Tell me about the Michael Collins journey.

Um, well thanks John.

What a great intro.

So yeah, I, I fell into research sort of a little bit by mistake.

I, um, I was pretty average at school, but um, and I had a lot of jobs leading up to, uh, a lot of occupations and interests leading up to the research journey.

But um- Yeah, I guess what led, led to that journey was, um, losing my little brother to suicide and also too many, uh, blokes that were good friends, um, before my brother's suicide.

So up until then, it had just been, oh, this is, you know, really shit what's happening to men and getting over it.

Yeah

Dr. Collins, can you talk to us a little bit about the psychiatrist's role in mental health care for individuals in the IDD population?

Yeah, that's a good question because part of it is understanding clients who have IDD don't need a psychiatrist just because they have that.

IDD is a disability but not a disorder.

In the same sense, someone may have difficulty reading or you don't go to a psychiatrist and get treatment and then you're better at reading.

Many of the people who have IDD, when they have psychiatric disorders, because they have difficulty with communicating, it can be very confounding.

Part of it is just expressing what symptoms they're having and clarifying.

They may have difficulty with that.

And behavioral health and IDD services shouldn't be that different.

What was it that caught your attention? What made you realise that something was wrong?

So I was in the pool with my son.

He's just learning how to swim.

So he's using his arms now.

So he goes from the steps to me and back.

So I'm probably three meters away from the steps.

So he's swimming towards me.

conscious no

Where's that growth coming from in terms of budget? Are advertisers taking it from something or are they adding to their budgets to buy OTT?

Yes and yes.

Advertising follows eyeballs.

So as viewership has shifted over, the spend has followed.

But I think there are a couple of other real growth drivers that it's important not to lose sight of.

One is that it's not just growing the eyeballs, the overall pie is growing.

And I think this is one of the really exciting parts about our industry right now is that television historically, it has been fragmented, it's been difficult to buy.

How about a company like Sarkis Tarzian or somebody that might have two stations or three stations and they're not in really big, big, big markets? Anything they can do, is it just kind of a wait for them?

Thank you for coming along.

Peter, thank you so much and a very big thanks to each of you for joining this evening.

I really appreciate it.

I am indeed a member of the ACS and and drew upon the expertise of the community a number of times during the research that went into this book, which was invaluable.

It's a wonderful group of people who I think are you know, really sort of understanding and furthering the extent to which cricket shines a light on and is indeed integrated into a wider kind of spectrum of questions about history, society, culture, and dare I say, even politics.

I think that's probably to some people's chagrin, the fact that cricket is a heavily politicised game.

But in some senses, the talk that I'm about to give is an effort to sort of persuade you, if you need persuading, that that is in fact the case and that cricket in its very origins and essence has always been the carrier of politics.

men.

What was it that caught your attention? What made you realize that something was wrong?

So I was in the pool with my son.

He's just learning how to swim.

So he's using his arms now.

So he goes from the steps to me and back.

So I'm probably three meters away from the steps.

So he's swimming towards me.

conscious?

And it's something that developed over the years with you, is it? Or was there always an attraction? Well, I always tell the story

when I was very, very young.

My father, before he died, one of the presents I got at Christmas was a toy projector.

And it fascinated me.

And I used to have little shows at home for my friends and we'd sit down and we'd run a play cinema.

And I got an enormous satisfaction out of looking at other people enjoying themselves.

That built up within my persona.

People seem to be attending the cinema again now, don't they?

Uh, can you tell our listeners a little bit about your career, including your current role as the acting head of the NIC, and maybe a little bit about what the NIC, the National Intelligence Council, uh, really is?

Well, thank you, David, of course, and thank you so much for this opportunity to exchange some thoughts with you on some of our priorities and as, of course, they relate to the National Intelligence Strategy.

So I'm a career analyst.

I joined the agency a long time ago at CIA originally as an analyst of mostly East Asian affairs, served in various capacities as a manager, as an analyst in different AORs, uh, was a chief of staff on the seventh floor for the deputy director, deputy director for our East Asian Pacific Mission Center.

I was formerly, prior to this job, the chief strategy officer for the CIA, uh, where I learned a lot about and participated in some fantastic, uh, conversations about all of our respective government strategies, including the role of the intelligence community.

And now I moved over to the National Intelligence Council, um, in a sense getting me back to the analytic basics, uh, that I grew up doing, if you will.

The National Intelligence Council within ODNI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is fundamentally responsible for pulling together the coordinated view of the entirety of the US intelligence community on the issues around the world that our policymakers have to wrestle with.

What's important in it?