Hi, this is the parent provider agreement journey, and my name is Manna Ward. So let me just take you through a couple of slides at the beginning as introduction. So the aims and objectives first of all, our aim is to introduce you to the digital service and understand the parent provider agreement journey. So this session will go through the steps the parent follows to set up an agreement, and then the actions that you as providers need to take to manage those agreements. So we recommend that you read the supporting information which is available online. With the content, I'm going to cover the following key topics, which includes signing into the government gateway for parents and yourselves as providers. That's how you access this digital system. I'm going to continue with the process for parents to request the childcare offer hours, in other words to set up the agreement. Also the process for you to manage those agreements for your setting. I'm going to mention what the local authority will also see. This will be step-by-step demonstration, and I'll sign post you to further help and support towards the end. And as Amy just mentioned, there is a Q&A panel for you to ask any questions during the demonstration. But hopefully as I go through all these steps, a lot of those questions will be answered. So let me make a start by setting the scene. So the situation is that the parent has been successful in having their parent eligibility application approved by the LA. As a provider, you're over here in the blue box. As a provider, you've registered your setting successfully on this digital system. So therefore the parents can choose your setting from the list, which will come up as they go through the steps to request the childcare offer hours. Therefore, it's important that you have registered your setting on this digital service. And as Amy just said, there is still time you need to register the setting by the end of October. So here you are on the graphics on the bottom here. This is a picture of the parent and the provider agreeing with the arrangements to access the offer. So the parent will receive the hours they are entitled to through the childcare offer. And you, as setting providers, will receive the funding for those hours that you will claim for through the childcare offer. So as I go through this demonstration, just to explain that there is a plan, there is a key here. So with the parent eligibility application having been approved, I've written that on this white box. So anything with a white background refers to steps to be taken by the parent. And for providers, any steps that you need to take, I'm showing up in a blue background. So as I go through, you'll see it's the parent that sets up the agreement. And so in order to go through these steps successfully, they would have had to have had the conversation with you and the LA in order to input the required information to the system. So they would know which child, which early education setting they wish, what hours they want, term time, holiday time or both. And which setting or settings because it can be more than one setting they wish that childcare offer hours from. Therefore, you as providers will expect to see the agreement on your screens when the parent submits the agreement. And then it will be up to you as providers to review the request for the childcare offer hours and accept. So the parent, the local authority and your setting will be able to view the agreements and each one of you has a specific role. So the parent requests the childcare offer hours, that is, sets up the agreement. And we just need to be clear that this is not a booking in the system at all. The purpose of the agreement is to make sure that the parent and the child, of course, can access the childcare offer hours through you. So now we're at the parent requesting the childcare offer hours because the LA has already confirmed that the parent or guardian is eligible for the offer. You've also had the conversation offline and agreed the number of childcare hours available at your setting. So here are the steps to start with the parent as yourselves, as providers, you both sign in through the government gateway. And that means entering the 12 character user ID in the relevant box there for the government gateway and of course the password. And then they click on the green sign in box. It'll then come up to us for the access code. So you'd get the access code from your personal mobile phones. It'll be that six digit access code arrives on your phone, I expect. And you pop that into the access code box there. And if you're going to be on the system providers, particularly if you're going to be on the system for the week, then you can click that other checkbox to remember me for seven days. And then parents as with providers, you click on continue for the parents. They arrive at this very first step to request the childcare offer hours. And you'll see that there is a blue text here which says request childcare offer hours, which they would click on. So that's the first step. Here they'll have clarification of the offer itself. It'll clarify that there are two elements to the offer, the early education and the funded childcare per week. So there's 30 hours during term time and holiday time. But during the term time, it also includes a minimum of 10 hours of early education. However, we are aware that of course there's a variation in the number of early education hours across different local authorities. And that information has been inputted into the system. So behind the scenes, we've got all that data. So we have a reference data that knows exactly how many hours early education hours are for each local authority. And how many childcare offers hours are available then during the term time. So that calculation is done behind the scenes. As a setting, the system knows which childcare setting also offers early education by the way. I hear on this information screen for the parents. It also just makes clear that parents are aware of the four weeks of unfunded childcare hours. As it says, the offer is available for 48 weeks of the year. And you'll need to fund the remaining four weeks of the year yourself as these are not funded. So it's clarifying the offer. So then to move on, they're asked which child do they want to access the childcare offer hours. So I've got Amy Jones and Thomas Jones here. So these names, as Amy explains earlier on, these names come from the parent eligibility application. So the provider setting details, the parents details, the agreement, the claims that all this information is all interlinked on this one system. So the names appear here along with their date of birth, which is how the eligibility calculations is done in the background. So the parent would select one of the children and go through the agreement steps. And then they can come back and select the other child and go through the agreement steps. So here we go. So I was going to select a child and then here, before they start, they need to tick the option on the bottom there to confirm that they've had that conversation with you as the provider. Therefore, the parent already knows which setting, which early education and how many hours they're going to request before actually coming on to the system. They've had the offline conversation with yourselves and with the local authority. So they tick that box on the bottom there, which says, I have agreed the offer hours with my setting. Then on the next screen, the system asks from what date. So here they'll be faced with a rolling list of eight weeks displayed starting on a Monday. And the system again knows the dates that that child is eligible to start the offer. As it says on here, based on your child's circumstances and eligibility and all that information has been fed in through the parent eligibility application. So here the parent will need to select the week they wish to take up the offer. Even if they want to, the child to start on a Wednesday, midweek or Thursday, the parent would still need to select the Monday of that week. So for this week, if I'm starting today, I would have select the 17th of October for the Monday. So they select the relevant week. And that means in order for the claims to be submitted by yourselves as a provider, it will be paid for for that whole week. Next, the system will ask to set the agreement end date. So here the system has already calculated the agreement end date based on the child's circumstances and eligibility, as it says here on the screen. But you can change the agreement end date now or at any time. So here Amy is eligible for the offer until the 31st of August next year 2023, the whole time that she's eligible. And the question is, would you like the agreement with this setting to run until this date? So possibly the majority of people would say yes. But the system is quite flexible for parents who may be working, who may work various hours, shift workers, or have shared custody of the child. So it is possible to say, no, you don't want it to end until next year, you want this particular agreement for these term time hours to continue until perhaps end of this year. And then next year you want a different agreement at a different setting during the term time for next year. So there's flexibility in the system and it's possible to have up to a maximum of four agreements with two different settings. So you can have term time and holiday time at a setting or you may wish to set up an agreement, sorry, the parents sets up the agreement for term time with a setting and holiday time with a different setting at different times. So I'm going to select the yes option in a second, but just to show you how the system is flexible, if the parent selects the no option, they would have this screen coming up to ask them, OK, what is their choice of the agreement end