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Speaker 1: Six away from my country is only festival dedicated entirely

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Speaker 1: the chocolate's on today. Chalk Stock brings producers from across

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Speaker 1: the Pacific to the capital of The co founder was

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Speaker 1: Luke o Ian Smith, who's well, there's Luke morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: I do one block of dark one hundred per day.

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Speaker 1: What about you?

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, I'm surprised to hear that. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I love when I say sorry, when I say block,

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Speaker 1: I don't mean a block. I mean a look, a piece,

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Speaker 1: an individual, a little square.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I love having a piece of one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent with my cup of tea in the morning.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So a block a day keeps the I

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Speaker 1: don't know what it keeps away, but it's it's It's

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Speaker 1: good for you, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It's good for you for sure, Yeah, especially one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: Are you? Are you freaking out about the price of cocal.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm not a chocolate maker, so I'm not so much.

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Speaker 2: But I think I think the chocolate makers are definitely

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Speaker 2: having some struggles. It's yeah, I mean, so what do

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Speaker 2: you talk about everything else?

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Speaker 1: You're just an entrepreneur's got no relationship with chocolate at all,

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Speaker 1: and you just gone I know I'm going to organize

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Speaker 1: a chalk stock festival.

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Speaker 2: So I've worked in the chocolate industry for about ten years.

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Speaker 2: I used to have a tail shops selling craft chocolate

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Speaker 2: from all around the world, and then I do like

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Speaker 2: journalism and chocolate judging and organizing this event. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: all sorts of things.

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Speaker 1: What to chocolate judging. What's your view on people who

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Speaker 1: stick random crep inside the chocolate? Like people?

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Speaker 2: Then I guess, you know, I think it can be good,

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Speaker 2: but it has to be done well. You know, personally

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Speaker 2: I tend to stick more to the single origin stuff,

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Speaker 2: but I do like a good flavored boo and it's

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Speaker 2: done well.

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Speaker 1: Exactly how BIG's the festival? And I asked that because

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Speaker 1: of course you'll be aware of and those sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: You know, the craft chocolate industry seems to be like

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Speaker 1: the craft beer industry. It seems to be slightly problematic

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Speaker 1: at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Well it's ocho isn't exactly relevant of everything that's going on,

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Speaker 2: but it's it's still quite a new, young movement, I

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Speaker 2: would say, So we're we're growing quite a lot. Like

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Speaker 2: there's about ten times the makers, ten times three times

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Speaker 2: the makers. There were a few years ago right now,

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Speaker 2: so it's it's kind of it's blossoming, but with early days,

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Speaker 2: we haven't quite reached where craft chocolate craft areas at

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Speaker 2: the moment, and we're still.

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Speaker 1: Do we have a sorry to wonder, right, do we

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Speaker 1: have a sophisticated pelot? I mean, do people know what

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Speaker 1: they're tasting and want to taste in their profiles and

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Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: I think it's developed a lot of the last ten years,

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Speaker 2: but I think there's still a way to go. When

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Speaker 2: you compare it to wine, you know, where you know,

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Speaker 2: if you have someone what wine they're like, they'll probably

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Speaker 2: tell you like a cab sav or whatever. Whereas if

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Speaker 2: you have them what chocolate they're like, they might just

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Speaker 2: say like dark or milk. You know. It's like that

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Speaker 2: level of understanding of the complexity. But it's it's changed

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Speaker 2: a lot in the last ten years, and it will

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Speaker 2: still change more.

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Speaker 1: How long you've been in the country.

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Speaker 2: Look about twelve thirteen years.

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Speaker 1: Are you voting in the election?

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Speaker 2: I imagine I will, Oh you mean the UK? Yeah, yeah, yes,

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Speaker 2: I probably will. Yeah, I need to check if my

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Speaker 2: brother can do my proxy vote.

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Speaker 1: But likes they changed the rule. You can vote forever

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Speaker 1: now expect right and yeah literally forever.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I always have voted since I last Yeah, good.

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Speaker 1: On, well, go well with the festival this weekend. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: it very much, Luke Owen Smith. You see how random

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