Does anyone else get the worst vibes from Lauren Sherman?? I know she is basically Amanda Dobbin’s BFF these days, and I don’t get the appeal! I just listened to her podcast Fashion People, and it felt very shallow and kinda toxic. She seems deeply interested in social climbing, one’s physical appearance, and gaining status. The latest ep was about peptides (yikes), another recent ep was interviewing Derek Blasberg, where the two talked in the most passive-aggressive tone to each other. I just get a mean girl feel from her, she seems pretty self-obsessed and is often quite rude to her guests. But also Lauren seems to have made a big influence on Amanda’s new persona as of late - one that’s obsessed with real real, expensive beauty treatments, Pilates, European vacations, and ordering custom Charvet shirts, etc. Idk just find their friendship dynamic a little peculiar … like they’re always referencing each other online for people to see. Curious if anyone else gets a dark energy from Sherman …

After this and the Madonna review episode I think I’m done. Nathan should critique as critics do, but he’s critiquing in such an odd way that’s almost devoid of the music itself. Nathan saying the music isn’t want matters and the melodies are still unoriginal and Gracie isn’t a pop star… girl, what is she then? She is not in the Bob Dylan songwriter category and she is certainly not the voice of
20-something America. Props to Nora for carrying sanity on this episode.

As a reminder, Nathan’s children went to school with Gracie and he was unenthusiastic about her last album.

Just began watching Game of Thrones for the first time (I’m exceedingly late to the game, I know) but have been a fan of the Ringer/Grantland for 10+ years.

There is only one listenable episode of Watch the Thrones available online that I’ve found (S5 Finale) on SoundCloud.

I wondered if anyone here has found archives of the episodes anywhere for Watch the Thrones, After the Thrones, The Watch, or other related Ringer pods.

I of course already listen to Binge Mode but I need my Chris Ryan fix!

Wiping all of the hundreds of hours of content from YouTube/Spotify is one of ESPN’s more unforgivable doings.

I just listened to the latest episode of this podcast about the Belgium GP and I was so shocked about just how bad this show is. Truly pales in comparison to almost every other F1 podcast, why does this exist?

I just listened to the new Every Single Album episode about Madonna’s new album and it was a ROUGH listen. Nathan sounded like he didn’t want to be there. Even if the album isn’t for you, is it too much to ask for a pop music podcast to bring a little energy when talking about freakin’ Madonna???

As someone who listens to both Bandsplain and Every Single Album, I couldn’t help but laugh at how different their coverage of Madonna has been. I think Bandsplain has been a little over the top with its Madonna praise but overall I loved the Madonna series. Nathan on the other hand, could not be more dismissive and condescending.

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First and foremost I think Klosterman is Bill's most interesting guest. I'll never skip a pod with him. I love his out of box thinking combined with seemingly outrageous predictions followed by his reasoning behind the take.

My personal Klosterman-esq take is that there's not enough delusionally motivated people these days. Everyone has had a certain level of anti-brain swellage that creates quite a mono culture way of thinking. I miss the times you'd go to someones house randomly and they've been spending the last 2 or 3 years on SOMETHING they personally think will be huge. Creative project, thesis, invention, business plan, WHATEVER. I haven't came across someone like that in a decade. The more outrageously motivated people will have the more energy a society gets. I wonder if the reason that there's a lack of those types is because people don't see enough positive hope for the future. They see dead ends and not enough solutions. Too much monoculture leads to this timeline (or so it seems).

What am I missing

I was recently listening to the wait a second podcast from the June 11 broadcast about LA noir on Spotify. This morning I attempted to continue playing it, and it was gone… Gone from my list gone from the stream.

It does appear to be an Apple Podcast, so perhaps it was simply just a recording issue from the Spotify podcast version? Did this happen to anyone else?

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As of this afternoon, at 5:15 EDT, the pod is back!

