Halloween isn't a day. It isn't people. It isn't an idea. Halloween is whenever there

are new monster cereals to discuss, to consume, to review, to talk about. Halloween is a

cereal. It doesn't have to dress up in a costume, and it should still be made of oats,

even though it isn't. Halloween is a cereal. Hello, welcome to the Empty Bowl, a meditative

podcast about cereal. My name is Justin McRoy, and I am a cereal enthusiast.

My name is Dan Gubair, and I am your trusted cereal informant. Dan, I feel like we've

been building to this for quite some time, you know? You know what I mean? It feels that

way. We're going to wait because it's a big one, folks, and you've probably already gathered,

but we're going to wait. We're going to keep you in some monochem of, well, we don't really

do suspense in this program, but you get the idea. Whatever the conversion of suspense

is. This is the Empty Bowl. It's a podcast about cereal and our relationship to it. We ask

if you're able to, that you take the next half hour or so, and just sort of shut the rest

of the world out and think about cereal. Give yourself a break, a mental vacation, to just

consider cereal. Maybe you're drifting off to bed, in which case, thank you. It's an honor.

I hope it's a good one. Make sure to brush your teeth and stuff. I'm always trying to

hold it. I run through the checklist, but first while you prepare for your trip to dream

land, to the land of nond, let's see what's happening in the world of cereal.

So we've got two new cereal flavored popcorns that just came out. These are currently

exclusive to Sam's Club, though I'm told that they will be coming to major retailers

at a later date, but these are cinnamon toast crunch popcorn as well as cocoa puffs

popcorn. Let me just say right now before anything else that I think it's a funny inversion

to take cocoa puffs, which is a corn puff cereal and translate it into sort of literal

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