Watch What Crappens - #390 TopChef: Padma, Roll Up The Partition Please

Episode Date: February 14, 2017

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because you are so much better at social media stuff and general than me. And I don't really follow anybody or anything. So seeing who you're following on our Instagram is hilarious because I'm seeing so many more housewives posts that I never would see. Well, I don't normally follow many real housewives, but I was like, well, I'm starting up the watch or crap in Instagram feed them as well. Do something that's on brand. So I followed a few like random housewives some ladies of london some of our followers some of my friends

that's why not well yeah there are a couple people i'm like who that yeah it's probably a friend of mine you can follow some of your friends too there's got some guy like bent over a bar and gym shorts and he's like yeah gym shorts at the bar i'm like what i don't know exactly who that is who is that in the house? Why? Does there really someone like that? That I'm like, he's not being porny.

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That's funny. Wouldn't it be great if it worked the other way around? Yeah. You're like, oh my God, we have so many listeners. Oh my God, Christina from Summer House just said hello to us. And she says that she may not be the favorite after tonight's episode. Wow. That's a little scoop from our Instagram feed. We have a real live Bravo star on our Instagram feed. And she's saying hi to us right now. So exciting. The twins are the star anyway. The twins are the favorite anyway. So back off, Christina. Okay. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Carl Do you want to talk about top chef or Atlanta first? It's up to you my little treat. Well, oh Little treat. Wow. I just got all warm and fuzzy on the inside Let's do top chef. I'm just feeling top chef these days. Although Atlanta was hilarious this week

But let's just let's roll with top chef especially because last night I went to Brooks restaurant down in play at El Rey Oh, how fun for you. How fun for me. Remember when you planned to do that with me. So how was it? You know what? It was, it was very good, but it wasn't as good as I remembered it. I don't think it's as strong as it used to be, to be honest. Much like Brooker said. I know. I was like, what's, what a non-coincidence. No, it was still very good. I got her the red curry biscuit because we know that Brooke is the biscuit queen So I of course got the red curry biscuit because that was actually the very first thing I ever got there a few years ago And it was so delicious and it's back on the menu

So that was really good. I got an octopus dish. The octopus was honestly not cooked terribly well. It was very chewy I felt very much like Padma. Did you mean to make the octopus this chewy? Did you intend to put big league chewing gum in my mouth that tastes like fish? Did you mean to give me a piece of thyre instead of octopus? So that was a little disappointing but there was some some sort of, it was like a couscous, but it wasn't, it was called something else, but neither that was delicious. And I got some really delicious clams, so it was still very good. But there was, and there were some, they have some tater tots that they're famous for, but I thought they were actually a little too sweet. So some hits

and some misses, I still would go back. That's a far way to go for some misses. I mean, if you get in play at L. Ray, you better serve some good octopus, Mother Troop. I know. Well, the thing was I had some friends in from out of town and they needed to eat close LAX before their flight. So considering it was that or Wendy's, I chose the triple. Yeah, I've never forgiven Wendy's for changing their changing it up like five years ago. Remember they were, they

were like, we're going to get new branding because regular Wendy's isn't good enough anymore. Now we're Wendy's Wendy's and they got like new logos and then they got they started toasting their

buns, which I still don't appreciate. I mean, the best thing is the soft bread from Wendy's back today. And then they changed their French fries. So now they're really super crispy and they have tons of sea salt. And sea salt is not necessary on a French fry at Wendy's. Thank you.

Okay, you're Wendy. Yeah. Yeah, at least it's not pink Himalayan sea salt. I mean, and we know by the way, speaking of rebranding, before we get into top chef, can we talk about the bravo rebranding? We talked about it a little bit on Friday. We announced that it was going to be happening. happening obviously by friday had already been rolled out, but now that it's been rolled out Do you have any thoughts about this new rebrand because I have some thoughts?

I look I get it, you know Someone wants a logo change. I get it. You know if you want to find change everyone's no Wow, it's like bravo can lose weight. You know, we only change in our life. I get it, but I mean, I don't, I think it looks cheaper just having floating pictures go by. It's like, look, a wonky eye. Look, it's a housewife and it's I don't mind the oversized images that flow by, but to me it actually reminds me of the style network.

I feel like Bravo just took a step towards E and the style network with their rebranding, and to me that actually cheapens it a little bit. I know they're trying to go slicker and they've told the Bravo guy to not be as excited. So he's very much like, he's like tonight on the real house. So I as Lisa Rina has to own it. I'm like, give us like that. You know, he has that spunk sound, you know, and they're making him speak like quietly. Um, and I'm glad they let him keep his job, though. That

point. Me too. Because, you know, at least they kept him, but yeah, he is. They're like, okay, you're just very, very tired now. Yeah. And then the font like we're gonna just do a health ectica, but or health edica however you say it, but we're gonna taper the beat diagonally. Well, Bravo. Sir James did up. Um, I think I actually looked up the font. I think it's Penelope, which I never heard of. It's probably Bravo's proprietary font now. But yeah, I feel like he does want, he wants to die now, the poor announcer guy. They're not letting him do anything, any sort of inflection. I think it's trying to, because otherwise, if there's too much

inflection, imposter won't be seen as a more legitimate series or something. So everything is just like tonight on Real House House of Atlanta. It's shady Sunday. I'm like, you guy have more excitement than that. Yeah, I wonder if that guy, that voiceover guy, in his real life, if his friends are like, I wonder what's wrong with him. Do you think he's okay? He's sad, that's not what's always tired.

Yeah. It's like my job was sounding tired today at work, guys. It's hard not to bring my work home sometimes. So, Jezebel, Jezebel actually had a piece about it. That's one of our listeners posted on our Facebook page. Sorry, I don't remember who it was. I think it was Cookie. It was a cookie, of course.

He's our little newsman. He and Cindy see in the case case. They can start like an action 9 news about Bravo TV. And they'd give us all the headlines because we need to be story 5. Michael Cook and a chopper overhead looking down at Andy Cohen. and they'd give us all the headlines because we can't be story-five. Michael Cook and a chopper overhead looking down at Andy Cohen because they give us all our gossip. So, but either way the Joseph Bell article,

did you read it? It basically was saying that Bravo is, one of the reasons why it revamped its brand was because they want to bring in more male viewers and then Jezebel was smart to say I guess they're assuming straight male viewers because obviously we gaze flock and droves but I guess they're trying to bring in more viewers I mean you're not changing your TV shows you're still showing the real housewives like how does that and I also be different exactly and I actually feel

like it looks more feminine all the enough. The color is maybe a little bit more mask because there's more black going on. But again, to me, it really read style network. It feels more, to me, I get vibes of style network Cosmo Magazine now, it feels sort of like bigger and glossier. So I actually feel like it's more feminine. Yeah, I don't really know. I mean, when the background is still like Lisa Vanderpump hugging a swan or whatever,

I'm like, it's okay. I mean, it's still gay. You can't enough straight people are forced into watching Bravo by their wives, and we hear from them all the time. But I guess so. I think they're doing a good job of entrapping straight people. I don't think you should be like, it doesn't scream to me like, bravo, you're a heterosexual watch this channel. It's just, you know, okay, it's a logo.

