Speaker 1: Hey, folks, Yello castroles and red white and blue cakes.
Speaker 1: The things I'm learning about the Fourth of July in
Speaker 1: this episode of Amy and DJ. This is not how
Speaker 1: we plan on star robes or we're talking about the fourth.
Speaker 1: Everybody's getting ready for the Fourth, of course, I heeart
Speaker 1: getting ready for the fourth as well, But just in
Speaker 1: the discussion here in the room, I did not know
Speaker 1: it was a thing or tradition to some degree. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's yours, maybe not, but it's some people's to have
Speaker 1: a a what that's decorated red white and blue.
Speaker 2: Well, basically you just take you know, if you're at
Speaker 2: some sort of a pot luck, you know, neighborhood party,
Speaker 2: which is what I grew up going to. Everyone would
Speaker 2: bring different dishes and among them would be desserts, and
Speaker 2: so it's very easy to decorate a dessert with red
Speaker 2: white and blue strawberries, blueberries, white frosting. You can play
Speaker 2: around with that however you'd like. But yeah, I remember
Speaker 2: those kind of cupcakes or jello casseroles or cheesecake.
Speaker 1: We'll stop you on the jello casserole. What's that?
Speaker 2: You know? What? I don't even really know, and I've
Speaker 2: never replicated in my adult life, but as a kid,
Speaker 2: I remember my mind making some dish with jello with cream.
Speaker 2: There might have been walnuts in it. I don't think
Speaker 2: we put the raisins in it, but I think some
Speaker 2: people do, probably disgusting.
Speaker 3: No, I hate raisins, but I don't think white raisins.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that.
Speaker 2: You said it with your eyes to me, make raisin eyes.
Speaker 3: Like you were making raisin eyes in me.
Speaker 2: So I've never recreated that dish, but I remember kind
Speaker 2: of liking it and kind of being grossed out by
Speaker 2: it at the same time. And since it was full
Speaker 2: of sugar, I just went ahead and.
Speaker 1: Ate it with it. Okay, I did not know those things.
Speaker 1: But what were you all? You and I are been
Speaker 1: going back and forth for day and maybe even weeks
Speaker 1: now trying to figure out what we want to do
Speaker 1: for the Fourth. We are throwing around some possibilities and options.
Speaker 1: But what did you all do growing up? What was
Speaker 1: the fourth for you got? And even how big of
Speaker 1: a day was it compared to Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas? How
Speaker 1: big of a holiday?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Fourth of July was huge.
Speaker 2: So when I was younger, I was living in right
Speaker 2: outside of Saint Louis, Missouri, and we lived on one
Speaker 2: of those cold sacks where the whole street would all
Speaker 2: get together at I remember our neighbor Charlie, and everybody
Speaker 2: would bring a dish or two, The barbecue grill would
Speaker 2: be fired up, there'd be some sort of like kittie pool.
Speaker 3: We weren't in some fancy neighborhood.
Speaker 2: There were no inground pools, but we would take any
Speaker 2: body of water because it was hot, hot, hot in
Speaker 2: Saint Louis, and yeah, just have fun. And I remember
Speaker 2: my mom would let us drink unlimited amounts of grape
Speaker 2: and orange soda.
Speaker 3: These are the things I remember. It was chock full
Speaker 3: of sugar.
Speaker 2: And then sparklers and Roman candles at night, you know
Speaker 2: those fireworks that make shift fireworks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but what were the main dishes you said? The
Speaker 1: grill would be going, what is y'all.
Speaker 2: Each for hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken like? I remember drumsticks,
Speaker 2: that kind of a thing. But yeah, the basic stuff
Speaker 2: that kids liked.
Speaker 1: To isn't that wild? During my growing up, every four
Speaker 1: fourth was huge for us, always at my granddad's house.
Speaker 1: Granddad owned a barbecue restaurant. Every dude in my family
Speaker 1: can go on the grill. I do not remember a
Speaker 1: single fourth in I had a hamburger or hot dog.
Speaker 1: It was ribs, ribs, ribs, ribs, pork, full pork, full
Speaker 1: pork all the time.
Speaker 3: I say, Memphis, Memphis. That makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: Notice a single hot dog? Do I remember on the fourth?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we ate a lot of hot dogs.
Speaker 2: I don't think any of my there, None of them
Speaker 2: were grill masters like your dad, Like, you have to
Speaker 2: talk about the setup he has at his house. It's
Speaker 2: I've only seen pictures. I haven't been there yet. But
Speaker 2: we're talking one grill and basic stuff. You guys are like,
Speaker 2: like grill masters.
Speaker 1: Well I'm not. I didn't get that. I didn't pick
Speaker 1: that up. You know I can. I'm not a slow cooker,
Speaker 1: so I don't know how to do ribs very well
Speaker 1: and all of that. I've gotten better at it. Recently.
Speaker 1: We had a place here in town. We had a grill,
Speaker 1: so you I used to just practice. I would just
Speaker 1: buy ribs to practice and wasn't eating them right.
