Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Jurassic World Evolution 2! Well, that's not really an episode because we are here back in the battle arena! Why we're back so soon? I know! Well, that is because there have been new updates in the modern world, of course it's always why we're here, but if we take a quick look at our contenders, we will also say that over here, have you ever dreamt of fitting a AAA game into your pocket? I can make this work, it can go over pocket! Well now you can, with Raid Shadow Legends! With hundreds of artifacts to equip and 600 plus champions to choose from, you can build your team and raid your way! I've been playing Raid Shadow Legends in my own spare time, but one of the champions I love is Tatora Rhymhide. Why? Because it's a freaking lion, that's gold! GOOOOOLD! Tatora is able to increase your team's defense and put out block debuffs, which neutralizes a lot of the bosses in the Doom Tower! 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The next one! Whatever gets the most votes! It was a lot of people like, no, the interrupter should've won the last one! Eugh! Technically it should've! So changes we've made this time is, well, we can't change any of the arena, because if I do, it's always a fun time, but as you can see we've got like the mega sloth in there, of course the classics like the karka, tiny little hyungasauruses, that is the pachyrhinosaur, that is a normal looking one! We've got something weirdly, oscillophysus, running very strange around here! Of course the DLC creatures, I originally started this video, when the DLC came out, however there was a glitch, where when the dinosaurs were released, and you'll know each one has a different sort of terrain or territory, as you can see when we clicked on some it sort of came up right there, when so many were released at the same time it glitched and it broke the game. So I could not do a battle royale! So this video is like months overdue, really! We've got the platia bellodon as well, all of the things you've seen in the last video, like the torvosaurus, and the tyrannotitan, or in here too! As well as the lambiosaur, look at the fog, the fog looks so good! As well as this, oh look at this guy, we've got a green spinosaurus! Of course the massive shantungosaurus here! It's actually managed to get some kills in the last video, and people said that's because it has the iguanodon animation set, so I'm assuming that it's maybe gonna get some kills this time, but why not we not waste any more, no, no, no, no time! Why don't we waste no more time and get into the new dinosaurs, or should I say new encrotations, because this is not technically a new dinosaur, no, the Dr. Woo hybrids have now made a return into Jurassic World Evolution 2, whether for good or for bad, in this case good, because there's more contenders, we have the anklodocus right here, which is one of the hybrids that is more, I don't know, kind of meh. Unfortunately the sauropods suffer greatly when it comes to this game, meaning they can't do anything when it comes to combat, and they kind of look very similar. This anklodocus looks exactly like these, the other two! You've got a panosaur, a diplodocus, and the only difference is a few cosmetics on the outside, but apart from that they're pretty much the same. We have the Ostrovenator, which was the most recently added dinosaur to the DLC, so it has its own unique animations and such, however we have had confirmation, or not technically confirmation, but it has, you know, they've put the sound out there and it's definitely coming. There is going to be a Trossaraptor coming in the next DLC, so that is something to look forward to, but here we have an Irritator! We do have the other, I don't know what you call it, Spinosaur Radier, or, you know, Tsukumai Medea, whatever you want to call it, in here as well, but this is the Irritator, so it's really good to see something that, you know, they don't get too much love, but it's another species that I definitely know of. Now this one, the Meraxxus Giga, is, well, as you can quite, maybe guess, it is a Giga, not a source, however, and maybe it's a subspecies? I don't even know, but always good to have a new one come in here. It could even be, you know, an OC by the looks of it. It looks like it could definitely be, actually a lot of the swordboards now are in danger because a lot of big carnivores like the Giga, like the T-Rex, Karkar and Alasaur, all that, can now take them on. So, yeah, it's not just waiting for an Indomitus Rex to come around and, you know, kill them, and that's what it would do in Jurassic World Evolution, it would just go from swordboard to swordboard and just kill them all. So here we have the biggest Alasaur genus, the Saurafaganex. I think it is. I'd only say it definitely was a huge Alasaur. Looking a little bit different, actually it comes out, it's not an Alasaur animation set. It seemed to be its own unique one. I mean, it'll be based on something, but really cool to see it here, and that is not all. No, no, no, no, no. We also have this guy. We have the Troudon, or at least, actually, maybe we already had, oh, oh, oh, okay, maybe there's two Troudons. I forgot to give it the skin. Never mind, it's just the UI. It looks cool, okay. We'll ignore that I released another Troudon. They're not gonna wait.  Come on, Argentina source. You need to get out of the way, dear. And the other hybrid that maybe people like, maybe they don't like, I know for some, or at least it definitely tipped the scales for some people who were like, ah, I don't really like this now.  The Stegoceratops were pazing through the floor, and now it's not. And oh, what a joy it is to say this in Jurassic World again. A hybrid that actually was in the movie Jurassic World on one of the computer screens, I'm pretty sure, and had a toy line and everything, which just sort of solidifies the fact that, you know, it was gonna be in the movie. It was locked in with the merchandise line so far out, because that's what they have to do. But then it was cut later, when Colin Trevorrow's nephew, or son or daughter, I don't think it was, said, oh, there's more hybrids that makes Dominus Rex less special. And he went, that's what I need. Perfect. You can write the next movie. Funny way that this side of Ceratops is sleeping there. But not only do we have that, we have this thing, a Titanoceratops? Oh my God, it's like an engine horn. It looks like a Diabla. Although Diabla Ceratops is a lot smaller. This looks like Edge Lord itself. Tops. It looks like a Penta Ceratops. It's been slightly changed. We've got all the Ceratops in here, but hopefully this one will put up a little bit more of a fight. I always like to see this, you know, the herbivores that can fight back and put up a fight against the giant carnivores, because they're always the favorite to win. But this is the most exciting. Yes, we've had in Dominus Rex, we've had in Doraptor. Is there any dinosaurs this thing has never faced up against? Well anyway, here it is. The fan favorite from that DLC and a bore. What a gorgeous skin that looks like. The Spinal Raptor. A dinosaur that in evolution had such a short lifespan. It would literally live for what felt like maybe 40 minutes in your park and then it would die. Yeah, well now it's panicking so maybe it will also die. Frontier put in so much effort when it came to making those hybrids. It seems such a shame to not see. And there's the giant Capybara again.  