Mark & Carrie: Is the Economy Really in the Tank, or is David Lynch to Blame?

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Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Күн бұрын

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news.
On this episode: what we know about the Omnicron variant; the politics behind the Supreme Court's current abortion rights case; Peng Shuai, and the problem of celebrities in authoritarian countries; why we feel bad about our pretty OK economy; the Not-So-Great Resignation; New Dune vs Old Dune.
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@stevehow7899 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing I want more at midnight in UK. Hope you all are keeping well 😊

@classicjaglover7438 2 жыл бұрын

Brian Blessed is from Yorkshire where he did youth theatre with Patrick Stewart NOT Wales, renowned not only for his acting but as a mountaineer,prolific bullshitter and the expert in creative profanity. just for you Brian "GORDON'S ALIVE!"

@breft3416 2 жыл бұрын

Gorsuch has brought up the "no other law about healthcare" issue because he is only vaguely aware of history before last week much less what led to Roe v. Wade and, like Barrett et al, is comfortable combining church and state. Our economy is so good two stories about jobs going bad to worse for working class people is interesting. Good for who?

@5508Vanderdekken 2 жыл бұрын

Gorsuck will saw whatever he needs to, to accomplish his mission. Since about 77 the economy hasn't been geared to provide for the many, just the few

@direwolf6234 2 жыл бұрын

@@5508Vanderdekken correct ... it can't support wall street the military & middle class so geuss who loses..??

@OtterLatif 2 жыл бұрын

"...doom scrolling..." 👏 Absolutely hilarious.

@JosephusAurelius 2 жыл бұрын

Heads up: Mark is a decent chap who responds to questions about politics via email 😀

@hrmIwonder 2 жыл бұрын

That bong hit right after the piano never makes me not smile.

@oleeb 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine a Democratic Party so repugnant to workers in midwest industrial states that they have to cross their fingers and hope elimination of abortion rights will motivate their base because they can’t accomplish anything beneficial for those workers at all despite having control of both the legislative and executive branches of government.

@daiganzen7794 2 жыл бұрын

Regarding the Tennis Star. People care because in our society the rich and famous tend to be untouchable.

@surfeyes 2 жыл бұрын

Following Mark and Carrie for years and always admire Mark's ability to sort through academic economic issues and explain to us non economic idiots. My Dad is Scottish with lots of family still there so appreciate his humor!!! However, he took took it to hero level when claiming Die Hard is the best Xmas movie!! (I argue incessantly with my friend's wives over this, and get the hard 🙄). Lol

@robertbritt6134 2 жыл бұрын

We’ll Mark, in Scotland blood alcohol levels control viral infection.

@SpectatingBystander 2 жыл бұрын

18:27 Aaaaahahahaha my man Mark 😆😂 you legend 😆 100% factual description of Jamaica in 1 sentence. As a Jamaican I approve this message!

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

as a non Jamaican I found the joke tasteless and humorless. he could have said instead that she was sent to a place with bad food and bad weather, like Scotland.

@sloburnjo 2 жыл бұрын

gated hospitality properties are a fact of life. gated properties in general are a fact of life.

@SpectatingBystander 2 жыл бұрын

@@sloburnjo What point are trying to make?

@jasonbeary5771 2 жыл бұрын

I love you guys. Keep up the great work.

@parhhesia 2 жыл бұрын

It doesn't sound like they read Peng Shuai's post in the first place. Like practically all Western journalists, they prefer to run with the pack instead of being informed about China, so they miss things like this: 'Taking into consideration the affection I had for you seven years ago, I agreed... yes, we had sex. Romantic attraction is such a complicated thing that explain it clearly. From that day on, I renewed my love for you. Throughout my time with you after that, purely based on our interactions, you were a very good person, and you treated me well. We talking about recent history, as well as ancient eras. You educated me on so many topics, and we had discussions about economics, politics. We never ran out of things to talk about. We played chess, sang, played table tennis, played pool and also played tennis together. We always had endless fun. It was as if our personalities fit perfectly together.' She's upset he seduced her but ultimately abandoned her. I think she hoped he would leave his wife, but instead he moved on and came back for more sex years later, which she agreed to. It's sleazy behaviour, but the pack is pretending it's sexual assault. Their propaganda is blatant.