Speaker 2: I was trying to push them on everybody who came in.
Speaker 2: You guys want some ribs. We've got some great ribs here.
Speaker 2: More than we could possibly eat.
Speaker 1: But I didn't get that skill. But yes, my dad
Speaker 1: in the backyard in West Memphis right now has at
Speaker 1: least six and that he might be up to seven.
Speaker 1: And they're a huge, huge couple of smokers back there.
Speaker 1: You name it, he's got it and he uses all
Speaker 1: of them. They're not sitting in a corner somewhere collecting dust.
Speaker 1: So these guys can cook. And my granddad is the
Speaker 1: one who was, like I said, he had a barbecue
Speaker 1: joint grew up around him. They with every single holiday
Speaker 1: and time, they would go to that grill at whatever,
Speaker 1: five six in the morning, put stuff on all I know,
Speaker 1: at noon or one o'clock, everything was falling off the bone.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it happened. I didn't have the
Speaker 1: patience for it at the time.
Speaker 2: Well, it's I love that you have that tradition, and
Speaker 2: I love that you've tried to pick it up. And
Speaker 2: you're very good at most things you cook, and you
Speaker 2: got better and better and better as you were practicing.
Speaker 2: But it was so sweet to hear you on the
Speaker 2: phone with your sister, who apparently is a great grill
Speaker 2: or two. It's not just for the men in the family.
Speaker 2: Your sister is a great griller, and yeah, it's just
Speaker 2: what a great skill to have.
Speaker 3: How many people were you feeding or was he feeding
Speaker 3: your dad?
Speaker 1: Oh, my dad has six brothers and sisters. So all
Speaker 1: those uncles and all those cousins would come, and so
Speaker 1: you're talking easy. We could have fifty people, but this
Speaker 1: was it was an automatic. We didn't have to call
Speaker 1: anybody a few days, a few weeks, or the month
Speaker 1: ahead of time, say where are we doing the fourth
Speaker 1: your Granddad's house for the fourth? What are you bringing?
Speaker 1: What are you bringing? We know who's where the meat's
Speaker 1: coming from. So it was just who's bringing this, who's
Speaker 1: bringing that. There was not a lot of yellow castle roles.
Speaker 3: Have a potato salad, potato salad.
Speaker 1: There might have been one potato.
Speaker 3: Salad because we had a lot of potato salad.
Speaker 1: No castle roles for us, Yeah, we didn't do castle.
Speaker 3: It was the German potato salad for us.
Speaker 1: What makes it German?
Speaker 2: It's like a vinegar base with red onions. I think
Speaker 2: you don't really like potatoes, But if you were to
Speaker 2: like a potato salad, I think it might be this one.
Speaker 1: Well, would you make it for me? Tonight.
Speaker 3: Okay, tonight.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I didn't realize the prep it took.
Speaker 3: I thought we were talking about the fourth of July.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, it's cute you say that, because I also
Speaker 2: when we finally moved down to Atlanta, where all my
Speaker 2: family kind of gathered and migrated from Michigan, it was
Speaker 2: the same thing we knew there was going to be.
Speaker 2: We actually went to a park, Brisco Park, and we
Speaker 2: got one of the grills that was already there, like
Speaker 2: you know, they have those things at the park, and
Speaker 2: we would just go to town all day and this
Speaker 2: is I went about to Debbie down. Are you well.
Speaker 3: I just so all of those traditions.
Speaker 2: Kind of fell off because of one fourth of July
Speaker 2: when I was fourteen. Okay, well, no, I mean it's
Speaker 2: actually really serious. Like that's when my parents got struck
Speaker 2: by lightning and my uncle did too. So it happened
Speaker 2: on the fourth of July. We were all gathered at
Speaker 2: Brisco Park and it was it was, it was. It
Speaker 2: changed the fourth of July for us.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm reacting a certain way because I've heard the
Speaker 1: story fifty times. Everybody else. The folks in the room
Speaker 1: were going like what the hell is going on? So
Speaker 1: you go ahead, I'll just h I'll.
Speaker 2: Say so, the Fourth of July is always I am
Speaker 2: aware of thunderstorms. It always makes me a little nervous
Speaker 2: because it was a very traumatic thing. But my parents,
Speaker 2: my mom and dad, got seriously injured. They were in
Speaker 2: the hospital for weeks. My mom was in the hospital
Speaker 2: for weeks, my dad was in the ICU. But their
Speaker 2: tennis shoes got blown off of their feet, their clothes
Speaker 2: had to be cut off of them, they were my
Speaker 2: dad went into had to have CPR performed on him,
Speaker 2: and my uncle Jack actually ultimately died. He was up
Speaker 2: against the tree that hit and my parents were blown
Speaker 2: standing next to him, and he just crumbled. So, yes,
Speaker 2: lightning kills and the Fourth of July is one of
Speaker 2: those holidays where everybody's out and about and it tends
Speaker 2: to be a thunderstorm heavy holidays. So yes, things in
Speaker 2: my house changed after after that. But and I kind
Speaker 2: of got into a habit of traveling around the Fourth
Speaker 2: of July. Just I haven't even been in the country
Speaker 2: during the Fourth of July for many, many years, but
Speaker 2: we're going to for the first time this year.
