1 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Bill Courtney with an army of normal folks. 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: And we continue now with part two of our conversation 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 1: with Tanya Ray Piper, right after these brief messages from 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: our general sponsors. So this first year, somebody's telling you, okay, 5 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: it's November. Pick the one. These are the three guys 6 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: who have birthdays, Three men or women who have birthdays 7 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: in November, and you just start making cakes. I just 8 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 1: thrown a. 9 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 2: Cake and I dropped it off at the front desk. 10 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 2: So probably six months in, one of a little volunteer says, oh, honey, 11 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 2: my back is bothering me so much. Could you just 12 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 2: take that cake back to the kitchen for me. I 13 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 2: don't want to watch it. It was a ways from 14 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 2: the front desk area back to the kitchen. I make sure. 15 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 2: So I took the cake. I dropped it off on 16 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 2: the kitchen encounter, I'm halfway down the hallway and literally 17 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 2: surrounded by nine men in uniforms, Hey are you the 18 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:08,279 Speaker 2: cake lady? 19 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: Oh you're kidding. They had no idea where it was 20 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:11,279 Speaker 1: coming from. 21 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 2: No, I mean, and that's that's my I mean, my 22 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 2: license plate says cake lady. I am the cake lady. 23 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: That's how you became cake lady. 24 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 2: That's how because of them are you or the are 25 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 2: you the cake lady. 26 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:33,960 Speaker 1: Looking over here, Belda? But the logo, sir, that is hilarious. 27 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: I have a small one for you, the cake Lady. 28 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 2: I am the cake Lady. 29 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: You're like officially a cake lady with your own environment 30 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: sticker and everything. 31 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, I had one of my clients. I brought you one. 32 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I love that. It says Kindness 33 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: Breeds Happiness Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven thirteen. And it's 34 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: like the crust that you see on the side of 35 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: a fire truck, and instead of it having like department 36 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: number or house number or engine number, it just has 37 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: cake Lady on it. In the kitchen aid mixer center 38 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: of it is a kitchen mixer, which is hilarious. I 39 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: love it all right. So they say, hey, are you 40 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: the cake Lady. You're surrounded by nine guys. 41 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 2: And he says. One of the guys goes, not that 42 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 2: we mind. We love what you're doing, but why are 43 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 2: you doing it? 44 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: That's a good question. I was going to ask the 45 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 1: same thing, and. 46 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 2: Well, you can't say, well, God told me to because 47 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 2: then they think you're crazy, right, So I said, I 48 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 2: like to bake what you guys, What you guys do 49 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 2: on a daily basis is amazing, and why not bake 50 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 2: for you instead of the women that get mad at 51 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 2: me when I'm baking for I'm at work, So that 52 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 2: in my mind that was why I was doing it. 53 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: That kind of makes sense. But the thing is, you're 54 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: standing on your feet all day doing hair. Then you 55 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 1: go home and you're standing on your feet and I know, 56 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 1: I've seen that cake cannot be easy to make and 57 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 1: it's really good. I mean how many hours. I mean 58 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: you're working your butt off doing those and then you 59 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: got to deliver them, I guess before work. So you 60 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: work all day, go home, make cakes all night, wake 61 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: up early, deliver the cakes, and then go to work. 62 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 2: It's a lot, it is, but I love every minute 63 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:29,519 Speaker 2: of it. Why so at the time, I just thought 64 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 2: it was a fun thing to do. My year was up. 65 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 2: I finally got a routine to where I knew when 66 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 2: the guys were working I had, I got the number 67 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 2: to the station I could actually talk to each individual. 68 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 2: Now with the administration stuff, it was about sixty eight 69 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 2: cakes a year, which sixty cakes a year. 70 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: That's like five that is, that's a little more than 71 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: five a month. 72 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 2: There's yeah, it was. 73 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: First year. 74 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 2: The first year I did that. When my year was up, 75 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 2: the guys go, hey, your year's up, what are you. 76 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: Going to do? 77 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 2: And I said, no, I just got my system down. 78 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 2: I mean, I have a routine. I'm really liking this, 79 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 2: so no, I'm not going to quit, so I am. 80 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 2: That went on for about six years and then there 81 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 2: was a merger happening with Lindwood Fire Department and department 82 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 2: called District one and District one in Linwood were merging 83 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 2: and it was going from my two lin Wood stations 84 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 2: and sixty eight firefighters to fifteen stations in three hundred 85 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 2: and fifty firefighters total. 86 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: So now you got to choose do I? I would say, 87 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: now you have to choose. 88 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 2: So, because I'm a hairdresser, occasionally there's some of the 89 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 2: guys will come in and get a haircut. One of 90 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 2: the guys he's a battalion chief now and he was 91 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 2: one of my lin Wood guys, and he goes, Johnny Ray, 92 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 2: you were the topic of conversation in our last meeting, Like, 93 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 2: oh lord, that does not sound good. He goes, yeah, 94 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 2: when we merge, we were talking about if we're not 95 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 2: at fifteen, were at station fifteen, we're not going to 96 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 2: get cake anymore. I'm like, Devo, what are you talking about. 