Speaker 1: This is Serial.
Speaker 2: Killers episode.
Speaker 1: Twenty three, twenty three.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us today, friends.
Speaker 3: Why did you say twenty three after I said twenty
Speaker 3: three because I wasn't sure if you said it right.
Speaker 1: I didn't like the way you said it.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: Okay, Hi Andrew, Oh, Hi Scott, and welcome.
Speaker 2: It's another fun field sweet episode of Serial Killers.
Speaker 1: You like hugging yourself?
Speaker 2: No, I wasting it. I had an itch on my back.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, and I couldn't reach and I'm not asking
Speaker 2: you to scratch it. But so we're on like this
Speaker 2: lack of sugar from the last episode, so I need
Speaker 2: to load it up as much as possible.
Speaker 1: I'm very worried.
Speaker 2: I still don't feel good from that last healthy episode.
Speaker 2: I just did air quotes healthy.
Speaker 3: I loved some'more cereal. I actually have been telling people
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 2: Well, that was not the healthy one. It was the
Speaker 2: other two that we still have remnants on the board
Speaker 2: from when we spit out last time.
Speaker 3: No, I yeah, no, that's gonna be a hard pass
Speaker 3: for me on the all brand cereal that just as foul.
Speaker 2: Although we were still gonna do grape nuts. It's coming
Speaker 2: and my wife wants to guest on it so she
Speaker 2: can eat it.
Speaker 1: I can't wait.
Speaker 2: I'm not eating it. She can try it and bowl
Speaker 2: it up all she wants, so yes, So here we go.
Speaker 2: It's episode twenty three, like we said three times, and yeah,
Speaker 2: oh we did. Yep, Scott, you're Andrew or Scotti whatever
Speaker 2: you gonna call me. I don't care. Does Scotty be
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Speaker 2: So this whole episode is backwards right now, it really is.
Speaker 2: We're just flip flopped it. So I'm gonna go down
Speaker 2: into the cereal sack while you chat for a moment.
Speaker 2: Be right back great. Oh wait wait wait wait? Do
Speaker 2: you want classic or new?
Speaker 1: You pick?
Speaker 2: No, this is always your pick. That's your job on
Speaker 2: this podcast. Is you pick classical news?
Speaker 1: Dont want too much else? Okay?
Speaker 2: Here? Would you like a coin flip something classic? Classic? Okay,
Speaker 2: here we go. You might be excited for this.
Speaker 1: I am. I'm always excited, Scott.
Speaker 2: I'm going to bypass all the rest of this healthy cereal.
Speaker 2: Ah you're ready? Are you ready? Yeah? You're ready? Alphabets
Speaker 2: remember alphabets?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, I said in I think a couple episodes ago.
Speaker 1: I wanted to try them.
Speaker 2: Try.
Speaker 3: You've never had alphabets, whe I don't think so really No, hmm,
Speaker 3: it's kind of like alphabet soup.
Speaker 1: I never had that either.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, see this used to be a blue box
Speaker 2: when I was a child. I remember the blue box.
Speaker 2: It's a white box now that looks like a piece
Speaker 2: of loose leaf paper and it says wow, new improved taste.
Speaker 2: Usually when they say that they either took something out
Speaker 2: or reformulated it for some reason. I don't know why.
Speaker 3: I love when they reformulate and then we taste it
Speaker 3: and it tastes disgusting. Look at sugar smacks.
Speaker 2: This it's from Post. I feel like it may have
Speaker 2: been another brand back in the day. I didn't do
Speaker 2: my research today. I'm sorry. I mean, I used to
Speaker 2: eat alphabets as a kid.
Speaker 3: But do you want me to just make facts up
Speaker 3: really quick? I'll look at the box, just just something,
Speaker 3: see it real quick.
Speaker 2: Did you know that there's a story in every bowl?
Speaker 1: You just are reading the slogan that doesn't actually.
Speaker 2: Open this up.
Speaker 3: Okay, so alphabets originally invented when you stopped eighteen forty two.
Speaker 1: You just shut up right from Sir Alpha.
Speaker 2: I'll fine, then here we go. I'm going to Wikipedia.
Speaker 1: No, please, I want to give it.
Speaker 2: I would like to get it. I would like to
Speaker 2: give out some cereal eat s alphabets facts.
Speaker 3: Sorry, sir Alpha from the wonderful, beautiful place of Austria.
Speaker 3: Will you stop the dumb created alphabits? No, because he
Speaker 3: brought his people here.
