This week your three best friends are joined by your fourth best friend, Annie Barry (Bandit Improv Theater), to help us crack open a fresh, brand new season of Top Chef! We have some fun talking about Creed 3 and then we get down to business and give you our thoughts on Top Chef Season 20, Episode 1 "London Calling" Top Chef talk starts around the 26 minute mark. Check out Annie's improv theater - Bandit Improv ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 stars and let us kno...
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr 1 min
In this special minisode, the three amigos prepare for Season 20 of Top Chef World All-Stars by drafting their TC Fantasy Teams. ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 stars and let us know what you had for dinner last night in the review! This episode was edited by Bryan A Jackson. The Pod Chef theme song was produced and performed by Jeff Ray. Pod Chef Links Follow us on Instagram and Twitter - @podchefpodcast Follow Bryan on Instagram - @bjacksonininaction Follow Jama...
Mar 11, 2023•20 min
This week your three amigos do a live reaction to the Top Chef Season 20 trailer. The all new season of Top Chef starts next week! We'll also be dropping a BONUS episode later this week with our Top Chef fantasy draft. ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 stars and let us know what you had for dinner last night in the review! This episode was edited by Bryan A Jackson. The Pod Chef theme song was produced and performed by Jeff Ray. Pod Chef Links Follow us on Instagram...
Mar 06, 2023•57 min
On this week's Pod Chef we're joined by our good friend and thespian, Caroline Yates! Caroline helps us beat out a Top Chef musical idea that Tom can pitch to Broadway and of course she REALLY wanted to talk about Top Chef Season 6, Episode 14 "Finale Part 2" so we did that too. Top Chef talk starts at 35:30. Check out Caroline in "Betty Blum" at the Flea Theater in NYC on March 18th. TICKETS ON SALE NOW! ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 stars and let us know what ...
Feb 20, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Jamal had a little aviation accident the other day so you only get two amigos this week, but we've invited our good friend and person who has been to Awesome Con before, Steve Brown (Two Guys Into Fridays podcast) to help us finish filling out the application to Awesome Con. He also said he'd only help us with the form if we talk about Top Chef Season 6, Episode 13 "Season Finale Pt 1". Check out the Two Guys Into Fridays podcast. New episodes every Friday. ----more---- Subscribe for new episode...
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 11 min
This week the three amigos are joined by our good friend and human woman... in your face, haters... Ashley Everhart (Character's Welcome, Boogiemanja, Toronto Sketch Fest). Ashley couldn't wait to tell us about her Groundhog's Day Hog Feast during Chef's I Prepared For You and really wanted to recap Top Chef Season 6, Episode 12 - "Culinary Olympics" so we did that too. The Top Chef talk starts at 31:20. Follow Ashley on instagram - @ashleyceverhart And if you are in the NY area - checkout Ashle...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 10 min
This week your three amigos are all by themselves, which is just the way we like it. Bryan shares the story of why we didn't put out an episode last week, we spend 5 minutes talking like a dolphin, and we recap Top Chef Season 6, Episode 11 "Strip Around The World". The Top Chef talk starts at 28:45. ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 stars and let us know what you had for dinner last night in the review! This episode was edited by Bryan A Jackson. The Pod Chef theme...
Jan 30, 2023•59 min
This week the three amigos invite our good friend Dillon Diatlo (Boogiemanja, College Humor, Above Average) to play a little Price is Right and talk about Top Chef Season 6, Episode 10 - " Top Chef talk starts at 32:45. Be sure to celebrate MLK Day and Jamal's birthday by heading over to colicchiocollection.com and using our EXCLUSIVE promo code PODCHEF10 (then delete the POD) to get 10% off your first order. That's PODCHEF10 (then delete the word POD and just submit CHEF10). Thanks Tom! You can...
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 13 min
The three amigos fill out the first part of the 2023 Awesome Con application and recap Top Chef Season 6, Episode 9 - "Restaurant Wars". ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 stars and let us know what you had for dinner last night in the review! This episode was edited by Bryan A Jackson. The Pod Chef theme song was produced and performed by Jeff Ray. Pod Chef Links Follow us on Instagram and Twitter - @podchefpodcast Follow Bryan on Instagram - @bjacksonininaction Fol...
Jan 09, 2023•59 min
It's a brand new year and we're doing the same old podcast... the one where we watch Top Chef and then talk about. But we're doing something a little different this week, we have our good friend Casey Hogan (Boogiemanja) on to help us talk about Top Chef S06, E08 "Pigs and Pinot" - you get it, right? Top Chef talk starts at 39:10! Also - Bryan continues his journey to being an anti-racist, we do the Batman voice a lot, and James and Sean Gunn call The Rock to let him know that they're not moving...
