I would just like to admit that for many years I was in denial. I was a Patrick Mahomes hater. I didn't believe that anyone could surpass my pookie bear. Scrum diddly, I'm just lip kisser, Tom Brady. Now I accept responsibility for my delusions and I'm ready to accept that Patrick Mahomes is the next goat and he has a chance to pass Tom Brady. You know what's crazy? And I talk about this on Wheel of Mutt but this is the third iteration of Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes that I've used on this channel. That's so crazy.  He was running like crazy in the Super Bowl. Now he does have access to very unique X-Factors but this requires you to have unlocked a certain item on the field pass which I have not. You could get Omniscient, light it up. Highlights the user defender and third and fourth down Blitzers. Really bizarre ability but a very cool ability. He also has run and gun light it up. This is the one that I would use. And then backyard QB light it up for additional hot routes and fast playmaker reactions. I'm completely fine just running stock running gun because this card is ridiculous no matter how you like mess with it. Free gunslinger, huge fan of that. Hot route master for one AP and then lastly I'll be running gift wrap for one AP. So for gunslinger, hot route master and gift wrapped you're only using two ability points. That's now a fun fact. This is my pack and play account.  I can't use the auction house. I just reset the squad though. So we're a zero overall. So Mahomes is not going to have a God squad here but we are going to go open some packs to fill out his base team and honestly that's kind of representative of his Super Bowl team. We can actually start out with NFL honors. So every NFL honors player got I think a 97 as well as a 96 overall, something like that. So we could get Miles Garrett, we could get Lamar Jackson, etc. I don't know what the 93 overalls are though. Oh, that makes me horny. Oh, that looks so sick.  Can we actually don't want that? Because I have badgered Mahomes. I'll take anything else. Miles Garrett. Those are the two I mentioned. So yeah, there should also be a CJ Stroud. There should be a Will Anderson. This is a true honors pack. You get a 90 plus elite, 193 overall honors player or a 96 or a 97. Jesus, they're too far down this either or rabbit hole.  I got no idea what that means. Oh no. I think that means I whiffed. It didn't mean I whiffed. I don't know what this is though. That's actually pretty good. Damn, that's really good. So my 90 plus overall player ended up being James Cook while my honors player ended up being 93 Lamar, which was the shittiest. It was the worst case scenario there. That's a bummer. Look at this. There's a Super Bowl MVP set helper. So I get 295s and it gives me that token. Please do not pay money to get the token. There's definitely an easy way to get it. All right, cool. So now we can actually throw one of those abilities on Mahomes. I think I'm gonna throw Omniscient on him. All right. So we get a choice of two out of all of the 95 Super Bowl players. Really dope options here. Well, we get two. I'm going Ronnie Lott Warren Sapp. Ronnie Lott's obviously insane. If you guys watch my 30 mil team builder, I got both him and Warren Sapp because they're disgusting. So this team is coming together here. And look at this. There's a road to the Super Bowl starter bundle, which is actually exactly what I need right now. Build a team ready to take on the road to the Super Bowl. You choose an offense and defense. You get 22, 88, 10, 94 overall players, including four guaranteed 93 to 94. Now you're speaking my language, EA. This is crazy. So the Super Bowl was in Vegas. Move the chains or air it out. I just feel like Jordan Love is wasted because we're in the homes. I'm gonna go move the chains. I'd rather start Pacheco than James Cook. So as we look at the players we're getting on this roster, I do want to tell you guys this story. So I go to the Super Bowl. It's in Las Vegas. I had an amazing time. There's a Super Bowl tailgate that is exclusive to get into because the only people allowed into the tailgate are people with a ticket to the Super Bowl. It was utterly insane how cool this party was. I'm walking around and some guy walks up to me and he's got a smile on his face. He shakes my hand. He goes, Hey, are you Matt?  And I said, Hey, awesome. Good to meet you, man. Like, let's take a picture. Send it to your son. And he's like, of course. And he goes, I don't want to, you know, I don't want to make a big deal out of it, but and he points to his, his hoodie. EA sports. He goes, I'm gonna be honest with you, man. I'm the creative director for Madden. I know you're not our biggest fans, but I get it. And you know, we respect you regardless, something along those lines.   I started to go soft. Like I was like, no, dude.   Now we need to pick our defensive fantasy pack a 100%. I'm going stack the box because this comes with 94 Christian Harris and 94 Christian Harris is so unbelievably good. Dude, shout out. See, I am going soft. I was going to say shout out EA. This is actually really good value. I'm not going to lie. This is actually really good value. Shit.   Comes at 90 dirt with no club. All right, let's throw in the best possible lineup. See what we're rocking with here. I think the one thing we're missing is like an elite wide receiver. I've got healthy scratch. Cadarius Tony, Jamison Williams, Andre Reed, Pacheco's my starter with Patrick Momes.  Actually, it was 2,500 Madden cash for that. And then obviously, you know, I have my homes in here. I'm going to get Pacheco tank and freight train. It's really nice that my homes is not like AP heavy because you can actually run abilities on other people. Donald Parham matchup nightmare. We need a backup tight end. Offensive line is actually pretty solid. Okay, so defensively, I only have one lurk artist and that's Christian Harris. That's not going to cut it. I'm going to need more than that. Still have 7,000 Madden cash to spend. Let's see what could we do here? Okay, let's start with three times 92 plus overall, aka crew players is literally the worst case scenario. Although I can put them in sets. I can still put them in sets.  Big one user and I assume he gets lurk artist. Oh, that's. Damn. He's good. 94 speed, 63 96 hip power, 95 block shed. Damn. Okay. I'm not going to use reinforcement. I feel like that's kind of pointless. He gets free lurk artist, free to moralizer. Another nasty card. Okay. That's huge. We've got our user. All right. If I get a wide receiver down this next one, we are game time wide receiver, wide receiver, wide receiver. It's another big one. Come on, baby.  It is such a good poll that I can't use. All right. Last thing I'm going to do here, I'm going to go special legendary pack. Still looking for a wide receiver right now. 92 Steve Larger actually really solid. Play Matthews to Sean Jackson and a big legends. Gonna be what are we doing? What are we doing? There is also this little stepped up Super Bowl pack. I'll use the rest of my training here. Sorry, Madden cash here.  Oh, actually, there's there could be a wide receiver in here. That's not a big pulse. That's a 92. There's Sean Wharton. I feel like it's only right that we use Nicole Hardman. All right. I'm dipping back in to my mommy's bank account because I'm going to finish this off here. So we get a Super Bowl Redux pack as two Super Bowl players and then two 92 plus Redux players. So my Ezra and James definitely doesn't help us. Might end up being a quick sell. We get Chimari Connor. They're not help us either. I need a wide receiver right here. That actually blows. Both of those are. Oh, that's a big poll. That's a 95 saved it. Absolutely saved it 95 chase young completely clutched up on that. I'm going to quick sell these three for 60,000 training so I can reroll a little bit harder. Then the final one is a Super Bowl champion pack. This says it could have a 96 overall Super Bowl limited, but I don't think Super Bowl limits are available right now. So I don't think you can actually pull that. So I'm not going to be looking for limits here. I'm just looking for the big animation, which means I got a 95 overall. So this next pack is a 92 or 95. We just need the big animation. Shit. Joanne Jennings also a dog. Regardless, we get a 95 overall Super Bowl fantasy champs of our choosing. Gosh, I kind of want to take like Jair Brown. Yeah, I'm going to go Jair Brown here. Apologies if I'm mispronouncing his name. I've never actually heard it before, but it looks like Jair. All right, now let's throw in the best possible lineup since we are done with today's episode. Let's see what we got. So Pacheco James Cook in the backfield, Andre Reed, McCool Hardman, Joanne Jennings, Steve Largent. So we don't have any like God squad wide receivers. We have solid wide receivers. One thing we're definitely missing backup tight end. Going to have to get our hands in a backup tight end for now will be rocking Donald Parham. Offensive line looks great. And then defensively, we got Ray Nitchkin as the user. My own scare. It's actually outside linebacker. Not really what we want. So eventually we're going to have to get him out of there but Nick Bolton, Christian Harris. Gosh, almost could rock Ted Hendricks.  That is not good. So for some future episodes and some set builders, we're going to have to look for corners, offensive line, tight ends and eventually wide receiver. But for now, I really like the team we've assembled and we definitely ball out with this Patrick Holmes. I take it back. I scraped together all the sets. I had just enough 92 overalls for 95 MVS. I don't think it'd be fair to do a full Mahomes video and not give them an awesome wide receiver. 95 overall, Mark has Valdez scantling. 96 speed, six foot four. Okay. They give him a deep out elite. Hopefully he gets it discounted.  