america s 246th birthday. we have so many wonderful stories to bring to you tonight we display the best of our country. we talk to folks from all across the usa about being american and what july 4th means to them. i take a trip down to nashville and sit down with country music artist and very special guest that will include an exclusive live musical performance tonight that you do not want to miss. i will take you to new canaan, connecticut for a festive independence day celebration. we will hear from americans tonight at the site of the macy s fireworks show. get this, later jimmy will join us. it will be a good time. we will get washington, d.c. from the breathtaking parade there. i go back to my stomping grounds with my unit which i cannot wait for you guys to see. there will be live fireworks from our nations capitol. tonight we celebrate the red, white and blue and the freedom and all we love about the country. before we begin we want to take a moment to send ou
patriotic trivia challenge plus judge jeanine and jimmy take us to coney island where they road the world famous cyclone and we re answering your fan mail sections but first a brand new segment the five summer fun extravaganza. we re going to dive head first into summer topics that celebrate july 4th. first off you know americans love barbecues but kit create issues. millennials actually they they grill better than parents who taught them and at least half meat eaters worry about a vegetarian showing up at their barbecue. i don t worry about that because if you re a vegetarian you can always find something to eat. i don t know any vegetarians and i want to keep it that way dana. my mother does the barbecue and my father does the clean up. really? i like it. isn t that kind of messed up? that s perfect. you think that s perfect? that s perfection. that s funny. yeah, i don t do it that way. i grill and emma cleans up. do you have a specialty. just stake.
new guy going into war. real quick on the volleyball court, you saw that. that was a brand new building, when we deployed in 2010 we left from a condemned building that wasn t supposed to be used in 30 years. that built that building when we were gone and moved them back into it and that volleyball court was a really pretty parking lot and the first thing the eod techs did was made it a volleyball court. that tells you everything you need to know about eod. carley: we got a little bit of a sense of it in your piece but just elaborate on the comradery that you feel with somebody after you serve together and go through something traumatic like you did. joey: the marine eod community is really spvenlth you have to go in as an e five. you have to be 25, if you re married you have to have a signed letter of permission from your spouse. you can only volunteer into it. they can t tell you to do it. you have to be a sergeant to go in it or eligible, so you have
guy going into war. real quick on the volleyball court. that was a brand-new building. when we deployed in 2010 we left from a building that was a condemned maintenance space. it wasn t supposed to be used in the last 30 years. they built that while we were gone and move them back into it. the volleyball court was a pretty parking lot. the first thing the eod techs did when they got back from deployment was grab the hammers and made the volleyball court. that tells you everything you need to know about eod. we got a little bit of a sense of it in your piece, but just elaborate on the camaraderie that you feel with somebody after you served together and go through something dramatic like you did. the marine eod community is specific. you have to go into it as 21 years old. if you are married you have to have a signed letter of permission from your spouse. you can only volunteer into it. they cannot tell you to do it. you have to be a sergeant to go into it or eligible to be one.
able to remember things. yeah. but not so much anymore. and when you re training eod guys now in alabama, do you talk about this with them, do you let them know, look, this is what could happen and this is how your life could change? is that part of the training no you? well, i think as eod techs, we all know it could happen. it s a risk of the job. you can only play with fire so many times before you get burned. what i like to do is tell them my story and what i did in more detail than i can get into here and try and help them so they don t have to come home the same way i did. that s really how i see myself is contributing, helping the guys out, this is what i did, i was on the ground, i did this, that, and the other thing and it blew up and don t do that. hopefully it helps guys. explain what not to do. sometimes you can do the right thing and you never know what the enemy has in store. before we go, justin, what is it about this documentary that s so