One Hundred and Twenty Six
The Empty Bowl
Justin McElroy
4.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This is the one-hundred and twenty-sixth episode of The Empty Bowl, in which Trolls Trix refuse to be forgotten, Justin does a (very) last-minute taste test, and we both put our heads together to solve Cap'n Crunch's big mystery.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The New Year. New Year. New Year. |
| 0:38.3 | New You. |
| 0:40.3 | Same cereal. |
| 0:43.3 | New cereal. |
| 0:45.3 | And old cereal. |
| 0:49.3 | Same son. |
| 0:51.3 | New son. |
| 0:53.3 | Congratulations, Dad. Same son. News son. |
| 0:56.4 | Congratulations, Dad. |
| 1:03.1 | This is the empty bowl, meditative podcast about cereal. |
| 1:08.0 | My name is Justin McElroy, and I'm a serial enthusiast. |
| 1:15.0 | And my name is Dan Gubert, and this time around, I'm something of a meditative, a serial enthusiast. And my name is Dan Gubert, and this time around I'm something of a meditative, a serial method actor, because my home office is out of commission right now, so I thought, you know, |
| 1:20.9 | I could record in my dining room or in my living room, but it's the empty bowl. |
| 1:24.8 | I should record from my bedroom, so I am all cozy in bed right now recording this. |
| 1:31.1 | That's great, Dan. |
| 1:32.3 | I actually have turned on, I've got a, I've redone my studio setup recently, |
| 1:37.6 | and I've enabled blue lights in the studio, |
| 1:41.1 | and there's a button that I now press, labeled Calm, |
| 1:43.9 | that makes my lights blue. |
| 1:46.1 | Wow. Okay. So we're both going to fall asleep somewhere around the 20. Yeah, it's a very |
| 1:50.5 | understanding here. Yeah, exactly. Now, this is a, this is a serial podcast, and it is a haven. It is a bubble made of milk that you can rest in. And we will talk to you about the new |
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