The I'm going to Oh, Throughout all of human history, the episode numbers of the empty bowl have had either one or two digits.

This is the final episode with two digits.

Sometimes little milestones like that can seem very meaningful. But I think the

important thing is that rather than rush ahead to 100,

we stay here and enjoy 99 for just a moment.

There we go.

Hi, welcome to the Empty bowl a meditative podcast about serial. I am your

co-host Justin McElroy. Are you a serial enthusiast as well?

Oh, I know, you know what? New year, new me.

I am indeed still a serial enthusiast.

And my name's Dan Gubert and I am a serial news and review farmer and it ain't much but it's honestly tasty work

I and Dan is heroically scraped together a bounty for us the serial fans over here.

This is going to be a meditative podcast about cereal.

What does that mean?

Well, it means that for the next 30 minutes or so,

we ask that you just relax.

They allow yourself to think just about cereal. It won't change much and that's the idea. It's

just to give you a little break and to stay abreast of all the latest and

greatest in the world of in the world of serial news.

We'll have some reviews as well and we'll do our serial countdowns.

America has waited long enough and we're going to find out the answers.

But first, Dan, serial news, what do we think?

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