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Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

The Surprise Emmy Winners Saved the Show

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Rebecca and John are joined by their Vanity Fair colleagues Chris Murphy and Hillary Busis to break down all those surprise winners on Emmys night. They also discuss why Nate Bargatze struggled as a host and that controversial acceptance speech countdown clock. Finally, they each pitch one dramatic change that could fix the Emmys and make it more appealing in the future.

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0:00.0

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0:18.5

Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair Affairs podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers.

0:24.4

I'm Rebecca Ford.

0:25.5

I'm John Ross.

0:28.6

It's the morning after the Emmys, and we're the new host and lots of surprise wins.

0:33.1

There's so much for us to talk about.

0:35.0

To help us get into all of it, we have our colleagues, Hillary Buse's

0:38.6

and Chris Murphy, who are here today. Thank you guys for joining us. Thanks for having us on this show.

0:44.1

Very excited to be here. John and I were up a little late with the Emmy parties, so you guys are

0:49.0

going to have to hold it together for us, I think, today, but we're going to do it. We were past

0:53.3

our bedtime. Yeah, how were the parties?

0:56.5

How was everything that happened after the show? It was interesting. I think it's really fun to go to

1:00.6

parties when there are a lot of surprises because everyone wants to talk about it. So we both went to

1:06.6

the Governor's Ball, which is on site at the Emmys. It's where the winners get their

1:10.5

trophies engraved. And it's a really celebratory thing. But what I notice is that everyone left pretty quick to go to all the sort of special studio parties that were all over town. I went to Netflix. It's like the official after prom that the school throws. Yes, right. And then kids go to be your friend's houses. They're friends' real parties. Where their moms aren't home. It's also the first place where you can get even a bite of food. Oh, yes. Like real food. Well, no, Rebecca, you mentioned the concessions in some of the story. Oh, that's true. And one of the live blog posts that you wrote yesterday, you saw Tom Clickio waiting for nachos. I wouldn't call that food, though, Hillary. Light bites. It's like heavy gross bites. But the Governor's Ball does have good food. I scarfed down a few things there. It was cool this year. They had booths from each of like a lot of the top chef contestants. So if you're like a top chef fan, you could like bounce around and get food from a lot of the different chefs that you may know from that.

2:06.6

So that was a really cool theme thing.

2:09.6

But yeah, then I went to Netflix and obviously adolescence was like king of the town there.

2:14.7

They just like took over that party.

2:16.4

And there's always a good dance, a lot of dancing at a Netflix party so that was a fun one and I went to HBO

2:22.8

which they had I think a bit of a surprise night in terms of they perform better than they thought

2:31.4

they would Casey Blois looked really happy.

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