97 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 2: Of course you'll get cake. I said, I don't care you. 98 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:22,239 Speaker 2: He goes, No, you can't do that. That's too much. 99 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 2: And I'm like, don't tell me what to do. I'll 100 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 2: do whatever I want. And I started thinking, I'm like, 101 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 2: I just I like to challenge myself, and I thought 102 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 2: this might be kind of fun to see. I thought, 103 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 2: the baking part is not going to be a problem. 104 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 2: I can do that, but the delivering I wasn't sure 105 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 2: how I was going to do with the delivering before work? 106 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: Can we get clear we're talking three hundred and. 107 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 2: Fifteen, three hundred and fifty firefighters, not that. Yeah, yeah, 108 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 2: sixteen stations and yes, three hundred and fifty firefighters. 109 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 1: That was then, and when did the start? 110 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 2: Six years ago? Okay, now I've been baking for fourteen years. 111 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:09,039 Speaker 2: I now bake for sixteen stations, four hundred and fifty firefighters, 112 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 2: plus all the girls at work, and last year I 113 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 2: made five hundred and ninety eight things. 114 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: That is in sane I'm slightly crazy. Yes, yeah, so okay, 115 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,279 Speaker 1: that's a that's a what kind of cake did you cream? 116 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: That's a cookies and cream cakes? Which is which is 117 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: a bun cancake cream and cookie icing, which is it's 118 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: really really good. M's stick my finger in it when 119 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 1: this is over again. But what other what. 120 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 2: Kind of I mean no, I have made things I've 121 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 2: never heard of before, like a peanut butter ducoa, what 122 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 2: is that? Opera cake layer, Russian honey cake. 123 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: Okay, they're getting spoiled. If these if these guys are 124 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: now ordering up these kind of cakes from you, they 125 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: are spoiled. So I have I would be like, you 126 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: get the cake. I'd be like the cake Nazi, you know, 127 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: like the soup Nazi. You want soup, you get the soup. 128 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: You want cake, you get this ca. I mean I 129 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: would actually tell them let them eat cake the cake 130 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: I make. 131 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 2: But see that that's that takes the personalization away from 132 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 2: it they want. 133 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: Well, I'm of course being facetious. It's just unbelievable that 134 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: whatever they want, whatever. 135 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 2: Cake, it doesn't have to be cake. I make cookies, cheesecake, pie, 136 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 2: you name it, I make it. If I've never if 137 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 2: I have never made it before, I find a recipe 138 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 2: and I or I like. 139 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: That coconut cream pie. 140 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 2: So now coconut cream pie. If it's a large station, 141 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 2: it comes in a nine x thirteen pan because it's 142 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 2: feeding nine men and not. I can't just take them 143 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 2: a little pie because it wouldn't be enough, So gosh, 144 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 2: double in and make it big. 145 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: Wow. 146 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 2: So some of the stations have eight to nine. The 147 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 2: majority of the stations are three men stations. 148 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: Do you before you deliver a first time cake, like, 149 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: make a prototype and taste it before you send it to. 150 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 2: Half of them I've never tasted. I just hope it's 151 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 2: okay if I've never made it before. McCay, could you 152 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 2: give me feedback and let me know if that was okay? 153 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: Do these guys get there and like the guy's birthday 154 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: or the lady's birthday who is four gets a piece 155 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: and everybody has just devours it? Oh? Yeah, do you 156 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 1: have the fattest group of our people in the United States. 157 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 2: When I get there, the guys are coming out of 158 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 2: the gym, they're all sweaty, and I'm like, oh, you're 159 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:45,079 Speaker 2: getting ready for cake? 160 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: Yeah? Sorry. 161 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 2: They give me a hugger. Sorry, I'm sweaty man. It's okay. 162 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 1: So you are now making about six hundred cakes pause 163 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: what ever a year? 164 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,839 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean for firefighters for about just over four 165 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 2: hundred and fifty. I do one cake or cookies or something. 166 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 2: For the administration. There's about fifty in admin. So once 167 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:18,559 Speaker 2: a month admin get something. When they had their own mechanics, 168 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:20,599 Speaker 2: once a month of mechanics would get some because you know, 169 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:24,559 Speaker 2: they're all part of the thing that buyer service. They 170 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 2: all make it happen. 171 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,439 Speaker 1: You've been a hairdresser for so many years, and I 172 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 1: imagine you have a massive loyal following and make a 173 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: great living doing it. There's some expense here, and I 174 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 1: mean just a few months ago, eggs doubled, so there 175 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: had to have been a lot I was, I bet 176 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: that was. I mean there's a lot of money. 177 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 2: Oh and I do a cookie of the month for 178 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 2: the clients at the salon too, of course you did 179 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 2: I do. Yeah, last month was scotch Us because there 180 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 2: was no eggs. 181 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:59,559 Speaker 1: What about the I mean, so got to be expensive. 182 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 2: Honestly, Bill, have no idea how much it cost me. 183 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 2: I don't want to know because it will probably have 184 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 2: a heart attack. The thing is when God tells you 185 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 2: to do something, the means to make it happen. Always. Always, 186 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,199 Speaker 2: I don't ever go without anything. I always have what 187 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:19,680 Speaker 2: I need. 188 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: Do you get donated as anybody? 