Speaker 2: Alphabetsch is a breakfast cereal made by Post Foods which
Speaker 2: contains alphabet shaped multi grain cereal bits. We know that
Speaker 2: that was marshmallows in nineteen ninety. I wish there still were.
Speaker 1: The grain comes from Austria Alpha's fields.
Speaker 2: Would you shut up? It doesn't. It's from the heartland
Speaker 2: of the United States and it was first introduced in
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty eight. Take it off the market in two
Speaker 2: thousand and six.
Speaker 1: Why mumicals.
Speaker 2: But they reappeared in two thousand and eight with a
Speaker 2: new formulation touting zero percent sugar as a limited edition.
Speaker 2: What who would eat that? I would all right? Well,
Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen he came back News improved and that's
Speaker 2: what we have right here. Oh, larger shapes than the predecessor. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so let's bust it open. Wow, these are big letters.
Speaker 4: You're way too excited. Look how big they are. I
Speaker 4: can see Wikipedia wasn't lying. These used to be really little.
Speaker 4: You could barely make the letters out back then. I'm
Speaker 4: very excited.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, Well you can barely make the letters
Speaker 2: out now. But they're just bigger gobs of wheat. Sir
Speaker 2: Alpha would be proud. You're just talking stupid, now, are
Speaker 2: you saying that? Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: Bets aren't austream.
Speaker 2: These are big.
Speaker 1: I'm very excited.
Speaker 2: I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I remember when they were little.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're pretty much the size of alphabets and soup
Speaker 2: alpha bets, alpha bet letters in Campbell's soup. All right,
Speaker 2: I need to take a breath. So I'm like all
Speaker 2: hyped up already, and I'm not sure why.
Speaker 1: Wow, just the thought of cereal really gets you hot.
Speaker 2: I guess it does. I've missed doing this. We didn't
Speaker 2: do one since yesterday. All right, so one percent milk
Speaker 2: coming up. What's the matter, Ranger.
Speaker 3: I'm just listening to you get so excited about cereal
Speaker 3: and it just makes me happy. Here you go, I
Speaker 3: feel like people are like a man and his dog. No,
Speaker 3: it's a man in his cereal bowl.
Speaker 2: Some of these aren't even letters, like this is a
Speaker 2: boomerang is what is this?
Speaker 1: These smell like frosted cheery.
Speaker 2: But that's not a letter. No, that's a cane.
Speaker 3: See that's where the concept of alpha bits fails because.
Speaker 2: Maybe by definition they are bits of alphabet, so they're
Speaker 2: not all full letters.
Speaker 1: I don't know you ready, I'm not a fan.
Speaker 2: No, No, it's weird because there's essence of marshmallow, but
Speaker 2: there's no marshmallows.
Speaker 1: You taste that, yeah, it just is bland has no
Speaker 1: real flavor.
Speaker 2: It tastes exactly like nothink. It tastes exactly like Lucky Charms,
Speaker 2: the cereal apart. Try it again.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, take.
Speaker 2: Another bite, right, Yeah, there's new alphabits is Lucky Charms
Speaker 2: with no marshmallows. That's what it is.
Speaker 1: So, which is sad. It's a box of letdown.
Speaker 2: Of course it is because all I do is pick
Speaker 2: the marshmallows out of Lucky Charms. So basically, in my
Speaker 2: house there's a box that says Lucky Charms, but it's
Speaker 2: alphabets because there's no marshmallows. It I ate them all.
Speaker 1: Any if you're listening, he apologized.
Speaker 2: No, I don't. I love marshmallows. So where are you
Speaker 2: going here?
Speaker 1: Two bowls and a spoon.
Speaker 2: I will go as far as three balls. It's not
Speaker 2: a bad Cereal. It's missing marshmallows. Like if there was
Speaker 2: alphabets with marshmallows, that's lucky charms. So I'll do three
Speaker 2: balls on post alphabits.
Speaker 1: They get sued shut down? What if they put marshmallows
Speaker 1: and alphabets?
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, there's an aftertaste there is. You taste
Speaker 2: that right?
Speaker 1: It kind of tastes like pop rocks.
Speaker 2: No, now it does taste like all those like gases
Speaker 2: and drugs that you talk about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cyanide.
Speaker 2: There's a strange aftertaste, and I'm not sure if I
Speaker 2: like it or not. Two balls in a spoon. I
Speaker 2: backed it down, so take posts. Yeah, two balls in
Speaker 2: a spoon, all right, So let's move on to the
Speaker 2: new Cereal. Okay, this one I think you're gonna like.
