July 4, 2026 • 15 mins
Happy 4th of July from the I Do Part 2 crew! Our hosts check in to tell us what they are getting up to this holiday!
Would you have a first date on 4th of July?? We discuss!
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Hey, the whole tis amy and today here and we
wanted to wish you a very happy Fourth of July.
Might have heard it's big two hundred and fiftieth this year,
where it's kind of a big birthday.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, this is probably the biggest Fourth of July will
ever celebrate, and we're going to get to do it together.
We have big plans. We're gonna just be looking at
our window.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, our big plans are to stay home and do nothing.
We're actually doing something that's very cool this year. The
Parade of Ships. This year the Fleet Week they moved up.
We get to look out our window and watch all
these beautiful ships go by members of the military and
honor them and then ropes. There's a fireworks displayed that's
going to happen, and we might have the best view
(00:57):
in the city.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yes, that's right. We just so happened to have a
view of the Statue of Liberty and the Hudson. We
feel very lucky. So we will have front row seats
to apparently what's going to be one of the biggest
fireworks displays ever on the Fourth of July. We were
going to have a bunch of people over, but then
we were told that my daughter is having a competing party.
(01:19):
So we'll see how many we end up with and
how many she ends up with.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Gotta be honest with you, I was happy to hear
that those all those folks were at a competing party.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
When you say folks, you mean like rowdy early twenty somethings.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Well, you know people that eat you out of and
drink you out of house.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I eat you, drink you.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Out of here.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, those folks. So we got lucky. So our big
plan is boils down to this.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
We're staying home, yes, popcorn and champagne and sitting on
the couch watching the fireworks right outside our window.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And some people might be doing it in all kinds
of different ways out at cookouts, family gathering something we
both kind of grew up with, and a lot of
people might be in DC as well. But wherever you
might be, we certainly wish you ate very happy and
a very safe birthday party for the US.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yes, Happy two hundred and fiftieth America.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Hey, iHeartRadio. Happy fourth of July. It's Kelly ben Simone.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Hi, Kelly, It's producer Heather here High producer Heather Happy.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Fourth of July.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Happy Fourth of July.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
What are you getting up to this Fourth of July?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Well, this fourth of July is a very very big
at fourth of July because we're celebrating the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of our country. So Happy Birthday America.
I'm just so excited to be with my friends and
family and drink a lot of beer and just enjoy
my kids. Sweatshirts, bonfires, jean shorts. That's going to be
(02:44):
my celebration.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Are you guys in the Hamptons this time of year?
Speaker 7 (02:49):
We are going to be in the Hamptons.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Yes, I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I wanted to be in an area where, you know,
where my kids grew up, and just something that's really
like reflective of like who we are as a fan
family celebrating this beautiful birthday.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
What's kind of your favorite Fourth of July tradition?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
I love fireworks My one of my favorite traditions. I
love fireworks. My oldest daughter used to call them fireworkings,
and I just always call them fireworkings because of that.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
And I just.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Really love just family and friends together just because you
were celebrating this great holiday weekend and it's like it's
really one of those holidays where people don't really fight.
No one's fighting about the cooking, no one's fighting about family.
It's just people are just like, hey, happy Fourth.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
I'm like, yeah, you too.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Yeah, it's a very it's a very easy, breezy holiday.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
It's very me it is. You've got a cute little dog,
Tarzan does. Tarzan like the fireworks.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Tarzan does not like the fireworks, but he definitely likes
the hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Speaking of hot dogs, what's your favorite Fourth of July food?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I'm a big chicken nugget kind of person.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So chicken nuggets, I know, I love.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
Kids chicken nuggets. I'm like, I'll take some of those.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Anything I'm not allowed to have, that's what I want.
I don't want steak, I don't want your hot dogs.
I want like kid's chicken nugget, any kid's food.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
You know what I think is a quintessential Fourth of
July food?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Potato salad? I love potato salad. Why do we only
eat potato salad in the summertime? We should be eating
potato salad in the wintertime.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
I love it.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
It is definite vibe.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
So is corn of the cob.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
Yeah, I'm quite a big chicken nugget person.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
I learned something new about you all the time. Chicken.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Have you met me?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I'm like, I'm like, I'm literally like, elf, I'm this
child in this adult's body.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So you're hanging out with the fam this fourth July.
I love that you're in the Hampton's. It's gorgeous, it's easy, breezy.
Just speaking hypothetically, would you ever have a first date
on the fourth of July?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Would I bring a guy to a Fourth of July
party and it was our first date?
Speaker 9 (05:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Would you ever do that?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I mean if I kind of like saw him at
the hardware store and I'm like, you're hot, Like, okay,
why not? I mean my kids, My kids would be
like mom, I'd be like, girls, who care? Is our
older I met? I met a cowboy at home depot.
Why can't I bring some guy that met the hardware
store to Fourth July party?
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Would you be scouting this Fourth of July? Are you looking?
Where are you right now in the dating landscape?
Speaker 8 (05:36):
You mean?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Am I going to hardware stores all across No?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
But like listen, fourth of July a lot of people
parties hanging out at the beach, like, are you looking?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Are you talking to somebody already?
Speaker 7 (05:50):
What?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
We haven't gotten an update on your dating status in
a minute, right.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Okay, So here's the update on my dating. I am
now open to really dating. I just finished filming a
new show and i just feel really good about my
life and I'm just very relaxed and I am open
to you know, meeting you know, just different kinds of people.
(06:18):
I always had this thing in my head, Heather. Before
it was like when I got divorced. Originally I was like,
I want to get married now when I have more kids.
Like I was like marriage and kids, marriaging kids. And
then I was like, Okay, maybe I should get married.
And then I'm like that after all of that, now
I'm just like, I just want to enjoy my life.
And I feel like because I'm open to that kind
(06:39):
of those feelings, I've you know, I've been meeting some
really nice people, really really nice people, nice gentlemen. But
I am open to a guy from a hardware store.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I love it. Happy Hunting this fourth of July.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Happy Hunting, have a wonderful holiday and.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Have a happy fourth Kelly.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Thanks Heather, you too, happy.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
For Hey guys.
Speaker 9 (07:12):
Happy Fourth of July at Cheryl Burke from I Do
Part Two And I Am gonna just be relaxing with
my dog. My parents are coming in from out of
town to visit me, and we're gonna watch a bunch
of fireworks and eat lots of barbecue because you know,
this is my car blowed up day, so we just
eat whatever we want and then regret it the next day.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
So obviously I'm a dog mom.
Speaker 9 (07:35):
And my dog actually doesn't even flinch when it comes
to fireworks, which kind of scares me. I had to
get her hearing check, but she's really chill. She'll just
eat the crumbs from our barbecue that we're gonna most
likely have, and she will just she said, happy dog.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
She's a happy but spoiled dog. So she will need walks.
We'll do like two long walks. Then we're gonna hit
the streets and go to the movie theater.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
So other things that I'm excited for this Fourth of
July is just to really spend time with my family.
My stepdad, he loves watching anything to do with like
aliens or murder, so we're either going to watch a
bunch of documentaries on Netflix at my house, or we're
going to go to the movie theater, which I haven't
been to a movie theater since before COVID.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
And we're going to watch Disclosure.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
I think it's a Steven Spielberg movie about how there
are aliens currently on this planet Earth.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
So that'suld be interesting. So happy for.
Speaker 10 (08:36):
Hey, it's Kathy and Joan and we're here talking about
the fourth of July.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
What are you up to, Joan for this fourth?
