The People's Donkey

Summary

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Donkey of the Day – "The People's Donkey"

Podcast: Donkey of the Day on Power 105.1 FM (WWPR-FM)
Host: Charlamagne tha God, DJ Envy, Angela Yee
Date: May 22, 2026

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Episode Overview

On this special "People's Donkey" edition of Donkey of the Day, the Breakfast Club hands over the Donkey of the Day segment to its listeners. Regular people get to call in and air their grievances, awarding “the biggest hee haw” to whoever they think deserves it for being foolish or wronging them. This episode is a lively, sometimes hilarious, and often heartfelt tribute to the everyday moments of frustration — from unfair bosses to scammy friends. Charlamagne, DJ Envy, and Angela Yee keep the energy witty, irreverent, and supportive as callers share their wild stories.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Caller AB from Memphis – Donkey for Waste Management

[02:40 - 03:45]

• Caller AB gives Donkey of the Day to their own employer, Waste Management, upset that workers are being forced to collect garbage during hazardous weather:
  • “It’s raining thundering lightning. We out here, they should let us be at home. Defense. Garbage is not that important.” (Caller AB, 02:52)
  • DJ Envy pushes back, joking about the importance of getting the trash and highlighting service jobs’ grit.
  • Charlamagne reminisces about Memphis venues and connects with AB over the local scene.

2. Caller Yashima – Donkey for Self (and a Scamming ‘Friend’)

[04:50 - 09:03]

• Yashima calls to "give it to myself" after being conned by a trusted friend, a celebrity chef:
  • Lending $50,000 to friend “Chef B,” then letting her use a credit card, losing an additional $30,000.
  • “At the time I did it, I didn’t think she was the scamming me because I looked at her as a friend, but my homegirls was like, you know, Africans, a scammer. She’s scamming you.” (Yashima, 05:18)
  • Elaborates on how the friend faked a money transfer and left her with debt after the wedding.
  • Despite winning a legal judgment, recovering the money has been tough — “The judge tells me, you got your judgment, now get your money.” (Yashima, 06:50)
  • Shares her background as a self-made IT specialist and home flipper, devastated by the breach of trust: “My money is my power. My money in my crate. And she… effed it all up. My credit score went from 850 to 600.” (Yashima, 08:40)
  • Hosts react with sympathy and disbelief at the scam’s scale and emotional fallout.
  • DJ Envy and Charlamagne sprinkle humor about "roots" and "vibrating minis," keeping it both supportive and light.

3. Caller Jay – Defending Drake and Addressing Internet Hate

[09:14 - 11:13]

• Jay playfully awards Donkey to all those claiming rapper Drake was washed up after the Kendrick Lamar battle:
  • “Hee ha goes to everybody in the world who thought the boy didn’t have any more slaps. Iceman is where it’s at…” (Jay, 09:20)
  • DJ Envy and Charlamagne clarify that losing a battle isn’t the same as being “done,” noting Drake’s loyal, passionate fanbase.
  • Discussion on artist loyalty and growing online fandoms, with DJ Envy noting: “Just because there was people who didn’t want to hear Drake anymore doesn’t mean he don’t have a loyal cult like following or OV Hoes.” (DJ Envy, 10:07)
  • Banter escalates to jokes about fans getting “Owl” tattoos and “OV tramp stamps” in Drake’s honor.
  • Quote: “You know how dope you got to be to have men tattooing owls on their left ass cheek.” (DJ Envy, 11:25)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Workplace Frustration:
  “Garbage is not that important. It’s raining, thundering, lightning. We out here, they should let us be at home.”
  — Caller AB [02:52]

• On Being Scammed:
  “She spent like $30,000 on one of my credit cards. Never paid me back. So that was last year in March… The judge tells me, you got your judgment, now get your money.”
  — Yashima [06:02, 06:50]

• Personal Fallout:
  “My money is my power… And she effed it all up. My credit score went from 850 to 600.”
  — Yashima [08:40]

• Drake Discussion:
  “Just because there was people who didn’t want to hear Drake anymore doesn’t mean he don’t have a loyal cult like following or OV Hoes.”
  — DJ Envy [10:07]

