Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.

Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.

I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.

Today on the program, John Hodgman. I'm doing jazz hands. John is an author, comedian, actor, and host of the highly entertaining podcast, Judge John Hodgman.

We put in a little gavel sound right there. Can't afford anything else, but we can get that. No songs, just to gavel.

You may know John as the PC in Apple's Get a Mac campaign, or you may have seen him as a correspondent on the Daily

show.

John Hodgman's latest book, Vacation Land, is out now in paperback.

And that paperback is perfect for summer reading.

It's cheap.

It's vendable.

You can shove it in your luggage.

You can drop it in a lake.

You can leave it behind on an airplane.

That's what it's there to do.

Go out and just destroy that book, everybody. But please buy it for sure. John is also famous for a culinary debate that he has

argued many, many times at the request of many, many people, a debate that he cannot escape

because America does not want to let it go. A debate entitled is a hot dog a sandwich.

So this question has basically become like your baby got back. Sir Mix-a-lot has to play it every time he performs and now you

have to hot dog it up every day. Boy, oh boy, you know, I could think of worse lives to lead

than being asked to talk about the sandwichness or non-sandwichness of hot dogs.

And if it were as huge a hit, as baby got back, I would be a very happy man.

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