189 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 2: Now? The Union occasionally will give me money, which is 190 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 2: wonderful but not expected, so I don't ever count on it. 191 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 2: They hadn't given me money in about three years, and 192 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 2: this last year they gave me a check for six 193 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 2: thousand dollars, which was very helpful because I needed a 194 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 2: new oven because mine was worn out. 195 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: So that's unbelievable that you make that many cakes and 196 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 1: deliver that many cakes. I mean, this is a you 197 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: were taking care of an entire county full of fire people. 198 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: Don't they have big, big kitchens in these firehouses? 199 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I cook in them all the time. 200 00:10:58,840 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 1: How does that work? 201 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 2: So in the beginning it was just cake, and then 202 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 2: you know, you get to after this many years, I've 203 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 2: built relationships with a lot of these men and women. 204 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 2: That cake is just the catalyst. Cake so much more 205 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 2: than cake. So Thanksgiving every year, I choose one of 206 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 2: the larger stations and I go in and I make 207 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 2: the full Thanksgiving dinner for them, so they can invite 208 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 2: their families and be with their families at Thanksgiving. I 209 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 2: usually have about twenty to twenty five people that come, 210 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 2: and I cook in their kitchens. They have amazing kitchens. 211 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: You're telling me. The guys that have to be on 212 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: shift during Thanksgiving, you go and cook for them and 213 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 1: their families so their families can come join them at work, 214 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: so their families are able to be together and have 215 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: a genuine Thanksgiving dinner together. 216 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 2: Yes, every Thanksgiving. That say for COVID, they wouldn't let 217 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 2: me go in they didn't care, but the administration said no, 218 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 2: I couldn't, so I had death. 219 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: That is phenomenal. You have to have an entire community 220 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: of people that adore you. 221 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 2: So I'll tell you a story. After COVID, Arcelon was 222 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 2: closed down for three months and I came back to 223 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 2: work and I don't do well sing idle, so I 224 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 2: but I told my boss. He said, lindsay, I just 225 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:32,560 Speaker 2: want you to know I'm never going to retire. I said, 226 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 2: I'm just going to die here, and she goes, please 227 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 2: don't die here, and I said, well, I have been 228 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 2: told that if I collapse, to call nine one one 229 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 2: and say cake lady down, and there'll be eighteen trucks 230 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 2: here to revisement. And they're not kidding Bill. They said that, 231 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 2: and he said, he goes, if anything ever happened, you 232 00:12:56,120 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 2: make sure you say cake, lady down. I'm like, how 233 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 2: are you going to know? They said, anything that comes 234 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 2: from a nine one one call, it will come through 235 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 2: their little pagers. So if somebody actually said cake, lady down, 236 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 2: it would come through the pager, they would know that 237 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 2: there was a problem with me, and they would all 238 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 2: be there. And he was joking, but he goes, yeah, 239 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:19,679 Speaker 2: there's cake to be made. 240 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 1: We'll make sure. Yeah. 241 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 2: So the South County Fire is the name of the 242 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 2: stations that I work that I beg for. They have 243 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:40,559 Speaker 2: a seventy six percent success rate and all cardiac events, 244 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 2: which is phenomenal, number one in the nation. So they 245 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 2: say it's because they have such a good morale because 246 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 2: of cake. I'm pretty sure it's because of their training. 247 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:55,959 Speaker 1: It sounds like it's a part of just the entire 248 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: culture altogether. Will be right back. So I read a 249 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 1: story that you made a cake for somebody's birthday who 250 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 1: happened to not be on shift, and they came back 251 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 1: and you asked them how they liked their birthday cake 252 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 1: and they said they didn't get any, so he made 253 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: them another one. Yeah, what happened to the crew ate it? 254 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 2: They are ruthless. 255 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 1: They're ruthless on the cake. 256 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 2: So this is the stories that they tell. There can 257 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 2: be one hundred dollars bill sitting on the counter for weeks, 258 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 2: nobody will touch it. One of my boxes shows up 259 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 2: and that's gone. At the cake now it has That's 260 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 2: why the logo is important, because there's a lot of 261 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 2: people that will bring things to the fire station and 262 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 2: the guys will go, yeah, we saw their kitchen. We 263 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 2: just kind of put that in the garbage. We've been 264 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 2: in their kitchen and we're not going to eat that. 265 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: You want. Stole once told somebody that was interviewing you 266 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: that when a new firefighter or when it came up 267 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: some five rider told you that cake was the last 268 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 1: thing they need. 269 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 2: So that when I when I the merger first happened, 270 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 2: I had one of my battalion chiefs from Linwood took 271 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 2: me to all the other stations and introduced me as 272 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 2: the cake as a cake leader to let him know 273 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 2: what I had been doing for Linwood and that so 274 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 2: I wasn't some That's why I like to have a contact. 275 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 2: So I'm just not some random person showing up with 276 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 2: cake or calling up and saying, hey, you have a 277 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 2: birthday coming, what do you want? And like, who's the 278 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 2: crazy creak lady? Right? So Chief Vanderpoolt took me around 279 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 2: to all the stations and we went to one station 280 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 2: that was it's in a rougher area where they see 281 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 2: lots of lots of stuff and they're there also the 282 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 2: ones that if anybody anything shows up, they pretty much 283 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 2: will not keep it in the kit. It will get 284 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 2: tossed because. 285 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: I can't trust unfortunately. 