Mobituaries with Mo Rocca Season 1 Trailer

Join CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, humorist, and history buff Mo Rocca for an irreverent but deeply researched appreciation of the people (and things) of the past who have long intrigued him. This trailer previews a few of the subjects profiled in season 1.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And your name a Morocco. Rocca. Morocco is the country. Okay,
I'm mo Rocca, and I've got a brand new podcast.
It's all about the people who have long fascinated me.
The one thing they've got in common, they're all dead.

(00:21):
The name of my brand new podcast, Mobituaries. This first season,
we've cast a wide net from the twentieth century's greatest entertainer,
easily the greatest. He had it all. He was everything.

(00:42):
I mean, he could play any instrument, he could sing,
he could dance like a maniac. So you were blobbs, Yeah,
what was that like? It was fabulous. He's as talented
in that area as he wasn't as he was otherwise.
To the founding Father, who just doesn't seem to get
much respect, this guy did everything wrong, said, there's no statue,

(01:06):
there's no signature on the Declaration of Independence. All his
pr instincts were bad instincts, okay from sitcom characters gone
too soon. They had to kill her instantly, instantly. They
did not have room in the writing for the older brother,
because the fawns became the older brother to our cave

(01:28):
dwelling human ancestors. If they had told me only how
much Neanderthal I am. I would have paid twice the
amount for the test. You'll learn new things about people
you thought you knew. Were you aware that the day
of your inauguration, Audrey Hepburn died. No, you didn't know that. No,
you'll learn about people you've never heard of. She's really

(01:51):
the Rosa Parks of New York. Most New Yorkers, most Americans,
have no idea. How much does this historical amnesia bother you?
I mean, it's infuriating, it's absolutely infuriating. Oh, by the way,
some of the people aren't people at all. We've got
the majestic trees that do no harm to anyone, and

(02:12):
someone has chosen to harm them. It makes no sense
to me. So join me this premier season of Mobituaries.
Ye know what, I'm telling you, my whole life story.
Anything you're doing, it's a podcast that's even worse.