Speaker 1: Here we go. I know, yeah, I'm just gonna stop.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Serial Killers. How you doing, Andy?
Speaker 2: I'm great? How are you, Scott?
Speaker 1: Great? It's episode one fifty nine. It's Monday, December twenty eighth.
Speaker 1: I hope you had a wonderful Christmas, my friend, thank you.
Speaker 2: I hope you had a great Chrishnica.
Speaker 1: I had a great both of them. Thank you very much. COVID. Andy,
Speaker 1: how are you feeling?
Speaker 2: I feel fine. I just get tired all the time.
Speaker 1: I know you were just passing out while we were
Speaker 1: trying to work out the audio issues.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm not sure if that's side effective, long term
Speaker 2: side effective COVID, but I just get intensely tired out
Speaker 2: of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, this is Serial Killers. It's the podcast where
Speaker 1: we talk about cereal and we think inside the box and.
Speaker 2: You're still a year and a half later trying to
Speaker 2: make that slogan work. Good for you, Scott.
Speaker 1: This is the last episode of twenty twenty. Is that exciting?
Speaker 2: It is very exciting. Unfortunately, the Spoonies had to be
Speaker 2: canceled this year due to COVID. You know, all the
Speaker 2: biggest award shows got canceled this year and we were
Speaker 2: not immune to.
Speaker 1: That, that's right. I mean we could have done it virtually,
Speaker 1: but it just it just didn't work out that way.
Speaker 2: No, you know, you had to get all the participants
Speaker 2: in it just it was so difficult and it's it
Speaker 2: was just a hard process.
Speaker 1: Okay, shall we get started with a cereal that very
Speaker 1: well may have taken the Best New Cereal Spoony if
Speaker 1: we had the awards this year. Are you ready?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm in now.
Speaker 1: I just I just dropped off a bunch of cereal
Speaker 1: to your apartment because you know, I had to get
Speaker 1: it to you fast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is it was like a drug deal, but
Speaker 2: with cereal.
Speaker 1: You came out in your shorts and I just kind
Speaker 1: of threw a plastic bag out the window. And by
Speaker 1: the way, just on my way back, I did the
Speaker 1: most scotty thing ever. While I was waiting for you
Speaker 1: to finish doing whatever you were doing, I said, you
Speaker 1: know what, I have a subway gift card. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go out and get in a subway sandwich. So I
Speaker 1: walked to the regular subway that's you know, behind the
Speaker 1: building out of business walk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, being out of business for like a year.
Speaker 1: Now, Oh, I don't eat there much, obviously, So then
Speaker 1: I walked to the other one by the parking garage,
Speaker 1: also closed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So then.
Speaker 1: I searched on my phone and there was another one
Speaker 1: on Chamber Street, which was like a ten block walk.
Speaker 1: So I walked in forty mile an hour whipping winds
Speaker 1: with no gloves or hat and I was snotting inside
Speaker 1: my mask because it was so cold. And I walked
Speaker 1: all the way there and I got my meatball sandwich, so,
Speaker 1: oh god, I basically killed myself for five dollars free
Speaker 1: on a gift card.
Speaker 2: Everything about it, from the fact that there was snot
Speaker 2: in your mask to then getting a meatball sub from Subway,
Speaker 2: it just the visuals are not not great. I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I threw the mask away, so.
Speaker 2: Okay, good, I mean I would hope though.
Speaker 1: All Right, So what I'd like you to do is
Speaker 1: pull out all the bags in your stash there andrew
Speaker 1: that have a little one on them.
Speaker 2: Okay, this one? Is this a one or an upside
Speaker 2: down seven?
Speaker 1: I can't well, we're not doing seven cereals, so that's it.
Speaker 1: I want you to keep that bag in your hand,
Speaker 1: the one that looks like brown honey.
Speaker 2: This one that's a two.
Speaker 1: Hello, that's a three?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Hello dude, the one you just had, Okay, got him
Speaker 1: the one that looks like brown honeycomb. Could you pick
Speaker 1: that up? Please? Do you have any idea what that is?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It's the chocolate Eggo Waffle Cereal.
Speaker 1: Say thank you, Secret Squirrel, Joel.
Speaker 2: Thank you for ey friend Joel.
Speaker 1: This was his Christmas present to us.
Speaker 2: Do you know I'm thinking of just putting milk in
Speaker 2: the bag. Would that be terrible?
Speaker 1: Please? Don't try to do these millennial things. Just put
Speaker 1: it in a cuppera bowl.
Speaker 2: Come on, it's just so annoying to do all the
Speaker 2: dishes afterwards.
