So we let's pray and we'll get started today my father. We submit this time into your hands. We thank you Once again for this beautiful day your grace and your mercy and the sustains us that upholds us faithfulness We thank you Lord. I will submit this Two sessions into your hands Lord. I pray even as we learn more about you and ministry father I pray Holy Spirit that you would continue to teach us and help us understand your ways Lord in Jesus name I pray Amen. Awesome. Okay. All right Let's get started today in the last class the week before last we discussed chapter 4 we looked at The title learning to minister healing and deliverance from Jesus That's the chapter we looked at and we saw what are the different ways? That Jesus ministered and he functioned in as he minister healing and deliverance, right? And just to do a quick recap of what we learned in the last class we see that He Jesus made the will of God very clear and during the course of this Of this subject we've learned that it is God's will to heal everyone. It is his intention. It is His will and he's he demo Jesus demonstrated that and he showed that right so the will of God We learned about the will of God the exercise of faith the flow of compassion the importance of compassion as we administering and healing and deliverance and the anointing of the Holy Spirit dealing with the issue of sin and salvation and And some of the methods that Jesus used we looked at that And the nature of Jesus's healings and miracles We looked at all of those and a couple of things out what we also looked at was One basic foundation out of or a fundamental thing what we looked at was The norm versus the exception, right? The norms is that we are expected to come with faith We are expected to flow in compassion, right? We are expected to Do what God calls us to do that's the norm thing, right? We ask for God's kingdom to come and invade our realm invade our situation And what and then there there are these exceptions Where God decides to step in when his divine authority and sovereignty He steps into a situation and he decides to do what you know What he wants to do and one of the keys versus that we kept reminding us was some 115 verse 3 Right. He is God. He's in heaven. He does as he pleases. Okay? So those are all the things that we looked at in the last class And so let's continue to go to we want to we want to try and cover chapter 5 and chapter 6 today We'll see how that goes. Okay and and I Hope that you know, you've learned something So far in the couple of months that we've been studying this chat of the subject There was something that you could take off And learn. Okay. So moving on to chapter 5 We learn about the secret to Ministry as demonstrated by Jesus. Okay the secret to ministry as demonstrated by Jesus now Please notice the title. It doesn't specifically or necessarily just mean ministering in healing and deliverance or healing ministry, but it's ministry in general but everything what Jesus did And a huge part of his ministry was healing and deliverance. Okay, so The secret to ministry as demonstrated by Jesus now There are four keys Our secrets to ministry as the as Jesus demonstrated now Have you I'm not sure if you ask this question, but I have asked this question is like, hey You know, what is you know, what is the secret behind that person's success in ministry or in business? You know, how is that person so successful? In ministry What is their secret? What are some of their keys? Have you asked this question? You know, have you looked at another man of God or a woman of God and say I want to be like that. How are they so anointed? How do they move so beautifully? In the whole in the Holy Spirit in the gifts and whatnot. Has anyone asked that question? We're looking at another person or another man of God or a minister Or a businessman, whatever right At some point we've all have wondered we've all had this question, right? And so and we when we look at Jesus and everything he did You know and in his time on earth We can't help but wonder How do you do it? Like what were some of the keys or secrets? To you know, to his ministry in the way that he functioned Okay, and so that is what this chapter is all about, right? And I think this is awesome that we get to Learn some of the secrets of Jesus Which has been there in the Bible. So few things right The first one is ministering out of intimacy and obedience These are some of the keys and secrets to Jesus's ministry And that's what we're looking at right a ministering out of intimacy and obedience ministering based on the finished work of the cross ministering from a place of dominion and authority And ministering through the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit Okay, so the first thing we looked at we let's look at is ministering out of intimacy and obedience intimacy and obedience, right so Jesus walked in an absolute intimate relationship with the father And we read that in the gospel of john time and time again not only in the gospel of john but We've read a lot of scriptures and passages from the gospel of john and hence I'm mentioning that gospel But in all the gospels that we read we see how Beautifully and intimately Jesus walked with the father right and time and time again We see that the father saying I love my son and the son says I love the father I do everything what he tells me to do And I do everything what he shows me to do et cetera et cetera Right, so he walked in complete Obedience with the father Right and And that is a testament to the humility of Jesus itself Right, he did what he saw the father do and taught what he learned from the father Okay, so intimacy obedience and fruitfulness are inseparable simply means that intimacy and obedience go hand in hand Now you can't see that you are having an intimate relationship with god and not walk in obedience Right if you tell me that you have an intimate relationship With the father with god that means it will also be shown in your walk Is that you are walking in obedience? Right, and if you're walking in obedience that simply means that you are walking you're having that intimate relationship with the father So let's look at john chapter 15 verse 4 5 and 7 it says Abide in me and I in you As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine Neither can you unless you abide in me I am the vine you are the branches He who abides in me and I in him bears much fruit for without me you can do nothing Okay, you might want to highlight it underline it whatever is without me you can do Nothing We need to realize that okay without him without jesus in our lives Is really nothing much you can do okay? If you abide in me and my words abide in you You will ask what you desire and it shall be done for you okay, and so This intimate relationship is developed with just being in his presence longing to be in his presence and You know reading his words spending time in prayer speaking and praying in tongues singing in tongues etc etc Okay, and I've often said this is If you break the word intimacy, it simply means into me you see because I show you Right and um, just think about all Uh the relationships close relationships your best friends your close friends at relationship between husband and wife or good friends or what not? um They are they are willing to pay a certain price to get to know another the other individual a little bit more Right, uh, I am and uh most of the times we as christians um We like the idea of being a christian and we like the idea Of wanting to love god Right, we like the idea of uh, I love god. I love him. I love the bible Uh, but we don't often um act on that Wait, what good is it if you keep telling a person that you love them and you do not show it in action You don't express it or in words or you know, whatever in action That person isn't going to uh Feel anything if you get what i'm saying, right? um And so that's the whole point here is that if you say that you love god and if we say that we love him Uh, we want to live our life for him. We want to die for him. Uh, etc, etc We got to make um pay the price Right to Um to walk in that intimate relationship with him to to spend time in his word to read him to read the word to study the word To pray spend time and prayer spend time and praying in tongues, etc, etc And that is how you build an intimate relationship. Uh with with with god Um, right, uh, look look at another verse john chapter 15 verse 9 and 10. It says as the father loved me I also have loved you Abide in my love. There's this constant invitation. Hey just as the father loves me And I in him, uh, you know, I have loved you the same so come Abide in my love come there's the doors are wide open Uh, the invitation is there for you to come the red carpet is rolled out Um, so if you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love Just as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love Okay, so look at that true obedience is an expression of intimacy Right, so true obedience is an expression. What is an expression? It's you are expressing it. You are showing it off Okay, see because I love you.  