Show notes
**Title Suggestions**- Red Baron Stood Up for the Blue Collar Guy (And the Internet Lost Its Mind)- Employee of the Month: The Red Baron Pizza Guy Who Told the TikTok Pranksters to Kick Rocks- $400K for a Working Dad: How Red Baron Handled the Viral Prank the Right Way- The Overnight Shelf Stocker vs. the Content Creators (Spoiler: He Won)- FAFO for the Influencers: Red Baron Makes Their Employee Employee of the Month**Podcast Description**Clay digs into the viral clip of a Red Baron pizza employee stocking shelves overnight when a couple of content creators decide to mess with him. They film themselves pretending to Apple Pay him or steal $20, treating a working man like a prop for views. He’s got multiple kids at home (some adopted), a mortgage he can barely cover, and another shift starting in a few hours. He’s not laughing. He tells them straight: this isn’t a joke, his life is hard enough, and he doesn’t have time for their crap.The expected ending was the company hanging him out to dry and the store banning him. Instead, Red Baron posted that he’s still there, he’s got a fan club (including them), and he’s officially employee of the month. The post exploded past five million views. A GoFundMe for the guy cleared $400,000. The pranksters got ratioed and, by some accounts, lost their accounts.Clay’s take is simple: this is how you handle a controversy. Stand behind the person actually working. It isn’t left or right, Christian or anything else. It’s right and wrong. Hardworking people on the edge don’t need random influencers treating their job like a skit. If you’re buying grocery-store frozen pizza this weekend, Red Baron earned the business.

