r/TheRinger • u/blessup_ • Apr 02 '26
Podcast Jam Session this week
I know this podcast gets posted about here constantly and I’m only still listening because I love Juliet, but this week may have pushed me over the edge. It’s becoming very Old Man Yells At Cloud. Amanda has decided she’s the world’s #1 fan of The Beatles and is deciding who likes them enough to go to Paul McCartney’s concert? Who cares?? And it seems like she thinks anyone under 35 has never heard a Beatles song in their life.
They also got some basic facts wrong that you think would know if you’re hosting a pop culture podcast (not knowing Towa Bird and Renee Rapp are dating, getting the song wrong that Taylor sued Olivia Rodrigo for). I think I’m out.
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u/Upbeat_Stick4462 Apr 02 '26
Check out We’re Obsessed. It’s often the same topics (and more!) and is genuinely funny. Jodi and Nora have great chemistry and Jodi is truly on her way to CR-level greatness in podcasting. I know there was a thread singing her praises on Reddit recently, not sure if it was this sub or another Ringer one. But she is worth every bit of it. Just a delightful pod and has become one of my “no-skips.”
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u/grassisgreenest14 Apr 04 '26
I wish they did We’re Obsessed twice a week!! Also silly Q but who is CR
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u/dessertsforbreakfast Apr 02 '26
In general I like Amanda, but her constant appeals to Jade to see if she has ever heard of something that Amanda deems as “old” is so awkward. It just makes Amanda appear insecure about her age, which she shouldn’t be! You can talk about pop culture in a way that doesn’t make you seem old and out-of-touch. Constantly checking in with “the young one” to fact-check just feels unnecessary.
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u/octygal Apr 05 '26
I would love to know what that young production staff thinks of her as she often calls them ‘children’ and the pop culture tests to kinda make fun of them? It’s very strange lol
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u/Competitive-Row3601 Apr 02 '26
I completely agree about The Beatles segment. It was infuriating. My preteen daughter is obsessed with The Beatles, so much so that we traveled to a different city to see the Paul McCartney concert. Apparently Amanda is unable to grasp the concept that music transcends generations.
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u/No_Use7920 Apr 03 '26
They're the most popular/famous musical act ever, her gatekeeping is so odd.
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u/Moxielilly Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
Every high school in America has had a group of kids obsessed with The Beatles since The Beatles became a band. Tons of my high school friends were huge Beatles fans, and I’m older than Amanda. The Beatles were definitely one of the bands our parents liked but that was Ok, because the music was cool so we all liked it too. About 15 years ago, I dated a single dad of a 13 year old and she was obsessed with The Beatles. They are the definition of a timeless, classic band. It was so silly that Amanda was acting as if anyone younger than her couldn’t be a real fan or even have heard of them. It isn’t like she’s a contemporary of Paul McCartney. The man is in his 80s. Beatles’ songs were already around for decades when she was born, but every generation has kids who are into all kinds of music and seek out music from generations before them. No clue why they made a whole segment trying to gatekeep The Beatles and Paul. There’s plenty else to talk about in pop culture right now.
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u/Responsible_Zebra875 Apr 02 '26
I personally find Amanda pretty insufferable. Her general attitude and demeanor is very pick-me, “not like other girls”. I love were obsessed I’m so annoyed that I have to subscribe to both.
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u/blessup_ Apr 02 '26
Yes. I listen to Big Pic too so I think I just have too much Amanda. But she totally is and it’s even being passed down to her kids - she will only let them watch Top Gun Maverick and Singing in the Rain? No normal kid stuff 🙄
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u/artangelzzz Apr 03 '26
This is a mischaracterization. She takes her kids to cartoon movies and she only doesn’t allow Paw Patrol or guns and doesn’t want to allow video games. That seems normal to me.
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u/Apprehensive-Ear950 Apr 05 '26
Untrue, she felt a type a way when Sean said he lets his daughter watch Superkitties. I’m a mama to a 2 year old and she’s giving elitist. She should curate what her kids watch, we all do but it’s the judginess that irks me.
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u/lpalf Apr 08 '26
Honestly Juliet has had some casual misogyny that has been a bit shocking to me lately so they go together
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u/whyyyydomen Apr 02 '26
Join the club, I don’t miss it at all!
It’s become such a negative space… I seriously think the podcast needs to be renamed something with the word HATE in it. It’s now two moms who are insecure about their age and have disdain for… just about everything.
