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The Empty Bowl

Fifty-Six

The Empty Bowl

Justin McElroy

Health & Fitness

53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This is the fifty-sixth episode of The Empty Bowl, in which Pebbles are beautiful, Bowl Buddies are bountiful, and Dan relives a classroom cereal catastrophe.

Transcript

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0:30.0

You skip a pebble across the pond and then look down into the reflection in the water.

0:45.8

You notice three things instantly.

0:48.3

One, the milk.

0:52.5

Yes, it's milk in the pond.

0:58.7

The face looking up at you.

1:01.4

Yes, it's your face.

1:05.0

And the pebble, well, it's of the fruity variety.

1:10.6

You don't know why you're so small and these pebbles are so big.

1:14.7

You just think you're good fortune that you've made it once again to the empty bowl.

1:18.6

The Meditatif podcast about cereal.

1:20.8

Hello, my name is Justin McRoy and I'm a cereal enthusiast.

1:25.8

And my name is Dan Gubair and I am a cereal smorcerer's apprentice that is a disciple of

1:32.5

the long extinct cereal spellcaster, the smorcerer mascot of the likewise long discontinued general

1:39.9

mill cereal smorce crunch.

1:43.5

Did you create the smorcerer?

1:44.8

Or is that a real thing?

1:46.8

It's probably one of the most obscure cereal mascots out there, but he did indeed exist.

1:52.1

Well, that makes the world a little bit better than I knew it was a few minutes ago.

1:57.8

This is the empty bowl.

2:00.2

And we are going to be talking about cereal.

2:03.7

Your end of that proverbial bargain is just to relax and enjoy some discussion about nothing

2:15.2

more or less trivial than cereal.

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