Pizza Hut and Blockbuster Have the Same Problem

You miss Pizza Hut. You'd go back. You just wouldn't go back next week. Ryan O'Donnell thinks that's the whole problem, and that he's seen it before. The parallel he draws is not about food. It's about what convenience does to the things people love, and whether nostalgia can survive the moment it gets what it asks for. The stuffed crust pizza at the center of this throwback has its own origin story, and someone out there believed it was worth a billion dollars to prove it. Topics: Pizza Hut nostalgia, Blockbuster parallel, stuffed crust pizza lawsuit, fast food dine-in, convenience culture Originally aired on 2026-06-25