January 20, 2026 • 6 mins
Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to a wedding venue that denied a bride a refund after her fiancé’s sudden death. Listen for more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Donkey up to day time. Damn he hogged. It's time
for donkey, I mean trying to beat donkey today. No more.
They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm
not making new people do these days called donkey of
the day. And it really caught me off guard.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Damn Charlamagne, who got the donkey out of the day today? Well,
just hilarious donkey today for Tuesday, January twentieth has me
very conflicted.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Okay, every now and then and I get a suggestion
for donkey.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
To day, and I'm like, I can see why you
would want them to get Donkey of to day, but
honestly I can see where they shouldn't. Okay, we are
gonna have to take this one to Breakfast Club Court
because I really don't know if these folk should get
the biggest he holed. But today's potential Donkey of to
day is going to uh lukas Rakowski.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
He's the owner of the Crystal Ballroom in Lake Mary, Florida.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
According to News six, Orlando ty Henson and William Coney
was set to marry in May of this year at
the Crystal Ballroom and then sadly tragedy struck.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Let's go to the new six police Crystal Ballroom.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Here in Lake Mary is where Ty Hinson thought she'd
be marrying her best friend this coming spring. When her fiance,
William Coney, suddenly died just before Thanksgiving. Hinson says her
wedding vendors voided all of their contracts and gave back
her money.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
All, she says, except this one. This was like a cancelation.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
This was a person dying.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Hinson acknowledges she signed a non refundable contract with the
Crystal Ballroom of Lake Mary. Still, she assumed the company
would give back at least some of the seventy six
hundred dollars she paid for the wedding venue.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Her suggestion was, maybe you can do a memorial here
on the wedding day, and that even now sorry.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
The owner of the wedding venue encourages clients to purchase
third party cancelation insurance. In a statement, the company says
Crystal Ballroom has served thousands of couples over many years,
while also encountering a small number of illnesses, accidents, deaths,
military deployments, and other life events. These experiences shaped our
(02:07):
policies and procedures, not to avoid responsibility, but to protect clients,
vendors and the venue in a fair, transparent and legally
sound way.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Ooh, first things first, rest in peace to William Coney,
died unexpectedly at the age of forty two from a
heart attack. This is why I encourage you all to
take your cardiovascular health serious.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
This is why I.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Encourage you all to go see doctor Puma and go
get a star and heart scan. Please, please, please, brothers,
take your cardiovascular health serious, because I don't know if
it's the food, COVID, the vaccine stress, something as younger
people having heart attacks and strokes.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So please take care of yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
But this is why I get conflicted, because business is business,
and there is a reason venues take deposits. Okay, I
don't know the details of the contract. I don't know
the stipulations in the contract. Most contracts have a clause
for unforeseen, uncontrollable events.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I think it's called the.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Forced majure clause majure commonly known as the Act of
God clause. And I would think death would fall under that.
It's not like she just canceled for no reason. And
I would think a venue would refund the deposit just
out of the kindness of their heart, even if.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
They legally didn't have to.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And that is where the situation gets perplexing for me,
because I'm expecting me from other people. Okay, I'm not
saying I think Crystal Ballroom is wrong because legally I
don't believe they are. From a business perspective, they aren't
at all, but from a human perspective, from a kindness perspective,
they could give tire break and give her the deposit.
Back then, I thought it was very cold to suggest
(03:32):
to her to do the memorial there, which sadly the
venue is thinking about their bottom line. Okay, they don't
want to miss out on that seventy six hundred. That's
a lot of money. I get it, But damn, did
you not.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Have a heart or does a heart matter?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
When a contract was signed and business was done by
the way? News six Orlando confirmed that the contract states
all payments are non refundable.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Okay, But I agree with Ty Henson.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
She said, she understands the legal side, but there should
be space for compassion. Okay, Ty said, and I agree
with her wholeheartedly. My compassion as a human being carries
over into my business. But then I understand with the
venue owner lukax Rokowski is coming from, because he said
they are a full service venue that coordinates space, staffing, inventory,
(04:17):
and third party services months in advance and incurs costs
on a different timeline.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Than individual vendors.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And they said that complex and unfortunate situations like death
have shaped their policies to be fair, transparent, and legally sound.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
He noted that these rules are.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Reviewed before signing to avoid emotional or inconsistent decision making later.