His red zone threat. Okay. And he has deep out elite. All right. Let's try out this light it up collectible. So the light it up collectible also gives Mahomes plus one speed in Excel. So he goes up to 93 80 not. That's wow. Damn. I didn't even notice that. And now we can use a light it up X factor. So let's see how this works. Omniscient light it up. Highlights the user defender and third 4,000 blitzers. I honestly that might be my favorite run and gun. Does that mean it's always activated? Like, do I have to activate? Does that have any activated requirements? Oh, so it has a charge up offensive downs played one and two on competitive. Honestly, I'm not sure how this works yet. So let's go find out. Got to give some abilities to Ronnie lot. I know he gets deep zone KO for two. Obviously a nasty ability. And then he also gets pick artists for free. These cards may only be 95 overalls, but damn. They're so good. He gets deep. J. Brown gets deep zone K for one. Don't tell me you get free pick artists. We got the 49ers safeties squad up. All right, 92 overall on the season opener for pack and play. Now, every single time we do a video like this, the goal is to outperform the player. And you know what's funny? I'm actually in the all Madden playoffs right now, which is awesome. So we're going to go play a playoff game just like Mahomes. Let's take a look at Patrick Mahomes Super Bowl stats. We just have to exceed these Mahomes through for 333 yards and two touchdowns. So we need at least three touchdowns and more than 333 yards. Bimbo for bagging. Hello. All right. So this running gun X factor right now, Mahomes is activated. So any throw on the run is going to have perfect accuracy. Yeah, let's just airmail this puppy. MvS wide open in the scene beauty. Great catch. Let's go. No huddle. I need the tempo. See if I can get out to the right side of this pocket. Maybe not. Oh, you might be wide open free for Andre. The free form was too aggressive. That is a deep ball to Joe on Joe on. All right. Third and 10. He is getting up in my grill. Oh, that's a hot blitz. MvS. Where are your abilities?  Supposed to have deep battle lead on, which guarantees he catches that. What a ball. Thank God for running gun. You literally would never make that throw without running gun. A clutch fourth down conversion. We're fighting for our life down here though. Get it. Get it. Oh my God. Another one. Dude, these throws are disgusting and James Cook. Okay, running guns actually OP. Dude, I don't get it. It hasn't turned off. Is this on the entire game? So am I just running, running gun the entire game? Let's go MvS on a whip route. He is so deep over there. Money. Too easy. MvS. I didn't even get MvS's abilities. He doesn't need them. Four for seven, 68 yards. Let's give Cook a little table route here. Step up my homes. Use those legs. Just kidding. It's a prank. I think the James Cook Texas route. It's just game time here. Okay, there's a QB spy on me. Just stay in the pocket. Great blocking. Step up. Gotta go. Damn. It's a great pocket. There's just nobody open. Donald Parham whip route legacy. Clear. Clear. What a ball. What an interception.  You're lying. Guys, what are these angles?  You know what? This is a biblically accurate Super Bowl. Mahomes threw an interception before he threw a touchdown. All right, we've got McCool Hardman on a deep crosser here. Oh my God. He's so open. That was a nasty play. Chook almost went home too. Let's go play action again. Set up something similar. Okay, we've got time. Pacheco playmaker. Oh, all right. Same thing, but we're going Marquez Veldos scantling here. Let's see if I got time in this pocket. Yes. Oh, there's Audrey Reed just over the top. What a kid. Oh my God. That was a beam. Great throw. All right. All right. All right. First and 10. Here we go. Let's just take the check down to see Pacheco can do something in the open field. He cannot. Fun fact. Second and 11. What do we got? Is that John Madden? Coach, I need you to hang on to that, buddy. I know you're not actually built for that, but it would have been cool if you were, right? All right. Third and 11 need a big one here. I'm going Pacheco. Let's go. Isaiah Pacheco. A great juke first and 10. We got 130 yards. We got to get our passing touchdowns. Pretty simple read here. It's either Joanne Jennings or it's Isaiah Pacheco. Oh, he's there. He torched him. Hey. Oh, no, that doesn't count. That's going to say Joanne Jennings first touchdown.   Hey, we're setting up a cool offense right now. You can't take that away from me. I'm going to get Pacheco on this little out route here. That's the hope. Otherwise, Andre Reed's just going to box out. Got to go for it. Got to go for it. Oh, these throws are insane. It didn't work, but that's an insane throw. I will be kicking the speed on side. This is a Patrick Mahomes video. This is not a. This is not a defense video. Although I'd like to get a stop. I'm not saying I want him to score. It's just going to run it to the left side. Take a huge hit. Love that. Second to five. Okay, stretch to the other side. Get a big dive. Good tackle. Third and one. Why would you quit? You're winning by a point. Why would you quit? All right, Patrick Mahomes, one range quit. And now this actually means this is now the NFC championship. This next game is Air McNair, Tori Hole, Reggie White. No respect given. That's a squad. All right, Mahomes. Time to step up. First and 10, boys. Opening play. Run and gun. Two straight games. I forget my abilities though. All right, first and 10. That was a heel. Oh my God. Mr. Monday Night. Dude, what are these games I'm getting into? Who's going to be there? Who's going to be there? I don't think he's playing. What's happening today, bro? Second and 11. We find MVS. Oh, and he's playing now. Here we go, boys. First and 10. 60 yards on the opener. Dude, having run and gun the entire game is so crazy. Donald Parham on the whip. Oh, I need to block from somebody. Dude, Joanne, get down there, bro. You're not above downfield blocking, are you? Let's go Parham right over the middle. Let's see if he takes it. Is he there for it? No. Step up, Mahomes. Gets rocked. I think I could have hit Parham there. It's kind of hard to tell. Oh, he caught it. Third and goal from the one. Scary. Third and goal. But I'm throwing MVS cuts. I'm so glad we got this MVS. Damn, that was a good first drive. Can we get two? All right, big two-point conversion. I think I'm going to look for Andre Reed on the slant. If he's not there, let's look for Donald Parham on the hitch. Andre Reed's there. That's a blitz screen catch. 8-0. Good start, boys. Dude, this is playoffs. Like, I'm actually, oh my God, I'm now in the Super Bowl with Super Bowl MVP, Patrick Mahomes. All right, here we go. Okay, I think I'm mistaken.  Dude, there was a coin toss at the start of this game. No, it definitely did. Dude, am I like, am I playing Chinese bots? Look at this guy's name. Temp?  Okay, let's see if we can get Andre Reed over the top. He's press covered. Yeah, Andre Reed's just not a good enough wide receiver to be. He's not Zae Flowers. He's not limited Zae Flowers. But that's a good start. I'm going to go with a deep post out of MVS here. Jesus.  Right over the middle, James Cook and a beautiful downfield block from Donald Parham makes it a manageable but scary fourth down. Yeah, I'm going to hit him James Cook. He doesn't see it. Oh, he does see it. Donald Parham hitch. It's always good to have two. It's always good to have two options. He goes back to press coverage. Gosh, I feel like MVS could do it. Okay, we got time. Geez. Dude, he has three activated X-Factors on his D-line.  I'm not getting more than half in a second. Oh my God. Third and 16. Oh, here we go. MVS! What a ball! He might go! He might go all the way! MVS! Opening Dutch down to the Super Bowl.  We got to go for two. He calls a timeout. Wait a minute. No, I'm just going to take the P-18 out. We got him to burn a timeout. Dude, oh my. This is actually messed up, bro. The Lexus Sellout Stadium overrides Super Bowl animations. Also, I have Silver Jake Moody as kicker. God, I remember that. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Let's get it together here. Let's keep it together here. Oh, Chase Young making third and 16 well-defended play right there. I don't know if I can afford to send a blitz. I think we just play defense. Oh, that corner out got me. Oh, but he doesn't see it. And Chase Young's going to get home again. Yo, there's no way he's doing the fourth and 31. Go for it, right? I'm just going to put everyone deep in man coverage and I'm going to blitz. So that hopefully doesn't have any time. Yeah, see, like, that's fine. Even if he catches it, he's not going to get 31 yards there. Let's go. All right, first and 10, first and 10. There's a beautiful little scene for James Cook right there. Awesome juke. 5 for 6, 1, 18 and it touches down. Dude, what if I get everything from a home is in the first half? I'm not going to do that. We can definitely get him two touchdowns. Just got to throw this one away, dude. George Carr Laugh. This is giving me hell. Maybe I could hit a read corner out. Do we think? No, I hit an MBS corner out. MBS corner out is absolute money right here. No, it's not. Oh, but that is Pacheco. Nice knockout. Marquez Valdes, scantling whip route if this is man coverage. I am so over that activated ability out there. Does he ever stop? This is actually kind of a hard kick. Not going to lie. I think he made it. All right, all right, all right. 10-0 lead. Now we're on defense. Not bad. Ooh, a slip screen. I like that play call. He fumbled. Dude, I would quit.  He should never fumble there. Oh my God, why? I don't have any avalanche abilities or anything. Stop playing when I'm on the phone. I got to stop doing that. Bad pass right there. Just threw right at alert artist. I tried to hit that same scene beater that I got him on last time, but it looks like he adjusted. So good job by him.  