Best of Julia Sweeney: Nanaimo Bars
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
By the end of this episode, you'll feel like the charming, hilarious and down-to-earth Julia Sweeney is your best friend! Julia and host Rachel Belle discuss everything from her true love of eating alone (and how that makes her husband feel) to the 60th birthday gift she gave herself: never dieting again.
Julia wants to cap her last meal with Canada’s favorite no-bake, layered dessert: the Nanaimo bar! Rachel chats with Joyce Hardcastle, the contest winner who created the city’s official recipe back in 1986, and with the current mayor of Nanaimo, about the history of the bar and how ubiquitous it is in the Vancouver Island city it was named after.
*This is a replay of an episode from 2022. Rachel lost her voice & hopes to be back with a brand-new episode next week!*
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.6 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello, I'm your last meal producer, Isaac Kaplan-Wulner, and you're hearing my voice because Rachel no longer has one. |
| 0:18.6 | She's on day four of laryngitis and voice rest, which, as you might imagine, is somewhat less than ideal for someone who talks for a living. |
| 0:26.3 | Now, before Rachel lost her voice, she recorded this voice memo talking to her cat, Poppy, with a voice she's since named Andre. |
| 0:34.4 | Hey, baby girl. |
| 0:35.5 | Hey, poppy. |
| 0:36.6 | Can you believe this is what my voice sounds like right now? Hey, baby girl. Hey, poppy. Can you believe this is what my voice sounds like right now? |
| 0:39.4 | Hey, baby girl. |
| 0:41.7 | Hey, poppy. |
| 0:43.1 | Since Rachel wasn't able to record a new episode, we're bringing you a replay of one |
| 0:46.7 | of her all-time favorites from a couple years back, a conversation with S&L alum, Julia |
| 0:52.5 | Sweeney. |
| 0:53.4 | Hopefully, we'll be back with a brand new episode next Thursday. |
| 0:56.7 | And if you want to read more about Rachel's involuntary vow of silence, |
| 1:00.7 | she wrote about it at rachelbell.substack.com. |
| 1:21.0 | Thank you. I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most. |
| 1:22.8 | Today on the program, actor and comedian Julia Sweeney. |
| 1:27.1 | Julia was a Saturday Night Live cast member for four seasons in the early 90s. |
| 1:31.5 | She's written three books, performed several one-woman shows, and done everything from |
| 1:35.6 | consulting and playing a role on sex in the city to producing desperate housewives. |
| 1:40.4 | And most recently, she played 80 Bryant's mom on the Hulu show Shrill, |
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