What's up everybody and welcome to the latest edition of the Falcons final whistle podcast I'm Scott Bayer across from me in the workroom adjacent to the chairman's suite Wow the Falcons team hotel is Tori McElaney We just got off of a plane then got on to a bus then got off of off of a bus right checked into the rooms It immediately came here to record a podcast for you fine fellows, you know, you're welcome Atlanta Falcons fans obviously trying to break down and Analyze figure out what happened after a 31 to 27 loss to the Los Angeles Rams in Inglewood, California, Los Angeles a city that we that we really just in right have now left because the falcons are on a Two-game road swing across the West Coast playing the Rams and the Seahawks We're not going to get into the Seahawks just yet. You will have a week's worth of coverage for that. Let's dive into Tori this game Against the Rams which didn't start well, right? They fell down 25 points in the second half They were down 21 to 3 in the first half then came roaring back Thanks to some opportune defense and an excellent special teams play and found themselves ever so close to winning this game I just said a whole lot of things in a row. You did Give me your impression of what it was like to experience and then listen to others speak and react to what was a crazy finish Yeah, it was a really honestly from start to finish It felt like the first two quarters of the game were just vastly different than the last two quarters, obviously but being there and watching it it didn't feel it was crazy because It didn't feel like there was a comeback mounting until Troy Anderson blocked the punt and Lorenzo Carter ran it in for a touchdown. I thought I was with five minutes to Yeah, that was a five minutes to go and even before then I never felt like this was like a mounting comeback But as soon as that happened, I was like, oh shoot like we've got ourselves a game here Now does that negate what happened in the first half? No, and I'm sure we're gonna get into all of that but like for me It was a fun game to cover and as much as I think people are probably upset by the outcome I mean that's this this type of craziness is what we love about football from start to finish So I don't hate it. Yeah, and this is the kind of craziness that Falcons fans experienced a lot last year They lost games by some significant margins. They won a bunch of them It's almost like they they flipped it from last week like last week They play three quarters of great football and then kind of like fall off the the the wheels fall off in the fourth quarter And then you switch it and now it's like play not great in the first half and then the second half in the fourth quarter It's like like what you said they come roaring back and so it's kind of flipping It's on on its head. Yeah, and I don't and so we are going to address a number of different topics on this Falcons final whistle Which is taking place at 10 19 p.m. That's specific time. So everybody in Atlanta is is Snuggled up tight in their beds very If you can't tell by our voices, we're very tired, but we were not gonna skip that's that's not what we do here It's Falcons final whistle what we are going to do on this episode is we're going to kind of break this thing down Get a get a bit deeper into what was a pretty significant comeback where the Falcons had Three minutes to score a touchdown to win it not just to tie it but to win it They had all of the big mo they had all the momentum We're also going to talk about some things that happened in the first half That allowed them to fall into such a deep hole namely their red zone Inefficiency their struggles on third down and then we're going to get into two specific individuals Number one Kyle Pitts who to this point only has four catches for 38 yards on 10 targets And Drake London who has more than a hundred and fifty yeah and scored a touchdown in his NFL debut So we're going to we're going to get to all of that over the course of the next 15 ish minutes or until until we stop talking right Or maybe till we just you know fall asleep. That's that's true, whichever one comes first So let's let's start this podcast at the end of the game Okay, we talked a little bit about this comeback and when it kind of felt real And it's weird because if you look at it and the tide kind of turned By by scoring, you know Drake London scores his first NFL touchdown in the third quarter with three minutes left That felt like a kind of like a garbage time touchdown Yeah, and then the defense which it has done a lot over the first two games Made a big play yep, Michael Walker huge interception that turns into that Drake London touchdown Alameda is the key a scores a touchdown. I think I was writing frantically. I'm not even sure if I knew that that had happened Yeah, no, I think I said they scored another touchdown. You're like, oh, okay, great And then all of a sudden when everything got really really real and so five stadium got really tense Yeah, is when Troy Anderson busts through the Rams defensive line or I'm sorry They're Rams kind of put coverage line blocks the punt So Carter picks it up runs it in for a touchdown and then and then you're looking at it And you're like this is a whole different can of worms now, right and they were in it I think that was what was I mean for so long it felt like Watching the game was just kind of it felt like it was dragging and it was like they and it did feel like there Certain points in the first half where it was like if the Falcons would just get out of their own way They would be able to do some things and and I think that was like That once you got to the second half in that third that fourth quarter specifically you saw The defense kind of come alive and you saw the offense get moving in a way that they hadn't been moving before And so I it really did feel like the atmosphere Kind of shifted especially after that blocked punt and here's the crazy thing There's still more crazy things to at least bring up now We all know that you watched it But I think something that That gets forgotten and all of these wacky plays is that so after that The block punt and the touchdown scored the Rams get the ball They have a third down Stafford to Cooper cup is automatic as it is Cooper cup converts the third down which seems like end of the road right until Darren Hall Punches the ball out and then it kind of just rolls around for like a couple seconds And then he's the one that ends up grabbing it before he steps out of bounds that play In terms of just like not giving up like I know Arthur Smith talks a lot about like if there's one thing This team is like we're going to play until the end like until the last whistle blows until the last minute Second has ticked off the clock like we're going to be physical and we're going to fight until the end And that play I think was indicative of that mindset I think you completely personified this never say die attitude that I talked to Michael Walker after the game and Jake Matthews and Kyle Pitt said it just this this willingness to continue to swing even when they're down 31 to 10 In the fourth quarter the continuing effort that is there. Okay effort is great We're not giving out greats for effort here right not in a zero sum game like the NFL you can discuss gray areas That's what we do for a living But when it comes down to it did you win or did you lose and the Falcons ultimately lost this game because after Darren Darren Hall recovered his own fumble, right The falcons had three minutes plenty of time to drive Marcus mariota throws an interception on third and 13. I believe and it was one of those balls that We're gonna have to go back and watch the tape But it just felt to me so Jalen Ramsey goes over the top and plucks it it sort of seemed like you you'd mentioned that Yeah, it felt like that maybe like yeah that brian edwards Maybe jumped too early or too late like it just felt like the timing of his jump was also off And it allowed Jalen Ramsey to kind of have an easier time getting to the ball and that that play was I think really frustrating because At in that moment the Falcons actually had time on their side It was they they honestly they didn't need to score too early And because they didn't want to give the ball back to the Rams and then but you don't want to like waste too much time And you're looking at a third and long situation Which isn't great, but in that scenario you know that you have two tries at