  “You know how dope you got to be to have men tattooing owls on their left ass cheek.”
  — DJ Envy [11:25]

• Charlamagne’s Perspective:
  “I think it’s dope that, you know, he had a great rollout and he got a group of fans that were willing to cover themselves in frozen semen and… post the album and say, ‘iceman King.’ That’s dope.”
  — Charlamagne tha God [10:33]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 02:40 — AB from Memphis calls, Donkey for Waste Management
• 04:50 — Yashima tells the $80K scam story, Donkey for herself/friend
• 09:14 — Jay calls, Donkey for “Drake haters”, rap fandom banter
• 11:54 — End of calls; wrap-up, invitations for next week’s People’s Donkey

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Tone and Style

• Language & Vibes: Unfiltered, candid, and fast-paced, blending humor, relatability, and a touch of emotional honesty.
• Presenter Energy: Charlamagne, DJ Envy, and Angela Yee volley jokes, real talk, and genuine empathy, keeping it very “Breakfast Club.”

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Summary

If you missed the episode, "The People's Donkey" is a crowd-sourced highlight reel of everyday grievances with plenty of laughs and real-life lessons. Whether about demanding jobs, personal betrayal, or internet rap wars, listeners provide a cross-section of struggles and perspectives — all mediated by the Breakfast Club's unique mix of wit and sincerity. The segment shines when regular folks voice both their pain and humor, making it a cathartic, must-listen Friday tradition.

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Transcript

[Charlamagne tha God]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Jonas Brothers Promo Voice]

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[Caller AB]

I'm Joe.

[DJ Envy]

I'm Kevin.

[Nick Jonas]

And I'm Nick. And guess what? We created our own podcast called hey Jonas.

[DJ Envy]

We invented a podcast.

[Nick Jonas]

Well, we didn't invent it.

[Joe Jonas]

We.

[Nick Jonas]

We just contributed to it.

[Jonas Brothers Promo Voice]

The first people to do podcasts, we

[DJ Envy]

get to ask other people questions because we're sick and tired of being asked questions.

[Nick Jonas]

Well, sick and tired is a strong way to put it, but you know, tired and sick. Tired and sick.

[Jonas Brothers Promo Voice]

Listen to hey Jonas on the iHeartRadio

[DJ Envy]

app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it.

[Robert Smigel]

Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy not quite on Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Jim Gaffigan to Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman. To help make you funnier this week, my guest SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel help an acapella band with their between songs banter. Who's the worst singer in the group?

[Angela Yee]

The worst?

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah, Me. Is there anything to the idea that because you're from Harvard, you only got in because your parents made a huge donation to the group the Yardbirds.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Right, that's the name.

[Robert Smigel]

The Harvard Yard.

[DJ Envy]

But they're open. You have a name suggestion?

[Joe Jonas]

We're open.

[Robert Smigel]

Since you guys are middle aged direction, listen to Humor me with Robert Smigel and friends on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[DJ Envy]

Humor me. I need some jokes to make me seem funny.

[Robert Smigel]

It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own.

[DJ Envy]

Remember now, that's is how they choose.

[Robert Smigel]

Call in now. 800-58-5-1051.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, it's donkey. Today for Friday, May 22nd is the People's donkey. This is why I give you, our beautiful listeners, the opportunity to give someone the credit they deserve for Being stupid. You get to give someone the biggest he haw. So who's this?

[Caller AB]

Yo, this AB out of Memphis.

[DJ Envy]

AB out of Memphis. Who you want to get the biggest he haw to? AB out of Memphis.

[Caller AB]

Main Waste Management. My job.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, wow.

[DJ Envy]

What'd they do to you, man?

[Caller AB]

Look, it's raining thundering lightning. We out here, they should let us be at home. Defense. Garbage is not that important.

[DJ Envy]

What you mean? You gotta clean the garbage up, man. So how the mailman is rain sleep, huh?

[Caller AB]

That's a mailman. You might have a chick in the mirror. Ain't no chicken no garbage.

