Pizza Man Nick Diesslin isn’t a regular pizza acrobat. He’s an intergalactic time traveler on a mission to save the world the only way he knows how, with pizza. We talk pizza acrobatics, where to find the best pizza restaurants, his doughjo and embracing who you are. Then, we countdown the Top 5 Pizza Toppings.

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Pointless:32:43ish

Top 5: 48:11

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Interview with Pizza Acrobat Pizza Man Nick Diesslin

Nick VinZant 0:11

Welcome to Profoundly Pointless. My name is Nick VinZant Coming up in this episode pizza, specifically pizza toppings and intergalactic pizza acrobatics from the past, maybe might be the future. It's definitely involving time travel, and intergalactic pizza delivery from the future.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 0:36

I call pizza acrobatics and art because I really do think it's it's an art with your body and dough. The actual backstory is like, I was a pizza delivery guy back in the day. And this this crazy guy named pizza man like was like, Dude, you got to help me get back. We got to we got to save the future with pizza. Because that was like a dream since I was a kid. And the older I got that dream kind of faded, because I never thought that was something that would happen, you know. And then when it started coming, like coming to life, I was like, oh, man, this, this might actually happen. I

Nick VinZant 1:11

want to thank you so much for joining us. If you get a chance, subscribe, leave us a rating or a review, we really appreciate it really helps us out. So if you're new to the podcast or a longtime listener, this episode is a little bit different. But give it a chance. Seriously give it a chance. Because however interesting, you might think it is to begin with. It's oddly kind of fascinating. And then look into a different, a different kind of world. Our first guest is a pizza acrobat. And he has honestly this kind of inspiring story about doing what you want to do and what you like to do and being who you are. Even if everybody else is kind of wondering what's going on there. This is pizza man, Nick de Slan. What is a what is a pizza acrobat? Exactly.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 2:14

The best way to describe it is a pretty much a guy that juggles dough. They call it a pizza Acrobat because you can do a lot of like athletic moves with your tricks. So you're moving around the dose flying around your shoulders, through your legs all over the place. So that's kind of why they call it a pizza acrobat.

Nick VinZant 2:33

So how did you get started in this? Right?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 2:36

When I was in middle school, I started learning juggling. To be less shy, I was a really shy kid. So I wanted to do something that I could do on stage and like practice it before I go onstage. So then I could kind of be like a rock star by the time I was ready to be shy in front of people. And then I saw somebody doing tricks with pizza dough. And I was like, I didn't know that was a thing. But I want to do that. So I started teaching myself when I was like, I think 13 or 14 years old. And I've been doing it ever since. And I love it because people love pizza. So that's really the main reason.

Nick VinZant 3:18

But what was it about it that drew you to it? Right? Like, you know a lot of people we interviewed a high altitude mountaineer. There's like, I saw a mountain. And I just loved it. I wanted to be on top of the mountain, like people don't generally associate that with pizza dough. Right? So like, what was it about it that you were like, That's me. That is me.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 3:40

I feel like a lot of people have had this experience, you go to a pizza shop, and you see a guy throwing the dough in the air as he's making the pizza. And it's just like floating so elegantly, and all miss shape. And when it's in the air, or you know, maybe it is shaped and well, but it's at a weird angle. All of that visual stuff is really exciting. And like the setting in a restaurant, it's like you don't necessarily need to throw dough in the air. But that's like such a cool, a cool thing that's always happened for so long in history that it's like it's iconic for the pizza place a guy throwing dough in the air. And then taking that to another level doing tricks with it is is incredible, because a lot of people don't even know that it exists. So that's what excited me about it.

Nick VinZant 4:27

When did you kind of realize like, Oh, I'm pretty good at this. Like I should do something with this.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 4:36

Yeah. So when I first started, I sucked and I, I was I started with a washcloth originally and I was thinking maybe I could get a little better at it. So I kept practicing a little more. And I was not too good. But after a couple of months, I picked it back up. And I could do a few of the tricks that I've seen other people do and I was like, Oh, maybe I could do So then, probably after like three months, I started mixing into my juggling routines. So I do half juggling, half pizza throwing. And then after a probably a year, it was mostly all pizza acrobatics for my performances because people love it so much that I was kind of, you know, destined to do that.

