I’ve been lucky with the content offered by the guests on this podcast – but this guy has an unusually inspiring story. Working class boy, becomes a political operative at 19, works his way up to being an advisor in the Rudd and Gillard Governments before pivoting to cricket commentary and becoming one of the best-known cricket broadcasters in the world. His name is Adam Collins, and in 2018, he saw there was no Australian radio presence covering the test series between Australia and Pakistan in the UAE, so he used the money he was saving to buy a house and bought the rights to broadcast the series. He talks about the stress of that deal here, particularly finding a station he could on sell the broadcast to, as well as overcoming tech and censorship issues. Right now, the whole saga is being developed into a feature film.
S1E103: Adam Collins
Wholly shit. That was some podcast. Thanks for having that conversation and allowing us to get to know Adam a little better.
The way he talked about his political career and the lessons he has taken from that. Fantastic.
And I think you are absolutely correct, there's a story/book to be told to expand on what he said.
Great story, great podcast.