The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Diary Of A Mad Black Name: Man Arrested After Holding His Disabled Wife Captive For 5 years

Episode Date: March 11, 2026

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I'm Clayton Eckerd. In 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. But here's the thing. Bachelor fans hated him. If I could press a button and rewind it all I would. That's when his life took a disturbing turn. A one-night stand would end in a courtroom. The media is here.

This case has gone viral. The dating contract. Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you. This is unlike a. anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young. Listen to Love Trapped on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast.

This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpbright became the victim of a random crime. The perpetrator was sentenced to 99 years until a confession changed everything. I was a monster. Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. If you use that donkey thing that he on, he is. It's a bunch of donkeys around him.

It's time for Donkey of the Day. I got the Donkey of the Day for these cops. They were able to donkey up the day by the things that I said. Some donkey today's just saw themselves. It was you. What accountability are you? He's hateful. He caught me off.

I'm not making this people do anything. I'm the breakfast club. At me, it said, I want to start off with this donkey right here. Donkey today for Wednesday, March 11th goes to a 46-year-old Houston man named James Earl Johnson. Black. Guess what? Race it is. It will not be needed today.

Okay. That is one of the blackest names I've ever heard in my life. All right. This man is named after somebody's great-great-grandfather. Okay. Sounds like he was a custodian in a high school when they ended segregation in America in 64. Okay, a James, or Earl and a Johnson? I know he done got denied for a loan quite a few times.

Okay, probably discriminated against during a hiring process or two. I know he didn't get a callback. You know, studies show people with black-sounding names get 50% fewer callbacks than identical resumes with white-sounding names. So I know James Earl Johnson wasn't getting no callbacks. But anyway, James Earl Johnson. How is he not James Earl Johnson the third? Okay, that name is too old to be the first. Okay, but anyway, James Earl Johnson has been arrested and charged with abusing his wife.

Okay, his wife is disabled. An investigators are saying he held his disabled wife captive inside their home for years. What do you mean, Uncle Shala? He held his disabled wife captive for years. Well, let's go to ABC 13 for the report, please. From the outside looking in, what some might consider a dream home. But police say for one woman, the house at Crown Ridge Court was in fact, a house of horrors. Investigators say the 46-year-old woman who's disabled was allegedly held captive in a bedroom for five years by her own husband.

James Johnson. James Earl Johnson arrested Friday morning, but a sense bonded out of jail with an order to stay away from the victim and the house with a couple's children also reside. It's here, court documents say the victim was held under lock and key with no phone access. Finally Friday, Police say her husband left a phone on the nightstand, which he used to call 911. But police say Johnson cut the call short, slapping his wife and carrying her back to bed, then hanging up on the 911 dispatcher. You've got a woman who's being held captive, and that is a pure form of coercive control, which is a form of abuse. James, Earl, Mr. Johnson.

Why? why? You know, years ago, Larry King, the great Larry King, rest in peace, Larry King, he said to me, you know, Charlemagne, the greatest question you can ask in an interview is why. I think that's the greatest question to ask in life. You know, I've been going to therapy for a solid decade now, and that is what I'm always trying to get to the root of, the why of things, why did I react this way, why did this trigger me, why did I behave like this in this moment? So it makes me ask that question of other people often. And for James Earl Johnson, that's the question. Why? Why couldn't James Earl Johnson just get a divorce? Why couldn't he just break up with his wife?

What made him treat his wife the way Helen treated Charles and diary of a mad black woman? Okay, was this diary of a mad black name? Okay, did y'all try mediation? Did y'all try legal separation? Was there any exit strategy discussed at all? Not even discussed with each other. Did you have a meeting with yourself, James Earl Johnson? Okay. I'm just trying to figure out why you thought captivity and torture was the best course of action here. I can't believe I have to say this on Breckfless Club this morning, but leaving a spouse rather than mistreating them is always the better option. Okay, it's way more ethical than leaving her in a room like he did with a single egg to eat

and giving her dinner one time a day. This woman had to call 911 when her husband, James Earl Johnson, accidentally left her phone on the nightstand. This would be Tyler Perry's version of misery. Okay, I was born in 1979. So I remember the movie Misery from the 90s when Annie held Paul captive. This is that, okay? At least in the movie, misery, though, we knew the why.

Because Annie was an obsessive fan. There was no reason for James Earl Johnson to be doing what he was doing to his wife other than pure evil. Okay, just leave her, brough. Divorcer, all right? Any expert you ask, any counselor you ask will tell you that no one deserves to be treated badly and staying in a miserable or harmful situation often causes more long-term damage than leaving. Is this story not proof of that?

Is this story not proof that those experts and counselors are correct? Please let Remmy Ma give James Earl Johnson the biggest he-ha. He-ha! You stupid, motherfucker, are you dumb? And this is why you can't have the wrong man providing for you. Okay, we've been having that discussion for like the past week, right? Didn't somebody call up here this morning? Yeah, somebody called up this morning.

Well, thank you for that donkey today. But somebody called this morning, and this is what he said earlier today during, get it off your chest. Man, I'm getting on my chest. It was a conversation I had last week with, it was Emmett Ovaldo and Kiki Palmer about how younger women were dating older men. And my wife and I were talking about it and something that Lauren La Rosa said and Charlotte-Maine said that really said what her. Lauren La Rosa said when she was younger, her parents or her mother would tell her to get somebody who provides for her. And then Charlotte had said, well, she was probably talking to your older version of yourself.

And, man, that really sat with us because me and my wife are just sitting like, man, this is scary raising a daughter because she was told the same thing. And it's just, man, and then just the mentality that men have when they tell younger women, like you're mature for your age. What does that even mean? Let's open up the phone lines. Let's have a discussion. 800-585-105-1.

Are you still giving your daughters the advice to find a man to take care of you? Yeah, let that story. I just told you about James Earl Johnson serve as an example. Okay, you teach your daughters, well, you should teach your daughters to provide for themselves and then they should find a man that can match their hustle. Let's talk about it when we come back again. 800-58-150-1501.

You know, the advice, the common advice back in the day was find a good man who could take care of you. I mean, that's what Lauren's mama told her. Just that's what your mom and dad told you to? No. No? All right. We'll discuss when we come back. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. Donkey today is sponsored by renowned personal injury attorney Michael the Bull Lamensoff. Don't be a donkey when

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creators in the industry. And the winner is creativity, knowledge, and passion will all be on full display. Thank you so much. Iheart radio. Thank you to all the other nominees. You guys are awesome. Watch live next Monday at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific free at veeps.com or the Veeps app. Hi, it's Joe Interesting, host of the Spirit Daughter podcast where we talk about astrology, natal charts and how to step into your most vibrant life. And today I'm talking with my dear friend Krista Williams. It can change you in the best way possible. Dance with the change. Dance with the breakdowns. The embodiment of Pisces intuition with Capricorn power moves. So I'm like delusionally proud of my chart. Listen to the Spirit Daughter podcast starting on February 24th on the IHeart

Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcast. I'm, Clayton Eckerd, in 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. But here's the thing. Bachelor fans hated him. If I could press a button and rewind it all I would. That's when his life took a disturbing turn. A one-night stand would end in a courtroom. The media is here. This case has gone viral. The dating contract.

Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you. This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young. Listen to Love Trapped on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpbright became the victim of a random crime. The perpetrator was sentenced to 99 years until a confession changed everything.

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