Speaker 7 (08:44):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (08:45):
Well, you know I live in DC, so we have
a huge celebration going on. We bought tickets. We're going
down to the National Mall. There. There are tons of activities,
but I'll tell you like my favorite, other than the fireworks,
which I love fire works, I think everybody does. They're
doing a big flyover, so there's gonna be f sixteens
(09:05):
and like all the new aircraft, the Blue Angels are
coming so that's gonna go on all day. So we're
going down early and bringing my two grandsons, my daughter
and her husband. It's their kids. The five of us
are going. I'm gonna be the fifth wheel, but I'm
okay with that because they're gonna need help for those
little babies and yeah, we're going down the mall, National Mall, DC.
Here a come, how about you?
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Well, this is a big one. It's two hundred and
fifty years. I think.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
My favorite thing this year, I of course always go
and watch the fireworks. I go on like Austin with
friends and they shoot them off and it's beautiful over
the water.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
But you know what I love the most about Fourth
of July.
Speaker 10 (09:43):
It's it's the one day where everyone's patriotic. It's Americana.
Everybody's red, white and blue. Everyone has the parade, small
town parades, hamburgers, hot dogs.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Family.
Speaker 10 (09:56):
To me, it's just it's it's you know they say
Chris miss in July. It's that. To me, It's so
much about family and friends and just spending time together.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
And it makes you so proud. I'm just so proud
of our nation if you think about how it evolved
and how where it all started, and those super wise
men who wrote that constitution, that we still live by
those words and they keep us, you know, on the
straight and arrow.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
I love that.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
I'm so proud of our country. I'm so proud to
say that I'm American always and.
Speaker 10 (10:28):
And yet We're only two hundred and fifty years old,
and when you look at countries in Europe, we've come
a long way.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Baby, we have come. Okay, what is your favorite thing
to eat down on the fourth of July?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (10:40):
God, Like, it's such an American holiday. It's American like
burgers and hotdogs and apple pie and watermelon. And you
know somebody will make one of those big sheet cakes
that looks like the flag with the strawberries and wipperies.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
I have to have it.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
That's just part of the day.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
Okay, I gotta tell you everything. I'm with you one
hundred percent. Hams have you gotta have the potato chips
and the dyl ralish. You have to have that apple
pie ice cream. The one thing I got it. You're
gonna laugh. Do you know the one thing I never
eat and clothing I never eat on the fourth of
July is watermelon. Don't like it?
Speaker 8 (11:15):
You don't like watermelon. I'm obsessed with watermelon.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
No, everyone is. In fact, I have.
Speaker 8 (11:20):
I just looked at an Instagram post about how to
pick a good watermelon, and I like studied it. I'm like,
because you know, when you get home, you have a
new watermelon. You cut it open and it's bad. It's
so mad. So now I think I know how to
pick out the perfect watermelon. DM me. If you want
to know, I have the whole I have the whole
Instagram thing. So I'm a huge watermelon person.
Speaker 10 (11:38):
Okay, Well, the only thing I like about watermelons is
when you throw me to a pool and they're greased
and you have to score a goal.
Speaker 8 (11:45):
You know, I know, it's hilarious. I used to lifeguard
and I did that one time and one of the
kids almost dround. I had to jump in and save them.
So we don't do that anymore.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Okay, so let's so eat the watermelon, do not drive
on the pool. Okay, Joe, I know you're with Chop,
but would you ever ever have had a date, And
you can ask me the same question on the fourth
of July?
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Would you ever do a first date on the fourth
of July.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out why you wouldn't. It's
such a fun it would be such a fun date.
I mean it's kind of like ironic. It's Independence Day,
and yeah, maybe seeking not being independent, But other than
that irony, I think it's like there's so much to
do and and like it's kind of like a no
pressure date. You already know where it's going to end up. Oh,
(12:32):
fire works, until you know ten o'clock at night, and
then you're both gonna be tired and you're gonna go okay,
So about you.
Speaker 10 (12:38):
Well, you know, I can see both sides of the same,
you know, fifty cent piece, here's the deal.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
On the one hand, yes, why wouldn't you want to
go on a date? Why wouldn't I want to go
on a first date on the fourth of July?
