M he was called cold. That was he was cold, Barn. What's going on up there? Could be the most important event in history. Now I am the cold and destroy our worlds, I said. I hope this is close to hill. It's all ever again. Hello and welcome to the Tales from the Dark podcast. I'm your host, Bob. You're with my co host Brittany. Hey, guys, what's up. Brittany. It's it's been a while. I got to ask, how's it going. It's going good. How are you? It's going well? But I'm gonna just precursor
right now. If you do not like the banter or you don't like bad news, skip about six minutes ahead in the podcast episode. Okay, I had to put that out there, so first and foremost, I have been attacked on social media lately, and I just want to explain why that's not okay. Oh god, So about two to three days ago, I started getting tagged on every platform we have in an emails and then I carry your pigeon. It was going down. Was it your your entry to Hogwarts?
Because that's what sounded like. So apparently has Bro unveiled the toys new iconic turn of the Furby yep, and the giant one too. I saw that. So I have never seen a community band together to hate them move together just to just fuck somewhere up so quickly. I mean you there are just certain things that just gets you guys going, And apparently my childhood trauma is just one of them. Yeah, other and other news here, we started
playing Pokemon Go again. If you're a long time you're a long time listener Tales from Dark, you will know that I went on a little mini fitness journey a few years ago. I'm back on said journey. The only thing that's keeping me from throwing myself down a hill on my walks is Pokemon Go. So I want to explain how I played Pokemon Go to everybody, because there was a time where I think it was twenty sixteen Pokemon Go came out. It was like the biggest thing in the world for a while. Yeah,
and then a resurgence happened in like twenty twenty one. I think it's when we started playing again. Yes. Now, when I say that we went deep, I mean I'm talking taking every gym up to the elbow. We were deep. So what Brittany and I would do is we would we would go and hit We had a little route that we planned from our house into the center of our town, outside of the town by the jail, and we had it down to an exact. We have to go this fast
to hit every pokey stop before it will you know. Respond. Well, then one day we kind of had a little idea of, hey, fuck them kids, We're going to take every gym in town and put the beefiest fucking pokemon we have and hold them for like fifteen days. Yes, we held our entire town hostage to a point that now I can't say that this was about us, but conveniently, like a day or two after we took the gym, and then we would obsessively drive around and pump berries back in
to keep our pokemon in the gym, like day and night. Nothing else matter, but just just fuck them kids, That's all that mattered. I see a Reddit post It's like, I Niantick needs to fix this. This is bullshit. There's this fucking group in my town who went over and took over every single gem. Every single time that they try and take over that I go over there, they're there and they will not let their Pokemon die. This is bullshit. And again I can't say that that was for sure
about us, but it was convenient timing. Yes. So if you guys want to add this is my code on Pokemon Go because I'm twelve and I still abs this for Pokemon mine is eight three four nine, five six, eight, five, five, seven, six eight And Brittany, what is yours? Mine is six seven two four four five three one zero six eight six add us send us some gifts. One of my favorite things about this game is seeing the cool ass pictures of like places that we go. Yeah,
it's really fucking everyone else goes through. Yeah, well Matthew said, we wanted to the Octagon House in Kentucky and that was fucking cool. So it's really meeks Like, if you go to Point Pleasant, the Mothman statue is a Pokemon Poka stop. So I think that's pretty fucking cool. It's very cool, all right. So now let's kind of transition. So the other thing I have to kind of throw out here. I need some more listeners stories. I've got enough for about forty five minutes to an hour.
I want to the next listener stories to be the hour and a half hour forty five. So if you have any cool stories, go ahead and send him in Austin. I'm speaking directly to you. Oh, we know you got messed up stories. Yeah. And I guess the last last thing for everyone who wanted wanted us to dive into the UFO whistleblower, as we said in the last episode, we covered it on Patreon, I have to double down and say, I told you so what happened. Everything I said in
the Patreon app basically is coming true. I told you guys that this dude there was something up, and that's all I'll say. The patrons know it was a very um heated conversation over on patreo. Oh for a hot minute, Yeah, I remember. So it's one of those things where, um, that's why we're not talking about them in the main show. It has enough mainstream media attention. And I don't think, from a expert uthologist as myself, I don't think that we're going to platform this young man for the
sake of what we talked about over on Patreon. All right, so let's let's talk. Let's talk waffle house. Let's talk waffle house. So growing up, you were a huddle house girl, right, yes, so you reserve waffle House for very late night, and that's the only thing that's really open was huddle House, not twenty four huddle House is a huddle house. Let's let's start there, because before I bet you I'd never heard of huddle house. You're right, so huddle House was a better version of waffle House.
I know a lot, a lot of alternative alternative version. You better not let mammo hear you say it's not better, all right, So huddle House has all the options that waffle House has times ten. Okay, continue with your lines. You literally saw the like ten page menu that huddle House office. Okay, Well, as as you can get his evidence at the cheesecake factory. You can get steak of waffle house. Let's you can get steak shrimp. You can get mozzarella sticks, you can get all breakfast.
You can get Belgian waffles as well as regular waffles and pancakes. There are a few things I trust in the world, less than twenty four hours shrimp. Well, it was good, very few things I try. I ate a huddle House religiously every week, so it's it's good. So how's the tapeworm doing? Okay? Oh okay, So huddle House, As Brittany said, it's I want to know if it's owned by the same I have no idea family the house family. Did they also make a doctor house? I
don't know how s m D is actually waffle house and fucking disguise. It's big house. It's big house. It's all it's always been. It's always been. Okay, so what what in your opinion makes huddle house better? Apart from huddle house is allegedly superior menu, which is debatable. Huddle Houses where you take your family after you go to church on Sundays. Waffles waffle House is where you take your degenerate cousins who drank too much moonshine on the
weekend. I mean, you don't have to say it, Okay, okay, but have you ever heard of the huddle house index? Yes, huddle house the weather index. Oh, I'm sorry, because it's actually called the waffle house. Yeah, exactly, See, you're already making this is how I know you're full of shit. Oh okay, this is the horses all over Okay, so so waffle House index. For those who don't know, it's an informal metric named after after the ubiquitous southern US restaurant cheam waffle House.