Okay, so, uh, how does one express? Of obedience it simply is true obedience is an expression of intimacy love and devotion affection, etc Right, if you love me keep my commandments. That's john 14 15. You are my friends if you do whatever I command you Right, you are my friends if you do whatever I command you Okay, um And so in the notes, it's mentioned that obedience is an expression of our relationship with him We love him. We are his friends. Hence we obey him Right. I know there are two kinds of obedience. Isn't it? One is a person who commands your obedience or your respect Or your love and the other one is where one another individual demands your respect Demands that you work for them right They for example Those who slaves and the masters in egypt The slaves did everything what the egyptians told them to do They're not because they enjoy doing that But you know, they were demanded otherwise they would get whipped So slaves did it Because they were demanded to do so But here we obey our god because we love him And it is and everything is born out of love in the kingdom of god everything that we do Must be out of love and if there's a single thing that you are that you are doing is because You know because you have to do it then it immediately becomes a work and you begin to burn out as they say it Okay, so obedience is an expression of a relationship with uh with our with our god Where we love him. We are his friends. Hence we obey him Okay And at the bottom of that of page John g lakes writes something beautiful And by the way, um, we learned we'll talk a little bit about john g lake a little later, but yeah, here's a quote of what he said He says healing is basically a spiritual thing The power that heals The sick comes from god Down through your spirit Out through your hands Into that man or woman If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship You will have power With god and there is no escaping it And this is true that when we are in the right communion and fellowship with the lord There is not power enough in all hell to put disease upon our little finger Okay, uh john g lake is one of those individuals who had the most powerful and impactful and successful healing ministries In south africa in africa I mean people in in a particular town would be afraid if if they hear the john g lake is coming to their town because Our hospitals will be empty To every town or village that he would visit um and so And people would bring you know sick people in trucks to his crusades and his meetings and and so john g lake is um Is one of those generals of god as we say right that whose life that you know, we need to look at and and study as well and And hence the final assignment if you've already seen it Okay Cool. Um, let's move on. So that's the first uh success or a key Um of jesus's ministry is ministering out of intimacy and obedience There is an invitation for us to walk an intimate relationship with the father Okay, and the second thing is ministering based on the finished work of the cross Okay ministering based on the finished work of the cross Matthew chapter 8 verse 16 and 17 it says when evening had come They brought to him many who were demon possessed and he cast out the spirits with the word And healed all who were sick That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by aizayah the prophet saying he himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses Right he himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses now what we need to understand Here is now Jesus is making advanced payment Now jesus healed everyone who he healed before the cross, isn't it? but He healed and ministered Based on the finished work of the cross because he knew that he was going to pay the full price And so this is what we call it as you know a down payment or an advanced payment, right so And and hence the Matthew the gospel writer he's quoting aizayah Maybe we've looked at this before he himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses Right and so jesus ministered based on you know what he would accomplish on the cross Like he knew he was going to die on the cross and he knew that he was going to rise again from the dead Right so what he did in the gospels before is Actual death on the cross was a foretaste of the benefits of his finished work on the cross and so when you and I minister In healing and deliverance today We know for certain what jesus has done on the cross Are we certain? Is everybody so certain and sure that jesus died and the cross and rose again? Yes. No, maybe right sin sickness And satan they were all dealt with on the cross Okay, what sin? sickness diseases Sorrows grieves our pain Everything was dealt with on the cross Everything the payment is paid in full Right sickness was removed satan is defeated sin was paid for right And so what is left is for us to receive it by faith and walk in it Right be received by faith. So we if you are receiving if you are asked praying for healing We receive it by faith if you are ministering healing and deliverance. We minister in faith Knowing fully knowing it's being fully aware of what is what jesus has done for us on the cross Okay, so ministering based on the finished work of the cross is extremely crucial and important And the next next key in jesus's ministry is ministering from a place of dominion and authority Okay dominion and authority Um, so jesus was never intimidated or threatened by any, you know demon Or any kind of disease like, you know, so I mean, I'll be honest guys. I I've seen a lot of Deliverance happened to a demon possession You know growing up and all of that you you see people manifesting and all of that, right? And as a kid and whatnot, I'd be like, oh good lord. What is happening here? Right. Um, what you know when when the demon starts manifesting through a human body It's uh, very painful to watch. It's very sad to watch what What the demon spirit puts a human being through right? They start howling they start moving like a snake And do all kinds of nonsense and whatnot um, right and Which is not which is not nice. It's just not pleasant to to see or witness, isn't it? But What when we look at the life of jesus He functioned out of dominion and authority Right. He was not shaken or intimidated or taken by surprise. It's like, oh, I don't know how to deliver You know this I don't know how to deal with this demonic oppression and whatnot right, uh He functioned in authority Right, he did not Plea like he's saying he did not beg you're saying, okay, please can you go?  Please please please please We don't see jesus doing at all, right? Uh, he knew that they were defeated. Uh, he knew that they have no authority Because he knew that all authority in heaven and earth was given to him right, uh, we look at uh The demonic spirits were scared Of jesus and we look at in luke chapter 4 verse 34. It says Let us alone What have we to do with you jesus of nazi? Did you come to destroy us? I know who you are the holy one of god Right And so we see that they are trembling in fear and asking to just let them be and in verse 36 of luke chapter 4 We see that uh, what a word this is for with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits and they came out Are you just you see those choice of words there for with authority and with power? He commands the unclean spirits and they came out Okay, and the beauty of this whole thing is Is seen in luke chapter 10 verse 19 is Jesus has given us the same authority that he functioned in Like luke chapter 10 verse 19. He says behold. I give you the authority To trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing Shall by any means Hurt you right I hope you are encouraged just listening to this or reading this scriptures and because that is the intention is to encourage us is This is one of the keys you know To how jesus functioned and and in everything that jesus did he just didn't do it for himself and move on He did it to also show us How we can function and how we can minister to people In this day and age, right? We are encouraged to walk in intimate relationship with him to walk in obedience with him To minister based on the finished work of the cross Right that that the sickness and and satan is defeated and they have no power and authority for all authority Jesus has given to us in the same authority that he functioned in Right and as the last point We've again spoken quite at large about this is ministering through the presence and the power of the holy spirit Right the presence and the power of the holy spirit. Holy spirit Is god with us god on earth right Again, this is just a little bit of a trinity and whatnot. It's it's not god the father god the son got the holy spirit It's there one and the same Holy spirit god the holy spirit is with us Right, I mean just knowing that a truth Should encourage us to function in authority that he is with us Emmanuel Right and so many scriptures that says I you know it goes on to say I will never leave you nor forsake you Is not just for us to feel good Is to function in authority saying okay, he is with us He will never leave us nor forsake us and in that authority in in that assurance I'm going to minister healing and deliverance knowing that my god Is with me Right. He is in me and he is over me Right. So again, we learned that everything that jesus did He did it in the power of the holy spirit Isn't it right? So we looked at time at that point time and time again. So Those are the four keys. Let's look at it very quickly What are the four keys or secrets to ministry as jesus demonstrated first one is ministering out of intimacy and obedience ministering based on the finished work of the cross ministering from a place of dominion and authority And ministering through the presence and the power of the spirit Amen So is this clear enough any questions on this chapter so far? Are you with me following? All right, then let's move into chapter six now Uh Chapter six is answers to common questions and sicknesses on on healing Okay. Now in this chapter, we are going to address um common questions that people have asked You know, oh people have regarding Healing and sickness and whatnot Okay. Now. These are not the only questions. Um, so these are frequently asked questions No FAQs as we said with regards to healing and deliverance where Um, you know people have regarding healing ministries. Okay, see Nina has something to say While jesus was on a theme minister through the presence and the power of the holy spirit Uh Like we would yes, you know I mean, uh, what jesus has done has he's He said very clearly that you would do this and much more greater things Right, and so there is a place an intimate relationship with god that we can walk in Uh, where we can function the way jesus did and do greater things than what he had what he did When that very clearly jesus himself has said so and it all comes down to us, right? Um, and um, our end of the equation as I say it is How how willing are we to build that intimate relationship with him and walk in obedience? Yeah, is that a clear nina anything you want to ask? Actually, I'm I'm taking a class from home today so you can also unmute and speak so Okay, may I may I can you hear me? Yeah. Yeah Yeah, I know so what I was asking him and we've kind of dealt with it a bit in the Christology and things like that but just just to clarify more than anything Uh, so when jesus while he was on earth I mean we keep Hearing that he was fully god and fully man But he refrained from using those powers. I mean as he would I mean like like I mean he didn't use the powers that he had But he limited Himself to using the power of the holy spirit because in some scripture it says the presence of the Power of the lord was present to heal right in spite of jesus being there So does so would that mean that jesus limited himself to Depending on the holy spirit for all the works that he did Which is why we have the confidence to be able to Um do exactly like he did That I was just wanting to clarify that so, uh again Kind of I'm just trying to understand this part where the times where jesus did not heal. Uh, are you saying that he limited himself? No, no, no whenever he did what he did whether it was raising the dead or Any miracle that he did and you were looking at so He limited himself to using the power of the holy spirit like we would do is what I had asked So, I mean it is not as if he used his only uh importance Yes He did not use it that way. I mean because it says he refrain from using No, so yes.  