Pod Chef

The Top Chef talk begins abruptly at 21:45. So continue to live your life devoid of fun and skip ahead, or listen from the start for the good stuff. This week it's just Jamal and Bryan and we've decided to tank this episode so that Reaves doesn't have to worry about the show being good without him. We also talked about Top Chef Season 19, Episode 7 "Swallow the Competition". Also Bryan learns that...

For all you skippers... the Top Chef talk starts at 21:40This week the three amigos are joined by Bryan's good friend and one of the hosts of the Awesome Con worthy podcast "Two Guys Into Fridays- The TGIF Podcast": Stephen "Dash" Brown. Dash joins us to let us know what it feels like to be accepted into Awesome Con and helps us talk about our favorite tv show - Top Chef... Specifically Top Chef S...

This week we're joined by close personal friend, returning guest, and honorary amigo quatro - Kevin Bartelt (Hollywood Handbook, Flagrant Ones, Teacher's Lounge... basically all your favorite podcasts)! Kevin helps us recap Top Chef Season 19, Episode 5 - "Don't Mess With BBQ".  Which we start chatting about at 37:45, but then you'd miss some great small talk with our guest! Also... Jamal apologiz...

This week the three amigos are only dos as Bryan had to miss the record, but he edited the episode and wrote this blurb so it's sort of like he was there the whole time. Also Reaves and Jamal were joined by Daisy and Daffy, who from what I can gather from the episode are just random people they invited to be on the show? I don't know, but they seem fun. And at 32 minutes in I figured out they were...

The Top Chef talk kicks off at 29:35 if you don't like it when we chop it up with each other. This week we watched Top Chef Season 19, Episode 3 "Noodles and Rice and Everything Nice" and we talked about it with our friend Alex Kazanas (One Piece Podcast, Super Art Fight). But before we get a chance to settle in WE GET PROPELLED RIGHT in to the Elimination Challenge because Hung hates Quickfire Ch...

Though we don't recommend it, if you want to skip the first half of the show and go directly to the Top Chef talk, it starts at 35:40.This week we watched Top Chef Season 19, Episode 2 "Friday Night Bites" and we didn't even talk about it... SIKE! We talked about it A LOT!  Especially that insanely complicated Elimination Challenge... AND LAST CHANCE KITCHEN IS BACK, SUCKA!Also Tom gave us our rep...

Top Chef Season 19, Episode 1

If you want to skip to the Top Chef re-watch talk, it starts at 28:40, but then you'd miss our Season 19 Predictions... So don't do it. This week we give you our Top Chef Season 19 Predictions and then we talk about Season 4, Episodes 13 & 14 to wrap up our season 4 re-watch. Also - we're really good friends who like talking to each other and it shows... so maybe check out the show!----more---...

If you wanna skippa da good stuff, we start talking about Top Chef at 27:45!Honestly, this episode is chaotic... so let's get awkward! This week we REALLY DUG DEEP into everyone's favorite segment - "Chefs I Prepared For You" because we have all the time in the world. And then we talked about an episode of this show, maybe you've heard of it? It's called Top Chef, it's on Bravo. It was Top Chef Se...

What's up peapods! This week we held our 2nd Annual Pod Chef Top Chef Fantasy Draft! We watched Top Chef Season 4, Episode 11 "Restaurant Wars" and then we talked about the parts we liked the best. We also venture back into the Writer's Room... Reaves reveals (alliteration) that he was the smoke monster on Lost, Jamal got to see white people hurt themselves for his belated birthday, and we welcome...

Maybe you wanna listen to the first part of this episode because we give you the rundown of all the new cheftestants for Top Chef season 19 (which starts March 3rd) including FUN FACTS about each chef that you will only get on Pod Chef! Or you can jump ahead to the episode review at - 32:40 and make us cry. Note - We accidentally skipped our Chef I've Prepared For You segment in the intro, but we...

Alright you little Pod Chef babies, we start the Season 19 trailer watch along at 14 minutes and the re-watch segment starts 33 minutes... so go ahead and deprive yourself of joy by skipping the good stuff. This week we got a new Top Chef freakin Houston trailer!! So we gotta dissect it! Then we talked about Top Chef Season 4 Episode 9 "Wedding Wars"... Also we go into detail about how Pod Chef is...

The Top Chef talk starts at 31:30, and by that I mean the good stuff ends at 31:30.In this week's episode we watched Top Chef Season 4, Episode 8 "Common Threads" and then we sort of talked about it but mostly just said silly things and hung out on the internet like friends do these days. Also Jamal got birthday pranked,  Bryan goes to wrestling school, and we love Reaves. All of that and maybe a...