Speaker 10 (12:50):
Here's the problem for me, Mostly it's with family and
can you imagine going on a first date and rolling
them in with my kids, my grandkids. So I couldn't
do a first date because I spent it with my kids.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
So I would not do a first date. But I
agree with you.
Speaker 10 (13:11):
It's a great idea because so much is going on,
you don't feel the pressure of having to, you know,
get into serious conversation. You could just have fun, but
not around my kids, not my grand kids, not a
first day.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
Totally agree with you. I think at this point in
my life I feel the same way that I would
never do a first date. And you know exactly that
you couldn't do it in front of your family, but
what a great one when we were younger would have been.
I don't think I ever did one. Did you ever
do one? I think I ever went on a first July?
Speaker 10 (13:42):
Well, well, remember I was married forever. So no, I
never did have a first date on the fourth of July.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
But I do.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
I'm so looking forward to this one because I really
do feel like it's going to be an amazing celebration
of our countries.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
I remember, I bet you do too.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Nineteen, I sure do.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Two hundred and I were, you know, announcing our age
the world that we're old enough to remember that. I was,
you know, I was thirteen, and I remember it perfectly.
I remember going to a prey down in DC with
my parents and staying and watching the fireworks.
Speaker 10 (14:16):
I also went to the fireworks, but I'm from Boston,
and you know they have the tall ships and they did.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
The thing going through the harbor.
Speaker 10 (14:25):
Its just again, I just have to run this out
by saying that fourth of July is the time when
not only can you be patriotic, it feels great to
be patriotic on the fourth of July.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
I agree, We're all proud. No matter where we stand
with the politics, we're all proud to be Americans.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Get out your red, white, and blue. Get ready for
the day.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
I have male get already ready. Enjoy your fourth I'm sorry,
I'm not going to be we can't be together.
Speaker 10 (14:51):
Well we will, but we'll see each other soon. Happy
fourth jown to you and your family.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
You too, Bye, sweetie.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
It
Hey, the whole tis amy and today here and we
wanted to wish you a very happy Fourth of July.
Might have heard it's big two hundred and fiftieth this year,
where it's kind of a big birthday.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, this is probably the biggest Fourth of July will
ever celebrate, and we're going to get to do it together.
We have big plans. We're gonna just be looking at
our window.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, our big plans are to stay home and do nothing.
We're actually doing something that's very cool this year. The
Parade of Ships. This year the Fleet Week they moved up.
We get to look out our window and watch all
these beautiful ships go by members of the military and
honor them and then ropes. There's a fireworks displayed that's
going to happen, and we might have the best view
(00:57):
in the city.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yes, that's right. We just so happened to have a
view of the Statue of Liberty and the Hudson. We
feel very lucky. So we will have front row seats
to apparently what's going to be one of the biggest
fireworks displays ever on the Fourth of July. We were
going to have a bunch of people over, but then
we were told that my daughter is having a competing party.
(01:19):
So we'll see how many we end up with and
how many she ends up with.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Gotta be honest with you, I was happy to hear
that those all those folks were at a competing party.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
When you say folks, you mean like rowdy early twenty somethings.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Well, you know people that eat you out of and
drink you out of house.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I eat you, drink you.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Out of here.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, those folks. So we got lucky. So our big
plan is boils down to this.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
We're staying home, yes, popcorn and champagne and sitting on
the couch watching the fireworks right outside our window.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And some people might be doing it in all kinds
of different ways out at cookouts, family gathering something we
both kind of grew up with, and a lot of
people might be in DC as well. But wherever you
might be, we certainly wish you ate very happy and
a very safe birthday party for the US.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yes, Happy two hundred and fiftieth America.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Hey, iHeartRadio. Happy fourth of July. It's Kelly ben Simone.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Hi, Kelly, It's producer Heather here High producer Heather Happy.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Fourth of July.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Happy Fourth of July.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
What are you getting up to this Fourth of July?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Well, this fourth of July is a very very big
at fourth of July because we're celebrating the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of our country. So Happy Birthday America.
