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Happy Pride, nightmare wakers! This week, Hamish and Luke are joined by superstar actor Tom Lenk to dig into the queerer side of the "early 2000s chaotic stranger fixes your life" genre of reality TV. We're talking aquarobics, flip phones and Britney Spears neckties in this special, pride episode!

It's called Humble Pie, it has a crazy cover, and it's... good?!? Gather round the fire and dust off your audible credits for our first ever Gordon Ramsay book club, where we discuss the 3-hour audiobook experience that is Gordon's autobiography.

What do you call a Pizza Hut with no pizza? Mangia Mangia! This week Luke and Hamish are joined by comedian Tara Boland to chat domestic conflict, drug abuse, and drive through spaghetti!   It's a journey!

We've missed a few episodes?!? Uh oh. In this special catch up variety show, Hamish and Luke chat about our schedules, pay a surprise visit to the Amazon listing for Gordon's Autobiography, catch up on Episode 2 of Future Food Stars PLUS Hamish reports his direct personal experience of eating in a Kitchen Nightmares USA establishment.  What more could you ask for?!? 

Luke and Hamish are on a detour to Cornwall this week to check out Gordon's latest show Future Food Stars— but is the title a sweary pun? Why did Gordon enter on a helicopter? And is this the new Gordon series that they might actually watch more episodes of?!?

Friend and improviser Lora Hristova joins the boys for a trip back to home shores for another episode of Kitchen Nightmares UK— Clubway 41, a restaurant that looks slightly more like a strip club than every other shopfront surrounding it! They get deep into production theories, stuffed orangutans, and whether or not Bobo the clown's lip liner is coming back into fashion. 

Gordon once again leaves his comfort zone of burgers and pizza, and Luke and Hamish are there to be his emotional support— joined by very special guest and very competent researcher Abe Abraham! Is Sushi Pizza as bad as the youtube thumbnails suggest? Does Akira say any words the entire episode? And why is a Star Trek luminary slumming it at a sushi restaurant?!? PLUS: A special report from Waking KN Fan Hannah on the status of Karen and Town's Inn!

This week, the boys are joined by Geoff Lapid to discuss the most quietly tearful episode of Kitchen Nightmares yet!  How do you run a restaurant with only 13 menus? Are they actually serving box mac and cheese? And will the waitresses be able to finish their smoke break in time to open for dinner service?! 

This week, Luke and Hamish are joined by hilarious improviser Dom to tackle Spanish Pavilion— an episode where a man a man gets pushed in a kitchen, something that gave Luke an actual nightmare the night after recording.  They discuss familial trauma, lobster trauma, and a father who turns out to not be dead actually— a classic Kitchen Nightmares!

What's that smell? Is it a new episode of Waking Kitchen Nightmares? No, it's leaking sewage— a problem with this week's restaurant that Gordon will never solve or mention again.  This week, Luke and Hamish are joined by Jack Bernhardt to exorcise the ghosts from this haunted fish house.

New year, new trauma! The boys are back, joined by hilarious comedian Lola-Rose Maxwell, as they delve into an episode of Hotel Hell filled with complex characters and terrifying business cards. Is it acceptable to fill a wall with scouring pads? Does Gordon know what a painting is? And what does his little science machine actually measure?

🎵It's the most wonderful time of the year🎵 is how we describe any night we're watching a Gordon Ramsay show. This week on the podcast, Hamish and Luke watch Gordon's homoerotic Christmas special, co-starring known burglar Gino D'acampo and some guy who never says anything.  But who has the biggest sausage??? And whose nipples are described as "big brussels sprouts"??? Enjoy this disgusting nightmare with us please!