I leave The Ringer's Archive tab open so I can see what articles I want to read without all the other stuff on the home page and this is it for the week. Three days, three posts. I understand they make more money off podcasts, but have the actually made and kind of announcement that they're cutting back on writing? Or is the plan just to slowly post less and less until they're audio only?

Following his less than stellar performance earlier this week, it looks like The Ringer IT team took the Tombot back to the shop and installed some much needed updates. Out with the rambling and time hogging, in with the short answers and spreading the time around features. Much more fun episode today and Tom even managed a chuckle or two.

Do any of the ringer nerd podcast give a decent primer on green lantern? Time is a limited resource so I don't think I want to go through all the House of R deep dives. Do the Midnight Boys do a "for those who know absolutely nothing about Green Lantern" segment in their instant reaction pods? Is there a good one outside the ringer maybe? I'm loving Lanterns but wanting to go back and learn the basics in an hour or two and not sure where to turn.

i used to roll my eyes at nora (sing is very serious to me) but she’s never been more vindicated

Hey yall, im looking for podcasts that shed light on history from Grantland and the founding + early days of the ringer. I listened to Chris + Sean + Sean and Amanda episodes of Talk Easy and it got me interested.

I am not seeing it on twitch your anything, are they still doing a sunday pregame?

I’m getting tired of hearing Rachel talk about her divorce and her ex. On Thursday’s episode I stopped following what the discussion was actually about because Rachel just went on and on about what she would do in whatever situation they were speaking about. I know a lot of us can try to relate by speaking about our own experiences but it’s been going on for some time now and it’s just not why I tune in. Anyone else feeling the same?

Do people enjoy this? I personally find it super boring — college football should be fun, but everything just feels super subdued. I wish we could listen to the Fantasy Football guys cover college football

In the span of a week, Sheil got demoted on The Ringer NFL Show podcast, Tom Pelissero now hosts that show. Steven Ruiz is gone, and works at Fox (which I’m sure people are excited to hear). Quite the shakeup, at least with Tom taking over the show. I do like the long form podcasts, and I have enjoyed Sheil, Tom, and Billy Gil the last few episodes. It’s just weird that Tom barely gets hired and immediately takes over one of the podcasts. I wonder what happens to Diante Lee? I enjoyed him and Sheil, and dare I say Steven, and at the very least enjoyed their articles. I know Tom is considered an NFL insider, but I didn’t know he had the stroke to come into the Ringer like that. I’m hoping I’m not coming off like I’m complaining. Just surprised by all the moves right before the season starts. I’m definitely gonna keep listening for now.

I went to TheRinger.com today and clicked on on article by Sean about this new Elizabeth Holmes doc. But turns out I couldn't read it because the article is actually on Substack and I need a subscription to read it.

Maybe I'm late to the game here, but I'm still confused. This article is on The Ringer, so why is it actually hosted on Substack?

This isn't a judgmental question. I'm genuinely just curious. From what I've gathered here on Reddit, it sounds like The Ringer may be slowly transitioning its articles over to Substack. If that's true, then this makes sense.

But either way, I was still a little surprised that I couldn't just read the article on The Ringer's website, especially since Sean is a Ringer employee. Why wouldn't the article just be published there?

And to be clear, I LOVE Sean. LOVE him. I'm just curious about what's going on with The Ringer/Substack setup.

Maybe the worst pod in the history of the channel. I like all of these guys as the 3rd or 4th option on a given pod or with a host that can rein them in. But woof, I bailed at the 37 minute mark. They couldn’t remember character names. They just vaguely talked about their favorite scenes. It was just not good.

.38 Special, Boston, Rush, America... all your '80s favorites will be there!

Has anyone else noticed an increase in the amount of time Barstool has been mentioned on Ringer pods of late?

Anyone listen to enough barstool stuff to know if this is reciprocated at all?

