The Hunt

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🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Things get off to a rocky start when the team accidentally crashes into a major cocaine flyway. 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.

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0:00.0	I'm in the co-pilot seat of the small Cessna plane and we're circling the Bolivia
0:20.9	and Amazon.
0:24.6	Beside me, pilot sweating.
0:26.5	We're looking for a place to land and we can't find one.
0:31.8	The weather was bad and the pilot was nervous and it was quite exciting.
0:38.5	Behind me is this guy just a day ago, this German Kakao hunter named Volker Laman.
0:43.1	Volker looks a bit like the German director Ernr Herzog.
0:46.4	Sounds like him too.
0:47.9	The more dangerous or tricky the situation gets, the calmer I get.
0:54.1	It's 2010.
0:55.6	And Volker's letting me tag along if he searches for a holy grail.
0:58.8	Wild Kakao, the tree that gives us chocolate.
1:01.7	Kakao's native to the Amazon and now it's farmed all over the tropics, mostly in Africa.
1:06.2	A few years before our trip, Volker stumbled upon an incredible variety of wild Kakao and
1:11.2	Bolivia and he turned it into this mind-blowing chocolate.
1:14.8	So now there's a gold rush for these magic beans.
1:17.2	And Volker's hope is to stay one step ahead.
1:21.3	There's an indigenous group in the forest on the Europe R.A.
1:24.6	The river has it, they have a ton of wild kata-sau.
1:28.4	So the plan is, fly in, find a landing strip, take a dug out canoe to the Yurukari village,
1:35.7	strike a deal.
1:40.7	Below us the jungle looks otherworldly.
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