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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What you got for us? Now?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
You know what you know, sometimes when when people pass away,
you know, you want to actually have their funeral at
the place that they frequent most often, you know what
I mean, You want to do it that if they
didn't really, if they wasn't big church goes.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
We understand that.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
So on this particular prank, this is Chopper's funeral at
the club. Chapper's funeral at the club. So I'm just
saying we should have Chopper's funerals at the club because
that's what Chapel always was, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
At the club.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He was going down there to the church. If Chapel
wasn't going down that's all I'm saying. If Chapa wasn't
going down there, what is we going down there funeralizing
Chapel for Let's futilize Chapel. Well yeah, that's I don't
know if that's a word or that, but let's futilize
Chapel at the club. That's what Chapel was. Choppa stayed
(00:58):
at the club. So I'm just saying we wanted to
have Chopper's funeral at the club. Let's go cat though.
Uh yeah, I'm trying to reach James.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
James, Yeah, yeah, what's up.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Hey, This this is Gerald.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I was a friend of uh, your friend Choppel.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, yea Chopper.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Just uh passed away last week, right yeah, uh, I
know they supposed to have a funeral and stuff over
at h at my Baptist church.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And uh, I.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Don't really know you, but me and me and Chopper
and a bunch of the rest of us. Man, we
used to hang out at the club not too far
from the house, you know. That's pretty much where Chopper
was all the time at the club. Anyway, what a
bunch of us was over at the club talking, man,
and I was we was really want to reach out
to one of the family members, you know. And then
somebody said you was, you know, kind of a good
(01:51):
friend of his, and we we we we decided to
call you and see if.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You didn't mind.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Do you think that you can talk to some of
the family members and see if they don't mind having
the funeral.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
At the club.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
At the club, let me.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Let me try to explain something to you, Jane. What
we're trying to do is, see, we believe that we believe.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
You said at the club. Come on, the club is
a funeral and.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
That's what I understand it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
But see, see Choppel Chop ain't really go to church
a whole lot. You know what I'm saying, He ain't
really really go as long as I've been knowing him. Now,
he loved the Lord and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Well, but these are church going.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Folks, I understand.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But see Chapel wouldn't Chapel when Chapel went to the club.
So what I'm asking you is, let's have the funeral
at the club.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Hell, no, bro, come on, we can't have no funeral
at no club, man, come on, no. No.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
But what what I'm saying is thought is that he
wasn't really he wasn't really no.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Church going person. I believe that a person ought to.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Be uh, the last words are to be said over
him in a place he's more familiar with.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
You know what I'm saying, A player? Player? No, I don't.
I don't know what you mean. No, just just gotta
be a funeral. This, this is this is church for
I go to church and all my folks go to church.
Now we got to do this thing up in church. This,
this is a church thing.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But you don't you don't feel But do you understand
where I'm coming from know that man ought to gone
on and and the last words are to be in
a place he more familiar with.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Now, if he went to church, then I understand that you.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Said, oh bro, hell no no, See it's his chance
to get itself right, and we don't. We don't have
him up in church in front of everybody. You know,
that don't make sense? Who's this again? I mean, who
are you?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
My name is Jerald, but who is Gerald?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I mean, how do you? How do you relate to this?
Are you a preacher? Or are you not? Are you?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
No, no, no, I'm I'm I was friends with Chopper
and say I hung out at the club and still
hang out there with a whole bunch of you know,
was real good friends with Choppering and we were saying that,
you know, chop was the last words about Chappel or
to be said at the club.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And see that's what Chopper was about, five six days
a week. That's what Choppea was.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah. But what church are you affiliated with? I mean, what? What?
Why the hell would I I try to talk to
the family, make me look stupid in front of the
family telling them to put this thing in the club.
How is that gonna go off?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Well? See, see that's what I'm saying. You know them
way more than we do, because you're.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Talking about trying to move from a funeral at a
church to a nightclub or strip club or something.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
No, no strip club, just a nightclub.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
It's I mean you talking about maving folks traveled from
across the country and meeting in the club. What kind
of that?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
But that's what chaper was. That's what Chapel was.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
How I'm gonna look if I'm the one telling them
to route to the.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Club, You're gonna look like somebody that's trying to.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I'm gonna look like a fool.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
No, You're not. You're gonna look like somebody's trying to
keep it.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Really come to the general if I do something like that.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Okay, okay, let me ask you this hit in. Let
me ask you this here, Jane.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Do you think do you think you can maybe get
the body and bring it over to the club. Now, well,
just saying before they even do the funeral or whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Hell no, I ain't touching getting the walk in the
dog by myself. Don't such body for heim.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We're just trying to say our last words at Chopp
a man in the place that.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Chopper, Mom, No help again. You you get my number.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Somebody at the club had your number, say you was print.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
But what do y'all call me? Of all folks, y'all call.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
They say you good. You in with the family, and you.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Can tell me in with the family. But I ain't
in in the feller make me look stupid. Tell them now,
won't y'all, I get out the number to the family.
