The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Wife Calls Armed Husband After Walmart Fight Leading To Deadly Shooting

Episode Date: July 27, 2026

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And listen now. Tell us, baby. It's time for Donkey of the Day. There's a bunch of donkeys out here in this street. I ought to make donkey today. Called donkey of the day. It really caught me off guard. We live a life where we fight our tongue based off who we may offend.

We never would say anything. Salamay, give a tour. Give it to him. You are a donkey. That is why Sholomey. Some donkey todays just saw themselves. On the Breakfast Club. Okay, Shalamein, we're giving donkey of the day to today.

Yes, donkey today for Monday, July 27th, goes to a 25-year-old Los Vegas woman named Rakia Ward. Now, if you haven't seen this story, Rakia Ward, along with a 30-year-old woman named Amia Blue, are both facing charges following an incident that happened on the holy grounds of Walmart and Las Vegas. Okay, there was a fight that led to a shooting. And it is the perfect example of why I don't like to be around humans. Let's go to News 3, Las Vegas for the report, please. Rakia Ward in a bloody shirt and Amia Blue both appeared in front of a judge on Thursday,

charging connection with an incident that left shoppers at an East Valley Walmart, shocked and terrified. Metro Police responded to the store around 6 in the morning after reports of a fight outside the Walmart. According to the arrest report, Kwame Swain was arguing with his girlfriend before walking inside. Police say Ward, who's identified by her maiden named Smith in the report and Blue approached them after Swain said something to the women as they were passing by and a fight broke out. Punches were exchanged and investigators say rocks were also thrown at some point. The report says Smith then called her husband Travis Ward to come to the store. Witnesses telling police, they heard Smith tell Ward to bring a gun. According to the arrest report, Swain eventually went inside after Walmart employees broke up the fight.

Police say Ward arrived at the store, and Smith yells to Ward, he's inside, no shirt. Ward runs inside, pulls out a handgun and shoot Swain in the stomach. Police say an officer heard a gunshot, saw Ward running out with a handgun, and the officer shot Ward several times. Ward was handcuffed and later pronounced dead. Jesus. That's a lot. Rakea Ward. It is a lot, but Rakea Ward called her husband, Travis Ward,

to come to the store with a gun after she got into a fight. Okay, RIP to that brother, Travis Ward, definitely sending healing energy to him and his loved ones. Look, man, our job as men is to protect and provide for our women. But I feel like this is a teachable moment, okay? I'm here to protect, not crash out. Okay, my wife shouldn't want me to crash out, all right? Don't call me as your husband to come crash out,

for you. All right. And let's be clear. This was a crash out. All right. Friendly piece of advice. If someone calls you and says, bring a gun. I don't care who that someone is. Right. Could be your wife, your mother, your child. If someone says bring a gun, you probably

shouldn't go, all right? Because they're not calling you to solve a problem. They're calling you to make a bad situation worse. And that's exactly what happened here. Okay, I promise you, if the RSVP says a gun is part of the dress code, I'm not attending.

Okay, ask yourself, why would you ever attend? All right, clearly Travis was a loyal person, a husband, but your loyalty shouldn't cost you your life because Travis should have been telling her, I'm coming to Walmart to get you to bring your ass home, okay? What the hell are you doing fighting a grown-ass man in Walmart? All right, look, if this woman, you know, that was arguing with her boyfriend was in some type of real danger,

call the police, all right? There's no need for you sisters to be walking up on this man playing vigilante. You can tell that man, stop what you're doing or I'm calling the police, but you can't take that matter into your own hands. And clearly, it was too much for you to handle because you called Travis to come get you back and to come escalate the situation with a pistol.

All right? Every argument, every fight, isn't worth turning into a murder scene, okay? How many times do I have to tell you to do your jail math? Your jail map is simply a calculation that you make that determines whether or not whatever you're about to do adds up. And none of this adds up. Okay, you telling me there wasn't one cooler head that could have prevailed.

Not one person stopped to think to say, hey, this is going too far. My brothers, you can love somebody and still not do everything they ask. If your wife says bring flowers, cool, okay, bring food, what you want to eat? Bring a gun, excuse me. Say what? I got to have some more questions first, all right? If somebody calls you and says, bring a gun, how about pause, take a breath, and bring some common sense instead, okay?

I promise you, when someone tells you to bring a gun, the only thing waiting for you on the other side of that phone call is prison or the cemetery. All right? Remember those choose your own adventure books? We read when we was kids. Y'all remember those? Yes. When you made the wrong choice, your character usually faced a sudden dramatic failure or an abrupt, the end.

Sadly for Brother Travis, this was the end. Okay, I'm not letting nobody's temporary anger become my permanent consequence. Somebody tell me to bring a gun. I'm going to call 911. one for them and tell them they need to get down there fast because they asked me to bring a gun so it must be serious. Okay, this is a tragic example of what happens when people recruit others into conflicts that never needed to become life or death in the first place. Please give Raqia Ward the biggest he-ha. This is a difficult one, I'm sure, for some people, when you think about it, like, because your wife is calling you and telling you she just got into a fight.

