Watch What Crappens - Top Chef: Trifling Truffles

Episode Date: June 9, 2020

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I imagine, I hope. I i don't know how are you doing yeah same um been doing a lot of news reading um the world is changing so quickly i think in a lot of ways change is for the better you know like it doesn't look like it necessarily at all times right now but it is actually nice to see people standing up and fighting for what's right. Yeah, and in whatever way you can. My thing right now is I decided that from like basically now until tomorrow night, I've decided I'm going to raise money for the NAACP legal defense fund via Cameo, which is, I saw Michelle Collins was doing it. So I was like, that's a great idea. So I'm going to do it too. So my goal is to hit $500 worth of cameos, and I'm just going to send that on over to

donate to the NAACP legal defense fund, and I'm going to match it with $500 of my own. So I'm encouraging people, we're actually going really, really well. I'm almost there at the goal, but I figure why not, why not keep on going? Of course it'll be, it basically is gonna mean like, I'm gonna spend all of tomorrow on my phone going, hey, welcome to your cameo, this is Ramona, but that's fine, because it's so worth it.

So if you wanna help out, all the cameos I get between today and tomorrow night, okay, going NAACP legal defense fund, okay. All the cameos I get between today and tomorrow night okay going and NAACP legal defense fund okay, okay, I will match your donation. Whoa. So there you go. Thanks, Ronnie I don't sign up for anything, but I will match my donation to whatever you make. Well, thank you. I didn't even I didn't even I didn't sign up I apparently actually came here reached out to a talent ask if we wanted to do this and I missed the email. So I'm just gonna do it, like, I'm just gonna do the old fashioned, like go to their website

and click it in. So, yeah, I'm still gonna just do my cameos like normal, but I will match whatever donation you're getting for that. Okay, well, thanks for that. So throw all your cameos to ban people. Wow, ban people. Throw them to ban, baby. But I brushed off my Ramona impersonation, which of course, the irony in that, right?

Of course, doing Ramona impersonations to support the NDEA, the ACP. Well, hey, why don't we go to someone else's fucking ignorance for good? I agree. I agree. Totally. I think that's actually almost the best kind of like

Fucky Ramona is to like, you know, use her to raise money for a really, really good cause. Yeah. One thing we're rich in in this country is ignorance, especially from our reality stars. So if we can turn that into something positive, then, then, and I say, let's go for it. And I was thinking about that because this weekend, obviously, the big scandal with Sassy and Kristen resurfaced on social media. And I was thinking about, I was thinking about like a relationship with reality TV and bravo stars in terms of like, or bravo in terms of us as viewers. And you know, it's funny, and I don't know if this is like specific to Us as gay men or if I speak for the audience but I find that when I watch these shows there's

always some like evil guard there always evil garbage people on it who when the show begins I hate them but for some reason I wind up being like I hate them but I love watching them it's like pretty much like all of real house us New York right or band of reals and I'm always like I hate them but I love them on my TV for some reason I love watching them. It's like pretty much like all of real house us in New York, right, or band-of-pronged rules. And I'm always like, I hate them, but I love them on my TV. For some reason, I love watching these awful people. We make fun of them. We have so much fun doing that. But then what happens is invariably, these people that I will go on, diet tribes for being like, why they are so valuable for viewing experiences, they do something garbage outside of the reality TV show. And then all of a sudden, you're in this lurch of like, oh, wait a second.

Like, this person that I've loved watching on my TV has now done something terrible, was it say about me, how does this affect my relationship towards them on TV? Like, how do I view this person? Like, Ramona saying all lives matter on her IG. It's like, how do I view this person, you know, like Ramona saying all lives matter on her IG. It's like how do I reconcile that with the fact that I love Ramona on Real Housewives of New York. And it's like, it's a really, it's a deep philosophical quandary, you know.

Yeah, I think the thing that's always helped to me is just coming from an even playing field of everyone is trash until proven otherwise. You know, thankfully, people like Ramona have never really proven otherwise. They've maybe been more fun at sometimes than other, but she's trash, like she's complete trash. And I have no problem calling that out. We talked about the faith stuff when it was happening, like when it came out a couple of years ago on this on the show. But reading it all again now, you know, it really does put everything in a different line. And for those of you who don't know, Faith went on a podcast and gave an interview about what it was like being the only black cast member on Vanderpump rules. And she brought up when Stasi

went on Bitch Bible, and I think I think I'm getting this all right. It's a long time line of starless. But Stasi went on there and was basically going, they all hated Faith because she slept with Jacks in that season. It all came out on camera. And it became this huge thing. And all the girls of course, because it's Vanderpromp rules, let's stand behind fucking Jacks. Of course.

You know, and they all went against faith and Kristen was like, oh, I saw something, I saw her in the news. And pulled up a story of a black woman who was like sleeping with rich guys and stealing stuff from them. And she was being chased by the police. And so they were calling the police saying, this is faith, it looks just like faith. And then you see the pictures, it looks nothing like faith. Oh, but she's wearing Logan's jacket, who of course that little trash ball Logan pops up

every. Yes. And they're like not even the same jacket. And I mean close like not even like come on. It's so funny. I actually like this scandal, I like have big memories of it. I remember they all were saying that that faith was actually like a con artist, but I don't really remember the details of it. And I'm not saying like, not being like denying. I'm just, I really don't remember very much. So reading the articles in culture and in people about it and seeing it and basically what the takeaway of it

is the reason why people are so mad is because they called the military police, they called the, I think Kristen was at a club and soft faith, they aren't called the police, over this jacket issue. And I'm like, okay, first of all, we don't need your vigilante justice right now. Like even if faith were, even if she were like being shady and stealing

shit, like you, you girls are not like like like relax Nancy Drew's. I mean, you were not the ones to have to like handle this, okay? Like, like, so there's that. I mean, they were, they were calling her Lala was supposedly leaving stuff around the house to see if faith would steal it. And then Brittany supposedly called her nappy headed and then they kept calling the cops. Did you really?

Yes. No, that's... Yeah. Jack's was saying that she stole his car. Like his car was stolen from a party and they were blaming faith. Like it was really... Jack's probably is blaming the loss of his social media hockey job on faith at this point. I mean, let's be honest.

Jack's also, by the way, posted something on his story last week that was like, oh, so I guess all those maths that wouldn't work in restaurants, only work at the protests, like fuck you, Jack, like simmer down. Okay, we don't need to hear your voice on this situation right now. Oh my God. Yeah.