I'm just so excited to be with my friends and
family and drink a lot of beer and just enjoy
my kids. Sweatshirts, bonfires, jean shorts. That's going to be
(02:44):
my celebration.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Are you guys in the Hamptons this time of year?
Speaker 7 (02:49):
We are going to be in the Hamptons.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Yes, I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I wanted to be in an area where, you know,
where my kids grew up, and just something that's really
like reflective of like who we are as a fan
family celebrating this beautiful birthday.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
What's kind of your favorite Fourth of July tradition?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
I love fireworks My one of my favorite traditions. I
love fireworks. My oldest daughter used to call them fireworkings,
and I just always call them fireworkings because of that.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
And I just.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Really love just family and friends together just because you
were celebrating this great holiday weekend and it's like it's
really one of those holidays where people don't really fight.
No one's fighting about the cooking, no one's fighting about family.
It's just people are just like, hey, happy Fourth.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
I'm like, yeah, you too.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Yeah, it's a very it's a very easy, breezy holiday.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
It's very me it is. You've got a cute little dog,
Tarzan does. Tarzan like the fireworks.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Tarzan does not like the fireworks, but he definitely likes
the hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Speaking of hot dogs, what's your favorite Fourth of July food?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I'm a big chicken nugget kind of person.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So chicken nuggets, I know, I love.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
Kids chicken nuggets. I'm like, I'll take some of those.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Anything I'm not allowed to have, that's what I want.
I don't want steak, I don't want your hot dogs.
I want like kid's chicken nugget, any kid's food.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
You know what I think is a quintessential Fourth of
July food?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Potato salad? I love potato salad. Why do we only
eat potato salad in the summertime? We should be eating
potato salad in the wintertime.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
I love it.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
It is definite vibe.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
So is corn of the cob.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
Yeah, I'm quite a big chicken nugget person.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
I learned something new about you all the time. Chicken.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Have you met me?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I'm like, I'm like, I'm literally like, elf, I'm this
child in this adult's body.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So you're hanging out with the fam this fourth July.
I love that you're in the Hampton's. It's gorgeous, it's easy, breezy.
Just speaking hypothetically, would you ever have a first date
on the fourth of July?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Would I bring a guy to a Fourth of July
party and it was our first date?
Speaker 9 (05:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Would you ever do that?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I mean if I kind of like saw him at
the hardware store and I'm like, you're hot, Like, okay,
why not? I mean my kids, My kids would be
like mom, I'd be like, girls, who care? Is our
older I met? I met a cowboy at home depot.
Why can't I bring some guy that met the hardware
store to Fourth July party?
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Would you be scouting this Fourth of July? Are you looking?
Where are you right now in the dating landscape?
Speaker 8 (05:36):
You mean?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Am I going to hardware stores all across No?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
But like listen, fourth of July a lot of people
parties hanging out at the beach, like, are you looking?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Are you talking to somebody already?
Speaker 7 (05:50):
What?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
We haven't gotten an update on your dating status in
a minute, right.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Okay, So here's the update on my dating. I am
now open to really dating. I just finished filming a
new show and i just feel really good about my
life and I'm just very relaxed and I am open
to you know, meeting you know, just different kinds of people.
(06:18):
I always had this thing in my head, Heather. Before
it was like when I got divorced. Originally I was like,
I want to get married now when I have more kids.
Like I was like marriage and kids, marriaging kids. And
then I was like, Okay, maybe I should get married.
And then I'm like that after all of that, now
I'm just like, I just want to enjoy my life.
