Waitstaff & Sunscreen

It's National Waitstaff day and Dangerous Dave talks about a survey of servers, bartenders and other about waiting. Plus, is your sunscreen safe and effective? Probably not, as a study says 75% may be effective but not safe.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please, he's stuber in the den with dangerous date National
White Staff Day, Ladies and gentlemen, if you hit up
a restaurant, better leave a half decent tip. Supposed to
honor servers, bartenders, baristas, thank them for dealing with your
annoying requests. You might not want to tip after hearing
some of these stats, they'll BuzzFeed recently pulled thousands of

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current and former servers and asked them these questions, stuff
like have you ever retaliated against the rude customer? The
questions I asked include have you ever eaten food off
of customer's plate? Thirty two percent said yes, no word
whether it was before they got it to you or
after they took it from you. Have you ever dated
or hooked up with the cook? Twenty five percent said yes.
Have you ever come into work sick or hungover? And

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eighty one percent of people have done it? Have you
ever finished a customer's alcoholic beverage? Six percent said yes?
Have you ever given somebody free food or free drink
because you thought they were cute? Nearly a third of
them said yes. Have you ever snuck off to the
bathroom just to get a break in eighty eight percent
said yes. And have you ever retaliated against a rude customer?
Half a server say yes, they retaliated in some way.

(01:06):
They didn't say how I have a feeling. Sometimes a
loogi had to be involved deeper in the two. Well,
is your go to sunblock actually safe and effective? Well,
according to a new report, probably not. The nonprofit EWG
short for Environmental Working Group, they posted their annual report
of the best sunscreens to buy, at least in their standards,

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and they say only one in four sunscreens on the
market are actually safe and effective. It doesn't mean that
they don't work. Seventy five percent of them don't work. Yeah,
they work. It's the word safe that they're worried about,
specifically because of the mix of chemicals they use. There's
two types of sunscreen, chemical and mineral based. In general,
they say mineral based is better. Mineral based usually uses

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the kind that you rub on lotion. They tend to
have more white streaks to rub in, and they prevent
UV rays from hitting your skin. Chemical based sunscreens, most
likely the spray on versions, work by creating a chemical
reaction that absorbs UV rays and disperses them. As heat.
Both options can prevent sunburn, and studies have found that
the chemicals in the second type end up absorbing into

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your bloodstream and can be detected days or even weeks later.
Chemical based sunscreens are also worse for the environment and animals,
so they say the mineral based are better option overall.
They posted their top sunscreen picks for kids daily use,
outdoor activities or sports. Most of them are fancy versions,
not popular brands like Wine Tropic or Banana Boat. In general,

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mineral based sunblocks have one of these two ingredients zinc
oxide or titanium dioxide. So I guess you can go
to their website EWG dot org slash sunscreen to check
out all of the sunscreens in their rankings. The important
thing is is at least you're using something right, like
maybe a shirt and a hat and sunglasses and long pants.

(02:55):
Oh boy, to me again for another episode of Deeper
in the Den with dangerous staved right here.