The People's Donkey

Summary

Donkey of the Day: The People's Donkey

Podcast: Donkey of the Day (The Breakfast Club)
Host: Charlamagne Tha God, with Angela Yee & DJ Envy
Episode Date: July 13, 2026
Main Theme:
Charlamagne lets the people decide who deserves the infamous "Donkey of the Day" after chaos erupts at the third night of Jay Z’s UNCON concert at Yankee Stadium. Listeners call in to share their experiences and cast blame on event staff, security, and unruly concertgoers. The team dishes out candid, humorous, and sometimes scathing commentary on concert etiquette, crowd control, and grown adults acting wild.

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Episode Overview

• Purpose: Charlamagne puts the power in listeners' hands to nominate the "Donkey of the Day" after a tumultuous concert weekend. The segment explores mismanagement by Yankee Stadium staff, failures in event security, and the reckless behavior of concertgoers who caused disruptions at Jay Z's triple-night event.
• Tone: Humorous, direct, occasionally exasperated; the hosts and callers mix personal anecdotes with blunt social commentary.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Setting the Scene: Listeners Nominate the Donkey

• Charlamagne describes being urged by concert attendees to call out everyone responsible for mayhem at UNCON Night 3:

  “They was like, the people who bum rush the door. And NYPD. I’m like, well, what they got to do with it?” (02:32)

• Opens the phone lines for the audience to voice their grievances and nominate the "Donkey."

2. Yankee Stadium Staff & Security Under Fire

• Callers repeatedly blame Yankee Stadium security and staff for chaos at entrances due to malfunctioning metal detectors, leading to long wait times and confusion.
  • Caller “Love” details the disorganization:

    “So basically everybody that’s coming through the line has to get their bags and everything checked and have to get winded down. Now, none of that stuff was really happening on Friday and Saturday because the metal detectives were working… I feel like Yankee Stadium deserves Donkey today and all them people.” (03:31)

  • Security’s unpreparedness highlighted by Chef:

    “It was one of the most unorganized things I’ve ever seen, man. Yankee Stadium. And they…really dropped the ball with that one.” (06:18)

• Hosts surprised, since Yankee Stadium usually handles large crowds well for baseball playoffs and other big events:

  “I know they know how to handle baseball, and they would...I’ve been there for playoff games.” (06:46 Angela Yee)

3. The “Bum Rushers”: Fans Behaving Badly

• Large groups reportedly rushed the doors and bypassed security to gain entry, causing safety concerns.
  • Caller “Love”:

    "…the people who thought that they was gonna bum rush and break through the doors. Why would Jay wanna come perform when it’s people out here that he know ain’t went through the metal detectors?” (04:13)

• Humorous criticism of older fans acting wild:

  “I’m giving donkey to all of the old people who bum rushing doors like they teenagers.” (05:33)

4. Notable Concert Moments

• Listeners and hosts alike highlight the shows’ positive aspects, especially Jay Z’s attention to detail:

  “Can we talk about that second night, the fact that he took the stage and started that freestyle about the World Trade center dropping exactly at 9:11pm? Wow, that was phenomenal…” (04:55 Charlamagne Tha God)

• Angela Yee raves about Friday’s lineup and the challenge of just getting in due to extra street closures:

  “I got there early. The thing that I would say is different is when I got to Yankee Stadium on Friday…There were more street closings around Yankee Stadium than anything else...” (07:47 Angela Yee)

5. Celebrity and Backstage Antics

• Charlamagne jokingly exposes comedian Ryan Davis for calling for security:

  “Ryan Davis, comedian Ryan Davis, dropping a clues box for Ryan. Ryan was standing behind me. Ryan was calling for security like a white woman.” (07:09)

• Charlamagne discusses his Roc Nation employee duties, which led him to attend all three nights:

  “I had no plans to go all three nights…But then...my direct supervisor Desiree Perez told me I had to be there” (08:32)

  • Jokes about whether working at Roc Nation is worth it due to how hard the team works:

    “After this weekend, I don’t know if I want to be an employee at ROC Nation no more. Because they work too goddamn hard.” (08:56)

6. Closing Reflections

• Despite the disorganization and drama, hosts and callers emphasize how memorable the concert events were and share appreciation for Jay Z, the performers, and the overall experience.