Speaker 1: I'm excited.
Speaker 2: Can I give you a hint?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: They're great? Yes?
Speaker 1: Oh, frosted flakes not original?
Speaker 3: Oh god, with marshmallows. Honey frosted flakes. Getting there, honeynut
Speaker 3: frosted flakes, Yes, honey. I don't know what about this one?
Speaker 3: Scott from Kellogg's What again, Your enthusiasm is just contagious.
Speaker 2: I love Cereal so much you have no idea like I.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited to be doing this podcast because I've
Speaker 2: loved Cereal my entire life and now I get to
Speaker 2: talk about it.
Speaker 3: The best part about this was that we really started
Speaker 3: this with no real goal.
Speaker 1: We were just like, hey, because you've been saying you
Speaker 1: want to see a podcast for the longest time, and
Speaker 1: then one day was it you who were who just
Speaker 1: said let's just review Cereal?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I was going to do a coupon podcast,
Speaker 2: but no one wants to hear that.
Speaker 1: They want to hear eat cereal.
Speaker 2: That's right, That's right. I mean I could save people
Speaker 2: money and all, but I'd much rather get fat and
Speaker 2: eat cereal made with real honey, naturally flavored with other
Speaker 2: natural flavors.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm into it, poor.
Speaker 2: I love the comic on the back. Here look at
Speaker 2: the little bee saying, hey, bae, what to the other bees?
Speaker 2: I want to see? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Look, did you know honey bees? Visit more than two
Speaker 3: million flowers just to make one pound of honey.
Speaker 2: You're doing a lot of work, they really are. And
Speaker 2: there's Tony on the back and his little bee keeper
Speaker 2: costume outfit there and.
Speaker 3: I say this again, frosted flakes, Tony the Tiger. They
Speaker 3: had to take it down from Twitter. They gave Tony
Speaker 3: his own account. They had to shut it down because
Speaker 3: that many people, that many furries kept going to it
Speaker 3: and being like, oh my god, Tony, you make me
Speaker 3: so hot.
Speaker 1: It's the funniest thing in the entire world.
Speaker 2: I'm all about the furries. And you know, she said
Speaker 2: nothing find a path through the honeycomb. But don't bug
Speaker 2: the bees. They're busy making sweet honey for Tony's delicious
Speaker 2: new cereal. All right, let's break into it.
Speaker 1: The one furry listener right now is like, my voice
Speaker 1: is being hurt. Oh no, oh God, Rookie mistake this.
Speaker 2: Oh. I don't like the smell of this. The bag ripped.
Speaker 2: This is a weak bag. Don't blame me. Kellogg's bags
Speaker 2: are usually pretty thick, and this is a weak bag.
Speaker 2: So I blame Tony. He's busy collecting honey and not
Speaker 2: making thick bags. Here, smell it.
Speaker 1: Get back to work.
Speaker 2: Tony maple again. I like it. Maybe smell can be deceiving. Oh,
Speaker 2: you got a black chunk in yours, but that's okay,
Speaker 2: it's probably just the corn. What I smell maple, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I smell heavy, heavy hints of maple.
Speaker 3: I just got a hint of a axe body spray
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: Well, that's spray that crap in here before.
Speaker 1: All right, okay, here we go.
Speaker 2: It's Kellogg's honeynut frosted flakes.
Speaker 1: I'm into this right here you go. The concept sounds good.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can make honey nut anything. Ooh, you
Speaker 2: can make honeynut pebbles.
Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna say this before I take a
Speaker 3: spoonful by itself. Good with milk, smells like hot piss.
Speaker 2: It's summertime in New York City. I mean we're used
Speaker 2: to it, summertime streets here. You're Jesus, you're ready? Here
Speaker 2: we go?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I like yeah, yeah, condos like buttered popcormcorm.
Speaker 2: It's a strange flavor when it hits.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't really taste honey nut.
Speaker 1: No three balls. I like the uh the hutzpah.
Speaker 2: That doesn't even make sense the way you use it. There, No,
Speaker 2: they should call this carnival flakes. But that's the flavor
Speaker 2: I think it is. It's kind of likes carnival flakes.
Speaker 1: Come and go back to how I use the hutzpah wrong, kutzpah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is it? I just it doesn't that mean like
Speaker 1: the they have like the the moxie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but but that's you. You didn't say it like that,
Speaker 2: like you've got kutzba that means they have balls.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's the way I'm supposed say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hutzpah, yeah, kutza.
