Mark & Carrie: Controlled Burn 

Thanks, Mark & Carrie both! A pleasure, and stimulating, as ever.

Hey team Mark and Carrie. Just wanted to let you know I really appreciate this podcast and would definitely like to see it continue. Keep up the excellent work. 👍

Carrie, you are brilliant and on-point. A beautiful thing.

Booker is actually leading, votes in the county of the Louisville, are still coming in.

Yes do keep it coming guys, most informative. Thanks

Continue! Keep us true

thanks for fixing the audio. Love your work Mark and Carrie

Please continue to do these podcasts, Mark and Carrie! I love the insightful commentary, free-flowing conversation, and great rapport between you! Always worth the wait! 👍👍👍

Your insights are soooooo appreciated! So glad you will keep it going through the summer

Oh yeah, and sound quality was MUCH better! Looking forward to the next one! Thanks, Mark and Carrie! 👍

Audio is much better now, definitely worth the headsets.

Sound quality TOTALLY KICKS ASS.

Love your work!

Never stop. I laughed so hard at " well the Russians helped by destroying all the buildings first.."

OMG THE SOUND QUALITY

Hey Carrie and Mark! Always thank you for the podcast! Greetings from Kazakhstan!

FULL SEND ON GREEN!

Please carry on - such useful sense making about the US for us in the UK!

When I haven't listened to Blyth for a few months and an interview of him appears in my youtube homepage, I usually click on it. Often he will have one or two interesting ideas that I hadn’t heard anywhere else. But Blyth as a youtuber/interviewer ? Brilliant. Glad I found this channel, +1 subscriber.

Please continue

Carrie Nordlund's voice sounds exactly like Chelsea Handler. Exactly.

Keep going! I love your talks!! Thank you. D.A., J.D., NYC

this needs to be weekly...

Many thanks from Kilmarnock - you are a beacon in the dark - A more genial "Letter from America"

In homogeneous societies, you will find less violence and a completely different response to their citizens when a crime is committed.

Freedom from domination is A great political lens

Best show ever!!

Our hospitals are empty,in western NC !!! And southern Ohio hospital are empty 2!

Keep it up

Before I turned on RU-vid, I thought " I hope Mark and Carrie have a new show"...literally. Top Shelf, both of ya.

The clinicalness of the macro perspective never fails to unsettle me somewhat, especially when I tend to mostly agree with many of your viewpoints. And only when I remember there's still a fine 15 year old malt patiently waiting for me, I calm down again. After a double pour and a few good sips. Cheers to you, Mark and Carrie. You've been pleasantly educational, as always.

I swear Mark if I hear that bloody Mustang analogy one more time I will flip!

Get through it? Mark its here for good dude. He must know that right?

Thnx for your headphones. I can even understand your Irish accent.

By all means keep these coming. If I'm just killing quarantine time anyway (high-risk old guy in Florida), I might as well learn something in the process.

RU-vid keeps sending me to this channel on autoplay after every video I watch.

Make Dundee Great Again!

The Brooker/McGrath show has really only just begun. At the moment Brooker is slightly ahead of McGrath, mainly thanks to the in-person totals of Brooker/McGrath - 8,307/1,654, but this is miniscule compared to the absentee ballots - about 6% - This race is really wide open. From the - eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/06/25/kentucky-primary-booker-pulls-ahead-mcgrath-partial-results/3257298001/ The in-person totals from Jefferson County show Booker receiving 8,307 votes to McGrath's 1,654. The Jefferson County Clerk's office mailed out 218,404 absentee ballots to voters as of Monday morning, and as of early Thursday morning it had received 160,699 of those ballots back, according to spokesman Nore Ghibaudy.

You mistakenly said that McGrath won, but Booker is up now with a high volume of votes still being counted in areas where he is favored

doesn't anyone in usa realize that the structure of the government precludes effective management of the nation?

" fund the city! Fund the city! Fund the city!"

yes, lets re-purpose the police.....as speedbumps

Bend, Oregon has great bud too

"The Monster from the East." TOO FUNNY

Hey there. Reporting from the seedy underground. Minor part of the discussion, about fireworks. People saying "These are not ordinary fireworks, they're huge!". So, the firework market is semi legitimate at the best of times. Illegal in a lot of places, setting up firework stores just over county or state lines etc. Very dodgy outfits to begin with. Here's the thing. Ordinarily towns,, companies etc will purchase larger firework displays for celebrations and corporate functions. There is a steady stream of these fireworks in the market. But a lot of these celebrations and functions have been cancelled because of quarantine. So these semi legitimate distributors still have all this stock on their hands. To manufacture these fireworks and distribute doesn't take a lot of overhead, but they sell good, so there's a large markup. So what these distributors are doing is selling off these stocks of fireworks at a significant markdown, that would ordinarily be sold for celebrations and company functions, to seedy street dealers, who are then selling them to Joe Pyro. Hence you have some pretty, shall we say, impressive firework displays being put on by enthusiasts who are finally getting their hands on stuff that's not usually widely available.

