It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. Have you ever had the thought

that you're too late, like too late to debut on Broadway? Too late to write a book, maybe you believe that you're

too old to get married or swim from the Bahamas to Florida. If so, our next guest has a

different point of view. And our next guest is Mo Rocca, who so many of you know from his

frequent appearances on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, or CBS Sunday

mornings and elsewhere. Mo is with us to talk about his new book, Rocktogenarians, late in life,

debuts, comebacks, and triumphs. In it, he chronicles the lives and successes of people from

Carol Channing to Colonel Sanders, proving that it's never too late to try

something new. And now he joins us to share some of those stories. Morocca, always great to have you on

this show. Welcome back to WNYC. Thank you, Brian. So good to be with you. And thank God I wasn't late.

The train was on time. Yes. If you were late, well, there would have been a price to pay. But what

exactly is a roctogenarian? A roctogenarian is someone who does not accept the conventional

wisdom that the last third of life is a time to sort of wind down. Because look, if life is a three-act

play, you don't want the critics falling asleep during Act 3.

I mean, we are living longer than ever before the CDC just said that after a few years of

reversals, that life expectancy is on the rise again will continue to rise.

People live long enough to have whole other lives after the traditional age of retirement.

And so my co-author, Jonathan Greenberg, and I wanted to tell stories of people who lived

these full, exciting lives at a time in life that people would think ordinarily is too old.

And you confess and we'll go through some examples of people you interview in the book

and we'll invite our listeners to tell us you interview in the book and we'll invite

our listeners to tell us some of their own rockdo-genarian stories, but you confess, if that's

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