Well, I get nervous because the last time that I remember a channel deciding that they wanted more male viewers, it was Food Network and they were like, well, we have women down. So let's get some more men in. Let's get Guy Fieri on there. Let's add some more competition shows. And now that's, now Food Network is just cupcake wars, biscuit wars, you know,

tic tac wars, everything is just. That war to things and men will come. Maybe this will be like that. It could be like housewives wars. Housewives wars. Yeah, I just I just think it's just kill on each other in the street. Yeah. By the way, one of our ashes Mendoza on Instagram wants to know what the long orange thing is behind me. I just want to say it's my vacuum cleaner. It's my vacuum cleaner. So anyway, so I know I understand with a rebrand, there's always going to be some pushback, but I don't know. I, I, I, I miss the old, the old look. I just feel like if they're going to put that much money into something, it should be getting the people of first family of hip hop like a nicer carpet. You know what I mean?

Like there's certain things they could do. Those people have a welcome mat in their like in a hallway. Like get them some carpet. Get spend your money on good things. Like you're paying for Penelope. You just paid for somebody to take for Penelope. I count about the first family hip hop. Have I had someone buy the first family of hip, like another character that would be more interesting.

Although I have only been working with water turned on. You know what I mean? Get her hot water heater turned on. Or how about, you know, fun to better vacation for, like, who is it that has had a really shitty vacation? Some, like, Potomac, send them farther than Roho with beach. That's okay. They're like, ladies, I want to take a group strip to the shopping outlet malls, a mile

out of town. Yeah. I know. Sorry. I know. At least send them to, like, Yosarks. Send them to San Antonio or something. They're like, this water is delicious. Okay. Top chef 11.

Top chef 11. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Final four. Dun, dun, dun. Final four for now. Until next week, I'm assuming when it's final four again. So it based, as usual, the episode opens in the stew room right after eliminations and John is crying and I have to

tell you I'm really concerned about this. There's too much touchy-feely John shit. There's too much shit about like I'm a new man. I'm afraid that he's getting the winners at it. John is one of those people who is on death row and is suddenly found Christ and they're crying all the time and And I think sensitive. Like you're still a serial killer. Yeah, exactly. And I feel about you, John. He's like, I used to be that way. I'm like, guess what?

You are now the guy who steals Limes and takes all the, you know, takes all the clams or whatever the hell it was that time. That's you. You're long. It's more calmly. So mad. You still the day. You're long to the so mad that you just said that.

I mean, granted you're talking about two different lines. However, she does, she's not smart enough to know the difference. Whoolanda is so mad that you just said that. I mean granted you're talking about two different lines. However, she's not smart enough to know the difference. Who stole my lines? Who stole my lines? I've been giving it away to everyone in my family for free. Why still? I still it.

I was surely, it's funny that juxtaposition. Because surely it's like, oh, the final four boosts of confident. And then you've got John like, I've just been trying to be a cut person. This is my hardest challenge ever on Top Chef. It's like it was a brunch. Yeah, it was literally a brunch.

All you had to do was cook octopus with eggs. Although, you know, octopus is tricky. Call back to Brooks Restaurant. Oh. Tireshade. You see, little octopus shade there. Just, just getting, just getting it in. Who put an octopus on a tree?

Because it's high enough to give me shade. I like that real house. I was a fan of this. One of the shows is three cattle. I like that. One of the shows of three cattle I like that. They were like, oh, a tree is so tall. I'm standing under it for the shade. I think it was married to men. It's an octopus.

Octopus shade. Octopus shade. Octopus on a tree. It's a smelly shade. Some smelly. I'd rather almost get a sunburned than standing this octopus shade. I think octopus shade would be wonderful if it was done just right, but it's just so easy to get it wrong.

It really is. I mean, those things are all over the place. Yeah. Um, try training octopus. What are we talking about? No, this is never, there's never a Pixar movie that's like how to train your octopus. They're on train. Even dragons are more trainable.

Who would do the voice of the octopus? I can actually imagine Lisa Rina being the octopus. Hey, baby. I've only got eight arms. What do you want me to have? 10 arms, I can't do everything, baby. What? Didn't even feel my arm move.

Sorry, did I mess up the shit? I'm the worse octopus tree ever So anyway, yeah, so John's just crying and he's you know You know such an honor to be this far. I was really you know I have so many scars and the last time I was on top chef. Congratulations. So did all everyone else here Everyone else cares the same scars. You think you're the only one who doesn't live with the regrets of being voted off the top chef? Yes, look at Casey.

She's practically in a ball like shuttering on the floor and sobbing and, you know, going rocking back and forth with herself. Yeah, I mean, that's the scar. You have scars on your hand from, you know, shoving knives into hard. But you cut your hand, you know, that's why you never kill somebody with a kitchen knife.

Yeah. So back at the house, Brooke is being exciting Brooke. I mean, well, my friend Trisha was over and she's like, I think Brooke has all bad oblocus because Brooke is basically like just dead now. Like she's just, she's just muttering. So they're back at the house and she's like, wow, here we are. I feel like last time I hit my stride in the top 10 and this time I haven't really hit that stride and not making it as far would just kill me. I'm like, you're already dead

inside. Yeah. You're already dead. She peaked when she made that thing that creaked for Tom, that breakfast crepe, and he's like, who's the best breakfast I've ever had in my life. And then she'd, after that, there was like nothing left to give and then she was just done. Yeah. No peek too. Yeah, she's very like low energy.

It's worrying me for her. Yeah, and then they're talking about Mexico, I guess they're going to Mexico. Oh, that's the finale is in Mexico. And John's like, I can smell Mexico from here. And I'm like, you see, you're just a fucking racist. Like, you're even trying to be nicer. And you just sound like such a racist, John.

Just be quiet. To be fair, he does carry around peppers in his pockets. For he to poppers, peppers. I don't know. It's the talk to you, those in jail that's pockets. It's a con I can smell Mexico. It's so weird. It's so weird. No, John, you actually just have taco shells in your back pocket. I don't know why you've been doing that. You know why you're but tacos in your pocket. What are that? Crazy. I never put taco in my pocket. I'm the one John do that. He's like whoa, whoa, surely it's really intense right now. I would jump out of tree

But never did I put a taco in my pocket? Crazy John I'm a new man. I used to never put tacos in my pocket, but I don't know I've been going to a lot of therapy and working on myself and I realized I got a taco shells in my pocket, but I don't know. I've been going to a lot of therapy and working on myself and I realize I got a Pataka skills in my pocket. Yeah, people are nicer to you. They're like dogs. Like if you have a treat in your pocket, they'll do whatever you want. It's like it's so weird. Most of them people still hate me, but fat people are being much nicer to me now. So yeah, they are, they're on the verge of going to Mexico. And I don't know about you.

