July 4, 2025 • 17 mins
Tori’s feeling all the red, white, and blue nostalgia as she looks back on her favorite Fourth of July memories — from backyard sparklers growing up to must-have holiday treats and traditions that keep the summer magic alive.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Misspelling with Tori Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast. Hi you guys,
Happy Fourth of July. I can't believe it's fourth of July.
The summer goes so quick, oh so quick. They see
things go really quick when you're a kid, and then
(00:30):
slow down when you're an adult. No, no, no, no, it's
the opposite. When you're a kid, if everything feels like
it's lasting forever, when you're adult, it just goes so fast,
so fast, she could hold onto the moments. Yeah, okay,
I kind of got that right. But I hope everyone
is enjoying this holiday with your family, with friends, loved ones,
(00:54):
or living it up by yourself. But we love for
the July here in our family. Bo has been talking
about Fourth of July for probably two months now, yeah,
maybe three, like it's one of his favorites. And when
I ask him, I'm like, what does Fourth of July
(01:17):
mean to you? He says fun? And then I said, okay,
what do you love to do or looking forward to
doing for Fourth of July? And he said setting off
fireworks in water balloons. I'm like, okay, well, you're not
going to set up fireworks because that's illegal, But you
(01:38):
know what he likes those little party bags you can
get like Target or Walmarts anywhere really cvs. And it
has like the little poppers in it, you know where
you like it looks like a little bottle and pull
it and it goes woo. Very minimal stuff. So that's
what he calls fireworks. Except I remember when I was
(01:59):
a kid, we always spent Fourth of July at our
beach house in Malibu, which is now sadly gone. It
burned down the fires in January. But yeah, every summer
we would build a fire pit and my dad would
fill it with wood and we would roast hot dogs
(02:22):
and some moors and my mom, I don't know where
she found them, like were they more accessible back then,
but she would get those sparklers. And we loved the
sparklers because in the night on the beach, we would
like move them around and write things in the sky
(02:42):
and it almost looks like you're writing it as it's
like firing down. Oh remember those worms. You would like
light those worms and it just kind of was like
a smoke thing, but it would crawl up like a worm.
What are those called? I gotta find those for the kids. Anyway.
I feel like you can't get sparklers anymore. Like those
aren't illegal, are they? I don't know. They're a fun though. Anyway.
(03:07):
It's not like I can type an Instacart and put
in sparklers because nothing's going to come up. So sparkling
Seltzer hard Seltzer, sparkling wine. But the water balloon rage
is real, and yeah, that's that's a hard pill to
(03:31):
swallow because these bunch of balloons and they have Fourth
of July colored ones, red, white, and blue. Good job,
but you know they go through them so fast. So
you hook them up to your water hose. It fills
all the balloons up at once. You can tie them
off easily, and then they just throw them around and
(03:52):
it's literally like you think you're getting a good deal
for the price, and it's like ninety nine balloons, those
ninety nine blue boons are gone in like less than
ninety seconds, and you're like, oh my god. And then
it's can we get another one? Instacart's delivering today. I
know it's a holiday, but insta Caart's delivering, so I
(04:13):
just get four packs and I'm like, okay, this is
what you're doing. That's it. And then they have the
reusable ones, but the kids you're like, yeah, we don't
like those. They don't work as well. It's like, well duh,
you know. Uh, there's like bouncy water balls, but it's
the cleanup of the damn water balloons because I'm stuck
doing it because they don't and they always tell me
(04:37):
we're going to clean it up, and then I come
out and there's just like ends of tied off balloons.
It's almost like I would liken it to the cord,
the cord from a mama to its baby when it
come out and you're like and they snip it and
then it goes into it's like your belly button. I'm
(04:59):
only making this connection because Bo just asked me about
this the other day. When babies come out then billico,
he called it billico and it's umbilical, but I incorrect
them mbillico cord. I don't understand because if it's a
girl baby, like, is it coming out from her privates?
(05:20):
And I'm like, uh no. Oddly, I've had five kids
and I had to think about it for a second
because I'm like, technically, if you're having a natural birth,
I had cea sections, not by choice, but had c
sections because I couldn't dilate. Yeah, I guess it is
all coming out of Loewen's privates. But uh. And then
(05:45):
he was like, oh, no, no, no, it's connected to the
belly button, right, And I said yes, and he was like, oh,
that's cool. Anyway, back to the water balloons. I got distracted.
There's this snipped off belly buttons pretty much covering my pool. No,
(06:06):
it's my pool. I say, everything is ours, but all
of a sudden it's mine because they littered covering the
pool going into the filter in the pool, all over
the back. And I'm just like, this is a hot mess.