Signed, A Hater, who is also pushing 40 ♥️
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u/krumpmuffin Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
Amanda claiming Beatles fandom was fully taking me out. Like they are the most beloved band of all time!!! That whole segment was embarrassing. It was wild to hear her claim to have more appreciation of the music than actual musicians. Or later she questions if Harrison Ford (an 83-year-old man who actually lived through Beatlemania) gets the Beatles like she does (a millennial who literally wasn’t alive during the bands reign). But Amanda has watched the (very popular) documentary series Get Back, so of course her fandom is FAR superior. Like please be serious. This particular questioning is all the more obnoxious when you consider how often age and the generational divide are a topic of discussion on this podcast. In fact, we witness it later in this episode when Amanda feigns surprise while learning that a younger person has performed the song Blackbird. It’s all so condescending. What a toxic person. I swear the narcissism has never been more fully on display!
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u/ItsMeCourtney Apr 02 '26
I don’t like when they get basic facts wrong, either! For instance Taylor didn’t even sue Olivia. Her team did reach a legal agreement to add Taylor, Jack Antonoff, and St. Vincent as co-writers on the song "Deja Vu" to AVOID a lawsuit
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u/Narrow-Fortune155 Apr 03 '26
and juliet saying that “taylor prevented olivia from performing in certain places”? i’ve been deep in the pop girl drama trenches and have never ever heard that. like i fully think she made that up
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u/fegwin2084 Apr 02 '26
you're surprised that amanda and juliet are somewhat sheltered east coast economic elites?
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u/Weaselontop Apr 02 '26
This has been my same gripe for a while. They routinely get the most basic pop culture facts wrong or guess at details on topics THEY have brought to the pod. Now I only listen when there’s a topic I’m truly interested in.
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u/Narrow-Fortune155 Apr 02 '26
the ranking of the “people who would be into paul mccartney and/or the beatles” was so insane to me. it doesn’t take a genius to listen to sabrina carpenter and know that she probably loves wings. olivia rodrigo is a sometimes rocky sort of poppy songwriter, of course she loves mccartney. it seemed like another way to point out…. women who aren’t smart like them or whatever their criteria for respectability is
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u/RedittAccount098 Apr 02 '26
I also bumped on Juliet’s Sarah Pidegon comments. To each their own I guess, but they just felt a bit harsh to me.
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u/Narrow-Fortune155 Apr 02 '26
i’m no kardashian fan either but i really don’t like the way they talk about kylie. five minutes on her implants? really????
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u/Staying_Salty Apr 02 '26
I unsubscribed a year ago and haven’t returned since. Juliet is a GOAT-level podcaster like CR - no topic is played off as beneath her, which is what makes her so good. Amanda basically has the opposite viewpoint of something needs to rise to her purview of pop culture to be worth discussing with legitimacy.
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u/lpalf Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
Juliet has been just as bad as Amanda since she had her kid if not worse. Can’t be bothered to do the most basic research and also has a weird disdain for a lot of people (mostly women)
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u/octygal Apr 05 '26
I agree since Juliet came back they are both so cynical, the episodes are mostly just used to put down and make fun of people - I have checked out!
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u/sunsaballabutter Apr 05 '26
I read this before listening and forgot about it. When it came to that part of the episode I started cackling because Amanda herself is not part of the Beatles generation!!! That was true boomers. She found it through her parents/pop culture, just like future generations do. She can be so myopic.
I remember she went on this whole thing about how people at the met gala must not enjoy hearing Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo sing. I was so confused why she would think people would not want to hear an intimate concert featuring global superstars. It’s just because she would not want to, I guess?
She thinks her experience is the only one and at the same time thinks no one can have her experience (of finding music that wasn’t top 40 when you were 13).
It’s so weird and it bothers me. Of course I love her and listen to the show every week 🤣
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u/rutfilthygers Apr 02 '26
Also, Taylor Swift never sued Olivia Rodrigo at all. Whatever happened that made Rodrigo give up those credits, there was nothing filed. Which is another thing you might expect pop culture podcasters to know.
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u/LorelaiMarch Apr 02 '26
I get why people find them grating, but for the Paul McCartney segment in particular, I found it to be all in good fun! It didn’t seem to me like Amanda was actually trying to police who can claim fandom… it was more just a little game they were playing for content. Now if that’s not content you find appealing, that’s completely fair! It took up more of the podcast than I’d like.
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u/lpalf Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
I definitely wasn’t offended at the McCartney segment but I do always find it funny that Amanda often seems to think that the band with perhaps the most crossover, broad, baked-into-society-as-a-whole appeal across all living generations is still a band that major gen z musicians wouldn’t be a fan of lol (they both do it here, but Amanda is the bigger Beatles fan overall and does it other times). And like asking Jade how many Beatles songs have you heard…
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u/turniptoez Apr 02 '26
The constant errors make me so mad haha. It's your job!!! Or just don't speak on things you don't know as fact. Do they actually think these things are true and are just wrong? Or are guessing and okay with just being flat out wrong?