Nick VinZant 5:22

Would I be surprised? Like how many other pizza acrobats are there in the world? Is this a popular thing? Are you like one of four people?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 5:30

There's there's quite a bit you probably would be more surprised at the amount that are pizza acrobats. I would say there's probably at least, I would say at least in somewhere. I'm not very good at guessing or guesstimating. But I would guess there's probably at least 1000s of them doesn't mean that they're necessarily like the greatest or anything like that. But there's quite a few people that do tricks with dough.

Nick VinZant 5:59

Now, when you do the tricks with the Deauville, like, can you eat this pizza? Like you could do the tricks and then somebody could eat it? Or are you kind of manipulating the pizza so that, like, you can't really eat it like it's pizza, but

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 6:13

you could use regular pizza dough. But of course, it stretches out very fast. So you could probably do like two tricks. And you will be done with that dough. So you could still probably eat it. But the dough that most pizza acrobats use when they use real dough is it's they call it a low hydration, so there's a lot less water in it. And there's no yeast. So it's basically not really for eating or cooking. But we always say like it is real dough like it's flour and water and salt. So there's like it's it is dough, but it's just not really like you're gonna be making anything with it that tastes good.

Nick VinZant 6:52

Me and what the two minutes that I have become a pizza Acrobat connoisseur. I have some issues. Yes. Right? Yes. I feel like Do you Do you get any pushback? Is it cheating? Because you're not really using edible dough? Is that a controversy within the pizza Acrobat industry.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 7:10

So I think most people that do tricks with with dough, it's not controversial for them. But for people watching. They're like, Oh, that's easy, because it's not real dough. And I'm like, okay, then you can do it too, then I don't mind if people think it's easy and want to do it. But I think a lot of times people think it's easier than it is. And it is it is controversial. There is also rubber dough that you can get where it's basically like practice Doh, that feels a lot like real dough. And it it simulates dough really well, it just doesn't stretch out. And people also say that's easier, like when they see it. But if they try to do tricks with it, it's not as easy as it seems.

Nick VinZant 7:54

Yeah, I feel like the rubber dome may be crossing competition lines. Like that's performance enhancing substances. In my in my in my outsider opinion.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 8:04

Yeah, one thing I think is good about the the rubber dough is it's uniform. So if everybody uses the same dough, it's everybody's at the same same level, because sometimes there's situations where people might have made dough for themselves for using real dough. That's like really bad. And that can throw them all off. And it's it makes the competition a little funny. I guess.

Nick VinZant 8:30

That is actually a good point. Right? Like so if you have a competition? Does everybody use the same dough? Do you bring your own dough?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 8:37

So yeah, at the competition's, usually they have dough that you can use or you can bring your own dough. So that makes it really up in the air to what what you use. You can't use the rubber dough. But as far as like, you know, it's up to anybody. I feel like you can mix anything in and call a real deal at some point.

Nick VinZant 9:01

Now why are you good at it? Is it practice? Do you have like my fingers are spaced farther apart than anybody else's fingers? And I've got the surface area to really control the dough like why are you good at it?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 9:16

I would say mostly practice and hand eye coordination juggling helps me a lot because by the time I started doing pizza, acrobatics, the tricks are similar to juggling in that you have to know like what your hands are doing and where it is, according to your body. So juggling helps me a lot. But I think that's probably the the main thing. It's not necessarily my body shape or anything. Some tricks will look better for me than other people and some tricks that I do might look better for people who might not be as tall as me or, or have different body types. So it's kind of working within your body type and what to do with a doe, so I don't know if that's the greatest answer.

Nick VinZant 10:04

No, it kind of makes sense, right? So how tall? How tall are you?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 10:07

I'm six feet tall. So they're not huge.

Nick VinZant 10:12

But that's on the like, would you do different tricks? Like, oh, I know in competition that it my height, this trick is gonna look good. But Sally, who's five, two, she can't do that trick. It's not gonna look the same way.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 10:25

Yeah, one trick, specifically, I do the shoulder roll where I roll it across both both of my arms and my arms are six foot three. So my arms are really incredibly long and lanky. But that trick I think, looks really beautiful. Going across my arms, just because it's so it looks. It looks really elegant. Having this dough rolled that far, across this lanky guy that I can

Nick VinZant 10:48

see that actually. Right. I can picture this perfectly, and I can see somebody smaller doing it and like, oh, that doesn't look the same way. Yes. Like what's the hard part? Is it the catching the throwing like what's what's the hard part of the pizza, acrobatics,

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 11:05

almost the invisible part that people don't understand that you want it to look as beautiful as possible. I I call pizza acrobatics and art because I really do think it's it's an art with your body and dough. So the tricky part is making it look as smooth as possible. And, and beautiful with all of the motions that you do. You don't want to be like spinning the opposite way of the dough, for example, because it will look more rigid. And it's all those little like invisible things that people wouldn't necessarily know that helps you look even better.

