The Leftovers with Lachi
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.8 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from Lachi, award-winning recording artist, CEO of RAMPD (Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities), host of the PBS series Renegades, and author of the new book, I Identify as Blind.
In a spirited lightening round, Lachi speaks to her true passion: melting cheese on anything and everything; we debate pulp vs no pulp in orange juice; ketchup vs no ketchup on hot dogs; she shares her favorite food city in America; and what it’s like navigating a buffet as a blind person.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If your perfect day is listening to murder podcasts while knitting in front of a fire, |
| 0:04.5 | watching true crime shows and wishing you could solve a mystery, I have the perfect weekend for you. |
| 0:10.0 | February 21st and 22nd is Langley Washington's 41st annual mystery weekend, where thousands of people |
| 0:16.8 | participate in a who-done-it, running around town, collecting clues, meeting costume characters, |
| 0:22.3 | attempting to solve a mystery. Langley is a charming seaside village on Whibby Island, less than an |
| 0:27.7 | hour away from Seattle. And to get the clues, you'll visit charming local shops and restaurants, |
| 0:32.9 | like one of my very favorites, Ultra House. Their ramen is as good as any bowl I had in Japan. Double Bluff |
| 0:39.1 | Brewery, which is my favorite place to get a beer, and saltwater for fresh local oysters, |
| 0:43.9 | mussels, and beautifully cooked seafood. There are some big, amazing prizes for the mystery |
| 0:48.6 | solvers. But whether you win or lose, you get to spend the weekend in Langley, one of my favorite |
| 0:53.8 | places in the |
| 0:54.8 | Pacific Northwest. So book your lodging now, plan your trip at visit langley.com. |
| 1:09.3 | Welcome to The Leftovers. |
| 1:12.1 | I'm Rachel Bell. |
| 1:17.5 | The Leftovers is audio left on the cutting room floor from last week's Your Last Meal Interview. |
| 1:18.2 | And today you'll hear never before heard cuts from Lachi, award-winning recording artist, CEO |
| 1:24.2 | of Ramped, recording artists and music professionals with disabilities, host of the PBS series |
| 1:29.6 | Renegades, and author of the new book, I Identify as Blind. On last week's episode, |
| 1:36.5 | Lodji told me she has another strong identity. Do you cook now? Do you like to cook? Nope. Nope. I identify |
| 1:43.7 | as someone who does not cook. Is it something |
| 1:47.7 | you just don't enjoy doing? It's not. It's, I just, I mean, maybe. Honestly, I just don't do it. |
| 1:54.5 | If you miss that episode, I recommend pausing this one and going back to listen to that one first. |
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