But here's the thing though, I will say though, I think when it happened, one thing that I did not appreciate that I do appreciate now is really how dangerous it was for Faith, for Stasi and Kristen to be calling the cops on her. I don't think, I mean, we're in a constant state of like, really as like two like white guys, or actually, I don't know Ronnie really if you identify as a white guy not

because you're half Lebanese but like as a white guy. So I have the same privileges as a white guy so yes I do. Yeah but you know like we are I like to think that I'm like very you know like on top of shit I'm quote unquote woke, you know, and you know, I'm like trying as much as possible to push back on my implicit bias and you know, trying to be as progressive as possible on these things, but there is just,

there will always be blind spots, always working to get them to eradicate them, but there's always gonna be there, and one of be blind spots, always working to get them to eradicate them, but there's always going to be there. And one of my blind spots was really not taking into consideration how, how scary and dangerous that could really be, or not how it really could be, how it is for, to, like, for these girls to be calling the cops on faith. It is, I mean, that's one thing that we've really learned. And thank God we're learning that, thank God.

Yeah, we'll calling the cops and going on, on big podcasts, accusing her of all this stuff. It's just, it's so, it's so bad, so fucking gross. So Stasi has been losing all these, protestors, I mean, all these protestors, she's losing protesters. Her movements really stalling. Yeah.

All those pro stasi protesters. The Barnes and Noble at the Grove is really suffering guys. But she's losing a lot of sponsors and all this stuff and finally came out with an apology today, you know, because the shit has really hit the fan with all of that. And Kristen came out with an apology too. Which I like to read with her, like, putting her shoulder forward, like seriously, seriously, I've learned. Yeah, just knocking her head with her shoulder every other word as, as in real life. But the whole thing is really fucking disgusting. And, you know,

sing it, come back and feeling even more anger now, you know, in light of everything is pretty bad. So I hope that. Yeah, I mean, anger now, you know, in light of everything is pretty bad. So I have said, yeah, I mean, it's, it's, it is fucking disgusting. I am glad that they apologize. I think it's a good first step. They still have to do more work. I think actually what would be great would be if, I don't know, I think it would be great. Maybe it's not great.

I don't know, But I think that like, Stasi should have Faith on her show and they should just like talk it all out. Like I think that and like, and like, and like, Stasi could like maybe learn a thing or two. I think that would be really good. Faith said that Stasi still hasn't apologized to her. So there's that as well.

Yeah, and Stasi still haven't apologized to Faith in real life. Or maybe, how about this, higher, more black people at Sir? I don't know, how about we have some more diversity on Van der Pum rules finally? Where is Lisa Van der Pum's accountability and all this? There are a lot of people online saying that if George Floyd had been a dog,

Lisa Van der Pum would have been out on the streets. I mean, it's a cynical thing to say, but it's like, let's also, let's also like, Rose, Lisa Van der Pump a little bit. Like, why don't we hear from her a little bit more? Yeah, and if you would like to hear me yell at Lisa Vanderpump, just listen to last week's Vanderpump rules recap.

Yeah, and we're really looking forward to yelling at the cast again this week on that recap. And the last thing, I, last thing at least that I think I'm going to say about this at the moment is, you know, I think another reason why when all that stuff happened, here's an, it's interesting, interesting how these things happened. Like when all that stuff with faith came out and was like, oh well, we hear that she's stealing shit or whatever, I believed it and the reason why, and this is fucked up, is because I've always told the story about how there's one time Lala was hanging out at the pool of my building. And she was there and she was talking about faith

and she was talking about like, she was talking with her friends and she's saying like, well, she's a little cracker, that I'm not, that I'm not, that I'm not. And she goes, let the peasants be pleasant, because I just, I just block faith. I just block faith. Yeah, yeah, let the peasants be peasants.

Let the peasants be peasants. She kept on saying that. And I was like, they have faith. And oddly enough, I kind of like, I heard Lala say that. And then a few months later, all this stuff came out about faith. And it was almost like it like,

for some reason I was like, oh, well, oh, that makes, oh, cuz Lala was saying that all makes sense. And like it somehow, like I had a false sense of verification. And I just like believed it. And I was just like, why am I, why would I believe it? There's no reason for me to believe it just because I had a lot of you know being crabby at the pool it's a real reminder

that like sometimes we just can't take things on surface fat like we can't just you know believe everything we hear or we have to question things that some people's voices do really get lost, especially when they're given one scene at the beginning of the season that I've never seen from again on Bravo. Yes, and that's not the first time. It's like, where is Billy Lee? It's like she's the character you just never heard from again. It seems like every time they do try to branch out, it's just like, nope, the minority questioned the girls and so they're out, you know, every single time. And it's sad. And that show needs to get itself fixed.

That shows got a lot of work to do. That's for sure. And that makes me really mad. If it's true, what Brittany said that she said, because that's like full on a virally racist. You know, you could at least chalk the other stuff up to like, well, there's like, it's problematic, but at least the silver lining is maybe a came from a place of ignorance. I don't know. But like, if Britney said that, that's like, there is no other way around that. That's just like full on bad. That's just all full on bad.

I mean, fuck all those guys. So let's see how much they, let's see how much work is actually done between now and the next season, you know, yeah. I agree. Well, that felt good to get off the chest. Also, so we have some other schedule and things to discuss. So today we're talking about Top Chef, believe it or not, but or not, but. But, um, so Beverly Hills is not new this week. We've heard rumors from Old Queen at the bar that, um, they might have like a little bit of a hiatus.

I think all these bravo shows are still catching up from, you know, all their editors being in quarantine, et cetera, et cetera. So, um, we, uh, since Beverly Hills isn't on this week, we were originally going to do marriage in medicine L.A. But that also wasn't new this week. So we're going to do selling Sunset Season 2 Episode 1 on Thursday. And then, so. Yeah, look, basically, look, we had a we had a come to Jesus first of all we are going to be covering Mary to medicine LA so that we'll be starting the next week with when the new episode we both spent all we can get in caught up and all that So we will be covering that and

We're branching out, you know, we're gonna start doing other shows on other networks because there's a lot of there's a You know talking about these shows every day and kind of confronting the, there's a whole world of garbage people out there. There's a whole world of garbage. Yeah, and there's a whole lot though. It's like what kind of stand, you know? Like we're branching out. So we're gonna start with the Netflix show

selling sense that we did it a little in bonus episodes. If you guys wanna hear our takeout in the first season and we just figured, fuck it. Let's put a non-probably show on our lineup. It's next in this next season. So we're going to try that. So join us for that this way. So yeah, and so basically, yeah, going forward,

we'll be doing all, we'll be doing the new, the two new shows, we're adding, Selling Sunset and Marriage Medicine, Los Angeles. And then, and obviously when Beverly Hills comes back, Beverly Hills will be back, et cetera, et cetera. Just subscribe. Whatever shows up in your inbox, it'll be there. You'll know what we're covering because it'll just arrive on your podcast out.

Yeah. Okay, so let's get into top ship. Actually, what we're going to do are business shout outs. Yes. So we're doing small business shout outs for the coronavirus. We're not doing it for coronavirus. We're doing it because of coronavirus.

