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The Empty Bowl

One Hundred and Twenty Three

The Empty Bowl

Justin McElroy

Health & Fitness

53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This is the one-hundred and twenty-third episode of The Empty Bowl, in which we preview General Mills' 2026 new cereal lineup, contemplate moving to Mexico, and reflect on our brushes with cereal's A-list.

Catch up on our cereal rankings at ⁠⁠tinyurl.com/tebrank⁠⁠!

Support us on Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/theemptybowl⁠⁠!

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The We need to allow for the possibility that change is nature's way of saying there is more.

0:49.3

I saw a lady in a YouTube video say that this week, and it seemed pretty smart to me.

0:56.4

Hello, welcome to the empty bowl, a meditative podcast about cereal.

1:01.1

My name is Justin McRae, and I'm a serial enthusiast.

1:04.7

And my name is Dan Gubert, and I am thankful for cereal.

1:10.5

Yeah, Dan, me too. I'm thankful for cereal. Yeah, I, Dan.

1:11.3

Me too.

1:12.3

I'm thankful for, I think, a lot of quality cereals this year.

1:18.1

I think it was a solid year, maybe not the most outstanding.

1:23.2

But I'm so grateful for a year of this podcast and doing this show with you.

1:28.1

I'm grateful grateful for a year of this podcast and doing this show with you. I'm grateful for our expanded choice in the aisle, you know, at every point.

1:37.1

Expanded choices.

1:38.1

I'm grateful for that, too, man.

1:39.5

Okay, but can you actually name a couple good serials that came out this year?

1:42.8

Because I can't, none immediately spring to mind for me i'll be honest dan i uh you know actually i did i did buy i think

1:51.6

the one of the very few cereals i bought two boxes of i did buy another box of uh caramel

1:57.5

corn chas oh yeah i did forget about that one. That's quality, quality for sure.

2:03.6

But Dan, I'm excited because we do have some big stuff.

2:07.6

I mentioned change in the introduction, because there's a lot of things on the horizon for the world of cereal.

2:14.6

Yes, it's that time of year again.

2:18.1

It's the best time of the year to be a serial fan and perhaps the most stressful time to

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