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.

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 fought 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.

Listen to Obsessions while chocolate on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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. No judgment.

But if you like what you're hearing and I know that you do, you can listen to all of what future on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

You should never say how I mistook one party consent also on a recording rub it.

It's okay. It's with a president so we can't be that bad.

Shouldn't have done that's Jimmy Cotty. Well, he's never recovered, man.

You can see it in his eyes when he tried to rebuild those houses. Welcome to it could happen here.

The podcast where one of us committed a crime against Jimmy Carter, former president of the United States.

That might actually get us in trouble with the secret service, but you know what it's happening. It's happening, James.

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