It's uh so, basically, what this is is FEMA will utilize waffle House for how bad a disaster is in certain areas if the and I'm gonna kind of like buy this a bit, it's mainly for hurricanes. But primarily what the waffle House index is a sphema. If there's let's say, a hurricane, a tornado, a flood, whatever, if the waffle house is still open, it's like orange. Once the waffle louses closed down, it's red alert on the National Guard en it's probably martial law coming up next.
Huddle House doesn't have that, and there's good reason because US. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not committed to the job. Okay, I have seen more huddle Houses closed in the I don't know three years that i've known they've existed than the thirty that i've seen. Like waffle House, hears, waffle House doesn't close ever unless it's fire bombed. You're right, go on, but it's it's damn good food. It's commitment issues, probably crime.
So okay, waffle House has a and this is gonna be kind of a sob story, has a soft place in my heart and the reason we're bringing up waffle House. We literally went to eat waffle House tonight, but we had a rental car, went and took it back, stopped at waffle House on the way back. That's the whole reason we're doing this episode. There's no like, it wasn't suggested. It was just huh, waffle House. I bet some crazy shit happens here. Boy, were recorrect. Yes,
so waffle House has a soft place. But when my my my father passed away, waffle House was like the home away from home for me. And I was in that era where like Walmart was still open twenty four hours, but they were getting real strict on the fuckery. Yeah how who could come in if they were gonna be watching you when you walked in? Yeah, I'm pretty sure I still hold the record in Sydney, Ohio for like
the fastest getting kicked out of Walmart. I walked in, hopped into a cart, like into the you know, the little little bed area cart by the way, not buggy. I hopped into the little bay of the cart from my friend to push me around. And this old woman who I she looks a lot like the you know the the gum gum from a night at the museum. The yes, the what is t Yes, that's what her face looked like. And she just hit me with a fucking nope, yes,
yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am. I understand. I'm getting the fuck out of here because you were going to beat my ass, so naturally, next stop it. If you're in Sydney, Ohio, you know waffle House is the next stop. I have spent the night at waffle House more times than I care to count. There was this woman and I'd say she had to be one hundred and seven that worked at waffle House named Bridget. Bridget put up with my bullshit because I too, this time, thirty years
old night will still I did this at fifteen. I do it at thirty when I get coffee, which is very rarely, and they say how much creamer do you want? Honey? I need enough to build a house, and what I want to build a house? I will sit there and build a fucking house out of creamer and use like four of them. That's that's been my I have no idea where that came from, and it's always been
my fucking thing. Okay, I love waffle House, but the reason I'm bringing up the overnight I stayed so one night we played a show my band did at the Sydney Boat Club and we all went to waffle house to celebrate. This guy came in and this is no exaggeration, and a banana speedo, a banana speedo, Confederate flag like cut off shirt, but it was like a button up like it definitely wasn't designed to be a cutoff dress shirt.
And this dude comes in flip flops, banana speedo. I think it was like the weekend of country concert, which is like the dumbest fucking That's a whole another conversation. He comes in and he just looks around, looks over at this guy. And this dude, when I tell you, he shit bricks. This was like the fucking Hell's Angel. He's on this like eighty eight Harley Rogue Glide that beat the shit out of him. Urge. He wrote it didn't bother anybody. He was in there. I think his
name was ted o'tom. This dude didn't bother nobody. He just played George in the jukebox. You knew he was in there because it was just the same four George Street songs over and over and over. Sounds like my kind of person. Nobody fucked with this guy. He would like get two or three coffees and then tip like ten dollars. I mean this is like two thousand and six, two thousand and seven, so like pre economy being shittier than it was back then. Yeah, Banana speedo guy comes in and says,
hey, who's got that ugly ass Harley in the parking lot? Oh god? And Ted Tom stands up and uh, he flattens his mustache and he says, that would be me. I had never heard this man talk, and I realized, like this dude, he sounds if anyone who's an old school UFC fantasy. It sounds like Don Fry, and he's that that would be me. He goes, I just hit it with my truck. Oh no, And so he doesn't even look outside to verify that this did
not happen. This dude was pished, drunk. There's a Kroger that's attached to like the waffle house plaza. He hit a different Harley altogether, and Ted Tom walks over and just fucking him out, plays him the fuck out. Yeah, one shot like roadhouse style reaches down and grabs him by the buttons of this Confederate flag cut off shirt, and you can hear him popping the buttons as he's dragging him out of the waffle house. He comes back in and he says, I think he got the wrong bike, and then
sat down and finished his coffee and left like nothing happened. Okay, the cops showed about twenty five minutes later, and we're like, we there wasn't even a guy with a Harley here. Yeah, we don't know what about. That's a good thing about waffle house. You can commit like several felonies and you're probably fucking fine. Well, except for one story that I'm gonna tell you today, because several felonies were allegedly talked about and potentially almost committed.
There's just something about waffle House that brings out the best in people. So I'm gonna start the went off because I kind of have to. There's there's very few people that are better than Ted Tom here in my waffle house story, and the one is our Lord and Savior kid fucking rock Yep, how'd I know that was the one that you brought up? On October twenty first, two thousand and seven musician Dash God, that's what it says. I'm not making that up. Kid Rocks tour us stopped at the waffle House
after performance in downtown Atlanta. It's always Georgia. Always. That is this consistent theme, and the research I've done for waffle House is always fucking Georgia. What is going on at the Georgia waffle House? Guys? Are you okay? I've driven through Atlanta a handful of times, always at night, and there's always a fifty percent chance that I'm going to see some sort of apocalyptic event on the Driving through Atlanta is like the worst times in my life.