286 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 2: So one of the guys looks at me, and so 287 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 2: the attitude there's it was a little bit painted, I guess. 288 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 2: So one of the guys says, cake. 289 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 1: Hairs cake. 290 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 2: He kind of walked away, and I'm. 291 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: Like, you need cake, you need cake, you need cake? 292 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know what ca I go to that 293 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 2: station now and I walk in the door, and you 294 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 2: know what I get? Yeah, that attitude is. 295 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 1: Completely different because they needed cake, they needed cake. 296 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 2: I go there a lot actually was there. They invited 297 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 2: me for dinner last week. Well, one of the guys 298 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 2: needed the chief needed a haircut, so it's like, hey, 299 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 2: can you come and cut my hair? We'll make your dinner. Sure, 300 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 2: And I bring. 301 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:10,479 Speaker 1: Cake, so of course. 302 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 2: Yeah. 303 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:18,640 Speaker 1: Although cake is very literal here also metaphor clearly as 304 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 1: talking to you, I'm starting to understand that cakes appreciation, 305 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: cake is love, cakes, thanks, cake is honoring cake is 306 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: cake is so much money cake you think these firefighters 307 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: families understand. 308 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 2: Do you know how many times I get messaged on 309 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 2: Facebook or Messenger from moms or wives or family members 310 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 2: saying thank you so much for taking care of my son. 311 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:53,880 Speaker 2: I wasn't there to do it because they're not. They're 312 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 2: either because they're at work. 313 00:17:57,520 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: Sorry. 314 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 2: I didn't know how much what I do was going 315 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 2: to make a difference when I first started, So when 316 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 2: when I was just making for Lynnwood. Now I tell 317 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 2: them all the time that they saved my life, and 318 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,359 Speaker 2: the majority some of them know the whole story, the 319 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:29,239 Speaker 2: majority of them don't. So September of twenty eleven is 320 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 2: when God told me to bake for firemen. The end 321 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 2: of October that same year, something happened that I can't 322 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,680 Speaker 2: tell you details, but it turned our family upside down. 323 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:50,160 Speaker 2: And because I had committed to making cake for firemen. 324 00:18:52,240 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 2: When when you have something that causes trauma in your life, 325 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 2: our first response is to curl up in a ball, 326 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:12,199 Speaker 2: wallow in self pity, feel sorry for ourselves, and just 327 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:17,159 Speaker 2: give up. But because I made a commitment to make 328 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 2: cake for firemen, I couldn't wallow in self pity. I 329 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 2: couldn't feel sorry for myself. I couldn't just curl up 330 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 2: on the ball and say forget it. I don't want 331 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,880 Speaker 2: to deal with this because I was making for firemen. 332 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,120 Speaker 2: So it gets you out of your own head. When 333 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 2: you're doing something for someone else, can't feel sorry for yourself. 334 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: The third thing we talk about all the time on 335 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: the show is so the massive one million dollar payoff pitch. 336 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:50,919 Speaker 1: When you actually commit on a long term basis for 337 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 1: the right reason to employing your passions and discipon scenarios, 338 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: is you get a thousand times more out of it. 339 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 2: Oh so much, I mean, And they're like, oh, it's 340 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 2: too much, it's too much. I'm like, no, it's not, 341 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 2: because at that time it's God knows what we need 342 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 2: before we need it. And when he told me to 343 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,399 Speaker 2: bake cakes for firemen, I had no idea what the 344 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,239 Speaker 2: next few years were going to be And if I 345 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 2: hadn't been doing that and I had that focus on 346 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 2: something else, I couldn't, I wouldn't have had the strength 347 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 2: that I needed to get through that tragedy in our family. 348 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:32,479 Speaker 2: So many I mean I look back now and I'm like, 349 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 2: there are so many things that fell into place, and 350 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, that's why that happened. I mean, I 351 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,879 Speaker 2: went through a divorce in two thousand and nine that 352 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:52,640 Speaker 2: woods devastating. I lost everything. I lost my home, my car, 353 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 2: I had my two dogs, my clothes, and a dresser, 354 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 2: and I moved in with my parents at fifty years 355 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 2: old and Ember standing there. And I had been proud, 356 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 2: And I mean, that's probably one of the biggest problems 357 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 2: with my pride, that I had done all of the 358 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 2: things that I did not without God, because I knew 359 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 2: that he was the catalyst to everything. But I had 360 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 2: done it without a husband. I had done it on 361 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 2: my own. And then because of being married and making 362 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:25,199 Speaker 2: choices that I knew better, left me financially destitute. So 363 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 2: I had to file bankruptcy, lost everything. And I don't 364 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 2: know if I don't know if it's the same everywhere, 365 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 2: but when you file bankruptcy in the state of Washington. 366 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 2: You have to call consumer credit counseling and they're supposed 367 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:38,880 Speaker 2: to tell you how to get out of debt. Well, 368 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 2: I did that, and the lady goes, oh, honey, you 369 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,920 Speaker 2: just need to walk away. Can you just walk away 370 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 2: and move in with your mom and or your parents? 371 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 2: And I'm like, really, you're supposed to help me get 372 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,199 Speaker 2: out of this, and she says, just walk away, and 373 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:52,919 Speaker 2: I'm like, so here, I am fifty years old. I 374 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 2: move in with my parents, with my two dogs, my clothes. 375 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 2: I didn't have a car. I had to give the 376 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 2: car up in bankruptcy too. I had nothing, and I 377 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,399 Speaker 2: was the one where everybody lived with me. I was 378 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 2: the one that took care of everyone. It was not 379 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 2: easy for me to rely on someone else, humbly, very humbly. 