continue to use them. And for those of you who were in law enforcement, okay, even if you're in law enforcement, now, I want you to think about this very, very carefully, you were a mercenary. I said, one time at the Tampa Police Department, and when I was in uniform, I was in roll call, and somebody was bitching and complaining about something. It was just ridiculous. And I said, Look, you do realize that we're nothing more than a gang? And my sergeant, at the time, looked up to me and said, Okay, tell me what you think. And I said, Look, you got gangs out there. We're a gang. We were our colors. We have our guns. We're the enforcers. We're nothing more than a gang for the mayor, what the mayor wants we do. And boy, I tell you, it caused a real Huckleberry. I mean, people lost their mind sense. One sergeant, he's now dead, just because we had several sergeants in the room. And he said, you know, Truesdell, don't, don't talk like that. I said, well, but it's true. When you view yourself as a gang, a lot of things are really clear. You know, it's political hell. Deputy Sheriff one time say to me, you know that what you got to realize, Mr. Truesdell, is that you were a city law enforcement officer, you had civil service, you had a lot of rules here. You know, we don't have that. And we basically do whatever the whatever the sheriff wants. You know, this is all about politics. And he said, you know, people like you don't go to jail, people who are successful, people with money. I mean, you really got to screw up to go to jail. We're just not going to do it. We're not going to write tickets. And that's not necessarily the case. You know, obviously, we all know that. There's plenty of those examples, but it's true. We're gangs. So when you have a gang of people like in Ukraine and they're killing Russians, that's our gang. Those are our mercenaries, and that's what. Really important concept I just wish people would get a handle on, is that we, here in the United States, we don't need any more military people coming from overseas, because, you know, you have this thing where, if you're an illegal alien and you wind up becoming a member of the armed forces, then you serve with honor, you can then wind up becoming a US citizen. There's a whole process for that, and that's kind of cool, right? We need to do some more homegrown people. The reality is people from Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee. They make up the lion's share of the of the people in the military, okay? And the people who do hardcore fighting, yes, they come from Iowa, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana. I get that. But you know, people that are hardcore fighters tend to be bred and grow up in environments that that's the case, hunting, survival techniques, of course, you can make that if you live in Compton or some of those places, Detroit, Chicago, here. You're in the wilds there, and it's all about survival. But I digress. The thing is, where I'm going with this. We need to think. And if anybody with the Trump administration is listening, or anybody in a political organization is listening, except for some of these Republican executive committees, where they all have their head up their behind and couldn't find a basic sentence to make any sense with no matter what they use. Here's the thing, here's the thing, you gotta have mercenaries. We need to find a way to get these drug dealers out of Mexico. Okay? We gotta find a way to do that. We need to, in essence, colonize Mexico. Got a lot of people there, and those people can fight. Let's make them our mercenaries. We have the people who are in Ukraine, you know, people are saying, well, you know, we wouldn't have this if, if we weren't trying to make Ukraine part of NATO. It's right on the Russian border. You know, talk all about, yeah, you know, Cuba, the Cuban Missile Crisis. And one of these days, I'll go in at great length about this. This is really designed for people who are my age. If you're in your your 60s, 70s or 80s, you might remember some of these things. Okay, kind of connecting the dots. I'm going kind of quickly with this, but look, I got no news. I got news for you. I hire other people to do dirty work. No, I'm serious. Think about this if you need to change the oil in your car, Earl, Texas, gold, black tea. Who do you go? You go to a place that changes oil. Very few people get out and do it anymore. Nobody gets under the car and undoes the little nut and put the oil in the drain pan. No, oh, no. We stick a pipe down there. We have a pump. We clean it out. My point being is that dirty jobs. Remember that guy that TV show, dirty jobs? A lot of people don't want to do dirty jobs. One of the things a lot of people don't want to do is send their kids off to get killed. But the people that are in charge, yeah, they got connections. So my point is, we need mercenaries. We need a lot of private war mercenaries, and we don't need to have them always be Americans. We don't you know the Wagner group, the Russians. I mean, those are some nasty people, right? So here's the thing, you can't have them directly part of your military, but you do want to have some people, okay? You do want to have some people who are allies of yours, allies, and saying, You know what? Okay, we're gonna be your cops. We're gonna help enforce things. We're your mercenaries, and you pay them well for it. Rather than having Americans die, let's have somebody else's kid die. You know, first off, the reality in life is the value of life is a whole lot less in other countries than it is here. Now you're going to get some crazy lip target who's going to say, oh, but every life matters. No, it doesn't, folks. No, it doesn't. My life is a hell of a lot more value than this. The guy who's standing on the side of the street begging, who steals and as is just has never paid taxes, and there's a drain on everybody. If you don't like that, I don't care. That's the truth. Those are things that we have to talk about. Those are things I think are worth, you know, having a real serious discussion about, and not a lot of the crap that you read on drudge. Okay with that. What's going on here. Okay,
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