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

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  Speaker 1: But you use that donkey thing and donkeys around here,
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  Speaker 1: around around.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for donkeys for day. They made the today
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  Speaker 2: by the things that I said. Some donkey to Day's
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  Speaker 2: just so themselves. This was you what accountability are he's taking?
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  Speaker 2: He caught me off, sat I'm not making these people
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  Speaker 2: do these.
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  Speaker 3: Things today on the breakfast club ever, you said, I
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  Speaker 3: want to start off with this donkey right here. Donkey
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  Speaker 3: today for Wednesday, March eleventh goes to a forty six
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  Speaker 3: year old Houston.
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  Speaker 2: Man named James Earl Johnson. Yes, what race today?
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  Speaker 3: It will not be needed today. Okay, that is one
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  Speaker 3: of the blackest names I've ever heard in my life.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, this man is named after somebody's great great grandfather.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: He sounds like he was a custodian in a high
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  Speaker 3: school when they ended segregation in America in sixty four. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: James or Earl Anna Johnson. I know he done got
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  Speaker 3: denied for a loan quite a few times. Okay, probably
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  Speaker 3: discriminated against during a hiring process or two. I know
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  Speaker 3: he didn't get a callback. You know, studies show people
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  Speaker 3: with black sounding names get fifty percent fewer callbacks than
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  Speaker 3: identical resumes with white sounding names. So I know James
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  Speaker 3: Earl Johnson wasn't getting no callbacks. But anyway, James Arl Johnson,
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  Speaker 3: how is he not James L. Johnson the third? Okay
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  Speaker 3: that name is too old to be the first. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, James Arl Johnson has been arrested in charge
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  Speaker 3: with abusing his wife. Okay, his wife is disabled and
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  Speaker 3: investigators are saying he held his disabled wife captive inside
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  Speaker 3: their home for years. What do you mean, uncle Shawla,
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  Speaker 3: he held his disabled wife captive for years? Well, let's
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  Speaker 3: go to ABC thirteen for the report.
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  Speaker 4: Police from the outside looking in what some might consider
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  Speaker 4: a dream home, but police say for one woman, the
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  Speaker 4: house at Crownridge Court was in fact a house of hers.
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  Speaker 4: Investigators say the forty six year old woman who's disabled,
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  Speaker 4: was allegedly held captive in a bedroom for five years
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  Speaker 4: by her own husband, James Johnson James Earl Johns and
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  Speaker 4: arrested Friday morning, but a sense bonded out of jail
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  Speaker 4: with an order to stay away from the victim and
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  Speaker 4: the house with the couple's children also reside.
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  Speaker 2: It's here.
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  Speaker 4: Court documents say the victim was held under lock and
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  Speaker 4: key with no phone access. Finally, Friday, police say her
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  Speaker 4: husband left a phone on the night stand, which he
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  Speaker 4: used to call nine one wide, but police say Johnson
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  Speaker 4: cut the call short, slapping his wife and carrying her
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  Speaker 4: back to bed, then hanging up on the nine to
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  Speaker 4: one one dispatcher. You've got a woman who's being held captive,
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  Speaker 4: and that is a pure form of coercive control, which
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  Speaker 4: is a form of abuse.
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  Speaker 2: James Earl, mister Johnson, why why you know?
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  Speaker 3: You know, years ago Larry King, the Great Larry King
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  Speaker 3: recipes to Larry King, he said to me, you know, Charlemagne,
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  Speaker 3: the greatest question you can ask in an interview is why.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the greatest question to ask in life.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've been going to therapy for a solid
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  Speaker 3: decade now, and that is what I'm always trying to
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  Speaker 3: get to the root of the why of things.
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  Speaker 2: Why did I react this way? Why did this trigger me?
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  Speaker 2: Why did I behave like this in this moment?
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  Speaker 3: So it makes me ask that question of other people often,
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  Speaker 3: And for James Earl Johnson, that's the question.
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  Speaker 2: Why Why couldn't James Earl Johnson just get a divorce?
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  Speaker 2: Why couldn't you just break up? With his wife?
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  Speaker 3: What made him treat his wife the way Helen treated Charles?