Speaker 1: So not chutzpa, not chutzpa. This podcasts got a chutz
Speaker 1: bus today.
Speaker 2: You're crazy? All right, where you're gonna go? I'm still
Speaker 2: eating it.
Speaker 1: Three bowls there, shout out already.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't hear you.
Speaker 1: You must have been so blinded by me saying hutsba.
Speaker 2: What we're really agreeing lately, because I'm gonna go three
Speaker 2: balls too. It's all right, it's middle of the road.
Speaker 1: It's good.
Speaker 2: It is pretty good. Okay, Well, so we're now at
Speaker 2: that part of the show where we.
Speaker 1: Do this serial Killers listener request. I'm the listener.
Speaker 2: No, you're not. This actually is a listener request.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just gonna hope and pray my fingers across
Speaker 3: is a chicken and waffle cereal.
Speaker 2: It's not. We're not there yet.
Speaker 1: It's never gonna happen. It will just being teased week
Speaker 1: after week.
Speaker 2: So Mike and Mariah on Twitter, I don't know if
Speaker 2: you saw their tweets last night, but they are Midwest farmers.
Speaker 2: They're they're in the farming business. Oh and so you
Speaker 2: know farmers, they provide a lot of wheat and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. Yeah, to make cereal.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So Mike wanted us to do a corn cereal because
Speaker 2: he's a corn farmer. Love it or he helps out
Speaker 2: corn farmers or he does something like that.
Speaker 1: I'm into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So and me, I'm very partial to it because
Speaker 2: he's an Iowa corn guy. And I lived in Iowa
Speaker 2: for a second when I was younger, legitimately a second. No,
Speaker 2: I was there for ten months in Cedar Rapid. Shout
Speaker 2: out to Cedar.
Speaker 1: Rapids, the whole city.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's lots of corn there. There really is. That
Speaker 2: You drive and there's just corn from miles.
Speaker 3: When we take this podcast on the road and do
Speaker 3: our cereal tour. Yeah, we will be stopping in Cedar Rapids.
Speaker 2: Done.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: So okay, we're on our way Cedar Rabbids. So corn cereal.
Speaker 2: I was going to call this episode when did I
Speaker 2: eat corn? But maybe we still will. I don't know,
Speaker 2: so I promise you or well, let's make a bet. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I would think or bet you that you have never
Speaker 2: seen or heard of this cereal in your life.
Speaker 1: Okay, sure it is a corn cereal. Okay, it's by Quaker. Okay.
Speaker 2: Quaker also located in Cedar Rapids.
Speaker 1: No way.
Speaker 2: I used to pass it every day when I was
Speaker 2: going to work. I had a dog name Blazer at
Speaker 2: the time, and on Tuesdays they made crunchberry cereal. Not kidding,
Speaker 2: and he stuck his head out the windows and licked
Speaker 2: the air as we passed the Quaker factory. I'm not
Speaker 2: even kidding.
Speaker 1: That's so nice.
Speaker 2: And then a train hit me right by the Quaker
Speaker 2: factory in my car. The gates came down and the
Speaker 2: guy laughed at me. It was it really was a
Speaker 2: horrifying experience. Anyway, I'm gonna go in the bag and
Speaker 2: get my cereal.
Speaker 1: Is anybody else, like kind of shocked by that one.
Speaker 1: If you're still listening and you're this far in, Oh God,
Speaker 1: Scott's coming, You're right, But are you feeling well?
Speaker 2: Now? This cereal originated in the sixties, okay, and in
Speaker 2: the early seventies it had a partner cereal named Quake
Speaker 2: and the two of them would fight back and forth
Speaker 2: in the animated TV commercials Now, have you ever heard
Speaker 2: of quisp?
Speaker 1: God?
Speaker 2: No, you've never seen this before, never seen it? Okay,
Speaker 2: Well this is Quisp by Quaker. Okay.
Speaker 3: I just can't think of it without like thinking like
Speaker 3: either a little kid or somebody with a lisp is
Speaker 3: saying it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's a little space alien. He doesn't know
Speaker 2: what he's say.
Speaker 1: So the space alien has a lisp, yes.
Speaker 2: And he says quisp. That's all he can say, is quisp.
Speaker 3: Okay, if aliens ever invaded they have a lisp, I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure I would laugh.
Speaker 2: So anyway, I know it went away in the late
Speaker 2: seventies and then it came back only like online. Maybe
Speaker 2: ten years ago.
