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 podcast.

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 cacao tree, and recently, Variety's cacao, thought to have been lost centuries ago, were rediscovered in the Amazon.

There is no chocolate on there 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.

Listen to Obsessions, it's a wild chocolate.

On the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

My name is Joshua Topolsky, and I have a new podcast called What Future.

But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show.

And I'm not trying to force you to listen to it.

And maybe you're not interested in internet culture and the future of life on planet Earth, and why John Carpenter movies are so good.

You may just want to listen to a podcast about, I don't know, sports or whatever Joe Rogan talks about.

And that's fine, you know, no judgment.

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