So he was fully god in his identity Right and and then he was fully man in because he was in a human body So he was not only present. We see that he was not You know, he he grew in strength and he grew in wisdom and all of that Is what we what we mean when we say that he was fully man Okay, thank you Thank you Awesome. Okay. Um, so let's move on then to uh chapter six. Um answers to common questions on sickness and um healing Uh, again, this chapter is about addressing some of the most Misunderstood passages in the bible Right How people can take one passage of scripture and kind of manipulate it or misinterpret it As we can as we say it. Okay, so but So what we must do or what we must keep in mind is that If you're interpreting a scripture Right every scripture or all scripture must be interpreted in the light of the rest of the scripture Right, you we cannot just take one verse in isolation and say, okay, this is what this verse alone says so And use it according to and just believe that And you know, don't take the time to study In the light of the whole the rest of the scripture That's one thing and then when we are interpreting it We interpreted in the light of the person of jesus christ himself. Why because he is perfect theology Right, uh, there is no the other theology or doctrine that is greater than jesus himself Okay, so everything we know about god must align itself to what is seen and heard through god who became flesh and that is Jesus christ. Okay, can I say that again? Right everything we know about god must align itself to what is seen and heard through jesus christ himself Right anything we claim to understand about god that is not aligned to what jesus said or did Has to be questioned and discarded Right again simply because jesus christ is perfect theology the word who became flesh Okay, so uh, and with that in mind, let's look at some of the misunderstood passages scriptures, etc Okay, uh, let's see The first one is paul's porn All right paul's thorn We've read about this in the book of quarenteans chapter 12 or 7 and 10 and lest It says and lest I should I should be exalted about above measure by the abundance of the revelations A thorn in the flesh was given to me a messenger of satan to buffet me lest I be exalted above measure Concerning this thing I pleaded with the law three times that it might depart from me And he said to me my grace is sufficient for you for my strength is me perfect in weakness Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities that the power of christ may rest upon me Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities in reproaches in needs in persecutions in distress for christ's sake for when I am weak Then I am strong Okay, um, so let's look at this passage and see what we can learn. Okay, so paul apostle paul He received abundance of revelations, right? We see that He had a lot of visitations personal experiences. He was taken up to the third heavens Etc etc, right paul and and it is out of those all those revelations that he's written a third Of the new testament itself Um, right and so then he says lest paul gets puffed with pride god permitted a thorn in the flesh uh now Many of us now how it's been interpreted or misinterpreted or understood is that okay this thorn that paul is talking about is sickness or an Or an eye problem eye problem because uh, you know, there's a in an epistle. He writes where I have written everything in big big fonts Right, uh, so they read the thorn to that because he can't see very well or something or a hand problem or or whatever okay, but paul when he's writing this uh scriptures, right, he's saying he's very clearly. Okay, let's just look at that verse seven Okay, um and lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations A thorn in the flesh was given to me a messenger of satan Okay, so a messenger is a greek word. It comes from the greek word means angelos Right in the lower case angel again simply means a messenger and we look at in in the book of revelations chapter two and three Uh, you know, it talks about the angel of the church. In other words a messenger, right? um And so the messenger of satan hence was a spiritual being that constantly opposed paul in his ministry to bring him down to slow things down in his in his life Right, so it was he's not It's very plain and it's very clearly mentioned that what paul is talking about is that he is referring to the messenger of satan Uh, you know that that keeps hindering him that keeps to it keeps striking him repeatedly Right, so and he says this in second corinthians chapter 11 verse 23 and 27 Uh, I'll read for us. Uh, he states that Are they ministers of christ?  I am more in labours more abundant in stripes above measure In prisons more frequently in deaths often From the jews five times. I've received 40 stripes minus one Right, uh, three times. I was beaten with rods once I was stoned three times. I was shipwrecked a night and day I have been in deep In journeys often in perils of waters in perils of robbers in perils of my own countrymen in parents of the gentiles in perils of the city in perils of in the wilderness In perils in the sea in perils amongst false brethren in weariness and toil in sleeplessness often in hunger and thirst and fasting often in cold and nakedness Right, uh now By and some of these hardships were what he took upon himself Many of these came as oppositions Right to work that he was doing Right and all of these served to keep his feet on the ground help him walk in humility knowing that he had to depend upon uh, the law Okay, so at the point here is uh It's very clear what you know the thorn that he is um is referring to Uh is a demonic spirit a messenger from satan Right because of the abundance. That's the reason right because of the abundance of revelations That was given to um paul Now we have to keep this in mind Uh, you know very what is very important is that um, we don't receive Uh, you know such In the abundance of revelations like paul did today because what the revelations that paul did Received was put together in the canon of what we call today as the bible And he's written like the third of the new testament Right, so as believers today, none of us have received such abundance of revelations Right, uh, and we have not been used in the same manner as paul to have the privilege of Say we we say there's a thorn um in the flesh or some sort right And so that that is very clear, okay, so for us to claim that our sickness is a thorn in the flesh Okay, that's a very important thing right for us to claim that our sickness is a thorn in the flesh Given to us for a grand spiritual purpose or whatever Is uh, not the right thing to say it in a very simple manner Okay, it's it's a very wrong thing to confess or declare Okay, and so that's the one passage uh, that is often misunderstood uh, misinterpreted Which is paul's thorn that talks about in the quarentines Okay, um, and so okay before we continue what we'll do is we'll pause here. We'll take a break We'll come back and resume with the next session Okay, I'll see you all later


So if you look at the title, it has this funny word, implausibility, it sort of sounds like impossibility, but not quite as confident, which seemed to be hedging a little bit. So what's going on here? Well, we're going to show, our main result is showing that different inputs of obfuscation, this type of obfuscation, I'll explain what it is later, cannot exist. So it is an impossibility result. But in order to prove it, we'll need to assume that another form of obfuscation does exist. So it's a funny sort of result. It's not immediately clear what to make of it or how to interpret it, but I'll try to convince you that you should interpret it as giving some strong evidence that differing inputs obfuscation doesn't exist. So the result will, the toggle will have two components. There'll be some science, real theorems and proofs, but also an equal part of the toggle will be some sort of interpretation, trying to explain what to make of these results, how should we view them. So at best you might call it philosophy at worst it will be some sort of like an interpretive dance with a lot of hand waving, but I do think this is important. I'm not going to shy away from it, but I want you to be skeptical. Everything is not science, you should be skeptical about it. Great. So let me start with sort of an ancient history of obfuscation starting with the year zero, 2000, until last year. So obfuscation was first formally studied by Hada and Barakadal, and especially this work of Barakadal gave a really comprehensive study of it, and they defined a strong notion, something called virtual black box obfuscation, or VBB obfuscation. And roughly speaking, this notion says that an obfuscated code should only be as good as having black box access to the program, so you can feed inputs obfuscated code, get outputs, but you shouldn't learn anything else about the code by getting the obfuscated code. You shouldn't learn anything else. Unfortunately, they showed negative results that this notion of VBB obfuscation is impossible in general. In fact, there are several, I'll call them pathological functions, so highly contrived functions, things that you wouldn't probably think of obfuscating naturally, that cannot be obfuscated. No obfuscator can achieve this VBB property for these functions. And so even though these functions are contrived, this already says