I was actually very, um, I was very hopeful that in this last episode in Charleston, we'd get to see JD, you know, uh, pushing one of his restaurants. I forget what his restaurant's called. It's like the, the bourbon pig, ah, or something like that. But, uh, Isn't that great, you little barb, but you batting bourbon soon? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha uh... Isn't that great, you little barb, but you're batting bad and fun! What the fuck? Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa friend malls, had me follow a bunch of people on the Instagram or on Snapchat one time and she put him on the Snapchat.

I forget his name. He's the self-hated gay. Yeah, self-hated gay. He must be accompanied by a woman for the founder's ball. And he's also the most misled gay because he went up against Patricia who, you know, she's basically the biggest gay icon on Southern Charms. So that's really disaster on his part. Huge mistake. His snapchats are like, here I am in a party. Welcome to Rand and some food will come spinning in a party. Spinning Rand and Rand. A watt tablecloth. I'm like okay, you're just basically an alcoholic

spinning around doing nothing. Over and over. Like this happens over and over. It's like, they have the most special sausage wrapped up in the tannies that'll burn you ever seen in your life. It's like this pig's in a blanket, okay, just relax. Well, it's nice to see the hot dog find the founder bottom. They're gonna blanket. Yeah, that's nice to see that a hot dog found the found a bottom They're gonna blank it. Yeah, that's spinning. I really wish I could remember his name and while I try to think of it

I do want to say JD, but it's because you just said JD. Yeah, I mean right then I'm doing gay Southern charm That's what I'm typing in right now. This could have a very interesting result No, let's see no, I'm not getting anything here. Like, people are hitting their steering wheels. I feel it right now. They're like, I have to absolutely have to say, like, I have to figure it out now. You know, in the meantime, I have to say that we've been, um, I've started, I followed uh, Catherine Dennis on our Instagram. Cooper. It's Cooper. Cooper. I was like, Cotta. Cooper. Cooper. So speaking of redheads so Catherine Dennis

I don't know if you've been looking at any of her photos in the screen, but they are hilarious I re-grammed one of her standing with like a Like a can of iced tea or something and there's some refreshment and she photoshopped the hill out of herself And she did it in such a sloppy way to make herself look skinnier So you see like the trees behind her are all squiggled And they're like weird lines and she had just put in like a bag and like the strap of the bag is warped It's like zigzagging a lot to the left and then to the right I'm and the sad thing is I didn't even notice was until someone posted like you realize this is all photoshopped

I was like, oh my god, this is so blatantly Photoshop. Like the sloppiest Photoshop you could ever imagine. God, what is her name on the Instagram? I'm looking for it right now. Tommy! Yes, with five days. Tommy's no go. You can just go on to our Instagram feed.

I re-grammed it, you'll see it. I was looking at our, if you're looking the things that we've done, but it just makes me so excited for that show to see it. Oh, it's like in our if you're looking the things that we've done. But it just makes me so excited for that show to come back. However, I do have to say I'm surprised there was no Southern charm top chef crossover. I am not because I don't think Andy produces that show. Although they do get a reunion, which is more than I can say for a lot of shows these days on Bravo. I really wanted to see Julie Montague sobbing, but also trying to convince everybody that she's in control with things. I really needed that.

That would have been a great moment. And I guess, okay, I'm really not trying to pimp out our Instagram, but now that we have Instagram, all these new stuff is opening up to us. Juliet Angus got into a fight with two of our listeners on our Instagram page. And that was a real special moment for us. We just sort of sat back and watched, but it was amazing.

Why do you and your mother keep bothering me? Like, stop. Like, well, you blocked us, you pussy. She's like, well, I don't know my negative damn anything. They're like, well, what about depression? And that's a real disease. And I know someone who died of depression. She's like, well, I do too. And then my at night of cancer, my uncle night of pneumonia. And then I also knew someone who got hit in a crosswalk. And also I saw faces of that. That was a lot of people. I also went to

a dog shelter once where they put dogs down. So I can get it. Oh my goodness. Yeah, that was a real special moment for us. So really, I mean, Instagram's just bringing it so much joy. Catherine Dennis's Photoshop arms, Julia Angus's fights. And it's just great happiness. Oh, it was spelling Catherine wrong. That's why do I'm gonna just text you the link? No, I found her here. Yeah Do you see do you see her or do you see how Photoshop? I'm holding a coffee I'm coffee I love that you're giving her shades of blanche du Bois

I mean she is kind of a state of landscape wise. She is. We've always said she's her own personal Tennessee Williams play. Yeah, just really poorly written. Yeah, just with a lot less words. If it was acted out by monkeys, you know, well, the funny thing is that she has actually, so she photoshopped her left arm. So you can see the background. The gravel gets all blurred and squiggled.

And then, but she also kind of messed up. She forgot to kind of phot Photoshop in her tricep. So she has a skinny lower arm, and then her tricep bulges out, which is actually, if it were me, I'd be so happy to have a tricep like that, but it looks very strange on her. Poor Catherine.

Is that in the blue sea through dress thing? No, she's wearing a red dress. Oh, I'm looking at her whole Instagram now. Yeah, she's holding one up. She's like, look at my strong track. Oh my goodness. I mean, those women shouldn't do that because that turns into anti-goodby arm.

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But what I found hidden on my doorstep She's just painting she's just painting a box with pass whatever they call it pause Tommy's time to decorate the Easter eggs. Oh My god, you can tell this is a lendy. Yeah, we've talked about Lisa Rinna starring as an octopus and a star movie. On a tree. On a tree. And Catherine, my name, Amazon Easter eggs, painting boxes. Painting boxes Using it to somehow Wu Thomas back to her Oh The new guy on Bravo would say it back to top chef

He just heard gunshot and he dies Kills himself He announced her he's so sad's what I'm trying to say. Everyone, I'm really, I'm just gonna take a big sip of coffee because my synapses are not firing today. I'm not having coffee today. I'm attempting to lose weight. And so I have green tea. Uh, isn't coffee, isn't caffeine supposed to make you not hungry? Yes, but I don't like just regular coffee anymore. I have to have it with chocolate cream

or milk and you know, rum chocolate like a donut coffee. Like I want it to taste like a liquid donut sliding down my throat. Well speaking, okay, so now we'll get back to Top Chef because now that we're getting back into something sort of culinary-minded with donut coffee. So the quick fire challenge So the Quick Fire Challenge is, it's a communication challenge where a partition is put up and each of these final four chefs is going to have a quote unquote sous chef on the other side of this partition. And the chef will have to bark orders to the other person and they're going to make identical dishes and they're going could be judge on how close Their dishes are going to resemble each other

And also how how how could they taste? Yeah, this was from top chef masters and it's one of the funniest top chef masters Because the one of the chicks who did it was just losing her mind on her partner. I think it was her husband. Yeah, it was Naomi Naomi what's her face from poor? Oh, she was just losing it. It was hilarious. Yeah. This one, I think they actually did pretty good. I was impressed. I mean, John's wife seems like she was kidnapped. Like, what is she doing there? What is she doing? I mean, no offense, John. She didn't want to be there. He even said as much. He couldn't believe that the producers got her there. She just must have been really bored that day.