Nick VinZant 11:39

How like how much do you practice a week?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 11:43

So I put in probably at least like five hours a week. I do live streams now that go from anywhere from two to three hours straight of just throwing pizza. So it can be from Yeah, five hours or more. It depends if there's a competition. I'm practicing like a couple hours every day.

Nick VinZant 12:06

What's people's kind of response? Because on one hand, I can be see like you're throwing pizza all the time. Like, what are you doing? And then the other hand it's like, is being a pizza Acrobat like Pete being pizza. Acrobat is weird. I spend my time putting ball in a hoop. Right? Like it's it's all kind of a little bit dumb when you break it right down like that. Right? Like, he's Acrobat that stupid. Let's crash into each other with our heads. Try to cross this line. Right? So I yeah, what's what's kind of people's response to it?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 12:42

It's all over the board. I think a lot of people like to see how much fun I have when I do it. Because when you see, like, I genuinely really love doing this. And I think when people see it and understand it, they have a better appreciation for what I do. I get a lot of comments, though, of like, oh, man, I bet your parents are proud of you. And it's like, well, they actually are. So I don't know, I think I think leaning into the goofiness of it is something that I really started embracing over the past two or three years because it's really, it is goofy. But that makes it actually more entertaining.

Nick VinZant 13:20

That's an interesting question that me and John who comes in in the second half of the show, always talk about right like, Would you rather be the best pizza Acrobat in the world? Or the world's like 2000 best basketball player?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 13:35

I don't know. It kind of depends, too. I guess it depends on the person to answer it.

Nick VinZant 13:40

I guess what do your what do your parents think about I know you kind of mentioned it already. But were they were they super supportive? Or friends super supportive? Or they were kind of like, okay, he's doing his pizza thing.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 13:53

Yeah, my parents, they have always been really open but they've never been really pushy. So they're, they're the perfect support that I needed to be able to do this because they've never said that I have to do anything specific. But they've also never said anything bad about me doing pizza acrobatics from from the beginning they've been supportive of it and I think that's really cool.

Nick VinZant 14:17

So now can you make a living off of this?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 14:21

That's a great question so far, I don't think so. But um, yeah, that's that's why I think it's, it's it's a great hobby for me, I call it like, you know, my my passion and my hobby. But at the end of the day, it still is going to be a hobby until I find some way that I could actually make a lot of money with it. But you know, to this day, I would say it's it's very tricky. It's almost like stand up comedy is you can make money but it's pretty hard to get to the level where it actually has a decent job, you know,

Nick VinZant 15:00

I decided to have the possibility of like making money. So for example, we had on a couple episodes episodes ago, the world's best disc golfer. And he was like, my parents thought I was dumb. They stopped talking to me. And fast forward years later, after living in my car, I cash a $4 million check for a sponsorship deal. Right, like, so the possibility was there is that do you think the possibility is here for like, for pizza, acrobatics? Or is this always going to be what it is?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 15:32

I think the possibility is there. I think I think there's creative opportunities for pizza, acrobatics, and the creative opportunities could bring possible financial benefits. But that's that's a really tricky thing. Because it's like, I think there's there's possibilities, but I think it's really tough to, to really cash out on that, if that makes sense. Yeah.

Nick VinZant 16:01

Not a lot of dough. And yeah. Yeah. I've been saving that up for months. I love that. That's, that's, that's the end of the show. That's the greatest thing I've ever gonna say in my entire life. So are you ready for some hardware slash listener submitted questions? Absolutely. So how big generally is the size of the pizza that you're throwing?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 16:30

Yeah, so I start out with, what I like to have is starting out with like a 13 inch dose size that works best for me and my hand size. Some people probably start out with little smaller sizes. So that one does depend a little bit on on how big your hands are, and what you prefer, as well.

