Dragons: Death of the Fantastic

Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

For thousands of years, people believed in dragons. They were considered part of zoology, no more mythical than horses or chickens. Then along came a scientist/dragonslayer. This special episode comes from the audiobook edition of MOBITUARIES.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Mo.
0:03.9	When people ask me what distinguishes a Mobituary from an obituary, I tell them that it's a
0:09.8	remembrance for someone or something that never got a proper send off.
0:14.7	The Mobituary's book includes chapters on plenty of those some things, sports teams
0:20.4	you can't root for anymore, dead-fashion trends, rest in peace, caught peace, plus a
0:26.2	last dance for disco.
0:28.7	What about a remembrance for something that never existed?
0:32.4	Well, while researching for the Season 2 podcast episode on Founding Father Thomas Pain, I came
0:39.2	across a one-line mention of an incident in 1735 that led to the end of human kinds millennia
0:46.6	long belief in dragons.
0:50.0	Even if you still believe in dragons and I'm not judging here, I hope you'll enjoy
0:54.1	this chapter from the audiobook of Mobituaries, available from Simon and Schuster Audio,
1:00.7	wherever audiobooks are sold.
1:09.1	Death of the Fantastic Dragons 3000 BC to 1735
1:18.6	I know what you're thinking.
1:20.2	Mo, you can't write an obit for dragons because dragons never existed.
1:25.2	I mean, what's next?
1:26.5	Obits for those silly cartoon animal appliances on the Flintstones?
1:31.1	To which I have a three-part response.
1:33.7	One, I for one loved the animal appliances on the Flintstones.
1:38.1	My favorites were the woodpecker camera and the pelican dishwasher.
1:41.6	Two, this isn't an obit, it's a mobit.
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