# He Crashed Out Over This Cartoon // The Kenneth Noid Story Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ray-william-johnson-true-story-podcast-7212041/he-crashed-out-over-this-cartoon-the-kenneth-noid-story Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ray-william-johnson-true-story-podcast-7212041/he-crashed-out-over-this-cartoon-the-kenneth-noid-story.md Podcast: [Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ray-william-johnson-true-story-podcast-7212041) Published: 2026-05-25T15:41:08+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/raywilliamjohnson/episodes/He-Crashed-Out-Over-This-Cartoon--The-Kenneth-Noid-Story-e3jsc82 Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO7530604312.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ray-william-johnson-true-story-podcast-7212041/episodes/he-crashed-out-over-this-cartoon-the-kenneth-noid-story Duration seconds: 493 ## Resource The Kenneth Noid story is a bizarre and tragic piece of fast-food history involving a 1989 hostage situation fueled by extreme paranoia. Domino's Pizza was running a highly successful advertising campaign featuring "The Noid," a claymation character who tried to ruin pizzas, alongside the slogan "Avoid the Noid." Kenneth Lamar Noid, a 22-year-old man from Georgia who suffered from severe mental illness, became convinced that the commercial campaign was a personal attack directly mocking him. Believing the company was out to get him, he entered a local Domino's restaurant, held two employees hostage for over five hours, and demanded $100,000 and a getaway car. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ray-william-johnson-true-story-podcast-7212041/episodes/he-crashed-out-over-this-cartoon-the-kenneth-noid-story/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/ray-william-johnson-true-story-podcast-7212041/he-crashed-out-over-this-cartoon-the-kenneth-noid-story.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.