As part of our new Top Chef coverage, Sundi chatted with recently eliminated cheftestant and fellow Georgian, Chef Day Joseph. Even though she was the first to go home, she was super fun to talk to and gave us a little insight into her origin story and food inspirations.  

We're also covering the new Vanderpump Rules and its reunion time,  where the current cast continues to provide an embarrassment of riches of second-hand cringe, find us for vintage VPR on Mondays and Fridays.

Watch, listen, and find visual aids or our poor decisions at @takeapinotpod on Instagram, Tik Tok and YouTube. Questions, complaints, and hot takes go to [email protected]. And please leave a review so more people can suffer through this with us.

Jeff is finally able to talk about food and and restaurants and service! It's his time to shine and we're gonna talk all things Top Chef for season 23.   Our main crew of Kristen Kish, Tom Collichio and the always beautiful and wonderful Gail Simmons.

For our first bites of Carolina flavor it's Nascar, Sweet Potatoes, some takes on southern food from new angles, a quick look around the season ahead and some great guest judges in Jamie Lynch and  Sean Brock. 

We'll take a look at all the cheftestants and see which category of ours they fit into; weeded, seeded or defeated.  It's gonna be a great season, y'all.

We're also deep in Vanderpump Rules Season 12, where the current cast continues to provide an embarrassment of riches and sometimes just embarrassment.

Find us for vintage VPR on Mondays and Fridays and for season 12 recaps on Tuesday nights dropping right after the show.

Watch, listen, and find visual aids and poor decisions at @takeapinotpod on Instagram and on YouTube. Questions, complaints, and hot takes go to [email protected]. And please leave a review so more people can suffer through this with us.

We are on to a new reunion! Our season 12 stars are bringing the attitude, the shine and lots of opinions.  Andy and Lisa, of course, are helming the ship and we get to hear from all our major players and still have plenty that we're looking for next week in part 2!  We got penis pump action, dating lives to sort out and beefs (both on the socials and irl) so settle in and follow along with us in the action.

Find us for vintage VPR on Mondays and Fridays and for season 12 recaps on Tuesday nights dropping right after the show.

Two friends with too many opinions and not enough wine break down Vanderpump Rules — the old seasons, the new mess, and everything in between. Sundi is a professor who has convinced herself this counts as research. Jeff brings the restaurant industry receipts. Together they’re working through one of Bravo’s most chaotic franchises one episode at a time, plus occasional detours into whatever else is making pop culture lose its mind.

Watch, listen, and find visual aids and poor decisions at @takeapinotpod on Instagram and on YouTube. Questions, complaints, and hot takes go to [email protected]. And please leave a review so more people can suffer through this with us.

The Miami Girl fallout didn't go the way Kristen hoped and Stassi is still MIA. Oh.... and by the way, we TOLD y'all Tom Schwartz was a putz!

We're also deep in Vanderpump Rules Season 12, where the current cast continues to provide an embarrassment of riches and sometimes just embarrassment.

We're also delving in to the world of Top Chef, where Jeff gets to be the boss for a while 

Watch, listen, and find visual aids and poor decisions at @takeapinotpod on Instagram and on YouTube. Questions, complaints, and hot takes go to [email protected]. And please leave a review so more people can suffer through this with us.

Jeff's time has come. Top Chef is almost here and he FINALLY gets to talk about food, cooking and kitchens. Sundi doesn't have half the chops when it comes to this show, so she's the one getting schooled on these recaps. 

Find us for vintage VPR on Mondays and Fridays and for season 12 recaps on Tuesday nights dropping right after the show.

Watch, listen, and find visual aids and poor decisions at @takeapinotpod on Instagram and on YouTube. Questions, complaints, and hot takes go to [email protected]. And please leave a review so more people can suffer through this with us.

VPR Season 12, episode 12 wraps with a lackluster Pride. We may have deemed it "TEMU" Pride, but with love, obviously. All the VPR F-boys were exposed for the dirtbags they are, and Anjelica continues to disappoint.  Venus is the hero this country needs and Audrey refused to be gaslit. 

Find us for vintage VPR on Mondays and Fridays and for season 12 recaps on Tuesday nights dropping right after the show.

Watch, listen, and find visual aids and poor decisions at @takeapinotpod on Instagram and on YouTube. Questions, complaints, and hot takes go to [email protected]. And please leave a review so more people can suffer through this with us.

In this episodes Jeff floats some ship-name options for Sandoval and Ariana and Sundi can't stop laughing long enough to find her favorite. 

Inspirations for the list came from 20teens emo band names, Sandoval's unfortunate grooming habits, their dumb choice for wardrobe and Jeff's own personal wit. 

We ask listeners to weigh in by voting on Instagram at @TakeaPinotPod and you can watch the whole clip on our YouTube channel. 

America's Next Top Model is so deeply ingrained in Sundi's lore that she had to invite her daughter Nolin to talk about all three episodes of "Reality Check: America's Next Top Model." While Jeff is traveling, Nolin was the perfect sub to talk about a show that has meant so. much to us. 

This is a long one, so stick around to here us nerd out about ANTM. 

We're also deep in Vanderpump Rules Season 12, where the current cast continues to provide an embarrassment of riches and sometimes just embarrassment.

Find us for vintage VPR on Mondays and Fridays and for season 12 recaps on Tuesday nights dropping right after the show.

Watch, listen, and find visual aids and poor decisions at @takeapinotpod on Instagram and on YouTube. Questions, complaints, and hot takes go to [email protected]. And please leave a review so more people can suffer through this with us.

This is not a drill. Miami Girl is here and the chaos demon that is Kristen is wreaking havoc on the unsuspecting Sandoval and Ariana.

We still haven't found a 'ship name for them, so head to @takeapinotpod on Instagram to vote for your favorite. 

We're also deep in Vanderpump Rules Season 12, where the current cast continues to provide an embarrassment of riches and sometimes just embarrassment.

Find us for vintage VPR on Mondays and Fridays and for season 12 recaps on Tuesday nights dropping right after the show.

Watch, listen, and find visual aids and poor decisions at @takeapinotpod on Instagram and on YouTube. Questions, complaints, and hot takes go to [email protected]. And please leave a review so more people can suffer through this with us.

We're also deep in Vanderpump Rules Season 12, where the current cast continues to provide an embarrassment of riches and sometimes just embarrassment.

Find us for vintage VPR on Mondays and Fridays and for season 12 recaps on Tuesday nights dropping right after the show.

Watch, listen, and find visual aids and poor decisions at @takeapinotpod on Instagram and on YouTube. Questions, complaints, and hot takes go to [email protected]. And please leave a review so more people can suffer through this with us.