Andy's Girls: A Real Housewives Podcast - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Updated this review because I have noticed Sarah making strong improvements in listening to her guests more, keeping her answers/monologues a bit more succinct, and has invited guests with different opinions of her own. I especially enjoy episodes where her and her guests discuss how their opinions differ on RHONJ, and find it refreshing that Sarah is seemingly less emotional and willing to change her opinion based on learning more about her guests perspectives. I appreciate Sarah’s growth and look forward to putting Andy’s girls back in my regular podcast rotation.

Highs (of which there are many): If you’re looking for a high level intellectual discussion of all things bravo, then you’ve landed in the right place. Yes, Sarah’s work makes the words “high level intellectual” and “Bravo” successfully combine. She uses her BTS background and knowledge of psychology to unpack episodes that are reflective and eye opening. She also secures guests who can meet her energy, which is impressive.

Lows (of which there are two): the ad reads will take you back to your middle school theatre class. The good thing is that as soon as yo in hear a voice change you can click the 30 second skip 8x. The second con is the number of times the word genuinely is used. Sixteen times in one recent ep. Yes. Sixteen. And it’s not a word as much as it is four words… Gen. You. En. Ly. Multiple times over.

Dame Sarah is brilliant. She delves into the nuances that are maybe (sometimes) emblematic of major things. She is our Virgil guiding us through the tough discussions, yet she also makes me cackle on a regular basis. Balance is thing. I discovered this pod while postpartum and trying to navigate Candiace vs Monique. Sarah curated guests who had the voices I needed to hear while Sarah, herself, engaged in an intelligent and respectful way. I’ve been hooked since then.

This is my “go to” podcast for all things Housewives. Sarah does a deep dive on the actions of the housewives which makes it interesting!

You registered for an $88 croissant lamp and a $70 williams-sonoma glass set to be bought by listeners?!?! And if that weren’t bad enough, you want us to buy you Magic Erasers and a Sephora gift card as well??? WOW. The level of entitlement and privilege that borders on caricature. This is the archetype of tIe “performatively humble, high-maintenance content creator”—the kind of person who leans on their followers to fund what are, at their core, luxury lifestyle choices under the guise of “supporting the art.” She’s someone who seems blissfully unaware of the reality outside her bubble, where asking for designer home goods as donations is seen as normal, rather than staggeringly self-indulgent. It’s like a collision of influencer culture and traditional privilege, where she’s made a career out of building a “relatable” persona while asking for contributions that go straight to frivolous, high-end consumption. Imagine a person who genuinely doesn’t see the gap between needing financial support to create versus asking for handouts for gourmet delivery credits or $100 decor items. She might frame it as “engaging with her community,” but to everyone else, it reads as an unintentional satire of excess. In short, it’s the kind of out-of-touch entitlement that only modern social media could normalize—where “content creator” becomes shorthand for “crowdfunded luxury consumer.”