Y'all call the family, y'all tell them that yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Man, I won't. I just trying to get you to
bring the body by man and let.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Us no, I ain't touching no dead body.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
We just want to have one last drink with Chopper.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Man, you have one with your boys and you you
get together with them and y'all talk about Bottom and
let him know how Chopper was, what kind of person
he was, what kind of person we.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Need to We want Chopp up to be there. This Chopper,
this is Chopper you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Man, Bring y'all to the churche. Y'all need to be
up in the church.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
We want to have Chopper at the club.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Well we know mo man, y'all fuller, Well we know
MYU have my looking like a fool at the funeral?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
What just about Chopper though?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Right about chopping?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
You break Chopper to that club.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Y'all tripping, man, I ain't doing I'm just going to
this funeral. I'm gonna care to say what I think
about Chopper and I'm tall. If y'all want to act
crazy in front of town, y'all call up on y'all
selfing you that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Look. I got one more thing I want to say.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I don't even know you or what? What? What?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
This is nephew Timmy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
You just got pranked by your boy. This nephew Timy
Man from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Your boy told
me to prank you. Man.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I just know y'all, Dave, this is.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Nephew tie me man, your boy.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
No, no, oh man, I can't believe this. No, he didn't.
I can't even believe he did that.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Hey man, I got one more thing to ask you, man,
what is what is the baddest radio show in the land?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
The Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Assistance on the on the table where y'all want y'all
funeral to be Cause really, we spend most of our
time on the radio. So I mean, would you like
your funeral to be one morning when we get up
and go to work.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I mean, I'm just asking, how's that gonna work? Morning
drive funeral.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Stand from six to ten or five to nine, depending
on when the first show. No, no, no, So at
the funeral, we're gonna we're gonna run a prank and
do a L picks.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You got to run a prank.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And then letter a letter many little and see that
makes sense. I'm just saying that it makes wow. Maybe
maybe it's just me.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Maybe yeah, I think it is. I think it's just
you're listening Hardy morning show
What you got for us? Now?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
You know what you know, sometimes when when people pass away,
you know, you want to actually have their funeral at
the place that they frequent most often, you know what
I mean, You want to do it that if they
didn't really, if they wasn't big church goes.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
We understand that.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
So on this particular prank, this is Chopper's funeral at
the club. Chapper's funeral at the club. So I'm just
saying we should have Chopper's funerals at the club because
that's what Chapel always was, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
At the club.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He was going down there to the church. If Chapel
wasn't going down that's all I'm saying. If Chapa wasn't
going down there, what is we going down there funeralizing
Chapel for Let's futilize Chapel. Well yeah, that's I don't
know if that's a word or that, but let's futilize
Chapel at the club. That's what Chapel was. Choppa stayed
(00:58):
at the club. So I'm just saying we wanted to
have Chopper's funeral at the club. Let's go cat though.
Uh yeah, I'm trying to reach James.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
James, Yeah, yeah, what's up.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Hey, This this is Gerald.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I was a friend of uh, your friend Choppel.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, yea Chopper.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Just uh passed away last week, right yeah, uh, I
know they supposed to have a funeral and stuff over
at h at my Baptist church.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And uh, I.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Don't really know you, but me and me and Chopper
and a bunch of the rest of us. Man, we
used to hang out at the club not too far
from the house, you know. That's pretty much where Chopper
was all the time at the club. Anyway, what a
bunch of us was over at the club talking, man,
and I was we was really want to reach out
to one of the family members, you know. And then
somebody said you was, you know, kind of a good
(01:51):
friend of his, and we we we we decided to
call you and see if.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You didn't mind.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Do you think that you can talk to some of
the family members and see if they don't mind having
the funeral.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
At the club.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
At the club, let me.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Let me try to explain something to you, Jane. What
we're trying to do is, see, we believe that we believe.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
You said at the club. Come on, the club is
a funeral and.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
That's what I understand it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
But see, see Choppel Chop ain't really go to church
a whole lot. You know what I'm saying, He ain't
really really go as long as I've been knowing him. Now,
he loved the Lord and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Well, but these are church going.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Folks, I understand.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But see Chapel wouldn't Chapel when Chapel went to the club.