Love the podcast and am always interested in Marks takes on everything. Was a fan even before I found out he's a fellow Dundonian. I had a thought the other day I'd be interested to hear his opinion on. The EU grew out of the European Coal and Steel community which was an attempt to merge the industries of France and Germany so it wouldn't be possible for them to wage war against each other ever again. To what extent does globalisation, with particular reference to the USA and China, have the same effect? Do the cross border supply chains mean that these countries effectively cannot go to war? Or are these supply chains only effecting industries not essential for warfare? Or does modern war not rely on that material infrastructure to the same extent so that the comparison isn't valid?

Carrie's really hot. I think Mark quite likes her too.

There's locust in South America now. Trillions.✌

where i live in rural northern california there is a 15 mile stretch of 2 lane highway connecting 2 small towns and there were many fatal collisions over the years so they put up several signs that say..'safety corridor turn on your headlights' and still 30% of the drivers do not comply either thru ignorance or rebellion...and the majority of the delinquents drive luxury cars....

"universities are hedge funds with a campus overlay" Hard to believe, he's already forgotten that, re: visas. Or too many dotted lines, for him to keep track of.

"pooshed pasht, mish Moneypenny"

Actually US soldiers generally like it here in Poland. I know from drinking with them.

The Social Workers and Emergency Medical staff should have an on call service and go to the situation together. Police should focus on securing the area and the patient to make sure he is not armed, then the Social Workers and Medical staff should be doing the rest. This should be a team and not an individual effort.

New book published in the Toon : )

I think we should maintain healthy skepticism with regards to defunding police. While I accept and support sweeping reform to our justice system and the function of police, my apprehension lies with the Neoliberal tendency to defund our institutions, and privatize them. I think the last thing we want is an unaccountable private police force patrolling our streets. Not saying this is going to happen; but I certainly can see a desire for it from the market Globalists. With regard to statues; I would argue that removing them is effectively the same principle as Orwell's memory hole. The statues may be a blight on our history as a nation, but are nonetheless a part of our history, and should remain to serve as a reminder of the ills of our past. Instead of tearing them down, perhaps a clear and accurate description of who they were and why they were revered, and why they were reviled by any particular group should be etched upon them.

35:11 almost like its like a sort of... system... of codependent structures that relies on a certain group of people to be forever in a certain "station" in life ...

As an Aussie, can't say the guy that sent Anzacs into the Dardenelles is someone I'm fond of. Can't wait till Scotland and Ireland leave the Uk and all you have is Wales and England - or should I say Wangland.

24:17 yeah but those a safly confined to the parliament :P

Poland is great and the girls are beautiful!

Americans will always do the right thing......., after they have tried everything else. - Winston Churchill

Regarding the defense spending .. the NATO member nations agreed that they "increase their own defense spending to 2% of their respective gross domestic product by 2024". Well, 2024 is a bit into the future. And granted, Merkel announced that (not at least because of corona) Germany wouldn't be able to reach this goal until the early 2030. But it is kind of an LOI (letter of intend) and non binding anyway. And … Germany could raise the payment of their soldiers (even the pension of the retired ones) up to a level that they reach this target. So, the way this agreement is set up doesn't make any sense anyway. Many seem to think that there is kind of a bank account where all the members pay in. This is not the case. All what this is about is how many those countries spend for defense/military, in which way ever. It doesn't make any sense, what so ever, that Trump thinks it would be his business how many the countries spend. Especially since there is no agreement that it has to be spend in a way that they get more equipment and soldiers and can defend them self better. They could fulfill the agreement if they just build new facilities like housing for soldiers, it wouldn't change the ability to defend the country. But, well, sure it makes sense if you use this accusation ("they don't pay their fair share") for political propaganda. Especially without background information. And it is not about "paying" something but "spending" money, even just within their own countries. But not even the most Anti-Trump news inform their viewers about this - maybe because they don't know or don't understand the agreement. And nobody expect Fox News to clarify this. But, to be honest, I would expect that at least Marc would be informed about and let his listeners know it. And about the American tourists in Europe/Italy … well, the U.S. citizens are not really those who travel the most outside of the U.S. even the number increased in the last about 20 years. But, talking about Italy, in 2016 only 2.2 Million tourists out of 50 Million came from the U.S.. Let's say this increased, they are still just a minority. Sure, having 5 to 10 percent more tourists would financially help Italy. But is this worth the risk and would all those really even want to travel from one country with a high infection rate to another where it was the worse before? Yeah, sure, some just don't care, I know. But many still do. About the "the russians helped them by destroying all the buildings in the country (Germany)" .. well, in fact, most buildings in the country were destroyed by the western allies. Even Dresden, which is a city in the east part of Germany, where the "Russian Sector" was has been bombed to ground by british RAF bomber. So, most carpet bombings took place by the Brits and U.S. bomber.

no thanks. just give me mark and carrie

US immigration policy shouldn't be designed to transfer wealth from American labor to American corporate ownership, universities, and foreign labor. If you find that mysterious, I wonder about your theory of self-government, or if you have one.

Defund the police by halving their workload- end the drug war

Did folk listen to the Captain when the ship went down?