Or maybe she just, like, she had a terrible day at work or she had a report do something where like, I mean, in her life trapped in kidnap. Like, what will the set? She was with John. And then they showed this picture of when they met and she's like so gorgeous. And he's not hideous or anything and he's talented. But man, you know that if he owes a stranger's like he does. Could you imagine what she goes through? I mean, she's so pretty. She must be like,

what do you call that syndrome where you're kidnapped, but they're like, yeah, I call Stockholm syndrome. Yeah, I mean, well, we know that he probably doesn't yell at her anymore because ever since they had a baby two years ago It's really softened him up and when John started talking about having a kid. I thought okay This means that he's either going home tonight or he's winning the whole show Because you know whenever they bring out the oh, I'm doing it for my kid I was lost until I had a child and I would do everything for my child who's a vegetarian by the way So that's a real restraint on what I can cook for her and that wasn't what he said, but I just you know John He's so proud of himself. He's so proud of himself for not hitting a baby. It's hilarious I keep like pass himself on the shoulders like I have a baby. I haven't heard it like well, congratulations

Fucking license John yeah, yeah, it's just There've just been a lot of top chef clichés rolling out this season between, you know, I was on heroin. And ever since I had my baby, I'm doing it for my baby or my parents and improving what I was doing, it's the only one who is not really followed a cliché is silver who had his restaurant burned down by a person. Yeah, he had like some real pain at least. Or like a really strong really. I mean, Serbia hasn't been like, oh, I

remember that time, I'm mommy, I'll let me. I was so sad I'd heroin for a week. I think that's secretly surely thanks everyone's crazy. You know, even though everyone thinks that she's crazy, she's like, what the hell in? What a child what's the end of management? What is it? I just cook, cook food, cook food, be be happy get driven to work Or you the heroine of and why is that such a bad team? She's you are a leading a book. So good for you. I want to be heroine. They're like no the drive

She's like why everybody food so colorful food shall be brown. Are you a heroine? Are you a heroine too? I don't like only make it brown food lately. I just, well I just think that like surely, I mean her food looks so amazing and I feel like she just sort of knows what she's doing and she just does it and she just, she doesn't have any excuses, she doesn't have any troubled back story. She's just like, yeah I wanted to cook, I'm gonna cook and now I cook amazingly and I feel like she just probably looks at everyone like, yeah, I wanted to cook. I'm gonna cook and I cook amazingly. And I feel like she just probably looks at everyone like, what is wrong with you?

What's wrong with you? Are you crying right now, John? She's actually, we did get her backstory today. And it was, she's like, I work at company. What's her company? Oh, yeah, she worked in Silicon, it was actually really cute.

She worked in Silicon Valley. And they showed this picture of her what looked like a DJ booth. It looked like she's like her like a college DJ and I think it was and that's where she met her husband and he was like, you know follow your dreams and so she decided to start cooking and That's that's basically it. There was no heroin involved. So cute. You loved him Well, she works a lot. So I don't really see her.

She works six days a week. But I see her in the morning when I take her to work. And then in the middle of the night when I pick her up from work. And you know, I'm going to do this just like our marriage. I'm going to do exactly as she tells me. I love that. Now that's a happy story. I love that he drives her to and from work every day

I think that's so adorable here it is but I can also says everything she says he doesn't care that she's never home I mean that's like I would be in a relationship if it was like that But it's probably like pretty intense when she's ready to go home That phone call I'm ready I Thought racist I don't know why Are you a side okay? Where are you tell me your location? Okay, five minutes. Okay, okay, where are you? Where are you now? Shoeber surely Uber You know your Uber's there because you just see I'm on my fair

I didn't tell you anything. Okay, you're now. I didn't how? Why are you? Shirley's Uber is always five minutes early and in slightly the wrong place. Like, where are you? I mean, you told me to be. Where? I'm in front of Lightpost. Oh, that's like, okay, that's fine. I'll walk to you. It's like sort of like 50 feet away. Oh, okay. I'm like, I'm so brown, but very tasteful. And it's kind of the best Uber ever. And you're wondering why this why this is Uber doesn't get more credit. And why more people don't know about this Uber. But everybody feels mothered in the Uber. Wow, that was like a hug from mom. She's like, oh, you're welcome. You'll be good boy. I believe in you. Okay, back footster.

And you feel like this is the best Uber ever but for some reason it's not going to win Some like a shittier Uber is gonna win instead of this Uber in the Uber Awards top Uber Like some Uber with it. Thank you, I wanted to thank you other Uber you inspired me so much to be go over Fiancé's Uber I feel like Fiancé's Uber fiance super. I feel like fiance super starts crying. I feel like John's Uber would be the sort of Uber where you get in and you like it's not great But he gives a sob story about his kid and has been going through anger management and he guilt you into giving him five stars Yeah, but the right is so but be keep hitting your head and feeling abused and he steals all your gum before you go He's like the reverse Uberber that gives you gum.

He takes your gum. He's like, hey, have any gum? And you're like, hey, I know the shortcut. Can you just like make a left here onto Felton? And then he doesn't do it. He's like, I'm sorry, I'm just not my driving style. I'm just a simpler driver. I just like to go right down the bridge.

There we go. OK, so Shirley had her husband, Brooke had her sister, John had his wife, and Sheldon had his wife, and Sheldon was the only one who figured out that it was his wife, and he figured out right away. That was shocking to me. That was so cute. That didn't even exist. That's what he said.

If we went $10,000, I'm going straight to Vegas. And I was like, oh God, he spends money like a poor person, you know? And then he ended up winning this challenge. And his, he's like, oh, well, my wife is here. So, you know, we'll pay some bills. Yeah, I guess that's a good wife. Yeah, I like when Brooke was trying to give orders to her sister and Shirley was barking so loudly.

She's like, Shirley, keep it down. She's like, what? What? What? What? I told you, make the noodle into the shape of the rose. She's like, please be quiet. You know, I knew Brooke was going to be in trouble

because I think it was Brooke, right? Maybe it was John. No, I think it was Brooke. Brooke had her sister poach an egg. I'm like, why are you making someone poach an egg? That's like the hardest egg technique there is. She's also kind of obsessed with that lately. She does like a poach an egg. It's an egg. I mean, there was a scallop girl who if that got old too, but at least it was like not an egg. Well, maybe she just has a gale Simmons. She just thinks Gail Simmons is going to pop up at any moment.

