We Won Some More Stuff

Internal accounting.

HELLO.

1. Just joined MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace and then Tim Miller at The Bulwark to discuss Trump, Saudi Arabia, corruption, golf, and how the answer to all your questions — to quote Tony Kornheiser quoting Don Ohlmeyer — is money:

2. My quest to transcend external validation — as established in our conversation with Cord Jefferson — recently hit another snag. PTFO won Best Sports Documentary Podcast at the 2025 Sports Podcast Awards. (And The Sporting Class, as previously mentioned, was named Best Sports Business Podcast.) I hesitate to report that this felt… good.

3. PTFO, additionally, was named a finalist for Best Sports Podcast this week at the Podcast Academy’s Awards for Excellence in Audio. (Feelings TBD.)

4. Our YouTube channel just surpassed 100,000 subscribers. Which means something to an audio-first program that doubles as a produced TV show that you can watch, for free, on said channel. (It also means that PTFO’s side-quest to end our allegiance to round numbers has run aground.)

5. For accounting purposes, it’s worth mentioning that PTFO launched just 17 months ago, in September 2023, after suckling at Dan Le Batard’s bountiful and generous teat. And in the last year — Feb. 2024 to Feb. 2025 — the audio-only version of PTFO has been downloaded a total of 9.3 million times.

6. And over that same span, our channels have amassed a total of 234.3 million impressions and 66.7 million views across X/Instagram/YouTube/TikTok.

7. As for the shows themselves, we handpicked a few from our 205-episode back catalog and are setting them atop our podcast feed this week:

8. There are dolphins in the East River.

9. I repeat:

   

(More on this later.)

THANK YOU,

Pablo