We are thrilled to present Tanner and Mandy Bazer as we talk to them about family life in emergency services. Listen to the amazing strategies they employ to help each other and their family stay grounded, through shift work, SWAT calls, and FTO training. Mandy recognizes when Tanner needs his time hunting. Tanner knows when it is time for Mandy to have a SPA Day. Here's to staying connected through the trauma of police life.
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We are thrilled to present Tanner and Mandy Bazer as we talk to them about family life in emergency services. Listen to the amazing strategies they employ to help each other and their family stay grounded, through shift work, SWAT calls, and FTO training. Mandy recognizes when Tanner needs his time hunting. Tanner knows when it is time for Mandy to have a SPA Day. Here's to staying connected through the trauma of police life.
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Gabe Hansen 0:01
Hello, and welcome to the echo connections Podcast with your co host me, Gabe Hansen. And my mother, Dawn Hansen.
Dawn Hansen 0:06
Hello, and we welcome to our studio, our living room. Our two guests is our first time having a husband and wife. So we have Tanner Bazer, who is an officer that I work with, and his wife, Mandy Bazer. They're both here today.
Gabe Hansen 0:18
Welcome, welcome. Thanks for having me.
Dawn Hansen 0:20
Thank you excited to have you guys. You might want to get a little closer to the mic. You got like seven and yeah, shove it right in there,
Gabe Hansen 0:27
I think. Yeah.
Mandy Bazer 0:29
Just sit up taller.
Dawn Hansen 0:32
So Tanner, I was trying to remember how long have I worked with you? Because I remember when you were a baby.
Tanner Bazer 0:39
Seven years, next month,
Dawn Hansen 0:40
seven years. Wow. Until I wow. Yeah. And when you came to the police department you'd come from?
Tanner Bazer 0:48
I worked full time for the Army National Guard.
Dawn Hansen 0:51
And how long were you in the army?
Tanner Bazer 0:54
Eight years. Oh, wow.
Dawn Hansen 0:55
So right out of high school? Yep. Yep. Because you grew up in a small town. Yeah. Eastern Oregon Eastern. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And when you got out of the Army, did you know you wanted to be a cop? Yeah,
Tanner Bazer 1:06
I knew before I went in, I actually enlisted as an MP, just to start trying to build a resume to eventually work my way there. They'll let you be a cop. When you're 18. And we're in Oregon. You have to wait until you're 21. So oh, I
Gabe Hansen 1:19
didn't know that.
Dawn Hansen 1:20
Yeah, that's Yeah. So how did you meet Mandy?
Tanner Bazer 1:24
Actuall in the military? I'll let her tell that story.
Mandy Bazer 1:28
Yes. So we both were in the military at the same time. I was his superior. Oh, I was his boss. That did not go over well. So yeah, we met there. And I told him hunting'a story. And he got little heart emoji eyes. It's been just the two of us ever since. Oh,
Dawn Hansen 1:56
so what was your hunting story?
Mandy Bazer 1:59
I just told him I went hunting, and I got my buck. And I needed my dad to come save me because I left my lights on Oh, my jeep. Oh, kill my battery. And so he needed to come get me. But that's what started.
Dawn Hansen 2:13
What was so are you in the MP also, are you? Okay, so you were you what rank? Does that make you like a sergeant over him? Or how does that work?
Mandy Bazer 2:20
No, I was. So I worked full time for the military also. And I was a specialist, but I worked in as an MP and I also worked in a supply setting. Okay, so that's like a sergeant position. So I had the specialist rank, but I had powers of Sergeant. Oh, so like, they had to listen to me. Except for this one's really sassy. So even then,
Dawn Hansen 2:49
probably worse than that. So
Tanner Bazer 2:52
with that, being in the guard, we would just do the MP function one weekend, a month and then the two weeks out of the year. We both had our full time job. So she was supply full time. And then I worked for a place called the joint operation center. Okay. And so we had kind of two worlds that we lived in, and then she was already to the unit by the time I got there. So she was a specialist when I was a little baby private.
