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🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Steve and Jomi join forces with Rob Mahoney to laugh, rant, and reflect on this year’s Emmy Awards. They break down the winners and losers, explore why fan favorites like 'The White Lotus' and 'The Bear' may have lost their edge, and predict what might win big next year. Later, they play a round of Here Comes the Pitch, where they share their own ideas for hypothetical shows, movies, and beloved fandom favorites that could earn prestige acclaim. Intro (0:00)Emmys Takeaways (4:00)Here Comes the Pitch (17:00)Outro (1:21:00) Hosts: Jomi Adeniran and Steve AhlmanGuest: Rob MahoneyProducer: Devon RenaldoAdditional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.1	Hello and welcome into the Ringiverse, your nexus feed for all things.
0:44.6	Fandom, I'm Steve Allman.
0:45.4	I'm Jimmy Dinner on.
0:48.1	And we're no pleasantries right now.
0:51.7	We're joined by the great Rob Mahoney with his wonderful sandwich takes.
0:52.2	It's wonderful.
0:53.2	They're terrible takes.
0:54.2	Oh, thank you. Rob is, I love Rob. Rob's one of my favorite people in the entire world. It's wonderful. They're terrible takes. Oh, thank you.
0:55.7	Rob is, I love Rob.
1:11.1	Rob's one of my favorite people in the entire world. He's got bad chicken sandwich takes. Okay. Let's relax. It's a bad take, Rob. Tell the people you'll take, Rob. Tell the people you'll take. My take is very simple, and I think uncontroversial, which is a chicken sandwich should be chicken breast, not chicken thigh. And that's wrong. And it's cool that you're wrong.
1:13.4	Here's the thing, Rob, and because which is a chicken sandwich should be chicken breast, not chicken thigh. And that's wrong.
1:12.0	And it's cool that you're wrong.
1:13.3	Here's the thing, Rob, and because, and this is how woke I am, I can overcome your bad
1:18.9	chicken it takes.
1:19.9	Wow.
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