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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

Mo Rocca: Lives Worth Reliving

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Radio

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4.1738 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This week, Martha was joined by Mo Rocca, author of Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving. Mo and Martha discuss how world leaders, famous actors and even the death of TV sitcoms are remembered, and the real stories behind those legacies.  Follow Martha on Twitter: @marthamaccallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Untold Story with Martha McCallum, exclusive interviews with top newsmakers who share their inspiring

0:38.7

stories of perseverance, positivity, and more. Now, here's Martha McCallum. You've probably seen

0:47.0

Mo Rocca on Broadway or on the Daily Show with John Stewart for four seasons or as a correspondent

0:52.5

for CBS Sunday morning.

0:59.9

Mo is an expert researcher and storyteller who has a fascination with a lot of things,

1:01.7

among them, obituaries.

1:07.9

In his new book, Mobituaries, he shares stories of those we have lost and retells their past in a way that brings them back to life.

1:11.1

Mo makes us think about who gets remembered and why, from global leaders to Hollywood stars to

1:17.4

innovators who've changed our world. Moa Raka joins me now to share his untold story.

1:24.2

Hi, Mo.

1:24.8

Hi, Martha. Thanks for having me. It's great having you here. How are you doing? I'm doing it. I'm doing it. This is a fun time for me. It is a fun time for you. And I think this is really a great idea for a book. I also think that obituaries are fascinating. And one of the saddest things to me about reading obituaries in the newspaper, or even if you have a friend whose, you know,

1:44.8

parent or relative passes away, and then you read about their life. And you wish that you had

1:50.2

known those things all along, right? Yeah, absolutely. There's definitely that sense of loss beyond

1:57.0

the actual loss you're reading about. Yeah. And so you are going back and kind of reminding readers, things that they didn't know about

2:05.0

these people, which is, as I said, the feeling that I often get when I read an obitur,

2:08.5

I think, I wish I knew all these things about this person when they were alive.

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