Hey, I'm Joel Stein. I want you to close your eyes and imagine a pocket watch.

It's moving from side to side. You're getting very sleepy.

Great. Now that I've hypnotized you against your will, you're going to start liking long-form journalism.

Like so much. You're going to listen to a podcast where the host interviews a writer about their long-form story every week.

I'm that host.

Listen to Story of the Week on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Mo Raka and I'm back with season three of my podcast, Mo Bituaries.

I've dug up even more stories about the people and things that fascinate me.

From the fruit that once scandalized...

The shape of the banana made it taboo.

...to the band that played second banana to the Beatles.

They were lucky to come in second and the truth is they only came in second for about two months.

Listen to Mo Bituaries on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

The world of chocolate has been turned upside down.

A very unusual situation.

You saw this tax of cash in an office.

Chocolate comes from the cacoucherie and recently Variety's cacao

thought to have been lost centuries ago where we discovered in the Amazon.

There is no chocolate on earth like this.

Now some chocolate makers are racing deep into the jungle to find the next game-changing chocolate.

And I'm coming along.

Okay, that was a very large crack it up.

...