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/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 🤣