  “But again, I had an amazing time…Salute to everybody. I had a great time. I love seeing Nas, I love seeing Jazzo, I love seeing Beyonce…” (07:47 Angela Yee)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Donkey of the day for Monday, July 13, has no choice but to be the people’s donkey. Because I Woke up at 6:30...arrived to work at...7:55.”
  — Charlamagne Tha God (02:32)

• “Why would Jay wanna come perform when it’s people out here that he know ain’t went through the metal detectors? That don’t make no sense. I know I wouldn’t.”
  — Caller (Love) (04:13)

• “I’m giving donkey to all of the old people who bum rushing doors like they teenagers.”
  — Caller (Kurt) (05:33)

• “It was one of the most unorganized things I’ve ever seen, man. Yankee Stadium...really dropped the ball with that one.”
  — Chef (Caller) (06:18)

• “Ryan Davis was calling for security like a white woman… ‘SECURITY!’… I didn’t pay for this.”
  — Charlamagne Tha God (07:09)

• “After this weekend, I don’t know if I want to be an employee at ROC Nation no more. Because they work too goddamn hard.”
  — Charlamagne Tha God (08:56)

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Timestamps of Important Segments

• 02:32 – Charlamagne introduces the “People’s Donkey” premise and opens the phone lines.
• 03:10-04:54 – Caller “Love” details the entrance chaos and nominates Yankee Stadium staff and the bum-rushers as Donkey of the Day.
• 04:55 – Charlamagne and the team discuss Jay Z’s 9:11 PM World Trade Center tribute freestyle.
• 05:33 – Caller criticizes older fans bum rushing doors.
• 06:18 – Chef describes security failures and event mismanagement.
• 07:09 – Charlamagne recounts comedian Ryan Davis calling out security.
• 07:47 – Angela Yee shares her Friday concert experience and issues with street closures.
• 08:32 – Charlamagne describes his all-access Roc Nation experience.

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Takeaway

This episode of "Donkey of the Day" hands out blame (and laughs) liberally—Yankee Stadium’s event management, Jay Z fans acting rowdy, and grown folks risking it all for a spot at a concert. Despite the chaos, everyone agrees Jay Z and the event performers delivered, with memorable moments and a sense of unity—after all, “the people” shared both the glory and the donkey.

Transcript

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Made it.

[Angela Yee]

It's time for Donkey of the Day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There's a bunch of donkeys out here in the street. I made Donkey of the Day.

[Angela Yee]

Called Donkey of the Day. It really caught me off guard.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If we live a life where we bite our tongue based off who we may offend, we never would say anything.

[DJ Envy]

Charlemagne.

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

You are a donkey. That is why, Charlemagne. Some donkey today's just saw themselves on the Breakfast Club.

[Juliana]

Okay, Charlemagne, who you giving Donkey of

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The day to today. Donkey of the day for Monday, July 13, has no choice but to be the people's donkey. Because I Woke up at 6:30. Okay. Got in the shower about 6:34 and arrived to work at what time? 7:50? No, it was like 7:55. Something. Yeah, 7:55. But when I was out at UNCON last night, day three of the Jay Z concert, I went to all three nights. Know everybody was saying, you got to give them donkey today. You got to give them donkey today. I'm like, well, who is them? They was like, the people who bum rush the door. And nypd. I'm like, well, what they got to do with it? So, 1-800-585-1051. Let's open up the phone lines.

[Angela Yee]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[Angela Yee]

Love, turn your radio down, love.

[Caller (Love)]

I turned it off.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Hi, love.

[Angela Yee]

No curse. No cursing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, don't curse. Love, Everybody, everybody's watching you on Netflix. Who you want to get a donkey today to?

[Caller (Love)]

All right, Donkey of Today goes to Yankee Stadium staffed. And it also goes to all those people who rush the door because they. The whole reason why we had to wait this long.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely. Now. Okay, go ahead, continue, love.

[Caller (Love)]

I know. I was gonna say I went to all three of the concerts. I didn't have any issues at all on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, I got there even earlier than I did. So I got there like six. Something like 6:15. And I said, man, what's going on? Something's going on. Why are these lines this long? So I finally get up to the line, and the guy is like, stopping people from going through the metal detectors because the metal detectives are going off on everybody. So I was like, what?

[DJ Envy]

So?

[Caller (Love)]

So he was like, oh, you gotta wait. And the lady said, yeah, something's going on with the metal detectors. We can't use both of them at the same time. I'm like, what? All these people? So he would wait and it would almost have to reset. And then he's like, okay, you could go through. So basically everybody that's coming through the line has to get their bags and everything checked and have to get winded down. Now, none of that stuff was really happening on Friday and Saturday because the metal detectives were working. So that was what the holdup was for Yankee Stadium. I feel like they dropped the ball. But then the people who thought that they was gonna bum rush and break through the doors. Why would Jay wanna come perform when it's people out here that he know ain't went through the metal detectors? That don't make no sense. I know I wouldn't. So I feel like Yankee Stadium deserves Donkey today and all them people. And you know what's even craziest? We see y'. All. We literally see y' all on. It's all over social media. Them running through the doors, and they all had to go right back outside. But I knew something was up because when we got to o', clock, I'm like, okay. First night, he got there, 9:30. Second night was 9, 11, 10 o'.

[DJ Envy]

Clock.

[Caller (Love)]

I knew something was wrong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can we talk about that? Second night, the fact that he took the stage and started that freestyle about the World Trade center dropping exactly at 9:11pm wow, that was phenomenal. I mean, the attention to detail was incredible.

[Angela Yee]

Thank you, love.

[Caller (Love)]

Yes. Yes. Thank y'. All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, love.