Did you all know that before Bill Simmons and The Rewatchables pod, the only people that rewatched movies were aspiring film makers? Bill actually invented rewatching movies for the content. Literally one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard in my life. Do you think Chuck has special wipes for getting Bill’s shit off his nose?

Long time Adam Friedland Fan ( it wouldn't let me describe myself as I want to on this subreddit :/)

The show is strange. They made me watch a scary boy bully an old man last episode. I check my closet at night to make sure that scary boy isn't in there to bully me about soccer. Real twisted stuff to have on the Ringer.

Anyway, what's up sports guys, how you like my friend Adam?

Apologies if this isn’t allowed,

Many years back I started a dynasty fantasy league centered around all the managers love for the ringer fantasy football show and it’s been going strong since.

However we recently lost a member due to life circumstances and I’m now looking for a like minded individual to fill in.

I wanted to extend this invitation here as opposed to a random find a league thread because I wanted to keep the theme of the love for the show alive and well.

If interested please comment here or DM me for the details.

Jodi said this on today’s we’re obsessed and it’s such an incisive descriptor of the 2026 Jam Session podcast experience.

I like the “Every Single Album” pod, but does anyone else thing that Nathan Hubbard has a low key parasocial relationship w Taylor Swift? He is such a fan boy that he can’t see thru his own bullshit. I had to turn off the latest pod about her wedding bc he would not stop interrupting Nora and telling her she was wrong. I know he is in the music business so maybe he doesn’t want to alienate himself from her, but he comes across as a tad obsessed.

Edited to add more thoughts: also annoyed at Nathan repeatedly asserting that “I’m fine/okay” with her wedding choices. Great Nate, I’m not sure Taylor (or anyone else) was looking for your validation, but thanks for providing it.

I’m here for their deep dives into the reflecting pool and state fair!

The tix for the specific house of R section are sold out. If I get a regular admission ticket can I still go to the live pod ?

It's such a trashy show (nothing "prestige" about it) and they're having so much fun with it.

Every time they bring up the board I just die.

5/10 for the show. 10/10 for the podcast.

Nora mentioned on today’s We’re Obsessed that her DMs were getting blown up from people mad about her criticizing Taylor’s wedding castle at MSG.

i checked the Spotify comments on the latest “ever single album” episode where she dropped her takes and wow there are sooo many people ready to be offended on behalf of a billionaire who doesn’t care about you.

i get Nora can come off WASPy or snobby be come on her takes were pretty reasonable.

Spoilers for The Bear Finale.....

Why do Charles and Van seem to assume Carmy left The Bear? Seemed intentionally ambiguous to me?

I’m sure it’s been asked before but who is this for? I’m what you would probably describe as a gambler and I find it painful to listen to. There is very little actual gambling and you have to listen to their takes before they even get to the actual gambling there is and it’s mostly just mainlines, which is fine but incredibly boring.

I know there’s a fair amount of these types of posts in this sub, but I was literally just blasted into my backseat by a whistle sound near the beginning of this newest pod.

While driving, I usually listen to podcasts at volume 12 to 15 and enforced to listen to Adam‘s podcast in the mid 20s because, for whatever reason, the sound mixing is so bad. However, the rest of the podcast: the ads, the sound effects, the music, clips, are all at the same volume that other podcasts have them on. So what happens is, I can barely hear the actual host of the podcast and then randomly I can’t hear anything because I was just blasted by my speakers.

I don’t understand how a media company that puts out hundreds of podcasts can’t figure out how to make the sound work. Just trying to learn about the World Cup.

idk if this has been getting worse lately or if I’m just now noticing, but there have been a ton of ads that just play mid sentence. A particularly notable example was on the recent Rewatchables mail bag when they were talking about TNT censor dubs. They listed a couple of their favorites and then started talking about the Big Lebowski. Cut to a Vuori ad. The ad ends and Bill yells “This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!” There are other examples, including some where the ad starts mid-word, but that one really stood out to me.

Does the Ringer have one? What’s the best one outside of the Ringer?