it And so you think okay You can pick up six and then try on fourth down and then you know that's for all the marbles But to throw an interception In that moment I think was really tough and that that was I think the moment that it really like sucked the the air out of The for lack of a better word like the falcon sales, you know Yeah, and then they still had and then they still had a chance and then they still had a chance because the Rams can't convert They they score a safety on themselves free kick it out of bounds setting up a 50 yard essentially One play hail mary. Yeah that never got off the ground. Marcus mariota doesn't even get that the pass off and ultimately The falcons lose this one and just a quick note about about the brian edwards play We're talking about this in an instant reaction format We haven't been a fit of slowing it down on coach's film so we can evaluate that a lot more in the future We're just giving you initial impressions there So with all that kind of being said there were opportunities for the falcons to finish this game outright We've seen arthur smith falcons teams do that before But the head coach would be the first to say that each team is its own unique thing And everyone's tired of hearing me say how how performance in close games is not always translatable Right unless you have um an erin rogers type elite quarterback then it remains with that individual But nonetheless when like when you look at it how like how do you look at it because because you were saying You didn't even really feel like this was like a real serious comeback attempt until five minutes left in like in in the fourth quarter Yeah, do you view it as like opportunity lost? Do you view it as Man, they had to come back from so much. How do you view? These comeback attempt that we're talking about independent of everything that we're going to talk about next that happened earlier on I think if i'm only looking at the fourth quarter alone I'm very impressed by what I saw from this team both offensively and defensively like when you look at the the first like what 10 to 13 minutes of the Of the fourth quarter you see a team that is very much fighting and very much in the game If you ask me that in of the first half, I'm like, no I don't feel like they're in the game because it didn't feel that way There were a lot of moments where I I wanted to see the falcons play cleaner football Particularly in the red zone But then you get them in the fourth quarter and it feels like a different group it feels like a group that's re rejuvenated and and Having something to prove and wanting to out and play well and I I I wish that we could just talk about the fourth quarter without the context of the other three Same exact way that I felt like we I wanted to be able to talk about the first three quarters of the saint's loss and not talk about the fourth But when you're talking about these games The fair way to do it is to talk about it in the full context of the game and all four quarters And it's I think you know, arthur smith has said it before and it's like one play Even though sometimes a lot of games come down to one play that one play isn't the maker break deal of the game You have to take into context all of the plays that led up to it and and so for us it was like That was why after the game I was like, yeah the comeback's great and everything and you love to see that fight, but it doesn't negate Going 50 percent in the red zone and not scoring a touchdown until what three minutes left to go in the third Like that to me if you are battling it out through four quarters It's a different conversation than having to come to put a lot of pressure on yourself to come back in the fourth Yeah, and that's you are the queen of podcast Podcast transitions because it leads us directly in like into this next topic something I touched on ever so briefly in the instant replay go read that and and and you delve into in great detail um in torey's takeaways and I think it's worthy of Everybody going back to torey's story and really taking a close. Oh, you're just saying that Yeah, I mean I want the page view for you and for me Yeah, and plus I wrote mine during the game when i'm frantically typing as fast humanly possible You had a chance to ponder I did I got to sit and just kind of sink it let it all sink in But I do go back to those those first two drives where the falcons got deep in the deep into the red zone They had medium length distance to either score a touchdown or convert a first down penalties put them in long distances And ultimately left them with two field goal attempts one went through one which of which did not That's if you're a best-case scenario you get forced 14 points Nearly worst-case scenario was what the falcons had you only get three and they and like and they hurt themselves and that was an issue Youngway was very busy against the saints. This is a continuing issue a trend that that simply has to be rectified yeah for the last two weeks the falcons have gone They have a 50 touchdown conversion rate inside the red zone not good enough not good enough and arthur smith has said that Like that's not going to win games in this league Where everybody else is it's just not and you have to convert And as much and I've said this before and I'll say it again as much as I think this fan base loves and adores Young waiku it'd be great to see less of him and it'd be great to not put so much pressure On him I would love to see six or seven points not three and I think jake matthews said it best after the game It's like the goal is to score touchdowns when you're in the red zone Like that's that's the goal the goal isn't to kick field goals Even though that's all well and good you get points on the board But the goal is to get it in the end zone and I think it was really those drives Where you're looking at the the rams had a 14 to 3 lead in After those two drives and it was like 14 to 3 is very different than 14 to 10 14 to 7 like if they score a touchdown on one of those In and then also going back to what you're saying in terms of the penalties inside the red zone I mean those hurt you as much as anything And and I think that was the frustrating part and that was what I was looking at after the game. It's like You can't go back you can't say what if what if what if but it's like if you put any points on the board on that first drive To not come away with any points like we were talking last week and Arthur Smith was talking about the red zone inefficiencies in the fourth quarter against the saints and not being able to punch it in He was like, you know you you when you only settle for three It mounts up and that can hurt you later We saw that actively happen in week two against the rams They don't score in the first half And then you go or don't score a touchdown in the first half And then you go into the fourth quarter and you're playing super well. I mean you those points You miss them. You really do you go back to this first drive and I'm not going to get super Uh micro on this but 13 plays eight minutes six Second drive 54 yards zero points That's that's a hard pit will swallow that the rams turned into a touchdown the next drive They go forward I think on fourth and two turn it over on downs the rams turn that Into a touchdown. Yeah, and now you're down 14 nothing and you're not exactly sure what happened because you feel like you're playing Pretty well, but somehow you're down two scores And then then everything changes then game plans alter and then you have to Find heroic ways, but I do like again the way the falcon stuck with it, but I think tory I think what I think we've I think what I think that I think that's too many things It's like on friends like they don't know that we know that they know exactly but I I believe I'm not gonna say don't think again I I believe it's important that we showed what was good late What was missing early? Yeah, and when you have these things that are missing on a team In transition with a lot of dead money not spent on talent and a and a team that has to fight and scrap for everything They don't have the luxury of of margin for error that some of these better teams naturally do So when you give away these opportunities, it hurts the falcons in their current state More than it would another team. I hope that that makes sense to everybody But I I think ultimately that's an issue here. Yeah, I think also too like when you think about it The falcons were not only