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The Gillespies · WDYM What Do You Mean?

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  SPEAKER_01: This episode of the WDYM will have explicit language.
• 1:00
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• 1:35
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• 1:37
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• 1:43
  SPEAKER_01: But uh this episode might trigger, might give me triggering cuss, just giving you raw reaction to the thing, to the story today.
• 1:51
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• 1:59
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• 2:04
  SPEAKER_01: This episode is titled, and it's quite simple, The Gillespie's.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_01: And um it's just um he was a good man.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: He was a very good man.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: And um it was just how the family family dynamics happened.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like when the news of him passing away, uh, you know, they tell us, you know, you call the family, call them all, call your siblings, see if they're coming in for the for the funeral.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: So my sister who's in town, you know, that was easy.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_01: She I call her, you know, let her know what's going on.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: You come and she said, Yeah.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: So I called my other sisters who are out of town, and uh, you know, I call them, let's know, hey, you know, call my first sister, she was in uh Georgia, and she called I call her and uh little Sean, and she's you know, a little emotional and all that stuff.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: So we call, I call her, say, hey, you sitting down, or you, you know, you sitting down, she's like, Yeah.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I just want to let you know that, you know, our uncle has passed away, and she knows Lil'Shawn.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, Oh Lord Jesus.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_01: She got a little emotional.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, when I tell her these things, I tell her things that you are emotional or anything like that.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_01: Try to get off the phone as quickly as possible.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: So I hang up with her, call my other sister who's also in Georgia.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Hey, you know.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, our uncle passed away.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: So, oh I said, You come into town, like, oh Lord, no, Jesus.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: I have a lot of work to do and I can't come in.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, that's cool.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I respect that.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody should respect that.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: She said, just, you know, let you know that it's gonna be broadcast on YouTube, so make sure you tune in.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: So, okay, click, hang up with her.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: Real easy, real simple type stuff, you know.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_01: Then I call my brother.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_01: I call my brother and say, hey, you know, uh sad to tell you that our uncle passed away.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, Oh, okay.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, wait, wait.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_01: That's not how he talks.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_01: I said, let me rewind that.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_01: I said, hey, you know, uncle passed away.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, oh, really?
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I said, yeah, he did.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: So well, um, I can't make it in town.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: I said, well, why not?
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, um, I'm on mission.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_01: He's in he's in the military too.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, I'm on mission.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: I said, okay, you know, but I'll be in town the following week after that.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_01: I said, hey, uh, you don't gotta justify nothing to me.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna be there.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_01: So it's gonna be on it's gonna be broadcast on YouTube, so make sure you watch.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: I will, brother.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for telling me.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_01: And he hangs up.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_01: So, um, yeah, so I called all the siblings, let him know what's going on.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: So we go to the funeral, and the thing that amazes me most about him, you know, uh, that he was a good man.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_01: He was a really good man, and uh, you know, he did everything right, pretty much, like as as a as a man should, right?
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: When he has a family, he, you know, not even before that, even before the family thing, he went to college, got himself a degree at Central University.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, he had a good working mentality.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um, when I when I when when you go to these um occasions, these funerals and everything, you hear stories.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: You hear stories about how he was and all that and how things he did.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_01: One of the things that I remember that he was a hustler, like he would go to this burger joint that's close to Central State, go up there and get these burgers that everybody liked, sell them for like$1.25 and the burgers were 75 cents.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: And he would pocket the change.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, you know, you can respect that.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_01: The man was on a grind.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_01: And then uh as he graduated college, he was the first African-American teacher in our school systems here.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_01: He was the first African head coach in the county.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: He started his own businesses, supplies, made shirts, had a carpet business that was passed on from his dad.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there was nothing you really could not ask more of this man.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: He was in the community, he did uh he was a referee for soccer.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_01: He was great.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_01: He was great.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_01: The only thing that I have a knock on him is this is a personal.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: He called me chubby buddy all the time.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, chubby buddy.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_01: That's how he said it.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, chubby buddy.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: I man, that's the most disrespectful thing you say to me.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I was what, 12, 13?
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_01: I was going through puberty.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: I was maybe I was a little chunky.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_01: Just don't call me that.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, hey, chubby buddy, you wanna go to church?
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, man, that's the last thing I want to do right now, is go to church.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_01: But my dad, hey man, you need to go to church.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, man, I think you need to go to church.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm like, all right, so we would go to church.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_01: And then for the like a whole year, hey, chubby buddy, you wanna go to McDonald's?
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_01: I said, you tricked me, didn't you?
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_01: Of course I want to go to McDonald's.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: You calling me names, I might as well eat these Big Macs.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna be so that's all jokes.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_01: So except he did really call me Chubby Buddy.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_01: And this is just it's just the way he said it, hey Chubby Buddy.
