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Jodi Avergan
We're living through a pretty rocky present. Maybe the past can help. Check out Radiotopia's this Day, hosted by Jodi Avergan with historians Nicole Hemmer and Kelly Carter Jackson. Three times a week they take you into one story from that day in U.S. history. From Eisenhower's weird vendetta against squirrels to the time we accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on North Carolina, to the women who fought against the right to vote. It's smart, surprising, and actually fun. This is a big moment for history. Next year is America's 250th birthday and, well, look around. There's lots of history being made. Subscribe to this day for your historical perspective, wherever you get your podcasts as well as YouTube and Instagram.
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Alex
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Rebecca
Now Basically, like my family, we order the same cake for every single holiday birthday, like, specifically for my mom.
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Alex
This is Rebecca, and as you can hear, she's talking about a very special cake that her family loves.
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Rebecca
It's my mom's favorite cake. She started to like it so much that we had to order it for everything. But then our bakery closed. One day was open, the next day was closed with no advance notice.
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Hope
Oh, my God. This cake. This cake. Once you have this cake, no other cake will do. I'm not lying. It's so light and fluffy, and the buttercream frosting is, like, just the perfect consistency, the perfect taste, the perfect color. And the hard icing is nice and light, and it seals it, and it's so fresh that when you cut, like, literally, like, almost folds down, you have to catch it right away to put it in your plate.
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Alex
That last person you heard, that's Hope, Rebecca's mom, who Rebecca has been trying to solve this problem for. For the last year. Rebecca's gone all around New York City, scouring different bakeries, describing the cake she wants to bakers, buying cakes that looked like her mom's favorite cake, presenting these new cakes to her mom. And no matter what she does, my mom not happy.
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Rebecca
She's like, I can't believe you spent $65 on this cake that tastes like.
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Alex
Rebecca has even tried baking the cake for her mom herself twice.
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Hope
It was terrible. It wasn't worth it. I don't know. It was awful.
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Alex
How's it feel having your mom sit right next to you and tell you how awful your cake was? You must have put a lot of work into it.
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Rebecca
Do you know what my mom would tell us as children? She would say, every mother cockroach thinks their baby cockroach is beautiful. But have you ever seen a beautiful baby cockroach?
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Alex
That is Rebecca's mom's way of saying, look, I love you. You know I love you. I love you whether your cake is good or bad. But let's just acknowledge your cake sucked. What would be. Would the ideal solve for you to be to get the recipe or to just find someone who can make the cake for you?
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Hope
Both can be the one. Whatever you can do. We don't know. I don't even think anyone would be able to achieve this goal.
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Alex
So far, Hope has been right. But Hope has also not met the hyperfixed audience. And I know in my heart you guys can help us solve this one. So over on the premium feed, we have the entire story of this missing magical cake and what we need from you to help us achieve what Hope has called an unachievable goal. But come on, it's got to be achievable. And you know, if you don't want to help us solve it, just come over and listen to this interview because it's genuinely so funny. Hope and Rebecca are in the same room and they are bickering and they just like, they're so charming. I had so much fun doing this interview and you know, if you don't want to help and you don't even want to listen, no worries. There's a new main feed episode next week. But if you think you might know somebody who would want to listen, why don't you send them to the premium feed? That's hyperfix pod.com join memberships are legitimately the way that we're going to keep the show going. So you know, I'm hoping to entice you but if not, I'll see you next week. Bye. Radiotopia.
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Rebecca
From PRX.