So this is, this is like frontier from loads of different games. It's a combination of different things. And that takes our total dinosaur to one per species, 107. Maybe there's two trodons in there. You never can tell. He also forgot about the Stegosaur that won the last battle royal, Silly Beaver. So I want you to have a guess. Who do you think will be the winner of this one and go into the winner circuit with the Stegosaurus? Let's go! I don't know how this is gonna go, but I'm expecting death right of the bat. Oh, that's a lovely looking cryo-loffosaurus. Shame it's absolutely terrified. But there is so many dinosaurs in here. But luckily the space is big enough which will maybe give them enough space to attack each other. Oh, already. Oh, wait, that's not even the right battle. Oh, no. Indominus Rex has killed a megalosaurus. That's not the, it is the first death, actually. Oh, oh, who is that?  And Kylosaur has killed the Tsukumimas fish. He does not do too well here. We got the Scorpius Rex. Oh, looking lovely there.  And, oh, it's going for it again. Oh, lovely jubbly. Agricandosaurus takes down Baryonix. Wow, it is not a good time to be one of the fishers. We've got Indominus Rex who's attacked a movie. Oh, no, the Ankyloticus, the hybrid which is facing inside that. Scorpius Rex still taking a few num-nums out of the Argentinosaurus. You know, just getting some dindin by tinge. Can't leave it alone. And we have Indoraptor, a surefire favorite. Oh, oh, takes down the mutaburrasaurus there. Lovely. I mean, how does those aren't going to last long devoted for one of those? Well, I mean, God help you, you're going to need it. Oh, Soraphagonix taking on Echinotaurus.  Indominus Rex is, oh, it's still taking it on. Oh, Proceratosaurus, a mini-cup. Proceratosaurus killed by Monalophosaurus and Indoraptor killing a Parasaur. Oh, we are flip-flopping between battles. Nuzutus, Nuzutus Aerotops taking a well-earned break there. Well, Indominus Rex chomps on Ankyloticus. Again, Scorpius Rex has left the, oh wait, what are you going for? Oh no, it's chomping on the Ankyloticus now. Oh, Argentinosaurus passes through or passes out from the Venom and Indominus Rex aligns up to take on the Mementiosaurus. Oh, this is the, oh God, the Tatangalong taking on the original Giga and winning. There is so much death now.  What are you doing? How many things is this kill? It's killed two Nuzutus Aerotops. Oh my God, there's another herbivore going to win. That would be amazing. Oh, we've got Kakarodonosaurus taking on Saratosaurus. There can only be one dinosaur that begins with C and Thomas Rex still chomping on the poor Mementiosaurus. No shows from Spinosaur or T-Rex, which seems to be at the moment. And there's another one taking on Mementiosaurus just biting it. Relentless, it really is. Oh, Indoraptic killed by Allosaurus. You just saw it there. I don't even know what he probably did there. The regular bite. There's Spiner after there. Not really doing too much. Indominus Rex taking a break out of chomping on Mementiosaurus to kill Kurethosaurus and Woohooosaurus is actually putting up a fight against Tyrannotitan. That is really weird. Oh, yeah, it actually damaged it. Oh, we got a Becky here. Spinosaurus. Oh, no, Scuba Rex killed the hippo. Oh, you hate to see it. Indominus Rex now taking on the Brachiosaurus. Well, the herbivores. Brachiosaurus and Hadrosaurus really don't stand too much of a chance when it comes to just general survivability in this game, unfortunately. And there it goes. Again, we've got a Kakarodonosaurus. Oh, Carnotaurus! Taking on Irritator survived its fight against Sauraphagonics. And the Plata Belladon now gets chomped on by the Scobies. I'd really want to know how this one ends because this is more interesting. A 12. Oh, Irritator taking a hit there. We've got the Oranosaur being killed by Indominus Rex. Indominus Rex is going on so many killing sprees. So, Scobies Rex here, not much going on with the Spino Raptor. It must be said, oh, Metricosaurus is backing up there going, oh, Lord, I'm out of here. Another, oh, I just loves it. It's like, I love the taste of mammals. Yes! And now we've got triceratops taking on the, oh, the Megagigoon, whatever it was called, that wins! What is going on? I think it could be very likely we're going to see quite a few herbivores in the finale.  And the ceratopsians don't get on with a lot of things. Plata Belladon dead. Nope, nope, it's not. And no, the Colombian mammoth, I think it was, I got that wrong so many times.  And a little, he's got like a little pet capybara. Just like a, yeah, there's a little pet. That's amazing. The Shantungosaurus just running about there. Carnotaurus seems like it did lose its fight to irritator. Ooh, that's fascinating. And it takes our battle of 107 dinosaurs to 86 remaining. And Scobies Rex really not letting up on the Plata Belladon, but there's nothing really these guys can do. They just walk around and just absorb blows. It's a bit of a shame. It's getting a bit corpse in here now. And Indominus Rex still taking on the Colombian mammoth.  Oh, Spinosaur finally! And it killed the Mama. Oh, and Nozuda Ceratops kills. Pentaset, what is going on here? Those guys are being way too, way too killy for the wrong good, especially Nozuda Ceratops. What? Is that even like the biggest Ceratops? It's Scobies Rex going for God knows what the Indominus Rex now taking on Dreadnortus. And it's going for the Colombian Mammoth. They traded opponents. All my notifications seem to be with those guys, but I want to see what else goes on. I came with that Dreadnortus. Oh, we've got Tarobasaur just running around here. Indominus Rex against Dreadnortus, Myosorgallimimus. Some of these herbivores surviving where I really didn't think they would. Acrocanthusos, have you any battles with anything?  God knows what that was. Nozuda Ceratops is now lonely. Well, you've killed all your friends. Got to admit, Scobies Rex now taking on the Dreadnortus again. Okay, those two are working together. I swear it's like a little minion, boss minion relationship. Indominus Rex tells you what to kill. Oh, no. The Titanus Ceratops has been killed by Spinosaur's or Spinawrap. I don't even know what that one was. Now, finally going on to the last of the elephants, the Anacus Avernesus. Not looking too good for them. That could be it. There is anasaur still surviving. That is something that could actually take on some carnivores. T-Rex, Sukumimus. The Sukumimus killed by the Ankylosaur. This is one for the books. There has been so many kills from the herbivores here. Onto carnivores, so it's really going to leave up to a few to do the heavy lifting. So much so, you've got Cinsadosaurus. I have not seen Indoraptor, but Indoraptor was killed by the Alasaur. Yeah, that's right. I haven't seen Alasaur. Again, these guys just keep on chomping at the other big sauropods. And finally, something different. We've got a Taurusaur taking on Tyrannotitan, I think it is. But Tyrannotitan hasn't done too hot, I think. Oh, I don't know if that might have been a hit. Oh, we got Spineraptor taking on. Oh, no, is it? Is it killing the Pachycephalosaurus? I don't even know what's going on here. It doesn't even know. It's waiting for it to line up. Lord knows. It's probably going to kill. And there it goes. Pachycephalosaurus did not stand much of a chance. Galamimus now gets taken out by Indominus Rex. Who didn't see that coming? Oh, Tyrannotitan did win. It's bad. It took a few hits from the Taurusaur. But it is, you know, everyone likes Under the Dog story. You can't just come out the gate swinging and win and expect to win the crowd's favor. Saratosaurus now taking on a Cynoseratops. Interesting, this thing did fight something.  