But we also decided to, because we're trying to also amplify black voices and raise up, black voices and black entrepreneurs, et cetera, as best we can. We are also focusing on black businesses. So Ronnie, give us a big first. Okay, let's start with Avala Beauty. It's spelled A-V-A-L-A-H, Avala Beauty.

You can find them on Instagram. It's on Natural Skin, Hair, and Beard Care Company. A luxurious sense in products for men and women. You can also find them at avala.com, really gorgeous Instagram. Go check out their stuff. Fabulous. Aubrey says, I want to give a shout out to a local Kansas City Black owned queer friendly, barbecue restaurant.

They're pretty much as small of a business as you can get. And you may have seen the level Jones sisters featured on Quir-I. They have an online store. It is Jones Barbecue Casey, Jones J-O-N-E-S, B-B-Q, Casey. It's important to know it's J-O-N-E-S because as we saw on Vanderpump rules, there could be a big, big mess up if you say Jones J-O-A-N versus J-O-N-E-S. So Jones, barbecue, K-C.com, you can purchase barbecue sauces and t-shirts, and if you're local to Kansas City, they have contactless barbecue vending machine.

Whoa, whoa, okay, barbecue vending machine. And that's, I mean, that's amazing. So go check out Jones Barbecue Kansas City. And now just a little note, we spent October and November in Italy and it was amazing. So many, so many fathers, proud of their sons, so many sons, not entering careers in Bixology. So that was great. And obviously our hearts got the devastation. And we love you Italy. This is Chef Tom. Thanks. Yeah.

Yeah. Thanks. Thanks very much. That was great. Shout out to Italy. All right. So you're a top chef for the finals in Italy. And I'm sad to say this timing could not have been worse

considering it's our first Italy episode. No more lasagna forever magazine at the top of the show. It's like my favorite magazine cover of all time i know i know baby lady lasagna gaga has been replaced by hamburger lady gaga's trajectory is really going down where it's on the food and one cover i mean we go from lady gaga to lasagna to a hamburger what's next a rich cracker i mean just a surprise how basically we can take lady gaga

it's so good so um five forty five a.m. in Los Angeles, the chefs are waking up because they're going to Italy and Gregory tells us he really needs to dig deeper in Italy because, you know, he kind of didn't do so on the last challenge because he left us presudo off. Um, yes, I'm, uh, I'm scrolling through my notes. I don't know why I'm like, what am I talking about? What am I talking about? What am I talking about? Well, yes.

Yeah, Gregory's having trouble because he's got a dig deeper. I've just got a dig deeper for this. And also, he threw out his back. So he's in a lot of pain. Which sucks. That sucks. I don't know how you could compete in a show like this in massive back pain.

And then on top of that go on a 13 hour flight. So I feel bad for the guy. Yeah, and also they're like and carry everything. Carry everything up a giant cobblestone hill in Italy. How fun was that person with a bad back? Our first challenge where you have to carry something and you have a bad back. So Stephanie is surprisingly less than normal. She's more of a Let's try to make it sound like uplifting, but it just sounded like a little breeze. Yeah, she's like a chick flick You know like the part of the chick flick where they're like not depressed anymore and they finally found their voice And they're like, I'm a girl. It's like that except it's like, I'm a girl. I know it's kind of medium. Yeah, it's not really at the forte, but it's it's getting

there. Yeah, she's like, you know, there are some times I've done so badly. I think I don't belong here, but I've made it so far. I might even be a threat right now. I was like, hmm, she's going home. So they go to Flag flagship first check in at the Admirals Club. And one of our listeners told us that this is all fake and they have like a fake Admirals club that I guess they shoot commercials in or no, not the Admirals club, but the actual flame. It was a flick. Yeah, Yeah. They got onto. Yeah. I got I love our listeners. They're like they will it's like the most inconsequential detail and yet like filled me with such joy to be like, aha, that's fake. Yes, this is the garden. This is the Nancy

Drew. I like this is the kind of Nancy Drew we need on this show against corporations who are trying to like fool us. Because I mean, the other thing, we knew it was fake because there's not a single time at LAX where you climb onto an airplane from like the little, from, you know, like a ramp, like a not from a jet wave from like a staircase, you know, and that's what they did. Yeah, but they really made me believe it.

I think the chefs did a really good job acting. Melissa's like, I'm gonna read this menu from top to bottom, the back of it, and the front of it again, because this is a real plane. Yeah. Yeah. Let's not overlook Kevin. By Kevin who was born into airplane royalty apparently,

who when they're at the flagship lounge, he's like, what if there's a mix up? And Tom and Pam and I, Gal are supposed to be here, but they're in flying jet, Malarkey instead. Oh. What if there's a mix up and Tom and Pamela are supposed to be here, but they're in flying jet Malarkey instead. How? I'm like, sir, you deserve to go back down to the first floor of LAX and sit with the common people for that joke.

I love to say air Malarkey dig. I thought it was so funny. I was like, you go Kevin, but I thought, who am I? Who am I becoming right now? I'm like, go downstairs and enjoy like a deeply, like unsatisfying coffee from the fake coffee shop because they don't want Starbucks and they're for some reason.

Enjoy that. Terminal four. Yeah, and they're like, enjoy the menu. The menu was created in partnership with James Beard. I'm like, wow, only 19,000 chefs this year to compete with. Yeah. Wow, thank you for promoting that. We're so excited that none of us will probably ever be able to even that menu on your airplane.

We'll be enjoying your James Beard menu while we eat your dry ass pretzels American airlines. Not saying that Ryan and I know from experience, but we've flown American quite a bit over the past year. Yeah. There is no James Bearding on that. I'll tell you that. Let me tell you what I got as my fancy James I got some goddamn cracker tray that you open up and then when you're a big person There's like too many pockets full of all this crap It's like three raisins and one pocket and then five cheeses and another pocket and some nuts and another pocket

And I open them and then I like gas because there were so many pockets and then my stomach knocked it off all On to the ground. Do you remember that I was so Those boxes are evil anytime you here's the other thing is when you okay Whenever you get like a like a sandwich on these airlines because I invariably do because I was I become like a monster on an airplane I get so hungry So I always get the sandwich and then so it comes and it's like it's always like a cardboard bottom and a plastic top So you try to open up the top, so you have to, but it's like there's like stickers

that keep it last. You like undo one sticker. It's like, okay, great. And then like the, now the plastic has opened up. It's like a clamshell. And now it's still stuck to the other side with the other sticker. But for some reason that back sticker is always harder.

So you're like yanking at it. So invariably something goes flying off the plate a little bit. And then once you do get it off, you're like, okay, I got this plate off. So you put the plate under the cardboard to nest it to create space because you have like all of .3 millimeters to negotiate around this because it takes up the entire tray, you know. But the stickers are still sticking out. So for the entire meal, every time you're like eating, those stickers are catching on to everything and moving plastic and things are falling off the sides. It's like a nightmare. Yeah, fuck those stickers.

