Hey Riddle Riddle - Patreon Preview #337: Ray Kayca's Cakes, Rakes and K-Cups w/ Rekha Shankar

Episode Date: August 22, 2025

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All right, everybody, shift meeting. Shift meeting before we open today. Thank you all for coming in early. I know it's nobody's favorite thing to open the store. Can we talk about how bad of a job the closers did last night? Look, I'd like to not make this a us versus them thing. Grace, if you have something to say about the closers, then... It's borderline disrespectful at this point.

They're not doing anything off the checklist boss. You know, and it's possible that they're working on a different checklist that aren't a checklist. So it's like maybe they are doing. I think it's because Ray Jr. is on that shift. Okay. Let's get one thing straight. We're not bad-mouthing anyone and we're not besmirching anyone because the one thing that is universal

is that Ray Kakers, Rakes, and K-ups, someone is always listening. Okay? And I personally love Ray Jr., love him to death. Little Sweetie Pie Baby sat him when he was a kid Now if I had to say Something that And I don't and I don't

But if I if I was searching for something to say I might say something like He left the freezer open And all the ice cream cakes Allegedly melted allegedly Into our drainage system And now allegedly it smells like Oreos everywhere and allegedly...

Guys, we only have to say allegedly once. Well, it allegedly fucked us. Yeah. Cake melting. And then allegedly, the rats that are obviously in our sewage system have been eating all of it. And now they're gigantic. I wish they're getting stronger. I wish I had not taught you all that word.

That's what I wish right now. Let's do this. Let's continue with the shift meeting. Beth, you mentioned that the ice cream cakes are melted. Yes. What's our current cake count for the day? Because I know we have a lot of cakes to process today. and rakekas, cakes, rakes, and kickups.

So we had 20 ice cream cakes to begin with. I kind of have two halves left based on what melted. Okay. It's possible I could smear them together and put some sort of design in between. It could be like earthquake themed. It could be yin yang. It could be argument themed. There's two sides.

Because right now it says happy Christmas. Right. Does. Okay. Well, okay. Yeah. That's just the ice cream cakes. That's just the ice cream cakes.

We have regular cakes that are cold. Those are still okay. Ray Jr. didn't leave that open. But I do think they're not our big seller. What? Someone's little fingers have gotten into the cakes. And allegedly... This is a lot of allegedly.

Ray Jr. likes to put his little fingers, a little stinky fingers in the cakes. And I remember, and I can confirm this. Is your name also, Beth? Yeah. Okay. I can confirm this, Beth. No way. No.

It was Abby, right? What did you call me? Hold on. I couldn't have possibly. I could have sworn it was Beth and Beth. Was it not something different than that? No. I've just been too embarrassed to ask because it feels stupid when you don't know that someone's name is the same as yours. We're normally not in the same shift. I totally get it. Yeah. All right. Ray Kakers, cakes, rakes and cakeups, roll call. Biff. Beth. Beth. Beth. Beth. I, hold on now. I thought your name. I thought your name was Beth. I had illegally changed last night. Congratulations. Congratulations.

Oh, Slay Mama. I'll have to change it. Beth, Biff, Biff. Is it Biff? Or Biff. Biff. Biff. Biff, I'm going to have to change it in the system.

Okay, Biff, I'm going to have to change it in the system. But thank you for doing that because that's going to be way less confusing now. For sure. It was nice to be able to grab whatever name tag when I came in. Wasn't it? Yeah, it was always nice. Can I just say, speaking of, what did you say Miss Slay? What did you say?

Slay Mama. Sleigh Mama. What if we do Christmas themed cakes with Mrs. Claus and it says Slay Mama? Spel the way you think. S-L-E-I-G-H. Yeah. That's funny. I love these ideas.

It's nowhere near Christmas right now. So I don't know necessarily why we had a Christmas cake to begin with. Here's what I'll say. I think people are thinking about Christmas. Sure. Well, year round. I know for me. Is it because we, everyone at the shop says Slay Mama a lot?

Because I've been noticing we've been saying, I mean, Abith, you came in with Mama-S-M-S-M-A-M-S-A-M-S. Like, the thing from, please don't stop the music. The thing from please don't stop the music. Right. I think, okay, first of all, we're trying to find Joy where we can find it. Ray Jr., allegedly, has been making this a very allegedly hostile work environment. Ray Jr.'s not here for the whole morning. He won't be here for the afternoon.

