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Spilled Milk

Episode 724: Water Bottles

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Comedy, Food

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm Matthew and I'm Molly and this is spilled milk the show where we cook something delicious, eat it all, and you can't have any.

0:10.4

Today we are talking about reusable water bottles.

0:14.0

Okay, this is going to be one of those episodes.

0:15.8

You'll notice I put almost nothing on the agenda.

0:18.0

But you'll notice that I put a lot on the agenda.

0:20.4

This is going to be another

0:21.3

opportunity for the people to realize that I'm actually not a good guy because I don't carry a

0:27.5

water bottle. But we'll talk. I want you to like figure out like why don't I carry a water bottle. I want to

0:33.0

figure out why I do. Okay. So we've got a lot of learning that we're going to do together, Matthew. All right. Yeah. And I want to say at the outset, so I did the research for this episode, and I want to say at the outset that I think we have to not get into talking about bottled water. No. Different thing. Which is a whole other category with an extensive history. Going back to the amphoras of ancient Greece, probably.

0:55.9

Today we are specifically talking about water bottles, like those things that you see sold

1:03.4

everywhere and that everyone carries everywhere and we refill them and drink water from them.

1:10.1

All right.

1:10.8

Yeah.

1:11.1

So Matthew, what's on your reusable water bottle memory lane?

1:15.0

So I do remember when I first became aware of Nalgin bottles.

1:18.8

Could it have been like back as far as high school or would have been a little after that?

1:22.7

Yeah.

1:22.8

Yeah, it could have been high school for sure.

1:24.5

Yeah, like that was the bottle to have.

1:26.7

And like I feel like they sort of went

1:28.2

kind of out of style for a while and then came back maybe does that seem plausible and i know i had one

1:33.7

that i really liked for a while that had kind of a narrow mouth and then currently the one i use

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