Fuck those stickers. So I can. They should add more of his club. So they're about to get on and Kevin's like, well, I can tell you a lot of that playing. For example, if you hit the middle button, that's the Chalaxon button. It's like, oh, God, He probably learned that as a kid. Someone was probably like hey

are you the pilot son? Oh wow well let me tell you young man if you hit that middle button that's the Chalaxon button. Is that what the kid's saying? I want my orange juice and I want it now. That's him as a child in first class. I want the magazines of Southwest Airlines. You figure out how to get it. Figure it out. So then so they're on so they're on this plane, this fake plane sitting there pretending like they're flying and Kevin's talking about how he's been sick over the past few years and that this is really important. over the past few years and that this is really important. And like he says something like, it is my responsibility to be the next chop chef.

I'm like, it's not your responsibility, okay. It's our annoyance, if anything. Yeah. So they get to the airport in Voltajio just rolls by on his suitcase. He's like sitting on his suitcase. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, it comes over the last speaker.

The winner of the suitcase race is the other for tattoo brother. So they drive, they drive to, they drive to Tuscany, they go in their hotel and everything and they check in and it's beautiful. I love that they come all the way to Italy and we're seeing the beautiful shots of Italy. I mean that place is just a stoner, right? So we see all these beautiful shots. They're like, well thank God, we're staying at the Renaissance Hilton, you know, Motel 6 in Italy. It's like, come on, you can find one local place to stay at Seriously, and is that Joe judy's hanging out in one of their rooms? God

He really does not want to go back to his house They're like who's that man with his balls hanging out the front of his pants like so what okay? Did anyone knows that the bellhop was doing karate kicks? Oh, yes, Joe. You guys so they get a card for the challenge And it's like, hello, chef. You've had a long day. Kevin get prepared to form both things into balls in Italy. Hello, chef. I want to congratulate the second place winner of the first ever airport luggage race, Ron Valtagio. Also, our hotel is better. Bye. Okay, they're staying at the real hotel. Yeah. So it's the morning and Greg wakes up and

he's feeling like shit, you know. And then so Votaggio and Kevin are talking in the apartment and Votaggio is like, well, it's my third time making it to the finals. I've cooked more challenges out of everyone here. And would you put that much effort into something with no return? It's frustrating, but I'm gonna win. This is just like, I know it's like watching Crossent Fish make their annual migration. It is a lot of effort. That's not a thing. And I don't hate Vultazio. I mean, obviously he's really talented. He seems like a very nice person. Um, I did not want him to win it all. At all. Melissa for the win. Yeah. I actually really

like Brian Vultazio. I've always been a fan. He's so talented. But you're right. Like, I just, I got, I just want to, I just want to lift Melissa up on a, on a pedestal and say, here we are, America, future of food. Yeah. It's time for commercial. It's time for raising kids can be one of the greatest rewards of a parent's life. But come on, someday, parenting is unbearable. I love my kid, but is a new parenting podcast from Wondry that shares a refreshingly honest and insightful

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She's really good, right? I mean, I don't know. I'm one of those people who speaks five words of Spanish, but I can do it with the accent. So I sound like I'm, what do you call it, fluent? But then people think I'm fluent so they start talking really fast to me and I have no idea what they're saying and then they just think I'm an asshole because I just that they're not at them. So I don't know

if that's the kind of Italian pod minos but she sounds like she's I'm buying it. Yeah she like she is very I mean Padma's like a lady of the world and even if she's not she at least wants us to believe that So she's gonna sell it as best as she can so she's like She's like fun journal chefs that means hello in Italy Which I can and I can speak Italian because I'm Padma anyway welcome to Italy or as we say in Italy Italy anyway, please meet Michelin star chef Philippaareto. Does anyone here speak Italian and also anyone? Anyone at all? No one? Stephanie, do you? Oh, that's right. You haven't even been here before. That's right. Actually, his last name, Separeto, literally means flavorful chefs. So it means chef tasty. That's his name.

My name is Albi, the judge of that. You should have heard, you should have seen Gail's poor face when she heard that we'd be hanging out with Chef Tasty. We had to practically strap her down onto a big wheel of Parmesan to get it a relaxed for a second. Gail tried to get competitive with me and remind me that she's married to the Burger King, but I wasn't having it. I had to remind Gail that just because she's ordered something from the olive garden does not

mean that she's fluent in Italian like me. So, sometimes she's like, oh well I took Russian in high school and that's not going to do a lot for me here. Who takes rest in in high school? Yeah, what the fuck? Was this like 1962, Was he like training to someday be a spy in the cold war? No kidding. You might not want to put that on blast, dude Yeah, Michael's like well, I actually took Russian too and I have actually been able to use it many many times so I guess it can work for some people Yeah, you just hear Putin off screen like, is the chicken pot plack like me? And he's like, yeah, learn Russian, bring your ITs in.

He trained Kiko on Bloedeck Mediterranean. So he's, and now who's ready for Happy Hour? Italians have their own version of Happy Hour. It's called Abertivo. Please welcome my dear friend. Sophia LeRan. Abertivo please welcome my dear friend so feel Iran The chef is like it is very important to eat them to simply the other hand I need to drink some beer. It's like ha ha chef tasty for your first quick fire challenge here in Italy

You'll make an aperture of your own that will pair perfectly with the peroni not a pepperoni that scales nickname just peroni the beer. Each station is set with ingredients from a different region and unfortunately you won't know what those ingredients are because apparently none of you speak Italian. You'll be feeding thirty thirsty locals and to make it more delicious, the winner will win 10,000 socks. Italian socks. We're really going broke this season.

We've given you enough already. Each station is set with ingredients from a different region and these are the regions and then Parmasas and so slowly she has the Northwest the Northeast Central Italy Southern Italy and The islands What dude You've been paid by the minutes or what dude? No, I'm like, are you probably really is trying to wow fill out their schedule, huh? Hmm.

So, um, Melissa's like, yeah, this is insane, but you know what? We're fighting for 10k and I can treat myself to a Roman holiday, complete with a little scooter that cute girl on the back of a bike. Yeah, I love her, I love her fantasy life. I love everything about her. And Kevin's like, 30 portions for a quick fire. I mean, what's the Italian word for crazy? Is it chillax?

Is that the word? Wow, because I always feel like it's kind of chillax. So I in that press that middle button on the plane, you know what I'm saying? Well, I think it's somewhere around loco. You all embarrassed me. Well, I think it's somewhere around loco. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh just said, little sandwich out, think to hold in my hand with the beer. Yeah, two fingers and a beer, right? So Melissa has Central Italy, and so she's gonna make some muscles and then pickle them.