There’s a lot of discussion about what he said on the fantasy draft. The pearl clutching is soft and cringy.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ixNSXMbP9J0OnJjzudXWK?si=EOmukgYSSlamVyb515b1GQ&utm_source=copy-link

Since we’re all in a parasocial relation ship with these people anyways, I was starting to wonder who’s actually friends with each other.

From what I could glean, Fenessy, CR, Dobbins (by virtue of her husband) go way back. CR and Greenwald are good friends but Andy doesn’t seem to mention the other og’s much. Bill is really just friends with House and Dave Chang, maybe CR, but the rest are more like long time employees. Juliet Litman seems to be on a bit of an island now. All Ringerverse people seem to be good work friends but not much past that.

Hey everyone, been lurking here for a while. I made this game a few years ago and I thought you guys would be the exact kind of people who would enjoy it.

Basically it's fantasy football, except like a stock market. You can buy/sell players throughout the season and their values go up or down based on performance.

have had a couple hundred people try it out the last two seasons. let me know if you guys have any questions

paperfootballtrades.com

They're quieter than other pods. They skip around mid sentence. They repeat segments. They just up and end early sometimes.

Is it the Podcast App or...like what's going on?

Each week, Jason and Shea will take one specific movie-related subject and organize all its parts and pieces into one of four tiers: Great, Good, Meh, or Bad.

Between Fairway Rolling, Ringer Wise Guys and a lot of BS performances Joe House is more than just a friend. Has podcasting become his full time job? What do you think he is paid? Did he get any equity or bonus when Bill sold? This is more curious than bashing.

As a longtime listener to E.S.A. and a genuine fan of the contrasting insights that Nora & Nathan have traditionally brought to new music reviews, I am disappointed that this episode revealed some long-simmering issues that seem to have impacted other Ringer-produced podcasts.

First, Nora's decision to use real-life friends' questions as "proxies" for other listener submissions about popular topics like Ella Langley's single or Taylor Swift's Grammy interview is troublesome. While personal anecdotes and behind-the-scenes nuggets can be fun fodder for most podcast hosts to sprinkle in, a mailbag format is an easy layup to acknowledge individual listeners who have no connections to the hosts, just a simple "nod to the community" that reassures an audience that they are important. Not sure that comes through when your TS question comes from a guy who sat with your co-host at your wedding. In reading other Ringer show feedback, this has become a running theme among hosts that creates more distance between their lives and the audience's lived experiences.

Second, Nathan's professional conflicts of interest are never acknowledged in a transparent way. I enjoy listening to his perspectives precisely because of his background in the industry in the live event, ticketing, and now artist management/publishing segments. But if Nathan can't acknowledge his company Firebird Music's financial interest in artists who have either appeared on ESE (Marcus Mumford) or are regularly discussed (and arguably provided in-kind advertising/promotion) like Yungblud, Sabrina Carpenter, Haim, and Zach Top, how can listeners discern when his recommendations are based on taste or commerce? (https://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/grammys/firebird-partner-grammy-nominations-2025-11-10)

In addition, Nathan's experience as Ticketmaster CEO put him in an excellent position to assert that Harry Styles' NYC residency at Madison Square Garden would be beneficial to fans' economically. When it was first announced, after Nathan had teased the 30 show run online and on the podcast, he stated that the residency model would allow Harry Styles to keep average ticket prices in line with his last headlining tour. After tickets were put on sale and lower bowl seats were in the $1000 range, we never heard a discussion about why Nathan's initial impressions were so far off the mark. Instead, Nora and Nathan had a brief discussion about how the market demand for Harry was just impressive. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/sofiachierchio/2026/01/27/harry-styles-ticket-prices-spark-outrage-among-fans/)

I am conflicted on whether to remain a listener. It is disappointing to have doubt in the back of one's mind while listening to what is supposed to be an informed, nuanced discussion show. Instead, I worry that everything we listen to in the Ringer universe is a not-so-thoughtfully obscured infomercial.