Dawn Hansen 3:15
That's where it started. Daunting story. I couldn't fix her. Because phasers Tanner out of Wisconsin baser. But Tanner always has been an avid hunter. He's a you just got a bear. Oh, it's huge. It was I've never
Tanner Bazer 3:28
seen a bear that big. is the biggest Oregon bear I've seen so far. So I would that was wow.
Gabe Hansen 3:34
I don't think I've even seen a bear here in Oregon.
Dawn Hansen 3:36
Yeah, when we lived on the ranch. There was supposed to be one and there was evidence of one but we never saw it. Yeah. Well, we never went looking for it either. To be fair to look for it. We had dogs that would be like No, no, don't go there.
Mandy Bazer 3:51
Tanner's like, hey, a bear. I'm gonna go hunt it.
Dawn Hansen 3:54
I'm gonna go stalk it, watch it. So how many weeks how many weekends would you say you go on your weekends go and hunt for something.
Tanner Bazer 4:05
It's all season base. So the season that just finished up is spring bear started April 1, and goes until the end of May. Usually I don't get to proactive about it. And April, May is usually the best time to go. It kind of depends. I get antsy around the house, and it gives me a reason to go. So and I think Mandy appreciates me getting out every once awhile. So it just kind of varies. But once once the hunting starts getting good, then it's usually every weekend. I'll go at least a day or
Dawn Hansen 4:36
two to get your outdoor time connection. Yeah,
Mandy Bazer 4:39
kind of that says like decompress time too.
Dawn Hansen 4:42
And you recognize that clearly. Yes. Yeah. And can you tell like when it when you're like, Yes,
Mandy Bazer 4:48
I tell him you need to go hunting. It's time or like you need to be outside doing something because he just you can tell like stressful weeks or days or something If you are like, Okay, this environment is not working for you. So leave please like I love you. Go hunt, go hike something I don't know, but like something he needs to just let go of that and he comes back and he's fine. And that's what he needs.
Dawn Hansen 5:20
Yeah. Has there ever been a time where he? He wouldn't go when you said so are you asked him to go in the woods? You're gone. Yeah, you know, I didn't know no twice. Okay, just checking. You have to be convinced or
Mandy Bazer 5:36
I'm like, Hey, you should Okay.
Dawn Hansen 5:39
Here's your hatwhat's your so what? Um, that's, that's interesting that you already you guys are obviously tuned into each other. Do you? Is there anything that you do for her? Like, do you see Mandy getting stressed at some point or? Sure?
Tanner Bazer 5:53
Yeah, for her. The big thing is giving her a break from the boys. We have two wonderful boys, but they are boys and they're very rowdy. So for her, it's given her a chance to go do that or with also with that being the case we don't get a lot of loan time. So sometimes it's, you know, babysitter and yeah. Which is actually kind of nice. Now that they're both in school and everything during the day and especially with me being a graveyard guy and stuff. You know, it's try Nice. We'll go do our lunch dates while they're in school or go riding dirt bikes or something. That's that's her. That's her thing is the dirt bike stuff. So
Dawn Hansen 6:29
Oh, that's cool.
Gabe Hansen 6:31
That'sgood
Dawn Hansen 6:31
shentshuandrides dirt bikes. No wonder you're at the heart emojis.
Gabe Hansen 6:34
Perfect Match, right?
Mandy Bazer 6:37
I like to be outside too.
Dawn Hansen 6:39
Yeah, you must. Yeah, if you're in it, where you guys live? It's great to be outside and wait, everybody. Yeah. So I there's a good, you have a good story. I don't know if Tanner's did kick it off with a pursuit. But I don't remember all of the details. So I first met Mandy kind of on the phone in a way that I'll let them share, because Tanner, you started off and then we can pick up in the middle.
Tanner Bazer 7:10
So we actually had another pursue, at the same time that I was headed to go help search for the guy. Yeah. And as I was doing that, red convertible Corvette blend ZZ Top flew by me doing about, I don't know, 130 on the highway. And so that piqued my interest more at the time. And so I ended up getting into chase with it. And it went out where I lived the direction out where I live. And so we went way out there and our radios lose. Connection. Yeah, at a certain point. And
Dawn Hansen 7:48
once we knew was coming, like we knew we were gonna get to the zone where we wouldn't be able to hear him.