in these games, but could have won these games right and if you were I don't know who said it may again it may have been jake matthews That was like if we make one more player if we do what we need to do correctly in the moments that matter This is a completely different conversation that we're having that means that the falcons would be Have two games won against two very very good teams and that's a completely different conversation Obviously, that's not the conversation that we're having right now But they're not there. I mean they lost these games by what a total of five points right That's That's crazy to me to think about it because I think a lot of people think that Have thought that this team wouldn't be competitive In a lot of regards because of the transition that it's going through But we are seeing them play competitive football. It's not pretty all the time It's not perfect all the time, but they're in the last two games now Of course, no moral victories being in games when you don't pull them out But I mean there is stuff that you can take from this Yeah, and this is game two of a 17 game season Then this team has to find a way to take that next step which is Finishing games and I wrote one version of a headline of my column that's why I was like Don't include the word finish. It's kind of a four letter word and like in this fan base It doesn't make it any less important right just because it triggers something in the fan base And if we're looking at this you team as its own individual entity and what arthur smith and terry fun Or trying to do building it they're trying to Change some of these not narratives. They don't like they don't care about narratives But they don't want to like that like they want to finish they want to be known as a team that can finish Yeah, they want to be known as an explosive team um Something that has come up at the end of this game was that kyle pits the Who turned in the second best season ever by a rookie tied in last year who had a fantastic Training camp and I don't use that word lightly right Four catches for 38 yards on 10 targets through two games He was targeted seven times in the first game He was targeted three times in this one one of those targets through a 36 yard pass interference Call Let's add that to his total. What the heck call it 70 yards And it's still when like when you're losing games and your best player regardless of position I think that's fair to say Isn't producing steadily or isn't overwhelmingly targeted and you're losing that the questions naturally come up And they have come up about why kyle is more actively involved in the game um, it was a I don't know a flash points too much of a term But it was a topic of conversation After this one, it's something that we're going to explore more. Yeah, it's something that I think that we need to explore more um Yeah, because I mean Arthur was asked about it after the game as well Yeah, and I know I have a lot of questions too because like, you know We are talking about this within a couple hours of this game being over. We haven't seen an all 22 film We don't know how the ram's defense was Pressuring kyle pits how much they were shading coverage to him how that impacted what the falcons could or couldn't do There are a lot of things. I think that go into The targets that we didn't see kyle pits have tonight if if i'm being honest and you're right like arthur smith was asked about it And his his whole thing is he said he was like kyle's a huge part of our offense and the thing is You have to take it with context. It's the same thing. We're trying to win and he has a huge impact on the game and he was going through it and he was talking about him being an important piece and how essentially he used the example of Kadarra hodge who who had a really great play I can't remember what quarter it was all of its first half first half.  It's not fantasy football We're just trying to win and we'll continue to look at everything and try to get better And that was his quote and like that's kind of where We are I think there's a lot more analyzing to do a lot more conversations to have about What is happening whether it's at the quarterback position tied in position secondary They have a say in where a quarterback goes with the ball. I mean all of these questions I think are valid to ask and and also valid to try and figure out an answer Yeah, because he's an impact player and The falcons need him to be that impact player in ways beyond look He's doing better as a blocker. He's drawing coverage away all those types of things The falcons again in their current state like they need their stars to really produce the how court How paterson has done to this point And also like we were talking to kyle in the locker room after the game and I mean he was getting grilled on this lack of targets and if he was upset about it and he kept saying like Like what do you want me to do you want me to go and scream at arthur? And or do you want me to go and scream at marcus for not getting them down? He's like, I don't operate like that He's like i'm that's true. That's not that's not no That's not his personality and like he kept saying I think he said it three or four times while we're standing there talking to him Like i'm not a selfish player. I want to win. I'm not a selfish player I want to win if and that's like the mantra that came from him after only being targeted a handful number of times today, right and I can I transition to drake london and then and then moving on to our our final topic, which is drake london He's got again. I don't have the full stats in front of me. I apologize. It's late But drake london has had at least 70 yards receiving in both games to this point. He had 86 today I believe 74 last week. That sounds very right. He scored his He scored his uh first league touchdown first nfl touchdown He saved the ball. He said it's going in a case not going to his parents house is going to his house He's gonna keep it with him. Um, that's a big moment, but this wasn't this wasn't um a cause for Universal celebration because they lost and drake london understands that that you can have individual accolades And he can be proud of some good moments that he had But they still lost the game and he seemed to find the right balance of that when he was talking When I was there too and when he was talking to me and some other Reporters as well seemed to strike a good tone there But something that arthur smith said on Sunday night and he said before is it's confirming why they drafted him.  Maybe then you thought he's like no It's not easy It's just it shows that they're putting me in positions to win and I think a lot of hard detail oriented work I've been doing on my own with the team Sent from the spring and the summer is starting to pay off that it's not oh, I walked in and now I'm good now It's he's really worked on his craft on subtle Things that help him get open and help him be what is He has the complete package of traits to make him a complete receiver. Yeah Um and what he's done to this point has been good, of course again, he wants them in winning effort, right? and I I think I go back to something that You know, he was coming off of that knee injury and I think I even said it on the last podcast Like I don't think anybody really realized how much that injury was impacting him in the pre season Because when he was talking it it really did feel like it was a pretty significant injury that It almost it didn't feel that way in the moment And so to see him come out and do what he's done the last two weeks I think is very commendable, but there was a moment was one of the first times that we saw him back out on the field after after the injury and he was talking to tj8's who is the falcons wide receivers coach and Their conversation it was very it was like watching two People like just trying to figure each other out and like what works what doesn't work and I it And I'm standing kind of like off to the side, you know, I can't hear what they're saying but They're literally talking about like arm movements and like how you would move like your wrist and your elbow Like to get by a defender. It was really fascinating to see them working on something as small and minute as That's your arm placement and it's that type of stuff that and also just Drake London is a lot more, you know, we watch him in the pre draft process and see the highlights and everything Drake London I'll say this about Drake London