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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Mojo in the Morning show.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
So Anna's grandpa, Pops wants to show Anna or has
he already showed you?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
No, he hasn't because I'm not agreen.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
He wants to show her something very special to him.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
I guess you could call it that. So Pops, for
those of you who don't know, is my grandfather. He
prior to this, lived in Florida for most of my life.
Recently moved back with my parents and is living there now.
They've been living there for about a year and in
that year he and my grandmother have picked out their
burial plot. He told me it's not in the ground,

(00:38):
it's in a wall in a cemetery. Like I guess,
I don't know how to say that word, mausoleum.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
That's where it is.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
And he and my grandma frequently, I mean not frequently,
but a couple times they just go there to look
at it and see where they're going to be, which
to me, that's weird. It got weird when he called
me or we talk every day and he's talking He's like,
you know, do you ever want to go to the
cemetery with me and just see where we're going to

(01:08):
be buried? And like, where you're gonna visit us? And
I'm like, no, absolutely not, Like that sounds so morbid.
I don't want to think about you dying. Also, what
if I die before you? You never know that? That's
just weird to me.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh my gosh. So yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
I feel like it would be special for him, like
he might want me to be there with him because
we have such a close relationship and that would be meaningful.
But to me, it's just a little weird and morbid,
and like, I don't want to think about that.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Weird that they go and visit it, I know.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
And like clean it off and stuff and make sure
it looks good and their names are already on it,
it just doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Have the year they actually put on it already.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
They ready to go that first off, I think it's
wonderful that he has such a close relationship with you,
and we see how excited he is about, you know,
spending time with you and loving that. Maybe he wants
to see you be comfortable, you know, with this, so
that he knows that if he should pass, he can
go peacefully.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
I don't want him to be comfortable with the idea
of him passing because I don't want him to pass well.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
And also in a lot of cases, you know he's
the first generation of the of this for you. Maybe
he's also showing you eventually where the whole family will
shall lay.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
Well, I don't know where they will be, so where
they'll all die and be buried. So two years ago,
my grandmother and my mom were regularly going and like
and make him. They were regularly going and making payments
on the plot of land that they were going to
bury my grandmother. And I'm interested in what I experienced

(02:52):
is maybe what you're experiencing, where yes, we know eventually
we'll all transition, but it makes it more real when
you you understand that they're preparing for you.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, and I didn't go anywhere.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
I didn't see a name on it, so I can
only imagine what you experienced.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
But it does it make it more real for sure.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
But to be honest, Pops has been saying that he's gonna, oh, yeah,
pass away for like the past twenty years.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, they get to an age.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
I remember that with my Grandma's where they'd be like, oh,
it was gonna be my last Christmas.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
I'm like, Grandma, you're you're not. This is not going
to be your last person, but for two decades.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
I do think this would make it more real.

Speaker 7 (03:30):
And like Mojo said, like I only had grandma's, I didn't.
I had never met my grandfather's. They both passed away
before I was born. But my grandma's would both always
go to our Lady of Hope's I'm a garry downriver
and they would bring us and we would put flowers
on the graves of our grandpa's And it always freaked
me out as a little girl that I would see

(03:52):
my grandma's. Both of them had headstones next to my
grandfathers that had their name, all their information, their birth year,
but not the death year, but it was there.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Ryan, what's up, it's Mojo in the morning.

Speaker 8 (04:05):
Hey, good Marning, what's going on?

Speaker 9 (04:09):
Yeah? My uh?

Speaker 8 (04:10):
What Anna Rob was talking about. My grandparents pretty much
did the same thing. They they planned out the plot,
they went and checked them out and they got the
same thing with the not in the ground, but in
the wall.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Did they show it to you? Did they take you
to go take.

Speaker 8 (04:30):
Yeah, they did that too. Really, they actually showed all
of all of our family members who they asked and
whoever wanted to go.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
And what was it like for you to go to that?

Speaker 8 (04:42):
It was it was a different experience. It was it
was awkward for me. Some of my my sisters and
my brothers. You know, they cried because you know it's like,
you know, you're thinking of them dead.

Speaker 6 (04:56):
As now and they're very much alive and riving.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Are they still.

Speaker 8 (05:01):
No, they actually passed away two years after.

Speaker 6 (05:04):
They bought all that I'm talking about an grandparents something
was up Kimberly, Hello, good morning, good morning.

Speaker 10 (05:15):
So yeah, I've had something kind of similar.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
I will go visit.

Speaker 10 (05:20):
You know, my grandparents great with my dad, you know
around you know, the Christmas holiday and every once in
a while, you know, my dad will walk over to
where his plot will be because it's you know, near
their's and uh one time he even like laid down
on the grass.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
And yeah, I love that he got on the ground where.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
I want to see how my uh Sarah good father
and our old agent Norm when he was picking out
his place, he chose a place and he laid on
the ground literally looked up and he goes too much
Shade moved over literally and said out buy this one
because he wanted son.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
He said he needed son. What's up, Katie?

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Hi?

Speaker 3 (06:12):
How are you good?

Speaker 1 (06:13):
What's going on?

Speaker 8 (06:15):
So? Last year at our family Christmas, my husband's grandma
brought in a picture on a piece of paper off
her headsphone and passed it around at the family Christmas.

Speaker 6 (06:28):
They just need something to plan, like, you know, we
plan parties and we plan house renovations.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
They don't got any of it. So that's what they
plan for. What a story. I don't know. I'm not big.
I'm not a big graver.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
Oh my god, do not put me in the grounds.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Hold on a second, Hold on, guys, Guys.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Know I owe a girl. She just told me this week.
She's my age. She got my age.