Tanner Bazer 7:52
Yeah, luckily, they kind of like to run out that way. It seems like so we get pretty familiar with where, where we lose radio and whatnot. And so I lost radio, and then that's kind of where
Dawn Hansen 8:04
so the sergeant was like, oh, you know what, just go ahead and call him on his cell phone just just and he tells me the cell phone number. So I quickly dial the phone number, and I reach Mandy. And then what did I do? Because I think I panicked.
Mandy Bazer 8:18
You did panic. What happened was, I was in the middle of the night. Yeah, had all the windows open, because we don't have AC and I was like, Man, these crickets are really like matrix thing like sirens. And I was like, No way. That's actual siren. And I get a text message from one of his co workers is like, Hey, your husband's going past your house. And I was like, oh, excitement. Yeah. And then my phone rings. And I'm like, Oh, that's weird. So like, run downstairs. And I'm like, hello, and Don's like, oh, sorry, we're on number. Like.
Dawn Hansen 8:54
It takes me like, nice. Yeah, I'm not I don't click on all cylinders. what has just happened because I tried to get that I get a different phone number for Tanner, where I think I do reach you at that point. And I'm like, I think I just got that piece of the conversation. Like I'm so sorry. Oh, my God. And then I realized that I just hung up on her. And then she probably heard the sirens. And I was like, How do I fix this?
Tanner Bazer 9:21
Well, what's funny is so the guy in a leaving the road, and he parked his car in a pile of blackberries. And so him and I were having this conversation while he was stuck in the blackberries. And I, I saw that you're trying to call me from dispatch. So I talked to you and then I looked down and I have a text from my wife that says Good job babe. Looked around. I was so confused, because I didn't understand what the good job was for or how she would know what I was doing. You know, I thought maybe she could hear the sirens from the house but they're, you know, there's however many other cops in the county that could be doing cop work out there. So and they were all coming to you. Yes. I was super confused. But it all made sense once once we got back to the station, the dust settled and everything,
Mandy Bazer 10:07
everybody telling their story. You're like, Oh,
Dawn Hansen 10:11
thank goodness, the person who sent Mandy the text was also the one who said that Tanner had gotten the person and that was all connected, because I was like, Oh, why do I call her back and try to fix this or just leave it like, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna leave though. Or
Mandy Bazer 10:26
it's funny though. He gets swapped pages. Yeah, I get the swap pages, the house phone is ringing. So I kind of thought that's what that was was, like, she dialed the wrong number, trying to be like, Oh, which one's dinner? And I was like, Oh, okay. And I just ran back upstairs and got my cell phone and was waiting for the next for the next text message.
Dawn Hansen 10:50
And it was like, you know, note to self, I could just be like, hey, that's Dawn dispatch is the right number for Tanner. But I was in like, must reach him have not counted on.
Tanner Bazer 11:01
All fairness to like, I actually play that recording a lot for my recruits. Because the thing is, is when when that the recording that we have on that one shows all the other phone calls you guys were taking too. Oh, okay. And so it shows a lot of the behind the scene. So in my world, right, like I talked to you, you talk to me, and it's very black and white. But in the recording that we have, it shows all the other phone calls that you're filming, you know, from Cahoots calls to whatever. Oh, yeah. And so, I mean, it totally makes sense that that type of mistake could be made. I mean, it's,
Dawn Hansen 11:34
I didn't even take the second. Yeah. I wouldn't have liked to upgrade your cable.
Gabe Hansen 11:43
I tried to play it off like it was it makes sense. You call me like not a man so quick?
Dawn Hansen 11:52
Yeah, I think I realized about the time the phone connected that it was their home phone. And I was like, wait, no problem. That's not my communication skills. Stop right there. Like, oh, I can't redeem that. is pretty funny. Because there's other people would be like, really? It's down the morning, right? I'm hanging up on me.