380 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 2: So I remember being in the guest room of my parents' 381 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,639 Speaker 2: house that was already furnished, so I didn't even have 382 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 2: my own bed, and I remember standing there going, Okay, God, 383 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,400 Speaker 2: I'm going to choose to be content and where you've 384 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 2: put me. And a year later, I started baking cakes 385 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 2: and I looked back and I owed my parents a 386 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,119 Speaker 2: lot of money because of the divorce, and so to 387 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 2: pay them back. My mom and I were at a 388 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 2: family reunion and somebody said, well, how are you going 389 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 2: to stay with your parents? And I said, well, I'll 390 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 2: until I get them paid back. I said, but you know, 391 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 2: I'm the girl. I'm the one that's going to eventually 392 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 2: end up taking care of them. So I kind of 393 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 2: like living with my mom. So who knows. Mom goes, well, 394 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 2: we really like having her there. But she took the 395 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,640 Speaker 2: guest room. We don't have a guest room anymore. I said, oh, well, 396 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,639 Speaker 2: we'll just build a guest room on the back of 397 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,159 Speaker 2: the house. And she goes, oh, no, no, no, we 398 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 2: do anything. We're building a master suite and I said, okay, fine. 399 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 2: So we had started that the summer before before I 400 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 2: started baking, and I built a nine hundred and fifty 401 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 2: square foot edition on the back of the house. That 402 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 2: was my mother's sanctuary. Her it was, it was all 403 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 2: it was for her. So but when I look back 404 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:49,640 Speaker 2: at all this stuff, I'm like living with my mother, 405 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 2: well my parents at the time. My dad' said a facility. 406 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 2: Now But I I can look back and I have 407 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 2: no regrets. My relationship with my mother we're best friends. 408 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 2: I mean, as you can see, I take her everywhere. 409 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 2: Everything happens for a reason. And if I hadn't listen 410 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 2: to that voice about baking for firemen, that year would 411 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 2: have been completely different. All that time of transition would 412 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 2: have been completely different when they merged. When the two 413 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,199 Speaker 2: companies merged and it went from sixty eight firemen to 414 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:33,199 Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty firemen, my Facebook friends changed a 415 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 2: lot too. And I realized that suicide and cancer are 416 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:44,160 Speaker 2: the two biggest causes of death, and first responders had 417 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,479 Speaker 2: no idea that suicide was an issue. And I'm thinking, 418 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:53,439 Speaker 2: I remember looking at a feed where two men not 419 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:58,640 Speaker 2: from my department, but in a close area that had 420 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 2: committed suicide. Firefly said, committed suicide, And I'm thinking, but 421 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 2: did they know Jesus? So I'm sorry. I'm doing this 422 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 2: because number one, because God told me to, but because 423 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 2: I know the morale of the station changes when cake comes. 424 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,680 Speaker 2: The chiefs have called me and said, hey, Tanya, the 425 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 2: guys had a tough call. Can you bring cake? And 426 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 2: it's not about bringing cake, it's because I am a 427 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 2: comfortable person. I am like the mom, I'm I'm the 428 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,719 Speaker 2: firefighter mom. They can talk to me. They'll open up 429 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,920 Speaker 2: with me. I talked to a chaplain that worked in 430 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 2: a neighboring city and that goes to our church, and 431 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 2: I said, okay, when they asked me to do this, 432 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 2: what do I say to them? And he says, time, 433 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,479 Speaker 2: you have to think of it as like a balloon 434 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,640 Speaker 2: that's about ready to pop if you can just let 435 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 2: a little bit of the air out and just give 436 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 2: him a little bit of relief so they can go 437 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 2: on to the next call. So I'll be sitting at 438 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,719 Speaker 2: the stations and They'll ask me for dinner, and I'll 439 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 2: sit and talk to him and say, Okay, how do 440 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,360 Speaker 2: you deal with what you see on a regular basis? Well, 441 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,199 Speaker 2: dark humor and alcohol, Tanya, Well, and how does that 442 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 2: work for you? Well, it doesn't work. 443 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 1: And so. 444 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 2: The culture has changed a lot in the past five 445 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,639 Speaker 2: years to where they're recognizing what these men see on 446 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 2: a regular basis. They have facilities now that they can 447 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 2: go and they can get help for PTSD. And I 448 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,199 Speaker 2: can tell you story after story after a story of 449 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 2: where I've been in a position to where I can 450 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 2: talk to someone and help them with stuff that they've 451 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:48,640 Speaker 2: been going through. I talked to one of the guys 452 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 2: and he says, you know, you think about people in 453 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:55,919 Speaker 2: the military, if they're actually in war and they're on 454 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 2: the front lines, they'll do that for year, four years, 455 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,120 Speaker 2: if you know, or in the military for a certain 456 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 2: amount of time. He goes, we do this day after 457 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:12,120 Speaker 2: day after day for years. They get over one hundred 458 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:16,119 Speaker 2: calls a day in the area that I that I 459 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 2: bake for. There's some stations that they're I mean NonStop. 