Tag: Spittin' Chiclets

"The Bronze award acknowledges podcasts that have surpassed 100 million all-time streams on Spotify — or 50 million in emerging markets."

"People are like, it's behind a paywall. It's not, bro. If you do not have Netflix in America in the year of our Lord 2025, you're not like a human."

“You hate getting traded, you hate getting fired. I didn’t like it too much that I was released.”

"Our boss was like, 'Nobody's watching hockey.' I said 'You don't understand. They don't watch hockey during the regular season, but they'll watch the Stanley Cup Playoffs.'"

"The opportunities kept coming and I just never really said no.”

“There’s no real great magic to anything that we’ve built here,” Portnoy said. “....We look for talented people and we give them absolutely no direction…. We literally tell them – ‘Do whatever you want’ – and you can see how passionate they are about it.”

“I like to beat to my own drum,” said Bissonnette. “I love the freedom. As much as I love everything network-wise… and getting to experience that side of [the industry], I’ll always want to do my own film projects. I’ll always want to say and be able to kind of bring things in the direction I want to bring them and be silly about it because it’s just sports and I think it should be silly.”

"Paul Bissonnette said that Ty and Trevor reached out to their dad shortly after they heard that he was going to part of TNT's NHL plans."

"A total of 72 podcasts were presented for voting consideration in the Original Sports Podcasts category. Executives also had the opportunity (if they wished) to add other titles to the list. By the end of the process, 87 shows appeared on at least one ballot."