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The Empty Bowl

Twenty-Five

The Empty Bowl

Justin McElroy

Health & Fitness

53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This is the twenty-fifth episode of The Empty Bowl, in which Dan seizes a 1 in 100 chance, Justin "Toops" McElroy shares the scoop, and we ask you about your secret cereal.

Transcript

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0:30.0

of the show's in all the year that I'm familiar with. There's only one that's really fun.

0:43.8

It's episode 25th. Hello everyone and welcome to the 25th episode of the empty bowl. Looks

0:52.6

like we made it in a feat that probably took Jimmy Fallon a scant four weeks. Mouth some

1:01.6

13 years into the empty bowl franchise. We have finally reached episode 25 and welcome to

1:10.1

the empty bowl. It's a meditative podcast about cereal and my name is Justin McRoy. I'm a

1:16.5

cereal enthusiast. And my name is Daniel Bear and I am a cereal smith. I mean I don't actually

1:24.4

physically make the cereals but I believe that I have forged enough content surrounding cereal

1:30.0

that can be worthy of that title. I think that's fair. Dan, for the next half hour so we're going

1:39.1

to let people relax. We're going to let them be calm and try to focus just on cereal for a little bit.

1:46.3

And not worry about the the everyday comings and goings and just relax. Maybe if you're drifting off

1:52.3

to sleep, we'll try to keep it quiet for you. I think that's such a as as strange as it sounds, I find it kind

2:00.3

of humbling and I feel like it's kind of an honor that people go to sleep with this podcast. It feels

2:06.7

like a real act of trust. You know to say I'm going to I'm going to go to sleep. You guys just keep

2:13.7

doing your thing. I am confident that at no point in the next 30 minutes will they scream or make a jump

2:20.0

scare or anything like that. Something like that. It's just going to be relaxing. Talk about cereal. No, this is not

2:26.4

in the show notes, but I did want to mention this week. I tried what I believe is your number one of 2019. Is that correct?

2:34.2

Not only is it my number one cereal of 2019, but Gabe Fonseca of cereal time put out a Instagram filter that says

2:40.9

which cereals should you eat today? And he put a hundred different cereals in it. And the first time that I tried it, I got Cheerio's

2:48.2

oat crunch oats and honey. My number one 2019 cereal of the year. Taste made it number one fate made them a family.

2:57.5

I finally tried this cereal and listen. It's it's a I think there's a crunch O narrative dissonance with this box

3:07.6

because it does look like kind of a boring healthier variant of Cheerios with just some sort of Odie bits on it.

3:17.6

But I was not prepared for how absolutely outrageous like this cereal is. It is bringing it. You know what it is? It's bringing a depth

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