@donalfagan9357 2 жыл бұрын

This has scarcely made a dent in the official narrative.

@waltershink6878 2 жыл бұрын

I'm debating taking away my thumbs up after the holiday pics. Peace and solidarity

@andrejmucic5003 2 жыл бұрын

love you guys

@monkerud2108 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah the thing is, that viruses usually dont get milder until the immunity is high in a bunch of places. Which can create a pressure for the virus to become more transmissible by virtue of being better at hiding from the immune systems methods of identifying it, so it could be an advantage to lose some functions associated with severe disease if that stops the body from detecting it as well. But thats kind of a toss up tbh, its not clear wether that will happen or advantages like increased replication or more severe symptoms related to these kinds of potential evolutionary advantages will be more or less likely to occur than a mutation that has a link between transmissibility and milder cases. Thats whats meant by endemic equilibrium really, when the virus is pretty much just as likely to become less dangerous as more dangerous given the selection pressure. This is kind of random tho, because we don’t know how easily the virus could exploit mechanisms hidden in their implicit genetic tree, or in what direction is more likely. For a long time its been higher viral loads and similar things that has driven the evolution, with the consequence of the virus becoming slightly more dangerous, but if its true that omicron is less dangerous then it might very well be that we have reached a point where it might as well stay roughly as dangerous as it is and slowly get less serious as immunity increases and the virus is no longer depending on overwhelming the immune system to maintain its transmissibility lol. The tricky part is that we don’t quite know which way it goes or how far along we are in the feasible evolutionary tree of corona virus. But yes it might be that we have reached a sort of endemic equilibrium.

@victortatevosyan4001 2 жыл бұрын

by the way Max Van Sidow is in both Flash Gorden and Dune

@timvickery4997 2 жыл бұрын

Brian Blessed is very much a son of Yorkshire. A terrible film indeed, but I`d wager that Ornella Muti was the stand out for most

@sword7872 2 жыл бұрын

The tennis player incident was more interesting for the west than it is for the east. Doesn't that already tell us something?

@charlottemarceau8062 2 жыл бұрын

But if people start to think Omicron isn't so deadly then Pfizer's share price will drop 😢

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

you got it the other way around, if the people think that the vaccine is not effective because the virus evades immune response, then nobody will get vaccinated so Pfizer price will drop.

@charlottemarceau8062 2 жыл бұрын

They're telling us (UK) to get extra boosted anyway, even though the data coming in is suggesting higher vaccine escape & natural immune escape. No mandate yet, they might want to but they know people will kick off.

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

@@charlottemarceau8062 do you have another idea besides getting the boosters? they might not be effective, but I see no other option. if you have a bad disease and there is a drug that worked before, and there is no other drug available, your only option is to get the former and hope for the best.

@charlottemarceau8062 2 жыл бұрын

We could research more and come up with a better prophylactic, except we won't because the market is "onto a good thang". We could take on board the information that this is endemic now and continued natural infection is the best way to get immunity, especially as the disease is actually quite safe for most people. The vulnerable, and those who want it, should of course be offered the current vaccines to help protect them, but its not a panacea, and it certainly won't eradicate it. So the fact is that this disease is going to infect everyone at some point, or points in their lives. At this stage the effects of shutting life down IS causing a lot of harm. And if we know we cannot eradicate this coronavirus, or any other coronaviruses, then the practice of vaccinating everybody including healthy children is very strange and its obviously coming from a combination of an incompetent political class desperate to look like they're doing something, and like they are in control, and, even more unfortunately, the interests of pharmaceutical companies. (See the leaks about Pfizer's deal with Brazil to wonder what else has been agreed) Imo x

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

@@charlottemarceau8062 please tell me how can you predict who will die after infection? nobody knows so vaccination is the only way to defend so far, and natural immunity does not work since the pandemic still spreads. we can do research at the same time but this does not mean you have to wait. meanwhile get vaccinated. good luck anyway with your unvaccinated body

@firefox5926 2 жыл бұрын

17:26 like a hostage video the only thing missing is having them hold a copy of the morning paper to prove that the video was recent lol

@mrbob459 2 жыл бұрын

What!!??? Brian Blessed is the only actor you recognized in that movie? I realize I am a bit older than you, and he was already a has been by that time, but they hype alone about them getting an actor of the stature of Max Von Sydow to play Ming the Magnificent should have made some impression on you. Granted, while I had watched several of his movies before Flash I never really noticed him before Flash but that hype has a lot to do with me learning who this great actor was. Maybe a young kid like you were would not notice, but in the years since I would have thought that made some impression on a movie hound like you.

@DaSkonk 2 жыл бұрын

Agree with everything you've said here - but IIRC it was actually Ming the Merciless that he played, not Ming "the magnificent"!

@mrbob459 2 жыл бұрын

@@DaSkonk Thanks. I stand corrected, and humbly so. In my defense, I never read the comics and I have not seen the movie since the 1980s or maybe once in the 1990s. Give a guy a break for not accurately remembering something from 30 years ago. ;P

@donalfagan9357 2 жыл бұрын

Also, Tim Dalton played Barin, and Brian Blessed played Vultan. And Queen did the music.

@Tincan21ify 2 жыл бұрын

Flash Gordon was wildly ambitious as was Robert Altman's Popeye... or Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy. All very watchable and more or less the same era.

@kornaktanker7633 2 жыл бұрын

Flash R R - sound track by Queen, such a great movie, Brian, Tim( james bond) and Max. who could want more

@cbpoppet1288 2 жыл бұрын

Timothy Dalton is Baron. Brian Blessed is Voltan and Peter Wyngarde, of Jason King fame is Klytus.

@paulahartley231 2 жыл бұрын

Met Peter Wyngarde in Slough a few years ago. Was quite a thrill!

@zdlax 2 жыл бұрын

"Damn bitches, you live like this?" -The TicTac UFO

@surrealistidealist 2 жыл бұрын

2:27 No, it's more complicated than that. It *can* be more lethal *if it can spread more easily,* which is common with higher population densities. In other words, *if* the *transmission* becomes *easier* (either because the virus becomes better adapted to the environment or because the environment becomes less hostile for the virus), *then more lethal* mutations will be able to spread with *less of a penalty* of being weeded-out by natural selection. Every failure to take this threat seriously gives evolution yet another foothold.

@Yor_gamma_ix_bae 2 жыл бұрын

It could go the other way. Less deadly aka no full hospitals.

@dongately2817 2 жыл бұрын

I see you everywhere

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

not if lethality means shorter incubation times. this means that you can infect fewer people around, and you realize that you get sick sooner.

@AlbertBergen 2 жыл бұрын

You have it backwards. Viruses don't want to kill people, they just want to spread. So it (randomly) mutates to become less deadly, and that inherently makes it more transmissible because the hosts walk around spreading it instead of dying, and if does its job really well, they may not even know they have it. The less deadly version gets to infect more people without dead-ending, so it has more opportunities to continue mutating and become still more transmissible.

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

@@AlbertBergen there is no volition on behalf of viruses. mutations happen because the polymerases and transcriptases do not have high fidelity. every patient with a retrovirus has as many mutations as infected cells. if one mutation is conferring an advantage, it will spread. but his does not mean that a virus that is more transmissible is not equally deadly.

@KarlStephanNeufeldt 2 жыл бұрын

I read Dune long before I watched the Lynch version. And while that is proper crazy in a good way it skipped a lot of what I loved about the books. The trouble with Villeneuve's version is that his 1st part is all but set-up and even if he gets a 2nd he'll struggle to marry the good crazy in the book with an entertaining movie. I can't wait to see part 2

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

Dune cannot be a movie but a TV series. otherwise you need to skip stuff

@jeff__w 2 жыл бұрын

The Biden Administration should be requiring a rapid antigen test for flying, which is very inexpensive and much more narrowly focused on _contagiousness,_ unlike the PCR test which tests if someone has been infected even if that person may not necessarily be contagious any longer (i.e., a PCR test may be positive for a few weeks after someone is contagious).

@arabidopsissb 2 жыл бұрын

such a pcr test in a Chinese airport costed 10 US Dollar, one can get the result after around 8-12 h.

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

overturning a precedent for no reason, especially when you promised not to do, is within the limit of the case.

