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Get Off The Couch: Fourth will be a blast

BARRY COURTER: Lisa, it’s time to blow stuff up.

LISA DENTON: Yee-haw. You’re getting dangerously close to a redneck’s last words: “Hey, watch this.”

BARRY: Oh man, those words will be uttered a bunch this week, I bet.

LISA: You are correct. I expect to hear a lot of explosions in my neck of the woods Thursday to end the Soddy-Daisy Fourth of July festival. It’s always a busy day with a car show and firemen’s muster and food vendors. That’s all happening at the park by Soddy Lake, by the way. Not at my house – although there are parts of the day at my house that resemble the bigger celebration.

BARRY: We should have a journalist muster. It just sounds fun, doesn’t it? And kind of important at the same time.