Mobituaries with Mo Rocca
Hosted by Mo Rocca · iHeartPodcasts and CBS News
4.8from 22,501 ratings
- 58
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- 22,501
- Ratings
- 2019
- First episode
- 419M
- YouTube views
About Mobituaries with Mo Rocca
“CBS News Sunday Morning” correspondent Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries. Each episode of Mobituaries covers his favorite dearly departed people and things. This season profiles legendary athlete Jim Thorpe in "Death of an All-American", iconic singer/songwriter Peggy Lee in "Death of Cool", and even the death of the mid-Atlantic accent, best known from the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Franklin Roosevelt and Jacqueline Kennedy. Mo even has a few new things in store including an episode that looks back at folks who "Died on the Same Day.” Think: Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett; John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; Jim Henson and Sammy Davis, Jr. – and then there’s Margaret Thatcher and Annette Funicello? Tune in for fresh takes on famous legacies and tributes to people who never got the sendoff they deserved. Even if you know the names, you’ve never understood why they matter until now!
- Publisher
- iHeartPodcasts and CBS News
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Jan 2019
- Latest episode
- 25 Dec 2024
Latest episodes
7 of 58 episodes have a transcript.
25 Dec 2024TRANSCRIPT
Death of a Name | Reviving a Mobit
18 Dec 2024TRANSCRIPT
Marlene Dietrich Goes To War | Reviving a Mobit
11 Dec 2024TRANSCRIPT
Sammy Davis Jr.: Death of the Entertainer | Reviving a Mobit
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Death of a Name | Reviving a Mobit
Published 25 Dec 2024 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Half of the most popular girls names started with vowels in the 1880s. Then we're all consonants by 1950. Anna and Emma became Patricia and Deborah. Now vowels are back in a big way. It makes you wonder why? Certainly in terms of how we perceive beauty, at least in English and in related languages, vowels are beautiful because they involve no obstruction of the air flow. Stop sounds such as those are the ugliest sounds because you have to stop those are the ones that you're calling the jabbing sounds. Then there's everything in between. So you get a buzz. At least you get a hiss and then with yeah, whoa, whoa, whoa, those might as well be vowels. […]
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- 419,181,709
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- 4.8 / 5
- 22,501 ratings
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- 63
- Engagement
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