Special twist. Here's my good friend, Gail Simmons, help judge. She'll eat most of it. If Gail Simmons were here, she would say both dishes are very similar. And she would know because she would have eaten them both. And look the plates.

I'm afraid I don't have much of an appetite today, so we brought in guest judge Gail Simmons to eat everything. Don't mind her, she always sloppers at the mouth. We don't have kitchen cleaners this season. Instead, we'll just send Gail around after every challenge to eat the crumbs off the floor like a dog. Gail? Gail's like,

fuck you. I'm sorry, did you say something? I eat as much as you Padma. I have called you. I've said I agree with Padma three times this season. Have dairy. Oh, just don't worry about Gail. She's just a little hungry. She gets like that after about 45 minutes. So the Sheldon wins a sous vide machine. Yeah, and which is by the way, I would never want to win a sous vide machine on top chef. To me, that's like getting the monkey paw. Yeah, it does sound boring. I mean, I wouldn't even get a new popcorn popper. Cause I was like, do I really have the space? You have to be economical. Yeah, I just couldn't imagine being like, ah, I need a vacuum to suck the air out of shit

so I could boil meats. We're here. I don't think we've ever seen a sous vide machine do good things on top of that. I think maybe one time this, earlier this season, it was used, I think it had a decent outcome. But from year after year after year, that sous vide machine means death, spoiler alert. Yes. Yeah.

sous vide is not good. It's basically, it comes out like airline food. Mm-hmm. You know how there's like slimy meat in airline food, slimy meat. And it literally is sous vide, but those little plastic things and then literally is Suvi. That's going to be my next like frozen Suid line. It's literally Suvi. It's literally Suvi. Yeah.

So anyway, the challenge for the elimination challenge is to cook something that represents everything you've learned in Charleston and something about your past and your life and everything and what food means to you and life and love and all that stuff. It's like one of those touchy-feelly challenges which is very abstract, which is something that Brooke gets hung up on because she says she doesn't do well with abstract challenges. This is also something Brooke gets hung up on, thinking in the past, okay? Brooke does not read a lot of self-help.

Because Brooke has not read the power of now, okay? Brooke lost her season because she was so mad that she messed up chicken wings, that she made chicken wings in the finale. You remember? Well, but she she fucked up chickens again. No, no, it was because seat.

No, well, no, I, I forget there was something like that, but she also had that tall guy, CJ, and he burned something when he was her suchef. Yeah, I was pretty close though. I think that, I mean, at least how I remember it, which is not factual at all. I don't have a factual memory. So I admit that right up front. But I think she was making chicken wings or something and she lost. And so she was like, I'm going to redo that and show them that I know how to do this.

And I think it was some kind of fried chicken challenge. And then they sat, you know, they were like, this is dumb. Like, why would you serve as a chicken wing? Yeah, a lot of chefs do that on the show. And I feel like they always mess up every time they try to get some topper for redemption. And by the way, that entire broke loss deserved an ass risk because, first of all, it was the worst top chef finale in the history of top chef.

They tried to flip the format and turn it into iron chef. It was that awful head-to-head cooking thing with an audience. And like, Elon was at the table and being interviewed being interviewed by Padma, like the sideline reporter. It was so beyond detrocious and Brook didn't even get to make a dessert. And we knew Brooke was going to lose because there was only one minute left in the show and you know it was just everything about it was terrible. Plus also that was the first last chance kitchen and Kristen came back and if I remember correctly Kristen came back like really really late. Later than I think then they've been doing it ever since then.

She came back in top four. She came back top four. Oh, I thought she came back like even higher than that. Maybe when she came back top four, then I think they had a double limb or double limb. Maybe that sort of was. If I remember even feeling then, I don't know, everything about it. Kristen was a great chef. So, I had no problem with her making it to the top because she was a great chef, but I just remember thinking that Brooke got totally screwed. Sorry everyone. I think they might be doing a redo on that. They might have Brooke come back and win now, which would maybe be setting it right. Well, we've got a new logo, guys. Let's make sure that we start off on the right brook foot.

Last chance to join. Who's gonna win? No chance to cheer, lady. I think it's gonna be her because we as someone pointed out on our Facebook, you can see her ponytail and one of the shots. You see a little bouncy pony tail. So I think it's her. They could be tricking us. I don't know. Well, spoiler alert, one of our followers on Instagram posted on Instagram live that it's down to, last chance to kitchen

is down to Brooke and Casey, which means that my dear Silva was eliminated. I mean, I was going to have to face hard breakingbreak no matter what because Brooke and Silva could not both come back But I was hoping it would be between Brooke and Silva not Brooke and Casey and if Casey comes back I'm surprised Casey beat Silva. No offense. I'm very surprised, but maybe Silva just lost it You know, maybe maybe he got you went back down into a shame spiral Yeah, maybe maybe it's like I'm never going to rebuild. I'm never going to rebuild. He's just going to go to a build a bear shop and just blend in and start burning down bears.

He's going to start building bears and then burning them down and crying. He's like, I would live through this pain until I understand it. Okay, Scientology. Okay, so what is saying it hard for her to do abstract thing and she's like, but you know, I don't really have feelings But I guess if I did I would be like thankful for things that helped me win in the past So my story is about times I won Don't try to remake things this never works for you things this never works for you don't try to do it. Yeah, Sheldon meanwhile is making rice noodles out of Carolina rice and it's like oh no the rice noodles they're just they're not setting they're not setting but we know they're gonna

set we know. Did you notice the hidden valley ramps everywhere? I didn't close up on hidden valley ramps. I was like, guess judge Katie. To Katie like Katie. Just walking around judging like that was gross. Someone tweeted, hey, thanks Katie. You're going to get Stasi mad. Stasi told us, for those of you who did not not paying attention since you are social media,

I'm really plugging our social media heavily this show, but it's always with reason, because this is a story behind it all. Stasi mentioned us on her podcast last week. Thank you, Stasi, because it gave us a boost. And she was like, they are so mean and so cruel, but they're hilarious. I was like, oh my god, I got scared there. But she's like, but no more ranch jokes. Sorry.

