Name: 莫-羅卡--"黑道消息 "中鮮為人知的人物的迷人故事｜每日秀場 (Mo Rocca - Fascinating Stories About Lesser-Known Figures in “Mobituaries” | The Daily Show)
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-Thanks for having me. -And congratulations on another book.

-Thank you for remembering. -Right... (laughs)

What-What's fascinating is you-you wrote a book,

But, okay, it was, yes, about presidential pets.

It did very well for a book about presidents and their pe--

-"presidents and their pets" book. -Exactly.

That is true that he's the first president, um,

Chester Alan Arthur burned all of his papers,

but, um-- So we don't know for sure that he had pets.

But my understanding is he had a goldfish.

but Donald Trump does not have-- does not have a pet.

-Right. -Millard Fillmore also didn't have a pet,

but he was the vice president of the ASPCA

for the Buffalo chapter when he left the White House,

-you didn't follow up on that. -...freakish-freakish about you

is that you-you just have all of this information

You-You're, like, a-- like, a presidential buff.

Like, you just-- you just love information about pres--

And I grew up outside of Washington, D.C.

And, seriously, when you grow up in the D.C. area, sort of,

the president is kind of the above-the-title film star.

I imagine it's the equivalent of growing up in L.A.

and looking through the Paramount gates, in a way.

-Right. -But-- So I've always been kind of fascinated

because you wrote about people in this book--

It's, like, Mobituaries-- which is a play on your name

but "obituaries" as well-- Great Lives Worth Reliving.

who we almost wouldn't know about, you know?

it's about someone in Jimmy Carter's family, you know?

it's about another woman of color, a black woman,

when she wasn't allowed to and it was all-white.

Just, like, why did you choose these characters?

You know, this kind of marginalized history,

got the send-off they deserved, and it's...

I know it sounds silly when we're talking

about serious subjects like Elizabeth Jennings,

the Rosa Parks of New York, but it feels good.

-It's fun to know this stuff. I like that. -Right.

And, uh, and, um... and I thought people...

Especially these kind of pockets of progress,

That history doesn't move in a straight line.

-almost exactly 100 years before Rosa Parks. -Right.

She's booted off of a... um, a streetcar in New York City,

I can't believe this is the first interview ever

where Chester Alan Arthur has been name-checked twice.

to defend her in civil court, and she wins.

And this leads to the integration of New York City's

transportation authority shortly after the Civil War.

Every single story in this book feels like stories

you would want to just have in your brain

-to be the most interesting person in a room. -Yes.

Right? Because... No, really, because it's, like,

one of the stories that blew my mind here is when you...

Like, I didn't know the history of the term "Siamese twins."

And I didn't know that it came from two twins

from a region that was once known as "Siam,"

And you tell this story, which is fascinating,

'cause they're conjoined twins, and then they come to America.

-They're brought to America. They're a sideshow. -Mm-hmm.

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