And I feel like because I'm open to that kind
(06:39):
of those feelings, I've you know, I've been meeting some
really nice people, really really nice people, nice gentlemen. But
I am open to a guy from a hardware store.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I love it. Happy Hunting this fourth of July.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Happy Hunting, have a wonderful holiday and.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Have a happy fourth Kelly.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Thanks Heather, you too, happy.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
For Hey guys.
Speaker 9 (07:12):
Happy Fourth of July at Cheryl Burke from I Do
Part Two And I Am gonna just be relaxing with
my dog. My parents are coming in from out of
town to visit me, and we're gonna watch a bunch
of fireworks and eat lots of barbecue because you know,
this is my car blowed up day, so we just
eat whatever we want and then regret it the next day.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
So obviously I'm a dog mom.
Speaker 9 (07:35):
And my dog actually doesn't even flinch when it comes
to fireworks, which kind of scares me. I had to
get her hearing check, but she's really chill. She'll just
eat the crumbs from our barbecue that we're gonna most
likely have, and she will just she said, happy dog.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
She's a happy but spoiled dog. So she will need walks.
We'll do like two long walks. Then we're gonna hit
the streets and go to the movie theater.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
So other things that I'm excited for this Fourth of
July is just to really spend time with my family.
My stepdad, he loves watching anything to do with like
aliens or murder, so we're either going to watch a
bunch of documentaries on Netflix at my house, or we're
going to go to the movie theater, which I haven't
been to a movie theater since before COVID.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
And we're going to watch Disclosure.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
I think it's a Steven Spielberg movie about how there
are aliens currently on this planet Earth.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
So that'suld be interesting. So happy for.
Speaker 10 (08:36):
Hey, it's Kathy and Joan and we're here talking about
the fourth of July.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
What are you up to, Joan for this fourth?
Speaker 7 (08:44):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (08:45):
Well, you know I live in DC, so we have
a huge celebration going on. We bought tickets. We're going
down to the National Mall. There. There are tons of activities,
but I'll tell you like my favorite, other than the fireworks,
which I love fire works, I think everybody does. They're
doing a big flyover, so there's gonna be f sixteens
(09:05):
and like all the new aircraft, the Blue Angels are
coming so that's gonna go on all day. So we're
going down early and bringing my two grandsons, my daughter
and her husband. It's their kids. The five of us
are going. I'm gonna be the fifth wheel, but I'm
okay with that because they're gonna need help for those
little babies and yeah, we're going down the mall, National Mall, DC.
Here a come, how about you?
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Well, this is a big one. It's two hundred and
fifty years. I think.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
My favorite thing this year, I of course always go
and watch the fireworks. I go on like Austin with
friends and they shoot them off and it's beautiful over
the water.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
But you know what I love the most about Fourth
of July.
Speaker 10 (09:43):
It's it's the one day where everyone's patriotic. It's Americana.
Everybody's red, white and blue. Everyone has the parade, small
town parades, hamburgers, hot dogs.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Family.
Speaker 10 (09:56):
To me, it's just it's it's you know they say
Chris miss in July. It's that. To me, It's so
much about family and friends and just spending time together.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
And it makes you so proud. I'm just so proud
of our nation if you think about how it evolved
and how where it all started, and those super wise
men who wrote that constitution, that we still live by
those words and they keep us, you know, on the
straight and arrow.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
I love that.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
I'm so proud of our country. I'm so proud to
say that I'm American always and.
Speaker 10 (10:28):
And yet We're only two hundred and fifty years old,
and when you look at countries in Europe, we've come
a long way.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Baby, we have come. Okay, what is your favorite thing
to eat down on the fourth of July?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (10:40):
God, Like, it's such an American holiday. It's American like
burgers and hotdogs and apple pie and watermelon. And you
know somebody will make one of those big sheet cakes
that looks like the flag with the strawberries and wipperies.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
I have to have it.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
That's just part of the day.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
Okay, I gotta tell you everything. I'm with you one
hundred percent. Hams have you gotta have the potato chips
and the dyl ralish. You have to have that apple
pie ice cream. The one thing I got it. You're
gonna laugh. Do you know the one thing I never
eat and clothing I never eat on the fourth of
July is watermelon. Don't like it?
