Boots Riley: All-You-Can-Eat Unagi Buffet
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Boots Riley is a musician, writer, filmmaker, and activist. He's fronted the political hip hop group The Coup since 1991 and just wrote/directed his first feature film "Sorry to Bother You."
On this episode we celebrate the "all you can eat" buffet - from its humble Scandinavian origins to the gluttonous Las Vegas sized American adaptation we know today.
And Taichi Kitamura, chef/owner of Sushi Kappo Tamura, one of Seattle best sushi restaurants, gives us the REAL story behind unagi, Japanese barbecued eel, and tells us why he purposely doesn't serve the dish in his restaurant.
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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 | I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most. |
| 0:31.6 | Today on the program, rapper and filmmaker Boots Riley. |
| 0:35.8 | Boots has been the vocalist and emcee of the political hip-hop group, The Coup, since 1991, |
| 0:40.8 | which I listened to like crazy in my 20s, so this was very exciting to have him on the show. |
| 0:45.5 | He's also the vocalist for the supergroup Street Sweep Social Club, with Rage Against |
| 0:50.0 | the Machine Guitarist Tom Morello. |
| 0:51.8 | And he just wrote and directed his very first feature film. |
| 0:55.1 | It's called Sorry to Bother You. |
| 0:56.9 | It's been making the rounds at all the film festivals, including the Seattle International |
| 1:00.7 | Film Festival, and we'll hit theaters nationwide on July 6th. |
| 1:04.7 | Now, choosing a last meal is hard for a lot of people because we all love so many foods |
| 1:08.6 | and we have so many memories attached to foods. |
| 1:10.8 | But for Boots and Me, it was a matter of framing the question correctly. Okay. people because we all love so many foods and we have so many memories attached to foods. |
| 1:14.6 | But for Boots and Me, it was a matter of framing the question correctly. |
| 1:16.4 | What would you want to eat for your last meal? |
| 1:19.9 | Oh, I thought the question was, what was my last meal? Oh, no, no, no. |
| 1:21.0 | I was going to say the protein plate on the plane. |
| 1:24.0 | That would not be great. |
| 1:25.5 | No, I would hope you wouldn't have airplane food for your last |
| 1:28.3 | meal. I feel like this could be a spin-off podcast. What was the last thing you ate? But I kind of like |
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