• 6:53
  unknown: I said, man.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_01: So man, I mean, I mean, there's nothing more I can say about him.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: He was a great guy.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_01: He did he did the family thing.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um, my cousin, my cousin who was um who played basketball, went woods, um, went on to play with college at Urbana.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um, he went to his games, and you know, during the sermon, um, my cousin, he was talking about he only missed one game because of a blizzard.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_01: Imagine that.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: He would drive all the way to Urbana, Ohio to go see his son play, his adult son play.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: And the thing about it, like, the coach in him never stopped.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_01: Like, we're watching the game, and he's he's on the sideline watching the game as if he's coaching.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: You can see like he's all tense and stuff.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_01: And I'll never forget this.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_01: You know, again, we're on the sideline, we're supposed to be spectators, you know, watching the game.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: There's this one kid, I can't remember.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_01: I no, I do remember the kid's name.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: His name was Zach.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what he did, but he messed up somewhere.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: He messed up so bad.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_01: My uncle yelled his name, Zach! I said, oh shoot.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: He he's again, he's a fan, and he's yelling at teammates like he's the coach.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: That is that is my uncle.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_01: And he was he's again, I cannot talk bad about him.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: He was a good man.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_01: He was a good, good man.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody loved him.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: He was a pillar for the Gillespies.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_01: The same goes for my other uncle, who was a retired general for our United States military.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: And the thing that, again, when when I talk about these the Gillespies, you gotta remember that I'm the youngest one.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody's been raised up, left, left the left Hamilton, left Ohio, did their other thing.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't know that many Gillespies, period.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know like who they are, don't know their background.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_01: I will see one every once in a while, but they all know me.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_01: So to get back to my own, my other uncle was in the military, he was he was great.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: And me being a military person myself, you know, I admire him more because of who he was and what he's accomplished.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: And um he's he's another great guy.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_01: And then my aunt, who's who's also great, but I don't have no stories for that.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, not on purpose, but I I don't have any stories.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't recall stories.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: Forgive me for that part.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_01: But she's probably great too, right?
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_01: So um the thing about my uncle, my general, let's call him General Gillespie, he was he was he never showed emotion, and then when we're in the funeral service talking, doing the sermon and everything, he he almost broke down talking about his brother.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_01: Now, what I get from all this is that the brothers, the whole family, they seem to be tight, hardworking, um people of the the people of the community and all that stuff, right?
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking back when during service, I'm looking listening to the stories, listen to you know them talk about my my my uncle and General Gillespie and my aunt.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, man, they are all good people.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: I look back at my sister who's like a couple while back from me and I'm like wood mouthing, what the hell?
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: What the hell did we get?
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_01: Because my dad was nothing like them.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: It was it was like, you know, hearing like you know, my uncle who passed away, like all these good things.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_01: He was, you know, a referee, he was uh no, he was an official for soccer for years, they retired him, put him in the hall of fame, uh Hamilton put him in the hall of fame, he was a coach, everything.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, man, my dad.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like he didn't do squat.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: So it was like like what the what did what happened?
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_00: What happened?
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, you know, and the thing is is that you know, my uncle had the full service and everything, got you know, get to hear all the good stories and everything.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: My dad decided to say, you know what, forget all that, I'm just gonna donate my body to science and not even have some type of service, you know.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: That was his choice.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we tr we didn't try to like talk him into it because you know, it was whatever, you know.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: When he was going through his struggles and stuff, there was no mention of that, and he already he already donated his body to science, what I thought was very weird.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like, why would you do that?
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm not here or there to discuss that.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: But did but did they did the Gillespies love my dad?
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna say absolutely they did.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: So much that remember last episode I talked about the Gillespie house.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like he had his own house and stuff, right?
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't pay mortgage or anything, he didn't have to pay a single dime to stay in that house.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if you recall last episode, we moved across the street.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: So we got evicted.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_01: You know, like how how you get evicted from a house that has your name on it.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's a Gillespie house.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: How you get evicted?
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: Because he didn't pay taxes.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't pay taxes, that's all he had to do was pay the taxes on the house and he could stay there rent-free.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: And he screwed that up.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: This is my dad.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, wow, man, listen.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think you know, General Gillespie, he would do that.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure my uncle he wouldn't do that.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: Like, why is my dad the bumbling idiot?
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what's going on?
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: And then I remember like he had a BMW.
• 12:29
  unknown: A BMW.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: How you afford that?