Tanner Bazer 12:16
Well, luckily, she's a night owl too. So she she stays up pretty late. So she was already up and everything anyways,
Mandy Bazer 12:23
that's why I was like, man, because I was watching TV and the crickets at our house are so loud. And let's was like, That's really weird. It sounds like sirens and then
Tanner Bazer 12:34
in the other part of that story is to is my best friend that lives out there. He's a trooper, I drive by his house to get to my house. And he had just got home from a wedding and was checking his mail that was on the road and in the car that was chasing goes by and then I went by. And so he knew about it before, before anything, and then she knew about it too. So it's just kind of weird how everybody at home knew she was three o'clock in the morning, whatever time it was, and then everyone knew what I was doing.
Dawn Hansen 13:01
Literally in the middle of nowhere.
Mandy Bazer 13:02
Everybody's like, Hey, good job,
Dawn Hansen 13:04
babe. Love. The spies are everywhere.
Unknown Speaker 13:09
Yeah, right out that valley. Yeah,Echosyou can hear sirens for miles
Dawn Hansen 13:14
when we lived at Oh, man. Some ways from there where you guys aren't it we could hear it going? And you could be like, Well, that one's going really fast. Or when you could hear the engine. Yeah, that off the bouncing off the wheels. Like oh, they're really getting at it. It's funny
Mandy Bazer 13:27
though, cuz I heard the sirens. And then I heard what I think was the car. The Corvette, because you have a straight stretch. Go bra. And then you hear it. Like, oh, well, they're getting darker.
Tanner Bazer 13:41
Yeah, he was definitely a lot faster Carlin. But no one the corners. I made ground. Yeah.
Gabe Hansen 13:49
Some of those corners. You cannot take
Dawn Hansen 13:51
fast unless you know exactly where to hit. Yeah. You know, like, the gravels. They're not there. And yeah, that's probably how we ended up in pucker brush.
Tanner Bazer 13:58
Yeah. blackberries are actually the corner. I even said that that was probably going to have oh, yeah, don't you say it on the radio said on the radio that if he keeps driving the way he is, there was a certain corner that was gonna be the introduce itself to him. And it did, which
Dawn Hansen 14:13
was really helpful. Because when we couldn't get you on the radio, that's what we figured you were but we were like, I don't know, how are, you know, I don't know how RMD is, I don't know how, right. We don't know why he's running at 130 whatever he was doing. Yeah. I don't know how fast he has gone to school really fast. But at least we're still in the morning.
Tanner Bazer 14:32
You know, no traffic. And that's the thing too, is, you know, we do it enough to know, you know, I feel like our team is really good at doing things safely and you know, rain weighing the risk with the reward and, and stuff like that. Absolutely.
Dawn Hansen 14:45
We have a really good team. And that's partly why I really wanted Tanner and Mandy to be here because obviously you're part of the team and another way you're you're part of our team. We don't get to have you in briefing or maybe in dispatch, but you're still part of the team. You get them to work and Um, you know, get them on the straight and narrow.
Gabe Hansen 15:05
The Stephanie Khan book, you know, like really goes into that spousal?
Dawn Hansen 15:09
Yeah, I was just reading that section. I don't know, I was going to show Mandy the book on resiliency and policing. And there's a section that is like, specific to family. I was just reading that today. I'm like, it's really, you, I think do a lot of the things she talks about, automatically. At least that's what I guess like when you're like, hey, you need to go out in the woods. That's one of the things that she says is your spouse will always know, when you're not doing it. Like if it's been a tough week, and you already said like, you can tell. And then some of the things that she talked about, I'm pretty sure Tanner and said that you are one of those people goes, Hey, are you what's going on? Like, you're not gonna let him get away with not being okay.
Mandy Bazer 15:47
So Tanner and I are both type A personalities. Like when we're fighting, not fighting, when we're arguing. It's a, you're telling me my issues, I'm telling you my issues. And then it's done. Like, Okay, we're done fighting now. Whereas like, I feel like other relationships are like, nip nip nip NiP, like not really getting to the root of the issue. And like, my parents are divorced, I went out, we got married. So I saw both of them kind of like bat around each other and not really get down to the issue. And that's where like resentment builds up.
Dawn Hansen 16:33
He's a witness. I think you're speaking my language. Sorry. No, you're good. No, that's true.