Never, I don't know, it's It's waffle House has like a pheromone that just out your inner double wide and you can't help it. But they had to show ass. So while at the restaurant, Kid Rock got into a heated argument with another customer, Harlan Atkins. The disagreement soon turned into a brawl outside of the waffle house. Rock insisted Atkins insulted a member of
his entourage. Well. Atkins maintained that he was speaking to the woman about a text message and phone call he received from her, so I know the backstory, but I'm gonna finish this and I'll tell you the full story,
because of course this is the one that I know all about. Yeah, Atkins is on record saying I just don't even know what I said to him to start him jumping on me. Rock said he only verbally, not physically attacked Atkins, but was arrested hour An hour later, he was sentenced to a year's probation, six hours of anger management, find a thousand dollars, had to do eighty hours or community service. Three years after the incident,
Atkins won forty thousand dollars from rocking company and punitive damages. So there's more to this than this. And I can tell you this because I watched a fucking unhinged Kid Rock. I've seen all of them. No one can send me a Kid Rock performance or interview I haven't seen. When I tell you I know my Rock, I'm oh, there's just something and and the thing is like it's I like, I loved Kid Rock before the politics, and to this day, I'm adamant that picture by Cheryl Crow and Kid Rock will
play at my wedding. Yeah, as an argument we've been having for years and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna now, not even an argument. It's just a it's a it's a fucking fact. Okay. So the backstory to this, So the guy was making lewd comments towards this woman, who I'm pretty sure was like a groupie situation if I remember, if my memory serves, Kid Rock told him to stop like four times. According to the waitress, who we all know waffle house waitresses are the best witnesses, said that.
In fact, Kid rockets said like, hey, knock it off. I'm gonna knock your block off, like fucking quit. That dude then insulted his music, and then all hell broke loose. According to the waitress, kid Rock punched him in the side of the head and then drug him outside and beat the fucking breaks off of him. And Kid Rocks the guy I never I never touched him, but like everyone else in the waffle house, like, no, you beat the shit out of him. We saw it
happen. Well, if that was the case, why didn't the guy sue for physical damage? Well? I think he tried, but no one would admit that he did it. Let's be honest, are you really going to side against kid Rock in a waffle house. There are certain lines you don't cross as an American. There's like a few like lines of treason. That's that's at the very top. Jesus Christ. Okay, go ahead, what do you got? Woman strips down before punching another in the face and kinnessau
Georgia. I mean that could happen anywhere, though, Why did she strip down? A woman walked into a waffle house, stripped down and started to throw plates at the windows. She even went as far as to punch an other customer in the face, breaking her nose. Police how to use a stunned gun to stop the woman. She was charged with several misdemeanors, including assaulting the police officers. But it doesn't say why. Okay, so let's
let's break this down. What would possibly motivate me to go into a waffle house and start throwing stuff? They're playing Picture Good rockets Share. If someone on what's it called touch tunes? Yeah, if someone on touch tunes paid to skip my kid Rock, I'm probably going to jail. Okay, let's assume that's what happened and we'll just move on. Okay, speaking of altercations, did you see that video this went around about a year ago of the
chair being thrown at the waffle House brawl. This woman is like arguing with somebody directly in front of her, and then there's a fight that breaks out to the right of her. In a fucking chair WWF style comes across the room. She one hand catches it and throws it back. Yep, proceeds to get fired. Yeah, then such bullshit. I think she got her job back though after media. I mean, you would hope so, and you would hope that she'd be like at like the instructor at the waffle House
Self Defense League. Okay, if there's not a waffle House fight club, I'm very disappointed there's that. Don't talk about it. And then please tell me you saw there's a vine. This was twenty fifteen where there's two I was. I think it was a cook and a waitress beating the shit out of each other, and the guys just in there. Can I get a waffle? And you can see your boom boom boom. This one's bashing. She's bashing her fucking head against the like the like reserving area, and he's
like, can I get a waffle? Can I please? Just get a waffle and she's beating the shit out of this woman. Yeah, yeah, I wonder if if like they have a waffle house equivalent in the UK. They have no Australia. Probably the UK, I don't think so. I don't think the UK has anything fun. Okay, okay, a driver Okay, we're gonna continue with Georgia. A driver crashed straight through the wall of
a waffle house and noon and Georgia. Fortune smiled on the patron of this waffle house, though luckily no one was sitting in the booth the car crashed into. The police chief reported, I looked up like the actual full report. Unfortunately, most of these news articles have been taken down because they're pretty old. This guy went to go pick up his last paycheck on Friday. They didn't have the check, so he went out to his car and crashes
into the waffle house. Understandable response. It was Thursday. They let him go for using certain products on the job, so this dude was blitzed out of his fucking head. Thought it was Friday. Said I'm getting my last check. I don't have it, so than the appropriate response was I'm gonna crash my fucking suburban in the waffle house. Oh god, see that. That's the thing is I do know this little bit of waffle house knowledge.
So they make they purposely make the waffle house smaller, so you'll never see a large waffle house anywhere. It's by design. I just watched a video on waffle house. This isn't my subconscious Actually this is. This came from multiple places, but it's smaller and condensed to give it that nineteen forties diner field. That's the whole reason of the design of the boost so close together. And it's actually funny. The reason there's no dividers between booths is to
encourage patrons to have a conversation with one another. I don't think they just the byproduct of those patrons are going to beat the shit out of each other. But yeah, so it's it's by design. But you would think, like, with the money they're saving by making the locations small, bulletproof glass, some vibranium walls, something, there's got to be something more they can do for the defensive structure of waffle house. What's the percentage of waffle houses
built two waffle houses being torn down or driven through? I wonder, well, I don't think that waffle houses get torn down. I think they just they fly off to that great waffle maker in the sky and another one pops up. It's like dollar generals, they just just does the great was it the orca? Not orca orca whale? It but flying bird thing? What's it called? The Harald? The herald? The stork, the s the Harald? What are you on? The stork? That's how that's the next
T shirt? Right there? A stork flying in a fucking waffle house with a UFO behind it. That's the next shirt. Right. Oh my god, I love waffle house so much. There's now we can all agree that no matter if your upper class lower middle class, we're all the same when people when it comes to waffle house. Here's the thing about waffle houses,
and I've been in this situation. You can have a homeless guy with no pants on at one end of the bar and a guy with a fucking rolex sitting next to you, and then you in the middle, and everyone's eating a waffle or some hash browns. We're all family. It doesn't matter where you come from until you start talking, and then you start fighting. It's
like the do It's like to talk about drive through at two am. You can have a fucking like two thousand and one Honda Civic with no catalytic converters has been sold four times behind a fucking Bentley And we're all here for one thing, and it's the live moss. Okay, continue. The next one I got is workers found man living on a waffle house roof. I can think of no better place to live. It's flat, it's super flat. You get, you get the waff of waffles, waffles and wensty cigarettes and
disappointment and disappointment. An air conditioning repairman went up on a waffle house roof to perform some maintenance, but he came across something more than just a broken air conditioner. He found a makeshift home someone had made for themselves on top of the roof. But it doesn't say where how much you wanted beds in Georgia? Does it say what year? This was? No? Okay, I did not know that that's something to be afraid of, right? So
what was that movie we watched recently about the airbnb? What was it called Babylon or Monster? Uh? I know what you're talking some movie on HBO Max or just Max. Now that's that's it's got the guy who plays Pennywise in it. Anyway, not relevant. Underneath there's like this like giant catacomb tunnel thing. Anyway, I went down this rabbit hole about a week ago, give or take, and I found out Barbarian Barbarian, that's what it
was called. I was close with Babylon. There's this problem in the South, specifically in Florida, and there's all it's actually funnily enough, and I know the reason why. It's in North Carolina where they have these people who come like the seasonal homes, right yeah, where people are breaking in and squatting. So squatting is nothing new. You see videos all the time someone like taking possession of a residence because someone fucking moved out or got foreclosed on.
