Growing up, I just never liked the name Maurice. I wasn't sure what just call you, whether I should call you Maurice. Am. I'm Morocca and I'm back with season three of my podcast Mobituaries. I'm looking forward to introducing you to even more of my favorite dearly departed people and things from once popular names that have been left for Dad. It's not a goofy name, it's a cool name. It's tied to the girl whose name made international news
in eleven year old American school girls. Samantha Smith today said goodbye to Soviet children she met at a youth camp on the Black Sea. She was that beam of sunshine that broke through the cold ice of cold work to the woman of a thousand voices, Why are you taking our Christmas tree? Why you know her? Laugh for witch Hazel. It's so quintessential right to freak you out. It creaked me out from the Latin lovers who set
Hollywood on fire in the nineteen twenties. He would hold you in his arms if you were a beautiful woman, and kiss you passionately and brutally. Can somebody turn down the thermostat and here if I'm feeling hot to TV's top dog of the nineties. As you know, Wishbone is the star of the mega popular, award winning children's show on PBS Design to Introduce kids to literature. I've told people that writing for the show was like an assignment
from an English professor on asset, it totally was. Yes, this season, I'll tell you about the year that changed marriage in America. On screen, so pleased to meet you. I'm pleased to meet you, Mrs Graydon, And off screen, we didn't get married for any reason other than the fact that we loved each other. We weren't trying to prove anything, change anything. We just loved each other. Listen to obituaries on the I Heart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What do you think
of the name Maurice. I think of like an old French dude, kind of short and fat.