date, when do you want the agreement for Amy to end? And they'll enter the end date here in the box as long as it doesn't exceed the eligibility end date. If it does, it will come up with an error message as a flag, as a red banner of any error messages on the system. So if hours are varied, it's possible to change the agreement dates every week, every other week or term time. So next if we look at the early education, the question here for early education, have you received confirmation of your early education from your local authority? So the question here is, sorry, the answer would be yes, you have received confirmation of your early education. No, if they haven't received confirmation as yet, but then if they receive it later on, parents can update the early education setting choice. Every child is entitled to early education and they will receive 30 hours of that childcare a week during term time. But a number of hours, a minimum of 10 hours of early education is allocated to that setting. So they could say I don't want to use the early education, but as it says on here, if you don't wish to take up early education entitlement, you will receive 30 hours of childcare a week during term time, less the default early education and built into the system is the number of hours for each early education setting in that particular local authority area. And our local authorities provide a minimum of 10 hours per week of early aid. So only settings, just to remind you, only settings that are registered on the system can provide the funded childcare offer. So here with regard to early education, if I move on and I've said yes, I have had confirmation of the early education in this example, then they'll be faced with this screen where they would select the early education setting name. So I'd give it a little bit of a hint. I've typed in Aberyran. If I typed in Aber, then I'm going to have a huge list of education setting names I would expect for Wales. It can show up to a list of 50 setting names at a time and then the parent would have a look through the list and confirm the one that they actually want. So the more help they give, the easier it is for them to find the actual education setting and the same would go for the childcare offer setting. So they can enter minimum three characters here. I put in Aberyran and then that would come up with the next screen which asks, is this the correct early aid setting, early education setting? So I'd confirm it. And then from there, with all the information that's in this reference data behind the scenes, the system would be able to calculate how many hours that's available during term time for the childcare. So Aberyran, for example, here, the early education that they provide is 12 hours 30 minutes. That from the 30 hours that's available leaves us with the 17 hours 30 minutes per week of funded childcare to use during term time. So it's already done for us and we don't have to remember that as we go through the steps which I'll show you. Holiday time, of course, is the 30 hours, the full 30 hours is available here per week during the holiday time. So on the next screen it'll ask, OK, what's your selected childcare setting? So again, as before, the parents will enter minimum of three characters or preferably more to find your setting, hopefully, as long as it's registered. You've got until end of October, just to remind you. And they click on Find and it will bring up a list possibly until you narrow the search to your setting name. And again, when they make the option, it will be confirmed, so the parent can confirm or they can search once again. From there they are asked to request term time hours. Do you want to request term time hours for Amy? Yes, I do, so I'm going to go on. And now we've got how many term time hours do you want for childcare for Amy at this particular setting? So it's pulled through the number that's already calculated in the background, so there's 17 hours, 30 minutes available. So the parent will go for the maximum number of hours that they know they're going to use per week. So if the maximum that they know that they're going to use, because it could vary week by week, but most of the time they will want the 17 hours, 30, they would input that in the hours and minutes box. If they know that the maximum is going to be 15 hours each week, possibly perhaps with some variation, then they would put in 15 not not in the box. Okay. There's some help guides there for the parents. How has this worked out because of all the information, the reference data already inputted in the system. My childcare hours change regularly while they put in the maximum amount in here. So actually when it comes to the claims, then the actual number of hours will be inputted. But that's claims and we're going to do a live session on claims in December. So let's just focus on agreements for the time being. The other question here would be, I use more than one childcare setting. And yes, that's fine. This system is flexible. So you can select up to two settings, but you can have up to four agreements across those two settings. So I can have a term time hours with a setting. I can have holiday times with a different setting. I can have term time and holiday times with a setting, a term time holiday time with another setting. That would be my four agreements. So that's not a problem. That's flexible. This system is flexible enough to accommodate that. So here it will ask, do you want holiday time hours? So you can continue and you can request your holiday time hours. Or you may want to stop at that point with the term time hours at that particular setting till the end. And you can request childcare off hours during holiday times with a different setting and go through those steps to set up that agreement. You can do it that way. So yes, I want holiday time hours. And again, it will remember. And it will pull through that there's 30 hours available. And once again, the parent will put in the maximum number of hours they know that they'll need per week. It may be slight variation each week, but at most I'm going to need the 30 hours or possibly the 20 hours. And they'll have agreed that, remember, with you offline. So they will be prepared for this information. And once that those hours are entered, they'll arrive at the summary screen. So here they would have a chance to check their answers if there's anything that's not correct. At that point, the parent can click any of those blue change options there and make any edits before they submit. However, as soon as the parent does click on submit, you as a provider will see that agreement on your agreement screen. So it will land straight on your desk. Once they submit a unique reference number will be generated for each agreement. So they can have it is possible to have up to four agreements. Or just the one and each one will be sent to the relevant setting. So here if I say, yeah, I'm happy with my request. I've had the conversation offline with the provider. That's what we had agreed on. So with this agreement, we've gone to the next screen, we've submitted the agreement successfully. And the system has generated this unique reference number, this G60 number. So the requested funded child powers for this child for Amy has successfully been sent to setting and the name of your setting or the setting. And that's it. The parent can then click back on my agreements and return to their screen where they view their agreements for their child or children. So here is the summary of the parent's journey to request the childcare offer hours to set up the agreement. So it sounds as if the parents have a lot of steps to take, but they would have had that conversation with you and with the LA. So they would know what to input. They are actually supported by the LA. So for any help the parents need the LA's will support them. But we just wanted you to see the process that they go through in this entirety. Just so hopefully it's easier for you to understand where a lot of this information comes from when you look at those agreements. And also just to reiterate that this is not a booking system. The purpose of the agreement is to ensure that the parents receive the hours they wish and the hours they're entitled to from the funding of the childcare offer. So here all the yellow boxes that you see are the steps that I've just shown you that the parent takes that they sign in about the offer, which child. They confirm they've had the conversation with you offline and they know when they want that agreement end date to end or they accept the eligibility end date. And then they select their early education setting if it's been confirmed or they can update it if it hasn't at that time. The system will calculate how many childcare offer hours are available to that child, especially regard to term time when you've got that element of early education.  