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Funeral Convoy · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question in for our American mama's. Dear mamas,
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  Speaker 1: should pulling over for a funeral procession still be considered
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  Speaker 1: basic respect?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask a remeric and.
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  Speaker 3: Mama's Mamma, Mama, she said, and joining us now our
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  Speaker 3: American mamas turning Edville and Kimberly burlasson.
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  Speaker 1: So I have plenty of memories driving down the road.
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  Speaker 1: You see a police car off in the front, then
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  Speaker 1: there's the hearse and then there's like a long line
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  Speaker 1: of cars with their lights all on, and you see
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  Speaker 1: them going down the road, and sometimes you see people
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  Speaker 1: pulling over. And then sometimes you see people kind of
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  Speaker 1: pulling into the line and they don't have their lights on,
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, are they part of their funeral recession?
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  Speaker 2: Are they just annoyed by it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 5: I think it's something. I love it. I think I
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  Speaker 5: remember my mom she lost her dad when she was
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  Speaker 5: thirteen years old, and she said she remembered it was
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  Speaker 5: the first time she was ever in a limousine, and
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  Speaker 5: she said, they're driving down the road and she remembered
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  Speaker 5: seeing kids playing, thinking how are they having fun when
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  Speaker 5: my dad's gone? You know, going to be my dad.
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  Speaker 5: But she said cars pulled over and even some people
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  Speaker 5: stood outside of their car, and she said she felt
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  Speaker 5: like she went alone. It was a.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling of this was when your mom was thirteen, eighteen
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  Speaker 1: years old. There would cars that would pull over and
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  Speaker 1: then people would get out, stood out and stand up
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  Speaker 1: at it basically at attention. But I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: it's military salute, but but basically they would stand there
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  Speaker 1: and pay their respects.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just someone. They had no idea that you have,
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  Speaker 2: no idea who's.
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  Speaker 5: In the exactly. It's just saying, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we're basically we're here with you, we're praying for you.
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  Speaker 5: And she felt it. Wow, you know, as they are driving,
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  Speaker 5: she said, she felt that and never I think it's
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  Speaker 5: something that needs to be taught to people. I don't
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  Speaker 5: think people know that that's a thing, right and Kent,
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  Speaker 5: don't the highway is too hard.
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  Speaker 2: You can pull over, right, yeah, but don't step out
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  Speaker 2: on the understand.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but it is especial. And I remember when our grandfather,
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  Speaker 4: when Papal died, I remember us feeling that same way.
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  Speaker 4: Seeing the cars pull over for us. It felt like
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  Speaker 4: something extra special, and I you know, I do that today.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I pull over a lot of people.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have to tell them about what you did
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  Speaker 5: one time in a funeral?
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  Speaker 4: Almost? Gosh, yeah, I didn't know. I'm that person that
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  Speaker 4: got in there. You remember, you know, back when we
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  Speaker 4: were young. Not everybody's headlight's wrong, you know, And so
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  Speaker 4: you knew when there was a funeral procession. I had
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  Speaker 4: my little kids, two and a you know, one of
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  Speaker 4: the booster and two in car seats, and I was
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  Speaker 4: you know, I remember coming from Betting to Bosure and
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  Speaker 4: there's a limousine that wouldn't let me in, and I thought, well,
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  Speaker 4: what in the world, mister big man and a limousine
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  Speaker 4: not letting me over. So I thought, well, I'll let
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  Speaker 4: him go by and I'll get over behind him. And
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  Speaker 4: I did, and then it dawned on me because I saw,
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  Speaker 4: oh my god, there's a Lindsay right behind me, and there's.
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  Speaker 3: Like a wait.
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  Speaker 5: You were between two.
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  Speaker 4: And I died, and I was like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 4: what do you do? What do I do? So I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: oh my god, oh my gosh, I like slowly got out.
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  Speaker 6: You got on the right and and I was so embarrassed,
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  Speaker 6: big man, with your limousine not.
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  Speaker 2: Letting me and I'm idiot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was terrible. That was a terrible, terrible day. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: in a long line, you know. But I did pulled
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  Speaker 4: over for all of it, like a far I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I just got over to the side. Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: But basically, you guys are are saying that, yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is still this is a respect.
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  Speaker 4: Respectful Do you think that people teach it to their
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  Speaker 4: children now?
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  Speaker 5: I don't think they do, because I'm not seeing it
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  Speaker 5: like I've I've gone to a couple. I mean, I've
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  Speaker 5: seen a few processions. Now they've got cops the speed
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  Speaker 5: up off the lights and you do that so you
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  Speaker 5: kind of know what's coming. But now I'm seeing people
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  Speaker 5: just like drive along them and I'm mad. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I'm mad because I want them to like scoot over
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  Speaker 5: and have some yes exactly. But then Mike was like,
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  Speaker 5: they probably don't even know. They probably because this is
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  Speaker 5: like an old school thing. This is like from the past,
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  Speaker 5: this is And I was like, you're probably right, because
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  Speaker 5: there's no one teaches you that except for your parents
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  Speaker 5: or from seeing it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you don't know what the limousine is
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  Speaker 1: all about then, yeah, right in the middle of it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't help to have the cops now that
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  Speaker 4: you know go ahead of you.
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  Speaker 1: That is so, is this something that you teach your kids?
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  Speaker 1: And if so, when I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean because because you see one, you know I haven't.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a while since I've seen a funeral procession
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  Speaker 1: just because the way I don't. I don't drive as
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  Speaker 1: much as I used to, just because I work pretty
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  Speaker 1: close to the studio.
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  Speaker 2: I live pretty close to the studio.
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  Speaker 1: I don't drive near as much as I used to,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't see as many funeral processions
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  Speaker 1: as I.
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  Speaker 6: Used to see.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know the ones that to me mean the
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  Speaker 4: most or not mean the most, but the ones that
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  Speaker 4: are special is whenever you see on TV, like the
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  Speaker 4: fire trucks that come together with the.
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  Speaker 5: Flag over the Chris Kyle, I was there for that procession. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: that was I have chills thinking about it.
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  Speaker 2: That's yeah, you were you were at.
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  Speaker 5: But yes, I think all of Texas if if you
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  Speaker 5: knew he was coming down the road and it was
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  Speaker 5: raining and people were out there with flags, bridges over
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  Speaker 5: the over the bridges, but when he drove, I have
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  Speaker 5: chills when he when the procession drove by you, Oh,
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  Speaker 5: you just felt something, but you also felt like you
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  Speaker 5: were giving something to his family. You were saying, we're
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  Speaker 5: so sorry, we're so angry, we love you, we support you.
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  Speaker 5: You were giving all. And maybe that's what my mom
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  Speaker 5: felt at thirteen. Yeah, those feelings going towards.
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  Speaker 2: Her and receiving. And again I've said this before. You know,
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  Speaker 2: weddings aren't for the bride and groom. There for everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: The marriage is for the bride and groom. Funerals aren't
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  Speaker 2: for the dead, they're for the living. And the fact
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  Speaker 2: that your mother felt the.
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  Speaker 1: Respect when she was a child, I think that's that's
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  Speaker 1: what's really important. If you like to ask for American
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  Speaker 1: Terry out of a Kimberly Brogles and thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you,