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Speaker 1: Growing up, I just never liked the name Maurice. I

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Speaker 1: wasn't sure what just call you, whether I should call

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Speaker 1: you Maurice. Am. I'm Morocca and I'm back with season

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Speaker 1: three of my podcast Mobituaries. I'm looking forward to introducing

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Speaker 1: you to even more of my favorite dearly departed people

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Speaker 1: and things from once popular names that have been left

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Speaker 1: for Dad. It's not a goofy name, it's a cool name.

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Speaker 1: It's tied to the girl whose name made international news

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Speaker 1: in eleven year old American school girls. Samantha Smith today

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Speaker 1: said goodbye to Soviet children she met at a youth

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Speaker 1: camp on the Black Sea. She was that beam of

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Speaker 1: sunshine that broke through the cold ice of cold work

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Speaker 1: to the woman of a thousand voices, Why are you

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Speaker 1: taking our Christmas tree? Why you know her? Laugh for

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Speaker 1: witch Hazel. It's so quintessential right to freak you out.

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Speaker 1: It creaked me out from the Latin lovers who set

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Speaker 1: Hollywood on fire in the nineteen twenties. He would hold

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Speaker 1: you in his arms if you were a beautiful woman,

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Speaker 1: and kiss you passionately and brutally. Can somebody turn down

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Speaker 1: the thermostat and here if I'm feeling hot to TV's

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Speaker 1: top dog of the nineties. As you know, Wishbone is

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Speaker 1: the star of the mega popular, award winning children's show

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Speaker 1: on PBS Design to Introduce kids to literature. I've told

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Speaker 1: people that writing for the show was like an assignment

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Speaker 1: from an English professor on asset, it totally was. Yes,

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Speaker 1: this season, I'll tell you about the year that changed

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Speaker 1: marriage in America. On screen, so pleased to meet you.

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Speaker 1: I'm pleased to meet you, Mrs Graydon, And off screen,

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Speaker 1: we didn't get married for any reason other than the

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Speaker 1: fact that we loved each other. We weren't trying to

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Speaker 1: prove anything, change anything. We just loved each other. Listen

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Speaker 1: to obituaries on the I Heart radio app, Apple podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. What do you think

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Speaker 1: of the name Maurice. I think of like an old

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Speaker 1: French dude, kind of short and fat.