What does a barrister's clerk do?

Well, go back to sport or footy, because this is how I used to explain it to people.

It's like a sporting manager or a sporting agent for barristers.

Barristers engage you to provide them with marketing services, booking services, all administrative services, or most administrative services, and in return they pay you a commission, and that's what happened.

That was me.

1996, I got a phone call from a, a friend on what was then Barry Stone's list, saying, "Have you heard about Barry?" And I said, "Yes, I had.

He had incurable cancer."

Yeah.

Just explain to us what this is about.

Totally.

So I'll start with my own experience to kind of illustrate what's happening and why I kind of joined on to this lawsuit.

And so I applied to a grant in 2023.

I got a score on that grant in February 2024.

It was a good score, which is great.

There's usually some like it was within a line where I was pretty confident that I was going to get the grant because of how good the score was.

Michael, why don't you take that?

Michael has been...

And about seven to ten days ago, Justin Blast emailed everyone on our waiting list asking them if they were interested in video.

And it turned out a lot of them were.

um i only think about things in terms of podcasts now yeah it's really just just there for fun so you can say like oh this is our 500th episode or whatever yeah they're

really just hundreds yeah 500 that kind of works um yeah but they're yeah they're sort of just cosmetic dressing they're not really doing anything uh functional under the hood

Yep

... where we're releasing this video beta feature.

So yeah, we, we got sort of inundated for the last week or so, um, which is great.

It's, it's nice to be busy and nice to be, um, in the spotlight, and...

But yeah, it's taken a lot of time to work through that, and now by the end of this week, I think we've added over 100 shows to the beta.

It's up and running.

Um, and we've got a really nice workflow around expanding that.

Right.

Michael, what did you, what did you make of this?

Yeah, I think b- I definitely would echo what Akushi just said about the, um, the r- like read the room kinda was my first reaction, was like you're at a graduation ceremony.

All these people are, like, at this inflection point, and normally you wanna give them a message about that's kinda like generally applies to everyone in the audience.

Like I was just at a graduation, um, in June for my PhD, and there was actually a Microsoft executive there, and they didn't... kind of harp on this whole AI narrative.

They talked about change and life, and how they, they took a winding path or whatever.

And so I think it was really interesting delivery where you have the opportunity to come in and be at one of the three or four largest companies in the entire globe, and you could've shared something that was optimistic and reflexive about how you're thinking about, you know, how this is gonna affect people in a positive way, and talk to people who might not ever have to use AI, or they don't want it to be centered in their life.

But he took the opportunity to be like, kind of fear monger, in my view.

Michael, I think, had a thought on that.