Nick VinZant 16:50

How high can you throw the pizza up in the air?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 16:54

I can throw it really, really high in the air. There's a Guinness Book of World Records. Record for how high the dough is thrown. But I do believe I could beat it. I just, I've never really recorded it. So that might be on the list.

Nick VinZant 17:11

On now. I'm fascinated. What's the record? Do you know what the record is? I believe

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 17:15

it's 23. And something feet. But that's not really that high.

Nick VinZant 17:21

That doesn't sound high. But that's pretty high. Only three feet off the ground or 23 feet above the height of the person's outstretched arms.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 17:31

I believe it's off the ground.

Nick VinZant 17:34

I think you could do it, man, I think yeah. Like how heavy is a pizza?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 17:39

So the Yeah, the dose that we use, typically, it's to eight ounce dough balls that we squish together and we use to to like, make it a little stronger. Because if you use one, there's a little bit of like inconsistencies when you pinch the dough on the bottom. So it's a one pound.

Nick VinZant 17:59

So where do people Where do people go wrong in their pizza? acrobatics? Like what's the mistake that people are making?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 18:08

Um, I think one of the biggest mistakes is, well, we drop it, we drop it a lot. I drop it a lot. And that's something that you just, you can't, you can't really expect yourself to catch it every single time. And it's okay to drop it. But that is a problem. Yeah, that's

Nick VinZant 18:29

a problem. Right? So yeah. Now how are they judging the competition? Is it just the difficulty of tricks or how they how do they do it?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 18:39

They judge it on a few different things. One of them is the amount of drops you have. So every time you drop it, they dock off certain points. So that's, that's very tricky. And if you do challenging tricks that can be offsetting. And then they also judge you on the entertainment value. And then the dexterity, which is kind of like the skill level almost. But it's kind of like how well you can make it look in and manipulate the dough

Nick VinZant 19:13

to the toppings make a difference? Like can people do it with toppings.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 19:18

So I've never, I've seen people use like confetti. I've never seen any. Anybody put like toppings on the pizza. In a performance, I guess flour, people sometimes like Sprinkle flour on it. And that looks kind of nice. But you certainly could use toppings if it if it looked well visually, that would actually be a pretty, pretty good addition. If you can make it work.

Nick VinZant 19:43

What would be what do you think would be like the hardest topping to add on there and be able to do

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 19:47

what I think sauce would be a mess. That's a good

Nick VinZant 19:52

point. That's a good point. Yeah, yeah, that wouldn't work out very well actually.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 19:57

But it would be really funny to

Nick VinZant 19:59

you Yeah, what would like pepperoni be harder than sausage?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 20:05

So maybe it depends on the type of sausage you use, because sometimes there's like the pinch sausage or like the little like chunks. I think pepperoni could be kind of cool if you could get it to like fling off. Like those nerf discs.

Nick VinZant 20:16

Oh, yeah, man, you could take this to another level. You could potentially like spin the pizza and spin an individual pepperoni. That's right. We're making magic here today. Yeah, here's, we've got it. We figured it out. Man. This is how pizza acrobatics is launched. That is also I wanted to ask you this. You are the intergalactic

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 20:40

pizza? Galactic? Yeah. intergalactic pizza acrobat?

Nick VinZant 20:44

Have you confirmed this in any way? Or is that like, I can just add this to my title? Because I think it's because I think it's

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 20:49

well, I'm actually a time traveler. And I'm from the year 1990. Boy I got a whole backstory.

Nick VinZant 21:00

I almost don't want to ask any follow up questions and just leave people wondering like, Is he fucking serious? Joking around. Actually. Could you actually be

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 21:12

I am a time traveler. Yeah. Now I

Nick VinZant 21:14

want to know what the backstory is. Give me a little thing,

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 21:17

man. Yeah, so there's like a little bit of a seriousness to the backstory. But like the actual backstory is like, I was a pizza delivery guy back in the day. And this this crazy guy named pizza man like was like, Dude, you gotta help me get back. We gotta we gotta save the future with pizza. He took me in his car. And we like fused together into pizza man, and we're here in the future trying to save the world with pizza.

Nick VinZant 21:41

That's probably honestly the best way to do it. Think about right?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 21:46

I know pizza is the way to say like cure everything. People love it.