This is worse. There's this like rash and it's been it's been happening for years, but like twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three, it ramped up where people are breaking in and making makeshift homes inside of the homes and living there, like the Florida Leafers will come up in North Carolina and they don't know there the entire time. There was one uh is it Gainsboro,
North Carolina, something Borough, North Carolina. This sixty five year old man and his I think it was like a forty eight year old wife come up from Florida. They had it wasn't a time shore. I think they owned the home in North Carolina, but they only come up during the yeah leaf for time. So they were there for a month, maybe month and a half, and they were getting ready to move back to Florida. The entire time, they thought they were hearing rats in the walls. They couldn't figure
it out. They had two exterminators come out, they couldn't figured out. They called. They end up calling animal control. Animal Control comes out and was like, hey, this like, you can't call us for this. It's not fucking Florida. Don't call us again. Yeah. While they're there, they hear it and the guy's like, yeah, that's not a rap. I don't know what the what the what is this? So he sits there and they have the garage door open. As they're standing there, a
hole opens up in the drywall. The guy had had this like makeshift ladder set up this homeless guy, and the ladder broke and he caught himself by punching through the drywall as Animal Control standing right there. He had been living there for four years. The guy had owned the house for six. Oh my god, this is the kicker. He was having mail delivered to the back door, so he quite literally would come downstairs once they want to sleep,
and he had something. I don't know how this is set up with the mail company, but they were sticking it underneath the welcome mat of the back door what and they were just letting it happen. So I don't know if North Carolina is just like super chill with their mail company, because I
don't think that would fly here in Ohio. No. But yeah, that's how they figured out who was there for four years, because they found like medical bills and stuff dating back four years that were like unopened and addressed to
that address. Oh my god, tell me that's not fucking terrifying. Well, the the housing situation in North Carolina, specifically western North Carolina, is horrible, and part of that A large part of that is due to leaver some people from Florida we call them Floridians, but they buy up these homes, only live in them for a month or two for fall, or for summer for what have you, mostly fall, and then the rest of the time they sit empty, when that home could be a rental for someone in
need, who actually needs housing year round, who has a job in the area. So it's a pretty While touristing does bring money to the economy down there, it's a very huge trade off that isn't always worth it. You could have homeless people living in those houses. You're saying that, so if they put that warning for all the Florida but no, So I look into this, and this is happening all over the country. There's a rash for them, happening in Denver, Colorado, Aspen, Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
It's happening all over the country. And people are like figuring out how to shimmy into walls because apparently it's something with like modern construction doesn't have as thinner walls, or maybe it's it's something there's not as much filament in the walls. I don't know how that works, but there's something to do with modern construction makes this ten times easier to like move in between a house basically completely fucking unchecked. So now every time we get in an airbnb and I
hear like any kind of a noise. I'm going to a second guess if it's a person just like that, I ruined their BnB market for every listener. Yeah you're welcome. Okay, what else we got about waffle house? Waffle House employee tries to be a superman and goes on the ride of his life. All right, I know exactly what happened, all right, tell me, meth no, that's all I got. That's as far as my brain would allow me to get. Three teenagers left waffle house without paying.
Instead of taking the loss, one waffle house employee decided to chase after the car. He jumped on the hood of the car and managed to dial nine one one, even after the car had reached sixty miles per hour sixty or sixteen sixty six zero. He's getting that, that guy, right, that's Johnny. Johnny's been there fourteen years, passed up for assistant manager nine times. He's not about to make it ten. Holy shit? Is there anything in this world I care about enough to jump on a sixty mile an hour
moving car. I don't know, Kid Rock, I think it's that's about it. I do that. I do that for Kid Rock. Yeah, we'll still and kidnap me how fast? Okay about forty five? Forty five I'll save you pass that. I still have to pull out of the waffle house parking lot. Mine he was holding on while they reached sixty miles. I just I can't imagine. So they had to reverse out of the parking of I mean, there's just so okay, the logistics of this make my
fucking head hurt. Well, they probably bagged out and then he jumped on the hood as they were backing out. They tried to sweal out of the parking lot. Okay, So you're familiar with like the the stolen valor videos on YouTube, right, Yeah, so I've seen it with military, Like it was like a pretty popular YouTube trend to like out these guys. I don't see it much in law enforcement, which makes this next story ten times
funnier. Okay. A man storm into a waffle house in Statesboro, Georgia, Oh my god, Georgia and demanded a discount because he was, as he claimed, a detective. Detectives work hard, and hard workers deserve discount waffles, right, that was his reasoning. When he did not get the discount, he punched the cook in the face and left. He was arrested about I think it said a week later. Let me see, six days later he was arrested. He was a security guard. Oh my god,
that is like the most security guard thing I've heard all night. Let me let me, let me let you guys in on a little secret about the security industry you guys have. There are two types of security guards. The ones who don't want to work a factory. Those are the good ones for the most part. Then you have the ones who can't get into the police academy for one reason or another. And those are the paple arts. And they are not You can't tell them they're not cops because they have a license.
