Lauren Weedman, Pad Thai
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Lauren Weedman wants to love food again. The comedic actor, a former The Daily Show Correspondent and current The Moth host, with roles on Curb Your Enthusiasm and HBO's Looking, has a complicated relationship with food. She wants to make eating a more soulful experience, starting with her last meal; a food she never lets herself enjoy. And yes, we used phrases like "complicated relationship with food" and "soulful experience," but rest assured: Lauren is one of the funniest guests to grace Your Last Meal; chortles ahead.
Lauren's love of pad Thai takes us to Little Uncle, one of Seattle's best Thai restaurants. Chef/owners Poncharee Kounpungchart and Wiley Frank painstakingly squeeze tamarind pods to make the sauce for their pad Thai and they tell Rachel why they refuse to put chicken in the dish, no matter how nice a customer asks.
Lauren Weedman was raised by a ballerina who was always watching her weight, so Rachel interviewed Kari Brunson, a former professional ballet dancer who retired from dance to explore her love of cooking. Today Kari co-owns Seattle's Juicebox Cafe and one of Rachel's favorite ice cream shops, Frankie & Jo's.
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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. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most. |
| 0:34.8 | Today on the program, actor and comedian Lauren Weidman. |
| 0:37.7 | Lauren played Doris on the HBO show Looking. |
| 0:41.4 | She's had roles on curbiour enthusiasm, new girl, and arrested development. |
| 0:43.4 | She was a daily show correspondent. |
| 0:46.2 | She's written and starred in 11 one-woman shows. |
| 0:51.9 | And perhaps my favorite credit of all, she hosts The Moth in Santa Monica, a storytelling event. |
| 0:52.8 | Oh, God, I love The Moth. |
| 0:53.8 | It's so good. It's so good. I want to go to |
| 0:55.4 | Lauren's event. And Lauren and I had this kind of explosion of a conversation. It went all over the place. |
| 1:03.1 | And while I was having this conversation with Lauren, it felt super fun and super witty, but it is a little |
| 1:08.8 | bit cookie. So I hope you guys will enjoy it as much |
| 1:11.9 | as we enjoyed being in it. Lauren has always had a complicated relationship with food, |
| 1:17.5 | so she pretty much never eats the dish that she chose as her last meal. Like out of fear of, |
| 1:23.1 | of what? Like, of gaining weight? Like, am I truly at this... I'm 50 years old, and I'm a grown-ass |
| 1:28.2 | woman who's like, well, I would have this amazing meal that sounds incredible, but I don't want |
| 1:32.2 | to feel fat tomorrow. But that's an awful way to live when you know you could be dead by |
| 1:37.4 | Thursday. But Lauren loves pad tie, which, by the way, I have to make a note. I've always |
| 1:42.6 | called it pad tie. Most of the people I interviewed for make a note. I've always called it pad Thai. |
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