Speaker 1: I was donkey up to today time. Damn he hogged.
Speaker 2: It's time for Donkey to day.
Speaker 3: I me ain't trying to be donkey today no more.
Speaker 3: They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm
Speaker 3: not making these people do these things called Donkey of
Speaker 3: the day.
Speaker 1: And it really caught me off guard.
Speaker 3: Damn Charlomagne, who got the donkey out of day to day?
Speaker 1: Wow, jess hilarious.
Speaker 3: Donkey Today for Thursday, November sixteenth goes to thirty five
Speaker 3: year old Joseph Halder. I think I say pronounced his name,
Speaker 3: A volunteer firefighter from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This
Speaker 3: is one of those ones that caused me to reflect
Speaker 3: a little. And in my reflection, I thought to myself,
Speaker 3: I wonder if humans are as insane as Donkey of
Speaker 3: the Day makes them out to be. Maybe I need
Speaker 3: to give humans the benefit of the doubt, bore and say, hey,
Speaker 3: it's just me. You're the guy who does Donkey of
Speaker 3: to Day, so you choose to seek out this crazy
Speaker 3: every day. And since I choose to seek out this
Speaker 3: crazy every day, I attracted crazy by way of stories. Okay,
Speaker 3: people send me these things and I read them, and
Speaker 3: I can't believe them. So I read them again and
Speaker 3: I still can't believe them. Then I check out the
Speaker 3: saurces to make sure that these stories are real because
Speaker 3: I don't believe them. And every morning we end up here,
Speaker 3: same donkey time, same donkey channel. Today is really no exception.
Speaker 3: Salute to all the public servants out there, all the
Speaker 3: individuals who realize that your true purpose in life is
Speaker 3: service to others, dropping the clues bombs for those individuals.
Speaker 3: I told you, Joseph, it is a volunteer filler for firefighter.
Speaker 3: Volunteer firefighters are absolutely public servants. Being a volunteer firefighter
Speaker 3: is absolutely an active service. But do you ever think
Speaker 3: to yourself, well, what if you're a firefighter and there's
Speaker 3: nothing to do, nobody to serve. What if you're a
Speaker 3: firefighter and there's no fires to fight because there is
Speaker 3: no fires? Have you ever thought about that? Well, Joseph has,
Speaker 3: and he also had a solution. Let's go to WSB
Speaker 3: channel two for the report.
Speaker 2: Police is the.
Speaker 4: Third such structured fighter in the area in a short
Speaker 4: amount of time, which by yourself, is kind of suspicious.
Speaker 4: A volunteer firefighter for the Whitefish Township Fire Department was
Speaker 4: officially charged today for setting a building on fire Saturday night.
Speaker 4: Joseph Halder was a firefighter on the department for only
Speaker 4: a few months. Today he stepped in front of a
Speaker 4: judge for arson. Halder is accused of setting fire to
Speaker 4: the building that used to house Ruth's Gift Shop in
Speaker 4: downtown Paradise. Chipwall County Sheriff Mike Bittner was on the
Speaker 4: scene moments after the call came in. He immediately looked
Speaker 4: over surveillance footage from a gas station across the street.
Speaker 4: A short time later, deputies arrested Halder while he was
Speaker 4: fighting the fire. Helder is charged with third degree arson.
Speaker 4: He's facing ten years in prison and a twenty thousand
Speaker 4: dollars fine.
Speaker 3: Only you can prevent firefighters, firefires. What am I trying
Speaker 3: to say? Forest fires? There?
Speaker 2: You go, okay, firefighters, right, that's right.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's right. Only you can prevent forest fires. And
Speaker 3: you know how you prevent them by not starting them yourself. Okay,
Speaker 3: starting in my life. This is a literal, physical, tangible
Speaker 3: example of what self destruction looks like. See when you
Speaker 3: start going to therapy right and doing the work on
Speaker 3: yourself and start healing some of these traumas. When you
Speaker 3: get to the place in your life where you know,
Speaker 3: you start feeling pockets to peace, when you start feeling
Speaker 3: genuine happiness, When you feel joy, you will find a
Speaker 3: way to start a fire. This man started a fire
Speaker 3: and then showed up to put out the fire that
Speaker 3: he helped start. I promise you this is the version
Speaker 3: of me that I run from. I don't want to
Speaker 3: start any fires, especially when things are peaceful. When things
Speaker 3: are peaceful, I want them to remain peaceful. I don't
Speaker 3: want to go grab a canister something flammable, some fire
Speaker 3: and set things aflame just because I'm not used to peace.
Speaker 3: This man, Joseph, was looking for chaos. He was working
Speaker 3: with the fire department for just a few months, and
Speaker 3: he wanted action so much so that he started a
Speaker 3: fire himself and then went to help put it out.
Speaker 3: I know people like this right now in corporate America.
Speaker 3: I know people like this right now in my life.
Speaker 3: They will create a problem themselves just so they can
Speaker 3: have something to do, just so they have something to fix.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something. When you have to do
Speaker 3: things like that in order to feel like you did
Speaker 3: something then you need to do some internal work on yourself,
Speaker 3: because that don't make any damn sense, all right. Paul
Speaker 3: Sloan says, the innovative leader has to be an arsonist
Speaker 3: and a firefighter. But I don't think he meant that literally, Okay,
Speaker 3: nor Joseph through I believe you are an innovative leader.
