Spring is on the way and with it the blooming fancy of I forget the thing but the important

thing here is that this is a podcast about cereal and it's getting somewhat warmer which

makes life somewhat more tolerable here on our hemisphere. Welcome to the empty bowl

and meditative podcast about cereal. My name is Justin McElroy and I'm a cereal enthusiast.

My name is Dan Gubeir and I am probably one of the closest things to a real life cereal

mascot. Dan, I'm freaking out over here. You know, I am just there's I'm sure the listeners

can hear it in my voice but I am so excited. It's been a little bit since we've recorded

due to life and I mean people can hear it in my voice but I'm actually just freaking

out with all these amazing cereal headlines that we've got to talk about today.

Yeah, your voice is crackling like a bowl of rice crispies and anticipation. Yeah, I can't

wait and you know what Dan, I'll be a little bit more assertive than that. I'm trying

to do that my day to day life. I won't wait. I need you to hit me with that cereal

news right this hot second. So this first cereal we're going to talk about that's new and

upcoming is one of the most fun cereal names to say that I've heard in a long time and

the full name of this cereal is Shaq and Tony's Frosted Flakes with crispy cinnamon basketballs.

So out of all of the people in the world to get their own sort of cereal team up, Shaqilo

Neil himself is extending his you know long lineage of tie-in products that you know

span everything from the game Shaq foo to the the long lost show that soda Shaq which

is also really fun and difficult to say but this new team up with Frosted Flakes is aiming

to support sort of this mission tiger that they talk about which is trying to help get kids

access to sports. So you see both Tony and Shaq on this box and just the phrase crispy

cinnamon basketballs. I've been saying it in my head again and again and again crispy

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