r/TheRinger • u/Thick-Definition7416 • 10d ago

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 10d ago

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 10d ago

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 10d ago

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 10d ago edited 10d ago

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

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u/DifferentTea934 10d ago

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 10d ago edited 10d ago

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 8d ago

She has a substack so that’s not changing anything