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President Carter is on the line. Hello,

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Mr President, this is Morocca. Thank

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you very very much for speaking with me

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this morning, my

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favorite service. I'm Morocca

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and I'm back with season two of Mobituaries.

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I've got even more stories about the people

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and things that fascinate me, and

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yes they're all still dead. From

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a presidential brother so famous

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he had his own beer, very

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vivid membership trying to get down that Billy

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beer was awful stuff. To

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the first Chinese American movie

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star. I don't see her as

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a tragic figure. I just think of her

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as somebody that's quite remarkable in the

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strides that she did make, and there'd be roles

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for her today. It's true. She would

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be great on Grey's Anatomy and

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Killing You to a group of pioneering

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politicians who defined an era

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reconstruction is a moment of incredible

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hopefulness. When Frederick Douglas

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saw the portrait of Hiram Revels, he

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said, at last, the black man has represented

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something other than a monkey. This season,

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I returned to the television killing

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Fields to investigate a long

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forgotten sitcom slaughter.

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He and I literally whacked

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the hell out of that schedule. They canceled Beverly

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Hillbilies, Pettico Junction, Green Acres,

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anything in the country, anything that was not in

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a city with breaking concrete. Bye bye.

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And I'll tell you the story of how

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an eighties pop song. It

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is a song with velocity, right, so

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big and bold and brash brought

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a two thousand nineteen sports team back

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to life. I will go to my grave

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singing champion. Yes,

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I will so join

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me this November for season two

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of Mobituaries. Yeah.

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Check out Mobituaries the book with

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lots of brand new stories not in

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the podcast.