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Guaranteed Human. Guess what, Will? What's that, Mango? So, you know, I love spicy food, right? And I love chocolate, but I don't really love this trend of spicy and chocolate. I am 100% with you on this because I love spicy food and I love chocolate, too. But I don't want any chili powder, like in my hot chocolate or chocolate or any of that stuff.

I know.

Why are people always mixing those flavors?

But I was looking into it, and I found possibly the worst example of super spicy

chocolate.

Oh, yeah.

There's a company that spired up in 2016 called Pepper Bomb Your Mom.

Sounds like an insult

yeah I mean it was I guess a joke that you could play on people where you'd buy a chocolate

coated Carolina Reaper for 999 and then send it to a loved one

or I guess the opposite I was going to say that is not something you want to send to a loved one

I know Carolina Reapers are so spicy actually Actually, we've talked about these before.

Aren't they even spicier than like ghost peppers? Yeah, they are. So I'm not sure if it's like the threat of lawsuits that close this business or the fact that too many moms complained about it. But pepper bomb, your mom, sadly, doesn't send out pepper bombs anymore. Sadly. I do want to get into the more tempting part of that recipe, which is the chocolate.

Why humans are so obsessed. out pepper bombs anymore. Sadly. I do want to get into the more tempting part of that recipe, which is the chocolate.

Why humans are so obsessed with it, whether it's really as healthy as all these reports would

have us believe, and why doesn't it taste more like tropical custard the way the beans do?

Let's dig in.

Yeah. again. Hey there, podcast listeners. Welcome to part-time genius. I'm Will Pearson. And as always, I'm joined by my good friend Mengas shot ticketer. And on the other side of the soundproof glass, munching his way through a Whitman sampler. That's our friend and producer, Tristan McNeil. Actually, by the way, that sampler looks like it's meant for more than one person, wouldn't you say, Mango?

Yeah, yeah, definitely.

It's got to be like 30, 40 ounces of chocolate sitting there. I know, but I actually tried to grab a piece earlier, and Tristan slapped my hand away. Apparently, he's busy ranking all the different chocolates for his blog. Oh, really? His blog? Well, that's at least something to look forward to, so I'll leave it be then.

So you know what's funny is right before Hurricane Sandy, the night before the storm hit, like, Lizzie sent me to a convenience store to get some last-minute supplies, and we were pretty stocked up, but just in case, I went to pick up some, like, extra toilet paper and water, and I think batteries. But the weather was bad.

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