Flightless Bird: Pizza

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier investigates pizza, one of America’s favorite foods. He discovers that around 76,000 pizza joints bring in $44 billion dollars each year in the US - where every day 13% of the population will eat a slice of pizza. David begins his journey in Los Angeles, as Rob takes him and Monica to a fancy pop-up called “Chain”. Here, chefs riff on chain food but with their own upgraded twists - and tonight it’s Pizza Hut! Next, David heads to New York to eat a variety of NY pizzas, from the cheap slices of Joe’s, to Pauly Gee’s famous Hellboy pizza. What makes a good pizza? There is no clear answer, but Farrier attempts to find out, before going to one last joint - Ops - an upmarket take on what a pizza should be. Along the way, Farrier meets some of those eating the pizza - New Yorkers - who truly love their city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm David Varia, a New Zealander accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure
0:05.2	out what makes this country tick.
0:07.6	Growing up in New Zealand, there were a few experiences I remember as a kid that felt just
0:11.7	distinctly, incredibly American, and one of those was feasting at the new pizza hut
0:16.8	that had just opened in town.
0:30.0	Treat yourself to pizza hut's new, or you can eat dessert bar, create your own delicious
0:36.5	dessert from a mouthwatering selection, help yourself as many times as you like, for just
0:41.2	3.95 when you die in New Zealand.
0:43.6	I guess pizza hut, birth in Wichita, Kansas in 1958.
0:51.9	That piece of Americana made it all the way to New Zealand and into my mouth.
0:56.5	It was the height of luxury in the Faria household, a weekend treat, a slice of heaven.
1:01.6	God, I still remember the phone number, burned into my skull, a 800, 83, 83, 83.
1:09.0	Now here I am in America and pizza is all around me, but it's one of the United States's
1:13.5	favorite dishes, around 76,000 pizza joints, bringing in $44 billion in revenue each year.
1:21.7	On any random day in America, around 13% of the population aged 2 years and over will
1:27.1	eat some pizza.
1:28.9	Was pizza invented in America?
1:30.9	No.
1:31.9	But pizza is an America's blood, and now America has become my home, I'd need to learn
1:37.5	about pizza.
1:39.2	So spread out that dough, throw on some toppings, and shove it all in the oven, because this
1:45.0	is the pizza episode.
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