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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: The family of a late Florida man is paying tribute

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Speaker 2: to him in a brutally honest obituary. It was recently

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Speaker 2: published in the Tampa Bay Times. Arthur Nixon Bates the

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Speaker 2: fourth passed away on March fifth. In his obituary, his

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Speaker 2: family said he quotes succumb to a life of drugs, Marlboroughs,

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Speaker 2: fast women and Ford Broncos.

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Speaker 1: That's what they said in the obituary. Okay.

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Speaker 2: It goes on to say he is survived by three daughters,

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Speaker 2: none of whom know how they will get vibe without

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Speaker 2: Dad calling to ask for twenty dollars for cigarettes and

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Speaker 2: methadone one last time.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Comments from friends and family they weren't any better in

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Speaker 2: the guest book for the obituary include things like he

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Speaker 2: still owes me twenty bucks. So I'm just saying this

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Speaker 2: guy was a dude. Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah

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Speaker 2: yeah yeah. He had three dogars. This is crazy.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Wow, it's crazy because they told truth. They didn't lie.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, you come to the funeral to pay

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Speaker 2: your last respects.

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Speaker 3: They did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but we got to be.

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Speaker 3: Truthful about it though, and they've been very true.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so do you guys have any funeral disaster stories, Tommy.

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Speaker 3: Oh man, I've seen some bad ones, y'all. I've seen

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Speaker 3: some arguments break out funeral I've seen I've seen some

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Speaker 3: t shirts selling doing the service to pay for the service.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh, that's interesting, that's interesting, genius.

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Speaker 1: You don't have no insurance.

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Speaker 3: I might well gonna tell it.

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Speaker 4: They don't even get I don't care. Uh my cousin

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Speaker 4: pass he's over in Fifth War.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 4: This is the first time in funeral history that they

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Speaker 4: took the body back by the house and pulled it

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Speaker 4: out and took a picture with it on the porch.

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Speaker 1: That the first time. Wait what okay, what this is your.

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Speaker 4: Going back by the house and they posing in the

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Speaker 4: yard holding up the whole PROCESSI because they took the

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Speaker 4: body out the back and put it up on the

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Speaker 4: porch and took a picture with it. I said, this

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Speaker 4: is this.

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Speaker 2: You can't make this stuff up. You cannot even make

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Speaker 2: stuff up. Yeah, this is your family.

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Speaker 3: Left church into the house, right down, body.

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Speaker 1: The body out.

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Speaker 2: Uh huh, took.

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Speaker 3: A picture with it, put it back in and roll.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're gonna take him home one last time.

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Speaker 3: No way, they put that body back in no way.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take him home one last time. Like he

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Speaker 1: knew he's going home in the funeral.

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Speaker 3: He knew. I was so embarrassed.

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Speaker 1: This is the first time you ever told that story, Junior.

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Speaker 3: I never told him. But they're gonna gore car Why

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Speaker 3: did you say that?

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Speaker 1: Because we did it?

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Speaker 3: This why, this is why I want a funeral rehearsal.

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Speaker 3: I keep telling y'all.

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Speaker 2: I always say that, this is why I love Junior's family.

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Speaker 1: Though you're listening to the Steve

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Speaker 2: Harvey Morning Show