Hey, folks, this is Alex, and this is a bonus release as a special thing for you. Even though you listen in the free public feed where normally you don't get any of the bonus shows, I decided to re-release one because, if nothing else, tis the season. By the way, if you're looking for the regular episode this week, there is also one of those. It's about cardboard. So look for the word cardboard in your app or player or whatever else you use to listen to the podcast. That cardboard show also has its own bonus show that's just for patrons because every week I make one of those. And last year, me and my guest, Jason Pargin, made a main show about Halloween stores. And then we made a bonus show about the number one

myth about Halloween candy. There is a pervasive myth that comes up every year that Halloween

candy will have razor blades in it or poison in it or any kind of other extreme danger that all

kids in the U.S. and Canada are about to consume if they merely go trick-or-treating.

Very common news story happens every year is basically untrue, as you're about to hear in this bonus show.

I'm also excited to re-release this 2021 bonus show in 2022, because there are new headlines about a drug called Rainbow Fentanyl, and in particular,

that drug Rainbow Fentanyl being a risk as something that children will think is a candy,

such as Smarties.

And also either Smarties.

Did you know Smarties are different in Canada?

It's a chocolate candy, a whole different thing.

Anyway, it sort of looks like either of those.

This is not just a media phenomenon in late September at 2022.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the U.S. needs to spend $290 million

to battle rainbow fentanyl, and in particular because children, he says, could be tricked into consuming it.

There's also all kinds of news about fentanyl because it is a powerful opioid.

There is also a myth being propagated by law enforcement that if an adult person touches it with

their hand, they will immediately faint or die.

I'm going to link to the journal Science about exactly what's going on with this drug.

It is a drug, and also police will not die if their finger brushes against it.

Anyway, this bonus show is not about rainbow fentanyl.

It also is about rainbow fentanyl because every year we have this myth in American media, in Canadian media,

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