Teleporting is no fun.
I was gonna go to Waffle House
and get Waffle House. And I ended up at
a Waffle House.
Like 50 miles away.
— Joseph Tate
The title is from Gregg Phillips’ defense on Truth Social in March 2026 of a claim he made in January 2025 that God teleported him to a Waffle House. The text of the poem is transcribed from the podcast where he describes the teleportation. Phillips is currently head of the Office of Response and Recovery in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