that we cannot have a general notion of VBB obfuscator, any kind of obfuscator will have to fail to be VBB for at least some functions. And also, we don't have a good way of characterizing what these functions are, what they look like. So we don't have a general class of functions that we could assume to be VBB obfuscatable. So for any sort of class of functions that you might think of that you'd like to obfuscate, so for example, you might hope that you can get VBB obfuscation, let's say, for all symmetric key cryptosystems. No, there's some contrived symmetric key cryptosystem that will be one of these pathological functions that is not obfuscatable. So it's hard to really figure out what you could hope, what class of functions you could hope to VBB obfuscate. On the other hand, we did have some positive results that certain very simple functions, things like point functions are obfuscatable. And this is already highly non-trivial, but it's a far cry from trying to obfuscate some sort of complicated program. So it's really much simpler types of functions. And so here's a useful picture to have in mind. This is what our view of obfuscation would have looked like, or would look like. So there are all of these unobfuscatable red functions scattered throughout, very contrived functions, not really natural things, but they're all over the place. And then there's some small region of obfuscatable, very simple type of green functions that we do know how to obfuscate. And I think the view that our community had of what this picture, and the rest of the region here, the white region is really unknown. We don't know one way or another. And I think the view that our community had of what this might look like at least before last year would be something like this, that probably most interesting things are unobfuscatable. And yeah, there's some small, simple region of VBB obfuscatable functions, like point functions. And the reason that I think we had this interpretation, at least I had this interpretation, is that it was very hard to conceive of some sort of a general way of obfuscating complicated functions, and also that there were these functions that we knew to not be obfuscatable scattered all over the place, so it seemed reasonable that maybe nothing interesting is obfuscatable, we just don't know how to prove it. So this really changed last year with this work of guard, gentry, Halevi, Raikova, Sahay and Waters, who gave the first general candidate obfuscator. And so this is a scheme that at least syntactically can be applied to any polynomial time program, it's really a candidate way of obfuscating any program. Of course it fails to be a virtual black box obfuscator for some of these pathological functions, which we know to be unobfuscatable, but it doesn't seem to have any other weaknesses. If you apply it to a natural function, you could even assume that it's VBB obfuscation, it seems reasonable. We don't really have any concrete attacks on this. And so I think after this work came out, suddenly our view of the world changed and now it became conceivable that the world could look something like this. So almost everything is obfuscatable, it's a big field of green, we're all happy, except that there's like these annoying red dots, some very contrived functions that aren't obfuscatable, but they're really just these contrived things, nothing really natural. Of course it's not very satisfactory because if you wanna use obfuscation, you do wanna use it on some particular functions you have in mind, and now you're not sure, is it a green function, is it a red function? You don't know. So this doesn't really let you, even if this is your view of the world, it's not very usable, you don't know how to use this type of obfuscation to do anything. And so the goal is, can we have some sort of a general assumption obfuscation, which would be general, simple to state, useful, and could plausibly hold, and that we'd like to make some such assumption obfuscation. So of course, we could just, every time you wanna use obfuscation on a new function, you could just assume that it's, you have BBB obfuscation on this particular function, that it's one of the green functions, but that wouldn't be a general assumption, you'd need a new assumption every time you wanted to use obfuscation on a new function. It wouldn't be a simple to state assumption because maybe the function you're trying to obfuscate is complicated, so your assumption would need to have this function embedded in it. So that's not what we want, we wanna have something general, simple to state. And in fact, two such candidate definitions were proposed in this work of Barakatal. One of them is called indistinguishable obfuscation and the other is called differing inputs obfuscation. So let me tell you what these are. So you already saw indistinguishable obfuscation in the last two talks, but just as a reminder, it's as the following. So it says that if you take any two circuits C and C prime, which are functionally equivalent, so on every input X, C of X is equal to C prime of X. They produce the same output. If you take any two such circuits, but of course their description could be very different, they could look very different even though they're functionally equivalent. If you obfuscate them, the obfuscated circuits will look the same. They'll be computationally indistinguishable from each other, okay? That's the notion of indistinguishable obfuscation and tri-O. And at first it doesn't really seem that useful, but it turns out to be surprisingly powerful. We now know how to get all kinds of amazing results, functional encryption, witness encryption, deniable encryption, sourcing zero knowledge, non-interactive multi-party key agreement, broadcast encryption, all kinds of things that we could have only dreamed of a year ago. We now know how to get from this. On the other hand, there are still many reasonable properties that we could hope an obfuscator to satisfy that we can't prove from IO alone. And even the properties that we can prove all of these amazing results, they're sort of harder to use than seems absolutely necessary. There's often simpler constructions using obfuscation of these primitives that we think could be secure, but we don't know how to prove it using IO. So different inputs obfuscation is a variant of IO that's actually more powerful. Let's us do more stronger assumption. And it goes as follows. So it still says that if you take two circuits, C and C prime, their obfuscation should be indistinguishable, but now we're not requiring that C and C prime are functional equivalent that they agree on all inputs. We're just requiring that it should be hard to find an input X, such that C of X is not equal to C prime of X. So it should be hard to find an input on which they differ, even though such inputs exist. And so now we're thinking of the C and C prime, these circuits as being sampled from some distribution, and if the distribution has this property that's hard to find an input on which the circuits differ, we'll call it a differing inputs distribution. And so the DIO assumption says that for all differing inputs distributions, if you obfuscate C or C prime, you shouldn't be able to distinguish. So this is actually the form of the assumption that was stated by Baragadal, but I don't know any application of this assumption as is. So in order to actually be able to use it, people have modified it a little bit to add this notion of auxiliary input. So now we're going to sample the circuit C and C prime with also some auxiliary input, I'll call it AUX, and the differing inputs property says that if given C, C prime, and AUX, it's still hard to find an input on which the circuits differ, then even given the input AUX, it should be hard to distinguish obfuscation of C and obfuscation of C prime. So here's an example of how you would go about using this notion of differing inputs obfuscation. So think about C of X as being a circuit that always outputs zero, doesn't do anything interesting, and C prime of X is being a circuit that has some output Y of a one-way function hard-coded in it, and if it gets an input X, which is a pre-image of Y, then it outputs one. Okay, so these two circuits, they look very different, and they're functionally different. They act differently on this pre-image of Y, but even given the auxiliary input, which over here is just the output of the one-way function Y, it's hard to find an input on which these two circuits differ. That would require breaking the one-way function. And so the DIO property says that if you obfuscate C or C prime, it should be indistinguishable, okay? So this notion of differing inputs obfuscation was recently explored by works of Anand et al and Boyle et al, and they showed many interesting applications of this, such as obfuscating Turing machines, adaptive circuit functional encryption, and extractable witness encryption, and maybe even more importantly, many of the results that we know how to get from IO can actually become now simpler if you try to get them with the stronger property, using the stronger form of obfuscation. So here's our result. Unfortunately, our result says that we think that this notion of differing inputs obfuscation is too good to be true. So we say that general differing inputs obfuscation, we show that general differing inputs obfuscation cannot exist, assuming that some sort of a special purpose obfuscation assumption holds. And I'll tell you exactly what that is in a bit, but roughly speaking, it says that some specific function can be obfuscated in a way so as to hide some very specific information. Okay, so it's a very particular assumption. We also have similar results for extractable witness encryption, but I'm not going to describe what that is or talk about that any further. So here's how we will show our result. We're going to show a distribution on circuit, CC prime and auxiliary information ox, such that it will be very easy to distinguish the obfuscation of C versus the obfuscation of C prime given this auxiliary input ox. Okay, so that'll break differing inputs obfuscation, but of course we still have to show that this distribution D is a differing inputs family, that it's hard to find an input such that, an input X such that C of X is not equal to C prime of X. And in order to show that, we'll need to make the special purpose