Quincy Jones: Caesar Salad

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Episode 4 is chock full of surprises - especially for Rachel! Don't miss this special episode of YLM as Rachel talks with hilarious, albeit confusingly-named, comedian Quincy Jones who is living with terminal cancer.

Quincy shares how his appearance on Ellen led to a stand-up special on HBO, his strong opinions on cereal, and Rachel talks to the granddaughter of the man who created the Caesar Salad.

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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.
0:15.6	I am Rachel Bell and this is your last meal.
0:22.7	Every other week we'll explore someone's perfect last meal to find out which food they find
0:27.2	most delicious or nostalgic or comforting or gluttonous.
0:31.3	And then we'll explore the history of that dish and more.
0:35.3	So before the very first episode of Your Last Meal even aired, I was hustling, trying to book
0:41.0	famous people as guests.
0:42.8	And since the show hadn't started yet, it had zero street cred, and I was just crossing
0:47.1	my fallopian tubes that famous people would see the appeal of talking to a nosy Jewish girl
0:52.2	about the food they like to eat.
0:53.9	And during this process of trying to find celebrities,
0:56.7	I fortuitously got an email announcing that Quincy Jones
0:59.9	was coming to Seattle's Neptune Theater to do a live show.
1:08.5	You know Quincy Jones.
1:09.9	Everybody knows Quincy Jones, the 83-year-old prodigy.
1:13.2	He's worked as a record producer, conductor, arranger, composer, musician, television producer, film producer, instrumentalist, magazine founder, and entertainment company executive.
1:31.3	Quincy Jones produced three Michael Jackson records, thriller, Off the Wall, and Bad. He was musical director of the Dizzy Gillespie band back in 1956, and he was executive producer for the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and he even wrote the theme song.
1:40.3	In Westfield, Philadelphia, born and raised on the playground is where I spent most of my days.
1:45.2	And since I'm based in Seattle and Quincy Jones went to high school and college in Seattle, I thought maybe he'd want to be on my podcast.
1:52.4	A little favor for a local gal.
1:54.0	So I sent off an email to his PR person and the very next day I got a reply.
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