Hello everyone and welcome, welcome, welcome to the empty bowl, a podcast about cereal and relaxation.

My name is Justin McElroy and I am a cereal insusius.

I am Dan Goubert and I would really like to see where I fall on sort of the list of people who have written the most words about cereal.

I'm sure I'm not at the top, there's probably cereal historians out there but if there's ever a goal for me it's that.

So that's who I am.

You gotta have a dream.

My dream is that you, the listener, beloved listener will be able to relax for the next 20, however many minutes.

We ask you sit down or I mean I guess stand.

You could lie on your back if you like, close your eyes if it is safe and prudent and just sort of focus on cereal.

We've got some relaxing music, some nice ocean noises and no challenging ideas.

This is a crunchies and garden for you to unwind and just consider cereal and that's it.

Do you want to start off with some news headlines?

That would fill my bowl beautifully Dan.

Alright, everybody else get your bowls out.

Be prepared because the first news headline is Kellogg's launching a catacorn cereal.

It's sort of exclusive to Sam's Club for the moment though I'm told it will be eventually reaching stores everywhere for all the catacorn fans out there.

I know they're a rabid bunch but this is sort of a new rendition of the unicorn cereal that Kellogg's launched last year which was in itself sort of an Americanization of unicorn fruit loops which hit Europe just prior.

So it's a very sort of complicated genealogy of mythological cereal but so unicorn cereal had a magical cupcake flavor but this catacorn cereal

was supposed a berry perfection with sparkling edible glitter so if that's not a literal glow up then I don't know what it is.

That sounds very good to me.

I, I won a berry flavored cereals and become much more interesting to me since I had the wild berry fruit loops which were so delicious.

And I would hope that this would be sort of along those lines.

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