The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Funeral Home Sued After Family Discovers Wrong Body In Unc’s Casket

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

Charlamagne Tha God Gives Donkey of The Day to A Funeral Home That's being Sued After Family Discovers Wrong Body In Unc’s Casket. Listen For More!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I've been wanting to know how you came up with the donkey of the day. Tell us! Tell us, baby! Because you're mean. I am not! What did I do? I made a donkey of day. There's a bunch of donkeys out here in this street.

That is why y'all named it. We live a life where we bite our tongue based off who we may offend. We never would say anything. You don't give a damn, don't throw it home. Hey! Hey, give it to him! Give it to him!

On The Breakfast Club. In the words of Charlamagne the guy, he's a donkey, that's what I mean. He ain't mother- Don't throw it home. Oh man, Charlamagne, you giving Donkey the day to who now? Happy Born Day Buster Bus. Donkey of the Day for Tuesday, May 20th

goes to the Harrison Ross Mortuary in California now first of all I want to send condolences to Amintha hunt and the family of 80 year old Otis Atkinson, okay, you know, I'm not a funeral guy. Okay. I'm not going to my own funeral if I can help it But I understand the process of disservice It is very important to lay your people to rest with class and dignity But in order to do that you need a mortuary that moves with class and dignity. That's the scary thing, right? You know how you know how I talked to you all about schools and how we drop our kids off to schools and trust these Teachers with our precious seeds our souls outside of our bodies our kids. It's the same thing with a mortuary

Okay, I know the spirit has left the body but the body is still precious that's your loved one you want to make sure they are being treated correctly. Well the family of Otis Atkinson he they weren't treated correctly at all they weren't treated with any respect by the Harrison Mortuary. Let's go to CBS 3 for the report please. I didn't make arrangements to see the wrong body. When Amita hunts 80 year old uncle passed away she chose Harrison Ross Mortuary to prepare him for burial but when she went to view his body, she says it wasn't him. It was a guy laying there in my uncle's suit, but it wasn't my uncle.

What did you think? I just kept looking at him. I didn't know. I was just kept looking at him and kept looking. I'm like, wait a minute. He couldn't have got that dart. Hunt says she knew something was wrong and asked a worker at the mortuary for help. HUNTS SAYS SHE KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG AND ASKED A WORKER AT THE MORTRUARY FOR HELP. She was like, no, yes, that's your uncle. I said, that's not my uncle. My uncle wouldn't have got that dart. And I said, here's a picture of him. And I showed her the picture and she was like, you're right. Give us one minute, one minute. HUNTS SAYS SHE AND HER FAMILY WAITED THREE HOURS WHILE THE MORTRUARY FIXED THE MIX UP SO THEY COULD FINALLY BURY HER UNCLE. SHE STILL DOESN'T KNOW WHOSE BODY WAS DRESSED IN HIS SUIT AND HAS FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE uncle. She still doesn't know whose body was dressed in his suit and has filed a lawsuit against the mortuary over the whole ordeal. Her attorney calls the mortuary's actions outrageous.

For them to come in and see the wrong corpse and then for the mortuary to deny that it's the wrong corpse and then need proof that they that it's in fact the right person. So we think it's a really just a basic standard of care that they messed up on. Ain't nobody came to see you Otis. First of all, that's not even Otis. Okay. And we did come to see him. But once again, that's not him. I don't know the race of the people who run this funeral home, but clearly they believe

all black people look alike. And what really grinds my gears about this story is the fact that when I'm telling you this is not my uncle, you you trying to tell me it is. Okay, I ask a simple question often. Okay, this is my question that I ask. What do people hate more in this era? Reading or accountability? I want you all to think about that for a second.

What do people hate more? Reading or accountability? When the family asked the mortuary worker for help, the employee insisted that the family asked the mortuary worker for help, the employee insisted that the stranger in the casket was indeed their uncle. And this is why sometimes you have to keep a lawyer on retainer because every now and then violence is justified. Okay, I'm trying to explain to you this isn't my uncle, but you insisting that it is and you have the nerve to put this person I don't know in my uncle's suit now I gotta make you explain to me why we shouldn't squabble okay I'm glad

we already at the morgue because this was gonna be your next stop anyway all right this level of gaslighting people not being able to admit when they wrong making two plus two equal five you walk into the mortuary see a strange man in the casket wearing your uncle suit you tell the guy working at the morgue that's not my uncle and they basically tell you well he's also dead so it's essentially the same thing that is the era we are in folks okay people just make false equivalencies all the time the funeral homes response was basically who are you gonna believe us are your own eyes that is truly our corporate media landscape too that's what they do to us every day.

They tell the people, believe us, not your own eyes. Imagine being in a funeral home and they say to you, we can't find your relative, but we do have someone about the same vibe. I guarantee you, they tried to blame this on death swelling. Death swelling will have you looking a little different, but we all know our people. Okay, how you gonna tell me that's not my uncle? The man was 80. We

know him our whole life. Sunday dinners, fish fries, Dan Kelly, today was playing dominoes. I know home team. When I see it, this man in the casket looks like he plays for a rival team in a different sport. You can't just put a whole stranger in my Uncle Steve Harvey suit and think we won't notice. What in the Freaky Friday? Listen, the moral of the story is, in life, personal and business, you should be humble enough to see your mistakes, courageous enough to admit your mistakes, and wise enough to correct them.

Harrison Ross Mortuary in California was none of those things, so please give them the sweet sounds of the Hamilton's. Oh now you are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. Yeehaw. And does the stranger that they had in Uncle oldest his suit what about his family does his family know that they just had Him in a whole other suit. Yeah That's what I mean Come on, man. It's the yes. This is your uncle. This is him

That's him and then she pulled the bitch out. Oh, no one minute one minute Then she pulled the bitch out. Oh, no one minute one minute All right, well, thank you for that donkey today now when we come back the mayor of Newark Ross Barack I will be joining us. We're gonna talk to him next don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning the Breakfast Club Donkey today is sponsored by renowned personal injury attorney Michael the Bull lamonsoff Don't be a donkey when you need a fighter on your side. If you're ever injured, go to michaelthebull.com. That's michaelthebull.com. And when you mess with the bull, you get the horns. Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes here. Diddy's former protege, television personality, Danity King alum Aubrey O'Day joins us to provide a unique perspective on the trial

that has captivated the attention of the nation. It wasn't all bad, but I don't know that any of the good was real. I went through things there. Listen to Amy and TJ presents Aubrey O'Day, covering the Diddy Trial on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Why is a soap opera western like Yellowstone so wildly successful? The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to The American West with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2020, a group of young women found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare. Someone was posting photos. It was just me naked. Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts.

This is Levittown, a new podcast from iHeart Podcasts, Bloomberg, and Kaleidoscope, about the rise of deep fake pornography and the battle to stop it. Listen to Levittown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast. Find it on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Glott. And this is season two of the War on Drugs podcast. iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, it brings a face to it. It makes it real. It really does.

It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. You're listening to an iHeart podcast.