He's got a lot of time, but he still hasn't gotten in the end zone. I can come back to this if he wants it. He's got a really clean pocket, but once more and SAP starts to figure it out, they always start to do better. Second and 17. Look at Nate Hobbs getting a suit. Okay, Nate Hobbs. Nate Hobbs with a broken tackle. This George Carlaftus has the X factor. I think the entire game. Yeah, it's unstoppable. Dominant pass rush even versus double teams and it never turns off. Okay, sick, I guess. The fuck? Oh my God, he guessed. Oh my God, he guessed pass. Yo, dude, that's demo baggage. Actually kind of OP. That Carlaftus literally will never stop sprinting straight at me and getting infinite yards. That's crazy. Wonder if I could maybe get Pacheco. Get that. We finally were able to get past Carlaftus. That is the first time I got past him. So you know what it is? It's that that Carlaftus has the same ability that Mahomes has, which is a lighted up ability, which means it never turns off. Wonder if Pacheco is here. This is such an interesting set with Valdus scantling in the back. And there goes Carlaftus. That's insane. He now has four sacks. He will never get blocked for more than a couple seconds. All right, second and 18. Yeah, he's there this time. So that's the seam beater I got him on last time. I just have to make the correct read on what Christian Harris is doing. Does he have inside stuff down there? Actually, I think I can do this. Beautiful. Unfortunately, I own you. That was a beautiful juke. First and 10, let's do it again. That one, that time he got through and a great block shed right there out of, I think that's, is that Nitschke? Who does he have in there? Who is that in the middle? Yeah, it's Ray Nitschke. Just gotta make a read here. Barely got that bass off. All right, 39. Let's come out in something. Let's come out in something nice here. See if we can't pick this up. There's a chance that James Cook is open. If he's not open, I'm honestly, I don't think I'm gonna throw this. I think I'm just gonna take my L. He's not. It was everything in my power enough to throw that. I wanted to throw that so badly. Here's the thing. Take this field goal, make it 13-0, and then 16-0 from another field goal is a two-position lead. No, it's not. Okay, I just have to stop. Sorry, I did my math wrong there. I just have to stop him from scoring a two-point conversion and that was really smart. 21 seconds though when he retains a timeout, he definitely has a chance to put up some points here. This is one of the toughest defenses I've ever played.  Oh, that's such a good play. Yup, yup, he stays in balance. Why did he do that? He wanted to get the touchdown. I guess that was a waste. I'm gonna try and sack him here. He'll completely ruin this for him. So close. Second attend didn't quite get there. That would have been huge. I'm gonna fake, I'm gonna fake the blitz here. So there's no blitz here. It just looks like it. Probably wants a corner out. Oh, he doesn't have one, but oh my God, he's sold. No, no, let him catch that. Shit. Oh, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. No, can he have really hit a 60? Fuck, yes, here's a marker. Yeah, you got it. Damn it. Dude, if he had caught that, he sold it. Shit. Oh, we messed that up so bad. Drills the 60. All right, 13 to three. Whatever. It's still a two-position lead for me. He does start with the ball here though. Is this stretch alert bubble? Kind of looks like it. Miles Garrett Linebacker. Miles Garrett Linebacker. Go for the strip. Hey, little late hit. Never hurt nobody. I don't even think he's ran the ball a single time this game. That was so fast. Second and 15. That is stretch alert bubble. He's going to juke. Stretch alert bubble. Does he throw the bubble? No, he'll actually hand it off. We got to go low because that's activity, Derek Henry. Fourth and two, we could get a stop here. You're not going to take a field goal, right? It would be a seven-point game. And that wouldn't be out of the question. All right. All right, he gets his two field goals back real easy. I got to get an offense together. Can't really tell what he wants here. First and 10.  This is so insane. He literally cannot be stopped. This is the craziest thing I've ever seen. That is so OP.  He's flying. I think I might be able to hit him with a scene beat around Parham though. That is the first time I looked at that.  Got to remember, I can run the ball. I don't know how effective it'll be with this whole line, but it's possible. That's possible. Let's go check out.   Dude, let's try it. Let's go for a slip screen. Let's get so weird. You know, Carlaftis bitch-ass going to fucking. Oh my God, and now he's playing the screen. I will say, I don't know how many times I've scrambled to the right side on a hat-back slip screen though. That's pretty diabolical. All right, first and 10.  Get to the edge. Get to the edge. Let's go, Pacheco. Second and two. Sorry, I know it's in my home's video, but I am struggling. Do I get the snap off? No, that's a penalty. Second and seven. All right, second and seven. We take a quick flag right there. There's MVS this time. Dude, he's so good on that. That was against a zone knockout too. He very easily could have had that knocked out, but I think, I actually think deep out elite just negated the deep zone KO. I think it countered it because I feel like he probably should have had that ball knocked out. Look at that hitch. The Juwan Jennings hitch first and 10. Hey, wait, this is huge because all we need is the field goal to make this a two possession game. Again, obviously we do want the touchdown, but I'd also like to use some clock here. So this next play, this will take us to the quarter. He guessed, I think he guessed pass right there. Second and seven, and that's the quarter. Really efficient use right there. If all we get out of here is a field goal, I'm totally fine with that. All right, let's go for the touchdown here. I'm going to block Donald Parham. I'm going to send Pacheco across the middle so he's got to respect Pacheco. And then hopefully Juwan is just hoping to get on the hitch. I'm going for it. The Playmaker! Running gone, baby. Let's go. No touchdowns. Oh, we go with the Blitz here. And I'm going with Wildman. That's a deep one. No, you're lying. You had two feet down? Dude, also I'm 100% sure this is the Super Bowl. Look on the jerseys. You can see the Super Bowl patch on the jerseys. Goes a little RPO here. Just get to the edge. Nice. Keep him in bounds. Second and seven. Okay, McCaffrey has a route. He just barely got it off, but goes low to McCaffrey. I don't remember if that stops the clock or not. I think it does. Yeah, it does. You can step up the middle. That's it. There's nothing open. This is so bagged. This is so bagged. What are you doing? Miles Garrett! Linebacker, Miles Garrett interception in the Super Bowl. That's so greedy, though. Step up or just go down. Dude, we're actually going to hold a shutout. Let's get my home says yards now, boys. Pacheco. Ooh. The juke is so op in this game. The fact that I could juke into his hit stick and break the tackle is disgusting. See if I can't get him on a deep cross here.  I have never in my life been sacked five times by the same player. We just had to read this.  I have deep out elite though. Doesn't it counteract that? That should have been a catch. Definitely wasn't the best ball though. If I throw a better ball there, I don't even need the knockout.  Oh, I can throw Andre Reed. He's got her cards. He must. And we don't get the shutout because he picked sixes more.  That's a very crucial turn. I will say this, though, even if I didn't throw that, I have a silver punter so I can really only flip the field about 35 yards. I had to go for the first down. I'm like tilted about this corner out, though. I want to hit it so bad now. This is a crumble. I just fumbled by getting tackled from behind. Although, you know what? He did have a really unlucky fumble. So I guess we're even now. He's going to wait till there's no time on the clock. He's going to run plate action. Whip it low. Does he go for the juke? He does. Oh my God, double juke.  You ever seen the score switch that fast? I can't get rattled. I can't get rattled and I'm going to lose so fast. All right. Jake Moody, legacy drive. Get Jake Moody in range. We win the ball game. Let's try a little four verticals here. It's a bummer that I can't beat press.   Dude, Warnsceptress have absolutely no human being on Planet Earth block him. Like, actually untouched. Can we rewind that play? What happened on the O-line? Or did he just run right past it? Did he just little boy me? I kind of need to move the ball. Andre Reed whip route. Nice play. Only problem is I'm out of bounds. The clock doesn't move, but I have to get in range, actually, of the field goal anyway. That was a really big play, though. Really needed that out of my boy. I wonder if I couldn't do the same thing MvS now. Or does he shade everybody inside or outside?  Look at that. As soon as the play, six sacks, six tackles, as soon as the ball is snapped, he flies straight at me unblocked. Oh my God. I got to go for this. Fourth and 15. Need a big play. Andre Reed. Gigantic play. Absolutely gigantic play.  Andre Reed whip route. Oh, okay. She just peeled off to the point where I could literally have just hit James Cook off a rip. Let's see if he does that again. Like, I could just snap the ball and throw it to James Cook. That or I throw it to Andre Reed. Here we go. Snap. One, two, James Cook. Boom.  What kind of knockout is that? He already had the ball. Now he's going to adjust to that, right? There's no way he lets me do that again. Oh my God. He's going to let me do that again. I'm going to throw it quicker this time. Sorry, buddy. He ain't going to get it twice. Mahom's legacy drive. Yeah, he adjusted now. He ain't doing the same thing now. Look at George Carlaftus. Whose idea was this?  Every single-play bar none. It never turns off.  I don't even know what he's doing here. Oh, what up there?  Respect. I thought Donald Barham was open. That was a really good lurk by him. To come off of wild men, start on the down linemen with Christian Harris. Yeah, probably just a few stretch alert bubbles away from a W. What? There's no way you just did that to get him field ball range. It ain't over till it's over, boys. Tell you that. It ain't over till it's over. I was really hoping you would hit him. Yeah, he could hit this field ball. I would just kneel it. I'll get one play. He is iced.  I've never blocked a kick this year. It's today-the-day. Oh my God. Oh, holy shit, man. Dude, when people learn about this car lap, that's the first time I've seen that car lap. Just when people learn about that, it's a wrap for Madden Ultimate Team. Dude, he had six sacks. Mahomes, 254, two touchdowns, three interceptions. That's not a Super Bowl stat line. Six TFLs, six sacks. He also had two with Warren Sapp. So he has colossus, unstoppable dominant pass-fresh moves, even against double teams, and it never turns off the entire game. Is there a counter to that? Can you run anything on the online to stop that? I'm sorry, Patrick Mahomes, I failed you. Our first two games were good. We got to the Super Bowl and fell apart.  Probably had a 20 to three lead in the fourth quarter. All right, gentlemen, I'm gonna go find a nice corner to cry in. I love you boys. Thanks for watching as always. I will see you guys in the next video. Peace.


