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Peel: A PMQ Pizza Podcast · Episode 1: "Cool Stuff Is Only Cool Until You Show Your Friends" with Sean Jefairjian

Episode 1: “Cool Stuff Is Only Cool Until You Show Your Friends” with Sean Jefairjian

Apr 18 2024

In the inaugural episode of Peel: A PMQ Pizza Podcast, we sit down with Sean Jefairjian of A Slice of New York pizzeria in Murraysville, Pennsylvania (3:30). Sean shares some life lessons he’s learned in a long and varied professional career that saw him pivot into pizza in 2020. Later in the show, Charlie and Brian discuss Detroit-style pizza (41:50).

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