Gabe Hansen 16:39
I think you'll hopefully learn from your parents relationships, right? Like, yeah, I hope I do the same with you guys. So
Dawn Hansen 16:46
I know, right? A successful relationship where you don't let it go. Right. And you get to the bottom of
Mandy Bazer 16:51
what sometimes it is hard. And you do have to like, part ways, because you're scaring the children and the dogs and the chickens. Like, closest neighbor can hear you screaming but no, it's you really have to, like buckle down and be like, You need to tell me or you need to find somebody to talk to because like, this is not working for our our relationship functions. And like I said, type a so we talk talk talk talk Goodman. Okay, and we move on we go have like Buffalo Wild Wings or something.
Dawn Hansen 17:28
Go on a dirt bike rider. Yeah, yeah, hunting. So I usually gave us this, but I was gonna ask, is there a? What would you consider like one of your hardest?
Gabe Hansen 17:39
What's your most memorable day on the job?
Dawn Hansen 17:42
That's the way to ask.
Tanner Bazer 17:44
That's a loaded question.
Dawn Hansen 17:45
Right? Didn't Denton Mandy might know better than you?
Mandy Bazer 17:50
Do, but I'll let him see what he picks.
Tanner Bazer 17:53
I would say off the top of my head is trying to tie honestly between as far as most memorable, either the night we went up for the fires because the first night kicked off, I was one of the ones that went up and we're evac and people were on the fire line. Or they probably be the night of the South 67th protest where we, you know, that was I've never experienced that. And I remember being a baby cop. One of my coaches was like, you know, make sure and have your gas mask in your, you know, your helmet and stuff. And I remember sitting there thinking, like, why I'll never use this stuff. You know, never. And I was I was wrong. They're
Dawn Hansen 18:32
2020 was like the year both those things are in 2020. Yeah, yeah.
Tanner Bazer 18:35
Well, I'd say most memorable, probably one of those two is just and I think is both because, you know, after you get a couple years into it, or something like that, you kind of, you know, you always have stuff that surprises you, or, you know, you learn to never say that you've seen it, you know, seen it and done it. But the thing is, is like you, you know, they're all changes, but it's all overall kind of the same thing. Were like, you know, me being way out in the county with no radio service or anything trying to get people out of their house with a fire like, I would have never guessed that being a city cop. You know, and, yeah, and or with the, you know, protests. So I think those two are probably, I would say the most memorable.
Dawn Hansen 19:16
Yeah, and I would agree that those are sort of those outlier issues that I'm with you on the day to day. No, it was I didn't think that I've been there 20 years and as of like today, I think and I never anticipated that that we would be sending you guys to help evacuate people and want to like we all we all want it
Gabe Hansen 19:35
not like you're inside the city as well. You guys were they were pretty far out
Dawn Hansen 19:39
how far you like 2030
Tanner Bazer 19:40
We went all the way to the night we're evacuating we went up past Liebhard
Dawn Hansen 19:46
right. To the where that fire lane stopped you.
Tanner Bazer 19:49
Yeah, we were we're at the fire line. And the thing is, too is you know, I'm not super familiar. Like I know I take the highway to go out east home but I've never, you know totaled up every side Yeah, got a lot further parks out there and I mean all kinds of stuff and then bridges to the other sections. And yeah, it was the in the environment that night that was that was what's most memorable to me because you know, you couldn't see the baker me up with another guy. And you know, you couldn't you'd be standing three feet from each other and you couldn't see each other through the smoke and all that
Dawn Hansen 20:22
stuff does sound for seem different to you as well. Yeah,
Tanner Bazer 20:25
it was a little different. And honestly, the thing that probably stands out the most is, you know, I kind of lost track of time. I don't remember what time I got sent up there. But it was I, by the time I looked at my watch, it should have been daylight out and I didn't even know is daylight because because it was so dark. And that like that really threw through me kind of for loop because, you know, you think at least the sunlight would be able to somewhat, you know, get through there. And then I think my situation was a little bit more unique because I spent all night and however how many hours overtime I worked. But by the time I got home, I was I went I went I went took a shower, first thing hopped in bed and 30 minutes later, we had to eat back from our house. And so it was just I think it was what like almost three days without sleep.
Dawn Hansen 21:13
Oh my gosh. Oh, shit. So how close did you get your house?