A Federal Judicial Center Orientation Series for United States Bankruptcy Judges Chapter 11 Reorganization Confirming a Plan the Hard Way with George M. Treister, Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, California Suppose it's not possible to achieve such a fully consensual plan under section 1129A In other words, all the requirements are met except that one or more impaired classes has not accepted the plan. If all requirements have been met except the one in section 1129A8 it's possible to confirm the plan the hard way. This is known as cram down. I emphasize that confirmation is not possible at all unless all of the 12 other requirements have been met. We'll discuss cram down in two steps. First, we'll give an explanation of the concept. Then we'll explain how the concepts apply to creditors and equity interests. Cram down may be hard to understand until you've grappled with it for a while but we'd like to take a few minutes to talk about it now because it often provides the impetus for a consensual confirmation. Even after a brief explanation it probably is going to be apparent why parties normally want to negotiate reasonably so they can confirm the easy way and avoid the difficulties of cram down. To satisfy section 1129B's cram down standards the plan with respect to each non-accepting impaired class must be fair and equitable and cannot discriminate unfairly. What's it mean to be fair and equitable? A considerable body of case law over the years has construed and refined the meaning of the fair and equitable rule. This rule is sometimes referred to as the absolute priority rule. It's been established that senior classes must be fully compensated under the plan before junior classes can share. A senior class is one whose legal rights have priority over a junior class as a result of contractual entitlements or applicable law. For example, in the most simplistic terms creditors are senior by law to stockholders. Preferred stockholders are senior to common stockholders. And among the creditor classes one or more of them may have seniority or be subordinated to the others. As I just said, any impaired senior class that has not accepted the plan must be fully compensated before a junior class may receive any reorganization value. Moreover senior classes can't be overcompensated. Overcompensation would give reorganization value to seniors that fairly and equitably belongs to the junior class. Now how is crammed down applied under the code so that a plan may be confirmed despite the class's opposition? For a class of unsecured claims a plan is fair and equitable if it provides the members of the class with consideration having a present value as of the plan's effective date of not less than the full allowed amounts of the claims in that class. In other words, the consideration fully compensates the impaired non-accepting unsecured creditor class. Let's say that the plan provides that the class is to be compensated with the debtor's notes which will be issued in the principal amount of the allowed claims in that class. The notes must bear a market rate of interest so that the deferred payments will meet the present value requirement. Or suppose the consideration to be distributed to the class is to consist at least to some extent of the stock of the reorganized debtor. To determine the value of that stock the court's going to have to determine the going concern or reorganization value of the reorganized company. This is an exercise that's difficult to predict to say the least. Alternatively, if the unsecured creditor class is not to be fully compensated then under the fair and equitable requirement no junior class, namely stockholders may receive anything under the plan. The fair and equitable rule applies similarly in the case of ownership interest. In the case of a secured creditor class the fair and equitable rule is complied with as a general proposition if the secured creditor retains its lien on the collateral or on the proceeds of the collateral if it's sold and receives under the plan deferred cash payments that have a present value as of the plan's effective date equal to the allowed amount of the secured claim. In other words, the lien remains on the collateral and there must be a stream of future cash payments having a present value equal to the allowed amount of the secured claim. And typically that involves paying a market rate of interest on the deferred installments. The practical effect of the fair and equitable rule in the case of cramming down a secured claim is that the payment period of the secured obligation may be restructured. As a matter of fact, any of the terms of the secured claim may be rewritten as long as the present value of the stream of payments is assured by the appropriate interest rate. There's an alternative provision of fair and equitable that relates to a secured claim. This provision is intended as a reservoir of judicial power to permit other kinds of fair and equitable treatment of secured creditor classes. It enables the cram down of any planned provision on a secured class that assures the realization by that class of the quote indubitable equivalent of the claim. Now I've been referring to secured claims. Let's recall the provisions of section 506A. When a claim is under secured, or in other words, only partially secured, the allowed amount of the secured claim is ordinarily the value of the collateral. Any deficiency is defined as an unsecured claim. The secured and unsecured components go into different classes. For cram down of the secured claim class, the present value of the stream of future payments must be not less than the allowed amount of the secured claim as determined under section 506A. The code contains a special option for undersecured creditors whose claims exceed the value of the collateral. Normally, an undersecured claim would be bifurcated into secured and unsecured components, which would then go into separate classes. However, that kind of creditor may make an election provided by section 1111b, which prevents the planned proponent from stripping down the allowed amount of the secured claim to the value of the collateral. This section 1111b election is a very convoluted provision. It results in the undersecured creditors bringing up its unsecured claim and its potential ability to veto the plan by voting in the unsecured creditor class to reject the plan. But even when the fair and equitable rule is painted with broad brushstrokes, it's readily apparent why parties would normally want to negotiate reasonably to the end that they can confirm the plan the easy way. Seniors are motivated to give up reorganization values to juniors to achieve a consensual plan so as to avoid the time, the expense, and the risks involved in testing the fair and equitable rule. Juniors are motivated to make only reasonable demands because application of the absolute priority rule may result in their receiving nothing under the plan if the reorganization value is determined by the court in a litigation context turns out to be too low.


The next item of business is First Minister's Questions at question number one, I call Douglas Ross. Thank you, Presiding Officer. In the last hour, Jamie Dawson, KC Council to the Covid-19 inquiry, has explained that the SNP Government were asked to provide all communications related to key decisions made during the pandemic. These included all informal messages, including on WhatsApp. Mr Dawson has said, and I quote, no messages were provided. Grieving families deserve answers and full transparency from this Government. So why has Humza Yousaf not handed over key messages to the inquiry? Can I say first and foremost that my thoughts continue to remain with all those families that have been bereaved by Covid and defected by Covid. This Government will cooperate fully with both the UK inquiry and the Scottish public inquiry. In terms of what we have released and what we will provide to the inquiry, let me make it clear that any potentially relevant information that we hold, be it in WhatsApp, be it an email, be it any correspondence, we will hand over, have handed over. Of course, if there are concerns that have been raised by the inquiry, as Douglas Ross has rightly said, have been, then we will fully investigate them. We will, of course, hand over, and we have handed over relevant material. There are some messages that we are going to continue to provide, but they have to go through the appropriate processes. We will continue to hand over those messages. We will continue to co-operate fully with the public inquiries, both the UK inquiry and the Scottish inquiry. For those concerns that have been raised, they will be fully investigated. I am not sure what the First Minister is talking about. This is from this morning. Surely he is aware of what is happening. Jamie Dawson said that the Scottish Government has provided the inquiry with no WhatsApp or other informal messaging material, either in its own possession or in the possession of the individuals whose individual rule 9 requests are being handled by the Scottish Government. He also said that there is no clear comprehensive response emerged in the corporate statements from the Scottish Government, but in May this year, asked a direct question by a journalist, Humza Yousaf said that if a request for messages, including what was made, the Scottish Government should be absolutely open and transparent. In June, he said in this chamber, and I quote, WhatsApp messages, emails, signal messages, telegram messages or whatever will absolutely be handed over to the Covid inquiries and handed over to them in full. The inquiry has heard this morning that that has not happened. Where are the messages? Where have they gone? Has the Scottish Government deleted any messages? The Scottish Government did not make decisions through WhatsApp. That is not what we routinely did. I know that that was very different to what was being intimated by the UK Government. Members, let's hear the First Minister. Decisions were not made over WhatsApp, and I have, and I will continue to say to every single Government official that we must comply with the inquiry fully. If there is relevant information that has been passed on, I note the concerns that were raised this morning. Therefore, I have asked the solicitor general just this morning to internally investigate whether there, of course, are any other messages that have to be handed over. Whether it is WhatsApp, whether it is email, whether it is correspondence, all that information has been provided. I myself have provided a statement, of course, to the inquiry as well. However, I note the concerns that have been raised and can give an absolute assurance to the families listening, particularly those families that have been bereaved by Covid, where we hold any relevant information, that will be passed on. However, it is not. That is what we are hearing this morning, and it shouldn't take the solicitor general to get involved. The First Minister must know what is required and must have heard, as I did, what the council for the inquiry has said. Despite—and I am not going to say deliberately, maybe inadvertently—that the First Minister misled Parliament there, because we know—I think that that is okay to say—that the SNP ministers do routinely use WhatsApp to discuss government matters. At the end of last year, it was revealed that four SNP ministers were using WhatsApp to conduct government business—Neil Gray, Kevin Stewart, Mary Todd, and Humza Yousaf. The council to the Covid inquiry has also revealed today that witness statements, and this is a quote, suggest that informal communication, such as WhatsApp messages, were used by key decision makers to discuss matters around the progress of the pandemic in Scotland, and this is a quote from the council, decisions that the Scottish Government might have to take. Crucially, one Scottish Government official has voluntarily handed over WhatsApp messages from the pandemic, proving that they exist, so there is no excuse for not releasing them. Why is this information being withheld from grieving families, the inquiry and everyone who deserves answers? That is a complete mis-characterisation. I did not inadvertently mislead the chamber. I did not say that there has never been discussions over WhatsApp, but I said that we did not routinely make decisions over WhatsApp, which