So you need to register that and confirm the setting or settings during term time, holiday time or books. And then they get the summary, the parent will check that information submitted to get the unique reference number, which is generated automatically by the system. And then here is your role as the provider. So in blue there because you can, you'll have access to this recording again. So when you look at it again, you'll see that as the provider is your role now to review this agreement. The parents can also still view the agreement. And the local authority was in red here on the screen has the function to view the agreement. So this full transparency on this system. So let's have a look at your role. So for you, you would review the agreement that's now just landed on your dashboard. So that would mean that you need to sign in. As the parents do sign into the government gateway and arrive at your dashboard. But let me just show you the process when you do arrive at the dashboard. I've got a key here. Again, the parent is in yellow. The provider yourselves are in blue. And anything in red steps or actions by the local authority. So you've gone into your dashboard. You've clicked on the link for agreements. And you're here. You're reviewing that agreement. Your option is to accept. And when you accept, you'll have an accepted notification coming up on your screen. And this is quite colourful because the parent, the provider, yourselves and the local authority, each one of you can view that agreement. Each one of you have different roles. So this is the transparency on this system. However, you may review it and choose to reject. Maybe if the parent has asked for more hours than you agreed during your offline conversation. Then you can speak to the parent and say, I think you've entered the incorrect number of hours because we discussed X number of hours. So if you go down the route to reject, then again, the agreement itself will be removed straight away. Off your list of agreements and I'll show you your list of agreements to make it clear what exactly happens. So that agreement has been thrown out. And for the parent, the parent gets the reject notification on their dashboard. But the parent needs to do one extra step to you where they actually click the remove request button and then it gets removed from their dashboard. And I'm going to take you through these screens as well to clarify the accept and reject steps. However, you have got another option, which is to change the agreement hours. I've just put down C slides so there's a few steps for you. So the role for the provider is really that what you see on the screen there is to accept, reject or change agreement hours. That's your role. So let me explain with the screens that you'll come across. So first of all, let's go down this journey where you as a provider accepts that agreement. So you would sign in with your government gateway, you would arrive at the dashboard. So for those who have registered your setting and have received that activation pin and entered it into the system. So you would receive that activation pin through the post. You enter that activation pin onto your dashboard and then you'll have access to everything. So this dashboard screen you see now is what you expect to see when you've registered your setting. You will have access to claims. You can see a link there to claims and you will have an access to agreements, which is what we're focusing on today. I've got a shot there of a screen that has more than one setting. So if you're a provider that manages more than one setting, then obviously you register each one of those settings. You register a new setting, there's a link there. And it would look like that actually. You'd have a red button where you can switch between each one of your settings and view the claims and the agreements for each one of the settings without needing to go to sign out and sign back in again. OK, so that's just a little sideline for you when you register a setting. Here I'm going to click on agreements and just focus on agreements for a second. So provider agreements status, let me explain. This is a list of all your agreements for all those children. So the children's names will all be listed in alphabetical order. Alongside the children's names will be the parent or guardian name. And then the third column here you can see will be the agreement type. So the agreement type, as I've mentioned when the parent sets up the agreement could be just term time agreement. Could be just a holiday time agreement or it could be both. So quite a few of these are term and holiday time agreements with this setting. Then you have a status column here. So I've got statuses where the agreements have been approved, where there's ending. So the ending status is when, if you remember, the parent has the option to agree to that the child can offer for the whole time the child is eligible. Or there was a question where they were asked, do you want this child can offer to go all the way to the end? Or do you want to end it at a different date? And that's where the parent has to submit the different end date. So that's why you may see the status of ending on your screens. You can view then the actual date when it's the end date. So that's why you may see the status of ending on your screens. You can view then the actual date when it's been selected to end. Otherwise, at this stage where you're reviewing the agreement, you can see an orange. I've got Fern Jones and Gareth Lloyd's agreement is waiting to be reviewed along with a notification at the top of the screen in a different colour. It's going to be in red actually, where it says you have outstanding agreements that requires your attention. So you'd focus on the review. Your only action here, the last column, is to review. So that's exactly what you would expect to see on your agreements screen. I'm going to focus on Fern Jones for now. I'm going to click on review to review that outstanding agreement. And here you'll see the details. So you'll have the reference number. You'll have the weekly term time dates. And more importantly, the number of hours that's been requested, 10 hours here. And the holiday time as well, how many hours on the start and end date. So on this one, that was exactly what you discussed during your offline conversation with Fern Jones's parents. And you would click on accept. So you've got accept, reject or change agreement hours on the bottom. Those are your options. So for now you're going to click on accept and you'll have a green notification. So green is good to go. You have a green notification and say, yeah, you've accepted that child care offer agreement for this child for Fern Jones. And then on your list of agreements, you may have all your statuses. Fern in particular has now changed to approved. So if it's green, it's good to go. Let's see what the parent will see. So I've got a white background. The white background means is the steps taken by the parent. So I know this probably is very small writing for you. So this is the child summary of the child care offer. So don't worry too much about the actual wording that appears here. But this is the whole summary for Fern. So the parent can actually see, they have a yearly summary. So they see how many weeks are remaining as well. So this system will show them the number of weeks remaining once the claims are in action. Then it's the term time hours and the holiday time hours if that's what they requested. And obviously this is what Fern has requested. And when I click on an option here, which is to view or cancel as a parent. I've just made that a little bit bigger so you can see that the agreement for the parent looks just the same as the way you viewed it on your provider screen. And the parent can choose to cancel an agreement, but I'm going to come back to that. I'll be moving on to explaining about cancel after we've done these steps. So just to make that a little bit clearer for you to read. This is the parent's summary screen on the agreement. And this is what's happened when you was a provider as you viewed the information, agreed with the hours and the dates that you'd already discussed.  What happens with a rejected agreement? What happens if the conversation you had offline doesn't match with the number of hours the parent has now inputted in the system?  You click on the link for your agreements and from the list of agreements. You select the one to review. And this time these hours for example don't match with what you said. So you're simply going to reject. You haven't got those hours available. That's not what you'd agreed. And you're going to simply click on reject. You will then have the notification on your screen. I'm on a blue background on your screen to say that you've rejected. And it would get pulled off straight away from your list of agreements. For the parent, they will also have a notification. They will always have notifications to say what's happening. And they would click to view the rejected changes and they will see the hours that they requested and you've rejected. They just have to click another button and then it's removed from their screens. But you had this other option, which is to change the agreement hours before approval. So as a provider, when you reviewed the agreement in this instance, you could see that the number of hours weren't quite right. You've spoken to the parent and you've agreed that they perhaps misunderstood. But they've entered the number of hours incorrectly. It was just a mistake. So before you go ahead and approve, you have got the chance to change the agreement hours. So on your screens, just to show you once again, you have accept, reject, change agreement hours. You would click on change agreement hours. You're faced with this screen and from the 20 hours for this person, Edward, for this child, you enter the revised weekly hours. So you're going to say actually it was 10 hours we discussed. That's what we agreed. So that's fine. I'll enter it here. So you put in the 10 hours, zero minutes and you continue. And then it asks you just to confirm that you have had that discussion with the parents. So yes, I'm going to click on the tick box here to say I have agreed the number of hours be funded with the parent guardian.  