Speaker 1: Brand new from Kellogg's Eggo Chocolate Waffle Cereal with sweet
Speaker 1: chocolate crunch.
Speaker 2: I always have at least one box of Ego maple
Speaker 2: in my house.
Speaker 1: You mean homestyle?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Please note everybody at home that Andrews is using the
Speaker 1: same Fair Life milk from two weeks ago that he thinks.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is the expirationat I opened it two weeks ago,
Speaker 2: so it's two weeks from the date you said that.
Speaker 2: It's even on audio, it's two weeks from that date.
Speaker 1: So I said seven to ten days. If you're listening
Speaker 1: to the podcast.
Speaker 2: In Italian mafia speak, go scratch.
Speaker 1: Okay, are you ready, Andrew, yep. Oh this looks good,
Speaker 1: smells good. The milk's already turning chocolate.
Speaker 2: One two, three mm hmm. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: It is good. But it's not as chocolate as I
Speaker 1: thought it would be. And the little cereal pieces look
Speaker 1: like monster marshmallows from pac Man. They're really misshapened.
Speaker 2: I absolutely love this cereal. I think it's delicious. It
Speaker 2: almost tastes like a flattened out cocoa puff no, and
Speaker 2: I really love.
Speaker 1: That there's a slight burnt flavor to it after you crunch.
Speaker 1: You don't taste that at all, a burnt flavor, right, yes, burnt?
Speaker 2: No, Okay, it's perfect. I wish you would have just
Speaker 2: given me the box, cause this is a good cereal.
Speaker 2: I'm giving this one five balls. I go waffle cereal
Speaker 2: hasn't yet let me down yet. Actually it did blueberry waffles.
Speaker 1: Well, since there's only three of them, it let you
Speaker 1: down a third of the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's not terrible.
Speaker 1: I will give it four balls.
Speaker 2: I like it absolutely delicious.
Speaker 1: And check it out on the back, there's breakfast banter.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, I wonder are you going to try and
Speaker 2: do another one of those where you have to fill
Speaker 2: in the names and then you spend like six hours
Speaker 2: filling it in by yourself.
Speaker 1: Well, I was going to tell a waffle joke, but
Speaker 1: it had too many holes. That's what it said. No,
Speaker 1: that's what it says. I didn't make that up.
Speaker 2: Huh. I waffles have holes? Yeah, No, it's actually interesting.
Speaker 2: If you eat it dry, it's very salty. I know
Speaker 2: that sounds weird, but it's salty. Are you getting that?
Speaker 1: I like it better drives?
Speaker 2: No, but I still do it milk. It's way better.
Speaker 1: I do taste a little bit of burnt. But you
Speaker 1: know that's okay.
Speaker 2: What is this?
Speaker 1: You're just ready to just move right on?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean what you gave it four balls? I
Speaker 2: gave it five balls. What else do we want to
Speaker 2: say about it? What nostalgic thing do you want to say?
Speaker 2: Have you eaten an eggo wabble before? Yes?
Speaker 1: I don't want vollstar saying you guys have too much fluff.
Speaker 1: Just get to the cereal.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. The one person that gave us a
Speaker 2: one star review the one person you are, the one
Speaker 2: person who reads your bad critic and then thinks everybody
Speaker 2: is that way, so we have to highlight them. And
Speaker 2: now they now are in your head.
Speaker 1: You're talking too much. Let's just move on to the
Speaker 1: next serial.
Speaker 2: Oh so it's me ready.
Speaker 1: What do you think this is?
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's like bland smelling.
Speaker 1: I went to Serial KILLERSPC dot com while I was
Speaker 1: in the cereal aisle because I wanted to see if
Speaker 1: we had done these before, because I don't remember doing these.
Speaker 1: Couldn't find it, so I don't know whether the search
Speaker 1: engine is broken or if we never did them. But
Speaker 1: then I look at my show.
Speaker 2: Listen, I'm at the point of this podcast where I'm
Speaker 2: just going to press the end zoom button and then
Speaker 2: you're just gonna sit there and be like me, me, me, me.
Speaker 1: All right. Beaker looked on my cereal shelf for Cascadian
Speaker 1: Farm and I did not see this one, so I
Speaker 1: know we didn't do it.
Speaker 2: It's a shelf, it's not a cereal shelf. You can't
Speaker 2: just add cereal to the beginning of things like this
Speaker 2: is not a cereal spoon.
Speaker 1: It's a spoon if you use it for cereal. It's
Speaker 1: a cereal spoon.
