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The Empty Bowl

Eighty-Three

The Empty Bowl

Justin McElroy

Health & Fitness

53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This is the eighty-third episode of The Empty Bowl, in which Malt-O-Meal reeks, Post goes to court, and TikTok tries hacking cereal (again).

Transcript

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0:30.0

Guess who's back?

0:41.7

Back again.

0:44.6

Serial's back.

0:46.6

Tell a friend.

0:48.2

We hope we can be that friend for you.

0:50.3

Hello, and welcome to the empty bowl.

0:53.2

A meditative podcast about serial.

0:56.0

My name is Justin McElroy, and I'm a serial enthusiast that just realized that if you

0:59.7

told us what we told you, we would be stuck in an infinite recursive loop.

1:05.8

And some days that would be just fine by me.

1:09.8

What kind of recursive loop are we talking like a fruit loose?

1:12.6

Like we tell somebody, but yeah, it's a crunchy oat circle coated in honey and almonds

1:18.6

and cinnamon.

1:19.6

Oh man.

1:20.6

That's right, Cheerios.

1:21.6

I just changed the game.

1:23.4

Well, I'm Dan Gubair, and I am a serial illusionist, which I chose partly because

1:29.4

it sounds like enthusiast, but also because as we generate these powerful sonic metaphors

1:35.7

and descriptions of serial, you may feel that you are actually seeing that serial before

1:40.2

you as you listen.

1:41.5

But what you're knowing on is not, in fact, a crave pillow, but rather your own.

1:48.6

And I can think of no two better people making serial disappear.

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