Prancercise Founder Joanna Rohrback, Eggplant Parmesan
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On Christmas Day 2012, a video was uploaded to YouTube featuring a woman in a pink top, costume jewelry and a styled coif prancing through a Florida park. A few months later the video went viral, and everyone from John Mayer to your mom's hairdresser was talking about Prancercise and its creator, Joanna Rohrback. Rohrback defines her Prancercise exercise program as "a springy, rhythmic way of moving forward, similar to a horse's gait and ideally induced by elation."
Rohrback is a very regimented eater. Once, when traveling abroad, she packed her suitcase full of her favorite, healthy foods to take along on vacation. So host Rachel Belle chats with a TSA spokesperson about the kookiest food people have tried to bring through security. We also talk about Chrissy Teigen's hack for getting gravy through TSA. Plus, food scholar Clifford Wright joins the show to share the history of the iconic Italian dish, eggplant parmesan.
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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. |
| 0:29.3 | I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most. |
| 0:32.4 | Today on the program, Joanna Roarback. |
| 0:36.6 | Okay, now we're going to step up the pace a little bit with the crancer-sized truck. |
| 0:38.0 | It's really hot. |
| 0:45.6 | Joanna is the creator of prancercise, the exercise routine that burst onto the scene on on Christmas Day 2012 and immediately cemented itself into pop culture. |
| 0:51.0 | Prancercise by definition is a springy rhythmic movement forward similar to a horse's |
| 0:56.7 | gate, ideally in violation. |
| 1:00.3 | And the way I came up with the definition was I incorporated dance, prance, and exercise |
| 1:06.0 | together. |
| 1:07.0 | The original pranceercise video has more than 15 million views, and in it you will see Joanna, |
| 1:12.8 | who, from the waist up, looks ready to go to the office. |
| 1:16.5 | She's wearing a nice pink top, costume jewelry, her hair is done, but below the waist, she's |
| 1:22.4 | wearing workout clothes, and she's prancercising through a park. |
| 1:26.3 | We're going to really cut the noose and let it loose with the prancer-sized gala. |
| 1:30.6 | The top comment on the YouTube page very accurately says, |
| 1:34.9 | Here is someone who doesn't try to be anyone but herself. |
| 1:39.3 | Now, if you're not familiar with prancersize, |
| 1:41.3 | you will enjoy this episode so much more if you hit pause, |
| 1:46.1 | go to YouTube, watch about, I don't know, just 20 seconds of the video, then come back |
| 1:51.1 | and settle back in for the episode. Later in the show, I chat with TSA spokeswoman |
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