460 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 2: There was a call right after I started baking for 461 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 2: the Linwood Fire Department and it was fourteenagers on graduation 462 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 2: night that were out and there was a semi truck 463 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 2: that was parked on the side of the road that 464 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 2: had trailer hitch. They were drinking. They ran into that 465 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 2: hitch and decapitated the first two kids and killed the 466 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 2: other the kids in the back seat instantly. And my 467 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 2: guys had to go to that. They have to see 468 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:56,120 Speaker 2: that all the time. During COVID there was a lot 469 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,399 Speaker 2: of suicide, teenage suicide, and these guys have to go 470 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,159 Speaker 2: and they they have teenage kids. That was one of 471 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,679 Speaker 2: the calls that the chief called me. There was a 472 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 2: fifteen year old girl who committed suicide and the medics 473 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 2: that went to that call a teenage kids and they 474 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 2: it's devastating to them. So when I the cake is 475 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 2: a catalyst, it's a catalyst to build relationships with them 476 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 2: where I can call them up and say, Hey, I'm 477 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,639 Speaker 2: going to come and make dinner for you guys tonight 478 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:30,879 Speaker 2: and just sit and talk. 479 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: It's so much more than cake. 480 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 2: It's so much more than cake. 481 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: We'll be right back. I'm sitting here listing dolls. Oh No, 482 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 1: ought to pull back. I'm going to do a pullback 483 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 1: on you already. 484 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:04,800 Speaker 2: Yeah. 485 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: It's a professional talk that I've learned recently, and I 486 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 1: make myself a little disgusted using the term, but insupport 487 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 1: your dad he did this his whole life as a 488 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 1: fire off a fire or EMT. But he made the 489 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 1: same calls these guys made, or worse sometimes. But the 490 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 1: point is, you know we got to hear from your mom. 491 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 1: You know that he kissed her good night and goodbye 492 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: every time and wouldn't even take out the garbage out 493 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 1: kissing her, and that there was always this recollection that 494 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 1: there was danger in what your father's professionals and only 495 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: say all illustrate this point. It is clear you're making 496 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 1: some little bright spot in an otherwise difficult day from 497 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 1: many of these firefighters and EMTs also their families. You're 498 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 1: not just affecting the firefighter. You're affecting the firefighter and 499 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 1: the downhill side who they also deal with some of 500 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 1: the same trepidation and fear, or at least little thoughts 501 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,640 Speaker 1: that you guys dealt with when your father went off 502 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: to work. They're dealing with when their love. So your 503 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 1: outreach to all these fire people is actually exponentially larger 504 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 1: because these families know that even in the depths of it, 505 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 1: every once in a while at work, my love the 506 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: one's going to go to smile because of this crazy 507 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 1: cake lady. 508 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 2: Well, and then they get mad because the wives never 509 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 2: get any They're like, they never please. 510 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: Don't add please, don't add wives to the list. You'll 511 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 1: never get any sleep. 512 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 2: No, I know that that's not well, I do. I mean, 513 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 2: like some of the guys. One of the guys, his 514 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 2: wife has turned fifty and so I made her take 515 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 2: for a birthday. 516 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 1: I mean, it's unbelievable. 517 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 2: There's never two there's there's never not enough time for cake. 518 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 1: I guess you don't even have a website or anything. 519 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 1: You just do you You say it like it would 520 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: be disastrous for you to have a website for what 521 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 1: to show what you're doing? 522 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 2: Well, I mean I post, I post everything on Facebook. 523 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,479 Speaker 1: People find you on Facebook? What they do? 524 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 2: Just my name? Well Instagram is I'm SCF Cake Lady 525 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,480 Speaker 2: sc SCF South County Fire Cake Lady, all. 526 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 1: Right, and on and on Facebook? Is just your name? Right? 527 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 2: Yeah? 528 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 1: Okay, is with the middle or just just Tanya. 529 00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 2: I think it's Hanks and Piper because it was my 530 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 2: maiden name and married names. 531 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, say it again. 532 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 2: Any Ray hankson Piper which. 533 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,240 Speaker 1: You can found on Facebook, otherwise known as the Cake 534 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 1: Lady from South County Fire. And there's a bunch of 535 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 1: guys with you in the picture. 536 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 2: Oh that was my birthday. They showed up at the 537 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 2: salon with flowers. 538 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 1: Tanya Ray has earned her name as the Cake Lady 539 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 1: by baking and delivering birthday cakes for all of our 540 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: firefighters at fourteen stations throughout the year. Today, firefighters surprised 541 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,840 Speaker 1: her at work with flowers and wishes for a happy 542 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: birthday coming up on Sunday. And it's a picture of 543 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,560 Speaker 1: a bunch of fire guys standing behind you at Sibawitz 544 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 1: or whatever the place is called that you do it 545 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:47,720 Speaker 1: Zuberans know that, and they're all just grinning like cheshire cats, 546 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 1: And there you are in the middle of them, smiling. 547 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 2: Happiest salon is kind of right in the middle of 548 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 2: the territory. So because they whenever they get a call 549 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,560 Speaker 2: close to the salon, they just have to stop, buy 550 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 2: and say and grab a cookie. 