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🗓️ 17 January 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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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 interviews former New York Times obituary writer Margalit Fox about what it's like to write about the dead for a living. This episode was recorded in Asbury Park, NJ and Fairfield, CT.
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0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Tawny Newsom. I play Beckett Mariner on Star Trek Lower Decks. |
0:06.7 | I am Paul F. Tompkins and I play Dr. Migglymo on Star Trek Lower Decks. |
0:10.7 | But more importantly, we're just a couple of Star Trek nerds who are excited because we finally get to talk about Star Trek again with all of you. |
0:17.4 | And we will be featuring Deep Space Nine guests to celebrate the show's 30th anniversary. |
0:22.8 | We're gonna be talking Picard Season 3 with members of the original of the next generation cast. |
0:28.4 | Listen to Star Trek The Pod Directive Wherever You Get Your Podcasts. |
0:35.2 | Hello MoVituaries listeners. As you know, this podcast is about my favorite dead people and things. |
0:42.7 | But for this episode, we wanted to, well, live and things up. |
0:46.8 | So we decided to tape in front of a live audience. |
0:50.1 | What follows is a compilation of two appearances I made in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and Fairfield, Connecticut. |
0:57.3 | There was plenty of fun in games. Plus, I interviewed legendary New York Times obituary writer Marguerleep Fox. |
1:04.9 | Just a few times, you're gonna hear the audience reacting to images displayed on a screen. |
1:10.2 | But I'm pretty sure you'll get the joke. |
1:12.3 | So without further ado, from CBS Sunday Morning and Simon and Schuster, I'm MoVraca. |
1:20.2 | And this is MoVituaries. |
1:27.3 | Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, MoVraca. |
1:38.2 | Hello, good evening. |
1:41.8 | Thank you very much. |
1:47.2 | I am so happy to be here in Asbury Park for the first MoVituaries live. |
1:53.1 | I inherited my love of obituaries from my father. |
2:00.0 | My father always said that the obits was his favorite section of the newspaper. |
2:04.6 | And I think it's because my father had a real sense of the romance of life. |
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