[DJ Envy]

God damn. But then if you don't get the garbage now, when you gonna get it? When a black person really bad. I'm. Damn, man. I feel you, though.

[Angela Yee]

Stop cursing.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I'm on the books for Memphis. I'm checking. Y' all ain't really got a lot of venues. I used to perform at Chuckles, but that's gone now, ain't it?

[Caller AB]

I don't think so.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You don't think so?

[Caller AB]

I meet you last time.

[Joe Jonas]

That was a while ago, though.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, I heard. I know. I used to perform at Chuckles all the time, but I heard that.

[Caller AB]

I don't know.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I think, like, management sold it or something. I heard that Chuckles wasn't around anymore, but I' ma see. I' ma see.

[Joe Jonas]

Hey, and that dude who called you

[Caller AB]

yesterday for six months.

[Joe Jonas]

Get off your phone.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I know, right?

[Caller AB]

The. With her baby dad.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah.

[Caller AB]

Like I said, man. I said, women do this every day, right?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Right. We go through it all the time, you know? And. And he didn't even really have a real problem. Like, you got a wife, you know what I'm saying? Your daughter got a mother figure. Let her mother be a deadbeat. It's all right.

[DJ Envy]

What's your name again?

[Caller AB]

I'm out of midget.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Jess. Give it.

[Joe Jonas]

Yes.

[Caller AB]

I'm a stud. Hey, I love her.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. Okay, Lauren, A.B. want to put her strap on you. Wow. Listen, hey, hey, Jess, give Ab some tickets to your next show because she not about to have no job, so she ain't gonna be able to.

[Caller AB]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

What you mean?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Ability to come to the show for free when I get the Memphis show together.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. Who's this?

[Caller AB]

This is Yashima.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yashima who?

[DJ Envy]

You want to get a biggest he hi to Yashima?

[Caller AB]

Well, unfortunately, I gotta give it to myself. Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, boy.

[Caller AB]

So I met this girl named. Her name is B. Chef B. She's a celebrity chef. I met her in my church. We became friends. Xyz Long Story short, I was in her wedding and she asked to borrow $50,000.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Caller AB]

At the time I did it, I didn't think she was the scamming me because I looked at her as a friend, but my homegirls was like, you know, Africans, a scammer. She's scamming you.

[DJ Envy]

What kind of. Africa's a big continent now. What country from Africa?

[Caller AB]

Liberia.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Caller AB]

Okay, so long story short, I'm in the wedding and everything. She borrows the money. Friend, I'm gonna pay you back. I'm gonna pay you back, I promise. She sent me a bogus wander transfer stating that, oh, the bank sent the money to the wrong account for the wedding venue. Look at it. So I looked at it. I didn't think it was fake because that was a friend. I talked to my friend. Lo and behold, that was fake. Then I let her use my credit card. She spent like $30,000 on one of my credit cards.

[Angela Yee]

Wow.

[Caller AB]

Never paid me back. So that was last year in March. The wedding was in Key Largo. It was Dr. Beatrice Saloni. She lives in Richmond now, but she's from Brooklyn. Jeff, you might have met her before because she was the chef at Wild N Out.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, for real?

[DJ Envy]

So you just like, I don't know nothing about this, so you $80,000 down.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's wild.

[Caller AB]

Currently the judge ruled in my favor, so I'm 50 something thousand dollars down with 9.9% interest rate. But this crazy thing was I'm in Jersey, she's in Virginia, So I have to go back and forth to court, right? The judge tells me, you got your judgment, now get your money. So now I'm at a loop because I can't help. I can't find nobody that does Virginia law in Jersey that can help me retrieve my money. So I had to do my own due diligence. So I did a garnishment, flew down there, had to stay in a hotel, did garnishments and all that stuff, right? This scamming ass chick closed up all her bank accounts.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What the hell do you do?

[DJ Envy]

Why you getting all this?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn. That's why she want to be a friend, so.