Jan 02, 2023•1 hr 15 min
This week the three amigos handed the reins over to our good friend and returning horny guy, Charlie Visconage (@cavisconage). Charlie came up with an idea for a show and we said... why not? Well, we got shown up... Charlie invited Jeff Ray (@jeffrayfilms) and Matt Chaconas (@mattchaconas) on to the show to battle it out in a contest of original music and holy shit did they bring it! We were blown away by the talent and preparation these dudes brought to the show. It was incredibly hard to pick ...
Dec 20, 2022•59 min
WARNING - The audio for this one is REAL bad. Sorry about that. We had some serious technical difficulties even getting this bad boy recorded, but we hope that doesn't stop you from listening to our FABULOUS conversation with Avishar Barua (@avishar) from Top Chef Season 18! Avishar was a total blast to chat with. He was super down to clown and was extremely patient with the issues we had at the beginning of the interview. Plus he's very honest and he thinks we are a very funny podcast, maybe ev...
Dec 12, 2022•54 min
We're taking a little break from interviewing Top Chef contestants to do a good old fashioned rewatch episode with our friend Farshad Khansari (Boogiemanja). Farshad wanted to watch and talk about Top Chef Season 06, Episode 07 "Dinner Party", so that's what we did! And we start doing it at 37:15. We share Tom's latest idea for breaking into Hollywood (we wants us to write a sitcom pilot for him), we visit the writer's room, and we name all the people in the MCCU. Check out the sketch team that ...
Dec 04, 2022•1 hr 11 min
This week we're joined by Roscoe Hall from Top Chef Portland! Roscoe shares what it was like to be sent home first the show, his journey to the kitchen, and his recent success in the world of art. Roscoe was an absolutely killer guest and great dude! Top Chef robbed the world of getting to know 'Scoe by sending him home too soon, so make sure you check out this episode! Also, Reaves had to miss the recording so Bryan had to step into second host... yeah, we didn't like it either. ----more---- Su...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr 9 min
You know the three amigos had to bring it to you AGAIN with another FIRE interview with a chef from your favorite show, Top Chef! We were joined by the injury prone, "Dominican Don" himself - Chef Nelson German from Top Chef Portland! Nelson gives us the scoop about his time in the Top Chef bubble, what he's been up to since the show, and what it's like having to cook for the Top Chef judges with a fully busted knee. Chef Nelson was a blast to chat with. We know you'll love the interview. And ma...
Nov 21, 2022•56 min
First off - apologies if you wanted to hear Jamal talk about kale for 5 minutes because I cut it from the episode because the episode went long. But if I didn't cut it I might have put bird noises behind it anyway... It involved talk of broccoli and worms. With great power, comes great responsibility. The Top Chef talk starts at 36:00! And we watched Top Chef Season 6, Episode 6 "Penn and Teller" again... really creative title there. Also. we have a great time testing out the democratic process ...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 11 min
This week you're rocking with all three amigos and no one else. It's a boy'sode! We're talking about Top Chef Season 6, Episode 5 "Camping"... and we start doing it at 36:00. Also - we have our closest game of "Chefs I Prepared For You" ever, Mike Isabella forces us to talk about the monkey again, we do cowboy voices, and we wonder why the audience picked cactus... instead of KANGAROO! CACTUS... INSTEAD OF KANGAROO! NATURE'S PITA! ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 s...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 9 min
We have a real 3 Michelin Star episode for you this week, pod chef heads. This week your amigos are joined by tiny fish enthusiast and Top Chef contestant - Sara Hauman (@chefsara_h) for a good old fashioned interview. Sara was on Top Chef Portland - where she was known for her big laugh, love of yogurt, and tiny fish. We share an excerpt from Tom's Travel Journal, get the scoop about her time on Top Chef, what she's been up to since the show, and we play another round of Add Foam, De-bone, or S...
Oct 31, 2022•1 hr 17 min
This week the three amigos are joined by our good friend Lauren Gabel who can't wait to talk about Top Chef Season 6, Episode 4 "Vivre Las Vegas" with us, but we make her wait until 29:15. We also learn at the end of the record that Lauren has a bunch of food experience we didn't talk about, Jamal can quote the movie "Troy", Reaves can't talk, and Bryan shares some very funny Daniel Boulud facts he found on the internet. ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 stars and l...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 3 min
This week we're joined by improviser and friend Taylor Kniffin (@tkniffin) to talk about sailing, play a game of mind meld, and recap Top Chef S06, E03 "Thunderbirds". The Top chef talk starts at 33:30. ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 stars and let us know what you had for dinner last night in the review! This episode was edited by Bryan A Jackson. The Pod Chef theme song was produced and performed by Jeff Ray. Pod Chef Links Follow us on Instagram and Twitter - @...