Tanner Bazer 21:18
I think as the crow flies, I think the last number I heard was like two or two and a half miles. I think
Dawn Hansen 21:24
that's pretty close. Yeah, that when shift lace that first night, two miles seemed like nothing less. Yeah, wildfires move with that. So back in the before 2020 A red flag warning. I was like, whatever, who cares. So it's dry. So there's some wind blah, blah, blah. Now I have a whole new level of respect and a little bit of like, Oh, dear God, it's a Red Flag Day. I mean, that happened last summer. And I was a little like, Okay, well, we're gonna be paying attention the call screen a little differently. We're gonna look at who knows how to use a chainsaw who has because that was super handy. The guys that knew how to use chainsaws. And
Tanner Bazer 22:00
yeah, that was what a nice thing too, because they sent Bronson i
Dawn Hansen 22:04
i picked you guys. Yeah, I should have picked somebody else I didn't pick. I was like, Oh, that was my bad. Oh, that was good,
Tanner Bazer 22:11
though. Because both of us knew how to run saws. We're both kind of, for lack of a better term redneck tennis. Yeah.
Dawn Hansen 22:17
And I knew you guys could do no problem. I actually was like, and I knew you knew sort of the area and that, you know, nothing in the woods would really startled you guys. It's kinda what I was thinking. Yeah. And, and we had to find saws for them at the time we steal them from the fire department call every call public works first. And they're like, No, ours are all done. I'm like, What do you mean? Oh, yeah. Right. I'm like, I'm
Gabe Hansen 22:41
hopefully from use. It was fire, like,
Dawn Hansen 22:45
I think so because there had been wind and they knocked out some power. And I know, they'd been doing some like neighborhood cleanup. But they have like, I think they have more chainsaws now. But at the time, I was shocked. So when I called the fire department out east. I was like, hey, any chance we could get your chain saws and the guy was like, what? We're thinking outside the box now. Okay, so help me out here. So I started to sell it.
Tanner Bazer 23:07
We got there. And you know, they were kind of doing the whole okay, this button, you know, you do this? And we're like, Yeah, put it in there. Let's go.
Dawn Hansen 23:15
Do you have an extra day of the to cycle? Where is it? Throw it in there?
Gabe Hansen 23:20
So long, complicated?
Dawn Hansen 23:22
No, but some people I mean, if you've never used a chainsaw that to cycle and but how does if it's a steal the fancy
Mandy Bazer 23:28
that will start when you're cutting things you don't realize like the kickback or like the move that chainsaws have,
Tanner Bazer 23:36
by not buying up a blade or something too. And then you're out, you know, because we're going down roads and stuff and that we're clear. And then you turn around, try to come back and then there'll be trees down or something like that. And that's
Dawn Hansen 23:46
partly why I was like, oh, we can't send them up there without saws is because the state trooper in the fire truck had gotten stuck behind the fire line and did not have chainsaws, I'm like, Oh, I can't, we can't send anybody chainsaw up stuck. And we kept getting what was really there was like a miracle kind of day two, because by sending you guys, it just felt like we were doing the right thing. And two are trying to do the very best we could for everybody. And that, you know, we couldn't really reach you guys by radio all the time. But the messaging systems worked. And we could kind of track you on the AVL and know where you guys were at and then see the 911 calls coming in and be like, Oh, um, I don't know what's going on. But the fire is barreling down this road apparently. So that felt really good. But then I didn't realize when he went home. You were 30 minutes later.
Mandy Bazer 24:36
It was crazy that morning because I woke up and the whole sky at our place is black. And I was like, Okay, we're gonna start packing already like taking baby photos or marriage certificate or wedding pictures like all of the important documents and like put them in a box and then I told my boys I was like, okay, because they need something to do because they're terrified. Yeah, we need a pack bag. cuz we're gonna go probably camping in the trailer we just bought. Oh, and it let's make it fun. I was trying to make it fun for them. Yeah, but like fire is falling from the sky. Don't worry about it, it's fine. We're just pack our bags, grab your favorite stuff we use or whatever, like have your favorite toys or go to Tanner gets home and I was like, Where do you got like the be prepared the level two? And he's like, Well, just I'm just gonna lay down for a minute because he's like wiped, and I totally, I was like, yeah, totally. It's just been up for more than a day now.
