About a year and a half ago a friend told me to tune into Spittin Chiclets and really pressed how great it was. I loaded a couple of episodes up for a listen and it didn't take me long to figure out I didn't like it. The interviews were really good as these guys have a knack of talking to hockey people because they directly come from that world, but the other 80% just felt like cringey early 2000s frat boy jock talk. I decided I didn't want to wade through Bissonnette and Whitney waving their dicks around about their sexual conquests just to get to the interviews. Of course, to each their own.
Miller's initial response to an open Q&A was pretty innocuous, and after Barstool fans went after him for it I really didn't have an issue with his explanation. This has long been a complaint of Portnoy and his platform. What I do have a problem with is Portnoy acting like some kind of victim and sic'ing his fans and employees on Miller. The attacks on Miller's 16 year old daughter are particularly disgusting.
If that is the kind of audience you attract maybe it's time to look inwards?
The show is certainly not for everyone. There is though, still a huge appetite for, what many people consider, real talk and real content. The days of the "shock Jock", even on Satellite radio, are done. Not because of lack of audience, but pc pressures from advertisers and lawyers. Podcasts are where you can hear "unedited" talk. Portney is free to call out Miller, fans are free to defend whoever. Certainly though people going after Miller's family are truly garbage.
I equate these such podcasts to the world of stand up comedy. Jim Norton, Jim Florentine, Rich Voss, Bob Kelly, Nick Dipallo etc... They have a very loyal following, are not for everyone and still speak as they want. I mean the late Patrice O'Neal cost himself so many opportunities and likely millions in earning because he refused to conform and stray from what he believed.
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Just heard the exchange with him and Steinberg. Is it Nault's thing to get personal on everything? It's so awkward to listen to, like if you were listening in on two co-workers fighting. If you're reading this Nault, it isn't good radio to do what you're doing!
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Just heard the exchange with him and Steinberg. Is it Nault's thing to get personal on everything? It's so awkward to listen to, like if you were listening in on two co-workers fighting. If you're reading this Nault, it isn't good radio to do what you're doing!
My thoughts exactly. He has had a rough year, so I'll give him that. But most of the time it's hard to listen to him.
Talk about thin skin. That was a nothing comment from Miller.
Portnoy can sit in it. All he had to do was say nothing. Complete idiot.
Spittin Chiclets started before they joined Barstool and will be fine solo. If they’re dumb enough to hitch their wagons to that clown then they can join him.
Portnoy defending his reputation with a red herring argument sounds about as logical as Babcock using the Mitch Hegberg’s “round about AIDS test” method to defend his reputation.
Quote:
“I asked Ken Holland if he’s ever hired anyone who’s an megalomaniacal A-hole”
“No.”
“That’s cool, cause you hired me.”
Hockey culture is so full of toxic cronyism and narcissism it can’t even recognize the water it swims in.
Babcock is a textbook example of being tone deaf.
It’s like the quote. “I’m not sure who discovered water, but I know it wasn’t a fish.”
After sifting through stuff floating around twitter what is really crazy to me is how invested the fans are in Barstool that they need to rush to the defense of them. They will argue to the bitter end with anyone that thinks negatively about Barstool. I couldn't imagine being so emotionally invested in a brand of anything to become that angry with people who don't like it. If you like Barstool, go ahead and enjoy their content. If you don't like it and have decided to explain why you don't then that is your choice as well, but the vitriol over this is mind bottling.
After sifting through stuff floating around twitter what is really crazy to me is how invested the fans are in Barstool that they need to rush to the defense of them. They will argue to the bitter end with anyone that thinks negatively about Barstool. I couldn't imagine being so emotionally invested in a brand of anything to become that angry with people who don't like it. If you like Barstool, go ahead and enjoy their content. If you don't like it and have decided to explain why you don't then that is your choice as well, but the vitriol over this is mind bottling.
Yup sounds like twitter. Mindless arguing over nothing.
"How dare you like something I don't like?"
"Yeah well, how dare you not like something I like?"
Listened to the afternoon show a lot the last two weeks. I was wrong about Nault, he's not getting better, he's getting worse if anything. I think it would be better with just Steinberg, Logan and Klein.
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Its happening so often with Nault lately that you really start to think its being encouraged. Someone probably reading the comments here and taking it back to them. Prodding him on.
Oh I wouldn't be surprised if Kirsch is telling him to do it at all.
Guy is clueless and probably thinks it's "Raw" and good radio.
I've thought the same thing. Sometimes his angry rants almost come off as...scripted, or faked. How anyone legitimately gets so pissed on relatively meaningless topics, I dunno. Either way, it doesn't make for good radio.
Sadly he's likely not going anywhere anytime soon. I can't remember who it was the other day, Boomer maybe, implying SN960's ratings are some of the best in the country. fwiw.
I've thought the same thing. Sometimes his angry rants almost come off as...scripted, or faked. How anyone legitimately gets so pissed on relatively meaningless topics, I dunno. Either way, it doesn't make for good radio.
This is almost as good as when he barks back on the text line.
Why does he care what people think? Yapping back is a no win situation. Look no farther than resident hockey genius Kent Wilson telling everyone “how much he knows about hockey.”
A professional puts their head down and either does the job or works at getting better at doing their job. Pat is good at this.
Francis has his faults, but you don’t see him in hollering contests with fans in social media like Will on the text line or David Staples on Twitter.
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Speaking of Chiclets. Brent Sutter’s interview on today’s podcast is incredible.
Yeah, it was really funny. So many hilarious Sutter stories.
Also while overall Spittin' Chiclets is a tough listen I gave Missing Curfew a shot and it is Spittin' Chiclets on steroids. Shane O'Brien, Scottie Upshall and Jimmy Hayes... SOB and Upshall are both extremely unlikeable and ######y.
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Yeah, it was really funny. So many hilarious Sutter stories.
Also while overall Spittin' Chiclets is a tough listen I gave Missing Curfew a shot and it is Spittin' Chiclets on steroids. Shane O'Brien, Scottie Upshall and Jimmy Hayes... SOB and Upshall are both extremely unlikeable and ######y.
The Cam and Strick podcast can also be a tough listen. Cam sounds like a Newfie, which is just weird.
If you skip to the interview portions with their guest it’s great. The Brian Sutter interview is really good. They pretty much let Babcock expose himself for what he is.
Strickland is a journalist so he asks really good questions and keeps Janssen on track.
