Well, you've done it.

You've given yourself a great gift.

You have stood in the middle of tidal waves and you have said this will be calm.

Here the waters will be still and they will be milk and they will be filled with corn

and wheat and rice.

Welcome to the empty bowl, a meditative podcast about cereal.

My name is Justin McRoy and I am a cereal enthusiast.

And I am Dan Coobert.

I am merely a mouthpiece for the sacred word of cereal to speak through me.

We're so happy that we could be here with you to just give you a calm few minutes to

think about nothing other than delicious, nutritious, fortifying, very ambitious, and somewhat

superstitious cereal.

And cereal offshoots would always say cereal side projects.

Cereal, ephemera, cereal adjacent entities, just sort of the broader sphere and the circumference

of cereals projected aura.

Now I was getting a lot of images sent to me of this first news item and I'm going to

say looking pretty good.

Oh yes, this is a complete trilogy of cereal pancakes from IHOP.

These kind of the release of these dripped out into the news cycle so much so that I had

to keep updating my blog posts because first we saw that IHOP was doing a Lucky Charms

pancakes.

For some reason, fruity Lucky Charms of all things which I will be outright saying is probably

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