Dawn Hansen 25:35
Yeah. Because he'd started to work that day before it four in the morning. 4pm 4pm and it was home at noon. Okay, sorry.
Mandy Bazer 25:43
And, you know, like, okay, so, go do what you have to do. And it wasn't even 30 minutes and they're calling us be Evacuate now. Go go go. And we. What's funny is we have two goats. And we had a dog carrier. And we stuck two goats in a dog. There in the back. I was like, put my chickens tears like No, no, no chicken, no chick, just let them loose. The flyway was right chicken.
Dawn Hansen 26:15
That's probably wrong. Lord, I apologize.
Gabe Hansen 26:18
What's crazy is in the middle of Eugene. I got the notice to be prepared to leave. And we're in the middle of Eugene. I was like, if I ever get the notice to evacuate. Where are we gonna go?
Dawn Hansen 26:29
Where did you did you guys have an idea where to go?
Tanner Bazer 26:32
We kind of figure it out last minute. The problem is, is all of our closest friends live out there? Right? Smith? Oh, yeah, she's one of my best friends and her Mandy know each other really well. And they, they didn't skip a beat. They're like, Yeah, I can park your trailer in front of her house.
Mandy Bazer 26:49
Really, that saved us. So
Dawn Hansen 26:53
that's it feels really good to be like part of the group that would do that for you and know that you would do that for them in like a heartbeat. Like, it's not even a question. We're
Tanner Bazer 27:01
a family. Ya know, in some ways, we're kind of dysfunctional. We are Yeah. We, you know, we may not go drinking beer with everybody and be best friends with everyone. But when the chips are down, but when someone needs something, we're all there.
Dawn Hansen 27:15
Yeah, you know, whatever it takes, we'll make it happen. Yeah, that's what a dysfunctional family
Gabe Hansen 27:19
is for
Dawn Hansen 27:20
right? To bolster us. I know one of the other things that you do really well as you work with kids who are in bad situations, and that you're one of those officers that we always turn to to help for people who are in family distress, it seems like you have a real passion for helping, you know, better situations be better. Yeah, if you're willing to talk about that,
Tanner Bazer 27:47
yeah. For me, you know, every cop kind of has their thing, right? Like, we have our overall umbrella that we work under, and then you have cops that like to work duties, or you have cops that like to work dope and stuff like that. And the two things I've always really liked to do is dope in domestic violence. You know, a lot of times the cases that we do, you know, a victim, one week will be your suspect the next week, and that's part of it, and it is what it is, but with domestic violence, a lot of times, that's where you get your true, like 100% victims and stuff like that, and we all have different life experience or things and, you know, I just, for me, helping those people are less, that's what I truly enjoy to do, especially kids, right? Because kids are so innocent all the way around. Yeah, they don't, you don't get to pick your family, while your blood family at least. And you know, and you know, the situation, you don't get pick your situation, you can't really do anything, get out of it, right? Like, when you turn 18, you know, you can either use it as a crutch, or you can use it to motivate you and get away from it. But at a certain age, you know, you're just kind of stuck in it and, and, you know, the cards are dealt and you have no say in it. So being able to try to help people like that. I guess that's,
Dawn Hansen 29:07
I don't know, I'm saying you do that is very rewarding. And I see that you've actually demonstrated that for other officers. So I see other people who then also do it too. So it's like a sort of like a really great leadership role that your show and provide is that, you know, I've seen it and you know, I've have officers that were before you that picked up that mantle and decided that they wanted to make sure and take care of children. And then it's that makes me really proud to be a part of that team. And to know like, I'm going to send this officer to this call, because this person is going to need your help, you know, like or if it's a colleague, if we've been out there a couple of times, and we haven't really gotten anywhere. I'll be like, Oh, pacers working. Maybe I'll just wait until he have 10 more minutes and he's on perfect. So there are certain goals I sort of always not always but I mean it when it works. It works and it's, it's awesome. And then you have others specialties as well which are a little more fun a little more. Boom, boom ish. Are you learning to talk about that are?
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