Drake London is Way more of a fierce competitor than I originally thought he was because when we talk to him He's a very calm very quiet cool collected. Just chill On the field he is he like gets mad like he he wants like there was a moment where Marcus threw a quote-unquote interception, but it was called A pass interference. It was intended for a long days a kiosk and it lands and I can't remember whose hands And drake comes up and like kind of like punches the ball And he comes over to the side and he has his helmet on he kind of slaps it and it's like this guy is a very fierce Competitor, this is a guy who really really wants to win not saying that everybody doesn't want to win Everybody does want to win but to see kind of how drake London operates in these game scenarios and how Fierce and heated he gets it's very fun. He's a very very fun player to watch. I mean even Hurdling a guy down the sideline. I mean he's making these plays that it's like, okay This all makes sense. He's the guy that they they wanted to go after in the draft Yeah, and I think ultimately look kyle pits is going to get his yeah, he just will he's he's too good to not yeah 100% so he's going to get his drake London is is going to get his the falcons are going to win some games They're going to lose some or two But they're going to win and this team these individuals are going to continue to evolve and grow and what I think fans should really try to keep an eye on big picture-wise is how are they progressing week to week? How are they continuing to get better and Arthur Smith said it it's time for a breakthrough and a breakthrough is a win jake math He said I don't care if it's three to not there 55 to 54. That is our next step No more we're doing some good things dot dot dot But the next thing is we are doing some good things that resulted in a victory And that's what we're going to be looking on throughout the course this week. We're going to be a complete game I very much want to see a complete game and we're going to be keeping an eye out for all of those types of things We're going to be in the great state of washington for the entire week tori macalani and I look forward to a lots of exclusive content They're going to be practicing up here and we're going to have Full coverage on atlanta falcons dot com. Do your thing y'all great great review subscribe All that it is so late It's so late. Scott has thrown out of y'all. Yeah, and Now falcons final whistle is part of one individual channel. If you subscribe to falcons final whistle, awesome Thank you. Uh, we have something called the atlanta falcons podcast network, which is falcons audible Our new podcast falcons in focus and falcons final whistle all on one channel subscribe to one Get all the good stuff go over to youtube do your thing There's a bunch of different ways you can consume this content appreciate you sticking around Probably on a monday morning at this point listening to this and know that it's 1045. I haven't edited this thing yet So i'm staying up late for you people Anyway, bless it. We're all getting ready to go to bed. Uh, thank you so much tori And thank you guys for downloading and listening talk to you next week


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Hey everybody! Today we are making a video on my husband Fokke here with me. We're on a road and I was thinking to, I always think about what kind of videos I should make for our YouTube channel and often it's about spousal sponsorship because we do a lot of those and I was thinking, well, me and Fokke submitted our application last year and it was quite the journey and I figured we could have a conversation here live to discuss kind of what we did, what were the positive things about it, what were the negative things about it. Baby is waking up in the back so we'll see how long we can do this for. So, Fokke, if I start with you, what would you say was the biggest challenge in preparing the application knowing that I am an immigration lawyer and I've been doing this for a very long time and I'm very knowledgeable but yet we still have some difficulties. Yes, the whole application can be very daunting. There's a lot of steps, there's a lot of paperwork that you have to fill out, there's a lot of proof, there's a lot of pictures, documents. I think that's the hardest part of this gathering all the information and compiling it and make sure it makes sense for immigration for the officer make sure that it's something that they can use to make a decision, right? Yeah, I mean, I would say for me, for example, the difficult part was I wanted to put excerpts of our WhatsApp conversations. First of all, it's on my phone and I think you helped me with that. I was like, how are we going to print this? How is it going to come out? And I think we have to redo it twice because there was an issue. You had to choose what is actually going to be beneficial for you. Yes, and we were together for like a year at that point a bit more so we had like, I don't know how many hundreds of pages of WhatsApp conversations and... I think it was 110. That we included or that was... No, in total. So, it sounds kind of simple, like, okay, provide the chat conversations but then it takes... I don't know, it probably took like two days of like a total of an hour on each day to like print, organize, made a mistake, reprinted. All were out of paper, go get paper and it's these small administrative tasks that could end up taking a long time. One other thing that I remember was trying to get your Cuban police certificate. That was the whole thing going south. So, we weren't able to submit with the file because... Well, the embassy was very helpful. We went to the Cuban embassy. We went to the Cuban embassy together. The girls were sure they felt like they... that I should contact somebody to get it done over there. I mean, that's what the embassy was for, right? To help the citizens but not this one. So, we end up having to ask a friend of a friend but I was actually able to get it but I had to pay them and it was no deal, but I think that year we got it done. Yeah, we got it. We don't have the original yet. We submitted the copy and the translation and hoping they don't ask for the original. Is the original coming? It's coming by mail. By snail mail. From Cuba? Yes. Snail mail? Snail mail. For real? Yeah. That's a problem, but okay. It's slow. Yeah, very slow. It might never come here. Yeah, and that was like a lot of... many months of, you know, back and discussing it. Oh, what about the clearance? Oh, let me email the embassy. Yeah, they even offered to crack an email saying that they were taking too long and what immigration needs to do was that they need it. Yeah, and it could really delay things because I wasn't thinking, I know what's going to happen. They're going to send the letter saying, okay, we need your police clearance now. You have 30 days and we're going to have to go as an extension of time. That's not so much the problem. I'm asking for an extension of time. It's just, you know, you want to become a permanent resident already, right? Yeah, absolutely. So why get delayed? You don't have a criminal record and on top of it, you needed the clearance because you were in Cuba. It's past 18. You were in Cuba from until like... 18, 19. Until 19. Yeah. I left Cuba when I was 18 years old. Yeah. So even though it's been a long time, they still needed it because I lived there as an adult. Yes. So that, yeah. Yeah. And I remember the embassy told you, oh, your request is going by diplomatic... case or diplomatic plane to Cuba? Yeah, briefcase or something like that. And it's coming back with it. It never made it. And I remember it blew up the process. I was like, why can't they just email someone there who's just going to send an email back that says you don't have a record? That's not how a cure works. It's like one second. That's not how it works. That's not how a lot of places work. Yeah. So that was something. Then what else? We had to... I mean, utility bills, internet, hydro. It was just like a printing. We had friends. Yeah. Reference letters. We got... We're very lucky. We're very good friends. They wrote letters for us. We got in the photos. That took a while because we had so many photos.  