Speaker 1: You could only get.
Speaker 2: It online, but now it is still in stores in
Speaker 2: some areas of the country. What is your problem?
Speaker 1: Just take me to your leader. All right, we're invading
Speaker 1: your planet, Quaker.
Speaker 2: Quisp, it is a sweetened corn cereal. Here you go, Mike,
Speaker 2: it's your corn. And it looks like kernels of corn too.
Speaker 3: Colonel of Corn. Can we only talk with a lisp
Speaker 3: while we eat this? No, great, I'll continue doing that.
Speaker 2: So anyway, Quake lost to Quisp, and Quisp continues on,
Speaker 2: but Quake did not. He was a big construction worker
Speaker 2: with a helmet, and they know it was flakes and
Speaker 2: these are chunks.
Speaker 3: It was an alien versus a construction worker. Yes, Oh,
Speaker 3: what the hell was going on during the seventies.
Speaker 2: People were eating and smoking lots of weird things. All right,
Speaker 2: So there you go. Here's your cuisp from Quaker.
Speaker 1: I like the smell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it smells like cap'n crunch.
Speaker 1: I was thinking more corn pops, but okay, you're ready one.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's delicious?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Wow, that's really good. Oh man, I may have
Speaker 2: only had this once before. Ever, it was a long
Speaker 2: time ago, so I couldn't have even told you what
Speaker 2: this tastes like.
Speaker 3: This gets four bowls in a spoon from me. Oh,
Speaker 3: I really like this.
Speaker 2: This is delicious. It's really sweet. It's nice.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: It gets four bowls from me, Quisp gets four balls.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a fan. That was delicious.
Speaker 2: And who Mike and yeah, Mike and his wife Mariah.
Speaker 1: Thank you Mike and Mariah.
Speaker 2: Thanks for farming some corn. It's putting it in the cereal.
Speaker 1: Absolutely delicious.
Speaker 2: So look for Quisp in a blue box in a
Speaker 2: store near you.
Speaker 1: Okay, you just can't say that because it's not in
Speaker 1: stores near us.
Speaker 2: What I got it in a store?
Speaker 1: I thought you just said this was exclusive to like
Speaker 1: only the Midwest.
Speaker 2: No, you dope. I said that's where they grow corn.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I was so blinded by aliens with lisps.
Speaker 2: I brought this on Long Island. And if you're at
Speaker 2: Cedar Rapids you can stop by a high V location.
Speaker 2: Maybe they have it. That's the big supermarket chain there. Oh okay, cool,
Speaker 2: I missed hy Vee. I love hy Vey It used
Speaker 2: to have Chinese food in the one by me.
Speaker 3: In terms of like best supermarkets is Public's good, Public's
Speaker 3: is great.
Speaker 1: I love Public.
Speaker 2: You got to remember supermarkets are very regional, you know,
Speaker 2: stopping shopping giant, same thing, but they're you know, over
Speaker 2: a lot of the country shop right, is a Northeast
Speaker 2: kind of supermarket chain. Public's is South Pigley Wiggly Love
Speaker 2: Pigley Wiggly.
Speaker 1: Who's that?
Speaker 2: That's like Midwest West over there that way? And then
Speaker 2: you have Vaughn's and and all that stuff in California
Speaker 2: and on the West Coast. There's lots of lots of
Speaker 2: chains across the country.
Speaker 1: Do you have one favorite more than the others?
Speaker 2: I love Shop Right, but I'm partial to Shop Right
Speaker 2: because I live here and that's where they are, and
Speaker 2: that's where I get the best savings. This episode's going
Speaker 2: really long. I know you want to hear more of us,
Speaker 2: but we have another one to do in a moment,
Speaker 2: which you'll get I don't know, a couple of days
Speaker 2: after this one, because we do release them on Mondays
Speaker 2: and Fridays, Yes, and we will pop a bonus one
Speaker 2: in every once in a while. Hint, after this one,
Speaker 2: we're gonna go record a bonus one, but you will
Speaker 2: have heard it weeks ago, so I don't know. I'm
Speaker 2: so confused with what we're doing.
Speaker 1: Hashtag more milk Mondays.
Speaker 2: No, I'm never doing that. So then what do we
Speaker 2: do on Fridays?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I don't want hashtag anything, hashtag no milk Monday, no
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Speaker 2: Yes well, thank you and until next time. In the
Speaker 2: words of Quisp crunch, oh I was supposed to qunch
Speaker 2: Quench