[Caller AB]

Exactly. So I'm a little bit about me. Been on my own since 17 years old, since my mom died. And I'm just a go getter. I got two degrees, Rutgers in JIT. And I work hard. I'm in the IT field. I've been working in IT for 20 something years. I'm a cyber security engineer and I also flip homes. One chick, wait Hammer. So if you know somebody need remodeled rehab, I'm one chick, one hammer. Just like it says, one chick, one hammer.

[DJ Envy]

But why did you like Chef B so much that you just wanted to give her all this money? Like, what else damn I got?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Cause I thought you was about to say that child was together.

[Caller AB]

Okay, great question. So at the time, me and my husband for 17 years was going through a bit of divorce, right?

[DJ Envy]

God damn.

[Caller AB]

And I was in a. And I was in a dark thinking place. And when I called her, she was there. You gonna be okay? You gonna be there? Cause she was there for me. So she picked me up. Cause I was in my house, like in a room for months. She picked up, moved, couldn't eat. And so I felt as though she was there for me. So she picked me up and took me to her house. Now, mind you, she's sitting on a spread in Chesterfield, okay? So I didn't think in a million years that she would try to scam me, rob me, because her house is bigger than mine.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But that's how she got the house.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that's how she got the house. Let me ask you a question. Did she put that 10 speed vibrating mini wand on you, though? Yeah. Wow.

[Caller AB]

You know what she did? She put that boot on me. How about that?

[DJ Envy]

Damn. She hit you with the root.

[Caller AB]

Let me tell you something, Charlie, man. She had to hit me with something because you talking about a chick that came up from nothing. And my money is my power. My money in my crate. And she. And she effed it all up. My credit score went from 850 to 600.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Well, listen, I hope you go find another rude doctor to get that off you. I hope you already got it off you. And, man, I hope that you, you know, get everything that you're supposed to get in court, man. That's a horrible story.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, it is.

[DJ Envy]

Damn. Good morning. Who's this?

[Charlamagne tha God]

They was doing something else.

[DJ Envy]

She just said she got hit with root and the 10 speed vibrating mini Juan. Good morning. Who's this?

[Joe Jonas]

This Jay.

[DJ Envy]

Jay. What up, Jay?

[Joe Jonas]

What up? What up?

[DJ Envy]

How are you, sir? Who you want to get the biggest? He haw to the biggest.

[Joe Jonas]

Hee ha goes to everybody in the world who thought the boy didn't have any more slaps. Iceman is where it's at. Everybody who said Drake was done, let's go. Biggest he ha.

[Charlamagne tha God]

It's going down.

[DJ Envy]

Who said. Why did. Who said Drake was done, sir?

[Joe Jonas]

I mean, you've been on the Internet. Charlemagne. Cut the jokes, bro.

[DJ Envy]

I think that what y' all don't realize is he just lost a rap battle. He was done in regards to getting his ass kicked by Kendrick. Nobody ever thought Drake wasn't going to continue to be Drake, except for Drake. Drake. Drake was holding himself back.

[Joe Jonas]

So nobody was saying they didn't want to hear the boy no more. Nothing. And then we had one of the greatest albums probably in the last five or ten years just now.

[DJ Envy]

Let's slow down now. But just because. Just because there was people who didn't want to hear Drake anymore doesn't mean he don't have a loyal cult like following or OV Hoes.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, my God.

[Joe Jonas]

I want to say to you, Charlamagne, because I'm a brilliant idiots fan, too. After all this heat, what you going to do now?

[DJ Envy]

What you going to do now? I ain't got no problem with Drake, man. You know what I'm saying? I don't. I think it's. I actually think it's dope that, you know, he had a great rollout and he got a group of fans that were willing to cover themselves in frozen semen and. And then post the album and say, iceman King. That's dope. I think that's really dope. Yo, that's dope.

[Joe Jonas]

But the music is great. You can't deny it.

[DJ Envy]

I sure can, because I only listen to it one time. I told y', all, Drake is a mood that I'm never in. Hey, Drake is a mood.

[Joe Jonas]

Listen to it two more times and let me hear you say that.

[DJ Envy]

I ain't got that kind of time.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He got three of them.

[Angela Yee]

He a Drake hater.

[DJ Envy]

It's all good. I'm not a Drake hater. Listen, music is.

