July 23, 2026 • 6 mins
Gandhi shares why her parents called an unexpected family meeting, and it leads to a hilarious conversation about funeral plans, final wishes, and whether you'd actually honor your parents' most outrageous requests.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I was talking about family meetings, and I didn't grow
up in a house who had family. We didn't have
family meetings. We didn't either do this, do that, and
shut up. Let's see, like a text came in texting.
Family meetings always, especially when you have a twenty two
year old kid who doesn't want to work. Okay, I
(00:27):
grew up in a mute, working class household, and I'm
married an affluent family of psychologists. So now family meetings
occur as needed. I have a twenty year old and
a twenty two year old, both boys. One day I
came home from work to a dirty condom on my
kitchen floor.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Oh, family meeting.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Definitely that one.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Family meetings are important. Scary. Grew up in Bensonhurst.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You grew up with not family meetings, but family beatings, beatings.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And meeting My.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Discussion, all right, So Gandhi was saying that a family
meeting was called in her family, the Gandhi family.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yes, what happened yesterday?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
My dad called me and I didn't answer because I
was half asleep. And right after that, my sister called,
so I thought, oh God, something horrible is happening. She said, hey,
Mom and dad need to talk to us right now
because they're planning. It's not funny. They're planning their funerals
and if they do it right now, they can save
five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Oh god, I said, what okay? So when okay?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Back, So, as the story goes, your sister says mom
and dad want to talk to us right now. And
you must have thought, oh my god, something awful's going on.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah, because you get a call from the dad, then
the sister and it's like, well, what's going on? I'm
half asleep.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
This can't be good.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
And then it was just annoying. So then we went
through all of the details of their funerals, which was
just on its own absurd.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
What do you mean? But what do you mean absurd?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Because my dad kept being like, I mean, he was
asking us, so should I have a viewing? And I said,
well that's up to you. Do you want people to
see you?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Okay, So keep in mind this was just a one
two three go conversation do you show my body? And
I coffin and I mean, so you had to This
is the process of.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Thinking absolutely insane. And then it was so Hindus we
spread ashes. Typically you want to spread it over water.
My dad refuses, No, no water. He wants us to
take his ashes and put them in the bushes outside
their house where they will not be living anymore with
Si Dad. This is not a great idea. Why the bushes.
Isn't there a special place he'd like to go? He's
just being lazy about it.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I no, I can help Gandhi with that.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
I don't live very far from where Gandhi's parents live,
so would spreading of the bush ashes.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I would be willing to help. Call your dad today and.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Let him a frog is available, Okay, I will.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
And then there was a big conversation about whether or
not they should donate their bodies to science, and I said,
for sure, your brains, for sure.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
We need to get some answer spelled.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Then there was just a lot of Like my dad,
he saw that in other countries you can.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
They will bury you in.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Something that represents your passion, or they'll put your body
in certain positions he wants to be I am not kidding,
buried like well stuffed, and then put him position like
Superman with a cape with a sign that says to
Andromeda we said, well, that's not happening.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
What do you mean if he puts that in writing
his final wish?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You are not going to do that for him?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
You had to first of all, I will, but it
will be cost prohibitive, and I know he's not gonna
be down for that. He's I'm gonna say five hundred
dollars on his funeral yesterday?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Okay, taxidermy her dad, it.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Was just crazy cancers. Then it was how many earns
do you guys want? We were like, what do you
mean how many? What are you doing? Yeah, there's just
a lot happening. And then my mom said she wants
us to do whatever, but she's really into the life
gems where you can take ashes and then you turn
into a diamond and you can wear that diamond all
the time.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And my dad was like, that's too expensive.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I'm like, you guys are going to be dead.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And this is what interrupted your nice sleep, your nap.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Woke up from a nap, so they get say five
hundred dollars and stressed me out. It was great, and
my sister the best. She was like, this has already
been discussed so many times. Why are we doing this again?
Then my dad sent me a nice recap.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
In review. Yeah, let me find you know exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
First of all, the name of the recap is New
Life as Superman.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
That's what it says. Hello, little ones.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Just to summarize our earlier conversation, One, we will check
about donating bodies. Two, if not feasible, choose the option
excluding viewing and celebration of life. Three make sure to
purchase the protection plan, which allows for transport from any location.