Yeah, and then Stephanie has Northwestern Italy, and she's like, Well, I know that people everywhere love fried, and they love cheesy. So, venison, tuna, gorgonzola, Hazelnut, Flower, I'm gonna make sandwiches. I was like, oh, Gorgonzola and Tuna, some of please just show me the end

so I can see how this works. Cause I'm disturbed. Kevin, now like he just annoys me on so many levels. He's like, I'm gonna make a Palenta with a Ritiki on Pajudo. I actually traveled to this region in culinary school I'm like, well, congratulations. Okay, wedges of Italy. Yeah, congratulations on your plain privilege. You dick I went there. I went there. I'm a cat because it was free. Okay

It's like me and like I got to bowl every day when I was a kid like we know And I'm a planted home all the top I'm acquainted, um, all the top. I'm a don't say baby. I got to have a lolly in every state in America. Do you know how many managers I got fired at restaurant in Italy when I was with my grandpa? Lots that family. I have my own gondola in Venice. How about that?

Yeah. So then, um then let's see Greg has to change over to kettlefish instead because he got some sandy clams. Yeah, and Valtagia is like oh My inspiration is the ingredients I was left So Brian wants to make he Brian Valtagia He wants to make lamb scallop pennies, but that's not gonna work and then he wants to make, Brian Voltaggio, he wants to make Lamb's Gallopini's, but that's not gonna work. And then he wants to do a thing where he breads them

and that's not gonna work. So now he's just, he's just gonna go for a tartar. He's like, whatever, I'm just not gonna click anything. I'm just gonna chop shit up. Yeah. So let's see, times up, utensil, hands down, utensils down, stupid. So Padman comes in and they start with Gregory and he

introduces his cutter fish and saffron and Foltagio has a lamb tartar salad and Kevin has his creamy polenta with prosciutto a Melissa has paroni peroni steamed muscles that have been pickled as we said and this deafness venison cork and solar carol So now now the judges are all eating or or it's pad Bonn Filippo and They flipos like he really likes molasses. He's like it opens your heart and opens your stomach I might write. Oh my god. Don't tell that to gal That's gonna be the new mantra for life. Am I right? Everyone am I right? You guys haven't met her yet. You'll see.

You'll see. So it was heartwarming and like a C section. Sounds great. They like to the critique. Says Stephanie, go against a Levanis in A. He's like, I love the fry.

I love the crunch. It's a good idea. But I'm like, didn't execute it well, right? He's like, great uh you should see I make Indian food terrible yes I did say that loudly so you could hear it Stephanie terrible so you're basically calling this white girl non god it please tell me this isn't your version of the samosa Stephanie so then uh Greg is next and the chef loves his chickpeas. Like everywhere they serve a chickpea here,

everywhere you go with the chickpea. Everywhere you go, everywhere you go. He's a chickpea, it's a big chickpea. Sorry, big sick hominidly, full chickpea. Greg's like, that feels great. I had a back spasm out. Yeah, he's like, I'm, I am an incredible pain yet. Somehow I'm still smiling.

I don't know how this is even possible. Yeah. So then they try Kevin's Agro doje. And the chef loves it. And then the lamb tartar from Voltaggio. He's like, too much of spices. Yeah. So there are all these people, by the way, that are there. There's like, too much of spices. Yeah. So there are all these people,

by the way, that are there. There's like 30 people. And, you know, because they're cooking for, for like, little town or something. And so Padma, Padma, like, stands up from all the people, which is, thank you all very much.

Goodbye. We have to talk to our chefs. She just dismisses them all. Leave now poor people, go to whatever holes in the ground you came out of. Oh, goodbye. I would love to see Padma, like host of weakest link, like reboot it with Padma. You're the weakest gal.

Goodbye. So, would you like to phone a lamb chop to help you out with this? Is that your final gal, gal? So she's like, there were a couple that missed the mark. Brian, there was a lot of garlic. And then the chef said, yes, you know, it needs to speak up with the friend. Garlic in the mouth is not good idea. I have to speak up with the friend. And he's like, oh, you're right. Oh, he's like, don't go. I'm trying to. Oh, Stephanie, you made shit once again.

And now for some good news, Gail, Gail, Mr. Plane. So the people on top are Melissa and Kevin, and the winner is Kevin. So he says that he's like, well, I think my total win is $30,000 so far. I mean, who's counting in my hat? I would normally say that could buy me a lot of plane trips, but I think as we all know, I fly for free. So then we see a figure like creeping out of the shadows.

And a weird hat is like done done done done, but it's just Tom in a hat. It's Tom and a Kyle Richards hat. Yeah, it's like Tom, it's like Carmen Clique-Yago or something like that. He's been on the run for robbing several banks in LaGuria and now here he is. So, he's like, so, Shep's, how was your first day cooking here? Who completely messed up all of them, all of them Tom? Me, oh, you all you all. So, she's like, well, it's time to dig deep shafts. If you're an excellent nation challenge, you're going hunting for white trafels. All we want for you is

to make any dish and that uses white truffles or as we call it little gales. All right, tomorrow night you'll be cooking at Lim Buto, which is Italian for Lim Buto, and we'll be including the Michelin star chef at Lim Buto, Christian Tome. So I guess I'll see you all at Lim Buto, which is also known as Lim Buto. How many times can I say Lim Buto? I don't know, I can't stop saying it. Someone stop me. Limbooto. Limbooto. Limbooto. Allie Wong. Oh, there. All better. The Limbooto hiccups have cleared. Well, as I was saying to my good friend, Lena Limbooto. Oh, God, someone helped me. So they go hunting and meet these two hunter guys, trouble hunter guys and keep little bows.

Yeah, it actually looks super fun. I was like very fascinated by this. I kind of wanted to watch a whole hour of trouble hunting. You did? I was like gross. It's outside. So then after they find a bunch of, they find like $3,000 worth of, of,

of truffles. So they go now to the supermarket. And when they like walk in, there's like one of those, there's like a gate thing, you know, so you don't steal the cards. And Brian Voltage was like, hey, look, it's a store gate. Oh, oh, oh, oh, joke at the entrance of every store. See He's like the he's like the whole foods opener comic. Oh my god. I'd love to see him grow to stew liners. That would be amazing So Voltausia's like oh

Carrots are Karate right Why which am I right? Oh, so Greg, so I've worked with backtruffles more than white, but I read about wild boar and cocoa stew and I just want to hug this truffle. I love you, truffle. Thank you for everything you've given us.

Yeah. And Melissa, she wants the bridge Asian and Italian food, but she wants to do a whole Akangie thing, but she can't find peeled garlic or chicken stock. Which I'm actually surprised that there was no, I think that was lost in translation. I think chicken stock is a pretty universal thing, unless I'm just being like American centric right now. But I was surprised that you couldn't find it at the store.

Yeah. You're like, you have peanut M&M, sir. Do you? That damn it. So then Stephanie's like, well, I want to make some sort of truffle egg drop soup thing. And I was like, no, I screamed at my TV. What are you doing? This is the finals.