That was amazing. Cynoseratops killed it. Shantungosaurus, the largest of the Hadesaurus, died to Scobius Rex. And now Scobius Rex is, I don't even, is it trying to take on a Styracosaurus? No, it's taking on a Struthiumimus. Bless it and throws it along the floor there like a plaything. Spinosaurus after making its kill with the T-Rex is eyeing up an Acrocanthosaurus. Now both of these have made one fight and one kill. Oh, and Spinosaur goes first. I don't even know what that thing is. What is that? I can't remember. Oh, and a bite from the Acrocanthosaurus as well. And a clash. Love to see it. I said, you know, they added a little bit of a unique animation for the carnivores. And Spinosaur has won that one. Can it be a site B victory? You know, including the Stegosaurus from the last one. And oh, no, the new whatever it was called the Alalmosaurus being killed by an Indominus Rex. And what have we got here? We've got those two eyeing each other up. Oh, cryolophosaurus killed by Taurantite. It's getting in the little experience by killing the smaller carnivores there that really wouldn't put a much of a fight. And the Tatangalongosaurus taking on Karkarid on the source. It looks like it might win it. 56 against 53. It's a close one. Oh, Tatangalong actually winning that exchange. We've still got some Alluritines and other Hadrasaur. Oh, the DP. How many kills is this thing, man? It's made six prey kills, apparently. I'm pretty sure it's counting, you know, all of its kills as prey kills because it can. Yep, there you go. It is really not letting up all the herbivores. All the sauropod animations will die. They do not get a chance to heal. Oh, we've got a Scorpius Rex taking on one of the new. Oh, and a Whiptail. Absolutely destroyed the new carnival. What was it? The Australoboraptor instantly died.  It would have been so cool to see. And then Scorpio Rex now cleaning up Wow, how many? Okay, we need to see how many kills this thing's made. Eight? Well, that'll probably make that nine. Yep, that's nine. Five prey kills and four regular kills as opposed to Indominus Rex's six prey kills and one normal kill. So it's actually got more kills than Indominus Rex. I don't know if it's just been kill stealing possibly. We've got a lot of small carnivores still running amok waiting for their time to shine once the giant carnivores have all killed themselves and then also killed the giant herbivores. We started with a hundred and seven dinosaurs. We're now down to sixty eight. What's it hunting down? What was an M? Oh, it's true. Oh, no, no, it's taken on the giant sloth. Oh my God. That is one heavy beastie that it just swung backwards. Okay, that was that was quick. Interesting. It must have the Niger Sorus animation because I'm pretty sure that's what uh oh look the Woohoo Sorus. Oh, giving giving us a lovely because it does have one fight record and has one one. And what is this? Oh, Stegoceratops. Wow. Has killed Tyrannotite and I thought Tyrannotite was going to be in it for long, all actually. And spider Spinosaurus killed by Changesaurus. What that was its first kill and it killed Spinosaurus and like one. Okay, Indominus Rex has just now finished off Mimmy. Okay, now who's going to finish off in Double Srex? It really feels like it's always using its cloaking camouflage here to sneak up on something. Although, I don't know how you can sneak up when you just run straight at it. Um, the Tangalong now taking on the Sora Faginax. They won this exchange last time. It might be wanting to finish the job, but no, Sora Faginax gets one hit off maybe before it finally bites the dust. Let's have a look. We've also got Scorpius Rex in the background. Oh, oh, oh, no, no, Mousaurus taking out. Oh, nothing can stop that thing. We've got Indominus Rex taking on Acrocanthosaurus. Now Acrocanthosaurus, actually, oh, no, no, no, they're not fighting. Okay, I was going to say, Acrocanthosaurus lost to Spinosaurus. I can't believe Spinosaurus died like that. It killed the T-Rex and then it just gets finished by something like that. Oh, Lambiosaurus thing there being thrown about like a ragdoll. Irritator still surviving. Dynonicus still alive. The frigging Capybara is also still alive and Komorosaur is soon to not be alive because Indominus Rex has selected it for extinction. Oh, oh, Scorpius Rex against a what? Oh, it was an esti- Oh, no, Stiggy. It's oh god. Oh, there you go, Stiggy. It's killed the Pachycephalosaurus. It's killed the Stiggy Moloch and I think there is still a Draco Rex. Oh, I don't know. What are you?  There is still a Draco Rex hiding around here somewhere. We are definitely seeing some standouts here. Indominus Rex, Scorpius Rex, possibly Stegoceratops and maybe Changesaurus as well as the Tangalong seem to be the standout ones and possibly Nazuda Ceratops because that has killed two things. Yep. Again, Indominus Rex just constantly going for that Pokemonosaurus.   And again, but we still got Spinaraptor. We've still got this cutie. Oh my god, the Capybara wins. That will be hilarious. No, Indominus Rex has chosen the Capybara. No, please, Capybara killed Indominus Rex. Being upset, go on. I dare you do it. Dude, he's got a little purple. Oh no, Brun. What are you doing? What are you doing? Please kill him. No, no, don't kill him. No, no, no. Dammit. I was so hoping imagine if the Capybara killed Indominus Rex. That would be amazing. Oh no. Oh, Jitz killed the whole genus family. Draco Rex, Stingy Moloch, and now Pachycephalosaurus killed by a Scorpius Rex. Had a friggin' vendetta. They said it wasn't smart yet. It's killed the entire family bloodline. Apatosaurus seems to be the last of its kind of the giant sauropods to survive. However, Indominus Rex has now just seen it and is coming over. I'm so sorry. I've jinxed you. I apologize. Oh, you're kind of in the shot. And there's the bites. Oh, and what is that sticking out? Oh, it's a scar. Is that a bone? Good god. Oh, Stingy Ceratops killing sauropagonyx. Wow. That is two giant carnivores. This thing has killed taking it to infamy level three. Scorpius Rex killing a Pachyrinosaurus there and is now also hunting down the Apatosaurus. So, I'm kind of curious as to what the Indominus Rex is now hunting. No, it's looking at the Apatosaurus, but then the Scorpius Rex is probably going to come over now to hunt it. Oh, or maybe not. Maybe not. Nope. Yep. Yep, it is. They're taking turns. The Aquarodon has now made some poor life decisions and is wanting to take on the Indominus Rex. It has had no battles and yep. Yeah, there you go. He's like, I got this apple. No, I don't got this. Well, I'd say it's a life lesson learned, but I mean you can't learn a life lesson if you're not a life animal. Prosoratosaurus. Oh, look at you. You've killed one thing as well. You've done very well. We've even got frigging... Oh, there's the Dilophosaurus. They do exist, but they're all still panicking. So, eventually when these giant carnivores have killed each other, then we're going to see a spat of all these smaller carnivores attacking each other. Okay, I've just turned off all of the comfort. Oh, Changesaurus is now killing the Carcarodonosaurus. And, oh, Scorpius Rex taking on the, oh no, the Lambiasaur died and the Tarchia died, both of the same place to both the same carnival. The Scorpius Rex. It now has a whopping 19 kills under its belt. The dominance of nine hundred and eighty eight thousand. Okay, Nozuto Saralops has chosen its opponent. Can you guess who it is? It's frigging Indominus Rex! And it actually stood up to it while I was expecting it to die instantly. Now, Nozuto