[Joe Jonas]

Yeah, no, go back. Go back and listening to your Ding bop boom boom, bam.

[DJ Envy]

He can rap, though. That boy can rap.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah. What you mean, B. Boom boom bam. You know that. That was one of them ones don't

[DJ Envy]

do that song called Beanbop Boom Boom, man.

[Charlamagne tha God]

We got it from Kendrick.

[DJ Envy]

That's Peekaboo.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Shout out to a check shebang.

[DJ Envy]

Have a great day.

[Angela Yee]

Have a good one, brother.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I don't have a. Listen. Once again, I don't have a problem with Drake. I think it's really dope. And he got people out here with towels on their left ass cheek. Towels on their left ass cheek.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

You know how dope you got to be to have men tattooing owls on their left ass cheek.

[Angela Yee]

I don't know what Drake did you last.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't know if he slid.

[Angela Yee]

Slid in Somebody's dms or I don't know what.

[DJ Envy]

He got a OV tramp stamp I do not have on his lower back. Right over his. On his lower back, it's the O, the V. And then when he bend over, it's the other O.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Mother Vaginal action.

[Angela Yee]

How you know?

[DJ Envy]

How you know? You saw it. Nah. K be telling Everybody from the 90s he got pictures from the 90s. Are you finish or you done? Man? The clue.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Listen, we do the People's donkey every Friday, 1-800-585-1051. You can call up and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid, man.

[Angela Yee]

That's right. And when we come back, Dre and Nicole and Lex P. Will be joining us. They're the host of the Poor Minds podcast. They're actually gonna be in New York City this weekend. So if you haven't got your tickets, get your tickets.

[DJ Envy]

There'll be a town hall tomorrow.

[Angela Yee]

That's right. We'll talk to them next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

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[Jonas Brothers Promo Voice]

Hey, guys, it's us, the Jonas Brothers.

[Joe Jonas]

I'm Joe.

[DJ Envy]

I'm Kevin.

[Nick Jonas]

And I'm Nick. And guess what? We created our own podcast called hey Jonas.

[DJ Envy]

We invented a podcast.

[Nick Jonas]

Well, we didn't invent it. We, we just contributed to it.

[Jonas Brothers Promo Voice]

People to do podcasts.

[DJ Envy]

We get to ask other people questions because we're sick and tired of being asked questions.

[Nick Jonas]

Well, sick and tired is a strong way to put it, but, you know, tired and sick. Tired and sick.

[Jonas Brothers Promo Voice]

Listen to hey Jonas on the iHeartRadio

[DJ Envy]

app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Nick Jonas]

Just listen.

[DJ Envy]

We don't care where you hear it.

[Robert Smigel]

Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy not quite on Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Jim Gaffigan to Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel help an acapella band with their between songs banter. There's the worst singer in the group.

[Angela Yee]

The worst.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah, me. Is there anything to the idea that because you're from Harvard, you only got in because your parents made a huge donation.

[DJ Envy]

The Yardbirds, right?

[Caller AB]

That's the name.

[Robert Smigel]

The Harvard Yardbird.

[Joe Jonas]

They're open.

[DJ Envy]

Do you have a name suggestion?

[Caller AB]

We're open.

[Robert Smigel]

Since you guys are middle aged. One erection Listen to Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends on the iHeartRadio, Apple Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[DJ Envy]

Humor me. I need some jokes to make me seem funny.

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[DJ Envy]

It's been too long, Cowboy Toy Story 5 is only in theaters, so that's Lily Pad. What are you, some sort of old man toy? She thinks you're old because you're bald. Weddy from Disney and Pixar.

[Angela Yee]

Toys are for play.

[Jonas Brothers Promo Voice]

Tech is for everything.

[DJ Envy]

It's toys versus tech. The screen just took over all the tapping. The tapping on June 19th.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I want to talk to you Device along Toy.

[DJ Envy]

I responded. I have plastic fingers. Disney and Pixar's Toy Story 5 rated PG. Parental guidance suggested only Peters June 19

[Charlamagne tha God]

this is an I Heart podcast. Guaranteed human.