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Let's get two things out of the way real quick - 1 - Jamal isn't here this week. 2 - Bryan's mic sounds bad, even though Reaves told him it sounded ok. Now that we've got that out of the way. The Top Chef talk starts at 27:05, sort of. This week you got two amigos, Bryan and Reaves, as Jamal misses his first recording ever, but don't worry we're still doing what we love to do watch Top Chef and talk about it... and this week we're talking Top Chef Season 6, Episode 2 - Bachelor/ette". Also we sa...
Oct 10, 2022•1 hr 8 min
If you don't like when we chop it up at the beginning... you're gonna wanna jump ahead to 37:40 when the Top Chef talk gets going. We're joined by our good and very funny friend, Annie Barry (@barryisscary), who helps us bust open a new season of Top Chef as we talk about Top Chef Season 6, Episode 1 - "Sin City Vice". We also spend... too much time talking about prom, we go over last season's report card from Tom, and lots of other good stuff. Check out Bandit Theater at https://www.bandittheat...
Oct 03, 2022•1 hr 10 min
The Top Chef starts at the 30 minute mark. We're back in NOLA BABY! We read two more excerpts from Tom's travel journal, we all take turns doing Christian Bale's Batman voice... pretty good, explore the inherent and outwardly spoken classicism in Top Chef, and we all wish Carla had won. ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 stars and let us know what you had for dinner last night in the review! This episode was edited by Bryan A Jackson. The Pod Chef theme song was prod...
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr
The Top Chef talk starts at the 28 minute mark. We're talking Top Chef Season 5, Episode 13 "Season Finale Pt 1". In this episode Bryan shares about his struggles with curry, we read another insert from Tom's walkabout journal, and we get a drop in visit from our favorite white pastor the good reverend Han Gary. ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 stars and let us know what you had for dinner last night in the review! This episode was edited by Bryan A Jackson. The Po...
Sep 19, 2022•1 hr 3 min
It's episode 100 of Pod Chef! And to help us celebrate this momentous occasion, some of our closest friends called into our voicemail box and left us VERY NICE MESSAGES! And even though we are celebrating, we're still talking about Top Chef, because we know you Top Chef heads NEED IT and IT starts at 41:45. ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 stars and let us know what you had for dinner last night in the review! This episode was edited by Bryan A Jackson. The Pod Che...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Reaves is back!! So if you stopped listening because Reaves was on his walkabout with Tom, you can come back baby! We kept your room just as you left it. We're at full strength! Three amigos! We're talking about Top Chef Season 5, Episode 11 and we start doing it at 37:00! Reaves tells us about his time in the bush with Tom, we read a page from Tom's travel journal. we check out a new room, and REAVES IS BACK! ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 stars and let us know ...
Sep 06, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Just in time for football season, we're talking about a 16 year old episode of TV...Top Chef Season 5, Episode 9 "Super Bowl Chef Showdown". Which starts at 17:30. We make our long awaited return to the writer's room which has the Black Phone guy in it... and this is episode 98... 100 coming soon! ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 stars and let us know what you had for dinner last night in the review! This episode was edited by Bryan A Jackson. The Pod Chef theme so...
Sep 01, 2022•55 min
Restaurant war... Restaurant war never changes. Suit up soldier, you've been drafted into the Restaurant War! Two Amigos is better than zero amigos so shut up. We're talking about Top Chef which starts at 24:45. We do a new segment called Food News (clever), we listen to a voicemail from Reverend Han Gary of The Church of Food and Wine Magazine who’s a white man, and more stuff happens. as always. ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 stars and let us know what you had ...
Aug 22, 2022•52 min
Top Chef talk starts at 19:20. Still just Jamal and Bryan, are you ok with this yet? We watched Top Chef Season 5, Episode 8 - "Down on the Farm" and we just had to get on here and tell ya'll about it. Then the Spam Man made an appearance after we invoked him during the Quickfire discussion, Bryan is trying to be the white Jamal, and we get a little explicit about the pork. ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 stars and let us know what you had for dinner last night in...
Aug 15, 2022•49 min
We might have done this episode before. Have we? We're too afraid to look. Either way the Top Chef talk starts at 28:35. This week it's just your two best friends again, but we got a voicemail from Reaves updating us on his walkabout with Tom, we talk about Top Chef Season 5, Episode 7 "Focus Group", and we learn about the difference between being risky and being stupid. ----more---- Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Rate us 5 stars and let us know what you had for dinner last night in th...
Aug 08, 2022•55 min