Four two or three of you will take care of
everything else.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Five.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
All you will need are the urns in the ashes
and handed with two handshakes.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh, there you go, thanks dad.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
They are ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So now we kind of know where Gandhi got it.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Oh that is the meanest thing anyone has ever seen.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Wow, I think your dad's I love him too.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I love him, my door, my dad, he's just I mean,
it never shuts off. It's twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
This everybody's dead, like Froggy's dad, Like, I don't want
to hang out with all the dad.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
No, no, you don't know. We went to dinner with
my parents last night. At the end of dinner, at
Lisa said to me. We got in the car, She's
like that was enough.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
She's like, we hit the time because we're leaving the
restaurant and he's holding the door for nine people, not
realizing that he's backing up the line behind him. And
then when you correct him, it instantly turns into okay,
never mind, I just won't do anything for anyone.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
I'll go home.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
It's it's victim. I'm like, I'm like, stop already.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
You know what they I hate to say this, as
your parents, they have earned the right to drive you completely.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, whacko. Promise you I'm not gonna act I'm not
going to act that way.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I told kay Kayden's home for four days. I'm like,
if I act that way, police like whack me upside
to head do something.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
But aren't you already starting to act like that? Look,
I'll tell you this. I remember one time I said
something and my brother said, you sound just like your dad,
And I actually said these words. I said, you know what,
thank you. That's a compliment. It was totally out of
line what I said, but you know what, it was
a compliment. Like you're talking earlier, Danielle about how your
(06:17):
mom's Roseanne.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, And so it said to you, you sound like Roseanne.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Oh, Sheldon does it all the time. I'll say something
or do something. Even the kids will say it, all right, Roseanne,
you know all right Grandma. I'm like, okay, so I'm
turning into my mother.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
And then when I said to my mom, oh, you know,
in my house, they're starting to say I sound like you.
And I felt so bad because she goes, is it
that bad to sound like me? I'm like, no, no, Mom,
I didn't mean like that.
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I was talking about family meetings, and I didn't grow
up in a house who had family. We didn't have
family meetings. We didn't either do this, do that, and
shut up. Let's see, like a text came in texting.
Family meetings always, especially when you have a twenty two
year old kid who doesn't want to work. Okay, I
(00:27):
grew up in a mute, working class household, and I'm
married an affluent family of psychologists. So now family meetings
occur as needed. I have a twenty year old and
a twenty two year old, both boys. One day I
came home from work to a dirty condom on my
kitchen floor.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Oh, family meeting.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Definitely that one.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Family meetings are important. Scary. Grew up in Bensonhurst.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You grew up with not family meetings, but family beatings, beatings.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And meeting My.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Discussion, all right, So Gandhi was saying that a family
meeting was called in her family, the Gandhi family.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yes, what happened yesterday?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
My dad called me and I didn't answer because I
was half asleep. And right after that, my sister called,
so I thought, oh God, something horrible is happening. She said, hey,
Mom and dad need to talk to us right now
because they're planning. It's not funny. They're planning their funerals
and if they do it right now, they can save
five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Oh god, I said, what okay? So when okay?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Back, So, as the story goes, your sister says mom
and dad want to talk to us right now. And
you must have thought, oh my god, something awful's going on.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah, because you get a call from the dad, then
the sister and it's like, well, what's going on? I'm
half asleep.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
This can't be good.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
And then it was just annoying. So then we went
through all of the details of their funerals, which was
just on its own absurd.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
What do you mean? But what do you mean absurd?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Because my dad kept being like, I mean, he was
asking us, so should I have a viewing? And I said,
well that's up to you. Do you want people to
see you?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Okay, So keep in mind this was just a one
two three go conversation do you show my body? And
I coffin and I mean, so you had to This
is the process of.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Thinking absolutely insane. And then it was so Hindus we
spread ashes. Typically you want to spread it over water.