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  Speaker 3: And Diary of a Mad Black Woman?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? Was this Diary of a Mad Black Name? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Did y'all try mediation? Did y'all try legal separation? Was
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  Speaker 3: there any exit strategy discussed at all? Not even discussed
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  Speaker 3: with each other? Did you have a meeting with yourself,
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  Speaker 3: James Earl Johnson? Okay, I'm just trying to figure out
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  Speaker 3: why you thought captivity and torture was the best course
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  Speaker 3: of action here.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe I have to say this on Breathless Club.
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  Speaker 3: This morning, But leaving a spouse rather than mistreating them
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  Speaker 3: is always the better option.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. It's way more ethical than leaving her, leaving her.
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  Speaker 3: In a room like he did, with a single aid
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  Speaker 3: to eat and giving her dinner a one time a day.
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  Speaker 3: This woman had to call nine to one one when
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  Speaker 3: her husband, James Earl Johnson, accidentally left a phone on
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  Speaker 3: the night's thend.
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  Speaker 2: This would be Tyler Perry's version of Misery. Okay. I
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  Speaker 2: was born in nineteen hundred and seventy eight.
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  Speaker 3: I remember the movie Misery from the nineties when Annie
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  Speaker 3: held Paul captive.
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  Speaker 2: This is that Okay?
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  Speaker 3: At least in the movie Misery, though we knew the
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  Speaker 3: why because Annie was an obsessive fan. There was no
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  Speaker 3: reason for James Earl Johnson to be doing what he
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  Speaker 3: was doing to his wife other than pure evil.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, just leave o bruh divorsa all right. Any expert you.
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  Speaker 3: Ask, any counselor you ask, will tell you that no
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  Speaker 3: one deserves to be treated badly, and staying in a
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  Speaker 3: miserable or harmful situation often causes more long term damage
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  Speaker 3: than leaving.
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  Speaker 2: Is this story not proof of that?
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  Speaker 3: Is this story not proof that those experts and counselors
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  Speaker 3: are correct? Please let remy ma give James Earl Johnson
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  Speaker 3: the biggest.
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  Speaker 2: He heh heh, You stupid mother? Are you dumb?
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  Speaker 3: And this is why you can't have the wrong man
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  Speaker 3: providing for you. Okay, we've been having that discussion for
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  Speaker 3: like the past week.
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  Speaker 2: Right then, somebody called it this morning.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, somebody called up this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Well thank you for that.
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  Speaker 5: Don't get a name, but somebody called this morning and
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  Speaker 5: this is what he said earlier today during gave it
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  Speaker 5: off your.
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  Speaker 1: Chest, man, I'm getting on my chest. It was a
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  Speaker 1: commonsation y'all had last week with it was Simmi Nevado
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  Speaker 1: and Kicky Palmer about how younger women were dating older men,
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  Speaker 1: and my wife and I were talking about it and
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  Speaker 1: something that Laura La Rosa said and Charlamagne said that
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  Speaker 1: really sat with her. Lauryla Rosa said, when she was younger,
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  Speaker 1: her parents or her mother would tell her to get
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  Speaker 1: somebody who provides for her. And then Charlomagne had said, well,
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  Speaker 1: she was probably talking to your older version of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And man, that really sat with us, because me and
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  Speaker 1: my wife are just sitting like, man, this is scary
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  Speaker 1: raising a daughter because she was told the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just the man. And then just the mentality
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  Speaker 1: that that men have. But they tell younger women like
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  Speaker 1: you're mature for your age. What does that even mean?
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  Speaker 5: Let's open up the phone lines. Let's have a discussion.
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  Speaker 5: Eight hundred five eight five five one. Are you still
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  Speaker 5: giving your daughters the advice to find a man to
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  Speaker 5: take care of you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Let that story I just told you about James Earl
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  Speaker 3: Johnson serve as an example. Okay, you teach your daughters, well,
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  Speaker 3: you should teach your daughters to provide for themselves.
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  Speaker 5: And they can, and then then they should find a
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  Speaker 5: man that can match the hustle. Let's let's talk about
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  Speaker 5: it when we come back again. Eight hundred five eight
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  Speaker 5: five one, five to one. You know, uh, the advice,
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  Speaker 5: the common advice back in the day was find a
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  Speaker 5: good man who could take care of you. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: that's what Laurence mama told her. Just that's what your
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  Speaker 5: mom and dad told you too. No, no, all right,
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  Speaker 5: but we'll discuss when we come back. It's the breakfast Slip.
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