Saralops has killed a few of its own brethren. Not too sure why, but against an Indominus Rex, yeah, got bit and survived and is now running for its life. I do not blame it. And the Indominus Rex has went straight on now to hunt down a tiny little dryasaur. As if going from one battle wasn't enough, now it instantly kills something else. Acrocanosaurus has made one kill and it's won one fight and lost one fight. But with those sad puppy dog eyes, can it somehow manage to win? Strangely enough, for the small carnivores, peace has sort of descended upon them. Like they're no longer running, they're not fighting each other. Maybe this place is big enough for them to have a territory that doesn't coincide with each other. No. Oh no. Oh no. Aeonaraptor, what are you doing? What are you doing? No! You fool! We've got a battle over here. Detangling killed by Scorpios. I mean, at this point, is there anything that Scorpios Rex can't kill? Although we still have the Alasaur. I think the Alasaur was the only one that managed to put an end to Indoraptor before it could really get started on a killing rampage. Dinosaur count from 107 down to 41 and Scorpios Rex now taking on an Acrocanthosaurus. Scorpios Rex with a spotless battle record. Oh, an Acrocanthosaurus turning away. Okay, very interesting. I think that's twice now that Acrocanthosaurus avoided almost certain death by just walking away from a battle. Something to be learned there. Changesaurus however might be the secret here. It's been kind of quiet just sitting there observing and then when the time arises just killing the Spinosaurus or killing Carcarodonosaurus. So maybe it'll do exactly the same to Indominus Rex or Scorpios Rex. And here we have it. Indominus Rex versus Stegoceratops. If there's going to be one herbivore that can stand up to Indominus Rex, it's not that one. It's dead. I thought, I thought maybe there was a chance, but oh wow. It killed so many other things, but when it, it's just so much of a difference and Kendra's so falling to a Scorpios Rex and then pretty sure Scorpios Rex is now running over to something else to now butcher it. You know, there's a developer out there that makes a game that looks this good, has Dinosaur models this good, and then just makes the battles completely random as in like, they're not, oh wow, he's running backwards. What is that doing? That's amazing. Wow. But no, they just made like, the actual interactions completely random. So like, maybe it could run alongside, bite it and then kick it or something. Instead of like, they duel, they spin, they win or lose. That game will never go out of like fashion. It will always be popular. Model of Osoras? Yeah, that was only going to end one way. Therizonosaurus still managing to uh, to be okay, just completely running around all the time and not even losing any stamina. Oh, Triceratops against Majungasaur. I didn't even know that was in there. So about this long, and then in fact, I'd never even seen these two dinosaurs and they've apparently had a fight and Triceratops has killed Majungasaur. Oh yeah, and the Pikmi Hippo's still here. Oh, Nozuda Ceratops is taking on Scorpius. Oh, it takes a hit, but it survived. I was kind of expecting Nozuda Ceratops to die instantly, but it's taking on Indominus Rex, it's taking on Scorpius Rex and has survived each time. However, this time, it's poisoned and with nine percent health, I think it's probably going to die. I'm sort of, I'm ordering the sedation of the Therizonosaurus because I think it might have glitched and that is one dinosaur that I definitely want to see in a battle. Oh, Indominus Rex versus Acrocanus Rex. This is actually happening. Let's see how this battle unravels. Oh, I think we missed the initial hit with the Indominus Rex. Oh, the clash comes through the Polacanthus trying to get out of the way there and Indominus Rex wins. I thought we missed that one hit, like the initial one. Nozuda Ceratops with one percent health and unfortunately, there it goes, it killed three things, it won three battles and lost only one apparently. And a battle for the ages. Finally, the two contestants, are they actually going to like the two top tier contestants? Are they going to fight each other? No, no, they're saving that for the end so it can get good watch time on YouTube. Oh, really? Really? You're fighting this thing. Wow, wow, it's really going to wait for it to walk all the way over and then it's probably just going to tail slap him one. Look how big this thing is. Whoa, there it goes. The disrespect there, good god. Oh my god, the copy's still going. Eupocephalus is just managing to stay alive because it's doing a weird run and after sedating and letting the Therizinosaurus go, it is still continuously running around like a man man. It does feel like a lot of these dinosaurs are not fighting each other and I'm not exactly too sure why. I will put on hunger, I will put on thirst and I will put comfort back on just to see if that changes anything. Oh, oh, this does not look good. This is a fight between the Spinaraptor and the Scorpius and it looks like the Scorpius is about to win. Please tell me you're not about to one shot that Spinaraptor please.  Oh, Acrocanthosaurus against Hayungusil. Uh, it obviously wants an easy win. Yep, there you have it. Oh, I'm greatly wanting to pop in and say something about that but we're going to mute him. Allosaurus and Indominus Rex now taking each other on and I don't know, it looks like Allosaurus might have got the first hit on unless Indominus Rex already had those scars on it because I'm not exactly sure how the scar system works because I think some of them do remain permanent. Uh, you know, fighting right next to an Encanosaur. And the Allosaurus had to run away and Indominus Rex wins. Okay, I've quarantined all the dancing dinosaurs and now I'm just going to try and sedate them because I have no idea what is going on with these guys. Battle, I don't know if this is one that's made a kill. I think it might be. Oh, lovely. Low health on the Enkylosaur but it does live to see another day. 10% health, good God, that was close. The Proseratosaurus has been a good boy. Eating the dead carcass of an Albertosaurus or sorry, Acrocanthosaurus there. Maybe a little timeout might do them the world of good.  Changesaurus picking an interesting battle against the Triceratops.  This might be the dark horse I think. You think it might be Indominus Rex but I don't know. Okay, here we go. First one in. You're going to go straight back to run in? I bet your blooming well are.  Oh, oh, oh. Scorpius Rex taking on an Ankylosaur. I think they have this fight before. Oh, a massive hit from the Ankylosaur into the Scorpius Rex. Really, that should have killed it. Brittle bones like that and low health onto this Ankylosaur. But is it going to be enough? Oh, it does run away and it's on 42% health and it is poisoned but it should have enough health to survive and come back from that. Yeah, that's death approaching Eumetric Acrocanthosaurus. 100% death. However, this does go to prove that, you know, a dinosaur with dancing fever can actually get into combat. Although it really doesn't want to. Yeah, that was a bad idea. I just wanted to go dance it. And now you're dead. Ankylosaur still trying to come back from its poison but it's only a minute in and it's lost half the remaining health it had. So it's not looking good. It looks like it's going to succumb to the Scorpius Rex venom. No way. No, you're not doing this, are you? Yeah, I was going to say. Don't taunt me like that. That's the final battle. You know what? At least it's going to go out with a bang.  