Speaker 6 (06:58):
She told me that she has her funeral outfit already
bought and hanging on a hanger in her closet.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
You know what, though, you buy it in your forties,
it's cheaper.

Speaker 6 (07:09):
No, she just said she doesn't if something would happen
to her, God forbid. She doesn't trust her husband and
her kids to pick out something cute. Wow, so she
has it?

Speaker 9 (07:16):
What is she?

Speaker 6 (07:17):
Gang?

Speaker 9 (07:17):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Hold on, hold on a second. Pops is on the
phone with us right now. Pops Anna's grandpa Pops. How
you feeling, Pops.

Speaker 9 (07:26):
Hey, I'm doing great. How are you about Joe good.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
I'm sad I missed you in White Lake, but I
understand you were a little under the weather, and I'm
happy that you're doing better.

Speaker 9 (07:35):
I was a little under the weather. But just let
me say that your protege there is over protective of you.
And she said, what, Joe's going to be too busy.
He won't have time to talk to you.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
I knew that was the case.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
She blocks, let me tell you that this girl, by
the way, is either embarrassed of me or embarrassed of
her family, because I think that's ridiculous. You guys were
more than welcome to come out, and I wish you
guys were would have. I want to meet the rest
of the family so I can judge for myself. I'm
who is the crazies.

Speaker 9 (08:06):
My daughter and I were both told kind of stay away.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Now, No, you guys are inviting any time. Matter of fact,
I'm gonna give you my address and come to my house.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Sometimes he's exaggerating, but let me introduce.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
So don't I wait, why don't I come to your
cemetery plot I'll come back at I'll visit it meet
at the most you.

Speaker 9 (08:24):
Yeah, what I bought. What I bought was called a
tandem niche. It's for my wife and I were going
to be cremated.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, okay, And you.

Speaker 9 (08:33):
Know you don't want to leave the burden to your
children and have them do it. It's a place you
can go. You can pin a note on it, you
can put a little flower. My mother died fifty nine
years ago, and twice a year we go and we
have to clean the plot up and all that. This
is maintenance, Freddy, and I just wanted to take the
burden away. Plus I've been a hustler my whole life.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (08:59):
When they told me that of this, I offered twenty
five percent less. They said, impossible, we can't do it.
I was at the doorknob leaving and they said, come
back in here. I got twenty percentled.

Speaker 6 (09:13):
Like I heckled the purse people on Canal Street in
New York.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
City haggled right, she sailed, yeah, quick, pops. I always
was taught by my father in law, who's a car salesman,
you don't get a deal unless you walk away. You
were literally walking away, and they came.

Speaker 9 (09:30):
Back it's called the doorknob close.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
I love it. Oh my god, that's wonderful. Doc or pot,
Doc Pops. I don't know why I was calling you,
Doc Pops. I think Anna needs to go see it.
I think it would be nice for you. It would
give you warmth in knowing that she was okay with
you know this, And if she doesn't go, it will
be my way of getting a chance to say hi

(09:54):
to you guys again.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
I'll come see it.

Speaker 9 (09:56):
Well. We're looking forward to this summer when you're coming out.
But listen, right at the end, there's a little going
up to our tandem niche. There's a little brick road
and they're all yellow. I'm right at the end of
the yellow brick roads.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Pops, by the way, you gotta have some kind of
cool saying on there too. You gotta have something funny
something on there, you.

Speaker 9 (10:22):
Know what I mean. They would not let me put
Pops on.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
You need to, you know, you know, what you have
is like I always wanted to put like you know
how they have it on the rearview mirror.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Items in the mirror, you know, closer.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Than it's like something like that, or you know, something
kind of fun. I see that, Pops, no question, your
your granddaughter is doing fabulous things. And I am very
very happy that you and her beautiful grandmother are alive,
breathing and happy because you know you're good.

Speaker 9 (10:55):
The last fifteen months this program has added many, many
happy memories to us, and we won't forget it. I'm emotional.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Will you go to your pops's funeral place? Let them
have fun and then afterwards go to a cony and.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Once it warms up, Pops will go.

Speaker 9 (11:16):
Anna's full of promises.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'm telling you we should have like an event. Let's
broadcast live?

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Can we broadcast live from your mausoleum st cemetery? We're
live Mojo in the Morning Show here, and we're celebrating
the fact that maybe we can get a trade for
mention on the deal. Did you wait? Did you have
to like look, do you have to buy it in
full when you buy it?

Speaker 9 (11:39):
Or let me look at my notes for a minute. Okay,
here it is. I've learned thirteen new things about Anna
in this program. I never knew.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Why are you taking notes thirteen?

Speaker 9 (11:50):
Because they are all new things that I never knew
about Anna?

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Isn't it wonderful? All right?

Speaker 9 (11:55):
Well?

Speaker 1 (11:55):
We're gonna have one. We're gonna yeah, look at the notes.
What's not the top.

Speaker 9 (12:03):
Pittsburgh two tickets.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
This is great. We love you, Bobs. You take care
of yourself.

Speaker 9 (12:15):
You're never supposed to marry a basketball player. My dad
always told.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Me, these are football players. Yes, Why did they say
you never marry a basketball player? What was that reason?

Speaker 9 (12:27):
No, the basketball player is they dribble before they shoot.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
All right, we're done.
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