Speaker 2: So this is what you're doing now, everything just gets
Speaker 2: added cereal to it.
Speaker 1: Cascadian Farm Organic purely O's. Okay, they're just O's.
Speaker 2: This is not going to be good. I'm just going
Speaker 2: to tell you from now.
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's a lesser cheerio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I like cheerios, but this is going to
Speaker 2: be blander than bland.
Speaker 1: How's that milk that's expired?
Speaker 2: It's actually delicious and fine, Thanks Scott. I didn't know
Speaker 2: this was the Scott chuckled Shack hour where you just
Speaker 2: make jokes about me for however long.
Speaker 1: Wasn't a joke, pal, I'm just asking you how the
Speaker 1: expired milk is.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I can't wait for this episode to
Speaker 2: end and then for you to go. I didn't like
Speaker 2: that episode.
Speaker 1: Well I don't like I don't like it. These are
Speaker 1: just going downhill.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, say I just want to quit the podcast.
Speaker 1: Okay, Scott, do you have the graph of listenership because
Speaker 1: it's like going down.
Speaker 2: Uh no, the graph is actually going is staying steady.
Speaker 2: So thanks Scott, here we go.
Speaker 1: What it's just nothing. The vomit is just not you know, required, No,
Speaker 1: it tastes cheesy. What does it taste like Cheeto puffs?
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, one hundred percent it tastes so I don't
Speaker 2: know again if this is also a side effect My
Speaker 2: smell and taste went when I did have COVID, and
Speaker 2: now that I've gotten it back, everything almost like things
Speaker 2: that I used to love, like black coffee now tastes
Speaker 2: like marinara sauce. It's a hard thing to explain, Like
Speaker 2: it's like a bad pizza taste. I can't explain it.
Speaker 2: But like black coffee tastes gross to me. Now there's
Speaker 2: just like my taste is off.
Speaker 1: So should we have a substitute for a while until
Speaker 1: that all comes back, Because you can't really do a
Speaker 1: cereal tasting podta cast when you cannot taste cereal.
Speaker 2: No, I can't taste cereal like the eggo waffle tasted fine.
Speaker 2: This just does taste weird to me, and I'm not
Speaker 2: a fan.
Speaker 1: Whole grain oats, whole grain barley, wheat starch, malted barley extract,
Speaker 1: sea salt, calcium carbonate, oats, malted barley, vitamin E. Do
Speaker 1: you notice what it's missing? Andrew Salt sugar. There's no sugar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I guess for a diabetic type person this would
Speaker 1: be good for them.
Speaker 2: Oh, we should have gotten Garrett on the Line.
Speaker 1: Or Wilford Brimley Scott.
Speaker 2: You can't say that, why because you know Wilford passed
Speaker 2: away this year.
Speaker 1: Well I know, but see that was my cute to
Speaker 1: play this beat it but it took me too long
Speaker 1: to get it.
Speaker 2: And was it not in the right folder that you
Speaker 2: complain about every time someone keeps moving something on the computer.
Speaker 1: One ball for purely sames Cascadian form.
Speaker 2: Same not great.
Speaker 1: Look, not saying it's awful, but we're used to cereals
Speaker 1: with a little bit of sweet and some taste. I'm
Speaker 1: saying it's awful, Okay, but it's not vemage. It's just
Speaker 1: not really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, no, no, not vomit like unless maybe my milk
Speaker 2: really is expired and then it is bombitious as a whole.
Speaker 2: Just not a fan.
Speaker 1: Well, somebody that's watching their sugar intake and taste intake,
Speaker 1: go ahead, what let me see? Oh oh this was
Speaker 1: very interesting to me. I had seen these a while back.
Speaker 1: But oh, who's on the phone.
Speaker 2: Why do you care?
Speaker 1: Because I'm just curious, you know, just people. You can't
Speaker 1: just like pause it for like fifteen minutes. What your phone?
Speaker 2: Oh remember when every time we go to record one
Speaker 2: of these episodes with someone on zoom, you're not ready
Speaker 2: for a solid twenty five minutes, And then I just
Speaker 2: sit here on a zoom waiting for things to get done.
Speaker 2: Literally every time.
Speaker 1: Nature's path all right, here we go. They sometimes disappoint
Speaker 1: sometimes they're pretty good. This one looks interesting because it's
Speaker 1: called corn flakes, but it's fruit juice. Corn flakes?
Speaker 2: Oh god, no, oh no.
Speaker 1: Why don't even know what that is?