So where are we with this? I really see both
sides of this situation. I understand. But people want this owner,
lukax Rakowski, and this venue to get donkey of the day.
So let's open up the phone lines one eight hundred
and five eighty five one one.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
We gotta go to Breakfast Club Court. We gotta go
to Breakfast Club Court.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Now, people are saying that this owner and this establishment
should have a heart, but also this is business.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
They had to pay other people.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
They had to pay, maybe the florist, maybe the DJ.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Maybe the sound, maybe balloons, whatever, they had to pay
a lot of it had to go out. And not
only that, they costs in advances. Yes, they booked these
things out here as in advance. So if you don't
take this date, somebody else would have. So they gave
it to you. So it is what it is. But
what he did say was that person should have got insurance.
If you would have got insurance, nothing would have happened.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But I didn't hear that. That's what you said. You
said they should have got insurance. That's what you said.
I said that, Yes, I don't know. I don't have
insurance just in case something happened. No, he said, he said.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
The owner noted that these rules are reviewed before signing
to avoid emotional or inconsistent decision making.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Later I heard, But anyway, that's the question. Eight hundred
and five eighty five one.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Who's at fault?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Who should get the donkey?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Should it be the owner of the establishment or not.
Let's discuss eight hundred and five eighty five one oh
five one.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Good Morning Donkey Today is sponsored by renowned personal injury
attorney Michael to Bull lamb is soft. Don't be a
donkey when you need a fighter on your side. If
you're ever injured, go to Michael to Bull dot com.
That's Michael to Bull dot com and when you mess
with the bull, you get the horns.
Donkey up to day time. Damn he hogged. It's time
for donkey, I mean trying to beat donkey today. No more.
They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm
not making new people do these days called donkey of
the day. And it really caught me off guard.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Damn Charlamagne, who got the donkey out of the day today? Well,
just hilarious donkey today for Tuesday, January twentieth has me
very conflicted.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Okay, every now and then and I get a suggestion
for donkey.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
To day, and I'm like, I can see why you
would want them to get Donkey of to day, but
honestly I can see where they shouldn't. Okay, we are
gonna have to take this one to Breakfast Club Court
because I really don't know if these folk should get
the biggest he holed. But today's potential Donkey of to
day is going to uh lukas Rakowski.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
He's the owner of the Crystal Ballroom in Lake Mary, Florida.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
According to News six, Orlando ty Henson and William Coney
was set to marry in May of this year at
the Crystal Ballroom and then sadly tragedy struck.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Let's go to the new six police Crystal Ballroom.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Here in Lake Mary is where Ty Hinson thought she'd
be marrying her best friend this coming spring. When her fiance,
William Coney, suddenly died just before Thanksgiving. Hinson says her
wedding vendors voided all of their contracts and gave back
her money.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
All, she says, except this one. This was like a cancelation.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
This was a person dying.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Hinson acknowledges she signed a non refundable contract with the
Crystal Ballroom of Lake Mary. Still, she assumed the company
would give back at least some of the seventy six
hundred dollars she paid for the wedding venue.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Her suggestion was, maybe you can do a memorial here
on the wedding day, and that even now sorry.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
The owner of the wedding venue encourages clients to purchase
third party cancelation insurance. In a statement, the company says
Crystal Ballroom has served thousands of couples over many years,
while also encountering a small number of illnesses, accidents, deaths,
military deployments, and other life events. These experiences shaped our
(02:07):
policies and procedures, not to avoid responsibility, but to protect clients,
vendors and the venue in a fair, transparent and legally
sound way.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Ooh, first things first, rest in peace to William Coney,
died unexpectedly at the age of forty two from a
heart attack. This is why I encourage you all to
take your cardiovascular health serious.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
This is why I.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Encourage you all to go see doctor Puma and go
get a star and heart scan. Please, please, please, brothers,
take your cardiovascular health serious, because I don't know if
it's the food, COVID, the vaccine stress, something as younger
people having heart attacks and strokes.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So please take care of yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
But this is why I get conflicted, because business is business,
and there is a reason venues take deposits. Okay, I
don't know the details of the contract. I don't know
the stipulations in the contract. Most contracts have a clause
for unforeseen, uncontrollable events.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I think it's called the.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Forced majure clause majure commonly known as the Act of
God clause. And I would think death would fall under that.
