 Whereas the dry, soft, powdery snow, I can just push it with the snow shovel. But the kids love to build into towering snowmen. Who cares what the kids want? Or it may dump three feet of dry, powdery stuff that you can't pack into a good snowball. Oh, the poor little monsters can't whip snowballs at people in their cars. But they like skiers and snowboarders and students when school is canceled. So did you get that? The dry, powdery stuff, it could be three feet to an inch. Which makes the kids stay home and drive their parents nuts. Well, nobody's going to get around with three feet, not even the male girl or man. But they're not, but they can't make snowballs and such. Yeah, well good for that. Well, well, it's also good for the adults who have to shovel. You know, I saw what you were going to call last night, somebody, I don't know if it was you or somebody else, put up a habit, Luke Ostello? Oh, and I didn't see that. I'm the mathematics of something equaling 28. You know what bothers me at the Historic Paterson Museum, which happens to be the home of the number one, the Colt Firearms exhibit. The guns that won the West pretty much. Well, the Winchester rifle was pretty popular back then, right? So anyway, they have a beautiful, the number one Colt Firearms exhibit in Historic Paterson. But the Luke Ostello exhibit, because Lou was from Paterson also, the Paterson of the past in the Italian section, is small. It's such a tiny display. It's really, I mean, you know, I mean, you know, maybe it didn't leave a lot of stuff behind. You know, you know, well, all right. Autism researchers at Texas A&M University say they have discovered that a common food supplement could help offset a genetic mutation linked to autism. They better say something about the vaccines. Otherwise, this is this is big pharma media article. Carnotene, which is available as an over-the-counter, not nutritional supplement, and is found in red meats and whole milk, could play a key role in preventing some forms of autism from developing during the early days of pregnancy. Carnotene, as opposed to carnosene. That's correct. Carnotene. Carnocene and carnotene, though, are from meat. They do come from meat. Researchers have not reached a consensus on whether pregnant women should supplement their carnotene intake. That's where they get the word carn, carn, carnivorous, carnotene, carn, meat from meat. Carni, you know, like the, uh, con carne, chili con carne, chili with meat. Chili with meat, and, uh, that's Texas chili, uh, other chilies, chili with bean. I like, I like the mixture of, uh, red kidney beans with a lot of meat. Yeah. I don't like people being stingy with the meat when it comes to food. This is me off, you know, which is, which happens to be a lot of our local Chinese takeout, uh, restaurants, Chisela's Hall of Shame on You, man. They're cutting back on the number of shrimp and the amount of meat that's in the food. You sneaky bastards. Plastic and rice. Well, that's mainland China. They're mixing plastic rice with real rice. But we ain't got no food anymore. Oh, by the way, mainland China just rejected a huge shipment of genetically modified corn from the United States. But this is a country that has no quality control and sells toxic food, is rejecting U.S. corn for being genetically modified. Now, isn't that like- As well they should, but, you know- As well they should, but they're not, their record, their record is not clean. They are no examples. All right, I digress. I'm sorry. But the A&M researchers see it as a step with almost no downside if you're done under medical supervision, comparing with the widely accepted recommendation that pregnant women consume folic acid, which is added to many foods because it helps prevent defects in a baby's brain and spinal cord. It's also a good for, what do you call, I drew a blank. All right, let's continue. It might help effectively address what seems to be a common factor in autism risk. Paul Wang, Senior Vice President for Medical Research at Autism Speak, said he could not endorse adding significant amounts of carnitine to people's diets without clinical trials, but nonetheless said the science behind the idea is sound. I think this is an important step behind what's happening with certain types of autism, said Wang. Previous studies found that a particular gene, the TMLHE, is linked to autism. Lead researcher Zhuang Zhai and Bankatis appear to have determined how that connection works by tracking and analyzing certain kinds of stem cells in developing brains. The lab work was done on mice, which are genetically similar to people. In some mice, the TMLHE gene is mutated because of this, the body produces insubmission amounts of carnitine. Carnitine is important because it helps transport fatty acids into the correct compartment in a cell, the mitochondria, so they can be broken down into energy. Lack of carnitine appears to result in a fetus's neural system cells, excuse me, neural stem cells, not getting fatty acid to correct places, increasing autism risk. For a male fetus, the mutation erases the ability to make carnitine entirely, a finding consistent with the far higher prevalence of autism amongst boys. Autism might ultimately be linked to as many as 1,000 genes, and this research addresses only one of those genes. If you can reduce incidents by even 1%, by just a nutritional method, that's