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Spilled Milk

Episode 341: Corn on the Cob

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Food, Comedy

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm Molly and I'm Matthew and this is spilled milk the show where we cook something

0:08.7

delicious eat it all and you can't have any and today we are talking about corn on the cob, and I want to clarify this because as Molly

0:15.9

wrote on the agenda, we are talking about corn eaten on the cob, not corn cut off the cob.

0:21.9

Yeah, there's a difference.

0:22.8

Those are different episodes.

0:24.2

But the way you rather it's as if it would be a normal thing

0:28.2

for someone to say, like, we're having corn on the cob

0:30.5

and then present a bowl of corn kernels and claim that that was corn on the cob.

0:34.4

Well, but I think that it's easy to start a conversation about corn.

0:39.4

It's so easy.

0:40.9

When I meet a new person,'s usually my opening you know icebreaker like

0:45.0

let's talk about corn and suddenly find yourself talking about corn that's cut off

0:51.3

the cob I mean like you start a conversation about

0:53.5

corn on the cob and the next thing you know you're talking about suck attach that's

0:56.7

that's true that's I think that's symbolic of our short attention span

1:01.8

society or something?

1:03.4

You know what I was thinking about?

1:04.7

You know what I was thinking about recently?

1:06.0

Was I discussing this with you that it makes me super sad that you can have something really

1:10.6

important introduced into culture like like childish

1:14.5

Gambinos this is America okay and everybody talks about it for like a

1:19.2

week and then like three weeks later it's like it never happened three weeks later that was America

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