Speaker 3: And did you know that? Roughly it's a fun little
Speaker 3: snap effect. Roughly one hundred firefighters are convicted of arson
Speaker 3: each year. It's called firefighter arsen true story. There is
Speaker 3: a very small minority of firefighters who are also active arsonists.
Speaker 3: And guess what they say motivates these people boredom okay,
Speaker 3: are by the prospect of receiving attention for responding to
Speaker 3: the fires. They have said. Sound familiar. Okay, I told
Speaker 3: y'all earlier this week. I don't mind as the Devil's workshop.
Speaker 3: These folks really don't be having anything to do. This
Speaker 3: is truly the era that has everything and absolutely nothing
Speaker 3: all at once, and that is because the things you
Speaker 3: all crave aren't real. You got all these followers on
Speaker 3: social media, but no real connection to nobody. You log
Speaker 3: on every day to a community that's not even a
Speaker 3: real community. You're seeking validation and attention and likes and
Speaker 3: retweets and engagement. None of it is real and that's
Speaker 3: why you're bored and you resort to doing dumb sneak
Speaker 3: of doodles. That's a bet edit like Joseph did. Now,
Speaker 3: Joseph is facing up to ten years in prison and
Speaker 3: a twenty thousand dollars fine, and he's a person of
Speaker 3: interest and at least two other fires in the area.
Speaker 3: Some donkey today is just sell themselves. Please let me
Speaker 3: remind give Joseph Handler the biggest e huh.
Speaker 4: Hee ha hee ha.
Speaker 1: You stupid motherfucker.
Speaker 2: Are you dumb?
Speaker 3: I can't believe you'll be doing this snicker doodles. And
Speaker 3: don't be Joseph Hadler. Okay, don't start a fire just
Speaker 3: to have something to do. Not only that, there's some
Speaker 3: of us who will set ourselves on fire to keep
Speaker 3: others warm. That means you put other people's knees in
Speaker 3: front of your own. You do know that's not sustainable, right, Okay,
Speaker 3: just so we're clear, All right, Well, thank you for
Speaker 3: that donkey today, sir. Now when we come back, well,
Speaker 3: first be et, we'll see them all piece be et.
Speaker 1: Now, when we come back. Jada Pikett Smith. She was
Speaker 1: on the show last time. We spoke to it for
Speaker 1: what over an hour?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, we spoke to it for our.
Speaker 3: Whole conversation is on YouTube, by the way, Yeah.
Speaker 1: You cans into it right now, watch it right now.
Speaker 1: She talked about in relationships and in marriages, having friends
Speaker 1: with the opposite sex, and this is what she actually said.
Speaker 1: When Will was up here, he talked about being insecure
Speaker 1: a little bit about Tupac. Did y'all ever have that conversation?
Speaker 1: Because as a man, when you're a little insecure, I
Speaker 1: almost feel like you play both sides. You want to
Speaker 1: be yourself, but you want to show that you're better
Speaker 1: than the person that's making him insecured. Did y'all ever
Speaker 1: have that conversation?
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say that we had conversations in that way.
Speaker 5: It was just like, you know, we came up in
Speaker 5: the era where it was so unusual for a man
Speaker 5: and a woman to be friends. In our era, that
Speaker 5: was just like friends.
Speaker 1: They had to be dating.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like what what? Right? And so I think for
Speaker 5: him it was just like getting your mind around around that, know,
Speaker 5: and that the kind of friendship that we had because
Speaker 5: we had such a you know, tight friendship that you know,
Speaker 5: was very impactful on my life.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's discuss eight hundred five eight five
Speaker 1: one oh five to one. When you're in a relationship,
Speaker 1: is it okay for your spouse or your significant other
Speaker 1: to have friends of the opposite sex, Not.
Speaker 3: Even just in marriage, but in life. You can have
Speaker 3: platonic friendships like I got Wave homegirls and I got homeboys,
Speaker 3: and a lot of times, a lot of these people
Speaker 3: are grandfathered in, like you know, y'all been friends forever,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Like and another thing Jada
Speaker 3: said during that conversation, she was like, she didn't say,
Speaker 3: we're not talking about new people, talking about people that
Speaker 3: have been around for a long time.
Speaker 2: And it kind of helps you too, like in your relationship,
Speaker 2: to have friends that are of the opposite sex. So
Speaker 2: when you vent or not tell them your you know,
Speaker 2: personal business, but when you tell them what's going on,
Speaker 2: they give you a perspective that your significant other might
Speaker 2: have and kind of balance it out. You don't have
Speaker 2: a whole lot of yes man about yo, I feel you,
Speaker 2: bro you No, I don't feel you. You messed up?
Speaker 1: Or it can hurt. You know, like Charlemagne said, no
Speaker 1: new friends, no new people coming around that if the
Speaker 1: individual is a new then we all friends. We all speak.
Speaker 2: But it ain't.
Speaker 1: It ain't a situation where you just speak to my
Speaker 1: wife or I just speak to her. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: We all friends.
Speaker 2: But even old friendships should still be we all friends.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's discuss eight hundred and five eight five,
Speaker 1: one oh five one. What are your thoughts? Phone lines
Speaker 1: wide open. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.