was very different, of course, from what the UK Government has done. What I would expect Scottish Government ministers to do and Scottish Government officials to do is comply with our mobile messaging apps, usage and policy. That policy, I believe, I wrote to every single member of this chamber, of this Parliament with. What I would also expect every single minister and Government official to do is comply with the do-not-destroy notices that were provided by the UK Inquiry. There have been concerns that have been raised—Douglas Ross is absolutely right—to reiterate those concerns that were raised on behalf of the committee. I can only say to the families listening that we will take on both those concerns. We will internally investigate fully, because my understanding, certainly as I stand here today, is that routine information has been—relevant information, forgive me—has been passed over, but, of course, if there is any concerns raised, they will be fully investigated. I will ask this list of general to investigate them and, of course, I will update this Parliament on any of those investigations. The First Minister was speaking about the letter that he sent. I have got it here on 20 July. He sent it to all MSPs. He states, I should reiterate here that the Scottish Government is committed to openness and transparency. We are co-operating fully with both the UK and Scottish inquiries, which is totally the opposite to what we have heard from Jamie Dawson this morning. SNP members are saying no. The council to the inquiry has said that they have not received what they asked for from the Scottish Government. The Scottish Government does have record management policies requiring officials to retain records. The SNP business manager, George Adam, told this Parliament in December last year that, all recorded information that is held by ministers or officials that relates to the business of the Scottish Government is subject to freedom of information law irrespective of its format or the platform on which it is held. The Covid inquiry also has powers to compel evidence. Refusing to hand over this information would not only be an insult to grieving families, it would not only be a shocking display of secrecy, it would potentially break the law. Will the First Minister confirm that he will be transparent and release every bit of information this Government holds? Does he accept that, if any messages have been deleted, it would be illegal? It is not this Government that has broken the law or will break the law. We will comply with not only the law, but we will comply and co-operate fully with both the UK inquiry and the Scottish Government's public inquiry as well. We have passed over what we believe to be relevant information. That being said— First Minister, if you might just give me a moment, question has been put to the First Minister. Let's hear the First Minister respond with no other comment. First Minister. Douglas Ross has said that nothing has been handed over. That is incorrect. My own statement to the Covid inquiry is over 100 pages long, so to suggest that there has not been any information passed over, that is simply incorrect. What we are doing and what we have done is not just complied with our own policy. What I am seeking assurances on the back of this morning's comments from council is to make sure that the DNDN notices do not destroy notice has been fully complied with, not just by ministers, but by every relevant Scottish Government official. We take seriously the concerns that have been raised by council. That Government will undoubtedly fully co-operate with both the UK inquiry and the Scottish public inquiry, too. In the past week, two major fires have brought misery and heartache to families who have lost everything. In Lockgallia, a fire ripped through a four-story block of flats and in East Kilbride six homes were destroyed. According to the FBU, both of those fires raged on because of delays due to cuts in services. Today, one firefighter has told the courier that they were 15 minutes later than they could have been to a second fire in Fife and that it is only a matter of time before those cuts put lives at risk. He said, we all want to do our best by the communities that serve, but it is difficult when we have one hand tied behind our back. Why can't you see that those cuts are putting lives at risk? I say to Anna Sarwar that, first and foremost, let me pay tribute to each and every single one of our firefighters who do an incredible job in Scotland. I know that from my position, of course, as First Minister, but previously as justice secretary, too. When it comes to Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, I do not agree about the point being made in relation to cuts. Despite the very difficult financial circumstances due to UK Government austerity, we are providing SFRS with more than £368 million this year. That is an increase of £14.4 million on 2022-23. If I look at how many firefighters we have in comparison to other parts of the UK as of March of this year, there are 11.3 firefighters per 10,000 of the population in Scotland. That compares to 6.1 in England and 8.4 in Wales. If I look at the pay, I am pleased to say that firefighters have accepted an improved two-year pay offer of 7 per cent for 22, 23 and 5 per cent for 23, 24. When it comes importantly, and this is the most crucial statistic for the public who are interested in their safety, between 2011-12 and 2021-22, over that 10-year period, the number of recorded fires has dropped by 14 per cent. We continue to invest and increase, in fact, the investment in the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. We continue to have more firefighters per head than other parts of the UK, but, crucially, fires are going down because of the investment that we have made. In short, the First Minister is saying that firefighters are wrong, and he is burning his head in the sand. The fire service budget is set by the Government, and it has fallen by 22 per cent in real terms over the past decade. The chief fire officer has been clear where the service is headed. He has said that 780 firefighter posts between 20 per cent and 25 per cent of the workforce could go if the Government does not change course. He went on to say that this would impact on response times when fighting fires every second counts. Why does the First Minister think that he knows better than firefighters on the ground and the chief fire officer about how to keep people safe? What I am saying to Annas Alwar is that, as a Government, we have, of course, invested and increased our investment in the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. That is a fact. This year, we have increased the funding by 14 per cent. We have more fire officers per head, per 10,000 of the population than other parts of the UK. Crucially, the number of fires, the incidence of fires, are going down. That is what the public care most about. I will also quote Chief Fire Officer David Farries, because, Annas Alwar is right, there are changes being made. There are reforms being made in relation to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. In relation to those reforms, Assistant Chief Fire Officer David Farries said, and I quote, we are trying to make sure that we get a fire service that is fit for the communities of Scotland in the future. That gives us an opportunity to rebalance and reshape the service in a way that meets the 21st century. I think that that is absolutely right. I trust the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service to make those changes and to do so in a way that continues to keep people safe. I am not sure why Annas Alwar does not trust firefighters. I think that it is me standing up here and speaking for firefighters who are campaigning at this Parliament rather than the First Minister. Perhaps he wants to go outside and talk to them. A 22 per cent fall in real terms, this Government's financial mismanagement is already affecting every part of a fire service that is suffering from a decade of neglect. In the past 10 years, hundreds of firefighters have been lost and now a dozen appliances are being removed and the First Minister is ignoring warnings that his Government is putting lives at risk. In the last few months alone, those changes have affected fire stations in every corner of Scotland—Dundee, Greenock, Dunfermline, Gronlethys, Methyl, Perth, Hamilton, Cercodi, Edinburgh and four in Glasgow. If that is not cut, what is? When the single fire service was created, the SNP said that it would, and I quote, not result in cutting front-line services. What was that, SNP spin or SNP incompetence? Let's again, instead of sticking to the spin Annas Alwar, continue to articulate. Let me stick to the facts. The facts are that, since 2017-18, there has been substantial year-on-year increases in funding to support the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. On top of that, we have more firefighters per head—per 10,000 of the population—than other parts of the UK. Of course, fires are going down. In terms of the temporary withdrawal of appliances, and Annas Alwar is right that there has been a temporary decision to withdraw some appliances, my understanding is that that is 10 appliances of their 635 operational appliances. That is 1.5 per cent. When I look at what the independent His Majesty's chief inspectorate of fire and rescue services has said, they have provided absolute assurance that the SFIRRS temporary changes are based on a robust analysis of activity levels, historical demand and, importantly, the ability to supplement any initial response within—this is the crucial bit—an acceptable timeframe. We continue to invest in our fire service. I want to thank and pay tribute to the FBU, to our firefighters on the ground, and I will continue to give them a promise that, so long as we are in government, we will continue to ensure that they get the investment that they need to keep our public safety. Do you ask the First Minister when the cabinet will next meet? The vast numbers of people are being forced to call emergency dental help lines, because they cannot find an NHS dentist. An investigation that I am publishing today shows that that happened almost 16,000 times last year in Fife alone. That is hardly surprising, given that there is just one Fife practice accepting new NHS patients. Across Scotland, people are desperate. Some are even resorting to DIY dentistry. The First Minister's recovery plan promised to abolish NHS dentistry charges altogether, but they are not going away. Next week, they are going up. Some will even double. What the Government did not tell you is that there are new charges for those emergency appointments and things like denture repairs. Can I ask the First Minister why are people paying more for less under the SNP? First of all, the word that Alex Cole-Hamilton did not mention in his question was the word pandemic. There has been a significant impact because of the pandemic on our dental services, not just here in Scotland but right across the UK. Alex Cole-Hamilton was also incorrect in saying that we have not made progress in relation to removing dental charges. We have done so for young people, for those who are under the age of 26. We look forward to making continued progress. In terms of growing the NHS dental workforce in Scotland, we have 55 dentists per 100,000 of the population. That is compared to 43 per 100,000 in England. We are investing in our NHS dental services. We are more than happy to write to Alex Cole-Hamilton with the details of the progress that we have made. Crucially, when it comes to the oral health of our young people in particular, where I know that all of us have an interest, there has been significant progress as well. It will, of course, take time, but what I can absolutely guarantee is not just the public but those working in our dental sector right across Scotland as it will continue to invest in dentistry in here in Scotland so that we can continue to improve outcomes for patients right across the country. To ask the First Minister in light of the launch of Scotland's new HIV anti-stigma campaign in partnership with the Terms Higgins Trust, what action the Scottish Government is taking to eliminate new transmissions of HIV? We are delighted to partner with the Terms Higgins Trust and other HIV stakeholders