{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpizza-quest.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fjoel-kostman-from-locksmith-to-wordsmith-M3rSV3Yd","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"  Joel Kostman: From Locksmith to Wordsmith","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/df525d81-1496-4c53-9525-28d43423675b/c533438f-b2bd-4191-857d-5b9e422b532f/new-pizza-quest-logo.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/ed511f32-8108-44d6-a1e6-2e3840986506\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"  Joel Kostman: From Locksmith to Wordsmith\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Welcome back to Pizza Quest!\n\n      Joel Kostman supported his family for over 30 years as a New York City locksmith, but that was just his day job. By night, he was (and still is) a serious writer who channeled his locksmithing adventures into a semi-autobiographical fictional cult classic story collection called, \"Keys to the City: Tales of a New York City Locksmith.\" The New York Times even called him \"The Doctor of the Deadbolt.\" As Joel says, \"New Yorkers are concerned about keeping people out on a very primal level, whether it's an abusive spouse or a creep on the corner. They like to talk. I like to listen.\"  Joel and I are childhood friends and have gone on a number of pizza quests together when I happened to be visiting in Brooklyn, where he once lived. Join us as we recount those adventures, including his role in helping me win a James Beard National Bread Baking Championship, and his most recent exciting news: the possibility of the book being turned into a major television series.\n\n        The Doctor of the Deadbolt is in, here on Pizza Quest."}