I have listened to the empty bowl every night for over a year, and it never disappoints me. I now have a deeper passion for cereal. Thanks for everything Dan and Justin!!

This podcast has turned me in to a cereal guru. They have such delightful unique ways of speaking that charm and disarm. My friend and I quote “the looming threat of Capn Crunch” often. I never thought I’d be so evenly heated up about various grains and artificial flavors.

A delightfully mellow and entertaining podcast about cold breakfast cereal. Good listen, but also good to fall asleep to.

In turbulent times, sometimes the heroes we need are two people talking serenely about cereal.

This podcast is ceral-isly underrated.

I started listening when my baby was born and I found myself awake all hours and worrying about the state of our world. This podcast helps me sleep every night. The hosts are funny, calm, and charming. The writing is great, I didn’t even eat or care about cereal before this! Thank you Justin and Dan!

i’ve never seen a podcast with a 5.0 rating until this pod, and its is well deserved. it’s somehow a perfect blend of relaxing and hilarious, and it’s just like talking to some friends. i hope you like cereal!

Love the show, I like to eat a bowl of lucky charms while listening.

this masterpiece of casual conversation helped me through the sleep deprived craft sessions that i use to unwind. since starting, i have become a calmer and more tolerable person. i feel better now. i’m not quite the best person i could be but i’m getting there. in part thanks to the cereal boys. one more sleepy waltz towards the cozy headache-medicine lesbian i aspire to be. remember to drink the milk… hej då. vi sover… :)

Tonic for the soul, truly.

Like the McElroy Bros? The smooth, dulcet tones of the older brother’s vocal fry (I mean that as a complement, I swear)? Then look no further. A feast for your ears, but be warned. Excessive listening may result in ravenous cravings for your favorite cereal.

Listening to this podcast is like laying in bed while your two best friends sit at the end of the bed chatting and you drift in an out of sleep, occasionally laughing at something funny they said. I’ve been listening to them every night for years and each new release is like getting a little present to unwrap.

causes much sleepy giggling only downside is i get hungry hehe

Great podcast! It is informative about the latest cereal releases and also nostalgic about past favorites. The vibe is relaxing and nice to fall asleep with or a nap. Highly recommend.

Great podcast! Always entertaining, compelling and executed with well-placed humor. Always breaking the latest cereal news and giving us the heads up on what’s good or upcoming.. May 2024 UPDATE: Absolutely love love love this podcast! No one is on their cereal game quite like Dan and Justin. Always breaking latest cereal news and giving the expert angle on new releases. Hope y’all get to check out “Unfrosted” on Netflix give us a your review! Seinfeld does a hilarious send up on the cereal industry.

The Empty Bowl helps me sleep or keeps me company when I can’t sleep. I don’t even eat cereal and I love this podcast. Thanks!

Such a soothing podcast. It definitely helps me fall asleep, but even when I don’t want to sleep it has a calming effect. Also, I can to back episodes over and over again. I highly recommend The Empty Bowl. One side effect is that it has turned me into a cereal enthusiast. 5 stars.

I have the most restful sleep when I put this podcast on at night

So calm! So relaxing! So wonderful. This is the calming podcast I never knew I needed in my life. I like cereal an average amount (I am not crazy about it but I do have a couple of boxes in my pantry). But that’s not what this is really about. You don’t have to be a cereal fanatic to enjoy this podcast; you just have to be someone who wants a moment of calm in their day. Come one, come all. There’s a bowl here for everyone.

i did have a dream about my friend trying to steal my cap’n crunch.. i’ve been a huge mbmbam fan for years and years but needed a podcast to help me sleep. i’m very picky on what i listen to and exhausted the last pod i was using. i also declare cereal as one of my favorite foods so i am mighty blessed to finally be here. not sure how i never knew this existed or that dan is the cereal king that i need to hear all of his thoughts. love you both dearly and happy to be here 4 ever

I just started listening and thought “this is the podcast for me” and it’s relaxing and calm, with also an unique and interesting topic of cereal. This lets me get away from school, homework, grades, all that school stuff. Please make more episodes

I listen to podcasts as I fall asleep. Nothing makes me sleep better and that is a total compliment! Love the pod (even on a relisten when I’m awake!)

Relaxing voices, low-stakes but interesting conversations, genuinely always a delight

I dream of clouds of oat flour now, can’t recommend it enough

My favorite episodes are the ones with Laughter and one of the hosts laughing through the sentence “this is supposed to be a relaxing podcast” it’s just a great podcast for any occasion. Dog walks, or bed time seem to be the most common for me! Keep it up I look Forward to everyone! 🥣🥣🥣🥣

Justin and Dan have created pure magic by making something interesting and funny enough to make you smile while also lulling you into a deep state of relaxation. I listen almost every night to help me drift off to sleep!

