ESPN

“They'd hired Rick Riley, and it was after they had signed me, and he made way more money than me, and I just couldn't believe it, because I was more important to them than he was.”

“That I had, my contract was coming up the beginning of oh seven and Yahoo was trying to get me to jump over, which I didn't want to do.”

“ESPN squashed it, and they squashed it for reasons that... I didn't fully understand. ESPN was very worried about... Bias, or... Seeming like they were biased one way or the other, with Democrats, Republicans, whatever it was. And they were just like, well, yo…”

“Grantland broke even, but we should have made more money. We had nine of the top 10 podcasts at ESPN during a time when podcasts were starting to make real money and they didn't know how to monetize it.”

“They sold all of our podcasts advertised in the subway for 750,000 dollars a year. When we had, it was easily six, seven, eight million dollars worth of advertising we could have gotten from the pods at that time.”

“People get tired of writer's voices. I'm going to run out of things to say at some point.”

“I think that thing that really got me was that I got suspended without pay for the first two weeks, and I already felt like I was underpaid for them, and I was killing it for them, and it was kind of irreparable after that.”

“I just want people to come back to read me, and the only way they're going to keep coming back is if I'm unpredictable. It can't just be like, here are my top 20 trades. It's like, what's the extra hook? What's the extra gimmick?”

“I was writing 10, 11,000 words a week. And it was unsustainable. Like I really started to burn out and Jimmy came along.”

“I think ESPN was way more political and way more sinister. Spotify's not sinister, but it's also a big company that has a lot of opposing objectives”

“And they did. Though Rice's told them. No, he lied.”