[Angela Yee]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning. Who's this?

[Angela Yee]

Kurt. Kurt, turn your radio down.

[Juliana]

Kurt.

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Kurt.

[Angela Yee]

Kurt.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello? Kurt. Kurt, you about to miss your time to shine.

[Angela Yee]

Kurt, turn it. Turn your radio down. And no cursing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Curse.

[Angela Yee]

No cursing. You hear me?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kurt, you bum rushed the door last night. Why would you do that?

[DJ Envy]

Not.

[Caller (Love)]

Come on, man. I'm giving doggy to all of the old people who bum rushing doors like they teenagers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, that's crazy.

[Caller (Love)]

Come on, man.

[DJ Envy]

Like, it wasn't no problems on Friday.

[Caller (Love)]

Friday was the best show anyway.

[Angela Yee]

I'm glad I'm on Friday. Yeah, right?

[Caller (Love)]

Was the best show to me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was.

[Caller (Love)]

But, yeah. Show starting at 12. I'm not late for work and driving to work.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Me, too. It was worth it, man. Just walk in the office today singing, can I live? Walk into your job today singing, can I Live? Okay.

[Angela Yee]

All right, we have Chef on the line. Chef, turn your radio down, Chef. No cursing. No. And take us off speaker, Chef. Bluetooth, please, so we can hear you clearly. All right, go ahead.

[DJ Envy]

Right now? Yeah. So look, I went to the. I went to the show on Saturday, and I definitely want to give Donkey a day to the security, though. Security had that thing looking crazy out there. Three entries, three gates. One metal detector on this side, another metal detector on that side. You know, it was one of the most unorganized things I've ever seen, man. Yankee Stadium. And they. They really dropped the ball with that one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And the crazy thing is Yankee Stadium, right? So I'm. I know they know how to handle baseball, and they would.

[Angela Yee]

I've been there for playoff games.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I'm saying. They wouldn't just, you know, let that happen at a baseball game. So why let that happen at a concert? And the other thing I will say about security, I don't know if that was the people who rushed in, but you could clearly tell who didn't have tickets. I was on the floor Sunday night. I, you know, I wasn't on the floor Friday and Saturday. I was up in the suite, but I was on the floor Sunday night. You could tell who didn't have tickets because they did not want to go to their seat. They just standing in the house.

[Caller (Love)]

They had nothing to do.

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[Angela Yee]

They had no tickets.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ryan Davis. Comedian Ryan Davis, dropping a clues box for Ryan. Ryan was standing behind me. Ryan was calling for security like a white woman.

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What you mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was like security? Yes. He was pointing because I was like, I didn't pay for this. Security. Clear the A house. Wow. Clear the house. Security.

[Angela Yee]

I ain't mad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I, I feel him. I get it.

[Angela Yee]

I ain't mad at him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But other than that, man, the weekend went off without a hit.

[Angela Yee]

Salute to hov, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I will say that guy brought up a good point. Saturday, y' all are too old to be bum rushing doors. Yeah, okay. Like you can't be 45 plus bum rushing doors. I don't know if that was a 45 plus year old, though. I gotta, I gotta verify.

[Angela Yee]

I'll show you. I'll send you the video.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got videos.

[Angela Yee]

I send you the video.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

But again, I had an amazing time. I went Friday night, seen Saturday on the stream. But Friday we said we had such a great time. I got there early. The thing that I would say is different is when I got to Yankee Stadium on Friday and I've been to Yankee Stadium a million and one times to games, playoff games, so many different concerts there. They had more street closings around Yankee Stadium than anything else. So it made it very difficult to even get to where I needed to get to. But I would say they, they, they should be used to that. But salute to everybody. I had a great time. I love seeing Nas, I love seeing Jazzo, I love seeing Beyonce. Feeling for Mary. I love, I just loved everything from. Even from D. Nice opening up, who set the tone and the vibe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I had no plans to go all three nights. I was going to go Friday and that was going to be it. But then when I got, you know, I'm a Roc Nation employee.

[Angela Yee]

I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, you know, it was get down and lay down. My direct supervisor, Desiree Perez, told me I had to be there Saturday and I went Saturday, which I'm glad I did because I love the blueprint. And then after that I'm like, got to see how he sticks to landing on Sunday. You gotta see it. And so I went and I'm happy I went.

[Angela Yee]

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[Caller (Love)]

Promotion.

[Angela Yee]

You went to all three days I filled out my internship for ROC Nation. I haven't got accepted.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'll be honest with you. After this weekend, I don't know if I want to be an employee at ROC Nation no more. Because they work too goddamn hard. Okay? They got to work too hard. I know it was a very difficult time for them this weekend.

[Angela Yee]

Don't concert dope show salutes everybody at ROC Nation. All right? Now, when we come back, Rich Dennis will be joining us, of course. He's from essence, and you guys have been killing ESSENCE for years. And he's gonna talk about some of the that they made to make sure this festival came off amazing. So we'll talk to it.

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[Bill]

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[Juliana]

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