OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate
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Forget Willy Wonka and those heart-shaped Valentine’s boxes. OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate. is a totally different beast. Join host Rowan Jacobson as he elbows his way through the rain forest, crash lands into cocaine flyaways, and avoids a few too many anaconda, tagging along with modern-day Lara Crofts as they try to get their hands on some of the world’s most ancient– and expensive– cacao.
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SILENCED - EP 1: The Black Book
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04/27/23 • 34 min
When music promoter and DJ Jean-Claude Olivier is shot outside a club in Miami, Little Haiti wonders – how much further is this going to go?
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Introducing: The Sicilian Inheritance
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04/02/24 • 2 min
Every family has an origin story – for author Jo Piazza (Under the Influence, Wilder) her family's is a murder mystery. For as long as she can remember the Piazzas have told the story of their Sicilian roots going back over a hundred years ago: one by one the sons and then their father sailed off to America to carve out a better life. Their mother, Lorenza Marsala was supposed to join them – but she never made it. She was murdered by the Sicilian mafia, they said. The truth of what happened has morphed like a game of telephone through the generations. Various versions of the story claim she was killed by the Black Hand, others insisted she was a witch, killed over a bad spell. Now, Jo is determined to untangle the twisted narrative which just might bridge the gap from cinematic mob fantasies to an unexpected reality. Join her in Sicily on a family vacation/fact finding mission in which she goes to the scene of the crime, confronts mafia experts, consults mediums, and tracks down Italian officials, determined to set the record straight on her great, great grandmother’s mysterious disappearance.
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Introducing OUTLAWS: The Good Thief
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07/13/23 • 1 min
Vassilis Palaikostas, aka “Greece’s Robin Hood” has been on the lam for 14 years. In his absence, legends of his generosity have grown. But no one knows where he is, or if the stories are even true.
Here’s what we do know: there’s a million Euro bounty out for Vassilis, and a 24-hour task force trying to track him down. When he robs banks, he shares the money with the poor. When he kidnaps industrialists-- and he only kidnaps those who are known for unfair labor practices-- they give baffling interviews showing how he opened their minds. And when he escapes heavily reinforced prisons, as he’s done ... by helicopter ... twice, he does it without harming a guard.
Join host Miles Gray and our team of Greek reporters as we follow Vassilis’ trail from Athens to tiny islands to remote mountain hideouts. Along the way, we’ll meet Vassilis’s inner circle, chat with police chiefs and prime ministers, and work to understand how this thief managed to steal the country’s heart.
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THE LAST SOVIET- EP 1: Let’s Go
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02/15/23 • 38 min
Traveling at five miles a second, 250 miles above the Earth’s surface, Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev wakes to a message from his handlers on the ground: the Soviet Union is collapsing. And so is the Soviet Space agency. You have a choice: come down as planned and abandon the world’s only space station to an unknown fate. Or stay, protect the final outpost of a falling empire and risk your life?
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Introducing Skyline Drive: It's Supposed to Be Fun
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12/22/22 • 38 min
In this new series from Kaleidoscope co-founder Mangesh Hattikudur, we journey into the weird, wonderful world of astrology with a little help from: Mangesh's mom, a science writer, a famous musician, and one very sneaky author! But when an ominous prediction suddenly comes true, his life turns upside down.
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The Awakening
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11/09/22 • 36 min
No one should be murdered over some cacao beans. But as the world gets a taste for wild chocolate, competition becomes cutthroat.
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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The Hunt
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10/26/22 • 36 min
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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Trailer: OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate
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10/19/22 • 2 min
Introducing the first season of OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate. We take you deep into the Amazon on the hunt for fortune, glory and chocolate. Want some of this god-level chocolate? Kaleidoscope has joined forces with wild cocoa hunter 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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Introducing: Afghan Star, hosted by John Legend
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05/16/24 • 3 min
From the fall of the Taliban until its return, people all over Afghanistan planned their lives around Afghan Star. People would pack into apartments. Villages would hook up generators to a single tv so crowds could watch. New Year’s celebrations would come to a halt, all to watch this one show. Over its 15 seasons, Afghan Star spotlighted an Afghanistan that could be: women singing without hijabs, Afghanistan’s first rapper, people of warring ethnic groups hugging and cheering for each other on stage. And it launched a cultural revolution. This is the story behind it all– from how a ragtag team scrambled to make the show every week, to the dangers they faced for trying to push the country forward. In Afghanistan, a cultural revolution was televised through a musical talent show, and this is its story. Hosted by John Legend.
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Introducing: On Musk with Walter Isaacson
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12/12/23 • 3 min
What is it like to shadow Elon Musk for two years? To sit courtside as he builds a rocket? Or tears apart an engineer? Or couch surfs at the homes of billionaires? And how on earth do you make sense of it all? Walter Isaacson is the biographer of giants: DaVinci, Franklin, Doudna, Jobs...and now Musk, former enfante terrible, rocket launcher, electric car innovator, and Twitter—er, X—disruptor, to put it gently. In this four part series, author Evan Ratliff (Mastermind, Longform Podcast) sits down with Isaacson to draw out the behind-the-scenes stories of this epic biography, and what the writer has learned as an outsider inside Silicon Valley.
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FAQ
How many episodes does OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate have?
OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate currently has 18 episodes available.
What topics does OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Documentary, Podcasts, Arts and Food.
What is the most popular episode on OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate?
The episode title 'Introducing Skyline Drive: It's Supposed to Be Fun' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate?
The average episode length on OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate is 27 minutes.
How often are episodes of OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate released?
Episodes of OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate are typically released every 7 days, 10 hours.
When was the first episode of OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate?
The first episode of OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate was released on Oct 19, 2022.
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