in this important anti-stigma campaign. Tackling stigma is one of the many ways to address HIV transmission in Scotland by reducing barriers to testing and treatment as well as improving the lives of people living with HIV. We remain absolutely committed to eliminating HIV transmission in Scotland by 2030. Our HIV transmission elimination delivery plan, developed by the deputy chief medical officer and stakeholders, will prioritise the recommendations for HIV elimination that we published last year. Our aim is to publish this plan in the coming months. I thank the First Minister for that answer. Stigma often presents a barrier to people accessing HIV testing and this anti-stigma campaign is an exciting milestone in Scotland's mission to improve the lives of those living with HIV and to update public attitudes. A first of its type in the UK, the campaign will reflect the realities of living with HIV in Scotland today, where if an individual is on the right treatment, they can live a long, happy and healthy life and cannot pass the virus on to others. Does the First Minister agree with me that tackling stigma around HIV will help Scotland to reach zero new transmissions of the virus and will improve and save lives? I absolutely agree with Clare Hockey on that point. Tackling stigma is absolutely fundamental to achieving our HIV transmission elimination goal by 2030. Hockey reference in our original question is just one way of addressing that stigma. We are also working with NHS Education Scotland to produce training materials for non-HIV specialists in the NHS to improve the detection and diagnosis of HIV. We are also working with Waverly Care to support fast-track cities, which provide stigma-related training activities for the health and social care workforce. Almost half of the population in Scotland would be ashamed to tell other people that they were HIV positive, so work is still required, very much required, to challenge misconceptions while also improving access to testing, to preventative treatment and to support people living with HIV. Those will be prioritised in our HIV transmission elimination delivery plan. I say that this new partnership is welcome and we must do all we can to eliminate new transmissions of HIV. Therefore, I ask the First Minister for a progress update on commitments made by the Scottish Government on World AIDS Day 2022, including the pilot of an e-prep clinic, which would act as an important and significant step towards ending stigma and giving people greater control over their own healthcare. I will ensure that we write to the member with full details on the update, but Scotland has been, while leading in the implementation of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis prep since the introduction of our programme in 2017. We have to recognise the point that is well made by the member that pre-exposure prophylaxis has to be as accessible as possible to communities and for those who require communities up and down Scotland. Work is under way, very much under way, to pilot the online pre-exposure prophylaxis. Prep clinic £400,000 of funding has been provided for the development of this project, which is currently in the important development stage and is on track to be taken forward during 2024 and beyond, but I will ensure that a fuller update is provided to the member. Thank you, Presiding Officer. To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to reported concerns that parents are having to give up their jobs due to childcare costs. Early learning and childcare plays a crucial role, not just in children's development, but in helping parents, particularly at models, to return to work. Our current offer is, of course, the most generous in the UK, with all three and four-year-olds and around a quarter of two-year-olds entitled to 1140 hours of childcare each year. Independent research shows that 88 per cent, almost nine out of 10 parents, with a three to five-year-old were satisfied that they could access childcare in a way that meets their specific needs. However, I do recognise that we have to, of course, go further to support more parents to find or indeed to stay in work. That is why, in the programme for government that I set out, I set out my plans to improve childcare, the childcare offer, to expand the childcare offer, to work with our partners to help 13,000 more children and families to access that childcare by the end of this parliamentary session. Childcare costs are one reason why so many women choose not to start a family. Families with children are having to cut down on essential items because they cannot afford to work and pay for childcare. That is why the role of free childcare is so important. It is not a luxury, it is a tool to get parents into work in our economy moving. Given that the Scottish Government has not announced anything on childcare since the programme for government, how will he reassure women that they will not end up pregnant then screwed by this Government? The programme for government, of course, was just last month and I am more than happy to provide an update to Meghan Gallagher as we make substantial progress. I go back to the point, of course, that in Scotland we have the most generous childcare offer in the UK. What I would also say is that one of the important points that I mentioned in my programme for government is, of course, the sustainability of the PVI sector. Scotland is the only part of the UK to pay staff who are delivering funded ELC, the real living wage. We are committed to providing the necessary funding to increase pay to £12 an hour for staff who deliver funded ELC provision in the private voluntary and independent sector, so we are investing in that most generous childcare offer. I am sure that other parts of the UK might want to follow Scotland's lead. I am very grateful, Presiding Officer. The First Minister will be aware that the data that was produced by pregnant then screwed campaign is damming. Does the First Minister share the confidence that the Scottish Government ministers do that the private sector childcare nursery model is still viable even with the proposed Scottish Government funding? I did see that report and I want to thank pregnant and screwed but for the information that they provided in the report that they have done. That is why I was keen to put on record that we do recognise that our challenge is particularly in the PVI sector. I think that we all recognise that in our conversations with the private voluntary and independent sector. That is why we are going to be providing funding to increase pay to £12 an hour for staff who deliver ELC provision. However, I go back to the point that I made to Megan Gallacher a moment ago that, through independent research—I stress the word independent—it shows that 88 per cent of parents with a three to five-year-old were satisfied that they could access childcare in a way that meets their needs. However, I recognise the point that the member raised about the sustainability of the sector and that is why I am absolutely committed to working with the PVI sector to ensure that we have a sustainable ELC provision going forward. I am afraid that what the Government has done so far on the PVI sector is not enough. The First Minister knows that there is an exodus of experienced staff from the private and voluntary and independent sector. He cannot just do the £12 an hour living wage. He needs to increase the fee rates or we are going to have a sector that is just not sustainable. He promised that in the leadership contest. Is he going to deliver? Of course, we will update the Parliament on our plans around the budget in due course at the end of this year. It is fair to say that overall capacity of the number of registered places across the whole childcare sector remains stable and has remained stable between March 2020 and March 2023. We know from the delivery data that we collect from councils specifically the number of hours that services offer has increased. However, I take the points that there are challenges around the sustainability of childcare. That is why we will continue to invest and continue to ensure that we have the most generous offer than anywhere else in the UK. 6. Jackie Baillie To ask the First Minister what steps are being taken to eradicate long waiting times for NHS treatment in light of Public Health Scotland data, showing that over 1,500 patients have waited more than three years. Excessively long waits are, of course, unacceptable. We are working hard to drive down those longest waits and we have already seen a significant reduction since targets were announced last July. The latest Public Health Scotland data shows that 73 per cent of inpatient day-case specialities had less than 10 patients waiting more than three years and only eight had 10 or more. That is welcome progress, but there is undoubtedly more to do, which is why in each of the next three years we will provide an extra £100 million to accelerate treatment for patients and reduce inpatient and day-case waiting lists by an estimated 100,000 patients. That investment will allow us to maximise capacity, build far greater resilience into the system and deliver those year-on-year reductions in the number of patients who have waited far too long for treatment. 6. Jackie Baillie Let's talk about people, not percentages. It is true that, in July last year, the First Minister announced a series of targets for completely eradicating long waits for treatment by September 2022. Not a single one of those targets has been met. In fact, instead of being zero as promised, there are a shocking 6,831 Scots waiting more than two years. His recent announcement of £300 million over three years is expected to treat 100,000 people. The waiting list sits at 800,000 people and it's growing. Both the BMA and RCN have been scathing about the total failure to acknowledge the workforce crisis and even his economy minister admitted that they had no idea how it will all be funded. When will the First Minister end the 800,000 people on the waiting list and, in light of the SNP's failure to deliver on existing promises on waiting times, why should patients believe them now? 6. Jackie Baillie Jackie Baillie, of course, does not acknowledge the impact that the global pandemic has had on health services right across the UK, of course in Scotland, but in health services right across the United Kingdom. Of course, there are differences in how we record waiting times right across the UK. Waiting times in England and Wales are measured by a referral to treatment time, that's the 18-week target, which, as I say, is not directly comparable to Scotland's treatment time guarantee. Nonetheless, when we look at the data from the 30th of June this year, it shows that there were 122 patients waiting per 1,000 of the population for the treatment time guarantee and new outpatient appointments here in Scotland, so that's 122 per 1,000, that's fewer than in England. About 134 patients per 1,000 are on the RTT waiting list and, in Wales, the figure is 243 per 1,000. My point is, while acknowledging there are differences in ways that those figures are measured, that the global pandemic has impacted health services right across the UK. We have made significant reductions in numbers waiting over two years for new outpatient appointments as down by 59 per cent when it comes to those waits of over two years and when it comes to those people who have been waiting as in patients for longer than two years, that has reduced also by 28 per cent since targets were announced. We'll continue our record investment in the NHS, we'll continue to ensure that our staff is at historically high and record levels, and we'll continue to make sure, of course, that our NHS staff remain the best paid anywhere else in the UK. Given the unacceptably long secondary care wait times, desperate patients are forced to continue to see GP's, placing greater strain on primary care and taking up appointments, forcing new issues from patients to wait, leading to them going to A&E in desperation. This is a system-wide cycle of despair that has contributed to record deaths this winter. You've spoken about surgical waiting times, but what about our patients waiting for medical clinics, chronic pain management, respiratory or cardiology? What tangible changes are you making specifically for them? First and foremost, that