The Leftovers with Dawn Richard
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.8 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from Dawn Richard, singer; animator and Adult Swim creative consultant and owner of Papa Ted’s vegan food truck in New Orleans.
In a lightning round, Dawn talks about graduating from college at the same time as her dad and her grandma, which food celebrity she admires most and how she finds a way to "New Orleansify" everything she cooks!
Listen to the full episode of Your Last Meal with Dawn Richard here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Leftovers. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Rachel Bell. |
| 0:12.0 | The Leftovers is audio left on the cutting room floor from last week's Your Last Meal interview. |
| 0:17.0 | And today, you'll hear never-before-heard cuts from singer Don Rashard, who's also an animator with a vegan food truck in New Orleans. |
| 0:26.8 | You pose naked for PETA. |
| 0:28.6 | What was that experience like? |
| 0:30.6 | First of all, like, why am I posing naked? |
| 0:32.6 | But okay, yes. |
| 0:34.2 | Like, not Playboy, but PETA. |
| 0:36.2 | But Peter, that was the only way I was going to do. |
| 0:37.9 | The first thing I said was, I'm not getting naked for no, for plants. |
| 0:42.9 | And then I saw the cause and I read about what they were doing. |
| 0:46.5 | That is a little snippet from last week's conversation. |
| 0:49.8 | If you missed it, I suggest going back and listening to that episode first. |
| 0:54.1 | But if you're all caught up, here is my lightning round with Don Rashard. If you missed it, I suggest going back and listening to that episode first. |
| 0:58.0 | But if you're all caught up, here is my lightning round with Don Richard. |
| 1:07.3 | Number one, what is your perfect birthday cake or birthday dessert? |
| 1:08.4 | Pound cake. |
| 1:09.4 | Love it. |
| 1:11.1 | Just pound cake or anything on top? Nope. Just pound cake. He did pound cake. Pound cake. Love it. Just pound cake or anything on top? |
| 1:11.9 | Nope. |
| 1:12.8 | Just pound cake. |
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