I routinely fall asleep to this show, and it certainly works for that, but also find myself going back to actually listen to each episode in earnest as well. I don’t even eat cereal, and I am absolutely hooked on all the cereal news! Thanks so much guys!

Okay I know this podcast is mainly for dozing off, but I find myself staying up listening because I’m fascinated by how deep cereal lore can be.

Sleep every time

I fall asleep to this podcast every night, and I often wake up craving cereal. Honestly, it’s the perfect podcast.

Feast for the ears!

Sometimes you just gotta fall asleep to two guys talking about Captain Crunch™ and ambient wave noises. 10/10 highly recommend

I love this podcast so much, is such a relaxing start or end to the day. Honestly I would love if these guys did a collab with Joe Pera, they have very similar vibes I would say and it would be such a fun episode.

i do not remember listening to a single episode because. i fall asleep every time

Tho

Really chill, charming, and relaxing. I just love Justin and everything he makes.

Justin McElroy, cultured king 👑knows about almond flavor in macarons

Honestly, just the most relaxing, chillest and most comforting podcast I know. A good mix of fun, subtle-ish humor and exceptionally comfy vibes with two guys bringing their best. I love relaxed enthusiasm, I love the podcast.

I subscribe to multiple McLeroy podcasts but it’s taken me awhile to hit this one up. I am so pleasantly surprised that this one is better than I ever could have expected. It’s so relaxing and soothing. Kinda crazy. I’ve also started eating more cereal. Interesting.

the topic is interesting enough while i’m awake but the vibes are comfortable and chill enough to lull me asleep. when i am actively listening, the cereal news is my favorite segment.

This show is fantastic to fall asleep to. Relaxing voices, relaxing topic, and waves in the background are great.

I usually have an easy time falling asleep, but The Empty Bowl has been absolutely indispensable in a very specific use-case scenario: when I am Mega Sick and need to rest, but my body is too uncomfortable to drift off regularly. Two instances from the past six months: 1) Got COVID in the middle of a +100°F heat wave with a broken air conditioner. The first three days were the pits of the pits, like if you dug a hundred-foot hole, filled it up with nausea and a massive headache, and then covered the hole with a heat lamp to continue digging. Bad metaphor! But also bad illness. I ended up playing the Empty Bowl (between bouts of heaving into a porcelain bowl) in bed, because even if I couldn’t fully go unconscious while parboiling in my room, the soothing sounds of ocean + inconsequential cereal talk helped me drift off and stop thinking about how Awful my entire being felt. 2) Got a super raunchy case of food poisoning — puked twice in the middle of class, barely hauled myself back, then threw up twice more before the Bad Feelings abated. This podcast helped me calm my hyperactive brain into taking the necessary 8 hours of midday naps to hard-reset. I think my body is now conditioned to hear the music of TEB and the hosts’ voices and understand “oh, you’re not doing Too Great right now but that’s okay. Go blank for a little while. They’re talking about crunchies and marshmallows. This is safe.” Justin and Dan, thank you for helping me hijack my body into taking a rest when it needs it the most.

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I love a good bowl of cereal, honey bunches of oats is my go-to when I need a quick bite on the go, but boy has this podcast opened my eyes to an entirely new dimension of little fortified grain-based nuggets. While it is very relaxing, I unfortunately cannot listen to it when I go to bed because I get that craving that only a bowl of good good crunchy stuff will satisfy. I love it and highly recommend listening while emptying a bowl, whether dawn or dusk.

Here for the good vibes and calming moods and cereal news

One of my favorites from the McElroy-verse. Very relaxing with some good chuckles, and perfect for any breakfast cereal lover (I try out Dan’s recs whenever I can). The release schedule isn’t super consistent, so it’s always a nice surprise when I see a new episode up.

They always make episode’s 1-2 times a month, there isn’t constantly new cereal news to report on

i love this so much it’s great to listen to when your trying to sleep or calm down. even though this makes me hungry it’s amazing. i kinda wanted to eat my plushie while i was writing this for some reason. and cereal is just really good for eating while your listening but your most likely not gonna finish the episode before you finish the bowl unless you are a VERY slow eater and if you finish at the end of the episode you were eating soggy golden grahams with cinnamon milk (i don’t know why i wrote cinnamon milk). but if your listening to this while your sleeping your most likely to wake up drooling on you pillow. but this has only TWO problems. it makes you really hungry. like typing food emojis like this: 🍿🍰🧁🍦🍨🍧🥧🍮🍬🍫🍩🍪🧃🧋🍵🍉🍇🥭🍈🍠🥖🥞🧀🧇🍳🍟🍕🌯🥘 and the other problem is they don’t really post on the podcast too often because they do other podcasts but it’s just still really good. ok this is amazing ima get some food now

This podcast is great, they make you relaxed and calm while still entertaining you. I have tried a bunch of cereals they talk about and it’s made it a lot more fun!

This podcast was made specifically for me, and I think that’s great. Hey thanks fellas!