Mobituaries with Mo Rocca
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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...
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59 EpisodenDeath of a Name | Reviving a Mobit
What do you think will be the top baby names of 2025? Will "Mildred" make a comeback? What’s in a name…that makes it popular to one generation, and do...
Marlene Dietrich Goes To War | Reviving a Mobit
We’re celebrating the birthday month of the iconic Marlene Deitrich by revisiting a special episode from the "Mobituaries" audiobook. Marlene Dietrich...
Sammy Davis Jr.: Death of the Entertainer | Reviving a Mobit
This week, we’re celebrating the birthday of the legendary Sammy Davis Jr. by revisiting a special Mobit. From the age of three Sammy Davis, Jr. did i...
Wishbone: Death of a Working Dog | Reviving a Mobit
This week marks 8 years since the finale of the beloved series "Wishbone". In the 1990s, PBS introduced young audiences to a canine star like none oth...
Neanderthals: Death of a Human Species | Reviving a Mobit
Did you know November 9 is National Neanderthal Appreciation Day? Reivist this episode where Mo welcomes his friend Michael Ian Black – comedian, auth...
Sitcom Deaths and Disappearances | Reviving a Mobit
In honor of the anniversary of the first-ever sitcom broadcast on a U.S. television network (fun fact: it was "Mary Kay and Johnny" back in November 1...
Literary Frontierswoman: Laura Ingalls Wilder
This special episode comes from the audiobook edition of ROCTOGENARIANS, a brand-new collection of stories from Mo Rocca that celebrates the triumphs...
LaWanda Page: Death of a Comedy Queen
Long before her turn as the sermonizing Aunt Esther on "Sanford and Son," LaWanda Page was dazzling Black nightclub audiences - first as the flame-swa...
Revisiting the Orphan Train: An American Odyssey
Between 1854 and 1929, 250,000 orphans and abandoned children were placed on East Coast city trains and sent west to live with new families. A despera...
Death of a Sports Team: Satchel Paige and Los Dragones
There’s no shortage of sports teams that change cities or names over the course of their franchise history. But what about the teams that just cease t...
Death of the Very Special Episode
If you were a kid watching TV in the 1980s and 1990s, you probably saw a fair number of “Very Special Episodes,” when the usual blissful bubble of the...
Mobits Extra: How Norman Lear Changed Television
Starting in the early 1970s, Norman Lear changed the face of television, fusing comedy with social commentary. Lear died on December 5th at the great...
The Habsburg Jaw: Death of a Dynasty
For centuries European royals married only each other. It was believed to be the best way of consolidating power. But rampant royal inbreeding had inc...
Death of a Nepo Baby
“Nepo Baby” is a term popularly used to describe the celebrity children of celebrity parents. But family connections affect every field of work, and a...
JFK Impersonator Vaughn Meader: Death of a Career
November 22, 2023, marks 60 years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the end of one of the era's biggest comedy acts. During Ken...
Charlie McCarthy: Death of a Dummy
When Candice Bergen describes her childhood as weird and eccentric, she isn’t exaggerating. She grew up with a world-famous sibling, who met president...
Things I Wish Would Die
On this podcast we’ve honored some of our past’s most outstanding and underappreciated people and things. May they live on in memory. But let’s face i...
Death of an Accent
Have you ever wondered about that old timey accent so many actors used in black and white movies? Hollywood stars like Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis...
Jim Thorpe: Death of an All-American
When gold medalist Jim Thorpe was dubbed "the world's greatest athlete" at the 1912 Olympics, it wasn't hype. Football, baseball, lacrosse, even ballr...
Peggy Lee: Death of Cool
There were so many different Peggy Lees: The woman who defined cool in the 1950s with songs like "Fever." The songwriter of hits including the score t...
Died on the Same Day (with special guest Anderson Cooper)
When it comes to obituaries, Mo has always been obsessed with the phenomenon of public figures who share the same death day. So he’s asked CNN anchor...
Introducing: Season 4 of Mobituaries with Mo Rocca
Mo Rocca is back with another fascinating season of Mobituaries, exploring the people and things that are no longer with us but deserve a second look....
Timothy Scott: Death of a Dancer
When Andrew Lloyd Webber’s original Broadway production of the musical Cats premiered in 1982, a young dancer named Timothy Scott was just entering hi...
Benedict Arnold: Before They Went Bad
Before his name became synonymous with treason, Benedict Arnold was a bonafide hero of the American Revolutionary War. At critical moments Arnold insp...
The Gros Michel: Death of a Banana
The banana we eat today is not the same kind our grandparents grew up eating. Today’s variety, called the Cavendish, is generally regarded as the blan...
Samantha Smith: Death of a Peacemaker
At one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War, an ordinary 5th grade girl from Maine wrote to the leader of the Soviet Union with a simple plea...
Second Place Finishers: Larry Doby, Judith Resnik & The Dave Clark Five
We love historical “Firsts” so much that we end up ignoring the people who come right after them. But without these runners-up, the trailblazers are j...
Fanny Brice: Death of the Original Funny Girl
Fans of Broadway and Barbra Streisand probably know the name Fanny Brice as the woman who refuses to let anyone rain on her parade in the beloved musi...
Mobits Extra: Burrata and Anchovies with Major Garrett
Mo goes behind the scenes of season 3 of Mobituaries with the host of The Takeout, Major Garrett. They share a delicious meal and dig into the highlig...
Mobits Extra: Mo’s Mystery Bust
Mo’s deep appreciation for our less-remembered presidents led him to purchase a giant bust of Grover Cleveland, which has dominated his living room fo...
Death of the Latin Lover
The frenzy Rudolph Valentino caused in life was matched only by the pandemonium unleashed when he died at age 31. With his brooding good looks and vul...
June Foray: Woman of a Thousand Voices
It's hard to imagine childhood without the classic cartoon characters June Foray gave voice to: Little Cindy Lou Who from The Grinch, Granny from the...
Mr. & Mrs. Smith: Death of a Marriage Ban
1967 was a big year for marriage in America. The Supreme Court's ruling in Loving v. Virginia overturned bans on interracial marriage in 16 states. Th...
Death of a Name: Mildred, Bertha & Todd
What’s in a name…that makes it popular to one generation, and downright ugly to the next? From "Bertha" and "Layla" to "Reagan" and "Katrina," history...
Wishbone: Death of a Working Dog
In the 1990s, PBS introduced young audiences to a canine star like none other: a Jack Russell terrier who imagined himself as characters from classic...
John Denver: Death of the Sunshine Boy
The utter sincerity of his songs ("Country Roads," "Rocky Mountain High") endeared John Denver to fans worldwide and helped make him one of the bigges...
Introducing: Season 3 of Mobituaries with Mo Rocca
Mo Rocca’s long love of obituaries returns for a third season. Mo looks to celebrate the dearly departed people (and things) of the past who have long...
The Station Wagon: Death of a Leviathan
For a few decades the station wagon was as central to the American Dream as the white picket fence and the basketball hoop in the driveway. It was the...
Anna May Wong: Death of a Trailblazer
Anna May Wong wasn't supposed to be in the movies. Her laundryman father was dead set against it. And Hollywood preferred white actors in "yellow face...
Mobituaries LIVE!
In a Mobits first, Mo takes the show on the road! Mo shares his love of obituaries; investigates why we confuse certain dead celebrities; and intervie...