is exactly why we are investing an additional £300 million to reduce waiting lists for patients that have been waiting far too long. However, Sandish Gohani asked the question, what are we doing? We are doing everything we possibly can, our NHS staff are doing everything they possibly can, to increase activity in order to aid the recovery. I'll give one example of that. When we look at inpatient day-case activity for quarter 2, it was the highest since the start of the pandemic. In fact, it was the sixth quarterly increase in a role with 58,813 people, patients being seen in quarter 2. We are increasing the activity, but what we are also doing is making sure that we increase the workforce where we can. We have had recently historically high levels of NHS staff, and we are making sure that they continue to be the best paid. Of course, what will help us in relation to that NHS activity is to make sure that no NHS worker, be it a doctor or nurse or any of our NHS staff, feels like they have to go on strike because they are not being fairly paid. Therefore, this Government will continue to make sure that our NHS staff are the best paid in the whole of the UK. Can the First Minister outline how the newly announced fund to leave will support women fleeing an abusive relationship? The new £500,000 fund to leave pie will help to reduce the financial burden on women who can receive up to £1,000 to pay for the essentials that they and their children need, for example, for rent, for clothing. The fund is to support women experiencing domestic abuse, who, as we all know, face many challenges, many difficulties, including financial barriers when they plan to leave abusive partners. It is vital that women are able to access the support that they need when they need it. That can be through local authorities, their local women's aid group or partners involved in delivering the fund. I would always urge any woman experiencing domestic abuse or violence to reach out for support that is available through Scotland's domestic abuse and forced marriage helpline. Claire Ingoes was tortured and murdered in her own home, leaving behind a young son. Fiona and Ian Ingoes have found the strength to be here today, 24 hours after their daughter's killer was jailed. They are here for answers. Why was a violent criminal with dozens of convictions granted bail not just once or twice but five times? Since Claire's murder, why has the SNP Government passed a law that will make it even harder to remand criminals in custody? Will Humza Yousaf commit to an independent, robust and transparent inquiry? First and foremost, my thoughts are very much with Ian and Fiona, Claire's parents. I cannot imagine the trauma and grief that they are going through. There cannot be anything more unnatural in this world than to have to bury your child. I extend the condolences and sympathies of the Government to Ian and Fiona. I will forgive me for the indulgence and take a bit of time to answer some of the questions that Russell Findlay has posed on behalf of the family. First and foremost, it is appropriate for me to say that, of course, decisions about bail on remand are for the independent judiciary, the independent courts to determine that they are not for the First Minister or indeed any Government or any politician to interfere in or intervene in. On bail and release act, I do not agree with Russell Findlay's characterisation. When I look at the bail and release act, it is, of course, for the first time that the act makes clear that the court should specifically consider victim safety, which includes physical and psychological harm, when applying the new bail test. That is, for the first time, explicit within the act. Victim safety is absolutely at the heart of any decision that should be made around bail and remand. In terms of an independent inquiry, as Russell Findlay has asked for, he knows that I cannot intervene or interfere in the decisions of the judiciary given the concerns that have been raised by Russell Findlay, that have been raised by Ian and Fiona. I will, of course, convey those concerns directly both to the Lord President and the Lord Advocate when it comes to prosecutorial decisions and decisions to either oppose or accept bail conditions. It will be for them to, of course, appropriately respond, but I cannot demand an investigation into a decision that has been made by the independent judiciary or, certainly, it would be unwise for me to do so, because that would be seen undoubtedly as interference with a decision made by the independent judiciary. I will end by saying that this dreadful case, this tragic case, reminds us of the need to do more to tackle not just domestic abuse but, indeed, domestic homicide. That is why the Scottish Government is committed to developing a multi-agency domestic homicide review model in partnership with key stakeholders, which I will give more information to Russell Findlay and to any other member that has an interest. I remind members of my register of interest as a member of Unite the Union. Today it was announced that Newman Bonnar, the company set up earlier this year to acquire historic Dundee textile manufacturer, is closing, risking the livelihoods of 57 workers and their families. Can I invite the First Minister to take this opportunity to join the Provisional Liquidators in asking that any party who has an interest in acquiring the business please contact them? Will the First Minister join me in fighting to save these important manufacturing jobs in Dundee? I do share Mercedes Villalbaugh's clear disappointment to hear that Newman Bonnar Ltd has gone into liquidation. My immediate thoughts, of course, are with the staff and with their families who are again going through further uncertainty. The wellbeing economy secretary had met with and written to the company in recent months to encourage it to fully engage with Scottish Enterprise so that every available option to save the business could be explored. I know that the business has had a long-standing presence in the community, of course, as an important local employer. We will certainly do everything we can in our power to protect jobs and the manufacturing footprint in Dundee. Scottish Enterprise is engaging directly with Liquidator to better understand the situation given last night's announcement. We, of course, as a Government, stand ready to provide support to any employees who are potentially facing redundancy through a partnership action for continuing employment pace. I will keep the member updated on how those conversations are going. This week, the FBU Scotland launched its firestorm report. In the last seven days, we have seen them tackle floods and flames. Our firies are gathered outside right now, and they are clear. They cannot continue in their current roles. Never mind adept to the future kinds of roles they are expected to do with the current levels of investment. Can I ask the First Minister what his response to their firestorm report is, and will he agree to meet with firefighters themselves, not their managers, front-line firefighters to hear directly their concerns? First Minister, first and foremost, I go back to the response to Anna Sarwar. We will continue to ensure that we invest in our fire service because they do an incredible job. Of course, in our firefighters, we have a regular dialogue with the FBU. In fact, I think that the cabinet secretary has committed just this morning to meet with the fire brigade's union to meet directly with those on the front line. We did, of course, this financial year increase SFRS's budget by £14.4 million. That is despite the current financial pressure that we are under. On top of that, of course, we continue to make investments in the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service that has seen them, through their incredible hard work, reduce the number of fires that have taken place over the course of the last year. I have the firestorm report. I have read through the report, and of course the cabinet secretary will meet with the FBU as she committed to this morning. First Minister, under the Scottish Government's vaccination programme, I recently had both the Covid and the flu vaccines at a very busy, efficient and indeed friendly vaccine centre, but that is anecdotal. Can I ask for an update on the take-up of the vaccine, please? First Minister, it makes an incredibly important point. We know that the vaccines for Covid and flu are incredibly effective and important. I would encourage anybody who is eligible to come forward for those vaccines. The programme is progressing very well, with more than 1.7 million vaccines administered so far. That is more than 1 million flu vaccines and almost 700,000 Covid vaccines. For those at our highest risk, re-facing of the programme has resulted in 73 per cent of care home residents already vaccinated, with the remainder due for completion by the end of this month. A large number of people have appointments throughout the rest of October and November, with vaccines due to be delivered by early December. I would reiterate to everybody to all those who are eligible that getting the Covid vaccine could save your life. It is the safest and most effective way to protect yourself and the NHS. This winter, if you are eligible, please do so, but I yet to book an appointment, please do so. I encourage everybody who is eligible to get those vaccines. This week, I met campaigners to discuss the impact of lockdowns on families of those living in care homes. After a long campaign, it was welcome that the Scottish Government announced that they would implement Anne's law. However, there are concerns that that still has not taken place, and it is currently sitting within the national care service bill. The campaigners want to see it decoupled, so can I ask the First Minister if he will agree to meet with the campaigners and if ministers will look urgently at decoupling Anne's law and delivering it now? Of course, through changes that were made by the previous minister for social care, Kevin Stewart, you gave practical effect through regulation to Anne's law. That is notwithstanding, of course, if there is something else that we can do, and the suggestion that was made by Miles Briggs in relation to decoupling, I will consider. However, of course, we do have the national care service bill progressing. Of course, we took time to pause that due to concerns that were being raised by local authorities and by trade unions. Of course, I will ask the cabinet secretary to meet Miles Briggs and, indeed, with the families who are represented by those who are in care homes to see if there is anything further that we can do. As we mark care experience week, can the First Minister provide an update on the steps that the Scottish Government is taking to improve the experiences and outcomes for looked-after children as they transition to adulthood? I do think that every single member of the Scottish Parliament who has met with care experienced people, particularly care experienced young people, will have been moved by their plight, by their strength, by their advocacy. I had the great privilege to meet with a group of care experienced young people in Glasgow yesterday, and I heard about some of the challenges that care experienced people face during that transition into adulthood. For anyone moving away from home can be a challenging time when we rely heavily on our family support networks, but not everybody has that family support network. Not everybody has the luxury of their mother and their father or, indeed, wider family to be able to rely on, and that is why I was pleased to set out the Government's proposal for a £2,000 care leaver payment to provide financial support at such a pivotal moment in young people's lives as part of a broader package of support. That is a key step in keeping the promise and let me reiterate to the chamber today that I, as First Minister and this Government, fully intend not just in keeping the promise but in making sure that it is delivered. Thank you. That concludes First Minister's questions. The point of order, Sandesh Gilhane. Dr Gilhane, your comment has been recorded. The next item of business is a member's business debate in the name of Paul Sweeney, and there will now be a short suspension to allow those leaving the chamber and public gallery to do so before the debate begins.