And we had so many big moments since we met each other. Traveling. We got engaged. I got pregnant. We had a baby. After we filed the initial application so we had to send an update. Organizing the pictures, printing them in color, going to staples, writing, date and description. That took a while too. I remember we did that for a few hours. Then of course there's the forms. They can be tricky. They can be tricky. They can be tricky. And I know forms. I see forms all day, every day. I can review forms very quickly. My eyes know exactly what it has to be. And probably this was one of the most challenging forms for me because it's my file. But also I was questioning myself a lot because there are some questions that just did not make any sense. And I was like, how come I've never seen this issue before because you've been divorced twice before. Yes. And there was a form, there was something about a question about a date of separation and a date of divorce. And then there was a question about how long is the relationship. And it was confusing because does the relationship end when you break up or does the relationship end when you divorce? And the question was not clear to me. Maybe with other clients I never really... I think some clients put date of separation and some clients put date of divorce and no officer has ever said anything. But because it's our file I wanted I really asked myself the question and I think I talked to a few lawyer colleagues of mine and I answered intuitively which is when you break up because that's when the relationship ends. That makes sense still. The actual divorce is just more of a legal standpoint. Yeah. About the relationship. Yeah, exactly. So the forms, there was a lot of times we put little post-its and we were waiting to get information. What else was there? Joint purchases. We had... What else did we have? Joint purchases. So the travel... Oh yeah, we had to remember the travel dates. Google is really good with that. He got me into all the Google stuff so Google maps, tracks. Yeah, he kind of tells you where you've been and timelines so this type of situation is very handy to know where you went years ago. And tribal itineraries, we printed out our flight confirmations.  Yeah, that's something challenging for a lot of my clients. Like dates, especially if you travel a lot. Yeah. You're supposed to remember some of the forms, you know, asking five years before, ten years before. Oh yeah, you have to contact your parents a few times because you had to know when you first went to Cuba. You had to... When we left. Yes. When we went from Cuba to the States. And there was a... I mean, obviously there was your parents' address in the US. There was their complete names. And they would say, I remember there was a lot of little details you had to call your parents and be like, what is this information? So... I mean, we're both professionals and it was challenging. It was challenging and it was during the pandemic on top of it. And I was pregnant. So, you know, this video is basically to say kind of make you feel better if you're going through the process that if you're doing it yourself, give yourself time and be patient and take it step by step and... Yeah, a lot of patience, I would say. And if you have... Yeah, just be patient and double check stuff and make sure... Take your time. I miss... Yeah. And I think what we did a few times is I would prepare it, we would prepare it and then I would say, okay, let me review it one more time for like the next day. And I had... With a clear mind. With a clear mind because then that's when you see things and have someone else review it. Like, if you don't have a lawyer, you don't necessarily have to have a lawyer. Give it to a friend or give it to a family member and like, still check and be like, hey, if you don't read this, do you see anything often? Do you think I'm missing something? I had a few of my lawyer colleagues review and surprisingly, they found a lot of little things just to make it that perfect, you know. And I learned actually a lot through the process myself because, you know, different lawyers have different visions. With you, with you. Yeah. And... And you have been through this process before. You integration paperwork and stuff. So you're kind of used to it. But again, I mean, would you say that it was kind of stressful? Yeah. Yeah, of course. Yeah, immigration is always stressful. Yeah. Because you deal with your future and work permit. Were you going to establish yourself? Yeah. Yeah, it was very stressful. Yeah. Because we did... We were initially going to file an overseas application. I'm going to travel back and forth for this American but with the pandemic, we just had to do an inland because you had a closed work permit. Yes, I originally had a closed work permit. You got a job offer and you got a closed work permit. Yes, I was lucky enough to get a job offer as soon as I moved. Those opportunities and the inland process offers that option. But it took some time. The problem was that before the pandemic it was taking four to five months. But we applied within the pandemic and it took eight months, which is not so bad. But... But it's the annoying, right? Yeah. It's not annoying when it's actually going to be happening. Yeah. And I remember when we got the email... Shows the one that was closest. It was very simple. We asked questions like, oh, my throat hurts. It's not really about that. It's more of a there's such a demand but you sit and you do things and then out. Right. You felt people in the room or other people coming to do that. Right. How much was it? I think it also depends on where you do it. Okay. But most of them are around that price. Okay. And then you did your biometrics. It's pictures and fingerprints. Yeah. That was really easy to... I was lucky enough that there was more place. I was like two minutes away from the house. Yes. And sketch on a point with your hands and all that stuff. Eighty-five. Eighty-five dollars. Yes. And that was very simple. It took me about no more than ten minutes, you know. And that was it. We are... Because we're in Quebec. We were raised in Quebec. We had to file a CSQ which we did last week. Yeah. That's... The CSQ is simple but it's really not simple. And simple for me because with my staff we've reviewed those forms so many times so we can... we know what to answer. We have examples but it's just... I just find it's not user-friendly. It's not user-friendly at all. The questions are... Yes. Or have you been living together? Yes or no. But then in the column on the left it says... There's an explanation. Like if you have lived together but you... It's like whole granular on this side. That's an actual question. Yeah. Skip to question and then you're like, what? But I answered so I don't know why did people like that. It's the same questions come back multiple times. You have to send the same form twice. Yeah. I mean the whole thing could actually just be if you just put it on the website answer like four questions. Yeah, they should both order and I said, yeah. It's like... It would take like three minutes, you know? But, yeah. So now the next step for our file I think it's for you to be approved. I think so. And... Biometric to develop. Yeah, everything's done. Unless there's something I don't know about you that you haven't told me. It'll take some. It'll take some. Usually when you get approved you have to go to what's confirmation if your case is straightforward and basically congratulations to your permanent resident and they give you to sign your confirmation of permanent resident and then a few months later you get your permanent resident card. And I was just doing an email which is... It's kind of like why haven't they let this all the time you get an email that says congratulations. You are now a permanent resident of Canada. Your PR card will follow in the mail. Or I think you have to apply for it actually. Exactly another step with photos and stuff like that. But that's so easy.  But, I mean it's a big event. It's nice. Yeah, of course. You know, but there's a lot of people becoming permanent residents all the time. But one of the good things about the pandemic is bringing all this stuff to light modernizing making it more accessible and speeding things up in that way which I think is great. And you work in IT so I'm sure when you saw all of these processes you were kind of like this is so... Yeah, it could be done in a different way Yes. Governments bureaucratic Yes.  So yeah, I hope this was helpful sharing a little bit of our process in filing our applications and if you have any questions you can always ask us in the comments. Thank you. Bye bye.


