Megan Singleton: BloggerAtLarge.com writer on how to celebrate the Fourth of July

This weekend is July 4th - a big occasion as America celebrates their 250th anniversary since the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Despite record breaking temps, it looks the fireworks are all on around the country, with many of the nation's biggest cities planning celebrations.

BloggerAtLarge's Megan Singleton explained further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks, EDB, Travel with Wendy Woo tours Where
the World Is Yours Book? Now.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Joining me now is Meghan Singleton, blogger at large dot com.
Good morning, good morning, Happy fourth of July.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yes, yes, and thank you. Same to you. And we're
not really all over Taylor Swift's thought of July? Are we?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well?

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Are the we small hours? No? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
No, Look I have been. I've been talking about that
a little bit this morning, because you know, we went
to New York and they were you know, the New
York is a pretty much no one's interested really in
an independence day or what Trump's doing to celebrate. They're
all about the wedding. But I've just been quite intrigued
how we can be all about it when actually there's no,
we don't have any information, nothing has been released once.
I've never seen so many headlines that say nothing. That's classic.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
So as right now as we speak, in the next hour,
New York are going to be setting off eighty five
thousand fireworks about okay, back and forth between both rivers.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well, maybe that's why, Maybe that's why she's getting married, swekends,
she's making the most of the fireworks that are on display.
I don't know, but look, if you didn't get an
invite to Travis and Taylor's wedding, how would you be celebrating? What?
What does happen in places like New York and Washington
and things?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, well, this is an extraordinary year. There by by
I'm not even going to try and say what it
is the two hundred and fiftieth birthday. So the whole
of the US has been building up to this. It's
not just the big cities, although featuring Washington, d C, Philadelphia, Boston,
New York. It's all part of where the declaration was signed.
So I'm just going to go back in a nutshell

(01:42):
explain that leading up to today, two hundred and fifty
years ago, there were a lot of unhappy people in
the colonies. So they'd gone out from Britain to start
themselves in new life, but they were still being ruled
by King George the Third arbitrarily taxing them, forcing them
to do business with monopolistic companies, one being the East

(02:02):
Indian Tea Company. You might know where I'm going with this.
Seventeen seventy three, so this is three years prior to
the declaration was the Boston Tea Party. Then all war
and hell broke out, and finally, in seventeen seventy six,
the Thirteen Colonies signed a declaration of Independence, which wasn't

(02:23):
actually legal and binding until the US Constitution was signed
eleven years later, that all people were created equal, et cetera,
et cetera. So because of this, now we've got all
of the fanfare going on. We had a big fly
over the Hoover Dam last weekend in New York. In
Las Vegas, it's a whole the celebration is lasting the
whole year. So thirty three degrees right now in New

(02:46):
York City, and people have been waiting all afternoon for
their viewing spots of these rivers because their fireworks are
going to start off in about an hour nine to
twenty five pm. But down in DC they're having eight
hundred and fifty thousand fireworks are going to be blowing
off starting at ten thirty because Trump's going to make

(03:07):
a speech, a very long speech, but their fireworks are
going to last for forty minutes. And I'm excited because
the whole thing's going to be live on CNN.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh okay, that's a long time for fireworks.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
I know. And look, I'm worried about the fire risk
and the smoke. And it's thirty degrees in Washington right
now at eight thirty pm, So how dry is the
land although they are expecting it. They are expecting an
electrical thunderstorm at about eleven pm. Okay, Sony, for everyone's
standing out there on the wall.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
No, let's let's get it all over and done with. Hey,
really quickly? Did you see your play about the Signing
of Yes?

Speaker 3 (03:45):
It was amazing at Ford's Theater. It was a musical play.
And basically that's how I'm so knowledgeable, Francesca, because I
watched the play and I paid attention to these thirteen
colonies and how they came to finally reach this agreement
to sign this declaration.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
It's not really This is what I like about you, Megan.
You do homework.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Lovey to talk to you. Blogger at Large is where
you find Megan. She's got lots of blogs on Washington
and New York and things, and I'm sure there'll be
something on there about in Debeni Steak for.

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