It's not just a regular person calling you and telling you to bring a gun, right? It's your wife. Yeah, but there's still got to be a plan B. If her plan A is bring a gun. I need more inflammation. But did he not ask questions? It's like, damn, just like, all right, baby him on my way, hung up. I was like, y'all, I just got into a fight at Walmart with a guy.

And you're just like, what? I'm a, well, see, it's the thing, right? If your wife calls you. Yeah. And she never talks about anything violent. and anything like that and tells you you come down to, I'm telling you. You don't know anything about this woman.

I'm just saying, I don't know. I'm just putting myself in a situation, right? Because you say, I'm going to ask questions. If Gia called me and says, come to so-and-so, bring your hammer. I'm coming. I'm not going to ask questions. I'm jetting there.

I don't believe you. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't believe that. I believe you would call your father. I don't believe that. Because my police background,

my wife would make sure she wouldn't try to put me, if she called me and told me to bring a gun is because it's serious. so I'm going to come down there with my hammer and I'm jetting down there as fast as I can't but you still got to think about your life too right? Yeah, yeah you've got kids and your life The first thing I'm thinking about

is my wife calls me and says Come down to wherever with my fire arm I am coming Well guess what there's nobody that'll protect her kid anymore I mean I know her husband is Somebody got to think this through Sally is She probably should have done it through

Anyway they both they're a couple They're a unit They both got to think it through So because she might be calling you all irrational and emotional and amped up. You're in a moment. Hold up, baby. Hold on. What's going on? Calm down. Calm down. What's wrong? If you call Chris,

right, your husband, Chris, and you say, oh, Chris, come to Taco Bell and bring the hair, and I'm just joking. But if you said, come to any store. Bring the fire arm immediately. My husband is not going to think like that. He's going to be like, all, what's going to happen? I'm like, I need you. Now, he's going to get... My wife never calls me for things like that. So if she does, I'm coming.

No, he's going to already be in the car, but he's still not going to let me hang up no damn phone. I'm going to be why he's on his way I'm explaining what's happening what's going on like yeah but he's going to bring his fire on he's going to bring the fire on but he's not going to go in there guns ablaze and say you're going to go in their guns and blazes yeah but I'm going I'm on my way with the fire wrong because that's what it sounds like it's not like he got there and didn't even ask no question right like you're going there and shoot him in the stomach

like come on and also probably sound like these people all knew each other too that's what I'm thinking also I'm thinking all of these people do each other they must be previous beef frying let's have this conversation or they was that type of couple. Like, they, they like that. Yeah. Well, let's open up the phone lines. What, what's, what's the question in this horrible situation? I just want to hear what people think about this story. All right, yeah. Let's just open up the phone lines.

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Hey, Portlandia fans. Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen here. The Dream of the 90s is alive in podcast form. We're launching Podlandia, AEO rewatch, our brand new podcast where we revisit every episode of Portlandia together, breaking down sketches, going deep on our iconic characters, and pulling back the curtain on how it all got made. And we'll also be joined by the people who helped bring it all to life. Guest stars, collaborators, and friends, including director Jonathan Chrysall, the mayor himself, Kyle McLaughlin, legendary musician Amy Mann, and many more.

Kyle is going for it here. Are you fully improvised, not just words, but a song about it? Well, I thought you were all going to write a song. I remember you thinking that. Listen to Podlandia. A.O. Rewatch on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, fam? I'm sports journalist Ari Chambers.

Hey, what's up, y'all? It's your girl, Sam J. And we're the host of everyone watches women's sports, a new podcast from Together in IHart Women's Sports. We're breaking down the biggest headlines. Naomi Osaka, show it out. Shoutouts to you, Naomi. The viral moment. I've been obsessed with Kashan Rock's

boxing journey. She looks good. Her combos are swift. The stories everyone's talking about across women's sports. Because everyone watches women's sports. Listen to everyone watches women's sports. On the IHeart Radio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. This is Chelsea Handler from Dear Chelsea.

Every week, the news gets worse. The world gets crazier. And Yamanika is here to tell whoever's responsible, you're the problem. Do you know I just found out who Sidney Sweeney was? If he got a bunch of women, then I should have a bunch of men. Do better or do less so I don't have to do so much.

I'm Yamanika, and I'm out. Listen to You're the Problem with Yamanika on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Nick Tuturo. You probably know me from NYPD Blue, the longest yard, or Spike Lease Black Klansman. And on my new podcast, delivering happiness with Nick Tatoro, I deliver pizza to a new guest.

I've shared a slice with everyone from Seth Rollins. What are you doing my belt? To Bill Burr. I don't think I've ever met somebody so exactly out of their mind as I am. And now we even have more great guests coming up, including the great John Tituro. It's called Happiness, Delivering Happiness. And many, many more. Open your free High Heart Radio app.

Search Delivering Happiness with Nick Titturo. And listen now. This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.