Cemetery Sold

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A cemetery official calls to say the land was sold and bodies must be moved for a freeway, and the relative threatens him.

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I'm trying to reach

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Cedric Taylor.

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This is R.

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C.

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Calhoun from the Inglewood Park Cemetery.

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Is this Cedric?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, this is Cedric.

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What's happening?

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Listen, are you familiar with the Delois Williams?

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Yeah, that's my mama's sister's bad.

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Yeah, but she did.

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Right, right.

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She's buried here at the Inglewood Park Cemetery.

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Now, listen, let me tell you why I'm calling you.

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We are uh my family, the Calhoun family have decided that we're gonna sell the Inglewood Park Cemetery.

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And uh we're calling all the people's loved ones who are buried here.

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So what what's going on, Mr.

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Taylor?

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Is we've sold this uh property to this to the city, and they have purchased the property from us, so they they own the land that the cemetery is on now.

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But what's going on is they getting ready to build a freeway through here.

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So what we're doing is calling all the loved ones because these bodies are gonna have to be dug up and moved to what's yeah, that's that's right.

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But but my mama over there too.

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Miss Renee Taylor.

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Your mama is is buried that well.

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What they doing is they're gonna be um moving these bodies because the city didn't decide they're gonna build a freeway.

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They're gonna build a freeway through that.

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So what's going on is we call them people so they'll know what they can decide if they want to move it to a different cemetery that they like, or they're gonna leave it up.

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Excuse me, sir.

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Mr.

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Calhoun, I uh let me let me let me just get to the point right off the bat.

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You calling me to tell me that you're gonna dig up my auntie's body and my mama's body.

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Well you gotta be honest.

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Excuse me, sir.

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I I ain't trying to go there with you the anonymous, but you have lost your

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mind.

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If you think you're gonna dig up my mama's body, I got news for you, partner.

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I would be, I will find you.

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I will find you, sir, and it will not be pleasant.

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That's it ain't no threat.

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That ain't no promise.

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That's a guarantee.

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I'm crazy.

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You don't call nobody and tell me you're gonna dig up the body.

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What you're gonna dig up the body for and do what?

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Well, what did they build in the freeway through there is what I'm saying?

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And we done sold that property to the city.

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The city gonna build up the freeway through that.

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So that's that's sacred ground.

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I wish you and the city would try to dig up my mama's body.

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You have a lost, you gonna call me today with some I uh ain't nobody else cussing you out today?

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Well, I've had some problem with some of the people, but but you gonna have a real problem right now, sir.

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Uh if you're gonna call me and tell me you you gonna dig up the body, the city gonna dig up the body, and you done sold the place, but you you can't call people with

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like that.

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That's fine.

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Oh, that's f up, sir.

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Hey, you try to dig up my mother's body, God help me, so I will not be responsible.

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You lost your mother mind to call people and tell them

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like that.

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How you gonna do that?

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Well, it's it's it's my duty as an official of the cemetery to call folk and let them know what's going on.

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That's all I want to do.

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Now I don't want no problem, Mr.

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Taylor.

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I'm just trying to be honest and open minded with you about the we can move the body to another seminar.

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So if you if you're so open-minded, so how come you didn't call everybody and get them noticed way in advance when your family was thinking about selling the place, not when you done sold the place.

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How come you didn't do that then?

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People could have got petitions together and everything and said, dog, you can't do that.

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But you done got your little piece of the pie.

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I'm here like y'all.

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You get your little pieces of pie and then you say you f everybody else when Let me tell you something, Mr.

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Calhoun.

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If you call if you call me with some like this again, and you say you're gonna move my mama's body, you say you're gonna move my auntie's body, I don't give a fur.

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It's gonna be on.

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It's gonna be on and pop Mr.

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Taylor.

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We're not trying to have no problem, which I'm just saying.

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I I I uh it's my duty to call you and ask you, is there another particular cemetery you'd like for us to move your mama to or your angel?

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I did not know for I made the phone call that your mother was buried down.

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I probably not I I didn't I didn't know that I didn't know.

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All right, you didn't know that.

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Well, that's cool.

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Then I tell you what, mister, I tell you what, Mr.

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Calhoun, since you didn't know, I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt.

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You didn't know.

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Yeah, I'm I'm gonna give you that.

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How about this?

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How about you just bring the bodies to my house and I'll put them in the garage?

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And when you come, I'll have channel four, channel seven, channel eleven, channel nine, channel thirteen here.

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How about that, sir?

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So they can see what you done.

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What season got going on?

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How about that, sir?

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I'm not that's not uh that's against the law to me to bring about and bring her to your house like that.

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You want to dig up the bodies and give them to me and tell me to do something with 'em.

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That ain't against the law, huh?

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What kind of d is that?

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And now you want to call me with like this.

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I got wife, I got kids, the holidays coming up.

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But listen, speaking of your wife, that's uh that's Sister Juanita Taylor, ain't it?

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Yeah, what you know about my wife.

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She the one put me up to this.

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This is a prank phone call.

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This nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey morning show.

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You just got prank, said.

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Oh,

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oh, dah, that's some dirty.

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Yeah, dirty, dirty.

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Well, you dirty bhoo, you dirty.

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Your wife Juanita said, you know, mess with him about this.

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Ain't it the lowest we suppose?

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That's your favorite, ain't he?

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Am I right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Oh.

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Oh, what did you do?

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It's it's your wife Juanita, dog.

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Oh, I need it's on, baby.

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It is on.

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Bray, brother, let me ask what's the baddest radio show in the land, man.