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The Empty Bowl

Thirty-Nine

The Empty Bowl

Justin McElroy

Health & Fitness

53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This is the thirty-ninth episode of The Empty Bowl, in which we air our OCP OMGs, go back in time with Golden Grahams, and challenge you to further document a cereal cryptid that still haunts Dan and Dan alone.

Transcript

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0:30.0

You have tried everything and still the waves of your mind continue to crash into the

0:44.6

beach of your psyche.

0:47.0

So if we may be so bold, perhaps a guided crunching meditation.

0:55.4

Welcome to the empty bowl.

0:57.5

My name is Justin McRoy and I am a serial enthusiast.

1:02.5

My name is Dan Goubert and I am a serial ethnographer in the sense that I know the serial

1:08.8

culture and the overall breakfast zeitgeist well enough to understand the impact of some

1:14.2

of the stories we're about to talk about today.

1:19.1

That's so exciting that we have so much going on.

1:23.6

This first news story, Dan.

1:26.1

I have to tell you, I'm thrilled over here.

1:30.2

Over on this end, thrilled.

1:32.9

I mean it's huge.

1:34.0

It's absolutely substantial.

1:38.1

So when you write about serial for five years like I have inevitably you end up saying

1:45.0

some of the same things again and again and one of the easiest things to do when you're

1:49.2

writing about serialists to tell the world about the weirdly specific serial that you always

1:54.6

wanted to see on shelves.

1:56.2

And for me, besides Gingerbread Toast Crunch, I think the second most hyped up idea of a

2:02.7

serial I've ever had would be a little Debbie oatmeal cream pie cereal.

2:07.8

And now we must wait no more as Kellogg's has partnered with the SNET cake brand to

2:13.0

bring an oatmeal cream pie cereal to shelves later this year.

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