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The discussion is strange burial requests occasioned by, and we'll go skip John Paul Joseph,

so hang tight, we'll get to you.

Occasioned by back in April, 88-year-old Pope Francis passed, and his request to the Vatican was a very simple burial.

And we were talking as a show team, Jim, Daryl, Chad Okoninichy, myself, Ramon Robles, about strange burial requests or atypical burial requests.

And we ran out of time and we wanted to get to some more of these.

So we'll take them in that order.

Skip,

what's yours?

Good morning,

Zarr.

Lost one of my lifelong besties two years ago, six months before our 50th reunion, high school

reunion, and went to his funeral and still grieving about losing this guy.

We were raised two doors down from each other.

I had no idea what gay was when I was in high school and nobody else did.

But he was, turns out he was gay.

And funniest man that lived, he would make any stand-up comedian look bad today.

And he basically smoked himself to death and died at the age of 68.

But I went to his funeral and three of his buddies got up and eulogized him, or as I used to say, urologized him.

And it was amazing.

Chas got up and he said, you know, I love Freddie and we used to garden together and we love the garden.

And I would get out there with him and we'd hoe and rake and plant the beautiful flowers.

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