And you then have the green notification to say that that's been updated. And on your summary screen with all your agreements, you will see that here with Edward, the status has now changed to parent review. So it's now landed back with the parent to do the final review with that change of hours. So let's see what happens in the parents screen. So here we are. The parent is now reviewing that change. It says the setting has suggested changes to your recent request and now it's up to the parent just to review these changes. So they'd click on view changes and they'll arrive at this screen where the hours is now 10 hours because that was the original conversation. But they still have the option to either accept the changes or reject the agreement. I'm just going to show you the process of what happened there. So the provider changes the hours. This is before approval. So in blue there's all the steps that you took, the ones I just went through to change the agreement hours. To match what was discussed on the offline conversation, all the way through to the status of parent review, parent review status on your screen. And then here for the parent, if they accept, then it's approved on both your screen and on the parents screen. If they reject the agreement, the agreement gets pulled off your screens. But for the parent, the hours are credited back to the parent so they can then go ahead and create a new agreement. Then that would be with yourself or with a different setting. So they'll have their hours credited. OK, there was an option for parents to cancel an agreement. So let me explain this. So only the parent can cancel an agreement and also the LA has the ability to do so. So we suggest that the parent only cancels an agreement after discussion with their child care setting with you to ensure that the parents are compliant with your private contracts, terms and conditions. Otherwise the parent may be liable to pay the notice period. So this, when they cancel, this needs to have been agreed with your setting offline.  The parents will remain attached to the original provider. For such period as the contract stipulates, it doesn't affect the providers or your private contract. Let me just show you those screens for the parent to cancel an approved agreement. Here they have the option to view or cancel and this is the button to cancel the agreement. What's important to note for parents and for yourselves is that if they cancel this particular agreement, for example, has got weekly term time hours and weekly holiday time hours on the one agreement under the one reference number. So when the parent cancels the agreement, both the term time and holiday time agreement gets cancelled because it's under the one agreement reference number as it happens. So they can create, remember I can create an agreement as a parent for term time, which includes the early education element. Or for holiday time separately, can have up to four agreements for two settings, two separate settings. Okay, so let's continue to cancel an agreement. Then there's the option to click on to say, yes, I want to cancel agreement so that's confirmed. And then the parent needs to enter the cancellation date. That's mandatory. They can't do this without entering the cancellation date because you will see that on your agreement. You will see that it's being cancelled and you will see the date that the parent inputs at this stage. So they need to input the cancellation date. It can't be after the eligibility end date. So they enter that in the box and click on submit. So for any cancelled agreement, you as the provider, I've got a blue background here, will see that cancelled agreement. It will show up with the status of ending, which would allow you to click on the view option there. And I'll just show you this to see the actual end date. So in this instance, Thomas Jones didn't go to the end of his eligibility date. They cancelled it for the first of September. So you as the provider sees that information instantly. Okay, so the parent is the person that can cancel. The parent can't request the local authority as well to do the cancel option. They would sign in, they would view or cancel. They'd confirm the cancel agreement, but this mandatory that they enter the cancellation date. Otherwise they can't continue because that then on the last step, which is in blue and yellow because this happens for the parent and for you as providers. You will see that agreement with the status of ending and you'd be able to see the actual cancellation date. What happened then? And as I mentioned, the parent will have the hours credited back to them so they can create a new agreement. Okay, LA, I'm just nearly coming to the end just to let you know. So here the LA, the local authorities can also view agreements. They go through the step to search for a child for Amy or Thomas for Edward and so on. And they would arrive at this type of screen. Again, it might be quite small writing, but let me explain. I've got it on a red background just to indicate that this is the local authority has visibility of the agreements for those children. They'll have details of the child's date of birth, the parent's details, they'll have access to the eligibility application. So as I say, a lot of this information is fed into the agreement's journey when they set up the agreements. And the LA's will also see exactly the same as you and the parent. They'll see the details of the term time hours with whichever settings. They'll have the name of the setting and the holiday time hours will have the name of which setting that child is receiving their term time hours and their holiday time hours. And the status, of course, will show up as approved. But the LA can also cancel, so the action that they can do is view details or cancel. So they can also cancel if they've been requested to by the parent or they may simply want to cancel, may need to cancel and stop. Therefore, stop the settings claims for whatever reason. So each one of us has visibility, a parent, yourselves as providers and local authority. And that brings me to the end of that journey. So I hope that helps your understanding of the agreement's process, what the parents need to input and therefore why you see certain information on your screens. But for us providers, your role is to review the information on the agreements and accept, reject or change the hours with the parent. So here for further help, you have your contact in the local authority, but they haven't actually had the training as yet. The training will be happening week after next. So they may not be able to answer all your questions at the moment. There's also your local family information service. There is supporting information available online. This recording will be uploaded as soon as possible and made available online. There's further information generally for you as providers on gov.wales, which I expect you've already seen. And again, just a note at the end there that there will be a live event regarding claims on the 5th and 6th of December in English. There is a Welsh one also on the 6th of December. So I hope that helps. I'm sure you might have had some questions there. So I just want to say thank you very much for your time this morning. Thank you for attending.


Good morning. We are so excited to have all of you here. This is a phenomenal opportunity for our state, for our community, for this region, but specifically and especially for the city of Fort Worth. We have been working with partners for nearly the last year in trying to determine what is wonderful for this community, what your needs are, how we can all work together because HUD is a partner. All of you are partners in this and the weakest link will really make it fail, but if we all stay together strong we can succeed and we can bring up the people who need it the most. It is an honor to be here today and I would like to introduce Secretary Ben Carson. On March 2nd, Dr. Carson was sworn in as the 17th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. For nearly 30 years, Secretary Carson served as Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the John Hopkins Children's Center, a position by the way that he assumed at the age of 33, becoming the youngest major division director in the hospital's history. In 1987, he successfully performed the first separation of the craniopagus twins conjoined at the back of the head. Dr. Carson received dozens of awards and honors in recognition of his achievements, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. He is also a recipient of the Spingarn Medal, which is the highest honor bestowed by the National Association for the Advancement of Color People. Dr. Carson has authored nine books of which he co-wrote four with his wife, Candy. The U.S. news media group at Harvard Center for Public Leadership named him among America's best leaders in 2008. Dr. Carson and his wife co-founded the Carson Scholars Fund, which recognizes young people of all backgrounds for exceptional academic and humanitarian accomplishments. The fund is currently operated in 50 states in the District of Columbia and has been recognized more than 7,300 scholars, awarded more than $7.3 million in scholarships, and installed more than 150 Ben Carson reading rooms across the country. Born in Detroit to a single mother with a third grade education who worked multiple jobs to support their family, Secretary Carson was raised to love reading and education. He graduated from Yale University and earned his M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School, and he and his wife are the proud parents of three adult sons and three grandchildren. Would you please help me welcome to the podium, Secretary Ben Carson? Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Well, thank you. Thank you all for being here. Thank you, Beth Van Dyn, for that wonderful introduction and the tremendous work that you've been doing to help get this thing started.  