Jack Johnson: Sauteed Vegetables in 1997 (Re-Air)

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

Arts, Food

4.8 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week, we are re-airing one of my favorite episodes with singer-songwriter, surfer and filmmaker Jack Johnson! This interview was extra special, because it was exactly 20 years after the first time I interviewed Jack, when I was a budding, baby reporter, writing for an alt-weekly in my college town, and his music career was just getting started.

Jack is an environmentalist and he tells me the great lengths he takes to reduce waste at venues and how he supports local farms when he's out on tour.

Zero Waste Chef, Anne Marie Bonneau, joins the show to share her tips for a zero-waste home kitchen. Have you even dehydrated fruit in your hot car, bro?

Jack has been with his wife, Kim, for 33 years and his last meal, and the story behind his song Banana Pancakes, are both inspired by their love story.

Jack’s new film, a documentary called Surfilmusic about his evolution from surfer to filmmaker to world renowned musician, premieres March 13th 2026 at SXSW! His SURFILMUSIC 2026 North American Tour has 43 stops from June through October, and he’s being supported by G. Love and Lake Street Dive, both past guests on Your Last Meal!

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Rachel, your host. And this week, we are re-airing one of my favorite episodes of your
0:05.6	last meal with singer, surfer, and filmmaker, Jack Johnson. This episode originally aired in
0:12.0	September 2022, and once the interview starts, I think you will understand why this one is so
0:18.4	special to me. But before we get into the episode, I wanted to give you an
0:21.7	update on Jack. Before he ever got a record deal, he made surf films. And he has a new film coming
0:27.6	out, this time a documentary called Surf Film Music about his evolution from surfer to filmmaker
0:33.5	to world-renowned musician. Surfe film music premieres March 13th at South by Southwest,
0:39.2	and I'm really hoping it's going to make its way to theaters or streaming soon, because I want to
0:43.9	see it. Jack is also going on tour to celebrate the film. He's going to play some old music. He's
0:48.8	going to play some new music from the soundtrack. And his Sirfield Music, 2026, North American
0:53.7	Tour, has 43 stops from June
0:56.2	through October. He has three different openers depending on when you see him, and two of them
1:01.2	are past your last meal guests, G. Love, who is partially responsible for starting Jack
1:06.3	Johnson's music career and Lake Street Dive. I'm not just saying this, but both of those episodes are also two of
1:12.2	my favorites. If you happen to miss them, I will put links in the show notes. So that is what's new
1:17.6	with Jack. But before we hop into the episode, I would like to remind you that your last meal is a product
1:22.6	of Cascade PBS in Seattle. If you want to become a member and get unlimited PBS programming and other
1:29.2	special perks, go to cascade pbs.org or look for the link in the show notes.
1:52.6	I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
1:55.4	Today on the program, Jack Johnson. Don't look now, but somehow we got sugar.
2:02.0	Good luck, baby, we got shook up. You're listening to Don't Look Now, from Jack's brand new album, Meet the Moonlight.
2:12.1	It's his eighth studio album and Pitchfork called it, quote, his best album yet.
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