Good morning, everybody. We're flying Jay Saskatoon. I'm a little bit disappointed. I just installed these lights not too long ago, right? You can see it. There's already moisture that's gotten inside of this one. The other one seems to be moisture-free so far. It kind of looks like something's getting into the bottom there. That's a little disappointing. I might have to replace just these light strips. Hopefully I can do that. So there's a screw there, and a screw there. Hopefully I can just replace that light strip. It's too bad. My headlight on this side is also about the same deal going on. These are LED headlights here. These are still the old ones, the brights, but the low beams are LEDs. They're very nice. Let's probably get them replaced. Starting the day off having fun. Spending money, you know, still going. The price for fuel here in Saskatoon is $2.03 per liter, which for this part of the world is absolutely atrocious, ridiculous, and an abomination. It should be less than half that price. Should be. If we had competent people in charge. We are fueled up. Let's go. We don't have too much time to waste today. I'd like to get unloaded today if possible. That would be fantastic. I got the double ones because I got the ones on top of the sleeper too, right? So I got two rows. I'm gonna get LED light bars like he has on the back of his sleeper. I gotta figure out how he got his marker lights to do that. That is awesome. Maybe he watches my videos if you do. Post me a comment, man. That is awesome. I might go say hi to him yet. How to get noticed one-on-one. There's the flag. We're at Husky and Lloyd Minster. Lloyd Minster, Alberta. I almost said Ontario. I am so sorry. Blast for me. Bad Josh. So we're here in Lloyd Minster, Alberta. The other side is Saskatchewan. Neither of which are Ontario, or even close to Ontario. I didn't film much today. It's been a very rushed day, but I'm just relaxed now because I have all day tomorrow to get to Weber. I picked up a new load in I think right now. I picked up a new load in Le Duc. I delivered that big heavy load of lumber, got that off the trailer, and I literally had to rush, rush, rush. This whole day was rush, rush, rush. Again, I've discovered this that just like people said, regional division is all about rush, rush, rush, rush. The point is, you know, you want to be home on the weekend. But if you want to be home on the weekend, you better make it count during the week.  And if you do it right and you work hard during the week, you're gonna have your weekends. I'll show you this new load that I have on. Brace yourselves. It's a big one. But first, look at this. Look at that thing. Saskatchewan is that. All right. You're right. You're right. You guys bracing yourselves. This is a big one. This is a big load here. That was it. Just this piece of farm equipment, and then I got 40 feet of reels with like electrical cable and stuff that are going back here, picking it up in Saskatchewan on my way home. I think I'm going to be there. I'll be there tomorrow afternoon. I think they're going to load me Friday morning. That's fine. Then I'll have six hours from home there. Load Friday morning. I'll be home by suppertime on Friday. Home for the weekend. Do a flag up there. Look at this guy. I've hauled these before.  She's pretty fun to haul. Yeah, that's uh, so since I've been so rushed and uh, having a lot of time to breathe really, I'm going to take this evening to myself here. I pulled in here at about 9 30. So I have a couple hours yet. And I know the sun has just gone down. It's probably with 10 o'clock now already. Well, I'm going to take an hour or two here at midnight and just relax. Maybe watch some YouTube, watch some Netflix or something and just decompress and just chill and walk diesel. You got to take him on a walk. He deserves us today. We've both been uh, running pretty hard. Beautiful evening. You know what's interesting? The mosquitoes aren't even eating me alive. Weird, right? Did it not like me anymore? Did I do something wrong? I remember standing right here on the street there. I don't know where that truck is parked there. On July 1st, with diesel. He's here with me in the dark here. Uh, it was on July 1st, Canada Day. Uh, probably what, five, six years ago? Maybe longer? And we're watching fireworks. The Lloydminster fireworks were just on the other side of those buildings over there. And the mosquitoes here were so bad I couldn't even enjoy the fireworks. I was just getting eaten alive. And now I'm walking through this field of grass here. Haven't been bitten once. I don't know if I should feel offended. I mean, did I do something? Do they not like me anymore? Did I say something? I don't know what happened. I mean, good riddance to them, right? I don't need them. I'll live my life just fine without ever meeting another mosquito. I won't miss them. But I forgot Diesel's leash. Did I tell you that in yesterday's video? I forgot Diesel's leash at home. So I had his harness and a rope and we're making it work.  Cutting off the circulation in my hand. But that's okay because we love him. Who needs my hand? It's only my left hand. I'm right handed. I don't need it. Where are we going Diesel? Where do you want to go? Where are we going to those? Oh, you're going to the long grass over there. I see. I see. We walked right past the grass man. Where are we going? Can we go buy some paint? We do need to get some paint. Since our paint store burnt down in Steinbeck, I need to find a new paint store. We need to paint our house. I patched it all up, all the paint that was peeling. Patched it up real good.  Where are we going? Do you want to go over here? This is hands-on healthcare supply. This is a pharmacy? You looking for drugs, Diesel? I don't know where he was pulling me, but he wanted to go that way. I convinced him that we should go back to the truck because it's supper time. You hungry, Diesel? Oh, yep. Sled dog weasel. That's what they'll call you. Wish I had wheels like roller blades or something. I'll just let him pull me around. I really love taking advantage of the season. It's always so cold up here. You've seen me in my videos, right? It's always so cold up here in Canada, but look at this t-shirt. I'm comfortable because it does happen. It does happen. We have about three or four months of this and it's back to the cold.