Speaker 2: I just see fruit juice and I think of like
Speaker 2: Minute made fruit juice. I just find it to be
Speaker 2: overly sweet.
Speaker 1: But what are you gonna do? Min It made fruit
Speaker 1: juice is not really juice.
Speaker 2: The only juice I loved Minute made fruit juice when
Speaker 2: it used to come in like the Capri Sun package
Speaker 2: and it was blue. Oh my god, that was my favorite.
Speaker 1: That's fruit punch.
Speaker 2: That's the difference.
Speaker 1: Well, fruit juice is juice. Fruit punch is all added sugar.
Speaker 2: Wait is that really the difference between punch and juice?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: I mean, I just asked you a question.
Speaker 1: So therefore, now, well, I mean, yeah, if you get
Speaker 1: something that's one hundred percent fruit juice, it's just juice.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's natural sugar in it. But if you
Speaker 1: get something that's fruit punch, that's like, dude, Hawaiian punch
Speaker 1: and it's full of sugar. It's full of sugar.
Speaker 2: Hawaiian punch cereals.
Speaker 1: And cups and cups of sugar in there.
Speaker 2: Hawaiian punch cereal might actually be good.
Speaker 1: All right. Punchy, that's a guy's name. You know what
Speaker 1: his name is, Punchy.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you why I thought his like I
Speaker 2: thought he had like a fun Hawaiian name.
Speaker 1: No, Punchy, Punchy because he punches, having a nice Hawaiian
Speaker 1: punch and punch his punch. Punchy, What do you mean
Speaker 1: Hawaiian punch?
Speaker 2: What's a Hawaiian punch?
Speaker 1: That's the brand name.
Speaker 2: No, I get it, but like you're saying it, like,
Speaker 2: have a nice Hawaiian punch? What is a Hawaiian punch?
Speaker 1: That's what he says in the commercials. How about a
Speaker 1: Hawaiian punch? And then he gives you punch, but he
Speaker 1: punches you. Listen, this is this an.
Speaker 2: Old eighties commercial that you're talking about, because I've never
Speaker 2: heard the man speak.
Speaker 1: Really, he speaks in all the commercials.
Speaker 2: When have I seen Hawaiian punch commercial?
Speaker 1: All right, listen, fruit juice corn flakes, delicious crunchy flakes
Speaker 1: sweetened with pear juice. See there's a pear on the
Speaker 1: front there. I like pears, cob of corn.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I love corn juice.
Speaker 1: No, it's corn flakes. You know it's corn flake. You
Speaker 1: know there's corn and corn flakes, right, were you aware?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, okay, I knew that. I'm just saying punch
Speaker 2: and juice whatever.
Speaker 1: Just stop talking.
Speaker 2: Wait, so is this gonna be flavored?
Speaker 1: No, it's no. They just use the sugar from pear juice.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be interesting.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be good. Their flakes are very
Speaker 1: distinct nature's path. Their flakes all look the same, and
Speaker 1: they're very crispy and light.
Speaker 2: One two three. I really like this.
Speaker 1: I just taste corn flakes. That's it. There is a
Speaker 1: hint of pear. There really is. If you give it
Speaker 1: a second, switch it around in your mouth a little bit.
Speaker 1: There's a hint of pear. Oh yeah, right, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: call it a pair flavored cereal, but there's definitely a
Speaker 1: hint of it.
Speaker 2: I don't mind this at all.
Speaker 1: Where's the ingredients? Oh, real, simple corn meal, pear, juice,
Speaker 1: sea salt. That's it. I like that.
Speaker 2: I like it. I'm gonna give this four bowls.
Speaker 1: I'll go three bowls in a spoon. It's a nice,
Speaker 1: simple cereal, probably pretty healthy. Yeah, thank you Nature's Path.
Speaker 2: Thank you path?
Speaker 1: Was that three? Yeah? Okay, Now I can go edit
Speaker 1: this for seventeen hours because your audio is so loud
Speaker 1: and hopefully that you're not distorted.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry you have to die on this cross.
Speaker 2: You are such a martyr. We're so thankful for you. Wow, guys,
Speaker 2: let's give it up for Scotty. If you're in your car,
Speaker 2: if you're just sitting here listening to it, just give
Speaker 2: a slow clap for Scott everyone, because he is truly Wow.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: That's why you got a quality product delivered, because I
Speaker 1: took care of things. Andrew, I love you. We had
Speaker 1: a wonderful year, even the year, even though the year sucked.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, this was a terrible year, but it
Speaker 2: was a.