It actually gets taken out. Yeah, but I'll give them that. Well done. Well done. No, my God. Even concavenated. It's panicking. But because it's so... Oh God, what's happening here? Oh, Hororosaur. I think this was one that actually was having the dancing fever as well. So maybe in Donut Rex it's slowly going to take them all out. Oh, no. Oh, oh. Not the Yippo Zephyllus. No, he had the best dancing moves. Hold on. We have the Therizonosaurus against the Changesaurus. Oh, okay. I was going to say, if the Therizonosaurus manages to kill him. Oh, yeah. Now we're seeing a lot of dinosaurs dying of thirst and hunger. The majority of the small carnivores, in fact, seem to be suffering from this fate. Oh, God. Oh, not the pygmy hippo. Anything but the pygmy hippo. Oh, oh, the battle's happening. The battle's happening. Changesaurus against Scorpius Rex. Oh, I knew it. I knew it. I had a feeling the way this thing was sort of analyzing the situations and stuff as opposed to this, which was running and killing, which killed everything. This was calculating. Yes, I knew it. Didn't even put up any fight whatsoever. Scorpius Rex, a legacy of 27 kills, 18 victories, and only one defeat. And unfortunately, that defeat ended in its death. And it didn't even get off a single hit onto Changesaurus, which, you know, it got hit once, would have been poisoned, and that could have been it. That could have been the death of it. But now, with five, only five, kills might win this thing. We now only have 11 dinosaurs left, but soon to be 10, because Pyrept is going to die too. Oh, oh my god, for the first time, this guy's actually not glitched out. The Turovosaurus. Maybe there was something that glitched them all out, and when it died, they're okay now. Oh, and Allosaurus is keen to capitalize on that. And yeah, another easy kill coming up for the Indominus Rex, I think. A nice polar canthus could somehow roll up into a ball and break its skull to like a sonic roll. You know what Indominus Rex is doing here? He's just asserting his dominance.  Oh, however, Turovosaurus are taking out one bite from the Allosaurus there. Oh, Allosaurus is challenging Indominus Rex here. My money's on Indominus Rex, but I don't know. Allosaurus looks like it does have some scars, and it has killed the most recent. So, let's see. Oh, oh, takes a hit, but still standing. After going toe to toe with Indominus Rex, but because Indominus Rex bit first, it does show that Indominus Rex is the stronger out of the two. But they both do get one hit off, or sorry, two hits off each, and then Indominus Rex wins. Just depends. 69% against 40, yeah. Yeah, Indominus Rex is going to win that one. Polacanthus taken out by Changesaurus, and I think we have now entered our final five. Changesaurus, Cyanoceratops, Allosaurus. Some Notosaur, which is definitely going to die in a second, and of course, Indominus Rex. Cyanoceratops taking a fight to Spinosaur. Oh, it is down. I haven't touched anything. I haven't touched anything. How did that... I'm in disbelief. 26 kills, dominance of 968,000, and it just died to one thing. A Cyanoceratops, but had one kill and one victory. The only thing I can think that made the difference there was that Indominus Rex had taken a hit in a previous battle not too long ago, and well, two hits actually. Wow, wow, Cyanoceratops. No, I feel like Cyanoceratops can't win it now, can he? That was completely unexpected. Good lord, you can never tell. You can never tell which way it's going to go. That's why you watch. That leaves Allosaurus, Scorpius Rex, and the Sino to really battle it out. We do have a proseratosaurus actually. The final two carnivores are now facing up against each other. Changesaurus against Allosaurus. Oh, Changesaurus killing it there. Not even a challenge. Didn't even try to like fight, run around each other. It was just so one-sided, and that means it is Changesaurus against the Cyanoceratops. Could you believe it? This is going to be interesting. All right, guys, here we have it. Both on 100%, two kills to the Cyanoceratops, and seven kills to the Changesaurus. Now, Lord would dictate Changesaurus is going to win this, but you did just see Cyanoceratops completely topple the king in Dominus Rex. How will this one go? Is anybody's guess? And the first goes too. Oh, it's not an instant kill. Changesaurus gets a hit off, but it's not like straight away.   It's hard to say. That was a weird animation, but it looks like Changesaurus did win that exchange. How badly did it get injured? One's on low health, 62% for the Changesaurus, and 52% for Sino. It is a close one. It looks like this could be the final battle between the two. It's anyway 98% against a 99, or it's a 100. They're both on 100. Here we go. Cyanoceratops gives out a roll as Changesaurus approaches. Now normally, I think I found that the winner gets approached. So although saying that Sino's going to take another beating here, I think this might be a repeat. If Changesaurus is going to win, Cyanoceratops really isn't going to let him take it easily. As they turn to face each other, both have taken a hit.  Is there going to be a second hit? Oh, yeah. It doesn't look good for the Sino now on 51% and 62% for the Changesaurus. That is now two wins and two losses for the Sino, and it's Infamy's level two. I think it was three before, whereas this guy's Infium level is two as well. They are very close, as far as Infamy goes anyway. So we have Infamy level one on the Changesaurus, and Infamy level two on the Sino. Although the Sino has lost two battles, so I'm really interested to see what's going to happen here. Changes are pushing the way, but let's see. Oh, it could go either way. Both of them have ended their praise so quickly, although they're opponents. And again, it looks like the Changesaurus is leading in with the attack. And the dodge? I don't think that was a hit. I think that was a dodge from the Sino.  But I didn't even know, oh was it? 68 against 42. I think last time it was a 10% difference, this time it's a 20% difference. Oh, Changesaurus has dropped down to Infamy level one, and Sino always also dropped down to Infamy level two. I was thinking if he's level three, that might make the difference here. But now it's the health. Will the health really be the victory that Changesaurus has been waiting for? Another hit straight in. Though it was already like a 10% difference between the two. And Changesaurus usually wins. And oh, the nurtures it tries to get around. That time it worked. It was interesting because normally the animation doesn't work. So this must be the perfect scenario for the two of them. And oh, another dodge. Really doesn't look like he's taken much damage. And oh, it's just getting more and more decrepit-looking. Bless it. Oh, the fight's starting again. This time I think the Sino is on Infamy level three, and the Changesaurus is on Infamy level one, 100% health from the Changesaurus, and 65% health on the Sino. Could this be the final victory after five long agonizing rounds of this? Is there finally going to be a victor? And who will it be? Oh, it's Changesaurus. There you go. Finally, it wore down the Sino seratops. And we have- oh god, no, that's not it.   And we will now put in Changesaurus in with the newly named stegosaur that you've probably named in this video. I also will put the proseratosaurus in. And off the winners go!  If you've enjoyed it, leave a like and a tell. The next Battle Royale. Oh, just end of the video that you'll watch. I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye-bye.