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: Like as a kid, I'm like, whoa, he got a BMW.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_00: My dad is cool.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: Come to find out he cashed in his mom's life insurance when she passed away.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_00: You knew you couldn't afford that.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: Why you got a BMW?
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: I don't I don't okay.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_01: Eventually he lost that.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's just like, like, what's going on, man?
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: What and then of course, you know, he didn't have he barely had a relationship with any of his kids.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: Like I lived with him for about five, six years, and I've already talked about how that was in the previous episode.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it didn't get no better, but you know, I was always the type that, you know, you gotta forgive.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you can't be mad, you can't be angry all the time, because that's what, you know, that's what I thought he was.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: He was angry all the time, or was something wrong with him.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_01: Don't know.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_01: Still to this day, we're like, man, what the heck?
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: What the heck happened to our father?
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: We don't know, right?
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: So again, to come to find out that, you know, that they cared for my dad.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: They loved my dad.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: But my dad did them dirty all the time.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it was uh during the funeral process for during the funeral process we had a uh plaque.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like a plaque on the put in the dirt for my dad to be buried with all the other Gillespies.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: And I noticed I noticed there was like a little divot in the in the dirt.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, who did this?
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: Who put the divot in the dirt?
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_01: Like someone was like digging in the dirt right below his name.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, who?
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: Like, why?
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: We need to call somebody, say you need someone to fix this or what?
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: It was my aunt.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: My aunt divvied, like put like poked holes where my dad's little I don't know, monument, whatever you want to call it.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: Stone?
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't no stone.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what it was.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: It was just a little plaque that says his name.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: Skipper.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: So uh like why did she do that?
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: Why did she do that?
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_00: Come to find out she didn't like my dad at all.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like how how how did what happened?
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, I didn't like it.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's like I didn't like it.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_00: And then she got mad, she's like, I just didn't like it.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, okay, I mean, siblings, y'all family.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: Why didn't y'all like them?
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, you hear all the stories and stuff like that.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, well, I didn't heard all the stories, you know, the BMW, the the failed tax thing, all that stuff, right?
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, all that happened, right?
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: So, um, again, like he donated my dad, uh donated body to science, and um we got the ashes back.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: And then and then the lady was like, you know, what do you want to do with the ashes?
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, what do who?
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: Me?
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: You what do you want me to do with the ashes?
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't want them.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_01: I I'm gonna be honest, I don't I don't want them.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: Not that, you know, uh not that I mean what do you do with ashes?
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, I couldn't.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_01: So come to find out that my sister in Georgia wanted them, and then my uncle wanted them.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: He wanted to carry some of the ashes with him in his casket.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay, you know, I got no beef for that.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_01: I got no beef with that at all.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_01: That's what you want to do.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: I can respect that.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: Here you go.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_01: You know him better than me.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: Here you go.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not the one that's gonna be like, don't do that.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: Don't care.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna be honest with you, didn't care.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_01: So again, the next day, I get a call on the phone, and it's my aunt.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_01: My aunt said, Hey, I need you at the um at the burial site tomorrow morning.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: I said, You want me where?
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: She said, Yeah, I want you at the burial site tomorrow morning.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I thought we were done with everything.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: He said, We are, but I want you at the burial site tomorrow morning.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, all right, fine, whatever.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: I drive there and I'm like, what is going on?
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: Why do they want me at the burial site tomorrow morning?
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: Are they gonna off meet?
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_01: No, I'm kidding.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: No, so uh we're all there.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: My cousin's there, and uh my other cousin's there, my aunt's there, and she has um she has my dad's ashes.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, okay, this is this is a little interesting.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: What did they were we doing with that?
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: So that same hole that my aunt created out of spite, they dug, they dug into it.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, okay, what are we doing?
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_01: So me and my sister, Lashawn, she got there, and they're like, Well, I want you to bury your father.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: I said, We don't have to bury my father because he's already dead and he don't have a body.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: So we're not burying nothing.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, no, no, no.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: I want you to put the ashes in the ground.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, um, that was exactly um, you want me to put my hands in the ashes of my father and put it in the dirt.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_01: I said, oh hell no.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not, mmm, I'm not doing that.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_01: You want me to do that?
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_01: My sister goes two hands deep, packing, packing the dirt full of ashes.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking at her like, mm-hmm.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: And they're saying, and she said, my aunt said, This is what I wanted you to do.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: This I wanted you to bury.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_01: I wanted you to be here to bury your dad.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I'm not burying my dad.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: Let this he's gone.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not putting my hands in the ashes, absorbing the evil spirits from those ashes into my hands.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: Next thing you know, I'm evil.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not doing that.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I'm not doing that, I'm not doing that.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: My sister's over there packing the dirt, all in there, and she's like, she's crying, uncontrollably crying.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, You were my you weren't the best daddy, but you were my daddy.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: She's crying.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just looking.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: I said, No, yo, I can't, no.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: You're asking a little too much from me.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not, I can't, I cannot put my hands in that.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: So we pack the the hole, put the dirt over it, and we go about our business.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: I was so freaked out when they asked me to do this.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: I can you believe?
