Mobituaries with Mo Rocca [CC]

No news is entirely bad news, as long as it’s being delivered by Mo Rocca. A correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning and a frequent panelist on NPR’s Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me!, Rocca has a knack for presenting current events in a way that’s both informative and hilarious. In Mobituaries, Rocca applies these skills to history, memorializing people and objects past. Some of these playful, heartfelt pieces cover subjects Rocca considers overlooked or underrated; In others, he illuminates the lives of people whose names we may know, but whose true stories we may not, including Thomas Paine and Audrey Hepburn. In conversation with Wait, Wait host Peter Sagal, Rocca will discuss the power of rethinking--and finding humor in--the past.
This program is generously underwritten by Elaine and Roger Haydock. This program was recorded on November 3, 2019.
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[@arnieeastlick9153]

Mo Rocca - a delightful man, who with good humor and a love of history, has a reverence for the individual, a sense of perspective for the past, and a devotion to family. In every way, he is the essence of what it means to be an American. And a conservative! He'd probably find the irony of political characterization delicious but it doesn't make it less accurate.

[@maryrosekent8223]

This man is my soulmate! One of my favorite things when I was a teen and pre-teen was to spend time in our dining room window seat with our set of Encyclopedia Britannica and look at maps.

[@shareebrown727]

I remember when encyclopedia sales people would come to your door selling them. They were expensive and a big deal. Lol

[@wizkidsvideos]

Just love Mo. Totally relate to his thirst for learning and his love for the past. He’s such a compassionate, humorous loving person. We need more Mo’s in this world. ❤️❤️❤️

[@leahreyes-ramos5592]

Very enjoyable. Have been a fan, truly relatable

[@maryrosekent8223]

In William Manchester’s _The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972,_ he had brief recounting significant events and mini-bios embedded between chapters-things like _The Bonus March on Washington_ and _The Edsel._ It’s a great book and Mo’s book seems to have incorporated this same idea.

[@earthproductions101]

OMG I WAS THERE THAT DAY!!!

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