One Hundred and Twenty Seven
The Empty Bowl
Justin McElroy
4.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This is the one-hundred and twenty-seventh episode of The Empty Bowl, in which Dan boldly names the most beautiful cereal box ever, Justin finds his new favorite uncanny mascot, and we both reevaluate our veneration of Neutron Berries.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Calm isn't earned. |
| 0:23.6 | Calm is actually your default. If you look at it Calm isn't earned. |
| 0:39.2 | Calm is actually your default. |
| 0:41.3 | If you look deep down below, the rolling waves and the clouds, you'll find stillness. |
| 0:50.0 | That's what's beneath stillness. |
| 0:53.3 | Just let yourself relax into it. |
| 0:57.0 | Into this, the empty bowl, a meditative podcast about cereal. |
| 1:03.0 | My name is Justin McElroy, and I'm a serial enthusiast. |
| 1:07.0 | And my name is Dan Gubert, and I am a serial calendar maker in that I can walk down the breakfast aisle and tell you with a certain degree of confidence when a new cereal's days are numbered. |
| 1:19.6 | Ooh, and you love serials with dates. |
| 1:25.6 | So true. |
| 1:26.6 | Basic four, big hit, great grains dates oh that we're |
| 1:32.3 | gonna be talking about what's new and oil cereal we've got a bevy of reviews for you |
| 1:38.5 | and so much more to come. |
| 1:49.8 | Maybe even, you know, we may even rank some cereals because we love to rank cereals here on our podcast. |
| 1:53.4 | And maybe all we do today, in fact, because we missed it for the past couple episodes. |
| 1:54.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:57.0 | Let's get, let's start digging back into the back line. |
| 2:05.3 | Okay, Dan, this first news, wholly unexpected, but in my house, pretty exciting. |
| 2:08.2 | And very steeped in controversy, though, too. |
| 2:09.2 | Okay. |
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