So what I'm asking you is, let's have the funeral
at the club.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Hell, no, bro, come on, we can't have no funeral
at no club, man, come on, no. No.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
But what what I'm saying is thought is that he
wasn't really he wasn't really no.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Church going person. I believe that a person ought to.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Be uh, the last words are to be said over
him in a place he's more familiar with.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
You know what I'm saying, A player? Player? No, I don't.
I don't know what you mean. No, just just gotta
be a funeral. This, this is this is church for
I go to church and all my folks go to church.
Now we got to do this thing up in church. This,
this is a church thing.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But you don't you don't feel But do you understand
where I'm coming from know that man ought to gone
on and and the last words are to be in
a place he more familiar with.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Now, if he went to church, then I understand that you.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Said, oh bro, hell no no, See it's his chance
to get itself right, and we don't. We don't have
him up in church in front of everybody. You know,
that don't make sense? Who's this again? I mean, who
are you?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
My name is Jerald, but who is Gerald?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I mean, how do you? How do you relate to this?
Are you a preacher? Or are you not? Are you?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
No, no, no, I'm I'm I was friends with Chopper
and say I hung out at the club and still
hang out there with a whole bunch of you know,
was real good friends with Choppering and we were saying that,
you know, chop was the last words about Chappel or
to be said at the club.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And see that's what Chopper was about, five six days
a week. That's what Choppea was.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah. But what church are you affiliated with? I mean, what? What?
Why the hell would I I try to talk to
the family, make me look stupid in front of the
family telling them to put this thing in the club.
How is that gonna go off?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Well? See, see that's what I'm saying. You know them
way more than we do, because you're.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Talking about trying to move from a funeral at a
church to a nightclub or strip club or something.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
No, no strip club, just a nightclub.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
It's I mean you talking about maving folks traveled from
across the country and meeting in the club. What kind
of that?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
But that's what chaper was. That's what Chapel was.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
How I'm gonna look if I'm the one telling them
to route to the.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Club, You're gonna look like somebody that's trying to.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I'm gonna look like a fool.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
No, You're not. You're gonna look like somebody's trying to
keep it.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Really come to the general if I do something like that.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Okay, okay, let me ask you this hit in. Let
me ask you this here, Jane.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Do you think do you think you can maybe get
the body and bring it over to the club. Now, well,
just saying before they even do the funeral or whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Hell no, I ain't touching getting the walk in the
dog by myself. Don't such body for heim.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We're just trying to say our last words at Chopp
a man in the place that.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Chopper, Mom, No help again. You you get my number.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Somebody at the club had your number, say you was print.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
But what do y'all call me? Of all folks, y'all call.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
They say you good. You in with the family, and you.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Can tell me in with the family. But I ain't
in in the feller make me look stupid. Tell them now,
won't y'all, I get out the number to the family.
Y'all call the family, y'all tell them that yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Man, I won't. I just trying to get you to
bring the body by man and let.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Us no, I ain't touching no dead body.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
We just want to have one last drink with Chopper.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Man, you have one with your boys and you you
get together with them and y'all talk about Bottom and
let him know how Chopper was, what kind of person
he was, what kind of person we.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Need to We want Chopp up to be there. This Chopper,
this is Chopper you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Man, Bring y'all to the churche. Y'all need to be
up in the church.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
We want to have Chopper at the club.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Well we know mo man, y'all fuller, Well we know
MYU have my looking like a fool at the funeral?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
What just about Chopper though?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Right about chopping?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
You break Chopper to that club.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Y'all tripping, man, I ain't doing I'm just going to
this funeral. I'm gonna care to say what I think
about Chopper and I'm tall. If y'all want to act
crazy in front of town, y'all call up on y'all
selfing you that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Look. I got one more thing I want to say.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I don't even know you or what? What? What?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
This is nephew Timmy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
You just got pranked by your boy. This nephew Timy
Man from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Your boy told
me to prank you. Man.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I just know y'all, Dave, this is.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Nephew tie me man, your boy.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
No, no, oh man, I can't believe this. No, he didn't.
I can't even believe he did that.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Hey man, I got one more thing to ask you, man,
what is what is the baddest radio show in the land?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
The Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Assistance on the on the table where y'all want y'all
funeral to be Cause really, we spend most of our
time on the radio. So I mean, would you like
your funeral to be one morning when we get up
and go to work.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I mean, I'm just asking, how's that gonna work? Morning
drive funeral.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Stand from six to ten or five to nine, depending
on when the first show. No, no, no, So at
the funeral, we're gonna we're gonna run a prank and
do a L picks.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You got to run a prank.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And then letter a letter many little and see that
makes sense. I'm just saying that it makes wow. Maybe
maybe it's just me.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Maybe yeah, I think it is. I think it's just
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