He's a leak, though. All the work we do here in the morning gets sort of flush down the drain. I think Beth one was saying earlier that Ray Jr., Really sweet. No, no, you've been here forever. No problem. You've got to be Beth Mon. You baby sat Ray when he was a baby.

Mama say, Mama, Slay, Mama say Saso. We're getting a little loss. We're getting a little loss to the sauce of that one. I don't speak Latin, but I'm assuming that's very kind. Go ahead, Beth one. Stop. But you were saying Ray Jr's getting his sticky little fingers, stinky little fingers into stuff. She said stinky, but let's just not, let's take all the adjectives out of it completely.

But I got to say this. part's not alleged. I'm his former babysitter. And when I tell you, I'd walk into that home. Okay. And I, the first thing I said, this is confirmed. Please don't. On the record, I'd say, do you have a dog?

And is she sick? And Ray said, I don't have a dog. Why? And then the little kid comes waddling up to me and I go, holy crap, those fingers are stinky. People change from when... Stinky like a dog. People change from when they're children to when they're adults and Ray Jr. is

is technically allegedly an adult. So, you know, why don't we pivot? Biff, how are we on K-Cups? We just got a shipment yesterday, so we still should be... K-cups good. I'd say about 300. But I'd say one-third of the cakes get returned for being too smelly,

and I want to say that... No. Ray Jr. makes about a third of our cakes. And the rakes are smelling. The rakes are getting returned for being too smelly. Yes, because the part that... people expect to be smelly, the rake part is not the smelly part. The handle is smelly and people are suspecting someone's touching them. Why would you expect the rake part

to be smelly? Metal. Metal on leaf. It's raking up stuff that's... Okay, here's what we do. Here's what we do. Why don't we do this? It's usually slow in the mornings. I say let's sanitize everything. We'll wipe down the cake cups. We'll wipe down the handles of the rakes. Wipe down the cakes. Let's, I immediately... Let's write a strongly worded letter to the afternoon night shift. Can I be honest with you guys? What? Two weeks ago, the entire night shift.

Oh, ghost story. Everybody lean in. Everybody lean. Let me get a flashlight. I'm going to turn the electricity off. Don't, oh, please, okay. The whole building. The cakes are going to melt. That's fine.

No, it's not fine. It's not fine. Well, it depends on how good the story is. I bet they talk about this in the night shift. They're like, they tell ghost stories and turn all the lights. Two weeks ago, the entire crew of the night shift, came together to Big Ray, Ray Kaka, with some complaints about Ray Jr.

They were all fired. What? Oh, on this, 10 years ago. No, it's just happened two weeks ago. That's why the night shift is still kind of a mess is because you let them all go. Night shift. No, it's not.

Ray is so protective of his son, okay? So I just don't think we should engage in any way because... But Ray trusts you. Why can't you tell him that his son has stinky fingers? He does not trust me. Of course he does. He trusts me a little bit. You're the regional manager.

I'm the regional vice manager. Oh, come on. Not with that attitude. You're managing my vice. I've eaten too many cookies. Beth, no, are you still eating cookies? Yeah, of course. We talked about this.

I have to doc your pay if I find that you're eating cookies. I have to do that. And I still am a little hand raised. I'm still a little confused. What does Doc mean? It means you get more money. He means he's adding money to your pay. Yes, like when you add a dock to a port

so that more ships can come in and out. Is this what your understanding of dock is? Yeah, of course. I've been using this as more of a cudgel, but I've been eating the cookies because I'm trying to afford a down payment on a condo. Oh, boy. Okay, here's what we do.

Let's just focus on work today. Okay, let's go out there and be the best cakes, rakes and cake up store this side of the, you know, east. Yes, Biff. Last meeting, you said to remind you that we want to carve out some time to pitch some ideas to sort of bring in more customers, to bring in business. I recall that conversation going differently. We do have time.

So if you do want to make a- You'll me read the minutes? I don't think we should. Turn off the lights. No, well, the lights. I'm turning off the electricity again. Every time we shut down the entire store's electricity, it takes a good 40 minutes to get a spool back up again. So let's not.

Actually, Beth, here's the thing. Beth, one, you don't touch the breaker. Beth, two, you don't start typing up any letters, okay? Biff, go ahead and hit us with a, we have time for a couple of your ideas. Okay, I think some of the music we play inside the store turns people away. Okay. Alkaline trio, no thank you. Right?

Me first in the gimmie-gimmies, get out of here. This is not my experience, but I ended up. One direction. We can be playing more of it. Okay. We don't play any one direction. Yeah, that's exactly. One, two, three, four,

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