One of the more creative sports podcasts you will find on the internet is Drinks With Binks with Julie Stewart-Binks over on FUBO TV. It is a show where Stewart-Binks has a celebrity guest on such as an athlete, media personality, or actor/actress to talk about their careers and other topics.
This week, Stewart-Binks was on The Sports Media With Richard Deitsch podcast (about 37 minute mark) and while the word drinks isn’t in the title and alcohol would come to mind, there isn’t exactly much alcohol being consumed on the show, if at all:
“The thing I like to try to tell people is alcohol is an interesting topic with people because I always like to say it’s a drink, it doesn’t have to be alcohol,” said Stewart-Binks.”We have a lot of sober people on the show. People get scared when you say booze.
“We run everything by every PR person and different networks. Most everyone at ESPN has had water or coffee because its one of those things where people get scared they will have a sip of beer and tell all the secrets of ESPN. We actually don’t drink that much on the show.”
In the past, Stewart-Binks has worked for FS1 and ESPN and she was asked about her reaction to ESPN and Turner getting the rights to the NHL in the USA. She said she was shocked and curious to see how the game will be covered.
“Turner is what I am super curious to see what they do. I know everyone in the hockey world doesn’t want anything too spicy. I think they will have a little bit of room to play in.”
Julie Stewart-Binks is a native Canadian. She told Deitsch that she hopes the NHL’s new broadcast partners can recreate some of the magic and passion about the sport she felt watching Hockey Night in Canada growing up.
“When I sometimes watch NBC, I feel like I don’t necessarily connect with them because the people broadcasting it didn’t have the same growing up experience of every Saturday morning, I’m playing hockey, wearing my gear to the rink…You sense that with Hockey Night in Canada and that’s what I feel when I watch it. No offense to anyone at NBC, I am a huge fan of everyone who broadcasts the game. I just don’t necessarily feel they are my neighbor or friend doing the broadcast.”