Episode 341: Corn on the Cob
Spilled Milk
Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton
4.6 • 1.5K 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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