Yeah. That seemed, I feel like anytime Stephanie sort of tries to do like like food culture that's not her own it's like I just I'm just like scarred from when she made Indian food still basically. Yeah, and so Greg is still in pain but he's pushing through and then we go over to Stephanie now they're back at home. Steph, I wrote Volt Birch's. What does that mean? What does Volt Birch's? Oh, he's brushing his teeth. Like, oh, this show, this fucking show. Like, I knew to write that down. Volt Birch's teeth. He did.

Oh, he's like toothpaste all over the mirror. Oh, little speckles. So, yeah, Stephanie calls, she calls home to her husband because it's their first wedding anniversary. So I was like, okay, her son burst of confidence at the top of the episode, combined with her calling home. She is 100% going home. Like all the signs were there for me.

Yeah, but now they're trolling us on this show. I know. They know how to trick us. So she's like, well, I love to make, I changed everything. I was having nightmares about my dish at Drop Soup. Don't know why that really didn't click. But I love to make pasta and I'm in Italy.

And it's a huge risk, but it's what I'm willing to take. And I was like, she screwed. Bye. Bye. I was like, this is all awful. So now they're all cooking. And Melissa's working on her Italian style congee. And Brian is working on a vial shank with chestnuts. And he just wants to make something simple so the truffles really shine, et cetera.

Yeah. And then let's see. And then Kevin. Kevin is working on a, well, I'm going to work on a fonduta. Just, you know, something that really helps me chillax. I know it's crazy, right? Get it, it's joke. It's a good and insane thing. Anyway, I just want to prove that truffles don't have to be just served over a noodle. I'm like, you know, that truffle has been around as part of cuisine for like, you know, like hundreds of years. You're not gonna be the one that suddenly changes popular

Popular notions about truffles on top chef, okay another fucking meatball from this guy I how is nobody called him out? But here is he's like well I'm gonna put truffle and everything some of them are gonna go in the Braille's onions and some are gonna go in the sausage And some I'm gonna shave over the top and some are gonna go in the of them are going to go in the Braze Indians and some are going to go in the sausage and some I'm going to shave over the top and some are going to go in the cold and some are going to go in the meatball and some are going to go on my head just for fun. I'm going to come and say, Troublesse, but I got Truffle on my head. I'm going to just give a, give a, a seat in a business class of this Truffle right here just because I can because it's a grand, pal. Thank you, granddaddy, Truffle. Thank you, granddaddy.

Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. So Kevin has a little bit of my mind set back because he didn't realize that he was getting a blend of three meets pork wild boar and veal. He thought he was getting, I think, all veal. So he's like, you know what? I'm just going to blend all three together and hopefully it'll make a phenomenal pop atown. I'm like, okay, what?

I didn't know. There's literally nothing wrong with what he said, but I was just like, shut the fuck up. He just has that way about him. So then Stephanie is using the pasta machine and she's making a brown butter squash misaluna. And she's like, I mean, look, at first I was thinking it was gonna be hard, but then I remember it. Like, I'm probably the coolest one here.

Just kidding, that's full Tazio. Just kidding. And in case you guys thought I was getting too big for my bridges, let me just remind you. So let's see. Greg is making wild boar with Coco and Truffle Palenta. He's putting the truffles in the Palenta. And he's like, I stumbled, I really need to do well. Does anybody want to hug? Just because they really like it.

Yeah. And Stephanie makes like something with Ridicchio. And the Ridicchio is like way too bitter, which I mean, Ridicchio is already like super bitter. So I don't know why she'd be surprised by this, but it's really bitter and she's trying to work with it and she can't, but she feels obligated to keep working with it.

And I'm like, what is the mindset behind that? Okay, I'm making something really bitter and accurate that tastes like shit. Gonna put it on the plate. I think it's because she had already put it on the menu. So it was gonna say, Ridicchio on the menu, and then she would have to be like,

but you know, the Ridicchio didn't work. And then Padma would be like, well, this might have been better with ridiculous Stephanie. I'll tell you what's ridiculous, ridiculous, or lack there up. Am I right? Ali Wong? Oh wait, she's not here. She's just a friend. So she thinks it's too better. So she had some honey to it. And then we see the setup for dinner and poor Greg. Every time they cut the Greg is like, my back is killing me. I might never walk again. They're like, okay,

carry 97 pounds of things up the cobblestones. Great. So for the first time this season, since your back is hurting, why don't you carry all your equipment across a long walk on cobblestones uphill? Here you go. Have fun. Yeah, and Kevin just passes him like, I'm not stressed at it all. I've tasted the meatball and it is delicious. It's the country captain of meatballs. Grandma designed this meatball. Yeah. So Padma goes up to Kevin because I think they have stations, right? They all have stations, right? Yeah, they have conversations. Hi, Kevin. Let me introduce you to Cristiano Tomey, no relation to Marissa, which is too bad because she's a very dear friend.

And he tells them the difference between black and white truffles. Black truffles are the truffles that are good for cooking and potato, they're like potato like mushrooms. And then white truffles are good for just shaving on top of stuff. And I was like, oh, you might have given them that speech a little while ago because... Oh, I think someone needs to press the Chalax button on the each spay, am I right? And then Melissa's laughing at Volta Shea's terrible Italian. He's like, how do you sleep potato?

Oh, potato? Damn you purporting up that laugh to me. That's all I hear now. Well, that's all he does. That's why. It's not like a overheard thing that you just now can't not hear it's like it's aggressive They edit them and they they added it in their excessively on purpose You say potato wise a potato apparently not actually So Kevin's like well what we have here is a pulp pet a with chestnut honey and roasted onion here is a Pope Pepe with Chessna Honey and Rosed Onion, Pecorino White Truffles and just some leftover airplane pretzels that I have an unlimited supply of because of Grand Daddy. Gillsack, why did you choose to fry the meatball?

I am dressed like a motorcycle lady, but I've got a motorcycle vest and a very furry undershirt on dope, fuck with me today. Why is this fried? And he's like, well I just didn't want it to be too saucy. Like somebody else I know who's got paper doesn't work for the air loves. Anyway, why would he not want the meatball to be too saucy? I think it's not like what we do. Don't we love that it with meatballs? Like who wants a who wants an unsauce to meatball? Yeah, I think his answer should have been because it's fucking easier and I have to cook

for a ton of people. That's why. Yeah, because frying is his favorite thing. So there's like two Italian chefs. There's the Tomé guy and then there's another guy. And one of them basically feels like the spices in the meatball competed with a truffle and it got lost. There's a lot of like poetic discussion with the truffle and it got lost. There's a lot of poetic discussion

about the truffle from Italian dude. There's a lot of like, I love, the truffle is a beautiful lady who has to be courted. You have to take a down a staircase and you have to buy the meal for her. If you don't buy the meal for her, then she says no more for you and that romance is done. I'm like, you think you didn't like it?

