Season 23 is officially here! We've got a brand new theme song, a brand new season in the Carolinas, and our very first call-in guest, Jeff Ray, reporting live from an actual, functioning payphone.

This week on Pod Chef, Bryan, Jamal, and Reaves kick off Bravo's Top Chef Season 23. Before we pack our knives, we welcome back our musical maestro Jeff Ray to catch up. Then, we dive deep into the Season 23 premiere, "Carolina Roots," to roast the new chefs, over analyze the first Quickfire, and predict who is going to crash and burn this season.

⏱️ EPISODE MENU

• 00:00 - Intro, the NEW theme song, & Jeff Ray calls from a payphone

• 21:50 - Chef’s I’ve Prepared For You

• 43:32 - Top Chef S23E01 Recap starts: "Carolina Roots" breakdown

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🎸 CREDITS The new Pod Chef intro was produced and performed by our guest, Jeff Ray. Follow him on IG: @jeffrayfilms

Padma Lakshmi is back on our screens, and we are officially grading her new homework. We break down the series premiere and offer our highly unsolicited (but definitely correct) pitches on how to make the show even better.

This week on Pod Chef, Bryan, Jamal, and Reaves step out of the Bravo universe to review the very first episode of former Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi’s new show, "America’s Culinary Cup: Spoiled for Stroganoff." We are talking the new format, the new dishes, and exactly how we would fix the competition as three comedians with absolutely zero television production experience.

⏱️ EPISODE MENU

• 00:00 - Intro, catch-up, & the usual chaos

• 31:08 - America's Culinary Cup Recap starts: "Spoiled for Stroganoff"

• 59:00 - Our pitches to fix the show!

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👨‍🍳 THE LINE COOKS 👨‍🍳

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• Jamal: @hell0newman

• Reaves: (Still dodging the social media grid)

🎸 CREDITS The Pod Chef intro was produced and performed by Jeff Ray. Follow him on IG: @jeffrayfilms

BONUS EPISODE: The boys dropped a bonus episode after a clip show?! What is happening? Consider this your amuse-bouche for Season 23 of Top Chef as we review the trailer and do our Season 23 Top Chef fantasy league picks. Top Chef talk starts at the beginning this time.

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The finale of S10 is a clip show so the boys figured we’d do a clip show. Lucky you to get to listen to the best of clips for Pod Chef this season and us talking about Top Chef Season 10, Episode 17 - "Finale Part II"

Top Chef Talk starts at 48:21

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The three amigos are back and talking about how committed they are to the podcast. They also discuss Top Chef S10, Ep 16 “Finale Part I.”

Top Chef Talk starts at 29:42

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The Pod Chef intro was produced and performed by Jeff Ray - 

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It's just Bryan and Reaves this week, but we're bringing you the good stuff. We're asking questions to fall in love (deliberately disobeying Tom) and talking about Top Chef Season 10, Episode 15 - "Glacial Gourmand"

Top Chef Talk starts at 35:30

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The Pod Chef intro was produced and performed by Jeff Ray - 

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The three amigos are back and talking about Padma’s new cooking show “America’s Culinary Cup” which seems very different from Top Chef. They also discuss Top Chef S10, Ep 14 “King’s of Alaska.”

Top Chef Talk starts at 44:10

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The Pod Chef intro was produced and performed by Jeff Ray - 

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Jamal and Reaves show up to celebrate Jamal's milestone birthday. Bryan had more important things to do. They also discuss Top Chef S10, Ep 13 “Chef’s At Sea.”

Top Chef Talk starts at 32:05

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The Pod Chef intro was produced and performed by Jeff Ray - 

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The three amigos spend far too much time coming up with better episode titles than Bravo did and also discuss Top Chef S10, Ep 12 “Wolfgang Clucks.”

Top Chef Talk starts at 36:48

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The Pod Chef intro was produced and performed by Jeff Ray - 

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The boys tackle S10E11 "Restaurant Wars." The Kristen Kish superstar timeline starts here.

Top Chef Talk starts at 41:43

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The Pod Chef intro was produced and performed by Jeff Ray - 

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Pod Chef is Bryan, Jamal, & Reaves.

Follow us on Instagram and Twitter -@podchefpodcast

Follow Bryan on Instagram - @bjacksonininaction

Follow Jamal on Instagram - @hell0newman