551 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 1: That's hilarious. People listening here, go to Facebook and Instagram 552 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 1: and check out what she does. And if you cannot 553 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 1: be inspired to understand that something as simple as making 554 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: a cake can change in entire communities. When I say community, 555 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,120 Speaker 1: not the city, the community being the fire and EMT 556 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 1: and first responder communities outlook, I love the metaphor. It's 557 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,600 Speaker 1: like a bloom full of air about to pop, and 558 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,040 Speaker 1: you're not going to extinguish the whole bloom. But if 559 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: you just let a little pressure off that, just a 560 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:49,080 Speaker 1: little way out, that the stress on the bounds of 561 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 1: that bloom aren't so strong. And metaphorically, folks who deal 562 00:33:55,960 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 1: with what these first responders deal with. After a while, 563 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 1: that balloon gets really ready to pop. If you just 564 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,520 Speaker 1: let a little air out, and a little air could 565 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,560 Speaker 1: be in lending in ear talking. But you know what, 566 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,840 Speaker 1: just smiling and getting your inner child self excited about 567 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:16,080 Speaker 1: a birthday cake, something as simple as that. Do you 568 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:22,000 Speaker 1: allow yourself to appreciate the difference you're making these folks loves? Oh? Yeah? Good? 569 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,600 Speaker 1: Do you do you see yourself ever quitting? No? Uh 570 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:27,719 Speaker 1: huh no. No. 571 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,880 Speaker 2: I will quit baking when I can't bake anymore, just 572 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 2: like I'll quit working when I can't work anymore. I 573 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,640 Speaker 2: love what I do in all aspects of it. My 574 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,520 Speaker 2: mom always says when people ask her, when people ask 575 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,120 Speaker 2: me if I if I you know who helps me? 576 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,080 Speaker 2: I'm like, my mom makes sure the kitchen is clean 577 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:45,800 Speaker 2: when I get home. 578 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:46,879 Speaker 1: That's it. 579 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:51,960 Speaker 2: That's it, because, okay, Bill, our kitchen it's a two 580 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,480 Speaker 2: butt kitchen. You can't get any more than I mean, 581 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:59,279 Speaker 2: if you're back to back, you're going to run into it. 582 00:34:59,719 --> 00:34:59,960 Speaker 1: It is. 583 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,600 Speaker 2: Or yeah. And when they see the size of my 584 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,560 Speaker 2: kitchen and what I do in that kitchen, they're like. 585 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,200 Speaker 1: Really, do you have a double oven? 586 00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:09,239 Speaker 2: No? I don't have room for right. 587 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,839 Speaker 1: All right, here's the deal. This is a call out 588 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:16,560 Speaker 1: to people in the Seattle Edmunds, Washington area. You realize 589 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:21,360 Speaker 1: what this woman, this crazy cake lady Tanya is doing. 590 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:28,359 Speaker 1: It would only seem appropriate that one somebody reached out 591 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: to their Facebook or Instagram, it maybe offered a month's 592 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,239 Speaker 1: worth or you're worth of eggs. But the other thing 593 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,920 Speaker 1: is when you're making six hundred cakes a year about 594 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,120 Speaker 1: it's my guess, it's that my mouth right, all right, 595 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:45,920 Speaker 1: that's an averager to today. I would imagine a double 596 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,120 Speaker 1: oven would be helping. 597 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,920 Speaker 2: So I went to when I had to buy a 598 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:55,080 Speaker 2: new oven, we have a place called this Homers recycle. 599 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,319 Speaker 1: Yeah that over the year's got some miles on it. 600 00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 2: Well, the old one, yeah, I mean it was per 601 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 2: oven okay, yeah, but I mean it did pretty well. 602 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:05,359 Speaker 2: So when I went to go get a new one, 603 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,480 Speaker 2: I went to this recycled place and I brought him cookies. 604 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 2: The owner how to make friends and influence people. Yeah, 605 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,839 Speaker 2: what was the second time I went in? And the 606 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,600 Speaker 2: first I had gotten one and it was not It 607 00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:25,680 Speaker 2: didn't work very well and it wasn't cooking evenly. So 608 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,279 Speaker 2: I took pictures and I said, his name's Dave. I said, Dave, 609 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,240 Speaker 2: this isn't working. Goes Oh well, that's unacceptable. Cake lady 610 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:37,799 Speaker 2: can not have an oven that doesn't bake evenly. And 611 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:42,200 Speaker 2: so he set me up with like a five thousand dollars. 612 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:46,840 Speaker 2: It's a gas confection oven. I mean I can have 613 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,520 Speaker 2: an app and turn it on from work if I 614 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,960 Speaker 2: need to. It's fancy, way fancier than the first one 615 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,960 Speaker 2: I had picked out, which was nice. But and I said, so, hi, 616 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,040 Speaker 2: that's fine. How much more? He goes, Oh, no, so 617 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:01,640 Speaker 2: I got a five thousand dollars. 618 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,120 Speaker 1: Who's this guy? We gotta plug it. 619 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:07,200 Speaker 2: I don't know his last name. It's Dave at this 620 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,520 Speaker 2: Homers recycle Scratch and Dent place. 621 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:12,000 Speaker 1: I love that guy. 622 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean he was awesome. And 623 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,680 Speaker 2: so for nineteen hundred dollars, I got a five thousand 624 00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,360 Speaker 2: dollars brand new and had a little scratch on the 625 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:22,280 Speaker 2: side that nobody sees. 626 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,839 Speaker 1: So perfect. Yeah, but it's one well yeah, but. 627 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,520 Speaker 2: It's a confection has three racks. I can I can. 628 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,000 Speaker 1: Bake three cakes at once differently, well, not. 629 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,239 Speaker 2: Three cakes, but I can do two cakes. And I 630 00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,640 Speaker 2: can do like three trays of cookies at a time. 631 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 1: And also, so, yeah, anybody listened to me in Seattle. 632 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,160 Speaker 1: Think of the good she's doing for the first responders 633 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,200 Speaker 1: out there. Reach out to her. Buy eggs, buy flour, 634 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,360 Speaker 1: buy more pans. She has her favorite spoon, she travels 635 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,760 Speaker 1: with it, So don't worry about that. But something else, 636 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,160 Speaker 1: you know, a little bit of support for you would 637 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:05,400 Speaker 1: be appropriate. I think for what you're doing for everybody 638 00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:09,840 Speaker 1: in your community, you're an inspiration. You're also hilarious to 639 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 1: hang out with. I bet the fire people love it 640 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:13,719 Speaker 1: when you just flop down and hang out. 641 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:15,439 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we have a lot of fun. 642 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:20,279 Speaker 1: I bet you did. Alex, you have anything to say 643 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,520 Speaker 1: to Danya before we go? I think I'm good. How 644 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,480 Speaker 1: about you, Tanya? Is there anything you think we've missed 645 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:25,200 Speaker 1: that you'd like to cover? 646 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,280 Speaker 2: Oh? Do you want to see? 647 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:35,239 Speaker 1: Yeah? I want to see. Tanya's got a fire department calendar. 