a lot of money and effort society has saved. Autism is a general term for a group of complex disorders of brain development, characterized in varying degrees by difficulties in social interaction, verbal and non-verbal communication, and repetitive behaviors. According to Autism Speaks, a national advocacy group that sponsors research and conducts awareness campaigns. One in 68 American children are on the autism spectrum, a 10-fold increase in prevalence in 40 years according to the organization, which estimates the social cost in the United States in a year is $236 billion. The National Institutes of Health and the Welch Foundation, a private funder of chemical research, paid for the work of Xi and Volcatus, or Catus. The upshot to them, the body, does not necessarily have to produce its own carnitine. It's found in many normal diets. The ideal amounts for someone to ingest will have to be worked out in separate clinical trials, but he added that there is little reason for someone working with the doctor to wait. He sees carnitine supplements in the same light as folic acid, which poses so little risk and carries such an upside that the Food and Drug Administration allowed it to be added to many foods without extensive clinical trials. For people considering starting a family who are on a vegan diet that has little carnitine, I would ask my doctor if I could take a supplement than Catus said. It's just such a small, non-invasive, inexpensive step. All right, a little holistic health talk here on our show, Progressive Discussions. I just want everybody to know everything we discuss politically is part of our series called Capitalism in a Conk Shelf, and there is the conk. Messages from the great, briny deep from not only Davey, King Neptune and Davey Jones's luck. And of course, all kinds of pirate treasure, booty, I was watching a video, travel-oriented video about the island of Bora Bora in the South Pacific. What paradise? Yeah, exactly. You see that water, baby? The color of that water? The water, the white sand, the volcanic mountains in the background. You're going to show the wahinis and the women? The huts where you stay? Yeah, the huts are on the water, and the coffee table opens up, and you can see the reef fish down below. And you can swim with the sharks. That'll pass. There's a guy that's very friendly with the sharks, and he feeds the sharks. And you're in the water with the sharks? No, no. The sharks get tired of eating the same diet. They'll take a bite out of him. He's very friendly with them. He is? Yes, he is. What do you mean friendly? You mean that he bond- That they recognize him? He bonded with them? Yes. That he's not a threat. But I've seen people actually pet a great white. I think they're out of their minds. But hey, some people don't learn until they can become debate. Yeah? Yeah, well, great whites. So I mean, people think of fish as being stupid animals, but great whites hunt seals. They don't circle the seal with their fins sticking out of the water. They come crashing from underneath the seal out of the water, like straight up. I saw an alligator do that to a woman once. I don't know if it was fake or what, but he ate her. Was it a croc? Crocodile? Yeah, she was walking backwards on the beach, taking photos or whatever, and he jumps out of the water and he grabs it and she's gone. It was on the beach, then it was a saltwater croc. Crocodile. They get huge. Well, yeah, but can they do that? Can they jump up and grab you? Wait, wait, was she wading in the water? She was walking backwards on the beach. She walked right into the guy, but he jumped up to get her. Oh, he was on the beach, sunning it. He was in the water. And he lunged out and grabbed her. There was another chick on the beach that this chick was taking a photo of when she's walking back to the water. Well, then this must have been in like a beach in northern Australia because the saltwater crocs that are that big and that do things like that are in like Indonesia, you know. Well, that's all I wanted to know whether they can actually do that. Well, they are man-eaters. They can be man-eaters. I mean jump up to grab her. Not lay on the ground and open her mouth and grab her. He jumped out of water like a dolphin jumps up in the water. Then it must have jumped sideways to grab her. And swallowed her. You mean she wasn't sticking out of the croc? I had the picture disappeared after that, okay. It was totally unexpected that she would become croc. I saw a picture of a video of an orca grabbing this young guy by the ankle and pulling him in the water and then they never found him. That's because he didn't live three days inside the orcas belly like Jonah did. He became... No, it wasn't it wasn't it was in the shallows on the beach and the kid was standing on the wet sand and the orca just grabbed his ankle. All right, let me get this one right here. Get that over with. As we know, wild animals can be unpredictable. But once you are educated about the species in question, you'll know how to react and coexist. This is kind of related to what we were just talking about. So what? It's mid-February. The start of wild turkey mating season is approaching. Hey, wild turkey was attacking a mailman in our area. It's included here. This past week, yeah. And will last through May. This was a reminder to me after I heard about the Hillsdale mailman's turkey