Emily & Matt Hyland (Emily Burger)
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Umbrella
4.6 • 69.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Emily & Matt Hyland (Emily, Pizza Loves Emily, Emmy Squared Pizza) are restaurateurs and authors, with Matt a Michelin-recognized chef and culinary creator, and Emily an educator, poet, and mindful movement teacher. Emily and Matt join the Armchair Expert to discuss meeting when Emily was Matt’s college RA, how yoga has been one of the biggest through lines in Emily’s life, and their favorite pizza’s favorite pizza. Matt, Emily, and Dax talk about when THE burger entered the scene, how a difficulty to compartmentalize working together caused their relationship to break down, and the underlying friction that resulted from conflating her identity with his food. Emily and Matt explain getting divorced after opening a restaurant based on their love story, how through therapeutic work healing their dynamic as partners after each remarrying, and the clarity that came from an arrest and a restraining order during a really dark moment.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. |
| 0:03.3 | I'm Dan Shepard. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm joined by miniature mouse. |
| 0:05.9 | Hi there. |
| 0:07.0 | Boy, y'all, you've been hearing us talking about this burger for eight long years. |
| 0:13.3 | It's our obsession. |
| 0:14.6 | It's our religion. |
| 0:16.7 | It's our life force. |
| 0:18.1 | It's our life force. |
| 0:19.3 | Emily Burger. |
| 0:20.2 | So today we have Emily and Matt Highlandon, who started Emily loves pizza and Emily and |
| 0:27.5 | Emmy Square and all these yummy restaurants that serve it. |
| 0:31.0 | Emily is also a poet and an educator and a mindful movement teacher. |
| 0:36.1 | And Matt is a chef and a restaurateur. |
| 0:39.2 | Please enjoy Emily and Matt Hyland. |
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