Fall is the best time to travel.

The summer crowds have died down.

The weather is perfect.

And if you're a sucker for colorful fall leaves, you can't do better than Japan or South Korea.

Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines have teamed up to offer nonstop flights from Seattle to Tokyo.

And starting this October, nonstop flights from Seattle to Seoul.

And while you're on board Alaska Airlines,

you'll enjoy all kinds of Pacific Northwest crafted snacks and drinks.

Beechers and Tillamook cheeses in the much coveted signature fruit and cheese platter.

You can sip a straightaway Oregon old-fashioned

or have a little cocktail with a crater lake hazelnut espresso vodka.

Book your tickets to Tokyo and Seoul at Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com.

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 Congresswoman Pramilla Jaya Paul from the live podcast taping we did at the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival earlier this summer. Last week on the full episode, we talked about everything from what she thought about American

food when she first moved here from Southeast Asia all by herself at 16 years old to the

time she got a very special breakfast invitation.

The president actually invited me to have breakfast at the White House. It just sort of happened very suddenly.

I was on Rachel Maddow, and he called me after it, and he said, hey, Pramilla, it's Joe, Joe Biden.

And I was like, oh, hi, Mr. President. And he's like, we really need to talk about this. We have to get this done.

And I'm like, well, I'm available anytime.

He said, well, do you want to come over? And so literally the next day, next morning, I went over for breakfast. I think I was the first member of Congress to ever be invited to do that because it was coming out of COVID. Wow. And the night before, he says to me, what do you like to eat? And I said, anything. I'm fine. Anything.

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