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Welcome back to the show Radiculous Historians. Thank you as always so much for tuning in.

That's our man, the myth, the legend, our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.

Serial socks. Whoa.

Well, yeah, he's a regular serial killer. I'm Ben Bullen. That's Mr. Nol Brown.

Nol off air. We talked real quick and we were just checking in and I asked you and Max,

whether you guys had eaten any cereal today. Yeah, I have. It's not a go-to for me. I like it.

You know, I like the nostalgia factor. I think first and foremost, like things like honey

nut Cheerios and fruit loops and all of that good stuff, but it's not like a thing that I keep around.

You know, regularly in the pantry. Now, Radiculous Historians, listening along with your kids

or Radiculous Historians who are teachers playing this episode, please know I'm about to say something

that's 100% real. Back when I was a stoner, I loved Reese's Puff cereal. I did not eat it with milk.

I just made bad decisions and then would absolutely house a box of this.

Folks, when we're talking cereal, though, we're not talking the scientific definition,

which is any grass that is cultivated for edible components. Technically, that's like a food group.

That's one of the little bits on the food pyramid. We're not talking just straight grains.

We're talking about the weird thing known as breakfast cereal. You walk through a grocery store

in many parts of the world and you will see aisles devoted to these things called cereals,

which are almost exclusively marketed as a breakfast dish. What are some cereal? Oh, no, you and I

always give our writer, die, Mr. Matt Frederick from stuff they don't want to know. We always give him

a hard time. We roast him a little because that guy has brilliant and lovable as he is.

He loves raisin brand, which is like two of the worst things together.

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