Sorry. And then someone tweeted at me today and said, I love your podcast, but enough with the iceberg jokes. It's been six weeks in a row. I'm like, get used to it. We're still doing jokes from the first episode ever of this day. It's no offense. I just I just I find that I really enjoy making iceberg jokes

It's like I feel like we've now like tapped into a whole vein of comedy pertaining to iceberg lettuce It's just it's if there's any vegetable That's been that's been needing that the needs an ongoing joke on our podcast. It's iceberg. Yes. I mean, already someone went to it wasn't you who went to a restaurant and have an iceberg wedge. I did. Like someone had one of those blue cheese wedges. I did have a wedge. I have a great. I think that's crazy. And I saw on Twitter someone wrote, um, Hey, Tom, what's with the Hidden Valley Ranch on the show? What the fuck? And the hear me, it's like, well,

we really like hidden valley ranch. They do a lot for sustainable farming or something. Really? Valley town. Is that castamine? So they tell the town. They do a lot more than revealed valley ranch. So would you rather reveal valley ranch? Because, you know, that could be a nice one. a lot more than revealed Valley Ranch. So.

Would you rather reveal Valley Ranch? Because that could be a nice or a lot of horse food. Hidden Valley Ranch only appears once every 12 years. It's pretty. So let's see here. John, you know, I'm always good for a Brigadier reference. What'd you say? John, Frito, Custus, Scalops.

OK, so let's get to the main challenge. Because we're talking about... We are on the main challenge. Oh. You know what I got an idea? Let's stay on the main challenge, right? So they're just prepping. They're prepping their food for the food that they love.

And then they go home for the night. And Padma is cooking dinner. And because I can't feel weird. I know the night and Padma is cooking dinner. And that was so weird. I mean, I love Padma. So what I saw that I was like, I love Padma. But what I thought was funny was that not a single chef commented at any point like, wow, that was really good. That was so good.

Wow, Padma, that frozen plain rice that you just served us out of your frozen plain rice line. Yeah. She's like, guys, I will be serving my own frozen organic rice. Don't listen to it. She put a long way to go. She put a long way to go. She put a long way to go.

She put a long way to go. She put a long way to go. She put a long way to go. She put a long way to go. She put a long way to go. She put a long way to go. She put a long way to go. She put a long way to go.

She put a long way to go. She put a long way to go. She put a long way to go. She put a long way to go. She put a long way to go. I have a cookbook, right? Yeah. I feel like I should get it and try some recipes from it to see how they work out. Rice. Rice. It's like, really? You don't have anything else in your line that you can unfreeze. They just looked at that food like, really bitch, you're just starting to frozen rice.

Like, we gave you an octopus treat. Yeah. Yeah. I think you know that Adam had just asked that into her contract. She's like, I will have a moment for my rice this year. And I'm like, oh, God, all right. All right.

Yeah. So as you said, and they have their talk, I forget even the questions, Padma's asking them questions, you know, what forget what questions and then she's just like All right, it's great seeing you all goodbye and you know that she was only there for 10 minutes She's like my contract is up. I've shield my rice so long She's just so awkward and such a huge group of people. She's like hello chef. I have unfrozen rise. So how do you feel about? Whatever unfrozen rise. So how do you feel about whatever? Gail? Yeah, what do you think about Gail's

patterns? They're like tasteful, wrong answer. Terrible. Correct. You're correct. Don't you guys think it's weird how Gail is the only judge who asks for seconds? Isn't that kind of rude? Don't you think that's rude of Gail sometimes? Gail absolutely loved my plane rice. She ate five boxes while they were still frozen I mean to be fair you give her five boxes of cardboard. She did you know what I'm saying and she did Lessor hard literally ate the cardboard boxes as well. I Think she has that disease where you just eat everything like light bulbs. I don't know That's just me a cent talking That's not a

most calorie, you know, in her defense, that would be less calories than all of those rice boxes. So let's hope so. Here's the hope. Here's the gal. May she rest in peace. I don't think she's even dead. Um, I mean, I don't know. I would tell you how many calories are in this rice, but we're going to have to wait for Gail to poop up the box. We were going to send it to a lab to get the calorie tested, but unfortunately, Gail got into it first.

So apologies. Did you make dinner for no reason, basically? No, man. We get to the cooking judging. Yeah, but by the way, before the judging, so the next day they're doing more cooking, you know how it goes. It's like cooking one day, nighttime, cooking the next day. And it was during this second cook when Brooke reveals that she's cooking some of her pork in a pressure cooker

and some of it with a sous vide machine. And I was like, Brooke, have you never watched this show? The two things that never work on top chef are pressure cookers and sous vide machines. Now I don't know why pressure cookers don't work on top chef because they generally always work, but like in real life, but they are like the two things that will curse you the most and she's using both of them on her dish.

I was like, bro, what are you doing? Are you sure you don't wanna sprinkle some frozen waffles on that, bro? Yeah, I mean, do you wanna throw in a frozen scallop? How about that? Or how about like, what about this? I got an idea. Why don't you use some store bought puff pastry?

Oh, yeah, that's another good one. Is it still feels very doughboy? And by the way, I don't believe that the judges ever know that store, but I think it produces always tell them I But you know they always were those earpieces. I bet there's a producer saying Padma ask if the puff pastry store bought Um, I was talking about that's fine. Well, while I wasn't talking, that's why that's so I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was actually throwing something in the trash can. Then I was. I was like, where do I live? Is this my house? Was it your promotional box of Padma's Rice? Ha ha ha ha ha.

It's sent me into another world. To do do do do do. So John is, he's making a Frito, I believe. And he goes on this whole thing about how he doesn't want appeal the peppers because then they just become sloppy and it just becomes a mess and it's not sophisticated. I'm like, oh, so now you care about sophistication, John? Okay.

So. Yeah. Did you just say that they interviewed everybody after? Is that what you were saying? Because I was thinking that during this part where they, you can tell that they've done all these interviews way after the challenge because John always already has an excuse ready. Yeah, I wasn't saying that, but I agree with what you said. He always has.

Sorry. Yeah, I was already starting him up right in there for a minute. But yeah, he's always got an excuse ready. He's like, well, the reason you do that in the so free toes because the blood that that's like he's already defensive. Yeah, I guess he's gonna be called out and not peeling a pepper. Now that said, I don't peel a damn pepper to you.

Who peels a pepper? Well, I think it depends on the recipe. I think, I mean, here's the thing. I mean, even whatever, what's your face? I ate a mollum camp, whatever her name was. I'm gonna be like, or even she peeled the peppers with, with when it was called for. There's

certain things I don't peel the pepper for. If I were making fajitas, which I have never done, I would probably not peel those peppers, but I think if I were making something delicate, like a can of pick, because it was it was like it went on top of something, right? It went on top of his, I forget it was, I probably would peel that pepper. I don't you know what I don't know. I don't know what revisionist history. I'm obsessed with scallops too. You may scallops again. Everyone makes scallops on this show. It's like I feel like there must be some sort of Kickback to scallop farmers of America the SFA Too much so his comes out and they're doing this is the James weird house and the winner gets to cook a dinner James be it house. Yeah

It sounds terrifying. Yeah, I would want to do that. I know. I'd be like, no, I'm going to do. I'm just going to the box of Padmas for some rice and say, pass it off. Say this for you. Padmas, like, who is this James Beard?

