Hilarious comedian, actor, and podcaster Rory Scovel is our guest, there’s pizza news, a special appearance by Scott Wiener of Scott’s Pizza Tours, and our topic is…"WHY WE LOVE PIZZA".

Rory Scovel is stand up comedian, actor, and podcast host. He has numerous comedy specials, most recently 2024’s “Religion, Sex, and a Few Things in Between”. Rory starred in the shows “Ground Floor”, “Those Who Can’t”, and the 2018 film “I Feel Pretty”. He hosts the Pen Pals Podcast with Daniel Van Kirk.

Rory covers his new move from LA to Denver, parenting and pizza, why working at a pizza parlor was such an awesome job, and they analyze food and nostalgia a bit too.

Scott Wiener is the founder of Scott’s Pizza Tours in New York City, a columnist for Pizza Today Magazine, he hosted Thrillist’s “Really Dough” pizza series, and is the Guinness World Record holder for largest collection of pizza boxes. Scott also founded the charitable organization, Slice Out Hunger which helps fight hunger across America. Learn more about the Summer Slice-a-thon at sliceouthunger.org.

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Comedian, actor, and writer Jon Glaser is our guest. There’s pizza headlines, and the pizza topic is..."PIZZA LISTS".

Jon Glaser is a hilarious comedic actor and writer. For nearly 10 years he was a writer and performer on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Jon was the star of Adult Swim’s “Delocated” and TruTV’s “Jon Glaser Loves Gear”. You’ve seen him in Parks and Rec, Girls, and the movie Trainwreck. Get his new comedy album, “Jon Glaser’s Soothing Meditations for the Solitary Dog”. He’s in the new show “Dinner with the Parents” on Prime Video.

Jon talks about why he got fired from a pizza place, the Bad Boys Pistons, and co-hosting Tim Heidecker’s Office Hours podcast with a slice of pizza.

The topic is Pizza Lists, where the hosts discuss the New York Times' "22 of the Best Pizza Places in the United States" and "50 Top Pizza: the complete program for 2024".

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Our guests are comedian Kurt Braunohler and screenwriter Scotty Landes who host the popular podcast Bananas. We do strange pizza news with the Bananas hosts, and our topic is: New York City Tourist Pizza Pairings. And special guest writer and tour guide Bill Schulz.

Kurt Braunohler is a stand up comedian and actor. He was in the critically acclaimed film “The Big Sick”. Kurt has numerous comedy standup specials including 2022’s “Perfectly Stupid”. Scotty Landes is a screenwriter. He was a writer and producer for “Workaholics”, he wrote the 2019 film “Ma” and the screenplay for 2023’s “The Machine”. Together they host the Bananas podcast.

Bill Schulz is a writer, television personality and web series host. He wrote the From the Vault column for the New York Times. For years he was the co-host of the Fox News panel show, Red Eye. He hosts Mornin’ with Bill Schulz and Joanne Nosuchinsky, which you can currently find on Youtube. Bill recently got his New York City tour guide license. Read that story in Entrepreneur.com.

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George R. R. Martin, author of “A Song of Ice and Fire” book series which became HBO’s Game of Thrones is our guest. There’s pizza news. And our pizza topic is: “PIGUE and OBR”.

George R. R. Martin is a celebrated and award winning author and screenwriter. His book series “A Song of Ice and Fire”, was adapted into the immensely popular HBO series, Game of Thrones, and House of the Dragon. Season 2 of House of the Dragon is out now on Max.

George talks about his love of Bayonne, New Jersey bar pies, getting pizza after attending the very first Comic Con, and the hosts pester him about including a pizza-like food in his upcoming books.

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Our guest is historian, author, and former public editor of the New York Times, Daniel Okrent. We have pizza headlines. And the pizza topic is: “THE REAL STORY (AND RECIPE) BEHIND CHICAGO DEEP-DISH” with pizza historian Peter Regas.

Publisher’s weekly has called our guest, Daniel Okrent, “one of our most interesting and eclectic writers of nonfiction over the past 25 years.” Daniel is a writer, author, and editor. He served as the first public editor of The New York Times. He is the author of several books including; 2003’s “Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center”, 2010’s “Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition”, and 2019’s “The Guarded Gate”. Daniel has been featured in Ken Burns’ Baseball and Prohibition documentaries as well.

Daniel discusses; fantasy baseball and pizza, Detroit style pizza, the state of journalism, getting pizza in a news room.

Peter Regas is a financial statistician and pizza historian. He is quoted numerous times in Eric Kim’s New York Times’ piece “The Most Surprising Thing About Deep Dish Pizza? It’s Not That Deep.” Separately, you can see his deep dish pizza recipe in Chicago Magazine as well.

Peter discusses the secret history he uncovered about the real inventor of Chicago deep dish pizza.

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The guest is John Hodgman, there's pizza news, and the pizza topic is: "Is Chicago Thin Prohibition Pizza?"

John Hodgman is a writer, actor, and podcast host. John was a contributor for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He famously portrayed PC in the Mac/PC Apple ad campaign. John was the host of the 2009 Correspondents Dinner for President Barack Obama. He is the author of 2005’s “The Areas of My Expertise”, 2008’s “More Information Than You Require”, 2011’s “That Is All”, 2017’s “Vacationland”, and 2019’s “Medallion Status”. He hosts the Judge John Hodgman podcast with our past guest, Jesse Thorn.

John discusses loving Maine gas station pizza, he trolls NYC pizza, and his favorite New Haven spot is a place you don't know.

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It's the music and pizza special! Three music experts are tasked with combining music and pizza.

Steven Hyden is the author of 2018’s "Twilight Of The Gods" and 2016’s "Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me." He co-wrote 2019’s “Hard to Handle: the Life and Death of the Black Crowes” along with past guest, Steve Gorman. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Grantland, The A.V. Club, The Ringer, and more. He is currently the cultural critic at UPROXX. His brand new book is titled, “There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland”.

Melissa Locker is a writer and podcaster. She has written for Vanity Fair, Time, the Guardian, Vogue and others. She’s the founder of Nevermind Media, a music podcast company. Check out their new podcast, True Story of the Fake Zombies coming soon.

Justin Richmond is a producer and podcast host. Along with Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlum, and Rick Rubin, Justin co-hosts the music podcast “Broken Record” for iHeartMedia and Puschkin Industries.

They all discuss; Jimmy Buffett, Chance the Rapper, Drive-By Truckers, Bruce Springsteen, Chuck E. Cheese's Munch's Make Believe Band, and so much more!

Check out the Spotify playlist for this week's episode: "The Pizza Pod Party Pizza Playlist".

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POLITICO's Sam Stein is our guest, there's pizza news, and the pizza topic is: "is New Haven, the pizza capital of America?"

Sam Stein is Deputy Managing Editor for Politics at Politico. He is a former politics editor for the Daily Beast and the senior politics editor for the Huffington Post. Sam is a regular contributor to MSNBC and a native to the New Haven area of Connecticut.

We talk about how Sam got on this program by trolling our guest (his friend) Amanda Terkel (NBC), how pizza plays a role in campaigns and on Capitol Hill, New Haven pizza, and what happens when your favorite place expands, does it ruin your experience?

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