The Leftovers with Ani DiFranco

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from Ani DiFranco, singer/songwriter, activist and feminist icon.

Ani started her own record company in 1989, put out her first record in 1990 and just released her 23rd album. But what do her two school-aged children think about her music? She will discuss!

Plus she shares her family’s boozy holiday traditions, and reveals what is no longer on her rider.

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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.
0:14.8	Welcome to The Leftovers. I'm Rachel Bell. The Leftovers is audio left on the cutting room floor from last week's episode of Your Last Meal. And today, you'll hear never before heard cuts from Ani DeFranco, the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter who just put out her 23rd album.
0:38.9	Very impressive.
0:40.3	Yeah, yeah.
0:41.4	If quantity is what we're going for.
0:44.9	They're all really shitty, but you've made 23 albums.
0:48.2	Exactly.
0:49.7	Ani takes off on a big U.S. and UK tour today.
0:53.1	On last week's episode of Your Last Meal,
0:55.8	Ani talks about why she shaved her head when she moved to New York City as a teenager,
1:00.5	her love for strong flavors like anchovies and black licorish, and her theory on why she is
1:06.2	only five foot two. If you missed it, I advise you to go back and listen to that episode first.
1:12.7	But if you're all caught up, here is a lightning round with Ani DeFranco.
1:24.9	Number one, what is your favorite birthday cake or birthday dessert?
1:29.3	Well, our classic birthday cake that I make most birthdays is a lemon poppy seed.
1:35.4	Oh, it's you do a loaf or more of a cake?
1:38.8	A bunt cake with a glazed, you know, powdered sugar, icing and extra, extra poppy seeds, extra lemon,
1:47.1	you know, buttermilk.
1:48.4	That sounds so good.
1:49.2	And no drug test after that.
1:51.1	Yeah.
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