648 00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:40,479 Speaker 2: Not firemen, it's fire trucks. Just so you don't think 649 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,920 Speaker 2: that I got a bunch of half naked firemen on 650 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:43,520 Speaker 2: my calendar. 651 00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,279 Speaker 1: Oh I see, it's not that kind of fireman. It's 652 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,759 Speaker 1: a fire truck calendar. Got it. Yeah? 653 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,120 Speaker 2: So this now, this is all my mother. I am 654 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:58,880 Speaker 2: a tech tard. I do not do computers whatsoever. So 655 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:00,880 Speaker 2: I have a spreadsheet for every month. This is this 656 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:02,600 Speaker 2: month's fireman. 657 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,919 Speaker 1: Okay, one, two, three, four of fives? 658 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty six she total? Is it at the bottom, 659 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:10,680 Speaker 2: so I know what I'm doing. 660 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:17,600 Speaker 1: This is a list color coded of thirty six uh 661 00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:23,440 Speaker 1: people and their data birth, their rank and their shift. 662 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:28,480 Speaker 1: And can I read one of these people's names? It's 663 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:34,560 Speaker 1: a second on May six, Tony Mace and Corey Dow 664 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,839 Speaker 1: you're up. One of you is in plane field and 665 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:39,880 Speaker 1: one of you that's a. 666 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,319 Speaker 2: Different fire Oh yeah, pain Fields and fired. I kind 667 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,440 Speaker 2: of adopted them on top of the other. They're at 668 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,000 Speaker 2: the airport and they're all alone and lonely. 669 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:52,200 Speaker 1: And so Tony Tody Pace at Painfield and Corey Dowe 670 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,759 Speaker 1: at ten b on five to six? What what are 671 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:56,720 Speaker 1: we cooking? These people? 672 00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,200 Speaker 2: So then then I write it on the calendar. 673 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,799 Speaker 1: So this is on neked Fireman calendar with our trunks by. 674 00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:09,920 Speaker 2: Tony Mason is getting carrot cake on the seventh at Paynfield. 675 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:11,080 Speaker 1: All right, what's Corey? 676 00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:13,399 Speaker 2: Well he hasn't responded yet. 677 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:18,440 Speaker 1: Wait no, there he is right there, German chocolate. Yeah. 678 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,440 Speaker 2: So that's my deliveries for that day, and my deliveries 679 00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:21,759 Speaker 2: for that. 680 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:22,840 Speaker 1: Day that is on. 681 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,160 Speaker 2: That's just the beginning of this month. I just started 682 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:30,759 Speaker 2: texting them for this, but this this was last month. 683 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:38,000 Speaker 1: Smokes Alex. You need to put this on on social media. Yeah, 684 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:46,680 Speaker 1: hold it up. This is this is the that is unbelievable. 685 00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:50,319 Speaker 1: Don't don't move. We got we got blueberry Chris, we 686 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:56,760 Speaker 1: got red Velvet Coffee, cheesecake, Baba Cakes, arawberry cake, something, monster, 687 00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:03,400 Speaker 1: monster cookies, oh, monster cookie on cookies, chocolate can, banana cheesecake. 688 00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:08,560 Speaker 1: Holy crap. There is every kind of cake on earth. 689 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,240 Speaker 1: And I don't know why you don't open a bakery, 690 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:17,799 Speaker 1: but I think, yep, there we go, because that's It's 691 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:22,120 Speaker 1: not about the money for you, is it. Yeah, it's awesome. Tanya. 692 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,800 Speaker 1: Thanks for being a memphisis is a great story. I 693 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:28,560 Speaker 1: loved telling your story. And somebody in the Wash area 694 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,200 Speaker 1: reach out to this woman's helped support her. She's doing 695 00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,600 Speaker 1: amazing good for a lot of good reach out from anywhere, 696 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,480 Speaker 1: and all of you first responders that have to be 697 00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:41,600 Speaker 1: listening to this on behalf of Tanya. Thank you for 698 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,200 Speaker 1: your service, thank you for what you do, and in 699 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:48,879 Speaker 1: the very very most still way, I hope you eat cake. 700 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,000 Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for being every time. 701 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:51,880 Speaker 2: You're very welcome. 702 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,600 Speaker 1: Thank you all right, let's eat some more cake, and 703 00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,560 Speaker 1: thank you for joining us this week. If Tanya rap 704 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,600 Speaker 1: Piper has inspired you in general, or better yet, to 705 00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:06,799 Speaker 1: take action by baking cakes for firemen or someone else 706 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:10,920 Speaker 1: in your community, or making a cake for your favorite 707 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,760 Speaker 1: podcast host so he can dive in with his fingers 708 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,200 Speaker 1: and his face only, and oh my gosh, that cake 709 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,680 Speaker 1: was good. Did you get any I did, But her 710 00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,080 Speaker 1: intention was not for you to use your fingers. That's 711 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,399 Speaker 1: not why she brought it. It's the best wait to cake. 712 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,400 Speaker 1: You dive in with your fingers and you just scruff 713 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,040 Speaker 1: it down your face, your curit email. If the cakes 714 00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,560 Speaker 1: for yourself is what most listeners are thinking right now, 715 00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:34,480 Speaker 1: well that cake was for me, wasn't it. I mean 716 00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:36,040 Speaker 1: the rest of us were going to have something too. 717 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,799 Speaker 1: Get your own podcast show and maybe someonell cook you 718 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,759 Speaker 1: a cake. But that was my cake and I loved it. 719 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,760 Speaker 1: It's awesome. So anyway, if don your Apiper has inspired 720 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,880 Speaker 1: you to do any of that or something else entirely, 721 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,759 Speaker 1: please let me know. I'd love to hear about it. 722 00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:55,840 Speaker 1: You can write me anytime at Bill at normal folks 723 00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,839 Speaker 1: dot us and I promised I'll respond, And if you're 724 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,799 Speaker 1: sending a cake, I'll give you my address. And if 725 00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,840 Speaker 1: you enjoyed this episode, share a friends and on social 726 00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:09,920 Speaker 1: subscribe to the podcast, rate and review it. Join the 727 00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:14,080 Speaker 1: army at normal folks dot us consider becoming a Premium member. 728 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,239 Speaker 1: There all of these things that will help us grow 729 00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:22,120 Speaker 1: an army of normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney. Until next time, 730 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:23,319 Speaker 1: do which you can