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 while chocolate on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

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.

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