There's a verse in the Bible in the Book of Proverbs that says, without a vision, the people perish. And you know, there are a lot of people in our country who really don't have that vision of success anymore. They think success is for somebody else, and that somebody else is in control of their lives. And what we really want to do with Envision Centers is bring the tremendous resources of this nation and the tremendous compassion that exists in this nation into juxtaposition with the need that exists in this nation. And there are a lot of people in our nation who have grown up in a system that hasn't really emphasized what is available to them. And we also unfortunately have a system that has a lot of people in government assistance, but we punish them when they try to get out of it. When they start climbing the ladder, we pull their support from them. And then everybody else is kind of looking and they say, well, that doesn't make any sense. I'm not going to climb that ladder. These are all the kinds of things that we need to get rid of. And what is happening with these Envision Centers is we're taking federal resources. All 22 federal agencies have joined us combining with state and local resources as well as private sector, nonprofits, faith-based organizations aimed at one thing. And that is to give people the resources that are necessary in order for them to become self-sufficient to succeed and to become part of the American Dream. And we've seen it in different places around the country where you just provide people with an opportunity. And one of the cities, people were given lawn care equipment. They very quickly developed their own lawn care services and became very successful. But the other thing that has happened is that we have a system where people who are receiving assistance, government assistance in housing, if they do something to increase their income, their rent goes up. So there's a disincentive for really doing that. The same thing occurs if you get married.  You know, unless we work on those things in concert, we're not going to be successful. But what has really encouraged me is the number of people, the number of organizations who say, yes, we will help. Yes, we will send people. Yes, we will provide resources. Yes, we want to make sure that our communities thrive. And the reason that these Envision Centers are being created with control at the local level and with financial support at the local level is because personally, I don't want the programs to disappear when a new administration comes along. I want them to be owned and operated by the organization that exists there. And I'm very hopeful that when people begin to see that there are other people throughout the country, throughout their communities who are interested in helping them and working together with them, some of the animosity in our society will begin to subside. I do worry about that because, you know, we're a very powerful country and no one can bring us down from the outside, but we can do it from the inside. If we continue to divide ourselves on the basis of race, income, age, religion, political affiliation, gender, you name it, it won't work. A house divided against itself cannot stand. Never has stood, never will stand. And so, you know, we have to be willing to deal with these things, work with them, think for ourselves, extend that hand of friendship. And I want you to think about just here's an example of how this can work. We have a lot of single moms and, you know, they really are kind of stuck because, you know, they have to take care of their children. Well, one of the federal agencies actually has a program in which they will come in and train elderly people in a multifamily complex on childcare and they become certified childcare specialists. Now that young woman has a safe place for her child to go while she gets her GED, her associates degree, her bachelor's degree becomes independent, more importantly teaches that to her children so that we break these cycles of dependency that have occurred. And I realize that a lot of the things that we're doing, you know, irritate some people who want the status quo. They don't like change and, you know, they want to demonize you. But you know what? As far as I'm concerned, the only person you have to please is God. You have to do what is right. And, you know, we have to concentrate on what are the things that get people out of poverty and that give people hope. You know, and there's a lot of benefit to that because the Envision Centers are based on four principle pillars, economic advancement, educational advancement, health and wellness, and character and leadership development. When it comes to health and wellness, we need to start concentrating on prevention.  But also, look at the opioid epidemic that is destroying our country. Why is that? Well, I'll tell you, opioids are not that great at taking care of pain. You talk to somebody who is articulate, who's having a lot of pain. You give them opioids and ask them, how's their pain? And they'll say, it's still there, but I don't care because that's what it does. It makes you not care about it. And the same thing for emotional pain. And see, there are a lot of people with emotional pain who have lost hope and to be able to escape from that just for a few hours, it's very inviting. And once you learn how to do that once, it's very hard to stop doing it. We need to understand that it's very easy for people in our society to get addicted. And let's not look down our noses at them. Let's realize it can happen to anybody. We all have needs. And what we really have to do is start figuring out how do we give people hope again? How do we heal, you know, those deep wounds that have occurred in our society? I believe it is something that we can do. And unfortunately, in our country, you know, we've moved away from a lot of the values and principles that used to hold us together. And we need to start thinking about godly principles of loving your fellow man, of caring about your neighbor, of developing your own talents to the utmost so that you become valuable to the people around you, have the values and principles that govern our lives. Isn't that what it's really all about?  And I asked myself that too. But no, but, you know, as a pediatric neurosurgeon, I would spend hours and hours sometimes operating all night to try to save a child, to try to give them a second chance at life. Only a few days later to be faced with the dilemma of in many cases sending them back into an environment that had bed bugs and lice and roaches and rats and mold and lead. And you know that that was not going to work for them, but you had no choice. And now god has provided an opportunity to do something about it. So with your help, with your help, with Envision Center that will be coming here and in surrounding areas, we start concentrating on our young people and on empowering them. What we will then do is we will empower our nation. So thank you all for being here and we'll take questions. Thank you, Dr. Carson. We are so excited that you're back in Fort Worth and we're particularly honored that it's to recognize our community's designation as an Envision Center. As you know, we have amazing leadership in Fort Worth and Fort Worth benefits tremendously from our collaboration and our shared goal to provide affordable housing, improve access to healthy thriving neighborhoods, and to ensure families have the resources they need to achieve their goals in education, self-sufficiency, and job advancement. While so many people have dreams for themselves and families, some just don't know how to get started or what resources are available to help them. And that's where the Envision Center comes in. It will be a catalyst for aligning resources and strengthening partnerships to help families pursue their dreams. Many of you know that this year is our 80th anniversary as a housing authority, so that means we've been providing affordable housing to the Fort Worth community for over 80 years. And today we are going to commemorate that with an oak tree that's been planted out by the playground here. One of many that will be planting all across the city as we open new developments to help our neighbors. And we also know, Dr. Carson, that you're very supportive of HUD's rental assistance demonstration program, RAD, as we like to call it. And we want to thank you for that. Together with the Fort Worth office at HUD, as well as the D.C. office, we are making great progress towards our goal to convert our entire portfolio of public housing to RAD, which allows agencies to convert units of public housing while still providing subsidies for low income families. And here in Fort Worth, RAD conversions are allowing us to achieve our goal to increase the supply of affordable housing and improve access to neighborhoods with great schools and better job opportunities. So we're anxious to get started on our center. We're going to be working closely with our residents, our city, and our many community partners to begin planning. We look forward to coming together to establish a site where neighbors can learn and access tools necessary to accomplish great things and break the cycle of poverty. Thank you for recognizing the work that's already taking place here in Fort Worth and designating us as an Envision Center community. I'm going to turn it over to Ms. Biddens now. Dr. Carson, Mr. Secretary, I would tell you that stop six is definitely ready for your Envision Center. I would dare say we will be more prepared than any of the other locations you've had, and I can prove that. I can prove it. I put some notes together. Mr. Bia, I brought my cheat sheet up here anyway. When I took you and your wife on a tour of Cavill, when you were here before, you were impressed with that police substation that we had just opened. That's collaboration with the Housing Authority, now known as Fort Worth Housing Solutions. When you take a look at the stop six neighborhood that I grew up in, if you go by Dunbar High School, you will see a helicopter affixed to the roof of a hangar built by Bell Helicopter on a deal inked by Board Trustee Christine Moss. Of course, she's supposed to stand. And I see School Board President Toby Jackson here too. I