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 Rishi Kesh Hereway, musician and prolific podcast host and producer.

Rishi created Song Exploder and co-created home cooking with Samin Nasrat.

Last week, we learned that Rishi Kesh is a lifelong cookie monster.

He loves cookies now just as much as when he was a kid. Sneaking extras

when his parents weren't looking. I would open up the bag and take one from the back of the

container. Yes, good strategy. So if you slit it open, it still looked like the same number of

cookies. That's like the kid equivalent of refilling your parents' liquor bottles with water.

Yes, yeah.

And not having any inclination towards drinking.

This was my vice instead.

That is a snippet from last week's conversation.

If you missed it, I suggest going back and listening to that episode first.

But if you're all caught up, here is my lightning round with Rishi Kay Shearway.

What is your perfect ideal birthday cake?

Chocolate all the way through.

If in the title of the cake for the flavor, if there's any kind of like threat posed

by the chocolate, like death by chocolate, anything is something I'm interested in.

Yeah, as much chocolate and as dense as you can give it to me, flowerless, great.

As dangerous as it can be. Yeah. Yes. Your wife is vegan. So you mostly eat vegan at home. Are there foods that when you're out and about, whether at a restaurant or a friend's house, that you're like, ooh, I've got to order this because you don't eat it at home? I'm vegetarian. So I'm mostly within my bounds as well. My wife and I have found some really excellent vegan pizzas in L.A. and other parts of the world, but if I can still

have pizza with real cheese, that feels like an indulgence that I miss. Have you found that the

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