Longstanding Grievances, Emily & Matt Hyland, TSA Bucket

Episode overview

Emily & Matt Hyland (Emily, Pizza Loves Emily, Emmy Squared Pizza) are restaurateurs and authors, with Matt a Michelin-recognized chef and culinary creator, and Emily an educator, poet, and mindful movement teacher. Emily and Matt join the Armchair Expert to discuss meeting when Emily was Matt’s college RA, how yoga has been one of the biggest through lines in Emily’s life, and their favorite pizza’s favorite pizza. Matt, Emily, and Dax talk about when THE burger entered the scene, how a difficulty to compartmentalize working together caused their relationship to break down, and the underlying friction that resulted from conflating her identity with his food. Emily and Matt explain getting divorced after opening a restaurant based on their love story, how through therapeutic work healing their dynamic as partners after each remarrying, and the clarity that came from an arrest and a restraining order during a really dark moment.

Episode descriptions and transcript text can contain errors. Verify important details against the original recording.

Short transcript highlights

These brief excerpts are navigation aids selected from different points in the transcript.

1. 0:00We're here to meet you. I hope you know you've influenced me.
2. 38:46getting written about. you're winning lots of awards and stuff and yeah that's an interesting third person in a
3. 1:19:11Um, so thanks for coming you guys. This is great. Yeah. Thanks for having us. Thank you. Yeah.