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🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and pianist Regina Spektor!
Regina grew up in the Soviet Union, moving to the United States when she was 10, and many of her eating experiences are colored by her young life in Russia — including the desserts she likes! Regina tells host Rachel Belle which foods she’d choose over a birthday cake, why she woke up at 3 a.m. to house a container of chopped liver (when she was a vegetarian!) and her thoughts on karaoke.
Listen to Regina Spektor's full Your Last Meal episode from last week!
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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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| 0:25.6 | And 10 hours later, you're in Tokyo ready to hit your first yucky-tori bar. |
| 0:30.2 | Book your adventure and earn more miles today at Alaskaair.com and 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. |
| 0:53.4 | And today, you'll hear never |
| 0:55.1 | before heard cuts from Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and pianist Regina Specter. You said, |
| 1:01.8 | I love crying while chopping onions. When you're just chopping a lot of onions and the tears are just flowing, something about it feels very, very purifying. |
| 1:17.6 | There's something really nice about crying when it's not coming from the inside out, but when it's coming from the outside in, it's like a different kind of crying, yet it still |
| 1:28.4 | does the action. |
| 1:30.4 | That is part of our conversation from last week. |
| 1:33.4 | And I suggest going back and listening to that first. |
| 1:36.3 | But if you're all caught up, let's get into the leftovers with Regina Specter. |
| 1:51.7 | One of your songs is a go-to karaoke song for me for many years. |
| 1:53.3 | I like to do hotel song. |
| 1:55.7 | I'm curious, as someone who sings for a living, |
| 1:58.8 | do you ever do karaoke, like go out with your friends? Is that something that comes up? It really doesn't. |
| 2:03.9 | I feel like I did that a couple of times on the road. My first ever karaoke that I did was long |
| 2:10.4 | before I actually played shows. It was when I was studying abroad for a semester in London, in Tottenham, and we went across the road, |
| 2:20.6 | and I did Elvis, like the, you ain't nothing about a hound dog. And it was really, really fun. |
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