know Toby's in here. When you take a look at what's going on around here, we have more economic investment than ever before. People are building homes again finally in stop six. We had some detriments to development in our zoning, so we changed those, but they still couldn't come back because we had a lot of trash and things that needed to be collected. We actually hauled off 278 tons of brush and debris put in 7,500 linear feet of new sidewalks. People feel safe and we're doing things that make kids know we care about them. We also are installing security cameras and they're helping us make some cases too. We have a new police chief who has reinvigorated our community policing policy. Joe Fitzgerald is in a training right now, but people know who their NPO is now ever more than ever before. He inherited the DOJ's procedural justice project and because it was here before he got here, he hired somebody boots on the ground, Josiah Johnson to lead those community initiatives. Community policing has not been new to us. We have our pastoral leaders, all the pastors and preachers please stand, especially Bishop George. And that's Bishop Sample with him. What these guys have done since I guess the 80s is gone inside schools and help avoid violence. And so we're called MAC, ministers against crime. Thank you, sirs, for being here. All hands are on deck for a number of reading initiatives in stop six in Fort Worth. The mayor is on board. The colleges are on board. But speaking of the colleges and I'm glad to see him, you've heard the term blue collar and white collar. Well, Dr. Giovanni talks about the new collar. Please stand, Dr. Giovanni. Because he's helping us get jobs today and you have to be creative and functional to know that things that you did back then don't work now. I also know that we have health initiatives underway all the time in our community. I see Robert early here. Robert, please stand. Now, Robert is the CEO of our county hospital. Now, both of those men are on the board of my directors of my day job. The next guy is not, but I'm working on him, the president of Texas Wesleyan University. Hi, friend.  I know that I'm sorry. No, I'm not. But just know that we are really, we're really eager to make this thing work. We've got what's in place with our collaborators. We've been doing this for years. When segregation ended in Fort Worth, it didn't come because of violence and protests. It came because a phone call was made and it said open up the counters. We've always done things that way. So you will be proud of this. And we'll be pushing for a larger community center here. We're looking for your help. And I think that'll be good. But thank you so very much. And we know our history. Reby Kerry, you've got something to give. Please bring your book, Reby. Reby is 97 years old. Reby, Reby Kerry is a former elected official. He was elected at large on the school board years ago, former state representative and has written about 30 books telling all of our business. And so if you will give him the book. There it is. Uh huh. There you go. Oh good. Give it to him again there. I told Reby he couldn't talk. The magnified apex. Yes. All by Juneteenth. Oh, and today is Juneteenth. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. They're going to take a picture. And I'm gonna close that. And in closing, Dr. Carson, you need to know that you are in the home, the district of where the first freed slaves settled in Texas. It's Mosier Valley. We showed that to Gerald Bennett just recently. Mosier Valley descendants are in here. Wave your hands and I'm gonna sit down before they pull the hook out. I see you Benny. I see Danny. So welcome and thank you. Thank you, Dr. Carson, for being here. Wonderful groups that we've seen have a lot of struggles with fair housing. And that's those individuals who have been critically incarcerated. And with the fair housing, uh, leading to more fair housing, they're picking and choosing, uh, these sites, the department for these government. How does the business center get those individuals? I know that came out of that. But how does this in business and I kept them, uh, come back into the community and also find that available housing without being frustrated? Sure. What's going on in the market? Well, first of all, thank you. Thank you for asking that question and being concerned about that particular issue because, you know, as a nation, we have 5% of the world's population of 25% of the prison inmates. And, uh, they go into prison, uh, particularly a lot of our young men with no skills and, uh, you know, no education. They come out with no skills and no education. So what do they do? They go back and do the same thing. That's why we have these high recidivism rates. And, uh, one of the programs through the Envision Centers actually going into the prisons before they come out, uh, establishing the relationships beginning to do some of the training, working with employers, uh, because it's, it's not just going to be Section 3. Uh, it's going to be Job Corps. It's going to be a whole bunch of potential trainers and employers that we're working with recognizing that that's how we change the trajectory for these, uh, for these individuals and also looking at some of the, the, the former rules and regulations against, uh, having people who've been incarcerated, uh, so that we need to recognize that, you know, I don't want, I don't want to make excuses for people. But, you know, a lot of times we have young men who are growing up in a household. There's no father there. There's no father figure. There's no role model. Um, their mother, in many cases, is the teenager herself, you know, and you have all kinds of negative influences out there. That's another area where the Envision Centers come in, providing mentorship. Many studies have shown that young people who are disadvantaged, who have mentors, finish high school at a much greater rate than those who do not. And when we're talking about poverty in general, uh, the Brookings Institute probably did the best study on poverty there is. And they concluded that there were three factors that would reduce the risk of living in poverty to 2% or less. Number one, finish high school. Number two, get married. Number three, wait until you're married to have children. You do those three things, less than 2% chance of living in poverty. So, so what does that tell us? It tells us that, that we need to be looking at ways to increase educational opportunities, to encourage that, to increase family formation, and, and to increase responsibility. And those are the kinds of things that we're going to be aiming at doing. One more question? Right here? Yeah, I wanted to confuse you, Senator, but allow more people to convert the income that they used for subsidized housing to convert that to home ownership, and, and, and to for it not a token, but an active program that would actually put more persons on subsidized housing into actually home ownership. Yes. Thank you for asking that question. That's such an important factor. The average net worth of a renter is $5,000. The average net worth of a homeowner is $200,000. That's a 40-fold difference. So we need to be looking at ways to get people into home, but it has to be done in a responsible way. The way it was done before with subprimes and, and, and all kinds of shagant, shenanigans actually cost people homes, particularly in the African-American community. We have fewer African-American homeowners than we did before the housing crisis. Because if you put somebody in a home they can't afford, not only do they lose the home, they lose their credit and they lose their future opportunities. So we have to be creative in the way we're doing things. One of the things we're working on is a program where you take part of the monthly subsidy, if you're getting government assistance, it goes into an escrow. That escrow is used to take care of the routine maintenance of that unit. So if there's a lot of routine maintenance, the screens always have holes poking at them, the lights always have to be changed, you're always calling the plumber, that escrow is not going to grow much.  And then if you leave assistance and prescribe number of years, you get all that money for a down payment. Because see, that's the big hurdle. There are a lot of people who work hard, and they're able to keep their head above water, but they'd never be able to accumulate that down payment. If that's provided, they continue to work, things really begin to happen in a very positive way for them. Those are the kinds of initiatives that we're working on right now. We're really looking at this thing in a very holistic manner, because the real goal here is to empower people. Think about what happens. For every person that we get out of dependency, that's one more person we don't have to pay for, and one more person who becomes a contributing member of society who may discover a new energy source or the cure for cancer. We can't afford to throw any of our people away. Thank you so much. One person who is missing in body but is here in spirit today is the mayor of Fort Worth, Betsy Price. She has fought for this center. She has established a phenomenal relationship with HUD, but specifically with Secretary Ben Carson. In fact, when the application for this center came up, she personally handed her commitment letter to the secretary. I want to make sure that we recognize all of the work that this mayor and this council have done to get this center here today. The city of Fort Worth has been wonderful.  I want to thank all of you for coming. I know that we have a round table, and if you had had an invitation to the round table, it's going to be in the room behind us. At this point in time, I don't think we have any more questions. So thank you all for coming, and we'll see you soon. Congratulations.


