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The Empty Bowl

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The Empty Bowl

Justin McElroy

Health & Fitness

53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This is the forty-eighth episode of The Empty Bowl, in which we welcome a marshmallow messiah, peruse pouched cereals, and throwback to Pop-Tarts' greatest goof.

Transcript

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0:30.0

You throw open your window and a warm breeze starts to roll in.

0:42.2

You sniff or fresh cut grass or, hey, depending on your region, but the only thing that fills

0:51.3

your nostrils is the delicious cinnamon sugar. Air, you're floating on a cloud of cinnamon

1:01.9

sugar dust and all around you turn on your spigots what comes out the faucet. It's not

1:07.9

water, it's milk. No, for you're not dreaming. You're just in the empty bowl, a meditative

1:16.3

podcast about cereal. My name is Justin McAroy and I'm a cereal enthusiast. My name is Dan

1:23.7

Gubert and I am a cereal man with a cereal plan. Well, Dan, I don't want to waste anybody's

1:30.2

time except, you know, in the intentional way that we waste time on this show, which is

1:37.0

to say this is a restful time for you to unwind to maybe mute your phone. You dim the

1:45.1

lights a little bit, just relax and think about cereal. Maybe go to sleep, if you're going

1:50.3

to go to sleep, I bid you fair tidings on those, on those, those dreams seas. Those amber

2:00.0

waves of grains. Of amber waves of grain, that's beautiful. Thank you, Dan. We're going

2:03.8

to do a cereal news. We're going to talk about cereal reviews and then some more freeform

2:08.7

cereal discussion. Just kind of keep it loose. But first, Dan, I don't want to make you

2:15.5

jump through any hoops. So let's talk about some loops. This is some very big news that

2:20.6

occurred this past week in the cereal world because, well, I think cow logs was inspired

2:25.5

by general mills is sort of Dunkeroo's switcheroo where they brought back something that has

2:30.9

been very popular and on the lips of many online petition writers for some time. This

2:36.7

October will mark the return of fruit loops cereal straws. This is the first time we'll

2:42.7

be seeing these in American stores at least for 12 years now after they were discontinued.

2:47.8

Wow, that's quite a gap. Yeah, I mean, it's retro. Does that classify as a retro remix?

2:53.8

Oh, man. I don't know what qualifies anymore. Yeah. But I think in the minds of many, it

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