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: Could you ever do that?
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: Could you take ashes?
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: I I still struggle to this day about that.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: I could not put No, I couldn't.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: I couldn't put my hands in it, couldn't do it.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh let her do it.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: She was she was Casola Crying, but she got the ending that she wanted.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: I had the ending I wanted years ago.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_01: We were good.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: We were good back then when he was still here.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: I just couldn't do that part.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: So we put him to rest, we put my uncle to rest, and it's just such a different, such a two different ways that people go out, right?
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: Like my dad, again, seemed just so I don't know the word, like so un unpopular, but he was a Gillespie.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_01: And that's the thing that that that I carry with me.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: Like, hey, you know, whenever I shouldn't say the story is whenever I was around and I come around and say, hey, you a Gillespie?
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: I said, so how the hell you know that?
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: So look at that nose.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_01: That's a Gillespie nose.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: I said, man, shut shut up.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: Like, dude, how you gonna recognize me just because my nose, you you a Gillespie, ain't you?
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: With that nose.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Dad gone.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, well, that's my nose, whatever.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I was born with.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, but but everybody, uh as far as I know, everybody knew a Gillespie, right?
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody knew a Gillespie.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like you knew my dad, and no one ever said anything ill about my dad.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, he's a bastard, screw that guy, you know, fuck him, blah, blah, blah.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: No, that was never that, never about any of the Gillespies, none of them.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like weird to me, like how he decided to go out.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: He wanted to donate his body to science.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know why, but it's his choice, his life, whatever.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: And then I see my uncle, where the whole city came to pay their respects.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's like such polarizing differences between the two.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: And it just makes me wonder how did you get there?
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_01: How did you get there?
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: So that's that's that's that story.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_01: Now, a bonus story, a bonus story that I'm gonna share, and this is with my cousin.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_01: Well, so um, a couple months later, we go out and we go to this uh Japanese restaurant, right?
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: So uh he sees me and I see him, and he comes up to me.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: And uh the thing about my cousin, this same cousin I went to Urbana and everything, he's strong too, right?
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: So he sees me and I see him, and you know, we family, we hug each other, but he's hugging too tight.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, hey, cousin, come here.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_01: Show me some love, show me some love, so love.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_01: Hug me, I can't get out.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: He's stronger than me.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh man, he got me stuck up in here.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like this is too tight.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: And then he finally breaks away off me.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you know, this and he's a and everybody like this is my little cousin.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: He like this is my little cousin, kept saying that.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_01: This is my little cousin.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm like, look, we adults now.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: You don't be this my little cousin, little cousin, little cousin.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I ain't that little.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you ain't that tall either.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: So he's always throwing these jabs at me.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a little cousin.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I ain't you just stronger than me.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: That's it for now, right?
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: You you gonna come down the age eventually.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna get you one day.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: All jokes aside.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: So he's he's trying to make me feel little from my family.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_01: I say, okay, I got you.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: I said uh I talked to the ad to the uh server.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Hey, see those two black people over there?
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_01: I want that check.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: Paid for their food.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: So you I get you.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_01: I pay for his food.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: Little jerk.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_01: It was all good, all good.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: It was just a little funny.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: Like you just can't, he just little cousin.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: Like, man, we adults, man.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: Don't be calling me no little cousin.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: I know I'm younger.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_01: Again, I'm the youngest Gillespie out of all the family.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: So, and then here's another thing.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: All these little bonus stories.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: Whenever they see me, they always with the Michael Carlos, Michael Carlos, Michael Carlos, Michael Carlos here, Michael Carlos.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody calls me Michael Carlos.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: Again, this is this is a previous episode.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_01: Carlos is not my real middle name, and you will you guys will never know my middle name.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's classified.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody, Michael Carlos here, Michael Carlos here.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: The only bad thing about it, I don't know nobody else's name.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: Again, I'm the youngest Gillespie.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: I remember pieces of people, I remember the family that I saw that were in town, but everybody else, I don't know you guys.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm the youngest Gillespie.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know everybody.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: Y'all, y'all were all gone, y'all start living your lives, and I finally show up, and all y'all groaning adults.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: With that being said, we ending the episode right there.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for listening to the WDYM.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie, and peace out, Boy Scout.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: Call me little little cousin, little cousin, little cousin.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_01: Don't call me that pubble.