The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Taco Bell Employee Fatally Shoots Manager After Being Fired

Episode Date: October 20, 2025

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Snafu with Ed Helms on the IHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts Two rich young Americans moved to the Costa Rican jungle to start over But one of them will end up dead

And the other tried for murder Three times It starts with a dream A nature reserve And a spectacular new home But little by little They lose it They actually lose it

They sort of went nuts Until one night, everything spins out of control. Listen to hell in heaven on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Man, man, man, man, man, he ha-ha-in. It's time for donkey of the day. I'm ain't trying to be donkey today no more. They should be embarrassed by what they already did.

I'm not making these people do these things. called donkey of the day and it really caught me off guard. Damn, Solomon, who got the donkey of the day today? Well, just hilarious. It's donkey today from Monday, October 20th, goes to a 21 year old Ohio man named Jonathan

Morris. Jonathan is locked up right now because he decided to seek vengeance after being fired. How many people out there have been fired and wanted to seek revenge for said firing? Well, Jonathan Morris lived out your wildest dreams and now his dumb ass is in jail.

Let's go to Fox 19 now for the report, please. Breaking this morning at the alert desk, a man is dead after a shooting outside this Taco Bell in Queensgate. This is video from that scene at the restaurant on guest street. Cincinnati police say they first got that call around midnight saying someone shot an employee in the parking lot of that Taco Bell. When officers arrived, they declared the victim dead at the scene. We're told police did not make any arrests or find a weapon.

Right now, they are currently investigating. finding surveillance video from the restaurant at this hour. Jonathan, Johnny, John, John, I shouldn't have to tell you that this wasn't the way to handle any of this. Okay, look, we've all been fired in life. I've been fired seven times total, four times from radio stations. The others were a cloven store that used to exist in a mall called Demo. I was fired from a warehouse called Industrial Acoustic Company, and I was fired by my sister from, guess where? Taco Bell!

Yes, my sister was the manager, and she fired. me rightfully so. Okay. I was late. That's not funny. It is. It is funny, but it is not. You know what I'm saying? I was fired rightfully so. I was late. Not doing what I was supposed to be doing. It happens. But now once did I think about reacting to any of those firings the way Jonathan Morris did, okay? I just don't understand the rapid escalation. You fired one day, then allegedly commit murder the next. There had to be some type of serious mental breakdown. He had to have a problem with his manager prior because ain't no way. Hey, Jonathan, you're 21 years old. I can guarantee you that Taco Bell was not going to be where you peaked in life.

Okay, it just wasn't. You went to Taco Bell a day after being fired from there to kill the manager? I looked it up, man. Okay, Taco Bell in Ohio, pays an average of about $13.33 per hour. So you're about to spend the rest of your life in a maximum security prison for minimum wage? and the news report said the manager was just trying to help that's what I read okay I bet you the manager

and rest in peace to the manager Ryan Johnson sending you know his family healing energy Ryan Johnson was just trying to help he probably engaged Jonathan in conversation he probably was making an effort to resolve something probably trying to tell him like bro this ain't that serious

okay you got fire from here you got a whole life to live but now he's dead because this young man simply couldn't handle his emotion Another permanent decision made from temporary feelings. Listen, I promise you, youngest, man. I know things be feeling like the end of the world when bad things happen. But if there's one thing that I have learned in my 47 years on this planet,

is that trouble don't last always. Okay, this two shall pass. And my brother, fast food is not a Fortune 500 company. Fortune 500 companies ain't worth you killing nobody over, but definitely fast food ain't. Okay, I promise you that you could have gotten another fast food job if you wanted one. Okay, you may have felt humiliated or wronged in the moment. You might have felt like it was unfair. You may have felt powerless, but McDonald's was right up the street. Okay, so was a Chick-fil-A. Well, you're definitely not nice enough to work with no Chick-fil-A,

but there's a Carl's Juniors. I don't know if Crystal is in Ohio, but my point is there was other fast food jobs to be got. Okay, you can get another fast food job, but Ryan Johnson, sadly, can't get another life. Not here in this dimension anyway. And you, Jonathan, can't get what you are about to lose, which is a life of freedom. Workplace conduct, plus emotional distress, plus access to firearms,

can lead to irreversible tragedies like this one. Please give Jonathan Morris the biggest he-ha. All that for a crunch rap supreme. That's crazy. All that for a cheesy gordita crunch. Really?

What race? What's his name? The name was. It was Jonathan Morris. You won't see him? You know a race. We don't know what race. Don't just assume.

Okay? What race you think? Jonathan Morris? That could be a few races. Y'all want to play a game? I don't want to play a game. I don't want to play a game. No, somebody died.

I do. I do have a question, though, just, right? What race y'all think he is, though? Because I want to know. I just want to know how racist y'all are. You go for his name. Black. Okay.

Black. Why did y'all think that? I don't know. Yeah, I don't even. What race is he? I can't be too racist on his radio. But let me ask you a question, Jess. Ask Charlamagne why he got fired from Taco Bell.

Yeah, why did you just sit the fire? You said you was late, but why did you? I mean, I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing. So he was late all the time? I don't remember. Sneak, don't learn. I only worked there for like two weeks. First of all, I don't be late here.

Stop acting like I'd be late here all the goddamn time. I've been working here for 15 years. My track record is very good, okay? I've worked with people who were extremely late all the time. All right. Okay, my track record is very, very good. Okay. All right.

All right. All right. Well, now when we come back, you got a chance to chop it up with former vice president, Kamala Harris. Yes, you know, Kamala Harris has an amazing book out called 107 days. If Democrats get out their feelings, I think it can, you know, help them to have some courage to tell the truth about their own party. All right? And I think that can help them, you know, moving into the future. But we were in Birmingham, Alabama on Friday.

And we had a couple of conversations. We got a 5 o'clock conversation and an 8 o'clock conversation. Both of them were different, so we're going to get pieces of both of them on for you this morning. All right. We'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

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People do not follow my example. Listen to Crimless, Hillbilly Heist on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Big Take podcast from Bloomberg News keeps you on top of the biggest stories of the day. My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day. Stories that move markets. Chair Powell opened the door to this first interest rate cut. Impact politics, change businesses. This is a really stunning development for the AI world and how you think about your bottom line.

Listen to the big take from Bloomberg News every weekday afternoon on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcast. or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's Ed Helms host of Snafoo, my podcast about history's greatest screw-ups. On our new season, we're bringing you a new snafu every single episode. 32 lost nuclear weapons. Wait, stop? What? Yeah, it's going to be a whole lot of history, a whole lot of funny, and a whole lot of fabulous guests. Paul Shearer, Angela and Jenna, Nick Kroll, Jordan, Klepper.

Listen to season four of Snafoo with Ed Helms on the IHeart Radio app, Apple. podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Two rich young Americans move to the Costa Rican jungle to start over, but one of them will end up dead and the other tried for murder three times. It starts with a dream, a nature reserve and a spectacular new home. But little by little, they lose it. They actually lose it. They sort of went nuts.

Until one night, everything spins out of control. Listen to Hell in Heaven on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast.