Take a moment and talk a little bit about what you do and some of the roles that you fill today, Brian.

Oh, definitely.

Hey, first of all, Scott, thank you.

It's always good to get back together with a good friend from a long time ago.

Uh, I love some Scott Bot- Sc- some Scott Becker.

Um, you know, I'm, I'm a partner with Parker Poe Adams and Bernstein, um, southeastern super regional law firm.

Um, you know, I, I've developed kind of like a trusted advisor practice, uh, where I work day in and day out with CEOs, CFOs, and, um, boards of directors across different industries.

You know, I always ask them, like, "What is your decision-making process?"

It's not that you're providing fuel or doing anything else.

Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right.

And, you know, the body is is pretty smart, you know, and so the body, when it feels that the adenosine receptors are being blocked, it'll actually upregulate the receptors, right? It'll try to work around the caffeine blocking the adenosine receptors.

And so if you are someone or you know someone who's like, yeah, man, if I don't have caffeine, I get headaches and I get you know I'm struggling and or they're like you know a Red Bull just doesn't hit like it used to you know kind of thing because they're chronic users That's because those receptors have been up regulated for sure.

Now the good news related to that is the body can reset.

It takes anywhere from two days to two weeks, but a lot of times people will feel the real slump of having all these receptors with no blockage in the first one to two days.

When we talk about caffeine as a tool, I like to tell people, If you don't need it, like on a weekend, but you need it for work to be a high-functioning Monday through Friday person or whatever, then don't drink it on the weekend.

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Take a moment and talk a little bit about what you do and some of the roles that you fill today, Brian.

Oh, definitely.

Hey, first of all, Scott, thank you.

It's always good to get back together with a good friend from a long time ago.

Uh, I love some Scott Bot- Scott, some Scott Becker.

Um, you know, I'm, I'm a partner with Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, um, Southeastern super regional law firm.

Um, you know, I, I've developed kind of like a trusted advisor practice, uh, where I work day in and day out with CEOs, CFOs, and, um, boards of directors across different industries.

Your best advice for founders and CEOs.

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Exactly.

You know, it's what we call the word of wisdom.

Always had a health code.

Don't eat this, abstain from this, you know, that kind of a thing.

Well, I mean, even when, when, when Peter received the vision that the gospel could now be taken to the Gentiles, God delivered that vision in the form of actually, uh, changing the health code, saying, "These animals that were unclean are now clean." And Peter's like, "Oh, I, I can't eat the unclean." And God says, "What I deem to be clean is clean." And then he, he came to understand that that was also symbolic of take the gospel to Gentiles.

And so what am I getting at? If God can, you know, change throughout biblical history this kind of health code, I've pondered a lot about, well, why? What is it? And, and what I've kind of settled on right now is, is it's largely, uh, a, an obedience principle.

Yeah.

What is it?

Well, certainly when you look at the impact, look at what happened to oil prices, you look at what's happened as a result of the war in Iran.

So certainly global factors have been a challenge.

And it's not just Australia that has inflation above its target band.

Most of the major economies of the world still have inflation that's above where the central bank wants it to be.

But we still have a fundamental problem that demand in the economy is growing faster than supply.

And if demand is growing faster than supply, you're going to be putting up with pressure on inflation.

So could the government be doing anything or are we just sort of up the creek without a paddle?

Which size, player size, surprised you the most? Mims, Lawrence, or Orlando in person?

Was there one of them where you're like, man.

I mean, Mims is a massive human.

But so, I mean, when Dexter walked in for the first time, I was like, that is probably the biggest human I've ever seen.

And, like, he's ripped.

Like, it's not like, you know, there's the old Vince Wilfork stuff.

Like, that was just a big blob.

Yeah,

But when you kind of start with a show like this, how would you define that, like, sonic identity of Scarpetta early in the production?

I wrote some scripts early on, but I didn't really sink into what I felt like the show wanted sound-wise until I saw an early cut, and I saw how...

How... gritty the visual style was okay um i was reminded a lot of fincher's seven and there's a lot of dirt like there's a lot of grit yeah in um the word grit gets used in in in a in a different sense a lot of time let me explain what i mean um so the word grit gets used in like a noir kind of like angry characters kind of a way.

What I'm talking about is actually inside the visual field, it's very messy in some places, especially the opening, the cold open of the season is just very, you know, dead body, pretty filthy on the side, some train tracks, right? And there's a messiness to Kay Scarpetta's world and she's trying to put some order to it.

And for that reason, I pursued a saturated, distorted, textural sound design theme for the series.

For season one, anyway, who knows? Season two could be something different.

I don't know.

Are there moments that you feel like where the sound design really led the storytelling rather than just maybe support it? I think

We say cheap credit, but really that is a vexed term because already many people feel that their current mortgage is pushing them to the absolute limit, right? But is this the new normal? Should we just expect that interest rates of this high are going to stay this way?

I wouldn't think so.

If anything, there is always a cycle.

And yes, we saw interest rates really surge after the end of the COVID pandemic.

Then once the Reserve Bank and other central banks started to see inflation fall, they were able to reduce interest rates.

Now the world's become more complicated.

We're still going into the war in Iran.

So for people that are at home this morning, you're saying just wait and see and hold on if you can.

It can be really, what should members focus on, do you think, to make sure they're maximizing what's available to them?

I think it depends on your life stage or where you're at in your military career.

Early on, it makes a lot of sense just to understand what's in your paycheck, your LES.

It can often be confusing.

Like, what does PAH mean? What is deployment pay? What is all, where are all these things? What is taxable? Tax free.

Exactly.

Yeah.

But what are your thoughts on that, Brian?

Mm.

Um, we think about it in terms of saying, well, look, um, in an environment where, um, budget deficits, for example, in a number of economies are problematic, the United States being a case in point, um, the demands on government to spend money and to help address issues like climate change or the need to spend more money on defense or, for example, the need to spend more money on education and training to help people adjust and evolve their skills to cope with the rise of artificial intelligence, or in a worst case scenario, what about those people who perhaps may be at a certain phase of their career where if their job is taken by artificial intelligence, will they be able to be retrained?

Yeah.

Um, that's the way we think about it.

And in terms of building portfolios, um, it's trying to build a portfolio, especially when we think about what we call our diversified investment options, where someone says, "Well, I'm a conservative investor.

I'm gonna invest in your conservative portfolio." We'll take that money, and we will allocate it across a whole range of asset classes, but particularly asset classes that tend to be more conservative, such as bonds, term deposits, and the like.

Um, when we think about those diversified options, we need to build portfolios that are very well diversified, that are...

You're gonna have a collection of assets in there that will do two things.

Mm.

So given, uh, any boats that were already, um, on the way to Singapore, yes, they've obviously still made it, uh, but there's still this massive backlog obviously, because very few boats, if any, are getting through the Straits of Hormuz.

Um, world oil prices, uh, have obviously shot up, uh, given the restriction on supply, uh, and that's flowed through to the bowser very, very quickly.

Um, but it's not just the oil price.

So I think the other thing, uh, we need to keep in mind is that, yes, um, the price of the bowser is what we see, but it feeds through into other things over time, things like plastics, uh, which are heavily dependent on, on, uh, petroleum product.

Um, and that fil- flows through into things like our packaging, our building materials, plumbing supplies, and things like that.

But it's also fertilizer.

I, I don't know if that is...