Hey, oh, how's it going everyone? What's up? Happy holidays. This is Thanksgiving week. It is Yeah, it is where we're flash forward in time. We're actually recording this a week before but We were looking ahead at to the days off next week everything And you know what what is y'all's favorite part about Thanksgiving the days off?  So before we get too far into it Let's go ahead and introduce us guys and gal. I am Cole I'm Kyle. I'm Maggie I'm Sam Maggie. What's your favorite part of Thanksgiving ideally when I don't have to see people?  That's the worst part We here and I guess that top tier decided, you know, what let's once and for all put it to bed What is the golden honey of Thanksgiving food? And we're gonna try things a little differently this time. We're each going to be making our own lists But at the end of the episode we will decide what top tiers official golden honey of Thanksgiving meals are and before any of you shout at me Hey, my favorite foods not there. We went with the most popular list I almost wish that it was even a little thinner like it just said pie instead of apple or pumpkin because of my family We have a lot of pecan pie so if it just said pie we could kind of throw out there and gravy different kinds of gravy I don't do white gravy.  We're gonna get into gravy We're gonna get into pie. We're gonna get into stuffing but first we have to get into what is considered by most the king of all So we're starting turkey then yeah, it's they're the first on the list Turkey turkey and this is this is a wild one cuz like the golden honey as it stands is gonna be contentious, right? Yes, yes, I feel like a lot of people are gonna think turkey naturally I do think it's up there, but I don't know if it's golden honey But I'll come right out the gate and say that the turkey is often the weakest part of the Thanksgiving meal for me Really? How is the family preparing the turkey? Oh, I've had tons of turkeys prepared differently and it's always just a bird that has slight seasoning Makes you sleepy, too. Turkey's the thing I'm always gonna get seconds of because it's like the one time a year you eat a turkey Right, but yes, like I think it's a beat here. I think turkey's just middling for Thanksgiving I think that's also its weak point though is that you eat so much of it like the next Weekend after Thanksgiving you are eating turkey sandwiches to the point that you're sick of turkey by the time it's done And I think that is the last thought you have leaving the Thanksgiving experience is I've had too much turkey Well, that's the only point of the turkey is for the leftover sandwiches Yes, the day after sandwich might actually be the secret golden honey in my heart But the fact I don't got to buy food for the next three days because I'm finishing off the leftovers See, I'm leaning towards turkey in the aid here because that's the center of the meal So like if you get that wrong then Thanksgiving is ruined. I think it's the opposite I think the turkey's the same kind of always You know that meme where it's the guy looking back at the girl in the red dress or whatever. Yes A gas upset girlfriend is turkey in the red dress is ham like What are you doing?  How do you screw up a ham? How do you go? You can't screw up a ham so Sam. It's fine. Yeah. No, I agree with Sam Like I'm all about the ham like I will get more pieces of ham than turkey I will get like one piece of turkey and then like three pieces of ham Oh, come on.  You got the dark meat. You like you got so many options Like light meat dark meat break off on turkey Majority dark because I don't like turkeys because the majority of the meat is dry Well, I think if you deep fry them, they get that's when they're the best best turkeys ever That is the only that is the only that is a turkey Thanksgiving trick. I have not had I would love to try it I challenge my friends and family likes, please give me a turkey that I like also It's it's a little dangerous. Yeah, deep-fried it little dangerous can make Thanksgiving that much more exciting Yeah, turns it into a true American holiday. Does anyone have any more to say about ham? It's the jam It should be it should have some sort of slightly sweet glaze about Yeah, honey, honey, honey glaze ham is the way that you get like yeah If we were just saying honey glaze ham then this would be up to be for me But if it's like if we're this just is ham, so I don't know I think you're putting it ham as best prepared or is prepared in your family, right? Like yeah, and that's how mine always comes pumpkin pie And I'm not a fan of pumpkin pie I don't care We'll see when it comes to the contentious bread rounds that I feel as soon. Oh, there's a yeah, there's a bread battle Yeah, about to happen. I'm also just gonna go ahead and throw red wine up in a really fast. Oh yeah, I should do that I'm also gonna put sparkling sparkling juice up there at least because as a kid it was fun to swish it around and being This is my kid wine. Yeah, all right with you Sparkling juice also as a grown-up you can seal the kids sparkling juice and then you can just put hard booze in it Exactly laps real hard. Yeah, everyone doesn't like the pumpkin pie. Wow. Well, if it had whipped cream on it, then yeah Yes, what does yes.  I love it. Talk about apple pie. I love apple pie I have never seen an apple pie at Thanksgiving the apple one for me is a C Yeah, if we're going to assume it's all a mode.  Yeah, cuz it's like, you know This is how we're doing fine. See it's in my S tier right now cuz apple pie. Mmm. Mmm. Do we want to start the crumbletting right now? Yeah, let's do it.  So then what is the one you're only allowed to get seconds of one? What do you get it's certainly between cornbread or dinner rolls? And it just kind of depends on who did it who messed up the best if it's that cornbread where it's like a little sweet They got the honey glaze on top, but it's also maybe they put a little jalapenos that spicy sweet thing Oh my god, it's the best cornbread in the world. I actually I don't like Dinner rolls. You don't like dinner rolls I don't like they're they're butter delivery vehicles.    I think you've just had healthy Brussels sprouts I'm talking about crispy possibly like they put them in with the bacon fat.  I've never had good Brussels sprouts, and they just that's where they end up They go down in D tier green beans.  They're staying down there, but I do think green bean casseroles is probably the greatest cultural addition that the whites have Pretty sure that's us right like I mean you probably stole it to be honest But green bean casserol to me is the most Caucasian family shit you can eat It is a banger green bean casserole is the most Thanksgiving food I don't know if I don't know if it's my personal golden honey because that's saved for later Have we decided where squash goes? I Kind of threw it in C because I'm like whatever on it, and I like squash I just think on the day like it's also like when it we also have this roasted vegetable one Which in my brain is how the squash comes?  It's awesome. Let's be honest here. It's dessert passing as a side It really is it's we put a cake in here Don't don't notice me. We've garnished this cake with some vegetables somewhere in there another Thanksgiving only food That I I can't stand it actually is jellied cranberries really I've never tried it I love both the jelly cranberry sauce and the regular cranberry sauce. They're like they're mm-hmm up there for me I realize I'm lacking a tear here.  Oh, yes I gotta add a row above. Okay.  You like and you secretly kind of mix them up you get some yeah, mashed potato mac and cheese sometimes It's hard to be mean to food. I'm realizing this.    Let me do some pruning What's the difference between scalloped and mashed scalloped? It's like it becomes a texture thing So like the scalloped it's think like they're sliced not quite as thin as a potato chip But you know pretty pretty thin and then you have this cheese sauce in it and then you bake it So it gets a nice crust on top and mm-hmm. Yeah, it's good If you were to ask me is like do you want to scout potatoes or mashed potatoes? I want to scout nine out of ten times except for when there's a whole plate of other stuff And I need to make weird little sandwiches and stuff and the mashed potatoes plays a crucial structural role in all of this The glue the adhesive. Yeah. Yeah, you got to have the mashed potatoes And then when you combine it with gravy like if they could do a fusion dance that might be golden honey for me Like mashed potatoes and gravy, but since they're separate you can have that anytime gravy I think it the heavy lifter of the entire meal. Mm-hmm. It goes on so much like Practically everything by the time you're done with the meal the gravy's touched everything roasted vegetables. I like them They they belong on the table. I for me. It's not a top neither am I I can move roasted veggies down here and then stuffing stuffing it for me ends up on that like the line between What's good and what's not it's it's fine, and you don't ever have it except for Thanksgiving. That's why I Think stuffing is my golden honey. Hmm.  