And is he married? Like some huge. Is he actually gay or is that his name? So I've always been appeared myself. I like we're already married. So I like that Shirley. She's making, she's making a grouper and again, you know, everyone's talking about I'm'm doing this for my kid, doing this for my heroin addiction, I'm doing this for my dad who didn't

ever believe in me and truly just goes, I'm basically cooking for myself right now. I'm like, good for you, Shirley. Oh, I'm my grandma. Okay, my grandma too. Okay. Myself and my grandma who told me, don't climb battery and I did.

She said, you're crazy, Shirley! So she did an oil post group with some herbal tea consummate. And Gale's like, you know what, Shirley, this is a perfect example of your ability to create connections between worlds. I was like, OK, the magician. I'm Harry Potter Gale.

I don't want to be a magician, so I don't totally get that reference. Harry Potter. It's a magic show where the kids are like all in the at-voltage. Oh, okay. They're like, what? So we had a satanic orgy. Anyway, did you do your homework?

I have to say that when it came for the judging, you know, they had this table of prominent chefs as usual. And they were in this big empty space and I love how one of the judges somehow we got the wrong memo and he showed up in a tuxedo And everyone else is dressed you know sort of you know like a Sophisticated chef, you know blazer with maybe a tie, but maybe open collar, but there's one guy in a full on tuxedo like he's going to the Oscars the top of maybe open collar, but there's one guy in a full on tuxedo like he's going to the Oscars. So let's see Tom loved her, her grouper.

And then the fat guy, which is so ready to call him that, but I didn't know his name, but he was like, and I loved him because he just fat and I'm fat. So I'm like, Oh, I love you. You're my goal weight. So that guy was like, please open a soul food Chinese place in Charleston. I was like, whoa, JD is a restaurant for me. That's my idea. So burning.

So Chinese bourbon. Bourbon infused egg rolls. So Brooke main, Brooke's like, I'm not in love with this dish. Shocker. Right. So she made some slimy ass pork, like sliding out of the bag. And then she put it on braised island veggies. It's like, oh, no, nothing about this sounds good.

Yeah, it's not a damn thing. Yeah, I don't even know what braised island veggies would be. What's not on the other? Like, it's just whatever they found at the whole foods. It's like a broccoli playing a steel drum. It's like a cartoon broccoli. Dun dun dun dun. She just throws it into the boiling water.

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You know, bargains taste good too. Thanks, Brooke. Is this from the Nate Berkis collection? It is. Okay, great. One of the judges was like, uh, so why the egg yolk said something about an egg yolk and she's like, Tom loves egg yolks. She's like, yeah, she's like, it's just a reference to when I won a challenge with an egg in it. So I thought I'd put an egg. I'm just, I'm very literal. And notice that there's only one egg because that's a remind you that I won with an egg. She's like, well, my son gave me this little plastic dinosaur and it's my good luck charm. So I'm hoping this is gonna pull me through

and I'm like, I hope it does because he's gonna get beat. Like he already doesn't see you ever. Like, it it's my fault mommy's never here now it literally is like your good luck charm is killing your mother's dreams hey the good luck charm stay still may work because she's in last chance chicken chicken last chance kitchen last chance chicken last chance chicken as the last chance for you to be accepted in my life chicken So what it's what it's a shell to make he made rice noodles Out of Carolina rice and Okra and something else I don't remember but the real star with where the rice noodles and that one guy was like well I love my Carolina rice. That's the one thing I love when I already make a noodles.

I never was like, oh, that takes you to ruin it. But it was great. I'll be stealing this technique, boy. Meanwhile, he didn't talk like that at all, but it's more fun with him being. Yeah. But oh, it's a then John served. I love a polvarized noodle, boy.

Now that doesn't mean you're running the company. Oh, now I'll shale then. You can, I don't know. Just ran your bike off the side of the road. I was like trying to remember a reference to Southern Charm. I'm like, no, it was like three, three cycles of shows ago and all my references are gone. So, um, so John comes out and he, I think he made his like scallop of Ceprito. And again, I was like, so John,

did you mean for it to be so simple? Oh, do you just can't think on more complex levels? Padma, you just unfroze rice for people. So Why don't you just be quiet today for the rest of the day? Keep your mouth shut, Padma. The difference is Padma is not a top chef. She can make all the bad again. She can make all the frozen stuff. was. However, I always tell the story that several years ago when I was covering a red carpet for a Bravo event and Padma was there. I was actually going to a potluck later that night and I hadn't figured out what I was going to make.

So my question to Padma was, hey, I'm going to a potluck tonight, what should I make? And without even hesitation, she gave me a recipe just like that. She told me exactly what to do. And I was like, And without even hesitation, she gave me a recipe just like that. She told me exactly what to do. And I was like, I'm pretty impressed with that. She was like two parts water, one part rice. Then give yourself to end up freezing. That's more than I could come up with a Ronnie. So you know what?

No octopus on a tree shade for me. The Trockopus. At the two top dishes are surly and sheldon. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the She doesn't even have like a resting bitch face. She just has board bitch face. Yeah, she's just board bitch all day She's like

I don't think that she's bored. I think I don't I never get bitch from Brock actually I get just sad defeated a lot Just yeah, like Yeah, sad defeated Sad to feed sad to feed it RSDF Resting sad to feed it. I'm very happy right now. I just have resting sad to feed it face. That's all.

And also Tom told Sheldon. He's like, Sheldon, being humbled is great. But you got to take, you know, one day you're going to take plates amongst America's greatest. I was like, wow, Sheldon's like, I want to go to Vegas. Like my second win. I was like, don children's like I want to go to Vegas like my second win. I Love that the Tom impersonation is turning into this thing where he starts every sense going look I mean look my restaurant we never make noodles so it's impressive Press the way you did there and I've never heard of bull rising rice.

What did rice do to you? I'm not. It was good though. I never even thought about doing anything interesting with rice like that before. I mean, I mean, who does things with rice? I mean, it's the most basic thing you can make. Padmissing there.

Gratling at him. It's just a base tom. Sheldon, did you mean to bastardize my frozen product? I mean, gal loved it. But that might be because you put an egg on it. Oh wait, that was Brooke. I mean, I can't tell she ate the food so fast. Did you mean to pulverize my entrepreneurship?

Galwitz, do you prefer? Gels like the boxes. The boxes were better. Bless her heart. I mean texturally they were stunning. Bless her heart. She's behind on her rabies shots. Gail you're foaming at the mouth.

Sorry that's just a bit of rice. You want to wipe your mouth? So, John's like, well, I would never want to make excuses, but you don't peel peppers. It's like that was mixed. So, I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry, you just said, you say what you're excited. I have to say, we we going to talk about what happened or I don't want to go ahead.

