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🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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This is the one-hundred and twenty-first episode of The Empty Bowl, in which Kellogg's of Mexico brings our prophecy to life, two (cold) hot cocoa cereals duke it out, and our cereal ranking series returns with gusto!
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Everything old is new again. |
| 0:42.0 | It's certainly true with cereal. |
| 0:45.0 | However, some new cereals are also old. |
| 0:50.6 | And then if you let those cereals sit out for a while, |
| 0:53.7 | your new old cereal will be old, but maybe newly old. |
| 0:59.5 | It's a cycle. |
| 1:02.1 | Welcome to the Empty Ball and Meditative Podcast about cereal. |
| 1:06.4 | My name is Justin McElroy, and I'm a serial enthusiast. |
| 1:10.1 | And my name is Dan Gubert, and I'm sort of a serial jockey, both in the sense that I will tame a wild cereal and ride it into the sunset and also recite a joke from a month's old movie that was never really funny in the first place. |
| 1:26.1 | Listen, Dan, whatever it takes to get that mainstream recognition, I am in favor. |
| 1:32.4 | The Gen Alphabet's audience. |
| 1:36.1 | We are going to do news. |
| 1:38.0 | We are going to do some reviews. |
| 1:40.0 | We're going to talk about some of your thoughts on cereal. |
| 1:43.1 | We're going to rank some cereals. |
| 1:45.0 | I know our thing. |
| 1:46.1 | I know how we do it. |
| 1:47.8 | The old one, two, three. |
| 1:49.4 | The old one, two, three punch. |
| 1:52.8 | First off, Dan, I want to talk about the news. |
| 1:58.5 | Now, I'm seeing this serial, this top story. |
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