Yeah, he's like, unfortunately unfortunately the sauce was like a little girl Who would not hold her mother's hand in the mall and now she is lost that that is it she lost a little girl Stephanie, what do you make and so she introduces introduces her squash brown batter met Saloona Porcini, brodo. And she's like, what is that tart flavor? Oh, jeez, God, I'm dying over here. Choking the death. What? So much tartness.

Where's Nilo? Where's Nilo? She would love this. She's a tartar south, if you know what I'm saying. That was a joke. Did you like that, Alibong? It's the tongue version of trying to open your fish last week at from that paper.

Was it her who made the fish in the paper? Just when I finally recovered from all the steam burns, from opening up your paper fish, now I have to deal with this tart flavor. And she tells them, yeah, you know, it's raised her deep, you know, and she tells us, God, this is the point as a viewer of Top Chef that we should all be screaming at our TVs because I made a critical flaw.

I just shouldn't have put it on the dish. Yup. You said it best. She's like, yeah, if I just hadn't, if I'd just been a big girl, I would have just not put it on there. So everyone feels like there's just too much ridiculous of this bitter or I guess taught ridiculous for the chefs.

So they don't like it. Although Gale is like, I mean, I actually do think the pasta was lovely, but the accompanience means we're just, we're just, we're overbearing. So I have like every pattern on every dress that you've ever owned Gale. Am I right, everyone? Am I right?

I know. And Gale showed up not even wearing a pattern dress or shoulder pads. So Gale's just completely thrown us off. Like, I hope you feel better about yourself. I actually miss the patterns in the shoulder pad outfits, Gale. Okay, who are you even right now? And then he's this shady old lady goes up to Stephanie and she's like, no, we are so used to pasta. Let's try something else.

And Stephanie's on mortified. Oh God. Hi Gregory. What is that rich dark thing you're spooning? And is he single? That was a joke, another one for Allie Wong. Anyway, did you meet my grandmother over there? I think she's busy shading Stephanie.

She's doing such a great job uh... so attracted to rich things so the wild boar with tomato prunes i did you see that would grigory said he's like yeah i think it's called a shingol and panna goes shingale yes we know you know what it is panna i love what she does that. I mean, he's saving a lot of the truffles on and one of the guys is like, do you know how much it's cost? Yeah, and he said, and Padma,

she's like, here, let me translate because I speak Italian. He said, are you sure? You know how much these trapples cause because he seems to be going wild. With your chingale, God I love a good chingale. Has anyone else had chingale? Because I have to have that chingale. He's like, why the truffle is like this woman who has been waiting for man while he is at war. And man does not come back from war. The truffle is unforgiving is what I'm saying.

It is unforgiving. Trifle is like beautiful vessel out on the sea. And blanter is ocean that just flows and heaves and waves big and crushes boat. And Moby Dick comes in and eats mushroom and no one tastes it ever again. They're on their way to see Melissa, but it just shows a clip of Kevin going, you

know, treffles are just so delicate and floral that by the time we get them in the state, they're just crap. All right, the crap. That's what we get. Joy of treffles, Italy. Yeah. Yeah. By the time we get, these are so delicate, I mean, and so subtle that that's what I decided

to crush them up and put them in a meatball and deep fry. Enjoy. We call these Truffles American way. This is this is almost as edible in edible as a non-round food object. To you dad. So there's a reason why I allow you a circular am I right am I right? So Melissa, her Truffle congee has salami and fried garlic and a quail egg with white truffle butter as well and badminton saying but no actual truffle she's like well I didn't want to cook it I just wanted to keep it in its raw state so no then well you know I wanted you to enjoy it the way that it so no you're saying no then it's not right Melissa is that right you know it's funny because the last time I went to Limbito with

my dear friend David Chang we both had trouble and it was cooked so you're just saying that you did not cook the trouble is that right okay the defense rests well I think she did a nice job it's really smart to do a congee and a quill egg was brilliant a Quail egg was brilliant. I don't think I've never said to my son. Who would have thought that that you know given my son's pedigree and all the advantages he had growing up with me being a star chef that by the age of 23 quail egg would be more brilliant than him. Who would have thought? And Gail's like well that was rich but again I wanted more Well, I'm using all the truffles. Oh, your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your- your Classic flavor. It is like the the finger of the Michael Angelo the construction very intelligent

Exactly He also like yeah, oh yeah, she's like I got the most pure truffle flavor from this dish Maybe it's because you finally swallowed that turkey roll girl Gail you do know there's a difference between truffle and the truffle shuffle, right? Let me translate for you, Gast. Gail is a good guy. He's a good guy. He's a good guy.

I just said Gail is a good guy. And there's nothing about food. Am I right, hot person? Intentive, and Tendevi, Che Fasi, Kozy, Salato.

That means, did you mean for this to be so salty? That's it. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Anyway, in summary, Tom Exacto, Marisa Tome's father, Exacto,

friend of Mr. Tome's father, Exacto, Gail, Non-exacto Like a beautiful woman the truffle doesn't need too much adorning it Which is my way of saying did you notice how many accessories gales wearing? So in this studio, uh, well, Tasha's like, wow, that was a lot of troubles. No. Sad stuffy.

It's like I just don't want it to be like the time I made Padma Indian food. It's exactly like that. Stephanie, I can hear you from inside. It's exactly a Zacto. This is the part where we're supposed to tell each other. Be happy. You made it to the finals. Congratulations. This is the part where we're supposed to tell each other. Be happy. You made it to the finals.

Congratulations. Anyone? Anyone? Anyone want to say that? He thinks he's in the top. So he's trying to be like, comforting to everyone, not realizing that he's actually going to be on the bottom. Yeah.

Well. So, so they go in and Tom's like, well, you know what? For the most part, we had good dishes, but not every dish was good with truffles. It's sort of like, you know, my son, great kid, I love him. I just don't love him being a mixologist, you know? Some things just don't work well together. Brian and Melissa, congratulations, you're not losers. Yeah, Brian, it felt like the perfect vehicle to cuddle and nestle those truffles.

Yeah, just the way Gail cuddles and nestles into a Mars bar, am I right, everyone? Way to use potatoes, just to please Gail, Votaggio, it worked this time. Hey Votaggio, I really liked the dish you made. It really had the vibe of someone who really knew what they were doing especially considering you've never won a quick fire. It was such a beautiful painting and she's like yeah by the way we're talking about potatoes otherwise known as Gail Jerkofflit. Exactly. Melissa the congee was exciting for everybody. It was simple and let the trouble do its job.

You might start a congee truffle revolution. Italy, shut up, Gail, you don't know what you're talking about. You got the courage to be yourself. Your great work beautifully. He's saying all this in Italian and no one translates for him, but he kind of starts bowing at the end a lot and so they go, thanks Just kind of letting like patterns like I'm tired. All right, I'll translate Gal and Un Tartu for Chena Suno for a base carare that means get this a truffle no one would dig up am I right guys?