Nick VinZant 21:51

You know, we've talked we on the show we've interviewed NASA climatologist people who deal with like space, but honestly, it comes down to Pisa. Really they they had the wrong answer in the in the in the entire time. So then, do you get to do a lot of traveling and taste and go to a lot of like different pizza places.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 22:14

Yeah, so I've I've done a lot of different traveling from some from pizza stuff and some for like, my professional career. But wherever I go, I do like to try out tasting pizza. New York. I love New York pizza. I think that's probably my favorite.

Nick VinZant 22:32

Oh, but people get heated about regional pizza. They do.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 22:35

Yeah. The Chicago style pizza. You know, there's, it's funny because pizza. I see why people get so heated about it because there's so many different options. But I also like letting people have their opinion. And then I keep mine you know,

Nick VinZant 22:52

but who would you say would be the most passionate defender of their style of pizza, right? Like I can think of New York pizza. I can think of Chicago pizza. I can't think of any others off the top of my head. But like who's like, oh, you show up at the wrong pizza place and say the wrong thing.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 23:09

I feel like Chicago. They they love their pizza a lot. Even though like New York I feel like is you know pretty defensive, but I don't know. I've heard a lot of Chicago people talk about Chicago style very aggressively.

Nick VinZant 23:26

What what region of pizza though is regional pizza is sneaky good, though. Like, well, people may know about it, but like, what's coming? It's coming up there.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 23:37

Man. I don't know. I feel like pizza is so so diverse that I am not picky. And I also don't have anything where I'm like, this is the this is the next thing. I don't know if that does not help you at all. But

Nick VinZant 23:55

you just make something up, man. I thought you were a time traveler and you go Bucha No.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 24:00

I love I love culinary fusions with pizza. Like if there whenever I see somebody who does pizza Well, it's not like they're, it's not like they're making you know this. This is the best pepperoni pizza. They're making a pizza where they are figuring out a way to make every ingredient on the pizza special and making it all come together and making that a special pizza. So that's the type of pizzas that I like to look for when when I'm looking for like a very special pizza. Like if they're like I carmelize the onions in a certain like, sauce. That's just for the onions. So like I know the rest of the pizza. They like doing special things for all of

Nick VinZant 24:43

it. Okay, best pizza that you've ever had. So

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 24:46

I would say the best pizza or had who was at the pizza place that I started working at? It was it was called Randy's premier pizza in Minnesota and Randy Randy knows how to do Pizza really well. And it's funny because like, I would always tell people like this is the place to go for for good pizza. And we had we had Chicago styles there. We didn't have woodfire. But every once in awhile we would do woodfire outside, but it's cold in Minnesota, so we can't really do it.

Nick VinZant 25:17

My only issue is like the idea that it's just called Randy's like if it was some other fake name that I would probably might be much more interested in it. But Randy is like, the worst name that I can. Yeah, right. It Jeff. Yeah, yes,

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 25:36

it's a place. That's what I always tell people to like, if you can find a like a random mom and pop shop nearby. Their pizza is probably going to be really good if they specialize in pizza. Because a lot of times those small little shops really know what they're doing. Because they usually only have their one place. So they don't have to worry about their their pizzas being good across their chains. If that makes sense.

Nick VinZant 26:01

That does make sense, man. You really know your pizza.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 26:06

I try to hard life right? Yeah, hard life for the pizza man.

Nick VinZant 26:12

Um, okay, but what about like, frozen pizza? Where are you going? Frozen pizza?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 26:19

Frozen pizza. That's a good question. I I like a lot of frozen pizzas. There's one brand specifically. It's called screamin Sicilian that I do. I do like quite a bit. I know there's a lot of like, other like kind of higher end frozen pizzas, but screaming Sicilian is pretty awesome. They're they're actually from Wisconsin, if I remember correctly, too.

Nick VinZant 26:43

I think I've actually have that in my freezer right now. Yeah, you

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 26:46

got the little mustache and everything like

Nick VinZant 26:48

little mustache and there's like is there but there's like you can see into the pizza but it kind of looks like

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 26:52

yes, they got you ever got like the mouth and everything. You can see the pizza. Dude.