Speaker 1: We were well still up in the air.
Speaker 3: Well, we're going to be in the country, Yes, in
Speaker 3: the air.
Speaker 2: Both of my daughters are continuing the tradition and are
Speaker 2: going to be out of the country on the fourth
Speaker 2: of July.
Speaker 1: Sing it is probably gonna be with us, and.
Speaker 3: What are we gonna do?
Speaker 1: We're looking at a couple of the fireworks to play
Speaker 1: here in town is actually quite nice, but we also
Speaker 1: considering getting to a lake, getting a boat, doing something else,
Speaker 1: and just getting out of town. I kind of want
Speaker 1: to be out of New York for the fourth But
Speaker 1: the fireworks display is awesome.
Speaker 2: It's awesome, but we we can find other fireworks displays.
Speaker 2: They're all around and they're fun and you can even
Speaker 2: I like sparklers, be careful. They still can be dangerous.
Speaker 2: But I like sparklers.
Speaker 1: What uh what, I don't think I read the warning
Speaker 1: on the package of sparklers. What happens with the Sparkler's dangerous?
Speaker 2: I need to be aware, I guess if you hold
Speaker 2: on to them for too long. Yeah, and then the
Speaker 2: little sparks. I don't think it's like dangerous, but they
Speaker 2: could ignite something else, I guess. So just parental supervision
Speaker 2: is certainly a part of it.
Speaker 1: Wow, you are just doing a full on public service.
Speaker 2: I amn't, I am, but no, but fire like, there
Speaker 2: are so many cautionary tales of people doing their own
Speaker 2: fireworks displays.
Speaker 3: So from mother nature to human error, it's.
Speaker 2: Always good to remember that we want to be safe
Speaker 2: above beyond everything else.
Speaker 1: Would you like to give people grilling tips?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I would not, That is not my love.
Speaker 1: No, safety wise, safety wise, not have it inside, make
Speaker 1: sure you don't ignite while it's inside or even in
Speaker 1: the garage. Right, yes, what else that's correct? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't use the grill very often.
Speaker 1: What about pool and water shapey stuff?
Speaker 2: We're all adults in this room right now. No, but
Speaker 2: I told you I was going to be a little
Speaker 2: bit of a DeBie down ter.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 1: Would you like to let people know that alcohol consumption
Speaker 1: on the fourth of July should probably keep to a minimum.
Speaker 3: All of those things are all very important to remember.
Speaker 1: Yes, and certainly don't drive after No. I mean I
Speaker 1: didn't know the episode was going to be about how
Speaker 1: to stay safe for the fourth I digress.
Speaker 2: You know. I tend to go off in tangents sometimes,
Speaker 2: and honestly, I didn't even know I was gonna.
Speaker 3: Even say any of those things. They just came out. Sorry,
Speaker 3: I apologize if that just was a downer freak.
Speaker 1: And also people shouldn't over eat. I hear you should
Speaker 1: use smaller place because that helps you with portion control
Speaker 1: on holiday.
Speaker 3: Good tip Tjerious.
Speaker 1: Woman's owe me that live and an inner few once
Speaker 1: on the air, and I laughed at her.
Speaker 2: The problem is the other day I was just actually
Speaker 2: when we got in here, I was talking about overeating
Speaker 2: and I had a small plate. The problem is I
Speaker 2: made six trips back to fill my small plate up
Speaker 2: until I could eat no more.
Speaker 1: Wow. I think you're probably in a really good mood
Speaker 1: because you're able to talk about I don't know why
Speaker 1: this stuff is coming out, because you are in a
Speaker 1: great mood today and our ways of the studio, everything's fine.
Speaker 1: But no, I'm sure people will appreciate this episode of
Speaker 1: the podcast. We're thinking about doing more right into us.
Speaker 1: How else you would like us to help you stay
Speaker 1: safe as you go about your life and next week
Speaker 1: crossing busy streets.
Speaker 2: Oh, we just want everybody to have a happy for
Speaker 2: the July. And we found this fun fact out. You
Speaker 2: were asking how many years our country has been celebrating,
Speaker 2: and it turns out we're about to embark on a
Speaker 2: pretty big milestone. This is your two hundred and forty eight,
Speaker 2: so twenty twenty six will be two hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: years and I'm sure we'll have a huge celebration.
Speaker 3: We should plan that now.
Speaker 1: Yes, because as big as that one's going to be,
Speaker 1: we probably need to double down on our safety episode.
Speaker 2: All right, I hope everyone out there has a happy,
Speaker 2: and of course safe fourth of July.
Speaker 3: We're going to take a couple of days off to enjoy,
Speaker 3: but thank you
Speaker 2: For listening, and you can always catch us on Instagram,
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