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He wants a baby, but I need so much more.

Right now, the nephew, we'll get into that.

Right now, the nephew is here with today's prank phone call.

What you got for is neff? Surely, this is the electric company but aka Aqua Boogie.

Aqua. This one's close to my heart right here. All right. This is Mama's number one prank,

Miss Helen. This is for you.

Hello. Hello, I'm trying to reach a uh quincey this is hey how are you my name is maurice marie calling you from the power company how you

doing today um all right what's up well listen we're doing some testing in your neighborhood we're trying to

make sure we don't have to actually shut the power down out there. And we're calling around quite a few people in your

neighborhood running some tests on individual homes and making sure the electricity is running

correctly. Can I get you to do a few things for me and see if the quicker we get through with this,

sir, and it's a possibility we won't have to turn your power off at all i know you don't want us to have to come out and turn power off and you got stuff in your refrigerator that can spoil and things like that so we want to try to get this done and hopefully the power with the with the test that we run it'll run correctly we won't have to do anything okay i don't know anything about no i don't know I'm not about no electricity anything about no, I don't know anything about that. No, no, I understand that. Don't worry about that. All right. How big is your house? How many bedrooms you got? Four bedrooms. Four bedrooms. Now, you have upstairs downstairs downstairs? It's too sore. Okay. All right, so here's what we need to do. if you can They're going to take long though I got it because I'm in a hurry

man It's too sore. Okay. All right. So here's what we need to do.

If you can... It ain't going to take long, though, right? I got it because I'm in a hurry, man. I ain't going to have a lot of time. No, no, no. This won't take long at all, sir. Can I get you to take your breaker and shut down everything upstairs, and we're going to run a test on the stuff downstairs right now? It'll be real quick. All right.

Just shut everything on.

I want you to keep the downstairs open. and we're going to run a test on the stuff downstairs right now. It'll be real quick.

All right.

Just shut everything off? I want you to keep the downstairs open and keep that to the week. So we can run our test on this thing. All right. Everything's shut. Everything's down. Okay. You turned off upstairs. I just turned off all the switches. Okay. Here's what I need you to do. I need you to turn on your television and then turn it off.

Downstairs?

Downstairs. switches. Okay. Here's what I need you to do. I need you to turn on your television and then turn it off.

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