Are Your Lights On?
7:04A neighbor calls a woman claiming her lights turn on his stove and oven, asking her to keep the lights off until maintenance fixes it, leading to a heated argument.
Transcript
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We'll get into that.
Find out what that's all about.
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We'll find out what it's all about in just a few.
But right now, it is time for the nephew, and today's prank phone call.
What you got for us, Nas?
The title is Are Your Lights On?
Are your light?
Hello?
Hello, uh is I'm trying to reach a s who's calling?
I live uh I I I think I actually live in a apartment behind you.
I think my my uh apartments are up against each other.
Do you are you in um in unit?
Who wanna know?
Actually I'm on the know I'm calling you, I got a little bit of a problem.
I actually live in uh in
which is the apartment that that's uh our apartments are uh back to back with each other.
And and uh I'm I don't mean no harm, man, but you you are d though, right?
Yes.
Okay.
Here's here's what's going on.
Took me a long time to try to figure this out.
But when you come home in the evening and you turn your lights on, my my oven and stove come on.
And I'm talking about every aisle on my stove is on and burning hot.
How do you know that's because when I turn my lights on?
I I I just I mean I didn't figure it out.
It just seemed like every time I mean I hear you when you close your door, and and I uh every evening I'm like, why is my oven and my stove coming on?
And I'm talking about my whole kitchen just hundred degrees in there behind the stove being on like that.
Okay, um did you call maintenance?
From my understanding, I'm on the list and they're not gonna get to me for a c a a couple days now.
So I'm that I'm asking you, Ms.
if you don't mind, to to not have your lights on until they come get this fixed.
Okay, so you asking me not to turn on my lights for three or four days and you know, to sit in the dark.
Well, I'm just saying it's gonna it's only gonna be for a couple days.
I know it's a little bit of an inconvenience, but I mean I can't be over here in the house, you know, damn about to burn down.
Are you listening to what you're saying?
You're asking me to sit in the dark.
You know, I got a baby.
I can't sit in the dark.
Okay.
I mean, do y'all have any cows or something y'all can work with or something like that?
Um, I have to five my baby food, milk.
I mean, really, you want me to sit in the dark and you don't want me to turn anything on, you know, I gotta feed my baby.
I understand uh and and and I and much respect to you and your child.
I uh much respect.
But what I'm trying to explain to you is I mean we have to look at the big hazard here.
The bigger hazard is is that I'm over here with fire on.
Okay, first of all, where are you getting this we from how am I involved in your situation?
I have nothing
on in your house.
Okay, but I still I don't have anything to do with that.
You know you need to call management or make a call whatever but I don't have anything to do with that.
And I I want to know how do you know when I get home and turn on my lights.
I mean like are you looking in my window or something?
Are you a peepin' ton?
Do I need to call 911?
You don't need to call nobody on me.
Now what we need to do is get somebody over here and fix this oven in the stove.
That's what we got to get done.
But until then right now you can't turn them lights on.
Oh I'm turning on my lights.
I mean I know you ain't trying to regulate what I do in my house.
Listen, I'm gonna tell you just like this here.
I'm gonna need you to keep them lights off until maintenance get over here in two days.
Now if if if I see this stove come on and and all these uh eyes on this on this uh stove come on then I'm gonna come back over there and we're gonna have to rectify the problem.
But I cannot have this coming on threat so you threatening me now.
I'm not no I'm not no I am not I'm telling you not to turn the lights off.
That's what I'm asking you to do.
Well I can't sit in the dark and I'm gonna turn on my light so you know you're gonna have to deal with it.
No I'm not finna deal with it.
You're gonna have to actually turn the lights off.
Now I understand do you have somewhere you can go stay?
Oh to me do you have somewhere you can go stay I'm not leaving my house I don't have a problem.
You the one with the f problem I I'm not finna leave here and then you turn it on and then the And if you come over here and knock on my door you think you see fire in your stove you're gonna see some fire I can show you some fire.
Okay listen I'm trying to work with you as calmly as I can okay
with me calmly okay the only thing you're doing right now is you trying to Tell me what to do and run my household.
Okay, if you're not gonna work with me, then that's what I'm gonna do.
So you don't got your power on at all.
Wait a minute, what the f no you can't turn my fing breaker off.
Are you f crazy?
I got to do what I got to do.
I can't start no fire right here.
You get my phone number anyway.
I mean, how you know my name, my number, all that.
You know what?
My about to come home and he gonna put the foot up your f.
I don't care if he put your in the f up and we set your on fire.
What the f you talking about?
You gonna damn turn the breaker off.
Let me hold on.
I'm trying to sit over here and prevent a fire for the whole complex and you up in there trying to commit uh uh uh this is like arson for you to turn that on.
I don't give a f you don't want you already got a problem.
So I'm just gonna add fuel to the fire.
You call me.
And again, I wanna know how you got my fing number.
Look, I'm not gonna sit here and go on in this little small talk.
I mean, this is the problem is that we got a problem with your switch when you turn it on.
My problem all the awesome on the stove come on.
I don't know who the f you think you f with, but it's about to be on.
I don't know how you got my number, but you called the wrong today.
Okay, fine.
I got one more thing else I need to say to you.
You got to say because I'm tired of listening to you.
Are you listening?
You ain't said I want to hear today.
You calling me with all this.
Here it is.
This is Nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey morning show.
You just got pranked by your husband.
Are you s wait a minute, hold up?
This is who?
This is nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Your husband got me to prank phone call you.
Are you serious?
Is this for real?
I don't believe this.
I can't believe it.
You alright?
I know.
I was already to put a foot up in somebody.
I don't believe I just got pumped like this.
Okay, I gotta ask you one more thing.
What is the baddest?
I'm talking about the baddest radio show in the land.
The Steve Harvin Morning Show.
You got it.
That's pretty stupid right there.
Yeah.
You turn your stuff on in your apartment.
I got all kind of stuff coming on in this apartment.
So I need you to just don't, don't, don't turn that on right now.
Just don't do it.
Don't play too much.
Don't do that.