Excited that Eric is joining the show full time. I’m excited to hear his insight as the next season of Top Chef unfolds!

Can you guys please stop: 1) butchering the names of non-American chefs? “Zubair” is literally just “Zoo-bear.” 2) putting spoilers in the show notes? 3) starting and ending every sentence with “man,” “dude,” or “bro?” (that one’s for Eric)

Love the show, but Eric needs to follow his own advice and stop talking. He needs to edit his comments. More Tom please. I’m surprised Eric felt the Hockey episode was tricky. Last week he told us “these chefs are professionals, they can handle a curveball” (lasagna, candy, truffle oil..)

PYK has always been my favorite TC podcast. No others come close but the episodes air so late now I’ve forgotten or lost interest. I always looked forward to your show the next day with as much anticipation as the episode of TC itself. It seems all the attention is going into your new paid subscription format, which is to expensive for such a short TC season.

I have to rely on the freebie teasers but 11 minutes of Tom Colicchio doing damage control on Danny winning was cringeworthy. Exec producer and he doesn’t watch the episodes? It’s clear that style over substance is what they want - guess I’m out.

Get advertisers - drop the paywall entirely. We like your show, but not enough to pay for it.

One of my favorite podcasts ever - the one I keep refreshing my feed to see if the new episode has dropped. Kevin and Tom are great together; two entirely different personalities but a shared love of food, Top Chef, and their fantasy league! I hope they change their subscription model next season - the cost is way too high and it only makes your episodes less relevant when I have to wait until Monday to hear them.

I really enjoyed this show in previous years, but this season the hosts are hyper focused every week on some perceived flaw of each Top Chef episode. I keep hoping it gets better but each week now it’s 4 full mins of ads to start to show followed by ~20 mins of griping (e.g. about how there have been too many team challenges, or how unfair the randomly drawn teams were, or how they disagreed with the judges’ decisions). Even if I occasionally agree with a criticism of the challenge design they point out (which I often don’t) what can I do about it? Write an email about it to the showrunners? Call Tom and Gail? No. Nothing. It just kinda tarnishes the enjoyment of the show by focusing on the negatives of the game design all. The. Time. How about talking about the food????

Get some sponsors

The podcast has lost its charm this year. Not appealing to dangle paid episodes in front of your audience.