In a fucking story, they will citizens arrest your ass and a heartbeat. Yep. I've had a few of these over the years, but the worst one ever I had to go up at a previous company to the Lima Mall. Now, for those of you aren't familiar, so so Austin can kind of back this up. Lima is not known to be a great place to just exist. The Lima Mall is even worse. So I went up
there and I think I had to go check guard cards. Guard cards are our licenses and I was just checking to see as everyone still in date and they don't need to do pictures, so on and so forth, uniforms stuff that I get up there and this guy walks up to me because I think they were they were either no, I got there right before they opened. I think you weren't in uniform. You. I don't think you had your shirt on. And he has his hand up and he's walking sixty feet away
with his hand up to image that sixty feet away. And this dude is power walking. And again, I'm a big guy, so I can say that he was. He was three forty three sixty in a sch medium. He wasn't equipped for what was going to happen. And he is running with his hand up as I'm trying to open the door. He gets to the door and he kicks it, rattles the door, and I'm like, what the fuck and he's telling me he get back back civilian. I was like, oh my god. So I end up going back to the car.
I call his boss and they said, yeah, that's so, and so he's not armed, and I'm like, he has a holster. I'm a little fucking nervous. This dude is clearly unhinged. I get let in talking to everyone. Everyone else is normal, like a ten person staff. Nine of them were perfectly like normal. Bro down with you. The manager had a Paul Blart like shrine in his office, which I thought was the coolest
thing ever. And this guy walk and he goes, I hated to do that to you, but you know, we got some shady folks in this area. And then he proceeds to grab his radio, like his little radio microphone. Yeah, copy walks away. As he's walking away, the manager looks me dead in the face and says, yeah, he doesn't have a radio. Apparently he does that whenever, like people are getting rowdy in the mall, you know, the what I can't what they used to call the
kids and the balls back in the day. But he will grab this radio to call for back up when actually he's like on his cell phone in his pocket, putting it on speaker phone and pretending it's it's attached to a radio. The other guards had radios. They took his away because apparently every five six minutes and the food court over, yep, we got we got three young men blue jeans over all day long, apparently, and they couldn't fire
him because he had been there like longer than the contract existed. He was a legacy hired that they couldn't get rid because he wasn't technically doing anything wrong apart from being like really extra fucking terrible person. Anyway, I hope that young man's doing well, and just uh, if you, if you got security, please don't do that. Thirteen bucks an hour is not worth it.
It's not you just just dial it back some. I had to, you know, Pepper in these stories because we did that security guard horror stories, and we had so many security guards reach out like, hey, that's Jimmy. I know who this story was about. And I'm not even I'm not even from I'm from fucking Hawaii, Jimmy. Everyone has a Jimmy at their job site, and unfortunately, most Jimmy's work in security. That's that's how this works. But okay, what's let's let's bring it back. The
waffle house Reddit was born in waffle House, all right. I think Huddlehouse is probably the better. If I had to, yes, I think huddle House might have just dethroned they did exactly without waffle House, Reddit might not have never been born. Co founder Alex o'haneyan walked out of his l SAT prep course and went to a waffle house for food. He then realized he did not want to be a lawyer and wanted to do something else. Then Reddit was born. That's it, that's the origin story. Okay, I
mean, we gotta get one pass. I guess. I don't know. I don't know. That might be unforgivable. Where it was four chand made like a dairy queen. Why, I don't know. Anyway, near Memphis, a waffle house employee stood up to a would be robber and emerged victorious. The employee thought the gun was plastic, called the man's bluff, refused to open the register, and the man began beating on the register with his fist until police arrived. So I've got to know, does waffle house have
a panic button? They can't, honestly, I don't think, because you know, can you imagine how many times that would be pressed tonight? Yeah? Yeah, Actually, just put it. Put a cruiser, a permanent cruiser outside exactly. Just put the waffle house next to the police station. That's okay, partner with the police. Okay, So, so now we're back to more waffle house videos. There's one nake in the rounds right now where this woman is clearly fucked up. Okay, when I now, when
I say, you guys know my history. I I've been around my fair share of illegal substances as a child. I've seen the effects that drugs have. One something I have never This woman was like full backbend but still standing like that exorcist, and she's reaching for the fucking grill. Oh I think I've seen this video. It pans over to the employee of the month picture and it's fucking her. How bad is your waffle house? That fl Frieda?
That fucking fentanyl Frieda is like employee of the month. I'm not making fun of the drug problem. I know it exists, but it's funny when it's a waffle house. It is when it's on public display. You have to laugh because you know she still has a job. Yep, she still works there. You know for a fact. She came back in for a double later that night. I just I felt so bad and people to come much like I think she's just sleeping. When was the last time you were
that tired? I don't know, I had a couple of friends work at waffle House and it's it's bad. There was a lot of training that goes into being a waffle House server. Number one Brazilian jiu Jitsu, Yeah, number two, Karate, number three, Armed Forces Special Ops, the US Army Rangers School. That's that's the assistant managers. Enough they get a ranger school. Yeah, exactly. I don't think I've known anyone who's had the honor of working, but I would say I'm a little disappointed actually in our
country for more reasons than our obvious. I think Thanksgiving today parade, when they have the veterans come out, let's put waffle House employees at the front. Just one year again, I can say this, It's okay, you know. I just think that we need to really be giving back to the pillars of our community. Waffle House. I mean, without anyone who comes to visit America, if you don't go to a waffle house, you don't
truly experience the fear. Now you can go. There are a few places that's pure Americana steak and shake that's been open for way too long, like way too long. Like I'm not talking like the ones that like go down and then reopen every couple of months. I mean, like the ones that have been there for like fourteen years. More than that, you've never seen more than two or three people in there at once. You know, it's
definitely a drug front. Those that's pure Americana. And then waffle house is just where you go if you don't have all your teeth or if you don't want to, that's a good place to go. Yeah, all right, what else do we got in the waffle house bench here, Miss Britney. All right? So the next one I'm gonna cover is actually got me a longer one because the second I saw this, I couldn't believe that this actually
happened. So what hang on? I hate, I hate to interrupt, but I have to tell this one right after the one I just told real fast, Okay, go ahead, So last story would be robber was thwarted by fitting all freedom in this one. A robbery in Atlanta at the Atlanta waffle House. Damn it, Atlanta. So here, up to this point, we've been acting of the assumption that waffle House isn't the classiest of joints. Let me tell you why you're wrong. And Atlanta waffle House was robbed
in the heigh. It reached heist status in Georgia when the stick up yielded forty thousand dollars in jewelry. What who the fuck it's wearing that much jewelry or that expensive jewelry waffle, It's got to be an accident. So one thought they had a fake rolex. I refuse to believe anything else happened. Or it was the Sunday Grainnies waffle. What is it about? I don't know if this is where you came from, you know, in your hold On town. But okay, no, I don't you think Sydney, Ohio?
