The Leftovers with Prabal Gurung
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from Prabal Gurung, celebrated fashion designer and author of the new memoir Walk Like a Girl.
Prabal has made a habit of ordering a cheeseburger and fries in every city he visits – he tells host Rachel Belle who makes the best burger in the world. He recalls the magical celebrity sighting he had the first time he went to a restaurant in New York City after moving there from Nepal, and he talks about what he would pack to eat on weeks-long treks in the Nepalese mountains.
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| 0:00.0 | You know that feeling when you're researching an international flight and you find a nonstop from your city to your final destination? |
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| 0:36.3 | Music AeskaAir.com and Hawaiian Airlines.com. |
| 0:47.9 | Welcome to The Leftovers. I'm Rachel Bell. |
| 0:53.3 | The Leftovers is audio left on the cutting room floor from last week's Your Last Meal interview. And today, you'll hear |
| 0:54.9 | never-before-heard cuts from Prabol Gurung, a celebrated fashion designer who has made gowns for folks like |
| 1:01.7 | First Lady Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and Vice President Kamala Harris. His new memoir, Walk Like a Girl, |
| 1:08.9 | tells the story of how he got here. |
| 1:11.4 | Prabol grew up in Nepal and was a social outcast, bullied and abused for being effeminate, |
| 1:16.8 | long before coming out as queer and moving to the United States. |
| 1:20.5 | Last week, we talked all about momos, steamed Nepali dumplings that Prabol not only finds |
| 1:27.4 | extremely delicious, |
| 1:29.0 | but a source of comfort, community, and connection to family. |
| 1:32.9 | Let me have this conversation about Momo without my mouth watering. |
| 1:36.6 | I mean, I can't. |
| 1:37.5 | I love Momo more than life sometimes. |
| 1:40.5 | If you missed last week's episode, I suggest going back and listening to that first. |
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