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Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

The Station Wagon: Death of a Leviathan

Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

iHeartPodcasts and CBS News

Society & Culture, History

4.820.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

For a few decades the station wagon was as central to the American Dream as the white picket fence and the basketball hoop in the driveway. It was the quintessential family car. And really, who didn’t want to ride in the “way back”? This special episode comes from the audiobook edition of MOBITUARIES. You can learn more here: http://bit.ly/MoAudio.

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0:00.0

Hey Jeff Prope's Chair, host and executive producer of Survivor.

0:03.8

To celebrate the 44th season of our show, we launched an official survivor podcast called

0:09.6

On Fire with me, Jeff Prope's.

0:12.0

It's not going to be your typical recap podcast.

0:14.6

We're going to take you behind the scenes and give you an inside look at the show.

0:19.0

All those burning questions about why we did what we did, finally going to be answered.

0:24.1

Listen to On Fire with Jeff Prope's the official survivor podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.9

A few months ago, which let's face it might as well be 10 years ago,

0:35.2

I went out on the road to promote my MoBituary's book.

0:39.1

The names I was asked most about, famous first brother Billy Carter,

0:44.4

screen legend Audrey Hepburn, and the original Siamese twins Chang and Ann.

0:50.2

I'm imagining a wacky road trip with the four of them.

0:53.5

Now, if in some parallel universe they were to take a road trip,

0:57.6

I would hope they'd take it in the vehicle that was once synonymous with family fun and adventure.

1:04.8

Please enjoy this MoBit for the Station wagon, which I recorded for the audiobook version of

1:10.8

the MoBituary's book. And please enjoy the bonus on the back end of this bonus.

1:16.2

Death of a Leviathan.

1:22.7

The Station wagon, 1949 to 2011.

1:31.5

My family had a station wagon for a couple of years in the early 1970s,

1:36.6

but I was only three or four at the time so I can barely remember it.

1:40.7

It was yellow I think, or maybe it was cream colored.

1:44.6

Was it a Chevy? What I do know is that one afternoon my mother put my brother in the back seat

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