All those guns............. and why would anyone want to be a cop !

Hey Dan, Mr producer, put your spiel at the end. If we were looking for you we'd have found you and if we're still interested in similar content we'll hear you at the end, won't we?

I was a community based public health nurse. You go unarmed. We do NEED prosecutors to back us up as assaults and batteries on health workers are under-prosecuted and States NEED to make it a felony if they have not. We don't need to disarm.

in the German city I live in, we had in the last days not a single new Covid 19 patient in our hospitals. The mask is not so import, if you are outside. But inside at doctors for example or in shops we have to wear it and vulnerable people wear it. Also every shop or institution with public access have worked out some rules for social distancing, which make more or less sense. The defense budget rise, which was silently subscribed by the German government in 2014 at the NATO summit in Wales, is very annoying. It raises the danger of the next world war with Russia and China. Germany also wastes a lot of money there, which goes in part in the US military-industrial complex. Merkel is like Trump just one human being. I never voted for her and never will. She is the opposite of Trump, always very polite. But the politics of the German conservatives is still toxic in many ways.

How will defunding help? Surely use the funding to properly train and mandate true police men and women to protect and serve.

#policenotmilitary

24:30 A "culture of violence" is what it looks from the outside.

The Soviets after WW2 destroyed and carried off a bunch of stuff from Germany and Austria, and then they built impressively large monuments to themselves in Germany/Austria celebrating their victory.

Ok when she said McGrath won my heart sank.. I am not seeing any proof of this.. Booker is leading right?

Perhaps... redirect wasteful police funds would work in lieu of defund the police.

24:34 maybe then the first thing thru the door in a raid should be a robot ... you know somthing that can take a hit .. or 10 and keep going ... rather than one of them squishy fleash bags ...

Excuse me being a carmudgeon here but volvos are actually turbocharged and supercharged whereas mustangs usually come with neither

agree with the H1-B visa comments.

I don't understand why the police unions have been so aggressive. They have an opportunity to get rid of any job they no longer wish to do, increase training and probably have a bigger budget for things besides armored vehicles that are being used mainly in parades.

Green Screen background is bothersome. Marketing of that sort is flag. I'll game my copy, no exchange, no coin, freebie.

Yay! Carrie has a new background!! I wanted to know about the art behind her in the other space with all the stars : )

If you don't go to beach parties and don't wear a mask it will just take longer and feel like FOR EVER

I'd love to be able to work at Google with a STEM degree, sadly, I'm a Hispanic, 25, American citizen, but need a living wage of about $15 an hour to be a code monkey in California. Sadly I can't work at an American company even with the proper qualification. I should have been born in India, I guess!

That first time when somebody calls the cops 'cause the lady next door is fighting with her crazy drunk armed ex-husband again and a "social worker" shows up.

What I find to be so interesting is that there is no discussion about the massive percentage of pre-existing conditions in the US. We are the unhealthiest population in the world. How many people that think they are “safe” have undiagnosed conditions? What is the economic cost of up to a third of the working population being at risk? It’s not like the economy can return if a third of the workers get seriously sick. Shit the system would shut down if 10% of the working population was high risk. Killing the workers hurts the economy more than shelter in place laws. It’s not like millennials are having kids. You are looking at close to 25 years before a new generation of workers join the force. That’s assuming that birthrates not only return after COVID but increase.

If Germany spends more on defence, what do you think the French will do, disparaties in GDP.

Mark, just say 'hot rod' instead of 'Mustang' and the analogy will stop giving people aneurysms....

If anything, they should take Churchill down because of Gallipoli and Bengal - that's a lot of dead people for little reason.

#maketherichfundthepolice

On the H1-B visas, the only reason that those jobs don't go to Americans is that they (corporations) can hire powerless foreign nationals cheaper. There are Americans who can and will do those jobs, and to the extent that there is a shortage of Americans, it is because Americans at that skill level don't want to compete with cut-rate labor out of India or Indonesia. I'm not an immigration hawk by any means, but with the American real unemployment rate at 20%, and thousands of qualified Americans who would take those H1-B jobs, if the wages were not depressed, I would say stop depressing the wages. If you want those H1-B workers in the US, let them become citizens.

Trump gets his base!!! He makes sure he has done everything possible,to make the economy/incomes grow! Money is Freedom,to do what you want when you want! That's why we love Trump and will Turn out in Mass!

I ain't wearing no mask I'm not a coward

In regards to the visa ban, corporate America could have show some long term thinking and national responsibility and paid their taxes, and used their bribes and influence (I mean campaign contributions) to fund and improve America's schools and have had an army of Americans (including all the underemployed minorities protesting lately) trained with the skills they want and need now. In this case Trump and Silicon Valley are playing chicken and I hope they both win the Darwin award this year.

Wearing masks outside, lol. That aged well.

The lack of attendance at the tRump rally warmed the cockles of my heart.

The fact she was so confident in calling it for McGrath makes me VERY suspicious.

want to talk about Camden - they got rid of their police department and made a changeover years ago

What's going on with that thumbnail

How about a shark? A shark should be constantly moving or it dies for the lack of oxygen.

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