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The Sporkful

All Aboard The Pizza Bus!

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Scott Wiener, founder of Scott’s Pizza Tours, has made a name for himself as one of the most knowledgeable and passionate pizza experts in America. (He has the Guinness Record for the world’s largest collection of pizza boxes -- nearly 2,000.) This week, Dan and his family join Scott on one of his famous Sunday tours, in which pizza pilgrims board a school bus not knowing what pizzerias Scott plans to take them to.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So, Scott, set the scene. Where are we and what's happening today?

0:07.0

So we're at the corner of Fulton and Gold Street in Lower Manhattan, which is where I start

0:11.1

every Sunday pizza bus tour. And what is the Sunday pizza bus tour? Sunday pizza bus tour is electric.

0:17.9

This is unlike the other tours we do throughout the week that are walking

0:20.9

tours where you go to one neighborhood and we go to a bunch of places in that neighborhood. The

0:24.5

Sunday tour, we go around all over the place wherever the school bus will take us. So it's the most

0:29.8

improvisational tour and it's like the one that's definitely the most interesting because the most

0:34.9

can go wrong.

0:39.7

What's the thing that went the most wrong on one of these tours?

0:44.5

You know, fortunately it hasn't gotten that bad because it's always salvageable, but there have been times where I'm like, oh, I forgot that today is the Five Borough Bike Tour.

0:49.3

Oh, there was one time there was a car show on Arthur Avenue.

0:51.9

And I was like, okay, we're going to park the bus a block away.

0:54.6

Everybody will find us.

0:55.6

Everybody didn't find us, Dan.

0:57.1

I left two people in the Bronx.

0:59.5

That was, okay, scratch what I said about nothing ever going wrong.

1:15.5

This is the Sporkful. It's not for foodies, it's for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman.

1:19.1

Each week on our show, we obsess about food to learn more about people.

1:23.4

This week, we're going on a food field trip with pizza obsessive Scott Weiner.

1:28.9

He's the guy behind Scott's pizza tours, a company that offers tours of New York City's most notable pizzerias.

1:32.0

Now, Scott started this business on his own back in 2008.

1:34.1

The company has grown a lot since then.

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