5 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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This is the eighteenth episode of The Empty Bowl, in which we call Eggo's bluff and make sacrifices to the strangest cereal mascot ever sculpted.
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0:30.0 | You know, the days of summer are winding down. |
0:35.0 | We are easing slowly into the autumn, |
0:40.0 | but these are pleasant nights where the air isn't too warm and not too cool. |
0:47.0 | And it's just perfect to kick back and relax with a huge bowl of cereal, |
0:54.0 | the size of your head. |
0:57.0 | My name is Justin McElroy and I'm a cereal enthusiast. |
1:04.0 | My name is Dan Gubair and you know, the first thing that springs to mind is like a cobbler of cereal. |
1:11.0 | I like to find cereals that are just getting onto their feet and really make shoes for them so that they can run. |
1:17.0 | Welcome to the empty bowl. We're so happy to have you here. |
1:21.0 | We hope that we can provide you with a little bit of respite. |
1:25.0 | A little bit of a calm place to center yourself. |
1:30.0 | Think of nothing that stresses you out except, well, nothing that stresses you out and nothing period except the delicious sweet crunchy taste of my favorite food. |
1:44.0 | Cereal. Dan, is cereal your favorite food? If you had picked a food, Jean. |
1:50.0 | I mean, I think holistically speaking, when you integrate taste, culture, and you know, historical impact, then yes, it has to be your favorite. |
2:00.0 | You got to. You haven't devoted your life to any other food, Jean. |
2:05.0 | That you know of. That's true. You could be the host of the webmasterofstakums.net. |
2:13.0 | Now I really keep my falafel blog on the back corner. |
2:18.0 | We were both in our heads trying to come up with food on website names and came up empty. |
2:25.0 | Empty. It's appropriate. |
2:28.0 | Yeah. So please relax. We have news, reviews, some words from your listeners and so much more. |
2:37.0 | But let's let's not waste any more time, Dan. Not that we have wasted time to this point. It's all important. It's all treasured. |
2:45.0 | Tell me about the news. What's going on in the world of cereal? |
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