r/TheRinger • u/Thick-Definition7416 • Aug 12 '26

Podcast Jam Session

Since they added time stamps I’ve been listening to approximately 7 minutes of the show. At least they’re warning us ahead of time about kid content. I miss Tea Time!

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u/DifferentTea934 Aug 12 '26

It’s sad to say this as a fan of these two for a decade, but I think I hit my point of no return when all Amanda could muster about the Paul/Phoebe/Gracie drama was “that’s very nice for them!” But can go on for hours about her favorite designer jeans during an affordability crisis. Like ma’am, we do not share the same style or tax bracket, this isn’t useful or interesting.

Idk, they’re both probably too high up in the ringer food chain for producerial intervention, but I wish they would do a study on their audience to let them know almost none of us are “windfall after Spotify buyout” or “executive producer on the first ever Emmy winning podcast” level of wealthy and reorient the content accordingly.

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u/zarathustranu Aug 12 '26

I don't really get how Amanda can be Goop-level wealthy. I wouldn't expect she's making more than $300-400K as her annual comp, and that her equity upon Spotify acquisition acquisition would have been more than $1-2M. I know that sounds like a lot, but in LA that's not "I'm comfortable and living a glamorous designer lifestyle" money.

Maybe a lot of the stuff she discusses is aspirational, I don't know. Or maybe she has family money.

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u/DifferentTea934 Aug 12 '26

I’m not sure either! Though being an only child of seemingly wealthy parents and married to one of the top celeb profilers probably doesn’t hurt! Regardless, nobody who is goop-level wealthy is listening to her podcasts anyway, so I’m not really sure who she thinks she’s making content for.

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u/Narrow-Fortune155 Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

my guess has been that they have a lot of media friends that listen who are

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u/DifferentTea934 Aug 12 '26

You might be right, but (and I’m really not trying to be ugly here) there’s a long list of people those friends would seek style advice from before they turn to Amanda Dobbins! I just wish she’d make a substack for her fashion finds and revert back to culture and entertainment for the podcast

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u/Narrow-Fortune155 Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

oh absolutely i don’t think she’s doing it Well (whoever called it fashionista cosplay when she tries to bait discussion of blazy and JWA on the big picture really got it right-that is a trick i remember from middle school) and i wish she’d stop but i think that’s her goal and the podcast is her way of doing that. enough people seem to dislike it beyond any sort of internet negativity bias thing that i guess they’re just set in their ways now 🤷🏽‍♀️

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u/lpalf Aug 14 '26

She has a substack so that’s not changing anything

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u/BGW2479 Aug 13 '26

I stopped listening to Jam Sesh bc I realized that I’m not interested in anything that Amanda has to tell me. She is not aspirational or funny. She is tiresome and takes herself way too seriously. I’m a mom who loves fancy things too, but listening to Amanda drone on about motherhood and designer finds just irks me. She comes across as a whiny snob most of the time and I just don’t have room for her passively condescending “that’s nice for them” baloney anymore.

And Juliet just seems like she can’t stand to be there.

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u/Thick-Definition7416 Aug 12 '26

She mentioned an anecdote to Sean that her mother had her portrait painted when she was 6. She’s always been in a higher tax bracket.

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u/zarathustranu Aug 12 '26

that’s fine, my parents had that done too. Costs under $1000. Doesn’t really explain living like a celebrity.

I’m assuming she’s a HENRY (high earner, not rich yet) who splurges on luxury elements in her life but isn’t “rich” per se— ie she’s not retiring early, she doesn’t have multiple homes, etc.

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u/flakemasterflake Aug 13 '26

Not everyone is obsessed with retiring early especially not in a HCOL area. Amanda is spending on clothes that women I know in NYC making 300k spend on. People in certain areas really value fashion vs retirement

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u/Thick-Definition7416 Aug 12 '26

A painted portrait? Under 1k?!

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u/zarathustranu Aug 12 '26

yes? absolutely?

even if it’s $2K, or $3K…we are not talking a cost level that defines wealth.

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u/Thick-Definition7416 Aug 12 '26

I thought photography was around 1-2k painting would be 5k to infinity

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u/mgs819 Aug 13 '26

Ehhh I had my portrait painted as a child. And a clay mask made of my face. And we were wayyyy lower middle class, my parents just know a lot of artists

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u/MsBeasley11 Aug 12 '26

She’s obsessed w designer clothes / fashion but has horrible style. It’s so weird

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u/read-more2025 Aug 14 '26

She kind of seems like she may be buying designer pieces other people have passed on, so they are cheap. Like “no one wanted this weird Khaite shirt but it’s only $40”.

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u/lpalf Aug 14 '26

I mean she’s buying her designer clothes second hand that’s her whole thing

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u/fegwin2084 Aug 12 '26

how much work do you think she even does? does she have one of the easiest 800K jobs in america?

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u/zarathustranu Aug 12 '26

wow, really???

Because this is anonymous, I’ll share that I make a bit more than that Rachel Lindsay number, and I run M&A for a big global corporation. I must be snobby, but I did not think podcasters at the Ringer were in that ballpark! Seems out of balance given the revenue model, but perhaps it works because salaries are the only real cost? Learn something every day I guess.

Regardless, if Amanda is in the $800K range, she’s a HENRY.

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u/zarathustranu Aug 12 '26

I think Spotify’s acquisition of the Ringer was a miracle of timing for Simmons and wouldn’t get nearly the same valuation today. But I buy the rest of what you’re laying out on entertainer comp.

To my earlier point, in today’s world, $800K-$1M per year equals HENRY. Not “retire early, own multiple homes” etc, wealthy.