Tuesdays are tough. This is known.

Monday’s trickling fountainhead of leftover weekend euphoria has dribbled its last drop of libidinal residue, yet the hump day, the harbinger of home stretches, hasn’t even begun.

It’s a day that’s too long, too hopeless, and too…Tuesday. I know I’ve spent my fair share of workday 3pm hours aimlessly Googling Pottery Barn coupons and “Which Sailor Scout are You?” personality quizzes*, so I feel obligated to help others get through the week’s second-day slog.

And what better way to do that than by sharing Episode 3 of my and Justin McElroy’s break(fast)-out podcast, The Empty Bowl.

For the unenlightened (emphasis on the enlightenment), The Empty Bowl aims to bring calm and zen to your day by focusing on the meditative nature of everyone’s favorite** milked breakfast food.

The echoing clink of a struck bowl. The tranquil drip of an overflowing spoon. The delicate odyssey of a back-of-box word search. All are fair game on The Empty Bowl, and in this episode we bring a litany of cereal rumors (some recently demystified), a taste of Trix, and a few maxims about milk into our zinc-enriched zen zone.

I hope you enjoy, relax, and maybe pour yourself a bowl of something sweet—if you have a bowl of Waffle Crisp, savor it fondly and tenderly. We plan to be back with another episode in just a couple weeks’ time, so if you have any discussion ideas or questions you’d like to hear about, fling ’em to our inbox.

*I’m pretty Sailor Uranus, with a Saturnal twist.

**Unless you’re a big Carnation Breakfast Essentials fan, in which case, you may to purée our podcast before consuming.