encounter. Male turkeys possibly will be venturing into our neighborhoods in search of females. Well, if a wild turkey went after me, I'll grab it right by that scrawny neck. That scrawny wrinkly neck of his and show him who the alpha is. Pick him up with one hand and say, cut the crap. I'll calm him right down. Smack him across the beak a few times. Give him some bottle of beans. During mating season, the turkey's behavior may change as they can respond aggressively to reflective surfaces thinking that their reflection is an intruding male turkey. Now that's true. It happens with Siamese fighting fish. Betas, if you put a mirror in front of it, they get all pissed off. In Hillsdale, the turkeys may have seen their reflection on the male truck's door or mirror. The toiki, the toikis. I have observed that wild turkeys also have a pecking order of dominance and may view people who act fearful as underlings. Underlings. I'll knock him out, man. He'll be underling. He'll be under me on the ground. If a wild turkey or a flock have entered your neighborhood, your driveway or yard, it's important that you establish dominance by scaring the turkey. Yeah, you could do this with most animals, but I wouldn't suggest doing it with a grizzly bear. Some ways to scare turkeys include making loud noises, waving your arms, blowing the sailor or a saropalan whistle. What about a USDA grade A knuckle sandwich? Opening up an umbrella for using a water bottle or a hose to squirt them. Yeah. Well, wild animals, not going to like this chilele either. Turkeys may look large and intimidating, but are usually timid and scare easily. Well, they puff themselves up, their feathers get all big. We have turkeys in Park Ridge, New Jersey, and they run when they see my dog. They're already here in our town, including Coyotes. What about the one in Washington Township? Lives on the corner. I'll forget it. They found a bear up there, a black bear. I can't emphasize enough. Don't feed wild turkeys. Don't feed wild animals, period, except beautiful songbirds. You're okay with them. And now they may tell all their buddies to come around too. They might end up with a whole yard full of wild birds. But I only have an affection for two kinds of birds to me. First of all, the cardinals that show up in my yard every year to me are gorgeous. I don't mind, I would not mind buying bags of sunflower seeds for them. I don't have to worry about the robin red breast because the robin's like worms and after a rainy day they will pull them out of the ground. So I don't have to really worry about them. But they're funny to watch. I mean they got this big chest, they stick out, you know? Then they're very inquisitive too. They come close to you. I got rabbits, I got possums, I got raccoons. You know, I don't live out here. You're not going to live in a goddamn woods. No, but we don't. I know. We live in a very congested suburban. This is not rural. No, we're not rural. But you know, the animals became desensitized, I suppose, to human presence, which is not a good thing. Or we stole their habitat. They were here before us, by the way. Yeah. Think about that. Feeding wild animals contributes to conflicts and habitation. Habitation. Turkeys are beneficial to our community as they eat ticks. I didn't know that. Helping to lower the deer tick populations. And I've also noticed fewer stink bugs. I had two goddamn stink bugs in my house so far. This goddamn one. You're not a fan of insects. No. Like them. But they certainly don't like stink bugs either. I didn't know that turkeys were omnivorous. I didn't know that they will eat. Well, I know chickens will eat anything. Chickens will eat any damn thing to get their beak on it. And I think ducks are omnivorous too. I think ducks will eat a variety. It's amazing. Anyway. Oh yeah. We have beautiful, mallard, wild, mallard ducks. The male has that shiny green. No. I was going to say effervescent. Iridescent. Yeah. Effervescent. Iridescent jade green head. And the female is drab with just a drab dirty brown color. But anyway, we are going to break for lunch now. I want to apologize before we break for lunch. I don't know why this is happening. I don't know if it's a glitch. I don't know if it's something normal with Windows 10. But when our editor tries to put our show together, it's one large video. Like an hour and a half. Which is generally give or take an hour and a half. Sometimes rarely does it reach two hours. Rarely does it reach an hour and 45 minutes. Yeah. Yeah, the file is too big. It doesn't fit in the folder. I have no idea why this is happening. So I want to apologize that when you see this show, for this new show for this week, for progressive discussions, it will be in parts. Part one video, part one, part two, part three, usually four. I never seen five, usually four parts. So I want to apologize to those that get all been out of shape about one long video. Well, you don't have to worry about that because you're not going to get one long video. What about anybody who knows about the problem to email you? Yeah, please email me if this is a Windows 10 thing because I never, my editor never, never encountered. Oh yeah, our email is Megalife21jpmatgmail.com. So if you know anything about this, about a video being too big for the folder or some nonsense like that, please let me know. All right, we'll catch you on the next part.