John So I’m cleaning out my office, in anticipation of having to take a picture of it for the newsletter, I ran into a product I forgot about. This is something the Eastern Europeans use a lot of. There used to be an era when we used to use iodine for cuts and bruises and gashes. And then we moved to Mercurochrome, which was poisoning the public because it’s mercury-based. When I was a kid, my mom would say, “You gotta put some Mercurochrome on it.”
I think if anybody should have mercury poisoning, it’s me. I used Mercurochrome. I have fillings with a lot of mercury in them, because that’s what they used to do it. And also, I used to play with mercury and turn pennies into dimes.
Adam As a kid, you just played with mercury?
John Yeah. Yeah, you’d rub it on a penny, it’d go right into the penny.
Adam And how did you get a hold of this? And how can you still be alive is the question, really.
John I think it must be bogus. So the thing they used instead… Merthiolate would take over, and now it’s either Neosporin or…
Adam Yeah, Neosporin is what I use.
John Bactine, I think, first came in, and then Neosporin. So what they use in Eastern Europe commonly — and a good friend of mine who was visiting there says, yeah, you go in with a big gash on you and they said, “Just put some of the green stuff on it. Just use the green stuff.”
Adam The green stuff?
John The green stuff is a product. You can get it on Amazon. You can get it all over the place. And it’s a dye called Brilliant Green. You should Wikipedia it. You can ask about it. It kills all gram-positive bacteria and funguses.
Adam Wow.
John It has a drawback. I have used it.
Adam I wonder what the drawback is.
John The drawback is: it’s a green dye! It takes about a month for it to go away.
Adam And don’t play with mercury, kids. This is not a good idea.