obfuscation assumption. Okay, so we'll need the assumption to show that this is a differing inputs family of the right format. So this is what we need, we need this distribution on CC prime and auxiliary input that has these two properties. It's easy to distinguish, but it's hard to find an input on which the two circuits differ. So here's the construction. We're going to set the circuit C of X to be the circuit that always outputs zero. Doesn't do anything interesting. On the other hand, we're going to set the circuit C prime of X to output one if X is of the following special form. It consists of a message M and a signature sigma under some verification key VK that's hard coded in the circuit C prime. So if you give it a valid message and signature paired outputs one, otherwise it also outputs zero. So at least on their own, if you see a CNC prime, it's hard to find an input on which they differ. You don't have the signing key. Can't produce valid signature. But now we're also going to create some auxiliary information and here's where things are going to get a little messy. So to create auxiliary information, we're going to define one more circuit called that circuit C star and C star gets us input another circuit C and it's going to do the following. First it's going to hash C just using some collision resistant hash function to get some small message M. And then it's going to sign M using the signature key that it has hard coded inside it to produce a signature sigma and then it's going to run the circuit C that it got on the message and the signature sigma and just output whatever the circuit C outputs. I'm assuming the circuit C only outputs one bit. These are Boolean circuits. Okay, so somehow C is going to define a message. We're going to sign the message and then we're going to feed the message and signature pair to see itself. And the auxiliary information that I'm going to create is going to be an obfuscation of the circuit C star under some other possibly obfuscation scheme. Doesn't have to be related to the obfuscation scheme here. Okay, so that's going to be my auxiliary input obfuscation of C star. Now, oops, I don't know what happened here. Okay, so the first thing to notice is that if you get this auxiliary input, the property one holds. It's very easy to distinguish an obfuscation from C from an obfuscation of C prime Y. We just feed these obfuscations into C star and see we get one or zero, right? So that's great. We can easily distinguish. The only thing that remains is to show that this is a differing inputs family. And here's where we're going to need to make our special purpose obfuscation assumption on this obfuscator O. And the assumption says the following. It says that if you get an obfuscation of the circuit C star, it should be hard. And even if you've given a verification key VK for the signature scheme, it should be hard to come up with any valid message signature pair. That's the assumption. And it turns out that it's easy to show that these holds, if you were just given black box access to C star. The intuition for that is that even if the attacker got to choose many different messages and distinct messages and get one bit of leakage on the signatures for the message, it would be hard to come up with any valid message signature pair. So you're just not seeing enough information on a particular signature. And that's essentially what's going on. By feeding inputs to C star, you're just getting one bit of information on many distinct messages. So under this assumption property two holds, this is a differing inputs family. Great. So this is what we showed. We showed two types of assumption. One is general differing inputs obfuscation. The other one is the special purpose obfuscation assumption and only one of these can survive. Well, at most one of these can survive. Possibly they're both false. So which one should you put your money on? So this general differing inputs obfuscation assumption has this fairly complicated format in some sense, more complicated than most cryptographic assumptions. So it says that some indistinguishability property holds. This is like most cryptographic assumptions or like many cryptographic assumptions, but there's an additional quantifier which says for all differing inputs families, this certain indistinguishability property holds. And if you think about it, this type of assumption is not falsifiable in the sense of not or. So normally if you think of standards for cryptographic assumption like factoring is hard, if you wanted to show that this assumption is full, you just give false, you just give an efficient algorithm for factoring. On the other hand, if you wanted to show that this assumption is false, what would you have to do? You'd have to come up with a differing inputs distribution, you'd have to show that it's a differing input distribution and then you'd have to give a distinguisher. But in order to show that it's a differing input obfuscation, it's not just coming up with an algorithm, it's coming up with a proof.  And that's what we try to do. We come up with such a candidate differing inputs distribution, but in order to, and we easily show that it's distinguishable, so we give an algorithm for distinguishing, but in order to prove that it's a differing inputs obfuscation, we need this additional assumption. On the other hand, if you look at the special purpose obfuscation assumption, it just says that given an obfuscation of a specific circuit C star, it's hard to recover a valid message signature pair, or a valid signature. That's a falsifiable assumption. In order to break this, you just give me an efficient algorithm that breaks it and I can check. So that's falsifiable. Here's another way to say it. If you assume the general differing inputs obfuscation holds, you're assuming that there exists an efficient algorithm that breaks this assumption, right? We showed that that must exist, but we don't have any candidate for this algorithm. So you're assuming some algorithm exists, but we don't have any potential candidate for it. So to conclude, let me just talk about what I think, as a view of what we should think of DIO at this point, given this result. So I think we give a fairly good evidence that this differing inputs obfuscation for all differing inputs families is impossible, cannot be achieved, but still DIO and even VBB obfuscation, even very strong notion obfuscation can plausibly hold for most natural candidates that we'd like to obfuscate, just not in general. And I think it's still better to rely on this differing inputs obfuscation rather than VBB. It's sort of a more specific assumption. It clarifies what property you really need in the proof. So if you have a choice between these two, even though neither of them seems to hold in general, it still seems better to rely on DIO. And the search continues for a useful plausible general obfuscation assumption. And let me end with one more thought, which is that obfuscation might be the new random oracle model. I wanna give an analogy between obfuscation and hash functions. So hash functions are these super practical things. We know a lot about them. We understand them well. But just like in hash functions, we seem to have candidates that satisfy very strong security properties and we have a hard time with defining exactly what these properties are. So we can define specific things like collision resistance, but we think that really hash functions satisfy more that collision resistance doesn't capture. So I think the same way in obfuscation, we can define things like indistinguishable obfuscation, but we think obfuscation seems to satisfy more that this property doesn't capture. On the other hand of the spectrum, we have the random oracle model that seems to capture too much. We know that there are things that hash functions, that random oracle model captures that hash functions cannot satisfy. Same way we have virtual black box obfuscation, it seems to capture too much. And this search continues both in hash functions and now in obfuscation for finding the right or some sort of a nice assumption that captures all of the properties that we really think and practice should hold, but doesn't capture the properties that we know cannot hold. Great, thank you.


I would just sit in here chilling. How you guys doing today? Package. Huggies snug and dry. Pretty heavy, so I don't think that's what's in it. I've had kids sent to me by Samantha, because why not, is the husband. And as he said in the chat, there's this X. You see this X? That was easy. Did you hear that? That was easy is what it said. I'll hit it again. Hear it one more time. That was easy. There you go. That's what it says. That was easy. So yeah, I got this package. We're gonna open it. I have no idea what's in it, because diapers do not say this. Diapers do not say that. I hit it pretty hard. Hope I didn't break anything. I'm gonna say hi to everyone in the chat. We've got Bardock, the Saiyan, the Saiyan here, sorry. Let me see. We've got Melk Time, Joshua Phelps, Poccoil9 here, Christopher Lockhart, Timothy Lay. But let's see here. Nick Harleys here, Ebony, Decoil, Zattergy, Stedman, 99, Potion Brewer, because why not? Let's hear. Aman Abufaris, I probably butchered that, Omega GLM is here. We got Topi Nader here, Pugs21, Effy, Karla Kunos, Oof is here, Landon Dean, let's see here. X-Play is here. Mr. Combustible Lemon, if it's a digital code for 7,000 subscribers, make the channel reach double the giveaway goal, then wouldn't that be sick if I open the package? And hey, look, I gained 7,000 subscribers. Pugs21 is here. It's funny that there's 60 plus people watching. The thumbnail is me holding a diaper box, but that's what this is. I mean, I don't know why it's making noise. Oh, the noise comes from down here. This has me very interested to see. OAD Animator here, Josh Coleman, Fire Soul, Astor Prophet Doom, J02 Reviews is here. Landon Dean, David Fisher, JC Berry, Jeremy the Log, Anthony Wee, Dylan Ribb, Brickson Bullets, Juan Castillo is here, welcome man, haven't seen you in a long time. Bulk Malk is here, Effy, Karla Kunos, crossing my fingers as Bowser's Fury.  That was easy, there we go. That was easy.  