Pizza and Honesty Podcast

Updated: Dec 30, 2024

The podcast has a fun, straight forward format.

You come to my house, I made pizza outside in the wood fired oven, we eat pizza and talk about everything.

I’ll serve beer, or wine, or whatever my guest is into as a beverage.

Most times we will finish with chocolate chip cookies from the wood fired oven and of course there is always some premade desert.

I had thought about doing this for a while, but it was just thought.

My neighbor Robert kept pitching ideas about how to find guests and perhaps audience.

It wasn’t until Scotty’s comedy cove closed for good and I showed up at their last open mic just to say good bye.

I didn’t have any new material prepared, but with the upcoming election at hand, I ranted about how We the People could “Gamestop” election and all write in “Dwayne the Rock Johnson” for President, and John Cena for VP.

When I got the light, I mentioned the new pizza oven and the idea for the podcast. I invited Gene Nagel in my last minute on stage stating that we would call the podcast, “Pizza …. And Sodomy”. It was fun.

I thought for a while that I would arrange some type of trick, prank, or challenge at the end of each episode calling the trick or challenge, “The Sodomy”.

For example: I thought about having fresh Durian for my guest to taste, or perhaps have the local police show up and harass my guest. But I didn’t.

My Neighbor Robert was particularly concerned about the name and had hoped that I would change it. But then he told me something that was brilliant.

The text below is from a google search for “Billy Joel Sodomy Song”

This song makes the case that truth is harder to find than love. Joel sings about how he can find someone to comfort him with promises, but honesty is far more rare. You can be in love with someone, but it doesn't mean you're going to have truth.

It was the third single released from Joel's sixth album, 52nd Street.

When Joel started writing this song, he started with the title "Home Again," but was looking for something more appropriate. At his Howard Stern town hall appearance in 2014, he explained: "I didn't have a lyric for it, so my drummer started to sing 'sodomy' - 'sodomy... such a lonely word.' So I had to come up with some lyrics fast."

The new lyrics worked, but they made Joel feel a bit hypocritical. "'Honesty' is the most bulls--t song I ever wrote," he admitted to SiriusXM in 2016. "I mean, who am I to preach to people, 'You gotta be honest with me.' I haven't always been honest in my life."

So that was it, I renamed the podcast to Pizza and Honesty because frankly, there is nothing better than Pizza, honest conversation, and maybe a little…… Nah.

Marklyn Johnson pinged me on social and said, we gotta do this, so I guess that was the deciding vote.

Episodes:

1) Kyle Schikner