Ben Gibbard, Veggie Burrito from Taqueria Cancun

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie, Postal Service) hates brunch. But heck, so did Anthony Bourdain! Host Rachel Belle explores the history of the mid-morning weekend meal and asks New Yorker writer Sadie Stein what's not to like about bottomless mimosas and Instagrammable #yolkporn.

Ben is an ultramarathon runner who runs 100 mile races and, in turn, consumes a whole lot of calories. But what (and how??) does one eat while running for 23 hours straight? Ben shares his pregnancy-level food cravings and the drink that must be present at all races to keep the runny people from rioting.

BURRITOS! We also talk about burritos! Ben's last meal takes us to the epicenter of burrito fanaticism: San Francisco's Mission District. Turns out, Ben and Rachel have been equally obsessed with the same burrito at the same taqueria for the past 20 years. And writer Gustavo Arellano, author of the book Taco USA, joins the show to share the history of the burrito.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.8	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:11.6	Cairo, Seattle. I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:31.5	Today on the program, Ben Gibbard.
0:51.5	Thinking about those kids. Ben Gibbard. Ben is the lead singer and guitar player in Death Cab for Cutie.
0:55.5	He was half of the Postal Service, and he did this side project called All-Time quarterback that I used to listen to in the early aughts.
1:03.6	Ben is also an ultramarathon runner, which means the races are 50 miles or more.
1:09.4	Hard to get your mind around.
1:10.4	He and his fellow long-distance
1:12.0	runners are very focused on getting enough calories. My friend was running this 100-mile
1:16.7	and he just hears kind of coming down the trail. Like you just hear somebody yelling, butter.
1:20.6	Butter. Butter. Like butter. What the hell? And like the guy comes in and then his crew just
1:26.5	gives him two sticks of butter and he just eats them both and then just goes off down the trail.
1:30.7	That sounds horrible.
1:32.3	But I can totally see a moment where you would just be like butter sounds incredible.
1:35.9	I actually like to eat butter plain, which most people are completely disgusted by.
1:39.9	No, butter is amazing.
1:40.7	It's so good.
1:41.6	We'll talk more about long distance running and the cravings that come with it later in the show.
1:47.0	And there are two kinds of people in this world.
1:49.9	Those who love brunch and those who love to hate it.
1:53.2	I mean, at this point, I think it's just considered irredeemably basic.
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