{"podcast":{"title":"Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast","slug":"ray-william-johnson-true-story-podcast-7212041","podcast_index_feed_id":7212041,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10074e310/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGt7X90Au6BV8rf49BiM6Dg","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/42926276/42926276-1738116833217-5a66d821dfbef.jpg","author":"Ray William Johnson","episode_count":614,"summary":"The Official Podcast of Ray William Johnson, storyteller and comedian. Tune in for the best stories of True Crime and Pop Culture.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T06:17:49.152430+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ray-william-johnson-true-story-podcast-7212041"},"episode":{"title":"He Crashed Out Over This Cartoon // The Kenneth Noid Story","slug":"he-crashed-out-over-this-cartoon-the-kenneth-noid-story","published_at":"2026-05-25T15:41:08+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ray-william-johnson-true-story-podcast-7212041/he-crashed-out-over-this-cartoon-the-kenneth-noid-story","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ray-william-johnson-true-story-podcast-7212041","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/raywilliamjohnson/episodes/He-Crashed-Out-Over-This-Cartoon--The-Kenneth-Noid-Story-e3jsc82","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO7530604312.mp3","summary":"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.","meta_description":"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 wa…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":493,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"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","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ray-william-johnson-true-story-podcast-7212041/he-crashed-out-over-this-cartoon-the-kenneth-noid-story.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}