Is I remember going to church one one in the pearls where pearls a big deal. Yes, I don't know where those went because suddenly no one wears pearls anymore. But it used to be like a who had the bigger and shinier pearl contest at church? Yea? And they would always like group up in these little like granny semicircles where you knew if someone came in there were fakes, they were going to be outed in front of the entire congregation. Yeah, oh God, bless you. How Debbie, she must be
home hard times because I can tell those are fakes. I know porcelain when I see it, and that's porcelain. Oh God, bless her soul. Oh poor Jimmy must have gotten a little bit, must have gotten laid off. It's okay, though, Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what it was about the mid nineties and pearls. Yeah, no, I that's the string of threes that was the most popular one. We need to do an episode on dead trends, and it's all just gonna be shit.
I'member my childhood the same. Okay, well, wait, okay, I know you have another story, but I we talked about this the other night, and I have to ask my other nineties kids. Okay, I don't remember what we talked about. Keep this is not garbage pail kids. So before someone, I can already hear Facebook, it's not garbage pail kids. There was a toy sets and this would have been I would say late nineties, early two thousands, maybe mid two thousands. I don't actually I'm not
good with time. Um. There were these little toys. They were about i'd say eight inches tall, and they were plastic, but when you squeeze them, they would have a horrible scent, and there was like I think, like vomit and earwax and stuff. My dad got me a skunk one as a kid. He had black hair with like a silver streak. Who knew I was going to grow up to have a silver streak in my hair? That was you know, little it's all silver, silver fox. It's
it's yeah, thirty, I'm thirty and I look seventy three. You don't day anyway? Does anyone remember what those toys were called? And if so, can someone send me one to the po box? Dear God, do not send it. I swear to God, I need about four of them. No, you don't. I have plans. I cannot tell you guys what it is. The haters will slamtage me. But I have plans. No I I we talked about the other night because there was a skunk in
the backyard and I've been racking my fucking brain. I when I look up like skunk kids online, I just find a bunch of like, really means, what are threats? So like if someone, if someone knows what this is, let me know, because I know Terrence is gonna know. Yeah, someone's gonna know, And they're gonna have had the same one. Like, yeah, I used to smell that thing all the time. I did too, So it's okay, skunks smell different up here than they do in
the South. We talked about this too. I don't think you just ever. I don't think you ever smell skunk before I think against Okay, Okay, Nectar of the Gods continue, No, all right, so this next one you gotta prepare for. Okay, elderly men meet at local waffle house to conspire against the government. One more time for the folks in the back. Elderly men meet at local waffle house to conspire against the government. I mean, if you're gonna do it, and I mean it, birth,
thread it and read it is going to be the downfall of humanity. I'm on record. I'm on record saying that multiple times over. What was the threat that they were going to Four men, all over the age of sixty five were caught at their local waffle house conspiring against the government. The group's meeting spot was the local waffle house, where they talked about blowing up the
government and murdering masses of people with poison. Okay, first off, the government's not just a building like you can't just go to you can't put the government And where do you think this was? Georgia had toko Georgia. Okay, so let's let me let me back. Okay, so let me ask you a quick question. If you're going to do a crime, allegedly,
no, no, no, not allegedly. If you're going to do a crime, sixty five is a good time to do it, like you don't have a lot of good time left all l let's just be honest for legal reasons. This is a joke, says you. I would say, yeah, sixty five is a good point to do some high trade. And you're on a wash list. I've been on that list. No, but I think at like sixty five, all the good in your life's pretty much gone.
All right, we're done. We're done, you know. And what are they gonna put a six you're gonna go to you know, to jail for life? What three years? Okay, it's fine. You have a much more cynical view on life than a lot of other people. And we're gonna continue, gentlemen, We're gonna blow up the government. They were gonna go to the government's house and just hit him with a glow. Twenty five killed nuke shriek. It's gonna be bad. Okay. What was their reasoning?
Um, No one's senior citizen taxas. Let me tell the story. I can tell you it went from sixteen to twenty dollars a month. I gotta know. Okay. So at the waffle house in Georgia, it's t occa. I don't know how to pronounce that. No one could believe that gray haired men who came in almost daily for their egg sandwiches and coffee would have been terrorists plotting to blow up government buildings and murder masses of people.
They were blown up that bathroom with eggs, sandwiches and coffee using poison from a bean plant that people in that rural part of the state grow to ward off moles. This is the best fucking story we've ever told on this. This is dB tuber. Okay. So the four men were accused of conspiracy and maybe linked in loose association of a fringe militia group targeting a government that they believe is out of control. This is in two thou eleven. I want you to keep that in mind as I read this. Okay, So
two eleven. What was happening in two thousands? It was right after the recession. I thought the world was pretty good. I didn't I didn't have a house, though I have nostalgia glasses. I graduated and ten and then it all went downhills. I guess two thousand and eleven one wasn't that good. Okay, So there were three men, Dan Roberts, Ray Adams, and Samuel Crump, age sixty seven, age sixty five, and age sixty eight. The men were arrested in their homes by a wave of federal agents.