Hello everyone. Today I will talk about multi-party reusable non-interactive secure computation from LWE. My name is Ilan Komorgotsky and this is based on joint work with Fabriz Benhamuda, Irish Jane, and Rachel. The motivating scenario for the talk is the following setting. Imagine four parties, one, two, three, and four, that each of them has a private input or private database, X1, X2, X3, and X4. And they want to be able to perform joint computations on their input and they want to make sure that the computations are private. So for instance, party one, two, and three can come together and decide that they want to perform some study on their joint inputs and learn some function F on their respective inputs. And we can imagine that this is done by a single message that is being sent from each of the parties to the public evaluator. You can think of these messages as some magic encoding of the database. And the encoding should not reveal any information beyond the output of the function that you want to compute. And in some later stage, it may happen that some other subset of parties want to perform another computation on their joint inputs. And maybe even at a later stage, new parties join the game and they now want to compute something together with some other party. So we want to support this complicated scenario and allow every subset of parties to perform computation on their joint inputs. And we want to allow parties to join at any point in time. So this sounds like a great thing, but the problem is that even if we think about the simplest setting where there's only three parties and they're fixed and each of them wants to send just one message alpha to the evaluator, then it's already pretty well known that it's impossible to achieve the standard definition of security where only the output of the function on the respective inputs is leaked. Because imagine that one party is malicious and it colludes with the evaluator, then this party can imagine in its head that its input was something else, some x1 prime. And then if this was its input to begin with, then given the two messages of the other parties, it could have learned the value of the function f on a new set of inputs. Which includes the new input as if imagined x1 prime. So this is clearly not something that we want to have. And therefore we need to somehow add something more to the protocol in order to be able to guarantee security. And the solution is actually not that complicated. The minimal thing that is required is to somehow force each party to commit on its input before the beginning of the evaluation. And intuitively this should prevent parties from imagining that their input was something else and thereby learn the value of some function on a new input. So imagine that each party would, before it starts to evaluate functions on its respective inputs, each party publishes on the public bulletin board some encoding of its input. Think of it as a cryptographic commitment, some hiding commitment. So this commitment is already published in the sky. And each party can remember for itself some secrets associated with this commitment. And now these messages that are sent to the public evaluator can be generated as functions of those encodings that are already written to the public bulletin board. And this completely prevents an adversary from imagining that the input was something else. Now with those public commitments in the sky, you can imagine that more parties will can join the protocol even after some of the evaluations had already occurred. And this party can commit on its own input, publish it on the public bulletin board. And at that point it can readily start performing computations with any of the existing parties. So this is in a very high level how multi-party reusable non-interactive secure computation works, which we'll call shortly MRNIST. Slightly more formally an MRNIST protocol will consist of three phases, two of which are going to be phases where MSNG is outputted. And the last phase is just a computation phase. So the first phase, each party will commit on its input. The commitment will output a public commitment that is going to be written to the public bulletin board. And it will also output some secret state that is going to be used in the later computation phase. In the computation phase, a subset of parties is given a function F that they want to compute on their joint inputs. The computation phase of each party will take as input the function, the commitments on the inputs of all of the other parties, and also its secret, its own secret state. This phase will output some public computation message. And then there will be a public function, public evaluation function that will generate the output of the function that we want to compute. This public evaluation function will not use any of the secrets of the parties because it can be made completely publicly. So we'll only use the public commitments and the messages, the computation messages that were sent by each party. And importantly, we want correctness even for parties that join throughout the game, even after some of the parties may have already performed several computation phases. And therefore, we also want the input encoding to be independent of the set of parties that exist in the system. For security, we will consider a standard notion of security, of simulation security. For simplicity, you should imagine a semi-honest adversary, but our results will apply even for semi-monitious adversaries. We will consider static corruptions, namely the adversary commits on the set of corrupted parties ahead of time. And we are in the setting of dishonest majority. In other words, it may be a little bit more convenient to just think of MRNIST as a special type of two-round MPC where the first message of each party is reusable. Namely, it can be reused with multiple round two messages. And also, the set of parties is completely dynamic. Namely, the first round message doesn't depend on the number of parties, their identities or anything like that. What do we know about this problem? So we have a handful of results from various assumptions and various properties. The very early constructions of two-round MPC protocols actually can actually be shown to satisfy the general structure of or the general properties of MRNIST. But the problem is that they relied on somewhat strong assumptions, like IO and witness encryption, which we know how to instantiate based on well-founded assumptions, but still they are highly inefficient and still rely on a collection of assumptions. More modern two-round MPC protocols, for instance those based on multi-KFHE or homomorphic secret sharing, they don't support the dynamics of parties and therefore they do not implement an MRNIST. The notion of MRNIST was brought into spotlight about a year and a half ago by Ben Hamouda and Lin, who showed the first construction from a single standard assumption and they did it from a 6DH. And in this work and the concurrent work by Anant et al that you're going to hear about next, we achieved an MRNIST from LWE. Technically what we do is we identify a complete functionality for MRNIST and we show how to implement it by using LWE, namely we identify a primitive called reusable functionality, which is a very specific form of MRNIST. We show how to bootstrap this specific form of MRNIST to full-fledged MRNIST and we also show how to build this specific protocol, specific functionality from LWE. And as an application we observe that you can use an MRNIST to basically thresholdize every multi-KFHE by using an MRNIST to implement the threshold decryption phase. And as an application we obtain a construction of threshold multi-KFHE scheme with better parameters than what was previously known or better assumptions than what was previously known. So in order to overview the construction let me tell you a little bit about how previous constructions worked and what they needed to assume. So the first two-round MPC construction was based on obfuscation or invisibility obfuscation. And then people observed that if you don't really need the full power of obfuscation, you need something much weaker, you need garbled circuits and some form of witness encryption. So Gargital