One Hundred and Twenty Five

The Empty Bowl

Justin McElroy

Health & Fitness

5 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This is the one-hundred and twenty fifth episode of The Empty Bowl, in which we count down the most delicious and despicable new cereals of 2025. This time, our lists diverge more than ever, a cereal company outside of the Big 4 dominates, and a reliably terrible flavor profile continues its reign of terror.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The You don't have to recognize the calendar.
0:36.6	You don't have to recognize the calendar.
0:39.2	We made it up.
0:41.2	You know, you look at the calendar and if you like it, great.
0:45.7	Go with it.
0:46.8	We're going to give it a shot, but you don't have to.
0:50.9	It's just a calendar.
0:54.0	Happy end of 2025.
0:56.0	Welcome to the Empty Bowl, a meditative podcast about cereal.
1:01.3	My name is Justin McRoy, and I'm a serial enthusiast.
1:06.1	And my name is Dan Goebert, and I am a herald of bright cereal futures.
1:12.9	Hoping that 2026 is a better year for our favorite food stuff.
1:17.9	Yeah, it's been, you know, a mixed year, I'd say.
1:23.4	I think that's fair.
1:24.3	It's been a bit of a mixed bag in terms of the cereal, not a lot of huge standouts as I was putting together my best up list.
1:31.3	But cereal is still cereal, you know? I mean, cereal is still great. Even if the specific new cereals aren't something right home about, a lot of our old favorites are still out there, you know, ready to be enjoyed.
1:48.4	Yeah, maybe we should be doing the top five serials of the year that are just cereals at this point.
1:54.7	Yeah, just like good series.
1:56.0	Here's some good, here's some good series.
1:58.7	Hey, hey, you ever hear of Cheerios?
2:01.4	These are so good.
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