Today is a recipe recreation. Today I'm making some polenta fries with some cilantro lime cream sauce that you are going to love. These fries are crunchy, crispy on the outside and creamy on the inside. What a beautiful texture and they must be served with my cilantro lime cream sauce. It has a little bit of heat that really finishes the dish off. These are addicting and I'll bet you can't eat just one. I'm rockin robin and I'm going to show you how to do it right after my chef joke. All right, here's chef joke number one. What is a buccaneer? A fair price for corn. So to start off our recipe the polenta needs to be made first. Make sure to use polenta and not cornmeal when making this. The difference is, I knew you'd ask, polenta is more coarsely ground which means it's less mushy in the final product. We want creamy not mushy. We're going to place three and a half cups of water into a two or three quart saucepan and add a half a cup of whole milk, one teaspoon of salt and a quarter teaspoon of garlic powder and stir. Bring this to a boil over medium heat. Now don't let it get away from you like this. It might boil over. If it does this make sure you lift it up off the heat. Slowly pour one cup of polenta into our mixture and whisk constantly. This is going to help you avoid any lumps. Now bring this back to a boil and then lower the temperature down to like medium low to keep it at a low boil. And you have to stir this frequently. We will cook this for about 30 minutes and you will see it becomes thick and creamy. At some point the polenta is going to get so thick that you're going to have a difficult time using a whisk so go ahead and switch out to a wooden spoon. When this is done after about 30 minutes go ahead and turn off the heat and then we're going to add some muscarpone cheese which makes it nice and creamy. Now remember you can get the written recipe below the video in the description area. Check it out. So give that muscarpone a little stir and then we'll add some butter. I'm using carry gold butter here because it's grass fat. Mix that all up until it's nicely combined and we'll pour this into our prepared dish. So the dish I'm going to put this in is an 8 by 8. We're going to put in just a little bit of olive oil and I'm spreading it around with my fingers for a light coating. This is going to help keep the polenta from sticking for when you want to get this out of the dish. So pour that hot polenta into the dish and spread it out with your spatula or your spoon. Make sure that it's nice and even. Then place this into the refrigerator for I'd say at least two hours or overnight. All right the polenta is chilling so it must be time for chef joke number two. What did the corn say when he got a compliment? Ah shucks. So while things are chilling now we're going to make our delicious cilantro lime cream sauce. This is super simple. We're going to place a half a cup of sour cream into a blender. I have a Vitamix and I love it and so that's what I recommend you use but you can also use a food processor in a pinch. To that we're going to zest one lime and the juice into the blender and it's always easier to zest first and then juice the lime. Always try to use organic limes and lemons when you're using the zest.  Seeds removed unless you like a lot of heat.  I'm chopping this up really fine just because I don't want any lumps at all but the Vitamix could definitely puree this and the last thing I'm going to add is one avocado. Then we'll blend things up nice and smooth and here's what our beautiful sauce looks like. Pour into a serving dish cover and refrigerate until you need it. Once the polenta is cool and firm take it out and place it on a cutting board. You're going to notice that that olive oil really made it easy to do this.  Sometimes I do squares and sometimes I do rectangles. Today I'm doing more square shapes. Place a large frying pan over medium heat and add in some olive oil to cover the bottom of the pan and let it get hot. Once it gets hot I like to add a little bit of grass-fed butter and swirl it until it's melted. Then I'll start adding some of the polenta fries and let them cook for a couple of minutes until they're golden brown. Don't touch them don't move them just let them get nice and crispy. Flip the pieces over and cook for another two or three minutes or until they're nice and golden brown and they look you know delicious. Now another thing I'll do is when you have sides that are almost equal I will place the pieces on their ends so that they can also crisp up. The more crispy part you have I think the better it is. Take the pieces out and place them on some sort of paper towel covered plate or baking sheet. Now look how beautiful these turned out. These are best served pretty much right away meaning nice and warm. But if you need to keep them warm because you're serving them a few minutes later toss them in the oven at 200 degrees Fahrenheit and just keep them warm there's so much better that way. Pull out your dipping sauce and then enjoy dipping. You will find these crunchy on the outside and oh so creamy on the inside. The cilantro lime sauce is such a complement with its creamy texture with that little bit of heat. Here is another appetizer I want to recommend you to try pulled pork nachos. Man are they good. Click the link on the screen and it'll take you right to the recipe. Perfect for entertaining. If you enjoyed today's video be sure and smash that like button and we'll see you back here next week for another rockin recipe.


Hi, welcome to the State of Working America podcast, but we seek to elevate worker stories so that their voices can be heard in the debate over economic policy in Washington and beyond. I'm Pedro Dacosta, Director of Communications at the Economic Policy Institute, and it's my pleasure today to be joined by my colleague, Valerie Wilson. Valerie is the Director of our Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy, and I'm really excited to have her today because the work that she does is so important, especially today, especially under an administration that has made race such a central issue in this country. Often in economic discussions, race is thought of as an afterthought and as almost a social and cultural factor that should be looked at outside of the economic realm, and Valerie has been an important voice in making sure that race is actually central to the economic debate, and so it's my pleasure to have you today. Thank you so much. It's my pleasure to be here. So I wanted to start by telling one of the stories that I've learned personally from you and from your work and the work of others, which is not so pleasant story about the direction of our economy when it comes to the gaps in wealth and income between various race groups. I think a lot of Americans tend to think of the American history as a sort of progression toward improvement and positivity and particularly racial issues as kind of ebbing over time, and many people envision the wealth gap as narrowing over time, and in fact some of the data show that it's not happening and in fact the trend may be moving in the other direction. Can you talk a little bit about what aspects of the economy strike you the most as kind of potentially red flags in that sense and some of the data that startles you the most? Sure. I think when we start to look at economic outcomes in the United States and we consider how those outcomes look differently for different racial and ethnic groups, I think the most general statement that I can make is that those racial economic disparities are large and they're persistent. It's very difficult to identify a certain statistic, whether it be wages, whether it be the unemployment rate, net worth, income, poverty, where there is not a clear disparity based on race and ethnicity, and in particular when we look at the differences between black Americans and white Americans, we see huge gaps. Those are in a lot of senses sort of the two ends of the poll. We know that a lot of the statistic for Asian Americans actually shows slightly better outcomes than whites, but in terms of the broader history of race and economics in this country, really the longstanding difference is between blacks and whites. We talk about the unemployment rate in particular, we know that the black unemployment rate is almost always double the white unemployment rate. When we look at the disparity in wages, we have seen periods where there have been improvements in what we call the wage gap and the difference between what blacks and whites earn, but in more recent years, really in the last 20 years or so, we've started to see those differences get larger when, as you said before, we'd expect to see things improving as we're progressing and as a lot of people like to say we've had a black president. Certainly things are getting better in this country, but the economic data don't bear that out. Yeah. Can you talk a little bit about the role of home ownership in sort of wealth accumulation and how different policies have kind of accentuated, if not cause, the wealth gap over time? Well, the way that we measure wealth is typically by net worth. That's the difference between the total value of your assets, the total value of your liabilities or your debts. And so in this country, the largest single asset that most people get an opportunity to own is a home. So when we look at differences in home ownership rates, they really tell us a lot about the wealth gap in this country. One, there's a significant difference in home ownership rates between blacks and whites in this country, but not only that, even when we're comparing homeowners, there's differences in equity. There's differences in the value of those homes based on where those homes are located and what the demographics of the neighborhood are. And when we consider that, that is something that can be traced historically to policy in this country. The fact that we went through a period of redlining where there were only certain communities where African Americans could live and in those communities at a point in time, they actually could not get mortgages. When we consider policies coming out of the war and the fact that there was this push to make home ownership more affordable, VA loans, the GI bill, those sorts of things that actually open doors of opportunity for whites to be able to purchase homes and build what we consider a middle class lifestyle, but African Americans were often excluded from those opportunities. So when we consider those policies and we sort of put that next to the statistics that we see today in terms of the disparity in home ownership, I believe the difference now, the average, that white home ownership rate is about 72, 75 percent somewhere in there for African Americans is right around 40 percent. So that's a significant difference. But then again, I said on top of that, we consider the difference in the value of homes. We consider the effect that the financial crisis and the great recession had on a significant number of foreclosures among African American families, not to mention the fact that there was predatory subprime lending, that again, even if you did get a mortgage, we're able to purchase a home, the terms of that loan often were predatory. So it stripped any wealth that a family may have had an opportunity to build. The most striking detail that I remember reading about predatory lending in in black communities in particular was that I can't remember the name, which which investment bank, but a major investment bank had an emerging markets unit targeting black communities in the United States.  