All right, box cutter here. Let's see what's up. How's it going, the Pikachu fan, how's it going, man? MWK3, welcome Shelby Rice, how's it going, guys? Birdman, what's up, so let's open this up. That was a clever thing, hit the X in it, and it says that was easy. That's pretty clever. I had to hit it pretty hard though. You know, it wasn't one of those, like, just press it. You really gotta, yeah, that was easy. All right, all right. Now, by the way, I'm cutting towards me. You're never supposed to cut towards you with box cutters or any knife, but all right. I have no idea what's in here. I have no idea. Again, this was sent by Samantha, and because why not, is the husband in the chat. Basically, it's fan mail, but I don't know what it is, and they always send me really crazy, interesting stuff. So, we got a note here. It says, Nate, keep up the good videos. We are keeping the tradition and explaining nothing. That's not the tradition. You always explain. The tradition is they explain. See, there's the note. It comes from Mitchell and Samantha. All right, funny thing is, I have a cousin named Mitchell, but it's not my cousin, who sent this. Let's, oh, I see how they did it. So, they got this easy button in here. That was easy. And it was pretty far down, so that's why you had to hit the box really hard to make it go off. So, that was easy. Maybe I should make that jam and fast. I don't know what that means on the back, but an easy button. So, we are going to maybe make this part of the stream. Anytime we get a donation or super chat, I press the button. That was easy. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm gonna do. Every donation to super chat gets a, that was easy, press. Until I hate it. Even then, I'll probably still do it. All right, so we got, this is cool. We got a post-it note dispenser. And it looks like it's refillable. Yep, it's definitely refillable. It comes full. So, this is kind of cool. I can use this when I'm doing stuff. Anytime I have an idea, instead of writing it on the whiteboard, I can grab a post-it note for a video, write down the idea and just stick it anywhere on my desk. And plus, I'm in college. So, taking notes in college, quick notes is always appreciative. Let's see here. We have lots of stuff in here. We got a Chuck E. Cheese lunchbox. I don't know if anything's in it. Let's see. Oh, we got rubber bands. So, we got a bag of rubber bands. They like to send me practical stuff sometimes. So, we got a bag of rubber bands and a Chuck E. Cheese lunchbox. Chuck E. Cheese, where a kid can be a kid. All right, what else we got? It's a heavy box. I haven't looked at anything heavy yet. We got, what is this? We got a tiara.  Probably give this to my daughter, but for now, it can sit on my head if it don't work. I don't have any hair, I just had a haircut. Something like that. Hello Kitty tiara. Yes, I'm in college. What else we got?  Yeah.  My yard right now needs like a giant black one because it's winter and we haven't picked up any all winter. So, spring, but after that, it's good to take on walks and stuff through having some dog poop bags. I told you, they sent me some practical stuff. We got this. We got a puzzle. Sounds like it's actually a puzzle. I'll open it quick to find out. It's a beaches, easy to handle pieces, 300-piece puzzle. My kids might like putting this together. They've been getting, yep, it's an actual puzzle, yep. So, my kids might like this. I'm not much of a puzzle guy myself, but my kids have been doing a lot of puzzles lately, so they might like to try to put this together. It'd be the hardest puzzle they've ever done, but hey, cool. Plus, it kind of represents like, we're going on a vacation, we're going on a cruise this summer at the end of July. It's our first ever vacation. First time my fiance's been anywhere, really. She hasn't even really left Wisconsin. So, this is going to be awesome. We're going on a Caribbean cruise and this is kind of like beaches and stuff. Maybe that's what that kind of represents. That's pretty cool. So, we'll set that down here. Show my kids that later when they get home from school. Um, there's so much stuff. All right, let me take out some of these plastic bags here. There's just so much stuff in here. Ah! Ha, ha, ha, ha. It's a rubber band gun. That's what the rubber bands are for. It's a rubber band gun. Yes!  Let me get those rubber bands out. We got a rubber band gun. This is awesome. Don't you do it on a stream? I'm not doing a puzzle on a stream, no. I got a Zelda puzzle I've never done that's somewhere. Let's load up this gun. Let's fully load it. Let's fully load it. Do it right here. We got to fully load this bad boy. Yep, it goes in like that. We're going to fully load this. I'm not even going to fire one until my kids get home, I don't think. Well, maybe I'll fire one just to make sure it works. So the funny thing about this is I was just watching the King of Randoms video. They did a video like yesterday or the day before where they made the world's biggest rubber band gun. So I literally was just watching a video about rubber band guns and then here we go. Now I have one. I have never owned a rubber band gun in my entire life, ever. This is my first time. I never got to do, when I was a kid, this was my rubber band gun, my fingers. By the way, the finger method works really well. That thing just fired across. I've never had an actual rubber band gun though until now. All right, let's see how well it works. See if I can shoot my camera. I'll probably ruin my lens if I hit it, but. Oh yeah, it works. I'll fire it sideways, see if you guys can see it. See that? It works. All right, we're going to make this as fully loaded. So I can hit all three of my kids when they get home. Yeah, rubber band gun maybe. Definitely doesn't shoot as fast as using your finger, but it is kind of cool because you can rapid fire. So that's cool. So that's what the rubber bands are for. I got a rubber band gun. Hell yeah. Maybe I shoot myself in the face. See people saying in the shower, I'm going to shoot my kids when they get home. Such a normal thing to say with a rubber band gun. Yeah, at least I'm not doing it with what you call it, a paintball gun. That would hurt. I just noticed your Mario Kart Live video. You have the same Mario Wall stickers as you. Nice, yep. And I got a Pikachu one in there too. There's more in here, by the way, guys. I thought he would break it. Usually go to Wisconsin Dells. We've been to Wisconsin Dells, but that's still in the state. I clean out of college, that's your job. You need to hack the button. That's funny. All right, all right. Let's, we got, we got a Virginia, the old Dominion. We got a shot flask. There is enough room in here for a single shot of alcohol. Honestly, I probably should keep a full shot glass on me at all times. That's what it is. It's a portable shot thing for your key chain. So I'll probably end up using that, maybe. I don't know if I can put it on my key chain. I think I might draw the attention of the police if I ever get pulled over. All right, what else we got in here? We got some old spice swagger, anti-perspirant gel. What's cool about this is not only did I need some because I'm almost out, they don't have this version of it here, they only have the blue gel version. This is the clear gel version, either way. Perfect, I like it. I like it a lot. That's something I can use. What's in this? What? Double bag for protection, I'm sure. And paper around it. Hey, oh, this is the real present, look. They sent me a crossword puzzle, guys. I got a crossword puzzle, from which paper? From the Washington Post, December 31st. Oh, and look at this, a picture of Gordon Ramsay. Did he do something bad? Anyways, that's not really, that's just, here's a plate. Bone apatite. It's like a handmade plate? It feels like it's a handmade plate based on the fact that it's not like perfectly. So we got bone apatite. I am on a diet, so what's nice is it's kind of a small plate. Maybe I should use this anytime I'm eating in my office. I should use this to make sure I keep my portion sizes down. I've been really cutting back on the portion size, getting back on my weight loss kick. I gained a little weight back over the holidays, but I'm back down to losing weight, so I gotta keep it up. Also, here's a fun fact about my weight loss stuff. We have just re-upped our membership at the YMCA. We got a family membership this time, so I can take my kids with. So my kids are not an excuse for me not to go. So I'm gonna be going every single day. Went today, played some B-ball for an hour, and I did suicides, for those who don't know what those are. I did suicides in basketball. Every time I missed a free throw, I did 100 free throws. And I haven't shot basketballs in a while, so you can imagine how many suicides I did. We got a sign here saying it's not easy being a princess, but if the crown fits, the crown doesn't fit, though. Probably for my daughter. I'm assuming this is for my daughter, the crown and the sign. I should have made that, no, because then I would have had to open the box. I would have made it for a really cool thumbnail. People would have clicked to be like, what is wrong with you? What is this? And, hold on. There's gotta be, hold on, hold on. Okay, so it's an and sign that's broken, by the way. I don't know if they knew that. It's broken, so it's a broken and symbol that you hang on a wall. I'm not sure what the point of it is yet. Although, they sent me super glue last time, so I do have super glue to fix this, so I can fix that. Cause I didn't actually have any super glue until I sent it. Actually, I have something else I was gonna use a super glue onto. I don't know, what else is in here? So we got an and symbol, extra post-it notes for that post-it note, the Spencer. We got some, oh, more of these. I can't eat these, or I'm not supposed to anyways. Happy Hippo, dude, these things are delicious. These Happy Hippo Kinder things are so good. 120 calories for one piece. Maybe on a particular day, if I have enough calories at the end, I'll have one. Dude, these things are delicious, man. I think last time I had these, I ate the whole box, right away. That was so good. Speaking of the things I'm not supposed to have, could give it to my kids. No, I can't, they'll fight over it.  That's a ring pop, hold on. I don't even believe that this is a real ring.  Hold on, I'm setting the box up. There's more in there.  