Pizza Pod Party

It's the Pizza Pod Party pizza and drinks special with three notable drink experts. John Holl, Noah Rothbaum, and David Wondrich!John Holl is the editor of All About Beer, he hosts the Drink Beer, Think Beer podcast, and co-hosts Steal This Beer podcast. He is the author of numerous books including “Drink Beer, Think Beer” and “The Craft Brewery Cookbook”.Noah Rothbaum, he was the co-host of the Life Behind Bars podcast. He’s the former editor of The Daily Beast’s award winning Half Full section. Noah is the author of “The Art of American Whiskey”. He is the associate editor of "The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails”. In 2025 get his new book, “The Whiskey Bible”.David Wondrich, is one of the leading authorities of the history of cocktails and bars. He was the longtime drinks Correspondent for Esquire. His 2007 book, "Imbibe!" is a classic among cocktail fans. Also check out his followup book, "Punch!" which came out in 2010. He was the other co-host of the Life Behind Bars podcast.They discuss the best beers, cocktails, soda, mocktails, and non alcoholic beers to pair with pizza! Take notes on some of the best pizzeria/taverns across the country too! Follow us for more information!Instagram: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4Twitter: @PizzaPodParty @ArthurBovino @AlfredSchulzTikTok: @thepizzapodpartyThreads: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4

Comedian Ted Alexandro is the guest, there's pizza news, and our topic is: "Pizza Expo".Ted Alexandro is a super respected New York comic, who has done Letterman, Conan, Kimmel, and has had two half hour specials on Comedy Central. His recent special “CUT/UP” can be found on YouTube. He is also Jim Gaffigan’s opening act. Check out tour dates at tedalexandro.com.Ted makes us laugh about his Wikipedia inaccuracies, making pizzas with his own Ooni oven, and parenting. Also some road pizza stories with Jim Gaffigan. Follow us for more information!Instagram: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4Twitter: @PizzaPodParty @ArthurBovino @AlfredSchulzTikTok: @thepizzapodpartyThreads: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4

Western New York native, and politics managing editor for NBC News, Amanda Terkel is the guest. There's pizza headlines and the pizza topic is: "Buffalo Pizza".This week’s guest is Amanda Terkel. She’s the politics managing editor for NBC News. Amanda was editorial director and Washington bureau chief at HuffPost. She was Deputy Research Director at the Center for American Progress and the Managing Editor of ThinkProgress.org. She’s also from the Buffalo area.Amanda discusses politics and pizza, growing up in Western New York, and the joys of eating wings WITH pizza.Please check out Arthur's books on Buffalo food, "Buffalo Everything: A Guide to Eating in 'The Nickel City'"  and "The Buffalo New York Cookbook: 70 Recipes from The Nickel City" Follow us for more information!Instagram: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4Twitter: @PizzaPodParty @ArthurBovino @AlfredSchulzTikTok: @thepizzapodpartyThreads: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4

New York Times columnist and David Letterman biographer Jason Zinoman is the guest. There's pizza news, and the pizza topic is: "Pizza Jokes" (or, at least, that's what Arthur's trying to call them).In 2011, Jason Zinoman became the first comedy critic for The New York Times, writing the On Comedy column. Before that, he wrote theater criticism for The New York Times and Time Out New York. He is the author of 2017’s “Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night,” and also 2011’s “Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror.” Jason also co-hosts the podcast The Martin Chronicles.Jason discusses the benefits and problems with the comedy boom (AND pizza boom). He and the gang go over the problems with certain folks potentially ruining debates about pizza, and why Jason changed his mind (mid-podcast) on white slices. Follow us for more information!Instagram: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4Twitter: @PizzaPodParty @ArthurBovino @AlfredSchulzTikTok: @thepizzapodpartyThreads: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4

Christy Lemire of RogerEbert.com and Matt Singer of ScreenCrush talk all about pizza in the movies. There's also pizza news!Christy Lemire is a film critic for RogerEbert.com and the co-host of the Breakfast All Day podcast and YouTube show. For 15 years, she was the film critic for The Associated Press. Get her newsletter at ChristyLemire.com.Matt Singer is also a film critic and the editor of ScreenCrush. He was the on-air host of IFC News on the Independent Film Channel, and his first book was 2019’s “Marvel’s Spider-Man: From Amazing to Spectacular.” His critically acclaimed new book is, “Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever.”Christy and Matt discuss movies like Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Mystic Pizza, Do the Right Thing, and more. The gang also tries to figure out if such a thing as a "pizza movie" actually exists. Think we missed a great one? Leave a review. Fresh episodes are available for download and streaming every Tuesday morning. Join the party! Follow @pizzapodparty on Instagram and X, and @thepizzapodparty on TikTok, and hosts Arthur Bovino (@nycbestpizza) and Alfred Schulz (@AlfredSchulz) on all the social medias. Follow us for more information!Instagram: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4Twitter: @PizzaPodParty @ArthurBovino @AlfredSchulzTikTok: @thepizzapodpartyThreads: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4

