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Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

The Leftovers with Pink Martini

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4709 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from China Forbes and Timothy Nishimoto from Pink Martini! The Portland, Oregon-based band is taking off on tour this week to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Get tickets here!

China and Timothy reveal their perfect birthday cakes, the countries they most enjoy eating in when they’re traveling the world, and what foods they can’t wait to eat when they get back home.

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0:00.0

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0:04.8

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0:10.7

Oregon's Crater Lake Hazelette espresso vodka, and Beecher's Cheese on the much coveted signature fruit and cheese platter.

0:17.4

The perfect amuse boosh for whatever adventure you're headed on. Maybe a nonstop flight from Seattle to Tokyo starting May 12.

0:23.8

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0:28.0

Book today at Alaskaair.com and Hawaiian Airlines.com.

0:56.1

Well, 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 China Forbes and Timothy Nishimoto from Pink Martini, the Portland bass band that's celebrating its 30th anniversary.

1:01.0

I don't want to travel.

1:04.8

I don't want to be dejone.

1:08.6

I want to just to be it. And then I fute. You guys have been together for the band together for 30 years, which is incredible.

1:19.4

What do you think has kept the band together this whole time?

1:23.5

I think ultimately it's the music, which we all love. It's irresistible.

1:29.3

There is no other band doing what we're doing.

1:31.3

And we all really get along.

1:33.8

Over the years, we've really, I think, matured and learned to coexist in a better way than even we did when we were starting.

1:40.9

It's really worth fighting for.

1:43.0

It's really like a family. If you miss last

1:45.4

week's episode, I recommend listening to that first. But if you're all caught up, let's get

1:50.1

into the leftovers with China and Timothy.

2:09.7

Pink Martini tours the world playing music, and there are more than a dozen people in the band.

2:15.4

China and I eat on the road quite a bit together. Number one, we're always on the same tour of us, but we tend to like the same types of

2:18.8

foods and the same types of restaurants. So we go out a lot together. And also, China knows that

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