So big, it's stunned people in the mountain town of about twenty seven thousand people. That's about how many people lived in that town. Okay, So, friends, family, and members of the waffle house waitresses who fed them in regularly either dismissed the plot as a bunch of old men just talking and trying to be big shots, or they said they'd simply fallen in with bad people. Okay, let me ask you. So you worked at a dime. I was literally just about to say, with every old man and
there wanted in your pants. Let's just be honest, every single one of them. Did you ever hear of a plot overthrow, no big North Carolina. I mean all the days dumbest shit you heard in there, though I didn't really listen to him that much. I mean, they just talked about farming, and they talked about what equipment they were going to get the problem. No one pays attention to old people. This could be like a fucking
problem, This could be a problem. They talked about farming, and they talked about what they were gonna do when they got back up on the hill, and that was it. They talked about auctions, cattle auctions. Yeah, I'm sure cattle auctions, weapons, mass destruction with That's exactly what it is. Ussein's right hand man right there in fucking rural western North Carolina. Mister Adams, who worked for the Federal Department of Agriculture growing crops for research,
was described as a compassionate man. He was friends with everybody. I guess to a fault, said at Ed Adams, which is older brother, mister Adams is Ray Adams. Yeah, raise a compassionate man. He is not political at all. I doubt he even knows who is running for president. Okay, as part of this groom, All right, Okay, so mister Adams, who played sena for a local mason's order he belonged to, had moved back to North Georgia Woods where he grew up about three years before
this. Okay, so he's a freemason, straight and strike. After his marriage ended, he had a daughter who was studying law enforcement in Atlanta. His small house along a dirt road showed sides of the raid. Agents had broken through his front window. The doors to his house were hanging open, light still on a search warrant in charging papers had been placed in the pile
of clutter for evidence. Investigators pulled from the driveway with a few dozen castor bean plants that they were believed to be the raw material for the biological toxin risen, which can be fatal if ingested even a small rice poisoning. Yeah, ricing, I'm sorry. Oh shit, these guys were big time. Are you being sarcastic? Right? Why do you say that? Because riceing's
been used in like a lot of high profile shit. Mister Adams last year had planted some in his mother's yard to help keep the moles away, and it offered some to the neighbors as an ornamental plant. Okay, I'm trying to kill the neighbors. I think those darncaster beams are his biggest problem, his brothers said. Agents also pulled about a dozen guns from the house,
along with notebooks, toxic plant guides, and knives. Prosecutors said the government said that on more than twenty occasions between March and October of twenty eleven. I'm assuming yeah, FBI informants recorded the men's conversations in this wall flouse. Okay, so waffle house is no longer a safe space, got it? The plot began, Court paper said with a meeting at mister Thomas's house,
he asked the men if they were committed to the plan. Mister Adams said, I'd say the first ones that need to die are the ones in the government buildings. Okay. During another conversation, mister Thomas is quotas saying as he made a bucket list of government employees, politicians, business leaders, and members of the media that needed to be taken out to make the country right again. Okay, so this is my this is Daddy Bob's one bit of
advice to all the criminals who listen to our show. Don't make a fucking list of anything ever. Just don't. There's no way for US militiamen to save this country, to save Georgia without doing something that's highly, highly illegal
murder, he said, America America. Apparently, so, mister Adams and mister Crumb, who once worked as electricians, were allegedly trying to figure out how to turn the beans into poison that they would fling from their car as they drove along the Interstate on the Eastern Seaboard and in Atlanta and New Orleans. Okay, we need to so all this started at a waffle house. So their plan was just to throw the beans out and hope they hit the government. I mean, no is the answer, but that's my takeaway.
Yeah, okay, so they went to jail I'm assuming I'm assuming yes, for the last three years of their life, because that's all they really had left. Yeah. Okay, Wow, I'm trying to process this in my brain and think, is there anything I've ever been passionate enough to form a militia about the price of kid Rock tickets? That's it. That's about it. Well, they were actually connected loosely to the militia that they were talking about, had a website. It's called um Georgia Militia is the group that
they were very very specific. That's that's some creative thinking in that babble house. But the militia's website had images of automatic weapons, links to tea party websites, conspiracy theories ranging from what really happened within Roun to who the Illuminati are? Okay, there's nothing wrong with conspiracy theories. We have got to stop that stigma. The site list as Captain Dan Roberts as the contact for
the four hundred and fortieth squad of the Georgia Militia. All right, there's a lot of give you guys, the criminals who listen to the show a second bit of advice. Don't make websites about your crimes. What There are a few things like, Okay, I live at one two three Bullard. Yeah, like here's my home address. May or may not have automatic weapons. Here's a picture of me holding one in my living room. Doesn't mean
I have it. Oh, I'm sorry, I am fucking flabbergass. I got, I got, I got a couple more to give you, but nothing tops the fucking Grandpa Militia taking down big government with soybeans. Yeah, that was their plan. Though, that they were legitimately going to throw rice and out of their car vehicles or out of their vehicles on the interstate at at the government, at the government. That is fucking incredible, and it
would have worked, wasn't for those pesky waffle house waitresses. Okay, all right, I got I got two more than one, slightly longer one. I'm gonna let you end it out. That's that's all for me. This one just says, what did you do today, honey? Oh, not much. I fell asleep at the wheel, woke up, freaked out because the police were there, and then began a high speed chase and to get
the waffle house. If you're gonna come out, you might as well get a waffle And then it says an eighty three year old man and miramar Am I M Jesus m I R A m R. Beach, Florida was believed to be to be missing. Okay, I want to second to be missing for more than a day, and he was actually just at the waffle house. Ah. I mean, there's not I mean, unless you're trying to overthrow the government, there's not like a much better place to spend your time
in Florida. Okay, all right, last one I got here and this one I read. I had to read this twice. The man who robbed a waffle house, okay, makes sense. With a fucking pitchfork? Ah, how did that? How did that fit through the door? So okay, this gentleman, it just I think it just has him by his last name. Woton was wearing coveralls, a ski mask and carried the pitchfork when he entered the Buford Highway breakfast Eatery and Norcross, Georgia, Georgia. Are
you okay, Georgia? Seriously, you guys? All right? Actually I got one more whenever, When he realized he couldn't get the cash register open, he took the whole cash register and exited the store with his pitchfork. You gotta keep it for ransom. Wooton then ditched the weapon as he scdaddled out of there. I love it. That's a real This is a news website, and this is a Georgia news website that used the term skidaddled out of there, but two restaurant employees grabbed it and used it to smash the