I don't believe it. We gotta open up this giant ring pop. There's no way you can wear this on your hand. It's way too heavy, but they say it's a ring pop. I don't believe it til, it's more like a wrist pop. Holy crud. It's a wrist pop that doesn't stay on your hand. A strawberry wrist pop, that's what I can call that. Giant ring pop. Cool. Let's go back in here or something like that. It's one of those things that it only goes in one way once you unbox it, you're not meant to put it back in. I'm putting it back in. There we go, something like that. I don't know, I can't get it back in. Anyway, I got a giant ring pop. I'll figure out how to put it back in later. I can't give it to my kids. They will fight over that like crazy. All right, oh, better close the knife. I almost cut myself there. The ring pop took it to the next level. We're at the next level right now. How else we got in here? We got a Legend of Zelda custom figure collection egg. So they sell the, I don't know where they got it from, but I know that they used to sell these at GameStop. I'm not sure which one. I think I have the entire, oh, I used to have the entire collection. My kids destroyed it. I'm not gonna open this one. You can kind of see through the holes. If you look through the holes, you can figure out which figure it is. There is a Ocarina of Time Child Princess Zelda. It could be a Skyward Sword Princess Zelda, or it could be a Toon Link from Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass, Spirit Tracks. So that's what could be in here. One of those three figures. I am going to set this aside. This will probably just go in the back room. I don't know if I'm ever gonna open it. I've opened these before. They're gotcha toys. I've opened them before and have most of the collection, but my kids destroyed it. So I think if I leave it in the egg, they won't destroy it. So we got a hanger. We got a command hook hanger. I don't know if that was supposed to be for the an sign or what. I don't really know what the point of the an sign is. I don't know. Maybe it'll make sense after this last thing. Would it feel like another cup or something or a mug? Yeah, the box is empty. So this is it. Pretty sure this is a mug. Still can't figure out that an sign. Maybe they just wanted me to fix it and send it back to them. I mean, I can hang it back here. Oh, I have some news, by the way. Some personal news that I am willing to share with you guys. Little princess crown. My princess crown. I'm gonna take it off.  It's definitely made for a child. My head is not child-sized. Man, there's a lot of bags around this mug. Guarantee it's a mug. I'd be shocked if this is not a mug. It's looking more and more mug-like as we go here. See, they sent me all a pint glass before for beer. This is perfect. Hold on.  Okay. So it is a mug. It says, I don't need Google. My wife knows everything. Now, I'm not married. I wanna make this clear. I am not married. I don't have a wife, all right? I don't need Google. My wife knows everything. The funny thing about this glass and the timing of it is, me and my girlfriend just got re-engaged. We've been together for like 10 years, but there's been a lot of on and off stuff for 10 years. Anyways, we're finally doing it. As of 2022, we don't have the exact date yet. We're still talking to the pastor about it. We will be getting married. So we're getting married in 2022. And it's gonna, we're hoping to have it done because we are going on a cruise this year and we're already saving up to go to Hawaii next year. And that might end up being our honeymoon. So yeah, it's kind of funny. I just got this since literally, we finally made the decision to make it official and get down the aisle. Literally, we made the decision like in the last three days. So it's kind of funny. I got this glass now, but she's going to be my wife, my wife right now. We've been together for 10 years. We've lived together for 10 years. It's very interesting relationship. We lived together for 10 years. We have children together, but we just never, we've been engaged before, but there's been, I don't need to get into my personal life, but there's always ups and downs and everything, but we've been through a lot and we're ready to do it. We're making the next step. So this is kind of cool to get this. I don't even Google my wife knows everything. It's kind of cool to get that right now when I now know she's going to be my wife. There was a time I didn't think I was ever going to get down the aisle with her, but now we are for sure. Everything that was in the way is gone now. And, ooh, I don't know what this is, so on. Ha! Well, I don't know what, it's cool. So we got an octopus, an octopus key chain. Now, I don't know if they're sending me this because they're secretly part of, what's that organization? That evil organization. Why am I drawing a blank on its name? That has like a squid or an octopus. I'm always forgetting. Anyways, this is pretty cool. What's also really cool about it is at one point in my life, I wanted to be a, what do you call it? Not an oceanographer, but a marine biologist. When I was younger, I thought I was a Hydra. Yeah, Hydra, that's what I was thinking of. Hydra has like a simple symbol of this. Thank you guys for having my backs in the chat, Hydra. So, at one point I wanted to be a marine biologist. I was more interested in whales and dolphins than I was in octopuses, but I got to see one in real life. It was so cool. Obviously I'm not. I'm in school for a computer program. I'm not going to be a marine biologist. So my interest level in ocean life is the same, but I realize I don't really like being on boats that much as I'm going on a cruise. That's a little different. That's for relaxing. But yeah, it's gonna be awesome. This is cool. This I will put on my key chain for sure. This thing, I feel like this is one of those things I gotta hide this. It's like I gotta fill it up with a shot and then put it in my glove box or something in my car or just hide it somewhere. So anytime I say, oh my God, my kids are driving me nuts. Of course not while driving, but if I'm in the passenger seat. So I always have a shot at the running. In fact, you know what? I know you should always wash out these things first. But you know what? Booze is sterile, right? Let's put a shot of yag inside this thing right now. In fact, I'm gonna hold it over the cup and whatever I spill, because I'm guaranteed I'm gonna spill, I'm gonna have to drink out of this cup. So let's try not to spill it. I'm gonna try not to. I'm just trying to fill it up. I'm definitely spilling. Oh, definitely spilled. All right, whoops, that's not, that's the cap of the booze, I gotta put that back in. Definitely spilled. Where, that's the thing about these little things, they don't come with funnels. So like, they're so hard to fill. So I'm gonna rinse it off. It is spill proof though. So I gotta rinse it off. And now that's full of a shot of yag. Anytime I'm super stressed out and not at home. I don't know what the heck that was. It was one of my kids. Set that down. And so we do have some, we do have some yaggers spilled over in the cup. Not too bad. Of course there's something spilled on my desk. Of course it was running down the booze cup.   All right, I'll just wipe that up and I'll get it with a disinfectant wipe here a little bit before it gets sticky. So, cool. I still like this cup a lot. It's so funny that cup came at the time it did. So, I'm gonna check out what the chat's gotta say. The ring pop was on clearance after Christmas. Nice, yeah, nice. It is cool, dude. I've never seen a ring pop this big. I'm not surprised. Giant gummy bears exist. I'm not surprised a huge massive ring pop exists. Only beer has the word root in it that you drink. Nice. For Hawaii, I suggest taking the E3 per day food budget and triple it. Oh dude. I've heard it could be a bit pricey to eat in Hawaii. I've also heard that Hawaii's got some really cool food. Now I've never been there. I've been to Vegas. I've been to obviously I've been to LA for E3. I've been to New York and gone on Broadway. I've also been to Disney World when I was a kid. I was one of those lucky kids that got to go to Disney World one time. And I haven't been there. Well, I got to go twice technically. I went once to Disney World and I went to just the Epcot Center with Mike on a class trip when I was in sixth grade. So, I shared to go twice. So, I'm pretty fortunate and lucky as a kid to be on some of the vacations. I've never left the country so that is a vacation I want to do at some point. Like our cruise is in the Caribbean which is technically part of it's out of the country. So, but you don't need like a passport or anything. So, you know, it's like, yeah, you're out of the country but you're still pretty close to still being in the United States. And then Hawaii obviously is a state. So, eventually we're going to do vacations outside the country as well. I don't know when, but we've deserved it. It's been 10 years. It's time we actually start taking some time for Yulia and I to spend time together with all the kids. Now, we will eventually take the kids to Disney World or Disneyland, one of the two. Maybe both, who knows. We also want to take our kids with on a cruise or a vacation to Hawaii at some point but we want to wait till they're older where they appreciate it more. Right now, at ages five, seven and 10, the 10 year old might appreciate it a bit but our five year old's not going to care. So, I want it to be something that's going to be a lasting memory for them when we do take them, if we ever take them which we hope we will. Obviously, once we graduate of college and are doing a little bit better financially, not that we're doing terrible now. We can afford to go on a cruise but I can't afford to take my whole family on a cruise. How old are you in what year of college? I am 34 and technically, I am completing my first full year of college. However, I don't have to take any generals. All my generals are done. I did those in prior times I went to college. I've been to college like three or four times but this time, I legitimately finished off my first semester straight A's. Four classes, straight A's. Got four more classes starting on Wednesday and I'm hoping to get straight A's in that as well and I hope to keep the straight A's going all the way to graduation. Thanks for subscribing Bruno Brelli. You gotta try Spam, Subi when you get to Hawaii. You guys don't have to let me