I believe I could call some line of code to display just that text anywhere on my post, am I right?
No, there is no such function. podPress prints this line via the file podpress_theme.php and the function in this file is called from a function from the function insert_content() in podpress_class.php . This function is a filter function which attached to the the_content Action Hook.
Inside the Loop the variable $post does contain also the meta data of the podPress attachments.
$post has 2 podPress elements of them is $post->podPressMedia
You can see an example of the structure of podPressmedia and podPressPostSpecific here:
http://pastebin.com/R0REqasF
With this meta data you get the file names of the media files and with the file names you can retrieve the download numbers as it is done in the function insert_content():
http://pastebin.com/cUb8w3uU
Notice: if you build your own filter plugin to retrieve and insert the stats then $this->settings['enableStats'] becomes $podPress->settings['enableStats']. Also be aware that podPress counts the downloads only on the basis of the file name (and not the full URL or path). (That might change one day.)
Another possibility to modify the displayed stats is to use the filter hook podpress_downloadlinks. You could attach a filter plugin to that hook and modify the line that way.
In both cases you will need more than one line of code.
If you have further questions then I will try answer them.
Regards,
Tim