The Leftovers with Eve Plumb
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.8 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from Eve Plumb, the actor who played Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch!
After spending most of her life in southern California, Eve moved to New York City and in this week's lightning round, she talks about the food she misses most from her home state.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Leftovers. I'm Rachel Bell. The Leftovers is audio left on the cutting room floor from last week's Your Last Meal interview. And today, you'll hear never-before-heard cuts from actor Eve Plum. Eve played Jan |
| 0:24.4 | Brady on the Brady Bunch. And she has a new memoir out called Happiness Included, Jan |
| 0:30.4 | Brady and Beyond. Eve's last meal is a throwback to her favorite dinner from childhood. |
| 0:36.2 | I don't know how I started this, but my folks would make spaghetti on whatever night of the week |
| 0:41.5 | Lassie was on. They would make their own spaghetti sauce. And then I like to put a piece of American |
| 0:46.4 | cheese on it. I don't know how that happened. But tear that up, it melts on there, and it's |
| 0:51.6 | delicious. That is a little snippet from last week's conversation. |
| 0:56.1 | If you missed it, I suggest going back and listening to that first. But if you're all caught up, |
| 1:02.1 | here's my lightning round with Eve Plum. |
| 1:12.9 | Speed round. |
| 1:15.5 | Number one, what is your perfect birthday cake? |
| 1:18.6 | Yellow cake with a bit of chocolate frosting. |
| 1:19.9 | Let's see. |
| 1:23.0 | In an interview, I heard you describe the Brady Bunch as comfort food. |
| 1:28.4 | What is your favorite comfort food, whether it's because you're sad or you're tired or it's just cold out? |
| 1:30.2 | I like potato chips. |
| 1:33.2 | Potato chips are delicious. |
| 1:35.4 | Do you have a brand that you love? |
| 1:39.7 | Actually, UTS makes an unsalted potato chip that's really good. |
| 1:41.6 | Unsalted, mama, me. |
| 1:42.3 | Unsalted. |
| 1:43.5 | You got to try it. |
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