know. Hawaii is not till 2022 so as I get closer to that trip, I will maybe do a stream once while saying that I'm going on vacation or I'm going on my honeymoon or whatever it is at the time. If it's a vacation or honeymoon, I'm not sure if the wedding will be before or after. I think we're gonna be married before. But anyways, and then we'll, I can ask you guys suggestions for anyone who's been to Hawaii on things that we should try. I'm not gonna get suggestions for booking because I'm already doing the booking now. I don't have to pay it all off now but I'm gonna get on payment installments for the vacation and because right now things are cheap. Even for 2022, things are cheap right now because of COVID so I wanna take advantage of the discounts happening right now because of COVID to get that booked in. So I'm not gonna ask for suggestions on what islands to go to or what hotels and all that. We'll take care of that but suggestions on activities or food obviously. Maybe once I tell you what island I'm going to or what islands I'm going to, you can tell me what are the best beaches. Maybe there's some private romantic places we should check out. Disney can be hell sometimes. I really enjoy Disney but yeah, if we ever take the kids to Disney we're gonna do it during the week when it's less busy. We're gonna try to get there right at opening so it's less busy too. But again, that's down the line. Book a beachfront hotel. That's one thing I've been looking into is beachfront hotels or resorts, whatever we end up staying at. I haven't booked it yet but I've narrowed it down to a few choices. I'm just working on which travel agency I wanna go through, all that jazz to get it sorted out or if I just wanna do it separately, no travel agency but then I have to keep track of everything better. Plus you always have that money set aside. You can't just have the flight, hotel, all this other thing. But then you have no money to eat or what have you and some resorts if you stay at them and includes your three meals every single day.  I was supposed to visit US for the first time in 2020 but guess what happened? Well, obviously. I've been to Maui I think, nice. Crab outright tried to impale my knee once, ouch. You're going to Italy this summer since hyper night? I think my kids are home. I'm hearing them stirring around upstairs.  Until I watch my kids come in and start yelling. We're fighting, melody hit me, this happened. I forgot my homework, I wanna play your switch, I wanna this, I wanna this, just wait. Just wait. One through six what's your favorite thumb box? Probably, this is probably my favorite thumb box because this reminded me to mention that I'm getting married and that's like, maybe the most important event in my life for the rest of my life. I mean, the thing is it doesn't change anything on the day to day, right? Like we've been living together for 10 years so it's not like we already have children together, we have a house together, all our finances are together, we have a combined bank account. So like everything's already together. It doesn't change anything of our day to day life but there is a change that I feel like happens when you're married, when you know that's the only person you're gonna be with the rest of your life. Cause we don't view marriage as one of those, oh, we don't even view divorces like an option. So no matter what rough patches come, we're gonna get through it and we approve it and we can get through it already. So that was pretty exciting to be reminded that I'm getting married.  Here they come. Dang it, it jammed, it jammed. Ah, it's jamming. No, it's what's up. Ha ha ha, it's a rubber band gun. Better run, Ollie. Ah, it keeps jamming. Of course it's jamming now. Hey, don't break my stuff. I'm guys, I'm live right now, so off camera please. You know how? I hit a button. No, not right now. You can play with it later. I don't want it to break. Actually fine here. Figure it out here, here's three rubber bands. Here's the rubber band gun. No shooting each other in the face. No shooting, this was a gift to dad. Take turns, the melody gets the first three shots. If it doesn't fire, it doesn't fire. Or maybe each of you get one rubber band. Maybe that's how you should do it. It's a rubber band gun.  Yep, one more, one more. Oh, it got stuck on the fire right here. I don't know what it is.   Let me show you how you do it. All right, so you put it on the end like this. No, and you go like this and what you want to make sure, whoops, we want to make sure when you do it, is that this is above these two things.  See, it's fire. I don't know where it went, but it fired. Oh, there it is, all right. So, well, it doesn't hurt. So you guys go to the other room, one rubber band, each have fun with it for a little bit. The rubber band said, Ollie grabbed it. Ollie grabbed your rubber band. Yeah, it is, watch the button. That was easy. Anytime someone donates or whatever, I'm gonna hit the that was easy button. One each, that's all I'm giving them, one each, that's right. Chill, stay out of that box. Other room, no shooting in the face, that's my one rule. No shoot, yeah, you share, one each. One each, other room, please, thank you. Hey, you can, you only, yeah, one goes to Eden. Ollie, you have two, give him one. Me and a parent. It doesn't matter, you're only supposed to have one each, one rubber band each. I gave her one, I gave her a new one, go. She's already in the other room shooting it, go. Go, go, go. Yeah, good shot, I for teaching this kids all these good, that sounds familiar. Well, this one, that was easy. Watch me get like copyright claim, because I'm using it. What's the package? I already unboxed it, obviously. Getting married is great, but have you tried playing Breath of the Wild on the launch day of Switch? Yes, I have, John. Yes, I have, John. Oh my gosh, my kids are fighting, I gotta go. All right, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Sorry to end it with the kids screaming in the background, we're crying, it happens.  Catch you guys later.


Let's welcome him in. We found out. I'm going to have to deal with this. We heard that it got an eye roll in the weight room. Come on in, Dom. Newtch. We found out about his nickname. Come on, Newtch. Oh, Newtch, yeah. The Newtch. Everybody from home probably knows me more as that than they do my ex-husband. No, but yeah. Thanks, Dad. I actually like the story. I really did like the story. It was the dominator, which, because you're Italian, became the dominant. It works. It does, yeah. I mean, the way he explains it, he was just, I asked him one day, and he was just like, hey, Dom, the editor, Dominic Newtch. I was like, that, all right. We'll just go with that. We'll just go with it. I had to call all my friends, but yeah. Dom, you just heard with the cause turnovers night, you moved past Cal third all time in Stevenson history. It's not Cal. Sorry, not sorry. Did those things start to sink in for you? What you've been able to accomplish here? Yeah, I mean, winning, I'd say we want to win.  And we're kind of just getting back to what we want to do. All the games that we lost, I think, every game, we were right there. And really, for us, it's cool. That sounds really cool, but I want to win. Every guy in the locker wants to win. It's definitely nice to play in above 50 degree weather for the first time in a while. So that definitely helps the old boons. Well, we're a little bit curious. As Coach referenced, his halftime interview with me was a little bit tense. How was he in the locker room at halftime? A little bit tense? He was a little tense. But you need that. You want to hear that as a part of the team knowing how much coach cares. It really resonates, because it means so much knowing that top to bottom, how much everybody cares. You need to hear that. How much of this would matter? I get all wins matter, right? But going through what you guys went through at the beginning of the year and getting another crack at a ranked team tonight and a better measuring stick for where you are, how much did you guys need this one and how much does this one mean to you? Yeah, I mean, it's huge. You can say every game is big, because they are, and they all matter. But when you go from one to the next, the next one is the biggest one in today. This was huge for us. Let's talk about your brother. Let's talk about the man of the pipes, Paus Malone, obviously. He's put into the spot. And it's nice to have a good goal at a turn to when Sam goes down, but how he's handled himself. And it's not just me making the saves.  What can you say about Paus Malone? I mean, it's awesome.  Sam going down. You never want to see that. I know it happened to me last year. But for us, it is, again, somebody steps up. And just like last year, somebody stepped up for me. And Mark's stepping up for Sam. And he has his back. And the best thing is that Sam's right there helping him out as much as he can. And Mark, it's nothing faces Mark at all. So it's awesome, knowing that even if one does get in, like the last one that I did tip, he shakes it off. He's like, all right, let's go to the next one. But yeah, Mark, it's awesome. It's been a great stretch. He's got a lot of really good lacrosse. Fun to watch. All right, Dominoch, lot of man, great win. Congratulations. And best of luck the rest of the way. Thank you, thank you, guys. All right, see you tomorrow. Good to see him. Appreciate him coming up after a big win tonight.


Fletcher the winner of the under 17 girls 400 meet an assassin taught me through your race a little bit What was the game plan going into it? Honestly, the whole plan was to just execute as normal do what my coach says as always Yeah, just tell me what it means to you to be draped in a flag Representing the country bringing home gold Honestly, it's the best feeling in the world to represent a country and to dominate as always The best feeling in the world Yeah, well, you know, you were beaten a little bit early, of course by the same person that you beat What was go your mentality going into that final wanted to win? Of course, how did you plan your race in order to beat her? I plan my race as Honestly, I always execute my race. So I know I would go there and do my best and follow my coach's plan Well, well done to you. Congratulations. Thank you.


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