My dad refuses, No, no water. He wants us to
take his ashes and put them in the bushes outside
their house where they will not be living anymore with
Si Dad. This is not a great idea. Why the bushes.
Isn't there a special place he'd like to go? He's
just being lazy about it.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I no, I can help Gandhi with that.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
I don't live very far from where Gandhi's parents live,
so would spreading of the bush ashes.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I would be willing to help. Call your dad today and.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Let him a frog is available, Okay, I will.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
And then there was a big conversation about whether or
not they should donate their bodies to science, and I said,
for sure, your brains, for sure.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
We need to get some answer spelled.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Then there was just a lot of Like my dad,
he saw that in other countries you can.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
They will bury you in.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Something that represents your passion, or they'll put your body
in certain positions he wants to be I am not kidding,
buried like well stuffed, and then put him position like
Superman with a cape with a sign that says to
Andromeda we said, well, that's not happening.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
What do you mean if he puts that in writing
his final wish?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You are not going to do that for him?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
You had to first of all, I will, but it
will be cost prohibitive, and I know he's not gonna
be down for that. He's I'm gonna say five hundred
dollars on his funeral yesterday?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Okay, taxidermy her dad, it.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Was just crazy cancers. Then it was how many earns
do you guys want? We were like, what do you
mean how many? What are you doing? Yeah, there's just
a lot happening. And then my mom said she wants
us to do whatever, but she's really into the life
gems where you can take ashes and then you turn
into a diamond and you can wear that diamond all
the time.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And my dad was like, that's too expensive.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I'm like, you guys are going to be dead.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And this is what interrupted your nice sleep, your nap.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Woke up from a nap, so they get say five
hundred dollars and stressed me out. It was great, and
my sister the best. She was like, this has already
been discussed so many times. Why are we doing this again?
Then my dad sent me a nice recap.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
In review. Yeah, let me find you know exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
First of all, the name of the recap is New
Life as Superman.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
That's what it says. Hello, little ones.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Just to summarize our earlier conversation, One, we will check
about donating bodies. Two, if not feasible, choose the option
excluding viewing and celebration of life. Three make sure to
purchase the protection plan, which allows for transport from any location.
Four two or three of you will take care of
everything else.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Five.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
All you will need are the urns in the ashes
and handed with two handshakes.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh, there you go, thanks dad.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
They are ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So now we kind of know where Gandhi got it.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Oh that is the meanest thing anyone has ever seen.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Wow, I think your dad's I love him too.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I love him, my door, my dad, he's just I mean,
it never shuts off. It's twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
This everybody's dead, like Froggy's dad, Like, I don't want
to hang out with all the dad.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
No, no, you don't know. We went to dinner with
my parents last night. At the end of dinner, at
Lisa said to me. We got in the car, She's
like that was enough.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
She's like, we hit the time because we're leaving the
restaurant and he's holding the door for nine people, not
realizing that he's backing up the line behind him. And
then when you correct him, it instantly turns into okay,
never mind, I just won't do anything for anyone.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
I'll go home.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
It's it's victim. I'm like, I'm like, stop already.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
You know what they I hate to say this, as
your parents, they have earned the right to drive you completely.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, whacko. Promise you I'm not gonna act I'm not
going to act that way.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I told kay Kayden's home for four days. I'm like,
if I act that way, police like whack me upside
to head do something.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
But aren't you already starting to act like that? Look,
I'll tell you this. I remember one time I said
something and my brother said, you sound just like your dad,
And I actually said these words. I said, you know what,
thank you. That's a compliment. It was totally out of
line what I said, but you know what, it was
a compliment. Like you're talking earlier, Danielle about how your
(06:17):
mom's Roseanne.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, And so it said to you, you sound like Roseanne.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Oh, Sheldon does it all the time. I'll say something
or do something. Even the kids will say it, all right, Roseanne,
you know all right Grandma. I'm like, okay, so I'm
turning into my mother.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
And then when I said to my mom, oh, you know,
in my house, they're starting to say I sound like you.
And I felt so bad because she goes, is it
that bad to sound like me? I'm like, no, no, Mom,
I didn't mean like that.
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