Memorial Day, A Bun-forgettable Race Weekend, and Treat Technology
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Small But Mighty Media
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's finally almost summer. |
| 0:08.0 | I am so ready for it. |
| 0:10.0 | How are you spending your Memorial Day weekend? |
| 0:12.0 | I'm going to a picnic, a barbecue, and a barbecue picnic. How about you? |
| 0:17.0 | Probably going to go grab a couple pickle smoothies. |
| 0:20.0 | That's funny. |
| 0:21.8 | That's funny. |
| 0:22.8 | Oh, you're serious. |
| 0:25.0 | Pickled smoothies are a real thing? |
| 0:26.7 | Of course. |
| 0:27.5 | And of course they're real. |
| 0:29.1 | And yeah, I'd be happy to tell you all about them because I'm Ryan Willard. |
| 0:33.5 | And I'm Pamela Kirkland. |
| 0:35.1 | It's Thursday, May 21st. |
| 0:37.1 | This is 10 things you need to know. |
| 0:43.2 | While Memorial Day may feel like the unofficial start of summer, a long weekend filled with |
| 0:50.6 | travel, cookouts, and pool days is, most importantly, a time to honor service members |
| 0:56.6 | who lost their lives serving our country. It wasn't always called Memorial Day. The holiday |
| 1:01.9 | was originally known as Decoration Day, when mourners placed flowers on the graves of Union |
| 1:07.6 | and Confederate soldiers following the Civil War. It was observed on May 30th |
| 1:12.5 | each year until Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act in 1968, which established Memorial Day |
| 1:20.1 | as the last Monday in May. Memorial Day is a huge travel weekend, and AAA predicts that a |
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