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Ridiculous History

Mobituaries with Mo Rocca, Part Two: What's Past is Prologue

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

What happened to the payphone? Were you also stunned the first time you saw Abe Lincoln without a beard? In the second part of this special two-part series, Mo Rocca explores the strange passage of the past to the present, and what we carry with us along the way. Join Ben, Noel, Max and Mo as they learn more about Mobituaries and the art of storytelling with a soul.

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0:00.0

You don't put those inside of you, do you? This is a show about women. I mean, you do?

0:08.0

Finally, a show about women that isn't just a thinly veiled aspirational nightmare. It's not

0:14.3

hosted, not narrated, we're just dropping into a woman's world. I found out when my

0:19.0

dad was gay when I was 10, we were in a convertible on the 405 freeway, listening to the B-52s.

0:26.0

Looking back, I should have said, this is gay. This is already all gay.

0:30.0

Listen to finally a show on the I- Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your

0:35.6

podcasts.

0:38.6

Everyone in our country has a voice. It's something that says not just where you come from, but who you are.

0:47.0

Welcome to NPR's Black Stories, Black Truths, a collection of podcasts and a celebration of the hosts in journalism who've always

0:55.2

spoken truth to power.

0:57.3

Our voices are as varied, nuanced, and dynamic as the Black experience, and stories should

1:02.4

never be about us without us.

1:05.0

Find NPR Black Stories Black Truths on the I Heart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:11.0

Hey there fellow 20-Somethings, it's your girl, Sydney Winter and

1:15.0

and guess what the weight is finally over season four of crying in public is

1:19.4

here and I'm flying solo for the very first time that's right right, no co-host to rein me in, just me and myself in the

1:25.3

mic. From relationships to careers and all the awkward encounters in between, recovering it all.

1:30.0

So mark your calendars and set your reminders because Crying in Public is

1:33.6

dropping its juiciest season yet. Listen to the new season of Crying in

1:37.1

Public on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your

1:40.4

podcast. Ridiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio. Oh, Welcome back to the show, Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always so much for tuning in big big shout out to our super producer

2:14.9

Mr Max Williams I'm Ben you know and we're kind of like joining the show in media, Res.

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