"Leroy's Hot Chocolate," "Beef Stew," "Heez-Its," these are all past episode titles having to do with food. Someday we'll have at least 1 show named for every type of food and perhaps every food group. Today's selection... cereal. It seems the RTE or ready-to-eat cereal industry is nearing the bottom of the box with all the flake crumbs and cinnamon seasoning. Kellogg, one of the leaders in cold cereal is seeing a steep drop in sales. Today, we spoon up our thoughts on why cereal hasn't been as recession proof as so many thought it would be. And for about the 9th time in Who Asked You? history we run down the list of cereals we could eat on a 'cereal' basis and those we can't stand for reasons ranging from tasting like styrofoam to bodily injury to the roof of one's mouth.
Before the frosted-flake-frivolity begins we have a few brief announcements including news of a new online show Dave Chappelle is working on and Rebecca Black's horrid music video being offered now as a rental on YouTube. Plus, for weeks now a listener and friend of the show has been trying to send an E-Mail comment. Oddly it wouldn't go through. He contacted the Who Asked You? tech support and even they were puzzled. Eventually he was forced to send it via a Facebook message. Why would this one listener E-Mail not make it to our website's inbox? Tune in and it'll all become clear. Turns out, he really just wanted to hear me read it in my silky Emmy-quality voice.
As you'll hear me warn before reading it, the cereal story takes up a good portion of the show. As a result when we reach the bottom of the bowl on that one there's really only time for one more headline. In the Show Links you'll find an image of a sign that 'appears' to be posted on the entrance to a McDonald's restaurant. This picture has been around the Twitter block thousands of times already and still continues to forward on. Read it and you'll quickly figure out why it's so popular and why McDonald's public relations department isn't laughing.
On rare occasion we find ourselves filling the last few minutes of the show with bullshit. Granted, that could be said about the entire show, but sometimes there's not quite enough time to get into another segment and our steam on the previous bit has run out. In the broadcast biz it's called "stretching." You've probably heard the term. Luckily we have Arnold to help us do it. Sometimes this can be the most entertaining part of our program. Will it be this time? You'll have to wait and see. Or you could do the podcast equivalent of ravaging the cereal box right after opening it to get the toy by skipping to the last 5-minutes of the show... your choice.