@Sarmonster 2 жыл бұрын

I LOVE this podcast. Thank you guys. I do wish y'all knew more about Cryptocurrency. Listening to you go on about that with a hot drink in my hands would be somehow incredibly soothing, even if you were hating on it.

@Xpatchris 2 жыл бұрын

We also have De Laurentiis snagging the rites to Flash Gordon to thank for Star Wars. Originally Lucas wanted to make Flash Gordon, but couldn't the rites so he made the other little ditty. I can't believe you don't find Max Von Sydow (Ming) a recognizable actor. Regardless, Flash is great kitschy, campy fun with a dry humor akin to Adam West era Batman. It also has the best movie theme song and closing theme of all time thanks to Queen. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nr-EjNSkkt_Yg58.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sLd_nbGJ3JrdgKM.html

@andrejmucic5003 2 жыл бұрын

I'm an RN. I'm out. I'll never do it again.

@rickdickulous1 2 жыл бұрын

What about Timothy Dalton Mark?

@firefox5926 2 жыл бұрын

18:35 heh maybe there sticking them in all those unused houses lol two bird one stone lol

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

a PCR test can be done in 1 hr. the 24 hrs is the time of delivering the sample and processing them. I cannot see how come 24 hrs PCR test can cost 800 USD, unless it is a scam

2 жыл бұрын

Hardly anyone is dying? Between 1 and 2 thousand a day in the US alone.

@1519kyle 2 жыл бұрын

Mark completely forgot about Max von Sydow.

@1519kyle 2 жыл бұрын

Who was also in Dune 1984.

@karenhellmann7707 2 жыл бұрын

Good man Mark, vaccinesceptisism is not exclusive to Western culture

@troywalkertheprogressivean8433 2 жыл бұрын

i could listen to carrie indefinitely

@daviddauphin838 2 жыл бұрын

when are you two going to talk about the RCEP treaty and now about a possible constitutional convention because only 1 more state legislature needs to turn republican to get to two thirds of all legeslatures for this to happen

@rogerhull5632 2 жыл бұрын

The experts I am hearing suggest we continue with multiple means of limiting COVID, depending on the circumstances. Vaccinations, distancing, masks, washing hands, travel cautions and avoiding crowds. See e.g. Mayo experts, MIT Health, etc.

@garybaker8328 2 жыл бұрын

I have a question regarding putin' onsistanc eyhat

@garybaker8328 2 жыл бұрын

Insisistancethat payments for oil and gas purchases be made in rubles if we ignore the political implications amI wrong to assume that this woulddecidedlyadvantage the purchaser especially if they were to aquire rubles on the global currency exchange market?

@garybaker8328 2 жыл бұрын

@paulahartley231 2 жыл бұрын

Mark you muppet Brian Blessed is a Yorkshire man!

@dongately2817 2 жыл бұрын

My respect for Justice Roberts has grown, even though he's in an untenable position.

@GlassEyedDetectives 2 жыл бұрын

anagram of Omicron: MORONIC!.....hee! ...great show as always

@esoteric_teachings 2 жыл бұрын

Russian bots did it, obviously

@stoniblue3569 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry but U unsubscribed after you actually had an insufferable viewing & discussion of the anointed St Fauci. Dude has history & not good.

@mammaliandischarger 2 жыл бұрын

How come the creation of another 2nd class breezes by you two? I'm so disappointed with both of youre unrealized privilege.

@webfreakz 2 жыл бұрын

What 2nd class?

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

you mean those who are not vaccinated? since they decide not to get a vaccine, they separate themselves from the rest, so it is not a second class, it is another group.

@direwolf6234 2 жыл бұрын

@@webfreakz the % of population that daily struggle with living ...

@mammaliandischarger 2 жыл бұрын

@@roc7880 what if you can't bc of medical issues. Keep on complying and you'll get to be a nazi some day

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

@@mammaliandischarger the cases when people cannot get vaccinated because of a medical issue are real and sad, and I have only sympathy for them. the problem is that if you allow an exception, 99% of those claiming that they cannot get vaccinated will be fraudulent. furthermore, if you cannot get vaccinated for a reason, you have to be protected against the disease by NOT being part of the social life until the pandemic is over. this does not make a Nazi, au contraire.

@waltershink6878 2 жыл бұрын

I'm debating taking away my thumbs up after the holiday pics. Peace and solidarity