The Art of the Deal
The Steve Harvey Morning Show
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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As Volker continues his quest for the perfect bean, police stage a stake out on his property to snare local cacao thieves. Want some of this god-level chocolate? Kaleidoscope has joined forces with 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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| 0:00.0 | Okay, it's Monday morning, the day of the big Wacharahe police sting operation on the Tranquidod |
| 0:21.4 | cacao thieves. So I'm going to walk out to a stretch of |
| 0:29.3 | roadside where the bikes stand to park and we'll see what's happening if there are any cacao fees |
| 0:34.3 | operating today and if the police are doing anything. More soon. So funny story, it's 2022 and I'm in Bolivia at Tranciladat, Volker Lehman's wild cacao state in the jungle. |
| 0:57.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:58.0 | I have not slept that deeply in years I think. |
| 1:05.0 | Mm. |
| 1:06.0 | Did you edit a dream or? |
| 1:09.0 | It's crazy dreams. |
| 1:12.0 | Crazy dreams. Crazy dreams. Crazy dreams. |
| 1:13.4 | This is what's happening here. |
| 1:15.3 | Yes, Volker's back. |
| 1:17.2 | He burned out on Kacao in 2014 and left the country bankrupt and bitter. |
| 1:22.0 | But by 2017, he couldn't stand to stay away any longer. |
| 1:25.8 | The game had changed and for the better. The new wave of craft chocolate makers |
| 1:30.8 | was willing to pay more than ever before for really great beans. |
| 1:34.0 | The Bean to Bar movement. It's more than chocolate making. It's really exploring new horizons. |
| 1:42.0 | So he came back to Bolivia with a new plan, |
| 1:45.0 | restore Tranquiladad, |
| 1:47.0 | transform it into a state-of-the-art demonstration center |
| 1:50.0 | for wild cacao and concentrate on quality instead of volume. That sounded great to me, but there's just |
| 1:57.1 | one catch. Actually there's a lot of catches, but this is the most present. The situation started developing a few days ago. |
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