Whoa, whoa, easy there, stranger. You new around these parts? It looks like you’ve got some contraband on you: a worrisome burden weighing on your shoulders, and a bellyful of unaddressed anxieties. Here on The Empty Bowl’s Empty Beach of twinkling auburn cinnamon sugar sand, such negativity is not only discouraged, but actively remedied by the beach’s staff. So please, check all your emotional baggage and hoist it into the milky ocean. Where we’re going, you won’t need woes.

Welcome back to The Empty Bowl, a meditative cereal podcast hosted by me and Justin McElroy. In Episode Thirty-Eight, we continue exploring 2020’s bottomless cinnamon cereal selection, talk about an underrated cereal that crept up on us, and give a brief primer on the season’s best autumn cereals.

Still smuggling a few uncertainties in your back pocket? The calming cereal tides keep churning at our Anchor hub, where you can listen to Thirty-Seven and any other episodes. You can also follow along on Twitter, or send in a listener question. We can’t discuss or respond to every email, but each one helps seize sadness from a clamoring beachgoer.

Anybody else feel a little off this week? Like maybe Super Mario 64’s Wet-Dry World is leaking a little bit of its negative emotional aura into our own? Maybe I’ve just been reading too many creepypastas, but if I didn’t have an aversion to hearing my own voice, this is the kind of week that would leave me seeking out something calming. Something relaxing. Something as chill as the milk in your fridge.

Something like The Empty Bowl: a meditative podcast about cereal from me and Justin McElroy. If this is your first emptied bowl rodeo, welcome: rest assured, there will be no bucking broncos of worry and stress ahead: just some good old fashioned yolkin’ around and breakfast clownery. In this episode, Justin and I reluctantly accept a new Froot Loops Something Pop, get existential about South Korea’s Green Onion Chex, and ponder the future of Count Chocula’s oaten ore.

Still bored enough to watch Wet Worlds Dry? There’s plenty more fun to be had at our Anchor hub. You can also follow along on Twitter, or send in a listener question. We can’t discuss or respond to every email, but each one sets off a 1-Up noise in my prefrontal cortex.