NBC News' Christine Romans is the guest, there's pizza headlines, and the pizza topic is: "the Pizza Subway Connection".Christine Romans is NBC News’ senior business correspondent. She spent over 20 years at CNN where she ended up anchoring both On the Money, and Early Start. Last year it was announced she was moving to NBC. You can now see Christine’s reporting across NBC News, including the TODAY Show, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, NBC News NOW, NBCNews.com, as well as on MSNBC. She’s the author of 2015’s “Smart is the New Rich: Money Guide for Millennials”.Christine regales the guys about working with her siblings at Happy Joe's Pizza in Le Claire, Iowa. She tells pizza tales from the Quad Cities in Iowa, to the trading floors of the New York Stock Exchange. We are totally onboard with her starting her own pizzeria. Follow us for more information!Instagram: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4Twitter: @PizzaPodParty @ArthurBovino @AlfredSchulzTikTok: @thepizzapodpartyThreads: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4

It's "How I Built This" host Guy Raz, pizza news, and the pizza topic is "pizza cheese terminology."Guy Raz is a podcast institution. He was a reporter for CNN and NPR, and weekend host of All Things Considered. Since 2016, Guy has hosted the critically acclaimed and super popular podcast “How I Built This.” He is the founder of Built-It Productions and Tinkercast. Guy is the author of 2020’s “How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs” and numerous children’s books. He currently hosts the podcast “The Great Creators.” Get more info at thegreatcreators.com.Guy discusses memorable pizza experiences while traveling the world, how the keto diet affects his pizza intake, and which interview subject he would love to get a slice with. Follow us for more information!Instagram: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4Twitter: @PizzaPodParty @ArthurBovino @AlfredSchulzTikTok: @thepizzapodpartyThreads: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4

Hollywood power couple,  Patrick Wilson and Dagmara Domińczyk are the guests for this Valentine's Day pizza special. There's pizza headlines and the topic is: "pizza poetry".Dagmara Domińczyk is an actress you know from movies like Rock Star, the Count of Monte Cristo, Running with Scissors, The Assistant, The Lost Daughter, and many more. You also saw her in all 4 seasons of the HBO mega hit Succession, where she played Karolina, the head of PR at Waystar Royco. Patrick Wilson is  an actor but most importantly he’s Dagmara’s husband. You have seen him in the Phantom of the Opera, The Watchmen, season 2 of Fargo, Aquaman, and Aquaman the Lost Kingdom. He is very well known for starring in both the Conjuring franchise and the Insidious franchise.This interview covers Dag's childhood in Poland (where she ate the pizza-like, Zapiekanka), Broadway and pizza, pizza date nights, and eating a pizza while running a marathon. Also Arthur uses this as therapy to tell Patrick how much Insidious scares him. Follow us for more information!Instagram: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4Twitter: @PizzaPodParty @ArthurBovino @AlfredSchulzTikTok: @thepizzapodpartyThreads: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4

Popular podcast host Anna Sale joins the party. There's pizza news, and the pizza topic is: "Last-meal pizza."Anna Sale is an award-winning podcast host and writer. Since 2014, WNYC has carried her very popular and critically acclaimed podcast, Death, Sex & Money. In late 2023, news broke that the podcast would have no official home. However, it was announced in January that Death, Sex & Money would be part of Slate. Anna is also the author of 2021’s “ Let's Talk About Hard Things.”Anna helps the guys figure out how the concepts of death, sex, and money can apply to pizza. Funerals, bedroom food, shame, and failing morality tests when it comes to picking up your own pie on behalf of friends and family all get podcast pro Anna Sale's hot takes where they intersect with pizza.  Follow us for more information!Instagram: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4Twitter: @PizzaPodParty @ArthurBovino @AlfredSchulzTikTok: @thepizzapodpartyThreads: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4

Former showrunner for the Simpsons, Bill Oakley is the guest. There's pizza news, and the topic is: "Pizza portafoglio."Bill Oakley is an Emmy-award-winning TV writer and producer. He famously wrote for The Simpsons from season 3 to season 9. He was the showrunner for seasons 7 and 8. Bill has written for Futurama, The Cleveland Show, and Portlandia, to name a few. He is a co-executive producer for Netflix's Disenchantment, and currently, he reviews fast food restaurants on Twitter and Instagram. Sign up to be a member of his Steamed Hams Society.Bill discusses eating at the Simpsons, eating at the Harvard Lampoon, why his best-of Portland pizza list is better than Eater's, and his many thoughts and feelings about frozen pizza. There's also a fun Conan O'Brien anecdote from his Simpsons days.Check out Pizza Magazine Quarterly's profile of the Pizza Pod Party by Charlie Pogacar: "Love Talking Pizza? So Do the Celebrity Guests on This Podcast"! Follow us for more information!Instagram: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4Twitter: @PizzaPodParty @ArthurBovino @AlfredSchulzTikTok: @thepizzapodpartyThreads: @pizzapodparty @NYCBestPizza @AlfredSchulz4