Trailer: OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate

Introducing the first season of OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate. We take you deep into the Amazon on the hunt for fortune, glory and chocolate.  Want some of this god-level chocolate? Kaleidoscope has joined forces with wild cocoa hunter Luisa Abram and Stettler Chocolate to make a special box to go along with this very podcast. Just visit: www.stettler-chocolate.com to order your wild chocolate today. Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Twitter and Instagram. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
I have been pulled into an epic adventure, a treasure
on really that has dragged me deep into the Amazon
rainforest where fortunes are made pursuing divine substances, stuff like
cocaine and ayahuasca. But one substance towers over the rest,
a stimulant that has delivered more bliss than all the
other drugs combined chocolate, but not just any chocolate, wild chocolate.

(00:28):
When I tasted the chocolates, it was as if I
was taking a drug. This was like, you know, a
classic symphony orchestra, just beautiful. They were like, oh my god,
there is no chocolate on. This is chocolate unlike anything
in the candy aisle. But now a few Indiana Jones

(00:49):
style cocao hunters are trying something new. They're scouring the
jungles for cocao with real flavor, flavors that have been
lost for centuries are in some cases new flavors no
one is ever tasted before. So the hunt is on
for this magical cocao. And I've been tagging along. Are
there snakes to worry about that? I had no idea

(01:14):
what I was in for. I don't like guns, and
I've never wanted us to have gone fight. I mean,
you saw the stacks of cash in our office. I'm
pregnant and to be here, bullets, razords, nails. It has
been to everything went just topside? Don't we're lost? What
should we do? That wasn't all his money? But none

(01:36):
of there's no more money? What you'd go wrong? Now?
Oh my god, it's a river? This is How are
we going to get ourselves out of this? All this
for a damn bar of talking. I'm rolling Jacobson for

(01:56):
the Kaleidoscope and I heard podcasts. This is Obsession Wild
Chocolate and eight episode Fever dream about bugs, boats, brownies
and the attempt to do something great in a world
that always bites back. So sit back, put on your
mosquite on netting, and get ready for the ride. Listen
to Obsessions Wild Chocolate on the iHeart Radio app, Apple

(02:18):
Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, that was
age very large crocodile