John Waters: A Single Leaf of Arugula

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Filmmaker (Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, Cry Baby) John Waters built a decades long career creating strange, sometimes grotesque, cult art that, for years, had most of America clutching its collective pearls. But in his day to day life, John craves order and embraces a bit of the mundane: he cooks almost exclusively from the now defunct Cooking Light magazine.

John eats healthy on the weekdays and splurges on the weekends and wanted to know how many hours/days/weeks it takes for a couple slices of coconut cream pie to show up as fat on his body. So host Rachel Belle interviews Seattle dietician Mya Kwon about the science of weight gain and how your feelings about food can influence the shape of your body.

And learn the long history and art of fake plastic food with Justin Hanus, owner of Fake Food Japan. Justin works with craftspeople in Osaka, Japan who apprentice and train for years to work in factories that painstakingly create extremely detailed, plastic versions of ramen, sushi, spaghetti and ice cream that look identical to the real thing.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.6	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.
0:27.6	A show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:31.6	Today on the program, John Frickin Waters.
0:35.2	Yes, America's favorite weirdo and filmmaker, John Waters. His films include
0:40.7	hairspray, pink flamingos, and crybaby, and his latest book is called Mr. Noadol, The Tarnished
0:46.7	Wisdom of a Filth Elder. Yes, John is 74 years old and is now identifying as a filth elder.
1:01.7	John loves to cook and eat, but he doesn't have much tolerance for the gluten-free, dairy-free world that we currently live in.
1:05.1	I mean, I have no food issues. I hate it when you go to restaurants.
1:09.2	I'm going to say, do you have any food issues? Well, no, you should stay home if you have them.
1:11.1	So in the before times when you can have people over, what do you do when someone is vegan or gluten-free? I don't invite him or
1:16.5	tell them to bring your own food. I don't know. It makes me crazy. For the most part, John eats
1:21.8	very healthfully, but on the weekends, he loves to eat pie. And he sent me on a mission to answer a question that I'm sure so many of us have wondered.
1:31.3	If you eat a couple slices of pie or, let's say you eat an entire pizza, how long will it take to show up as fat on your body?
1:39.6	We'll learn the science of weight gain with Seattle dietitian, Mia Kwan.
1:43.3	One thing that is often overlooked is that we don't actually have as much control over our
1:49.4	body weight as we think we do.
1:51.7	And we'll learn all about the extremely lifelike fake plastic food that is displayed in
1:57.6	thousands and thousands of restaurants in Japan.
2:00.8	But first, my conversation with John Waters.
2:07.7	I'm so excited to talk to you.
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