Speaker 8 (11:15):
You don't like watermelon. I'm obsessed with watermelon.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
No, everyone is. In fact, I have.
Speaker 8 (11:20):
I just looked at an Instagram post about how to
pick a good watermelon, and I like studied it. I'm like,
because you know, when you get home, you have a
new watermelon. You cut it open and it's bad. It's
so mad. So now I think I know how to
pick out the perfect watermelon. DM me. If you want
to know, I have the whole I have the whole
Instagram thing. So I'm a huge watermelon person.
Speaker 10 (11:38):
Okay, Well, the only thing I like about watermelons is
when you throw me to a pool and they're greased
and you have to score a goal.
Speaker 8 (11:45):
You know, I know, it's hilarious. I used to lifeguard
and I did that one time and one of the
kids almost dround. I had to jump in and save them.
So we don't do that anymore.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Okay, so let's so eat the watermelon, do not drive
on the pool. Okay, Joe, I know you're with Chop,
but would you ever ever have had a date, And
you can ask me the same question on the fourth
of July?
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Would you ever do a first date on the fourth
of July.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out why you wouldn't. It's
such a fun it would be such a fun date.
I mean it's kind of like ironic. It's Independence Day,
and yeah, maybe seeking not being independent, But other than
that irony, I think it's like there's so much to
do and and like it's kind of like a no
pressure date. You already know where it's going to end up. Oh,
(12:32):
fire works, until you know ten o'clock at night, and
then you're both gonna be tired and you're gonna go okay,
So about you.
Speaker 10 (12:38):
Well, you know, I can see both sides of the same,
you know, fifty cent piece, here's the deal.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
On the one hand, yes, why wouldn't you want to
go on a date? Why wouldn't I want to go
on a first date on the fourth of July?
Speaker 10 (12:50):
Here's the problem for me, Mostly it's with family and
can you imagine going on a first date and rolling
them in with my kids, my grandkids. So I couldn't
do a first date because I spent it with my kids.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
So I would not do a first date. But I
agree with you.
Speaker 10 (13:11):
It's a great idea because so much is going on,
you don't feel the pressure of having to, you know,
get into serious conversation. You could just have fun, but
not around my kids, not my grand kids, not a
first day.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
Totally agree with you. I think at this point in
my life I feel the same way that I would
never do a first date. And you know exactly that
you couldn't do it in front of your family, but
what a great one when we were younger would have been.
I don't think I ever did one. Did you ever
do one? I think I ever went on a first July?
Speaker 10 (13:42):
Well, well, remember I was married forever. So no, I
never did have a first date on the fourth of July.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
But I do.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
I'm so looking forward to this one because I really
do feel like it's going to be an amazing celebration
of our countries.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
I remember, I bet you do too.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Nineteen, I sure do.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Two hundred and I were, you know, announcing our age
the world that we're old enough to remember that. I was,
you know, I was thirteen, and I remember it perfectly.
I remember going to a prey down in DC with
my parents and staying and watching the fireworks.
Speaker 10 (14:16):
I also went to the fireworks, but I'm from Boston,
and you know they have the tall ships and they did.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
The thing going through the harbor.
Speaker 10 (14:25):
Its just again, I just have to run this out
by saying that fourth of July is the time when
not only can you be patriotic, it feels great to
be patriotic on the fourth of July.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
I agree, We're all proud. No matter where we stand
with the politics, we're all proud to be Americans.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Get out your red, white, and blue. Get ready for
the day.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
I have male get already ready. Enjoy your fourth I'm sorry,
I'm not going to be we can't be together.
Speaker 10 (14:51):
Well we will, but we'll see each other soon. Happy
fourth jown to you and your family.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
You too, Bye, sweetie.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
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