The I'm going to be. Oh, You know all energy comes from the sun for the most part. Maybe not nuclear, but everything else. Hydro, wind, solar. It all comes

from the sun. You know, dinosaurs ate the plants. The plants lived off the sun the dinosaurs became cold

Every time you take a bite of cereal then you're taking a bite of sunshine in a literal sense, well a metaphorical sense.

You're eating sunshine.

Welcome to the Empty Bowl a meditative podcast about cereal.

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

And my name is Dan Gubert and I'm a serial mover and a serial shaker in that as I move the cereal box towards my bowl I make sure to shake it up

because all the good stuff has probably settled to the bottom.

Too true. Folks if you're not shaking your cereal, I mean, you are giving

yourself quite the treat at the end, which we love that, but you're cheating

yourself. Really are. So what do we do on this show? Well, we relax and we spend time together and we think about

cereal. We talk about cereal and we'd ask that you allow yourself that these 30-so minutes just to relax and consider serial.

We're going to have some reviews.

We've got some some questions from from you our beloved listener and we got some news

a little bit everything I will grab back but Dan why don't you start us out with the latest and greatest from the Vanguard of serial information,

from the empty bull news desk?

Well, be careful throwing around loaded words like greatest because like

I don't I mean it's been a bit since we've even recorded an episode and I mean apologies for

that like for scheduling reasons but like even then after like over a month of not talking about new

serial news there's like not a lot of super interesting things happening

we've got a pretty tenuous and tepid lineup of the line

that was here. I mean I'm sure most people will either be asleep or you know just

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