back window of Wootton's truck. It's a superman. Okay. Wooten then ditched the weapon as he scdaddled out of there, but two restaurant employees grabbed it and used it to smash the back window of his truck. The police later detained Wooton and justice was pitched. I mean served, this is a real news website right here, journalism. Why did they break the window so they can identify the truck easier? I don't want to know what kind of blood
oath are waffle house employees? Is that? Like? This is the cult? Is this the end of the line? Like they know that after waffle house they have to go work at McDonald's. Like, what what is possessing this these people to take such drastic action? It's a cult. I'm telling you, sign me up. Okay, you got the last one here. Then clowns beat up boy at a local waffle house. A fucking course they
did, because why why wouldn't they? Members of the Insane Clown Posse were arrested at an Indiana waffle house for beating up an eighteen year old guy. They can only assume the guy told the clowns how ridiculous they looked, and they quickly wiped those painted smiles off their faces. Well, first and foremost, woot woot. You don't uh, you don't mess with the Juggalo family. Okay, no, um, I have a long violent history with insane
clown boss. That's a whole other conversation. I'm no longer I'm no longer addled, Just so everyone, I'm recovered. But okay, because you have to assume they went in there were shaggy too, dope, violent jay went in there with their face paint on, and then someone thought it was a good idea, this eighteen year old boy to insult two great men actually members of the insane clown posse. Oh my god, Yes, that's what I'm
saying. I thought it was just like fans. I mean that they don't get me starting with fans that they're they're they're labeled a gang legitimately, like legally they're a gang. Yeah, but concerts, so I can I can attest. I just want to say, you saw two grown men walk in with face paint and said that's that's who I'm gonna pick on, like they
was about pre or post like clown what year? It doesn't say, Okay, I wonder if this is pre your post clown ud be pre clown, yeah, pre clown sent Yeah. I just love the because the thing is like, you were tough until you got beat up by a clown at the waffle that's your legacy, that's in your permanent record. If that guy goes to run for like local office, it's like he didn't need your ask me by a clown government. That's all you have to do. That's probably why
those old men it's all one full circle. Okay, that's fucking incredible. All right. Well that being said, uh, last thing is to tie up here getting at us on Pokemon. Go send us presence. We'll send you presence, send us in your listener stories. We'll have that up maybe this week, maybe next week, depends on how many stories we get. Yeah, support your local waffle house. They are I'm telling you, these young women and men at this waffle house tonight. Oh yeah, let me
let me tell you. I was about to throw my fucking burke. I understand waffle house rage. I get it now. So there was these these girls at the high at this high top table. They weren't like being louder obnoxious that I think they were like high schoolers. Yeah, like while we were in there. They weren't being louder obnoxious, but they all ordered like chocolate milk and I don't know what all specialty stuff. Yeah, and then they like went out to their car, came back paid, didn't tip the
woman at all, And they had been there. I heard little bits of the conversation. They had been there for like hours, a long time, getting refills and taking up this woman's time. Didn't tip her, so we we gave her a good tip. But like, don't do that to these people, because when the world collapses and FEMA comes looking, that's who's taking care of you and your children. Yeah, I'm pretty sure whenever my friend I got hired at waffle house, I'm pretty sure the wage was two thirteen
an hour, two dollars and thirteen cents. And explaining this real fast, because we have a bunch of people, for some fucking reason, from countries that like English is not their primary language. Explain to them tipping culture, because that's something we've been asked about before, and I always forget to explain, like tipping culture. Okay, So we have two different minimum wages. So we have a minimum wage for hourly services, and that is a non
usually a non tipping culture. And I'm pretty sure in Ohio it's eight twenty five unless it got I think it's I think it's opped. But yeah, back when I was working, it was seven twenty five an hour. Like when I was working at minimum wage, it was seven twenty five in North Carolina. So you have the minimum wage for hourly employees, and then you have tipped employees. Minimum wage which is two dollars and thirteen cents is the
minimum believe it was in North Carolina. So that's your guarantee take home correct if no one gives you an extra money. So when it comes to tipped employees like your servers, you will typically their hourly wage is only there to cover the taxes. So when they get their way clear your bi weekly check, their hourly wage is all going to go to um their count their states taxes, basically in counties taxes, so basically they get no money if you
don't tip them. So that is that the tipping culture here in America is it solely relies on customer tips to feed to the mouth of our servers for them to survive. Basically. Yeah, yeah, it's such a bizarre thing because I've we've I've I've like read comments and see people and being like, hey, I don't understand this whole giving people tips thing. I think we've only talked about like once or twice, like the three years of the show.
And it's such a weird thing because guess I don't think about other countries that that's just not Yeah, they don't things work. It's actually insulting in Japan if you Yeah, I saw there's a woman on TikTok. I don't know her name, but she does like, um like things not to do in Japan. Yeah, they see it as a charity, like you think
that they need help and that's why you're giving them money. Yeah, And her whole TikTok account is like basically what not to do in your pain, And a big thing is tipping, and she explains that there are certain restaurants that allow you to tip the food preparer. Yeah, but there will be
like a sign out out front that say it. And I know there's a few of the countries that are like that that you you can tip the owner of the building for like having nice agriculture or having a nice architecture rather, but you don't tip anyone that works there like, it's like, hey, because they have survivable wages. Now, if you're doing catering and stuff like that, in the catering business, your servers are normally paid a higher hourly
rate because we do not rely. We didn't rely on tipping. Yeah, we are an hourly employee. We do a service for our hours basically like we don't. We aren't serving tables necessarily. We have a big plan that we do, but individual servers only get paid about two dollars an hour. Yeah, it's like I remember the very first time I heard about that, and I also gon get like a thirty one. I think it was my sister working at the work somewhere the spot, probably might have been at the
spot. I think she's a car hop at the spot and made like thirty one dollars on a two week paycheck. I was like, what the fuck is this? Yep, I would loose a full like a thirty hour per week. I think it was like one hundred and fifty one dollars total, and then after taxes you get like sixty bucks. Yeah enough to mate well depending on your car and nowadays maybe fill up gas to get you to in
from work. Yeah, So with that being said miss print, unless there's something else you'd like to add about waffle House being a absolute essential institution essential. No, how do you not? I think we're at to add this episode to our never ending but are always growing tails from the dark m