Josh Groban: Chocolate Covered Gummy Bears

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Is Josh Groban’s best song about baked beans?

Two foods Josh Groban’s dad turned him onto as a child: pickled and smoked fish and baked beans. So when Bush’s asked Josh to write them a commercial jingle, he took it a step further and composed a semi-autographical baked-bean power ballad! He tells host Rachel Belle the whole story.

Josh learned to cook during the pandemic and developed a soft spot for ugly, misshapen farm produce. So Seattle chef Becky Selengut joins the show to talk about her cookbook Misunderstood Vegetables. Becky wrote it after countless encounters with folks at farmers markets and the grocery store who didn’t know what to do with produce like rutabaga, celery root and burdock.

And Josh shares his last meal, a combination of a favorite childhood treat and a hearty British dinner he fell in love with when he started dating his English girlfriend.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.8	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:19.7	I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal.
0:23.0	The show where celebrity share stories about the foods they love most,
0:26.6	and we dig into the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world.
0:32.1	Today on the program, Tony, Emmy, and five-time Grammy Award-nominated singer, songwriter, actor, and Broadway performer, Josh Grobin.
0:41.8	It seems to my world may not come. It's going to be all right. It's going to be all right.
0:52.6	Josh is releasing a brand new album called Gems on May 2nd.
0:57.0	It's filled with his greatest hits plus two brand new songs.
1:00.3	And he is celebrating with a mini Las Vegas Gems residency, playing five shows there between May 9th and May 17th.
1:13.6	What do you do with a Rutaega? How do you cook a colarabi?
1:15.6	Could you pick a burdock root out of a lineup?
1:17.6	Well, my friend, Chef Becky Selangut, wrote a whole cookbook called Misunderstood Vegetables.
1:23.6	With the goal of helping you make meals out of the lumpy, twisted, strange-looking
1:28.6	vegetables, you might pass over at the farmer's market. That's coming up later in the show,
1:33.8	but first, my conversation with Josh Grobin. All right.
1:49.4	How's the audio?
1:50.5	I didn't bring my AirPods.
1:50.9	Are we okay?
1:52.3	I think so.
1:53.2	What'd you have for breakfast?
1:54.5	Let me hear you talk a little bit.
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