Yes, and then he's basically like, but please Melissa never cook salami again. I got lost in my nuts because I was giggling. Okay. So the winner. So the winner is Melissa. So congratulations Brian and Melissa a little bit less for Brian because he didn't win That sounds familiar. You're both moving on Do I sound like your mother there for a second? Okay, next up Greg Explain yourself and he's like well, I wanted to make a dish that was part of me and Tom's like Okay, next up, Greg, explain yourself.

And he's like, well, I wanted to make a dish that was part of me. And Tom's like, well, you know, whenever you make those stews, they are fantastic. And it was a great stew. Just not with treffles, not with treffles. And he was like, yeah, it drove round the treffles. The anxiousness to the raw treffle was lost wholly. Yeah. And the shop was like, if you use the black truffles, it wouldn't be perfect.

But white truffles can't be called for any reason. White truffles in Salam and do not go to them. I'm a rat. Exactly. When he just sailed with, said with, girl, I'm a le petata, a PO day sway, feagly. That means, girl, let's potato's more than a children.

Am I right, chef? Oh, wait, I think he just said something else. You just said get a lot of petta original a which means get the original me fall Speaking of Get Kevin you went with poor pete with not one meat not two but three and the trouble felt overwhelmed with not one meat, not two, but three. Ambitreffel felt overwhelmed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You never even look at it. Never look at it. To what Gale says. It's always, it's like the consciousness about raw truffle was lost. Sort of like any semblance of fashion in your wardrobe. of fashion in your wardrobe. M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M- the truffle and add my says it again. She just say exactly. She says exacto again. She's exacto. So Stephanie, um, I wrote eyebrows face. I don't know why. Oh, I think last because Pamela laughs just Stephanie. You were very courageous to make pasta here. Are you idiot? How is the day for you considering that it will probably always be terrible

It's like well, I think what I the mistake I made was that I made you a Stephanie dish and not a truffle dish And she's like yeah, well the pasta was beautiful, but that radicchio paste. Oh my god, it obliterated everything. I'm choking again I feel it somebody somebody I'm choking. I'm dying Okay, I'm fine again. You're still terrible You know that's so funny. I'm looking on this menu from American Airlines That from the James Beard Foundation and as far as I can tell, let's see does it category for Italian food, Japanese food, Middle Eastern food? I don't see a category for Stephanie dishes. So Stephanie thinks she's gonna get out, right?

And I think we all think Stephanie's gonna get out. And she's like, Tom's like, yeah, you know, it was just too much ridiculous, because it's about the truffles. But the pasta was really good. And Pat and it's like, get out of here, Luzas. The rich people are going to talk now. So in the stew room, Stephanie, she's like, I'm not, she says something about how she's not scared to just try.

What is that? What is that? She said that she is not afraid to try things, but then she gets her head in the way because she starts overthinking things and then starts feeling bad about herself. And she's like, I just can't power through it. And Gregory's like, I just don't want it to end.

I've planned my finale meal. And Kevin's like, yeah, bloody. Ugh. Kevin's just running circles around the stew room with his hands out like he's an airplane. Like... Heh heh heh heh. I'm on grandpa's play car.

Heh heh heh heh heh heh. Ugh. This is gonna be really, really hard for us, Jeff. I mean, it's gonna be like, Gale standing in front of a chocolate sundae, not genu-flecting reflecting just because it's Sunday. And the guest's like, let us start with the best. The ravioli was very good. And Pat was like, yeah, I'm a neat staff and he's again with her without radicchio. Yeah. Um, he is like, well,

you know, but the the radicchio was as bad as the other three dishes. I mean, it was, it was as bad as the career prospects for my son. Am I right, everyone? All right. Yeah, but today was about the truffle and Gregory's dish did not celebrate the truffle. It did not celebrate the truffle, Tom. We weren't here to celebrate the wild boar. We were here to celebrate the truffle.

Well, then I'll put the gift about you away, Gail. Says the woman who celebrates a 50% offer dress barn sale every Tuesday. But, you know, he did use the most amount of truffles. He's like, let's just take the truffle out for one moment. Okay, let's not celebrate the truffle like somebody else here. Truffles stand outside, okay?

Okay. Okay. Truffles, we ask you to go into the steering while we deliberate. Thank you. Kevin Stisch was disjointed. Regardless of the TREFFO, he's like, yeah, that didn't work out. Yeah. Padma, thank you for noting that that it was a disjointed regardless of the

TREFFO. I think that's probably why Gail said, let's take the TREFFO out of the equation for one moment. Exactly. I do think we have our answer. Shall we bring the back in so they do. And Tom gives his monologue. He's like chefs. There are clearly traditions in cooking.

And we got dishes that were too much a departure from the tradition of white truffles, one dish, one a little too far. Padmau. from the tradition of white truffles. One dish, one little too far. Padma? For the first time ever, the Elinated Chef will have to pick up this anvil and carry it all the way downstairs to their knives. And the person going home who must lift this anvil is Gregory, I'm so sorry.

Boo! Boo! Boo! I was so sad. Not Gregory. Not our sweet Gregory! I cannot believe they sent Gregory home. I could not believe it. I know. I am a little surprised

because sounded like they liked his stew, but... How could you give... How could you keep the guy A who's been kicked off before, but also made another fucking meatball? How? Yeah. Exactly. I but also made another fucking meatball. How? Yeah. Exactly. A disjointed meatball that didn't celebrate the...

I mean, they all didn't... Well, Gail said that none of the dishes in the bottom celebrated the truffle. And so that's the first time they've ever been in that situation where they all made the same error. But yeah, how do you... He deep-pride a meatball yet again. Yeah. And you're gonna keep them?

Yeah. Sugs. I do not support it. Do not support it. Do not support it. Love you Gregory Well, he's made it far and he did a really good job And I'm sure that he's got a pretty big fan base out there. So hopefully he'll get something I was watching Speaking of people from top chef. I was just watching Carla on that Martha Stewart bakeoff thing. She's a judge on that Who do you you? Yeah, have you seen that worth a Stewart show? It's so funny. I heard about it. You should watch it. It's so let's just so Martha Stewart. You know, her eyes are half blows the whole time. And she's like, well, I taught that girl about curd. Apparently, she didn't listen.

I love a curd shaming. Yeah. There's some really good lemon curd shading. Is it on Hulu? I think it is on Hulu. I think that's where I was watching it. I'll have to check it out. I'm really excited for Padmas' Test and Nation, just because it will be more Padmas. I think that comes out in about 10 days or so, Padmas takes the nation. Probably timed to like coincide with the top chef finale or whatever. But anyway.

It's Hulu also. Oh, okay. Yeah, because I haven't seen anything on Bravo about it. Yeah, but I think that maybe like, maybe we should check it out for one of the bonuses just to see how it is and just to make fun of Padma more. Yeah. It's just like the most make fun of Padma more. Yeah. It's just like the most fun thing of all time. For sure. And by the way, even though we make fun of Padma, I actually love Padma and I think that

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