Well, so can you talk about the role of education? Because that's another story that, you know, another myth, if you will, that you've helped kind of push back against the notion that the, you know, wage and wealth gap is really just due to an education gap. And as soon as you close that education gap, we're going to get sort of more equal outcomes. Yeah, and that that whole relationship is sort of interesting because there are two things to keep in mind. One, we know that with higher levels of education, you, you do earn higher wages, you do have a lower unemployment rate. You know, there, there are certain opportunities that open up with more education. And so education is effective and important when we consider mobility and being able to ascend the economic scale. However, what we find is that education does not eliminate or even narrow in many cases, the racial disparity, the difference between whites and blacks, even at a given level of education.  And certainly when we look at what's happened with the wage gap in particular over the last 40 years or so, the wage gap has actually grown the most among college graduates and that is sort of counterintuitive to what we think should be happening. So what we find is that when we look over the longer span of history, say over the last 50 years, we see significant gains in educational attainment among African Americans, both in terms of people completing high school, there are actually very few folks now who are not high school graduates, as well as the share who have a college degree. So given those gains, we would expect to see some more narrowing and closing of those economic gaps. I mentioned unemployment and wages in particular, but wealth as well. Colleagues of mine, Sandy Darity and Derek Hamilton have done work specifically looking at the role of education and closing the wealth gap because they've done tons of research on the wealth gap and they find similar findings there that I see with wages that even with higher levels of education, those differences between races are not narrowing. And in fact, you find that African Americans who have a college education actually have less wealth than whites without even a high school diploma. And there was a student debt factor differential in that in that dynamic as well, right? I've read that that black students end up burdened with more loans on average than white students. Is that? Yes, that that is a fact as well, because we mentioned before net worth considers your assets as well as your debts. So, yes, student debt in particular, and the fact that as a country, we have not continued to invest in public education so that students don't have to take out those loans says a lot. I think another thing that that says is that, you know, when people want to make the argument that, well, you should get more education and that will improve your outcomes, I think the fact that there's a significant amount of debt among African American college graduates shows that that people are making the effort to do what they think they should do to be able to have a decent standard of living. But again, because our policies aren't really working for the typical or average American family, we find these disparities that just sort of replicate differences that we know already exist in terms of wealth gaps and income gaps, wage gaps and unemployment gaps, and we can go on down the line. Could you talk a little bit about the kinds of the policy direction that the country is headed in now and the kinds of policies that might be able to begin to ameliorate disparities as sort of vast and as as deeply embedded in our country as as as they are. Of course, there's there's a range of things that we talk about at EPI. We talk about Fed policy. It seems like Fed officials are increasingly listening to the notion that, you know, easy monetary policy can actually help lower and middle income individuals maybe reenter the labor force and gain higher wages, et cetera. But there's also the other range of policies, including raising the minimum wage and sort of kind of more pro worker policies generally. And could you talk about those and what policies could be specifically targeted, you know, to the racial issue itself? So, you know, you've mentioned a couple of the policies that are important on improving outcomes, absolutely. So in terms of reducing unemployment rates, we know that the Fed policy is important in in in terms of their willingness to keep interest rates low in allowing the unemployment rate to continue to fall because the African American unemployment rate is typically double the white rate, nearly double the average rate, the lower that average number goes. We know that those who are typically left out of opportunities have more of a chance of getting employment. Also, we know that as the unemployment rate gets lower, there's a greater chance for wage growth. We haven't seen as much of that in this round. But again, it's, you know, the best thing to do, I think, is to leave those rates lower. The other things that we can do are more specific to, for example, wages. We talk about raising the minimum wage. That's an interesting one because, you know, we don't necessarily expect that raising the minimum wages is going to make people wealthy. However, the importance of that is we have so, or our Congress has so infrequently raised the minimum wage that it is actually not kept up with rising cost of living. So in raising the minimum wage, we're just sort of playing catch up with inflation. But the other thing that's important with that is we see that African Americans are more likely to be in the kinds of jobs that get paid a minimum wage. So when that gets increased, then you have a disproportionate benefit for African Americans. But the other reason that that policy is important is in terms of regional differences in state policy. States and localities can set a minimum wage that is higher than a federal minimum wage. But it just so happens that in the region of the country and in states that have a larger share of the black population, this is less, this is done less or more infrequently than it is in other places. So unless the federal minimum wage is increased, people who live in typically the southern region of the United States don't get an increase as a result of the minimum wage. I think the other thing that's important that we overlook because it's maybe more of an indirect effect when we want to talk about specifically and narrowing the differences between groups is that we really need greater transparency in terms of hiring wages, promotions, and all of those things that serve to widen the wage gap, particularly among the college educated folks. And under the Obama administration, there was a proposal to do that, to require that companies, I believe with 100 employees or more, report wages by race, ethnicity, and gender and job category. But the Trump administration has decided to roll that back so that that is not going forward. And so I think that when we don't have that level of transparency, that makes it very difficult first for individuals to identify when they are being discriminated against in terms of pay or job opportunities. But also I think that transparency sort of puts more pressure on employers to recognize and to really have to justify the differences that do exist within their organizations. That's great. Thank you so much. So I wanted to take a step back a little bit and talk about pre and your work there and a little bit about the workshop that you're doing. First of all, could you tell us a little bit about how the idea of pre came about, when it came about, and what the intention behind our program on race, ethnicity, and the economy is? Sure. So I'm proud to say that pre has been in existence for 10 years. And I say I'm proud of that because, you know, I've had a lot of discussions recently with folks at other Washington based think tanks that are just now sort of getting behind the idea that we should focus on race. We're talking about economic policy when we're doing analysis, when we're doing research. So the fact that EPI has been doing this for 10 years, sort of, you know, gives us a bit of a head start as far as that's concerned. But the motivation for pre really came from the fact that, you know, EPI is well known for the work that we do on workers, on low and moderate income families and making sure that their issues are a part of economic policy discussions and economic policy debates. But, you know, a few years ago, we had a rather vocal board member who really challenged the leadership of EPI in saying that, you know, if we're doing all this work to