V.F. Oscars Dispatch: Parties, Politics, and How Culture Meets the Moment

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

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4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Step inside Vanity Fair’s exclusive Oscars party with host and editor-in-chief Radhika Jones, who, along with executive editor Claire Howorth and Hive editor Michael Calderone, dish on what A-listers were wearing and eating. (Spoiler: In-N-Out burger). They also discuss the political dimensions of Hollywood’s biggest night and how the culture is responding to a second Trump presidency.

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0:00.0	Michael, Claire, do you have a headline for today's episode?
0:04.9	I was thinking something like Hollywood ending.
0:09.4	Oh, that sounds bleak.
0:10.9	Yeah.
0:13.8	Well, something about our cultural and political collision going on right now.
0:18.6	The nude, the rude, and those who went unbood, inside Vanity Fair's 25th Oscar Party.
0:29.9	I'm sorry.
0:32.1	I don't know how we can use that one.
0:33.6	They were words.
0:34.8	Sequentially delivered.
0:36.2	How about a dispatch from the intersection of Hollywood in politics, courtesy of Vanity Fair?
0:45.4	Welcome to Inside the Hive from Vanity Fair, a podcast about power and the people who love it.
0:51.2	I'm Radica Jones, the editor of Vanity Fair, and I'm joined by executive editor Claire
0:55.2	Howorth. Hi, Radica. And Hive editor, Michael Calderon. Hey, Radica. Claire, I'm very proud of us.
1:04.1	We are just off the plane from L.A., but we got ourselves to the podcast studio, and we're here
1:09.2	to talk about the Oscars we were there
1:12.0	well we weren't at the Oscars no we were at the Oscar party the Vanity Fair Oscar party
1:16.7	what was what were your thoughts my thoughts were oh my God everybody is so
1:23.2	ridiculously good looking in real life it's crazy It never ceases to amaze me.
1:29.6	Really shallow thought for today.
1:32.6	And I, as somebody who is watching in front of comfort, my living room, just wanted to know what I was not seeing, what was happening behind the scenes.
1:40.6	I hope you were in black tie in your living room, though, Michael.
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