Every bite that you take was made in a factory, and it was comprised of ingredients, a

comprised of wheat, and the oat, and the sugar, all of it that had to be grown on a farm,

and that farm connects to dirt, and that dirt connects to everything. It isn't interwoven web,

all of it leading to that one moment when you dig into the dirt, the soil, and the water,

and the oat, and the corn, and the sugar, and you lift it to your mouth for that first perfect bite.

It's all connected. Hello, and welcome to the empty bowl, a meditative podcast about cereal.

My name is Justin McRoy, and I'm a cereal enthusiast. My name is Dan Goubert, and I am a mere conduit

for the divine word of cereal. I'm so happy to have you here listening to us. We hope that you can

take 30 minutes or so, and just relax. This is a meditative podcast about cereal. That means that

for the next half hour, you have full permission to just unplug your brain a bit and connect it to that old

Ethernet Jack labeled cereal. We're going to have news, probably some reviews maybe, and then

we're going to have some fun too. There'll be some lighter moments as well. So we're going to have

a little bit of everything. But let's begin. Let's not waste anymore time. Dan, the spooky season is

fully upon us, and we've got even more announcements. It hasn't all been rolled out.

Yeah, it's pretty wild that we seem to be getting even more monster cereal,

paraphernalia this season than normal. Usually you can only really rely on some cereal treats,

perhaps some fruit roll-ups in addition to the standard lineup of general meals monster cereals.

But this season, we've seen the treats are back. The count-chocolat treats are back. The monster

mash fruits next. Those are also back. As we mentioned in our latest episode, they debuted these

Pillsberry shape cookies for count-chocolat and Frankenberry. And now rounding out the selection

are Frankenberry and Booberry, Yo-Play yogurts coming in both Strawberry Scream and Boo Blueberry

Variety Packs. Wow. And yeah, I'm pretty excited about these because they basically just seem

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