r/TheRinger

A few weeks ago Charles had a story on one of the pod episodes (can’t remember exactly which one) where he was telling a story about one of his “friends” who had a pet snake, and his friend would keep the snake in their bed while they slept. The snake stopped eating, the friend took the snake to the vet, and the vet said that the snake was “sizing them up and making room to eat them.”

I had never heard of this type of thing happening before, as I don’t have a lot of friends who own snakes, but it seemed like a shock to the rest of the Midnight Boys, as if they had never heard of this either.

However, on tonight’s most recent episode of Euphoria, one of the characters is telling the story about a snake that lives in a strip club. This story, beat by beat, was nearly IDENTICAL to the story Charles told on a podcast a month ago.

Is this just a huge coincidence?? Is this a common story with snake owners who happen to let their reptiles sleep in their beds with them? I’n not necessarily accusing anyone of stealing stories (the timing doesn’t really line up if that were the case), but it is wild, especially considering I had just told my girlfriend about this story mere days ago.

It’s been almost two months with no sign of coming back. Where is everyone finding their tv recommendations these days?

As a long-time Zach Lowe fan, I’m puzzled why The Ringer hired Zach Lowe to basically do 2 pods a week? Am I missing other content? I gotta imagine they’re/the spotify-Netflix mothership is paying him well, but is he really just doing 2 pods a week and racking up checks?

I'm really disappointed that TPB hasn't covered the end of Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast. They haven't even mentioned it! Yes I know it sounds like Joel left there on not great terms, but so many great sports journalists, including Joel, have been hosts of the show, Bryan worked at Slate for many years, and the show was around for an eternity in podcasting time; in the least, it deserves a segment, if not (ideally) an episode devoted to it that brings in all the past hosts for a roundtable convo about it's place in the history of sports/media/culture podcasting.

Tuned in to the latest ep hoping that a CR injection would help the vibe. Good god, we ask too much of that man. Juliet’s small talk was stilted, she spends the entire episode looking down on everyone/thing, she has BIG opinions on things she doesn’t even watch and poor Chris sounded like he wanted to be anywhere else but on the pod with her.

I think I’ve finally freed myself from this show. Thanks to god for giving us two episodes a week of We’re Obsessed!

Does anyone know why they aren’t covering Hacks on The Watch or Prestige? I honestly didn’t even know season 5 has been airing until CR briefly mentioned it while talking about Chris Briney the other day.

Not asking for your favorites, but what do you think are the top 10 in terms of listens/downloads? Is it safe to assume the BS Pod is #1? Rewatchables pretty high I’m assuming as well.

I’m just curious how they stack up. Is there a way to know how well they do?