The Top Chef talk starts at 29:35 -  But honestly, this one goes off the rails pretty often in the review... but it's fun, so listen to it! This week your three best friends did something that's never been done before, they watched an old episode of a TV show and then recorded the audio of themselves talking about... we're calling it... a podcast! It was Top Chef Season 4, Episode 7 "Improv". We a...

The Top Chef talk starts at 11:34. but we talked about another food show during the opener so maybe you'll like that? It was Next Level Chef so maybe you won't like it because it kind of sucked. This week the three amigos did what we do almost every week, we watched Top Chef and we recorded ourselves talking about it. Top Chef Season 4, Episode 6 "Tailgating" to be precise. We also teach you how t...

Jump to 35:30 for Top Chef talk if you don't like fun! It's a brand new year and we're doing the same old shit! That's right, this week your three best friends watched Top Chef Season 4, Episode 5 "The Elements" and now we gotta talk about it! Also - Tom gave us his new year's resolutions, we have new hosts (not really), and Reaves like books sometimes. All of that and the world's most disgusting...

Because we love you and respect your choices - the Top Chef talk starts at 23:40.This week your three best friends watched Top Chef Season 4, Episode 5 "Film Food"... the title they went with... for this episode... is film... food... film food. And then we mostly talked about how much the elimination challenge sucked. But hey, we had a good time, and we hope you do to. All of that and if you DM ou...

"It's the little things, the little things that make the salad (Waldorf) good" - Good Charlotte and Reaves talking about Waldorf salads. We are fresh off the boys' first in-person hangout session in over a year and now we're ready to talk about Top Chef! This week we watched Season 4, Episode 3 "Block Party" (title is just what the competition was... cool). We also give you all the deets on our ha...

Top Chef talk starts at 16:30, but the good stuff starts at 0:00!Uh Oh, we're talking about the zoo again! Don't worry it's good this time because we're talking about Top Chef Season 4, Episode 2 - "Zoo Food". We also learned a lot about politics, visited the situation room, and teased that we are having a three amigos in-person hang out next week... so get ready to hear all about that. All of tha...

NEW SEASON BAY BAY!**Top Chef talk starts at 15:15, but then we go off the rails again a bit until around 19 min, but it's ok you can get through it. We believe in you!**This week your three best friends are back and firing on all three cylinders! This week we started Top Chef Season 5 with episode 1 "Anything You Can Cook I Can Cook Better" (long title). Also Jamal does a Kill Bill after getting...

Ok if you're only here for the Top Chef talk, you can skip this one, but we hope you'll come back next week when we start our re-watch of Top Chef Season 4!This week is a special week. It's a Thanksgiving special week! The three amigos wanted to help you get your Thanksgiving week off to a good start so we decided to watch Alison Roman's Thanksgiving Special (https://youtu.be/NyNOZOr9uIA) and talk...

If you want to skip the best part of the podcast...  the time stamp for when the Top Chef talk starts is 29:10. Thanks for listening! This week your three amigos watched Top Chef Season 3, Episode 18 (though I think this episode is more of a stand alone, but on Hulu it's S3 soooo here ya go!). We also got new pages from Tom for his Top Chef movie, we enter a new room in the Room House, Jamal tells...

It's a freakin reunion episode of Top Chef this week and the three amigos are here to save you the trouble of having to watch it, because Top Chef Season 3, Episode 17 was a stinker... We also heard about Reaves' trip to St. Louis, Jamal read the latest pages from Tom's Top Chef movie, and Bryan learns a dirty little secret about Chefs I Prepared For You... All this and some fun new bear tips on t...

Oh boy, do we have an episode for you this week... We do! In fact, we have a pretty good one where the three amigos watched Top Chef Season 3, Episode 16 - "Finale Part II". We also got part III of the Daniel Craig saga of the Top Chef Movie from Tom (we all got to participate!), Bryan talked about his latest venture into Michelin stars, and Reaves finally tells us the truth about whether or not h...

Your best friends decided to do something a little different this week, we watched Top Chef Season 3, Episode 15 "Finale Part 1" and talked about it. Wait... You mean that's what we do every week? Oh yeah I guess you're right. Well we also got some more pages from Tom's Top Chef movie, talk about our weeks in Colorado, and worry about Malarkey's descent into madness! This week's episode has a REAL...