It's not like she just canceled for no reason. And
I would think a venue would refund the deposit just
out of the kindness of their heart, even if.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
They legally didn't have to.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And that is where the situation gets perplexing for me,
because I'm expecting me from other people. Okay, I'm not
saying I think Crystal Ballroom is wrong because legally I
don't believe they are. From a business perspective, they aren't
at all, but from a human perspective, from a kindness perspective,
they could give tire break and give her the deposit.
Back then, I thought it was very cold to suggest
(03:32):
to her to do the memorial there, which sadly the
venue is thinking about their bottom line. Okay, they don't
want to miss out on that seventy six hundred. That's
a lot of money. I get it, But damn, did
you not.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Have a heart or does a heart matter?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
When a contract was signed and business was done by
the way? News six Orlando confirmed that the contract states
all payments are non refundable.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Okay, But I agree with Ty Henson.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
She said, she understands the legal side, but there should
be space for compassion. Okay, Ty said, and I agree
with her wholeheartedly. My compassion as a human being carries
over into my business. But then I understand with the
venue owner lukax Rokowski is coming from, because he said
they are a full service venue that coordinates space, staffing, inventory,
(04:17):
and third party services months in advance and incurs costs
on a different timeline.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Than individual vendors.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And they said that complex and unfortunate situations like death
have shaped their policies to be fair, transparent, and legally sound.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
He noted that these rules are.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Reviewed before signing to avoid emotional or inconsistent decision making later.
So where are we with this? I really see both
sides of this situation. I understand. But people want this owner,
lukax Rakowski, and this venue to get donkey of the day.
So let's open up the phone lines one eight hundred
and five eighty five one one.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
We gotta go to Breakfast Club Court. We gotta go
to Breakfast Club Court.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Now, people are saying that this owner and this establishment
should have a heart, but also this is business.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
They had to pay other people.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
They had to pay, maybe the florist, maybe the DJ.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Maybe the sound, maybe balloons, whatever, they had to pay
a lot of it had to go out. And not
only that, they costs in advances. Yes, they booked these
things out here as in advance. So if you don't
take this date, somebody else would have. So they gave
it to you. So it is what it is. But
what he did say was that person should have got insurance.
If you would have got insurance, nothing would have happened.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But I didn't hear that. That's what you said. You
said they should have got insurance. That's what you said.
I said that, Yes, I don't know. I don't have
insurance just in case something happened. No, he said, he said.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
The owner noted that these rules are reviewed before signing
to avoid emotional or inconsistent decision making.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Later I heard, But anyway, that's the question. Eight hundred
and five eighty five one.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Who's at fault?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Who should get the donkey?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Should it be the owner of the establishment or not.
Let's discuss eight hundred and five eighty five one oh
five one.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Good Morning Donkey Today is sponsored by renowned personal injury
attorney Michael to Bull lamb is soft. Don't be a
donkey when you need a fighter on your side. If
you're ever injured, go to Michael to Bull dot com.
That's Michael to Bull dot com and when you mess
with the bull, you get the horns.
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