Memorial Day Stats & Pretend To Like

Your Memorial Day weekend BBQ has gotten more expensive. Dangerous Dave talks about how much and weekend safety. Plus, thing we like or just pretend to like.

Episode Transcript

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This is Stuber in the den withdangerous Day. If you're cooking out this
weekend't expect to spend a little more. According to Consumer Affairs, they looked
at how much seven barbecue staples costnow compared to twenty twenty three. It's
about a ten percent bump twenty seventhirty nine a year ago, thirty dollars
and eighteen cents now, mostly becausehamburger meat prices are up, but nothing

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on the list was cheaper than itwas in twenty twenty three. They compared
data from over one hundred and fiftythousand stores across the country. Looked at
what you need for a basic cookingout with burgers and dogs. Seven items
that cost more this year than lastyear. Eight burgers eight oh seven.
That's up fifteen percent. Burger bunsthree ozho six up one percent. Eight
all beef hot dogs three fifteen Nochange in that. Eight hot dog buns

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three oh nine up one percent.Thirty two ounce bottle of ketchup five fifty
three up two percent. Twenty ouncebottle of mustard two sixty one up three
percent. Twenty six ounce bottle ofRelige four sixty seven up forty nine percent.
I guess there's a big pickle shortagebecause of the extreme weather in Mexico.
I guess that has something to dowith it. Here's a few things
to keep you happy and safe.First of all, when driving, Triple

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A expects thirty eight point four millionpeople on the road, so buckle up,
make sure you're well rested, don'tspeed, and don't drink and drive.
Grilling, never leave your hot grillunsupervised. Make sure it's far enough
away from buildings, trees, andanything else that could catch fire. Food
safety, don't leave food out ofthe refrigerator for more than two hours with
temperatures over ninety degrees. That dropsto one hour. Anything longer you could

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get food poisoning. Water safety.Pay close attention to your kids around water
and in sun safety. Today's don'tFriday, so that's fry. That means
the National Council of Skin Cancer Preventionis encouraging you to use sunscreen this weekend
and all weekend long. So fourtips. Slip, slop, slap,
wrap so slip on the long sleeveshirt, Slap on plenty SPF fifteen or

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higher. Make sure you put ona hat and wrap a pair of sunglasses
to protect your eyes. There yougo, enjoy your Memorial weekend. In
the two well, people online aredebating whether these are things people actually like
or just pretend to enjoy. Somehowother people's kids was not the most popular
answer. Some of the best responsesof things that we just pretend to enjoy

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or do we really enjoy them?LinkedIn high heels, family, Christmas and
Thanksgiving gatherings, edible arrangements, coldplunges in ice, running, small talk,
voluntarily waking up before five o'clock,gender reveal parties, and Twitter or
X or whatever you want to callit these days. Other people suggested things
like IPAs, coffee, the office, TikTok, league of Legends, hiking,

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crowded events, and hard to gettoo expensive crappy beer. Most of
those seemed cases that somebody doesn't likethem, or somebody does but their mainstream
or trendy trying to argue that it'simpossible so many others like it. Some
of the other better examples kale,extremely spicy stuff and neighbors, influencers,
corporate phrases like management, client expectationsand circle back, and people just in

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general. I go with the lasttune it again for another episode. Of
deeper in the den with dangerous daveBy here