I don't want to skip it. I don't want to. Oh, yeah, I'm at the end. OK, so I was just going to say that when they were deliberating, they were deciding between John and Brooke. And they were like, well, Tom's like, well, you know, Brooks was too dry, too sweet. She destroyed those, you know, she destroyed that meat.

It's perfectly good meat. I mean, it was destroyed. And like, yeah, it was just, it just just trying like yeah it was just it just didn't work it was just it wasn't there's no inspiration behind it and then like but John didn't peel his peppers I'm like hmm I wonder who's gonna lose this one but I'm like they tried to give it equal weight yeah but didn't peel peppers didn't peel that pepper skin yeah I don't know I mean Brooks tasted like shit Brooks literally was like feces, sweet, slimy feces.

But you know, the place members. Feces on a plane, okay. These feces playing food. Police. A man. Yeah, he didn't, he didn't feel those peppers. Hmm. How's this going to work out? So poor Brooke gets kicked off.

And she's asked to pack her nads and go and she starts crying which made me feel so sad because she just said I hope that my son's lizard brings me back my phone. And by the way this is when she went from resting defeated sad face to active defeated sad face. Yeah, active defeated sad sad sad face. Yeah. Like, bam, bam, low sad, sad sob face. Yeah. He's like, Ramm, Ramm,

low sad, Ramm with a smile on his face. Don't you dare turn her into she-na. Don't you dare turn her into she-na. Cut. Cut. Cut. Like, how do you feel, bro?

Cut. Cut. Oh, she must be devastated. Um, yeah, so Brook is crying. And then Gale suddenly is like, you know what I'm gonna do right now? I'm going to do a back to a pilot for my new daytime talk show.

And she clasps Brooke's hands and goes, don't ever confuse emotion for weakness. And Brooke's like, okay Gail. Get your egg hands off me. I'm emotional and you're weak. There we go. Pad was like, good one Brooke. Pad, Pad, Pad. Like, oh bro, if you wanted to let go, just give her a highball day.

It's really very simple. Toss the fork bone. Brooke, did you mean to be so disappointing in your second run on top, chef? So for Brooke is like, this is crushing because I was so close before and I've really grown a lot as a person and a chef and I mean it's just not to make it as far as I did last time. I'm like, yeah, but last time you were a second place. I mean, you literally made it all the way to the end last time. So, I guess that you didn't do as well, but that would have like,

but that sucks. So you did okay. You did okay. But when you're when you're number two and you lose in like the big asterisk finale of all time, and then you come back and like the pressure is so on to the seat go all the way. So that does suck. It does. It seems so sad.

The whole season and she's been she's had a quite a few misfires this season. She really does. I mean, that yogurt parfait. I always root for mean, I'm actually 100% with you on that. I'm actually a big brick fan. I've been a big brick fan in both seasons. She did, you know, she, I mean, she knew she was, she had lost her mojo. She, because in her season, she was a big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big did, you know, she, I mean, she knew she was, she had lost her mojo. She, because in her season, she was firing on all cylinders by the time it got down to the, towards the final. And she was really messing up this season.

I mean, I honestly, after that breakfast, that breakfast craped thing, but even before the breakfast craped thing, she was starting to have some mishaps. And then that thing happened. And the breakfast crept was, for a moment, I thought, oh, good, she's finally back on track. But then when the yogurt thing happened, the yogurt thing was such a disaster that I was like, she's something's wrong with Brooke. Yeah. So I'm gonna help Brooke. Breakfast out of there. And then I ended with John, like, I'm such a better person now. Like, such a better person. If he wins this thing, he's gonna win it. I guarantee he's gonna win it.

Because he's getting such a sympathetic edit and he's getting more backstory. I mean, Sheldon's getting a lot of story too, but I think his backstory of throwing out his, literally his backstory of throwing out his back on noodles just does not have the same Gravich House as Jon. So I think Jon is gonna get on. He just needs to work out. So I think Jon is gonna get on. backstory of throwing out his literally his backstory. Throwing out his back on noodles just does not have the same

Kravish house as John. So I think John is gonna get. He just needs to work it better. I mean, he threw his back out and almost died because he was carrying a tray of noodles and Harry is winning a James Beard cooking award thing for noodles. Oh, for sure! Of course, that crazy, Shirley. Oh That crazy Nice hey sheldon nice call back with your noodles

See what I did there I sure did I'm I'm I'm excited I'm excited to see what happens with this finale. I hope that bro comes back to Comes back to Mexico If it's Casey, I Mean Casey also was getting a lot of Casey was getting a lot of story to like a lot of personal development over the course of the season So I wouldn't be surprised if Casey's not gonna be furious though

very small development She's like, I will not stand by and be told I was missing one single grain of salt. It was under salt. It was under salt. Oh, okay, okay. I mean, all right, fine. Oh, it's over salted. Oh, it's over salted now. Okay. All right. No, no, it's fine. I'm not mad. It's difficult looking like this. Being so pretty and happy to work in the kitchen where people don't take you seriously because they've had drop dead gorgeous you are. I mean, I'm sorry I didn't season it right. I mean, I'm, you know, people just call me the hot one and they just think I can't season correctly, but I think it season just phone a guilt blanket on top of me and I don't appreciate it.

I know I look too much like a supermodel to be a super chef, but you can be both. supermodel to be a super chef, but you can be both. So much of it. So much of it. So much of it. So much of it. Brooke on like Brooke and not Brooke. I mean, Casey and that. What was that girl?

I think she's maybe from last season. She was blonde and she also was like the hot girl who could cook. But then they like really she became she's sort of she was very grudging Rossi like. Do you remember her? Uh-uh. Well, well, she existed and she should be on the same season with Casey. She was very grouchy and Rossy like do you remember her? Well Well, she existed and she should be on the same season with Casey and watch them have a you know, I may be hot, but I can cook off I want to be on a reality show just because I just so I could do that. I'll be like God. It's really hard being hot like nobody takes me seriously

You look at me like his body and he's really gonna cook. There was totally the least. VH1 actually had a, they had a show like 10 years ago about models who were, I think there was, there was like smart models versus dumb models, it was something like that. It sort of was in that same space. I was like, yeah, well, I forget what it was called. Like, are you done with it?

Or are you done with it? Or something like that? Yeah, that was actually a really good show. And the people were hot on it. It was actually really good. There were some good castings on that. Yeah. So guys, that brings us to the end of Top Share.

We have decided that we are going to do Atlanta on Thursday this week. Atlanta and Marit and Medicine back to back on Thursday. We'll talk about the Marit and Medicine season finale and the latest episode of Atlanta, which was hilarious. So look forward to that on Thursday and then tomorrow, So, look forward to that on Thursday and then tomorrow we have Band of Bump Rules. Yes, so we will see you for bad everybody. Let's talk to you tomorrow. Bye! Hey everyone, thanks for listening to the podcast today.

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