protocol from 2015 used the witness encryption for NP and the more recent work of Ben Hamoud and Lin, they observed that you only need witness encryption for a particular language and they were able to implement this witness encryption scheme from a standard assumption. And in this work we relaxed the additional assumption on the garbled circuits even further and we showed that you don't really need a full flash of witness encryption but you can actually work with a seemingly weaker primitive that we call reusable functionality. And we implemented using LW. Let's explain a little bit better how IO or witness encryption are used to get a two-round MPC. The main idea in most of these works is to take a general MPC protocol that could have L rounds where L is bigger than two and compress it to just two rounds with the following recipe. In the first round you just commit your inputs with some commitment and in the second round instead of running the second round of the original protocol you obfuscate a circuit that essentially simulates what every party would have done in the previous protocol. Then you obfuscate a circuit that gets all of the previous messages that were sent in the protocol and it generates the next message that the party would have generated if it had seen these messages in the protocol. And GLS-15, notice that you don't really need the full power of IO. You can just garble a circuit that does whatever you want to do, namely simulate the code of each party and you only need witness encryption to intuitively to give the right labels to the other parties so that they could evaluate the garbled circuit. So here it is in a little bit more detail. Let's just assume IO for simplicity. Let's assume the original L round protocol works as follows. You compute the next round message given your input and randomness. You generate the first message and then to generate the second message you collect all of the messages that you saw in round number one and you apply some function next on your input, your randomness, and all of the messages that you saw and you do this until the end of the protocol. How would you translate this to a two round protocol? So the first name idea would be to compute the first round message. That's easy, you can do it. But then instead of sending the second round message, you can't send the second round message because you don't have all of the inputs which are the first round messages of all of the other parties. So you just output a circuit, an obfuscated circuit that has your secrets embedded inside. It gets as input all of the second round messages, all of the first round messages from the other parties and it outputs your second round message. And each party does the same thing for each of the rounds of the protocol. This is clearly insecure because it's only a one round protocol. So what you actually need is to also have a first round where we first commit on your input and then you need to make sure that every message is also associated with the proof that things were done correctly. And so namely now each circuit will get a collection of proofs. It will verify that these proofs were generated honestly and it will generate the next round message along with the proof for the next circuits to verify. So this is how most of these protocols work. And the question is how do you implement this obfuscation and how do you implement the zero-knowledge proof and how do you implement the commitment? Since we are talking about a reusable protocol where the commitment from round one is reusable, you actually want the first round message to contain not a single piece of randomness but a PRF key from which you can derive as much randomness as you would like when you use it in the second round message. Let's try to understand what's the weakest primitive that we can imagine that suffices for construction of MRNs. We call this primitive reusable functionality and it's basically a label exchange functionality. Imagine two parties, Alice and Bob, where Bob has already sent his message so it computed based on the public messages on all of the public information that was sent by now together with its private input X2 and K2 where K2 is the PRFC. It sends a message B to the sky or to the as the next message. And now everybody wants to compute the next message of Alice. What Alice will do, Alice will actually compute garbled circuit that takes as input Bob's message and it will output the second the next message that it would have sent given Bob's message. But Alice will not give this circuit in the clear. It will not use infuscation. It will just use garbling and garbling outputs two sets of labels for the inputs. And what we want is actually for Bob to learn the right set of labels corresponding to its input. So if B was the B0, we want to learn L0. If B is 1, we want to learn L1. So this is indeed the minimal functionality that you need in order to implement the approach that we had with garbled circuits. And this is, we call this primitive as I mentioned, we call it reusable functionality, which is just a special case of MRNIST for two parties. So here again is what we want. We have two parties, Alice and Bob. Alice's input is denoted as X1. Bob's private input is denoted as X2. And we want to output a bit and another string, L sub B, where G1 is some public function of X1 and it outputs two strings L0 and L1. You can just think of these as labels. And B is a bit, which is the output of some public function G2 of X2. So this is what we want. We want to compute an MRNIST for this specific functionality. So this is just a two-party functionality. The idea for the construction is actually very, very simple given previous works. Bob will commit to X2 using the fully homomorphic commitment. So if you can first commit on X2, and now anybody can compute publicly a commitment to G2 of X2, namely to the B to B. And what Alice will do, it has two strings, L0 and L1. It will encrypt both of them with a special encryption scheme that can be decrypted by whoever has a proof that the commitment C sub G2 is a commitment to the right bit. So if B is, let's say, 0, then whoever has a proof that the commitment is a commitment to 0, for example, has an opening, then this person can also recover L sub 0. Bob knows a legal proof that will allow him to open L sub B, the right L sub B. But the problem is that an A proof will just contain, let's say, something like X2, which essentially reveals Bob's input. So Bob will actually need to provide a zero knowledge proof, attesting to the fact that he knows that CG2 is a commitment to the right bit. The way we implemented it is that, first, we implement the commitments as GMSW commitments, and we create this special encryption scheme and proof scheme using ideas from homomorphic commitment literature and the recent two-round statistical standard OT of nuclear scan docking.  And the important point is that whoever has the opening for the original commitment can also compute an opening for the new commitment. And the encryption is going to be very easy. It's generating LWE sample with a secret SB, and you mask L sub beta with LW secret. And the zero knowledge proof is going to be just a short basis for a specific lattice. By setting up the parameters correctly, you can show that for the right value of B, Bob can indeed find a short basis for this lattice and therefore recover S sub beta. And if B is not the right value, then the linear noisy equation is lost, and therefore most of the information about S sub beta is lost. So this is in a very high level how we build this reusable functionality from LWE. Let me conclude. What we did is we identified a complete primitive for MRNIST. We called it reusable functional OT. It's somewhat analogous to OT in standard secure computation. We also were able to construct a reusable functional OT from LWE, and we have applications for threshold multi-key FPG. One clear open problem is to build a reusable functional OT from something like DDH. This is still open. Finally, I wanted to mention a new work on Eprint, constructing the first maliciously secure MRNIST. This is joint work with Rex Fernando and Eush Jane. Please see Eprint if you're interested. Thank you very much for listening.