Speaker 1: Good Serial Killers year. Yeah, we had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of brand new, nice cereals. Some
Speaker 1: of them don't exist anymore. We should have kind of
Speaker 1: compiled the list. I feel like we cheated the listeners.
Speaker 1: We just kind of mailed it in. We didn't do
Speaker 1: any year end anything, no nothing.
Speaker 2: Listen, it was COVID. Next year, twenty twenty one, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be the red carpet. It's gonna come out. We're
Speaker 2: gonna have all your favorite cereal mascots for the Spoonies.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: All right. So just in your head, think back, what
Speaker 1: was your favorite cereal of the year, favorite new cereal.
Speaker 1: I can't think either. In my brain is mush But.
Speaker 2: I mean I really just like this Ego Cereal. But
Speaker 2: I gave Eggo Cereal it last year.
Speaker 1: That's an incredible cop out.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie Sesame Street Cereal, which one Sesame
Speaker 2: Street Cereal was pretty delicious.
Speaker 1: Side note, it's not out yet, so we can't really
Speaker 1: even though we tried it, it's not in stores yet,
Speaker 1: so we can't count it. That's a twenty twenty one cereal.
Speaker 2: Oh dunkin Cereal? Really, Oh my god, love Dunkin Cereal.
Speaker 2: I love that cereal so much.
Speaker 1: All right, see, and I think it under the radar
Speaker 1: cereal was Cocoa Puff's Brownie Crunch.
Speaker 2: Oh that was pretty decent.
Speaker 1: I think it was a five baller. I loved it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's slowly going away. You still see it in
Speaker 1: the stores a little bit, but it won't be around
Speaker 1: much longer.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure Dunkin Cereal is going to have a
Speaker 2: similar fate.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, we should do that. We should
Speaker 1: have done that immemoriam rip thing at the end of
Speaker 1: the year. The cereals that we had that are no longer.
Speaker 2: I would have done the voice of the girl who
Speaker 2: does the moment the dogs in the.
Speaker 1: Jeels Sarah McLaughlin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have sayg it and then you could have.
Speaker 1: I could have listened every serial it doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 2: For twenty twenty one, Watch out, guys, we're having an
Speaker 2: immemorium segment for the cereals that didn't make it.
Speaker 1: All right, Look, we could do that at any point. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening to Serial Killers. Thank
Speaker 1: you for a great year. Thank you for supporting us.
Speaker 1: Except for you, of all star eighty eight and please
Speaker 1: rate us and give us.
Speaker 2: He's gonna rate us again with a one star and
Speaker 2: be like every time you mentioned me, I will give
Speaker 2: you a one star review, in which please full star.
Speaker 2: If you're listening, thank you for listening. I appreciate you
Speaker 2: as a listener, even if Scott doesn't, so you can
Speaker 2: give him a one star. But for my sake, can
Speaker 2: you please give us five stars.
Speaker 1: But that's the thing, and I'll never quite understand that.
Speaker 1: It's just like with the radio show and the radio station.
Speaker 1: I hate you guys, but they listen to every single thing.
Speaker 2: Well again, the hate can be so loud.
Speaker 1: Listen. Have a wonderful New Year's Eve. Please stay safe,
Speaker 1: don't go anywhere. Just stay in your house.
Speaker 2: Stay inside.
Speaker 1: They're not letting people in Times Square anyway, so don't
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just dumb.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I've been inside now for two and a half weeks.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. For only having six hundred
Speaker 2: square feet in this apartment, it is uh, the walls
Speaker 2: are really starting to feel quite small.
Speaker 1: I love you, Andrew. Have a great New York. Please
Speaker 1: follow a Serial Killer's PC on all social platforms. Go
Speaker 1: to the website. If you want, even though Andrew still
Speaker 1: has not updated it since yet, when you maybe when.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys for listening on account of three Crunch one
Speaker 2: two three crunch.
Speaker 1: When you blah blah, that means I'm telling the truth,
Speaker 1: That's what that means.
Speaker 2: You just always want to quote unquote speak the truth.
Speaker 2: But it's just then I do whatever I do, it
Speaker 2: never lives up to your expectations, So then all you
Speaker 2: do is just criticize. But then you can't do any
Speaker 2: better because, for the life of you, you still have
Speaker 2: an iPhone five that doesn't know how to text, so
Speaker 2: it's just.
Speaker 1: Not a five.
Speaker 2: Oh, you must have upgraded. Good for you, Scott, I'm
Speaker 2: happy you upgraded to an iPhone six. Welcome to twenty twelve.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year, Andrew, Happy New Year, Scott. Bye,