You're doing different things to that stuffing You're cooking it like it's the most unique food on this entire list. I was wondering where everybody ranked wine Yep Yeah, I'm about to have red wine tonight. Nice. What is the golden honey? I mean for me it is sweet potato casserole. Yeah, see I was wondering about mashed potatoes But without the gravy I that can't I was I wanted to put it as my golden honey But it's only with the gravy is gravy the golden honey Actually, I'm with you Kyle. I think gravy is the golden honey. It just goes on everything. It makes it better So I'm torn between Brussels sprouts and green bean casserole, so I'm not gonna win But green bean casserole is so Thanksgiving. I know and it's like you don't have to put gravy on it But you can it is not better with gravy.  Oh, yeah And Thanksgiving isn't isn't nothing without that gravy. Obviously.  I love cranberry sauce Oh people that deserve to die. Yeah, I don't want them.  It's in the a tier, but it's no it's no golden honey. I guess I'm conceding spitefully To me, it's either gravy or green bean casserole, but I don't think Kyle's gonna let it be green bean casserole just from his pure Yeah, I can't like Can we convince Sam not as a golden honey? You can convince me to like bring it up to the S tier because it is super good, but not as a golden honey. I Just look at the list the best rating of all of them is wine Yeah, I mean once again, I'm down to swap wine out for that Definitely when it comes to family and it does it does enhance everything else it makes everything taste better whether you that's because You're getting tipsy or it pairs well Let me walk up to you in February with a green bean casserole.  Yes Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, it's out of place Wine's a heavy hitter year round. I mean, I never say no to red wine Specifically red wine. I will accept it as the the winner for the episode. I will accept it as the the official top tiers Thanksgiving food Whether it's a cab candy merlot or cabs have cabs have It's just Boxed small back We'll have to do a red wine tier list eventually. All right, that's official wine is the king of Thanksgiving The true ruler of Thanksgiving Thanks for watching and I will see you next time. Bye Hey there, thanks for checking out the video While you're here go ahead and like comment and subscribe Let us know what other kind of tier list you would want to see what other shows games anything anime related at all If you want to see more great content like that head on over to roosterteeth.com You can be a first member. We have a ton more to see


ChatGPT can create full-fledged iPhone apps, which it might just be better to say that ChatGPT is the super app. You can give it your latest app idea like five new movie suggestions every day or you can copy an app that already exists Or just tell it you're feeling nostalgic and you want to play old video games In fact, you can go to a website right now and play whatever you want since Garrett built infinite arcade Which lets you code any old arcade game using ChatGPT and play it in real time Pretty soon you won't use more than one app. You'll just log in and tell it what you want


All right, so this one now is a dual ray gilding out of one time there This is a really talented horse too the big thing I kind of Feel with this horse and what I kind of work on a lot with him is I'm trying to get his front feet to soften up When I say soften up when When he goes into a stop, I don't want to feel him brace on his front end like this Because to me when he braces here, it puts all the weight here I want to feel him break that front end down to where like he's driving from behind and pushing and every all his weights on here instead of being hitting here and hitting here so and to me how I get that a lot is I Really need to make this horse roll up over that bridle and really soften here at these withers and Make him roll around and I'll trot him in a lot of these circles like this Just make him stay here and make him be soft to where I can trot him around here Change and go this way when I change. I don't want his head to come above this saddle horn here, so Just gonna jog him around until I feel him be soft here I'm just gonna play with him a little bit there that was better to where when I feel a little resistance I kind of just want to take that away from him now it's not Jerk on him and spur him and You know make him worried Like once again, it's it's softness So there he was kind of still a little heavy on that front end, so I'm just gonna back him up and the other thing too is this back up's got to get a little better like The the stops only as good as At all the way to it now let him have it Let him be comfortable here See now how he softened his front end up He's really changed See there that front ends getting softer There now he's not beating the cow here His timing is really good there I want the cow to go and pull him through just like that I'm gonna quit that cow and get another one


Over the last five days I have extinct the whole population of penguin in Polaris. Welcome back to the craft box my name is Brent and today we are getting the inspectors torment badge which is the badge received for defeating 500 penguins. On average it has taken me if I started at zero which I didn't because you have to defeat a few for Polaris questing would have taken me about eight hours by myself to complete this badge obviously it took slightly less I'd say about seven because I had a couple already done if you're with a team it can go quicker but I thought I should also show you how to get here these are the penguins that I have been fighting the inspectors and inspector brigadier or however you pronounce that last word I don't know but yeah let's go back to the start of Polaris which is where the world door is obviously right here the spiral door boom and then you come down here you make a short left right sorry over this way and then just straight into the harbor and as soon as you get in there basically that's where the penguins are so yeah not too far away really really simple to get there and uh I thought I should just also mention that there are a couple badges that you get previously to this 500 badge which we are about to get in just a moment there is one for 50 which is inspectors adversary inspectors rival is for 100 inspectors nightmare is for 250 and then inspectors torment is for 500 penguins and speaking of 500 penguins let's finish them off shall we have one more to go because that's just how it worked out and I think we should probably finish it off where we start today we are using d&i because why not um also if you interested in this new format or like this more new format a bit more you know let me know because this is not normally what I do for these videos I'm usually just hit but I thought I'd give you a little bit of background onto what this badge is about and how to collect it these guys are not too difficult they are what rankle rank 14 storm they generally cast pretty low damaging spells so that's not too big of an issue for most people if you're in polarity should be fine with these guys they're not particularly hard they do not have shadow magic their power pip chance is astonishingly abysmal absolutely abysmal and they do however cast bubbles so like big or wow ores around the whole thing I can't remember what you call them global spells I guess is probably the best term to call them so be careful of that if you're gonna pop one of those up yourself as I will hopefully do later so yeah just be careful of that but otherwise they're not too difficult they are storms so there can be bolts that happen but yeah obviously they have 2080 health after the health nerfs they're not too difficult at all it took me about two rounds each time to kill I would just blade and then scarecrow or lulu or whatever I had so yeah if you're a death really good if you're going with someone else you can probably hit first round if you have like a fight you could go scarecrow and or dana into a um meteor or something along those lines and kill so yeah it's not too bad at all there we go and that is the badge acquired minus 10 backlash love to see it don't take any backlash at all there we go inspectors torment the final penguin badge is finally mine yes finally so so fantastic let's let's all look at let's look at this lovely badge we're now at 24 of 33 and there we go inspectors torment we now have a full page one and nearly a full page two this badge will be the next page that we go for later in a few weeks I would say we'll have that video up but yeah otherwise I hope you enjoyed um let me know how you like this new format remember to leave a like and subscribe if you're subscribed press the little bell so you know exactly when I post another video and remember to craft outside the box