Nick VinZant 26:57

That's that's pretty good pizza actually, honestly, like I get it for my son. And then I just eat it all because like, Oh, that's good pizza.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 27:05

Yeah, and I'm Sicilian part Sicilian as well. So I like that.

Nick VinZant 27:10

Okay, let's get controversial. Yeah. How do you feel about pineapple? How do you feel about white sauce? How do you feel about dessert pizza?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 27:21

Okay, I like that. Any other ones? Now? There's a three. Okay, pineapple. I don't like pineapple on my pizza. But I appreciate people's opinion for it. However, I think it's much too juicy to be an ingredient on on a pizza and my, my argument to the earth. Yeah, my argument to this discussion is always like you put watermelon on your pizza. And they're like, No, and I'm like, it's like almost the same consistency with the juiciness.

Nick VinZant 27:54

That's true, but it's true.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 27:57

But I do think you could use pineapple to make like a good glaze for dessert pizza. And that's where I would go with pineapple on a pizza.

Nick VinZant 28:06

How about the white sauce?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 28:08

white sauce. I don't really like white sauce. But that's just because I don't really I don't really like what I like the like the Alfredo or I never really was a big fan of it. Except like the flavor. So it's like, I can't I don't really enjoy it on pizza.

Nick VinZant 28:26

So you've been on a lot of different, like, America's Got Talent, that kind of stuff. What was that? Like? Which one was yeah,

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 28:33

I really liked. I liked America's Got Talent a lot, because that was like a dream since I was a kid. And the older I got that dream kind of faded, because I never thought that was something that would happen, you know. And then when it started coming, like coming to life, I was like, oh, man, this this might actually happen. And it was really, really exciting. And I was glad I did it when I was older because I would not have been prepared for for the whole experience. When I was younger. There's there's just a lot of, you know, mental strength you need to be able to get through through, you know, anything like that. The show is great. It's just like the nervousness is a lot, right?

Nick VinZant 29:16

Yeah. And you can't have sweaty hands throwing pizza out imagine.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 29:20

Yeah, and you don't want to be you can't be shaky or nothing. You have to pretend like you're you're all cool.

Nick VinZant 29:26

Yeah, play it cool. So yeah. Okay, if you say it's you, who's the Michael Jordan, of pizza acrobatics? Who's the best?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 29:37

Yeah, I would say so. I would say the best of all time there's this pizza Acrobat named Tony Gemignani. And he's kind of like he's kind of like the guy in the pizza acrobatics world. He's He's done it for so many years and he also makes really good pizza. That's the cool thing. So he he's like really influential On the pizza world as far as like creating it, and doing tricks with pizza, that was like one of the people that I really like to watch a lot of videos when I was a kid to try to learn more. So I really appreciate whatever Tony has done. There's so many people nowadays that I think are really good that it's hard for me to pick specific people to

Nick VinZant 30:22

is their trash talk. You try to get in the head that you like your opponent. So I

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 30:27

am the nicest guy. I would never I would never trash talk anybody. I think there's other people that probably would, but I'm just trying to have a fun time and like, do good stuff with pizza. And I want more people doing pizza acrobatics. So that's why I try to be nice because I, I want I want this to be more of a thing than it is. And that's the way to do it.

Nick VinZant 30:51

That's true. What do you think? Like what do you think is the future of pizza acrobatics? Like what's, what's the next level?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 30:58

Yeah, I think it would be cool if it was really, I don't know. It'd be cool. If it was like an Olympic sport. Or, you know, in schools more we got to we got to get it more in schools. You got to be learning pizza acrobatics, needs to be on the curriculum.

Nick VinZant 31:14

Mandatory right?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 31:16

Yes. Yeah.

Nick VinZant 31:17

We're busy banning books. We can at least get pizza. Yeah,

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 31:20

let's get Pete's acrobatics in the system.

Nick VinZant 31:25

Listen, if you go if you go to a city council meeting, or a school board meeting, and you you make that pitch, I will watch it.

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 31:33

I will do that.

Nick VinZant 31:37

Um, that's pretty much all the questions we got, man, what's kind of coming up next for you?

Pizza Man Nick Diesslin 31:42

Yeah, so um, I've been kind of doing a lot of social media work lately just trying to get make more videos. I'm trying to also make educational videos to help people learn more about pizza acrobatics. So those are a few of the things that I've been working on and, and trying to keep everything in order in my life.