One Hundred and Twenty Nine
The Empty Bowl
Justin McElroy
4.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This is the one-hundred and twenty-ninth episode of The Empty Bowl, in which Cap'n Crunch has got to be kidding us, Dan tries the world's first cereal made from...yeugh...and Pop-Tarts finally does what people have been asking them to do for, like, 50 years.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The The bowl might be empty, but that just means that you can use it as a vehicle. |
| 0:44.3 | I can't remember if it was Little Nemo or maybe the little prince that would sail through the Milky Way in his empty bowl. I'm not in Huntington today, but I'm still in |
| 0:56.6 | West Virginia, and you may be at home or he may not be, but otherwise, we're all together here |
| 1:03.1 | in the empty bowl, a meditative podcast about cereal. My name is Justin McElroy. I'm in a hotel room in Morgan Town, West Virginia, and I'm a serial enthusiast. |
| 1:16.4 | And my name is Dan Gubert. I am in my bed still because my office ceiling is leaking. Water, not milk, but still. And I'm a serial... |
| 1:26.6 | Oh, man, I'm sorry. No, it's okay. It's been like that. It's the new normal here. And again, it's very comfortable in my bed. It feels very thematically accurate. So I might just take a nap after this, post up. I'm... I didn't get to say what I am what are you Dan? I'm a serial |
| 1:46.0 | Scrier I can read the fortunate future of a cereal |
| 1:50.0 | just by the ripples in the milk |
| 1:51.7 | that's amazing what a gift |
| 1:55.1 | I hope you're using it well |
| 1:57.1 | this is the basic order of things we're going to do news. We're going to talk about some things that we have tried. |
| 2:05.6 | And then we are going to do, have some discussing, and then I think we should probably rank some serials. |
| 2:14.6 | We have some interesting news on the Palpatarts for the... |
| 2:19.4 | Yeah, this is to discuss. |
| 2:22.6 | Yeah, it's a big, it's a big. |
| 2:24.2 | It's a really big deal. |
| 2:25.4 | This is a stuffed show, and I think we should get right into it with root beer float, |
| 2:34.1 | cinnamon toast crunch, Dan. what's this all about yeah so we're all used to general |
| 2:41.9 | mills dropping new cereal news right at the start of the year but many will forget that they also |
| 2:47.6 | do a second annual drop of news right before summertime, the old one-two |
| 2:53.0 | crunch of cereal news. |
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