Hello and welcome into the Jackie Boswell show. I'm Joe Wamba joined with Jackie Boswell head coach of the women's basketball team and Coach you guys travel up to Lebanon Valley and continue that in-conference win streak at that time Talk about that game a little bit. Yeah, I thought that was a good win I mean again anytime you can get a road win in conference is always a positive thing I thought we played pretty well, and I thought we executed the game plan And you guys also continued and executed your game plan against Arcadia back at home Yeah, that was a great team effort. I think everybody scored everybody contributed Very excited for each other. It was a tough week, and it was really nice to see, you know that conference game And like that I thought we played hard and really happy that we could all contribute and in both games I think it was a pretty strong defensive effort Yes, I think so. I thought we did a really good job on Lebanon Valley's Players and one of their top scorers gotten a foul trouble a little bit early I think that helped us out and then defensively. I just couldn't be more pleased with the effort Against Arcadia. It's a very good quick team And I thought we were all always in the right spots defensively And then you guys follow up right behind Arcadia the very next day go travel to Elizabeth town Unfortunately, don't get the result that you're looking for but there's gonna be positives to take away as you work into a finals week This week and then get ready for your road trip. Well, you know, I think we learned a lot still from Sunday You know, we're still a little bit inconsistent maybe even a little bit undisciplined And it's definitely better to find that's kind of stuff out now than find it out in February So, you know, hopefully they take this little bit of a break work on their exams Take a break be with their families and then we come back and you know, let's try to fix all of this And it's definitely a learning moment and you want to learn those things in a non-conference scenario as well, you know playing Learning that lesson and in conference could be a little tough for you. Right exactly I mean, you know, obviously conference play is always our focus So the fact that we could focus that week to get the two conference wins that we needed and then learn the lessons To do on Sunday is we can we can accept that and you talked a little bit about the winter break that you guys haven't up You guys are traveling in Nashville playing on the 29th and 30th right before the end of the year Talk a little bit about that that trip that you got coming Yeah, I mean, we're pretty excited anytime you get a road trip and get our team together I think that's always, you know, breeds a lot of camaraderie and a lot of team bonding And I think you need that at this point of the year So, you know, we're looking forward to that and getting away for a couple days And you know seeing what we can do down there against two teams We'd never have an opportunity to play in Lynchburg and Carthage. Well coach We wish you the best of luck in preparing for that trip and now on that trip and happy holidays to you. Great. Thank you You too. We'll talk to you in 2017 She's Jackie Boswell, I'm Joe Wamba and this has been the Jackie Boswell show


My name is Ayla. This is the joys of Pico 8 token crunching. We're going to be talking about the Pico 8 game development and very, very weird things that happen when you are forced to reconcile multiple competing limitations. So a bit about me, my name is Ayla. I'm an independent game designer and developer, which means I make games. So about a year and a half ago I came across this cute little thing called the Pico 8. I fell in love with it and since then I've just been making games pretty much non-stop for it. I'm on the subways anywhere I can get a chance. Many of you probably haven't heard of the Pico 8 before, so that might be a good place for us to get started. So the Pico 8 is a fantasy console which you can think of as a gaming platform that kind of splits the difference between modern-day convenience and old-school limitations. So any Pico 8 game has this very retro look to it, but it comes with a lot of features that make it fun and easy to play and develop for. For example, it comes with a built-in code editor so you can code your own game. It comes with a built-in sprite editor so you can draw sprites for your own game. And it comes with a chiptune editor so you can et cetera, et cetera. Music, sound effects, which is really cool. It makes it really easy if you're looking to get started in game development. I would highly recommend it. It's a very cool platform. It does come with one or two limitations. It comes with a lot of limitations. And this is really interesting too because these limitations are completely artificial. We have the technology and hardware to do better than this, but they were chosen specifically to make it fun to make games for the Pico 8. All these restrictions are specifically chosen by the creators so that making a game is fun and achievable. And I want to focus on this one right now, this little innocuous 8192 tokens. So in addition to all these restrictions, Pico 8 limits you on the amount of code you're allowed to pack into a game and the way it measures that is tokens. You're only allowed to pack 8192 tokens into a game. That number is embedded in my nightmares. If you want to know what a token is, it's these little orange bubbles, basically any aspect of the code that is independent like an if or an else or a number or variable that all counts as a token. This little function to normalize a vector is 43 tokens long. A great thing about measuring code in this way is there's no incentive to minify or uglify your code because even if you change variable names, it would still be the same number of tokens, which is really cool. Moving along, our game isn't just code, it's also beautiful cutting edge graphics. So Pico 8 does graphics in the same way a lot of other 2D engines do graphics. You have a sprite sheet, which is basically an image with all of your assets scattered about it. And then when you wanted to draw something to the screen, you have all this well-named sysper function. And you pass in a rectangle from the sprite sheet, a position on the screen, and it'll copy all those pixels in that rectangle to that position on the screen. And there you go. And you just repeat that and you can render your game. Games aren't just code and graphics, so they're also sound. So we have a built-in chiptune editor. We have 64 slots for sounds, 32 notes each. If we wanted to play a sound effect, we can use the better-named suffix, a function, and then we just call that function, pass in the index of the sound we want to play, and we can play the sound. Alternatively, we can pass in a start and an end note, and it'll play a subset of that sound, which is great. Great. But here's the thing. We have 8,192 tokens. We have 128 by 128 sprite sheet, and we have 64 sounds. And each one of these alone is already really restrictive, and it's hard to build a game with one of these. Doing it with three is really hard, and really, really weird things happen when you try to do all of that at once. So to walk you through that and convince you that's a case, let's try adding a birthday snake to our game. So problem number one, our sprite sheet is already full of happy birthday animals, so there's no place to put our snake, which is really sad, but I noticed something. This grumpy cat is actually perfectly symmetrical, so why are we storing both halves in the sprite sheet? Why not instead, let's just store half the cat in the sprite sheet, and then we'll call the sysper function twice, once to draw the left half, once to draw the right flipped half, and then we can reproduce our cat perfectly, except our grumpy cat's cute little polka dot hat doesn't really work anymore, but luckily we have some great programming tools to account for that. Let's just change it so it's a striped hat. And now we can draw our cat to the screen successfully. But oh no, there's another problem.  And now we can put our snake in the sprite sheet now that we've made some space. But there is a problem, sorry for that. When we're drawing the mirrored cat we're actually using more tokens of code to do that because we need to draw the sysper function twice, and that means that we've gone all over our token limit, so now we have too much code, so we need to find somewhere in our code to remove tokens. So going through our game we have this meow function that calls a sound effect, and actually it's calling a very specific couple of notes on that sound effect, which corresponds to a meow sound, and the first four notes above that correspond to a purr sound, but we're not playing those, we're playing just the last four notes. But we need to save two tokens, so what if we just got rid of those, and now whenever we meow, we momentarily purr before that. And like maybe that's not good, but we need to cut two tokens somewhere, so what if we just did that? So now whenever you meow, you purr for a little bit beforehand, but at least now we're under our token limit so we can play our game again. And then my product manager comes up to me and asks, so were you able to add the snake to the game? And I say yes, here's the thing. To add the snake, the cat needs to have a striped hat, and it needs to purr before it meows. And this is where my product manager frowns at me, maybe schedules a one-on-one. But this is a really interesting thing, because who could have predicted that these things were related, these seemed completely independent. And the first time I was making a Pico 8 game, that was pushing the limits of the engine, I ran into this a lot and I didn't have a mental model for thinking about it. But I turned to, for all things, my experience as a university student, who knew, and thought of it this way, my game is a miniature economy, and tokens are the currency. So this is kind of like a new mental model that helped me think about and build Pico 8 games that pushed the limit of the console. I have 8,192 bucks or tokens and I can spend them to buy behavior, which is code or sprites or sounds, or even readability, readability cost tokens. And if I spend all my tokens, I can sell things to get some tokens back, sell some sounds to buy some more sprites. And this is kind of a really interesting way of thinking about building a game and programming something. And this turned out to be a really cool way of thinking about it, and there are other benefits of thinking it this way. So we have a limited sprite sheet, which you might think means we have a limited number of sprites that we can pack in there, but we saw before we were at a max size for a sprite sheet and we were still able to add more sprites. It's just that the cost of doing so rise. So there's this cool thing where there's diminishing returns to adding sprites to your game. The more sprites you add, the higher the token cost for adding the next sprite, which was a very economics thing. And we can also think about if we were to have a game that had a certain amount of functionality or code or behavior and a certain number of sprites, there is a cusp along which is like the maximum amount we can have. So if we were to be at the edge of that cusp, we couldn't add any more sprites or any more code or any more behavior or maxed out, but we can move along that cusp. And that's like a really important aspect of economics too is this thing of a once you reach the maximum point, it's just a matter of trade-offs from there, which maps really well to what I was experiencing with Pico 8. And I don't think this is the universally best way of thinking about something. It's a little hard to describe. It doesn't always work. Pico 8 definitely has stronger relations than other development, but I think there's still ways, I think this can be a lens through which at least I've started to view other projects where I'm working on my website, maybe I'm not restricted to the number of characters the way I am on Pico 8, but I am restricted to the amount of dev time I'm able to put in. And maybe thinking about it as like a currency that I spend on things allows me to see like at some point I'm gonna need to like sell things to buy other things. And I think this could be a cool way of communicating those to people. So that's what I've learned from doing a little bit of Pico 8 game development. Thanks so much.