Snacktime: Pizza Is My Life

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🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In 2008, college student Kevin Toomey was cruising around Columbus, Ohio, listening to AM radio, when a jingle for Rotolo's Pizza came on. It was love at first listen, and it set him on a 13-year quest to find out who wrote and performed the jingle. In this Snacktime episode, Amory tells Ben about Kevin and his pizza jingle quest, which -- finally -- has a delicious conclusion.

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0:00.0	Produced by the iLab at WBUR Boston.
0:07.0	Benjo!
0:10.0	What's your name again?
0:13.0	It's been too long, Emo.
0:17.0	Very funny.
0:18.0	I've got a snack for ya.
0:20.0	Okay.
0:21.0	Well, actually, this is a little larger than a snack.
0:25.0	Isn't it like a personal pan pizza?
0:27.0	That's exactly right.
0:31.0	This is a 10-inch pie.
0:32.0	That's exactly what this is.
0:34.0	And this has to do with three of my favorite things, Ben.
0:39.0	Okay.
0:40.0	Mysteries.
0:41.0	Pizza.
0:42.0	Yup.
0:43.0	And jingles.
0:45.0	Oh, no.
0:47.0	Ben, was there a radio or a TV jingle for some local business from your childhood that stayed with you?
0:54.0	Oh, my god.
0:57.0	And can you perform it, go?
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