improve outcomes for low and moderate income families, if we're focusing on class inequality, you're really only telling part of the story if you're not also addressing race in that. We know that racial inequality is embedded within class inequality because your quote unquote class, which we really measure by what part of the income distribution you fall in is influenced and largely determined by race because of the history of race in this country. But it's also true that within classes, there are racial disparities. And I think that's the part that gets missed in a lot of the discussion. And so PRE was established to talk about both the intersection of race and class inequality when we, you know, talk about the broader issue of inequality, but also to really get down to that direct racial disparity that we see even within class. That's great. And can you talk a little bit about this workshop series? I feel like it's such an important time to be having this discussion and it's being done in such a thoughtful and sensitive manner. So I'd love to put in a plug for it right here. We're going to be posting the videos of these workshops on our website. So if you could talk a little bit about the idea behind that and who you're getting to this week. Sure. So the idea for the workshops on race really came out of, I mentioned before that, you know, a lot of different groups in DC now, which I'm happy to see, are getting more engaged on issues of race or at least are wanting to be more engaged in issues of race. Both in terms of turning that spotlight internally and really sort of evaluating what their staff looks like, what their work environment in office culture looks like, but also in terms of the work that they produce and the research and the policy analysis and things that are done. So I had a few of these different conversations and would get requests to be on calls or come to meetings to talk about how we can do a better job of incorporating race in our work. And I thought, you know, this is good. I'm glad people are engaged. And even at EPI to a certain extent, but it almost felt a little clumsy in terms of the discussions as if, you know, there's a format or formula to follow to talk about race. And so I wanted to put together a workshop series and the title of the workshop series is Turning Good Intentions into Constructive Engagement on Race. And so that really says it all. I wanted to sort of get beyond this. Hey, we know this is important. We want to do this to have a broader conversation among organizations to invite people who are really thought leaders and writers and researchers who have focused their careers really on race to come in and to help us really think about how we do this. That is not some formula checklist formula that we can follow to incorporate race, but it's really about thinking about things and thinking about things in a different way. And so we have a series of seven workshops that we've planned. The first one just sort of talked about some basic principles for having discussions about race. And that was led by author Ijeoma Aluo. It was outstanding. She's written a book So You Want to Talk About Race that, you know, I thought was a great opening and a great sort of guy to sort of stimulate some different kinds of thinking about race. But then we also go into some of the more technical aspects of what we do in terms of how we really measure race in regressions as economists. And then what the interpretation of those variables really means, really thinking about what are we measuring? What are we trying to answer? And how do we explain those differences? Beyond that, we're also talking, going to have a workshop that focuses on how we as researchers and policy analysts can be more effective in the kinds of partnerships we build with organizations that are more focused on direct organizing and grassroots efforts. And then we're going to do four workshops that focus specifically on the experiences of the four largest racial and ethnic groups in this country in terms of historical patterns and trends, contrasting the facts against stereotypes and misconceptions, and really framing those discussions within contemporary talk about issues such as reparations, immigration reform, criminal justice reform, all the things that we hear now, as we're in the midst of a presidential candidate cycle, you know, how do we really situate those conversations in a way that is constructive, is factual, and will lead to good policy. And what kind of resistance do you face both in the policy realm and in the academic world? Because it seems like economics still does to this day, despite your leadership and despite 10 years of pre, still see race as kind of a sideshow and they have trouble modeling it. Therefore, it doesn't fit into the equations. What kind of resistance have you faced in recent years or even over the course of your career to making sure race is seen as an important aspect of economic debates? Yeah, so, you know, in economics, the idea is that, you know, at least in the United States, this is a, we have competitive markets, capitalism. So in theory, racial discrimination, racial disparities, the market should work those things out because they would be ineffective or inefficient in a competitive market. But, again, when we get to the facts and what the data show, we have a variable in an equation, a race variable, and we control for all of these other things that should affect an outcome, wages, for example, for controlling for education, experience, region of the country, sometimes even occupation, industry, but we still get a significant coefficient on that race variable, which is telling us that there is a significant average difference between blacks and whites in what they earn, even when all of these other things are the same. That really is not explained by this competitive model. Why should that still exist? And so I think that's one of the challenges that we face. Of course, with that difference, there are all sorts of explanations that come in to explain that, that this is just a residual difference. It could be something else that we're not measuring, whether that be differences in soft skills that people bring that we don't necessarily measure by education or experience, whether that's a difference in the quality of the education that people receive that's not necessarily reflected in just measuring the level of education. There are all sorts of explanations. People come up with for why we would get significant racial differences even after controlling for all of these other factors. But I quite frankly just find it difficult to explain or understand beyond just flat out racial discrimination. And I think largely the economics profession is not ready or willing to have a conversation about that because I think that's a larger issue. It's a social issue. It's a historical issue. It's something that doesn't fit neatly into an economic model or a mathematical equation. I've also seen the stats that show that there's a particular lack of diversity within the economics profession that might explain its lack of openness. That could have a little bit to do with it as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's pretty startling even compared to other social sciences just how white and how male the profession is. Yeah, absolutely. Well, this has been really elucidating. Thank you so much for your time, Valerie. I really appreciate it. And thank you our listeners for joining into the State of Working America podcast. You can get this podcast on iTunes or Stitcher or wherever you get your podcast or you can watch it on our YouTube channel. Thank you very much for joining us. Thanks.


I understand the other superstar free agents out there the turners Korea's etc They're gonna get paid they have a different skill set maybe than judge But are they waiting for judge to kind of set that marker for them? It's a great question Bob And I'm going to say yes, but with a small why I think it behooves those players to see what happens with judge See what judges number is and then perhaps they can play off that if judge ends up going somewhere besides New York Do the Yankees then become players for a Turner or a Korea? But I also think even if you are one of those elite free agents or if you're a free agent who has less fanfare around him If you see a contract that you think is suitable for you in a place that you want to play I wouldn't hesitate and wait to see what happens with the doubt that the guy down the hall So yeah, you're talking about the middle of the road really good major league player Who's a free agent if he sees a deal out there? He better go get it We're getting to the time of the year where you're into the month of December and obviously you would love to have a contract figured out before Christmas New Year's and you can get ready for your new organization again Aaron Judd just driving the bus on all of this But there could be a lot of action at the winter meetings because we know all these baseball executives are together at the same spot For four days you get them talking Maybe you get them conversing over a meal or a cocktail sometimes you can get some things done And which is a jack you mentioned this the fact that they haven't had the winter meetings really in essence It full blown for the last two years So you get a lot of those face-to-faces you could probably figure some things out quickly right a lot of deals are done this way these days We obviously know that but there is still something important about face-to-face interaction I think and it's widespread throughout these meetings. Yes We're going there to report on free agent signings and potential trades But there is so much that is going on in the baseball world at these meetings Whatever your role is whether you're a trainer or a clubhouse attendant or a media relations official Every manager will be available for a half an hour So you get a chance to talk to every manager and then there's also a luncheon where each manager Sits with the reporters who cover his team. So a lot going on


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