You need like literally we can pick that up. You
(06:27):
need like a flow by. Do you know what floby
is for hair. It's like a suction tube and it
cuts hair. You need a flowby for water balloons that
you can easily just suck it all in out on
the deck. That'd be cool. I'm sure it exists tickstop shop.
But of course I still got the water balloons and
(06:52):
we're just trying to pacete ourselves because it's holiday. It's
a holiday week end kind of end of the week. Yeah,
So anyway, and then we always do I like see,
I like old school stuff, but my kids not into it.
(07:16):
So like I'm a deviled egg girl, tried and true.
I have made deviled eggs since and I'm sure it's
because I grew up eating them because my mom made them.
But doubled eggs like my late teens. When I'd have
like my nineteen year old friends over, I'd be serving
doubled eggs and it's like what Anyway, I still make them,
(07:40):
and I have really rad like antique egg trays. They're
really cool, so I always make them. No one eats
them except me, and then they go to waste and
I feel bad about it. You know what, maybe it
should make like four. I love a good Jella mold,
(08:08):
big Jella mold, girl, Gosh, I love an antique Jella mold,
like the copper ones you can hang on your wall.
I'm getting sentimental about antiques now. They just make you
feel cozy and comfy and homie. But yeah, I used
to love to like layer the Jella mold. Again. I
(08:29):
got this from my mom. She used to always make
Jella molds. Hers was like a creamy lime and she
would put I think she would put milk and in
her sour cream movie, so it would be it's it
wasn't translucent, so it'd be thick and look, you know,
(08:50):
like a cool mint green. And then she'd have a
layer of just regular jello and then like, I feel
like a layer of just sour cream. I could be wrong,
I have to, but it was refreshing. And yeah, I
grew up with that too. So I then would make
Jella molds for my kids. Again, they wouldn't eat it.
(09:12):
Oh there's like fruit encased in them. What's that? Uh?
Real fruit? You know something? You know, this isn't like
jello pudding here, like this is good for you, Like
it's real and there's fresh fruit. So but yeah, of
course anything like fresh or anything. They don't want. Always
(09:34):
hot dogs, hamburgers. Oh always make my clam dip, if
you know. You know again something my mom always made
growing up and at the beach we would always have
it for Fourth of July. And I love it, and
actually some of my kids love it, I'm happy to say,
(09:57):
even my twelve year old, who is the pickiest to
eat her. I'm like, Finn, you got to grab this man,
like you're gonna take a girl on a date one day,
And like when you're older in your twenties, and you're
gonna be like, can you just make me a better noodle?
And she's gonna be like what. So I'm like, you
got to expand your horizon. You gotta eat more stuff.
(10:18):
But he'll get there. I don't pressure him too much.
I just passive aggressively make comments. But he eats. Sorry,
I gottaxait it there he eats the clam dip. I'm like,
of all things, clam dip. That's for the adventurous palette.
And you like that, okay, And you have to start
(10:39):
with ruffles, ruffles with ridges. It's just so you can't
do lays. Sorry, because I like the ridges because the
dip sticks to it better in a different way, gives
it to mension a texture, and I like that. And
I always make French onion dip with which is as
(11:01):
simple as it comes. It's literally french onion soup packets
and sour cream. Best made the day before though, because
it really gets infused with the flavor and it's nice
when it's cold a little bit, and so you put
in the refrigerator and by the next day it's like
perfect again. With ruffles or a big Ruffles family. Yeah, sorry,
(11:27):
I'm talking a lot about food. My mouth's watering right now.
But I know you make like fun drinks, like fun
drinks like cranberry and like I muddle like fresh fruit.
I don't tell them it's from fresh fruit or they
won't need it, and make like blueberry raspberry strawberry like spritzers,
(11:52):
dash of lemonade. It's really good. A little sparkling water
or club soda. Yeah, really good. It's like an awesome mocktail.
And yeah, that's fourth of July. I feel like I
used to go all out when the kids were young,
and Bo's still young, so I feel bad poor fifth baby.
(12:13):
I was just really tired by the time I had him,
proud that I naturally conceived at forty four, but the
other four got the best in week God, I was
the deiy mama bear and now poor Boe. Yeah, since
(12:38):
the divorce, Like, I think that's something that we always
did together, was cook because cooking, oddly, we would always
fight in the kitchen. Dean and I only because you know,
everyone has their technique and different ways of doing things.
And he is he went to culinary school, so he's
(12:58):
a trained he's actually a trained chef, so he would
always want to show me the proper ways. But I'm
like a DIY home cook and if it's not messy,
it didn't come from the heart, so you know. And
he's always like, clean up, ass, you go, clean up
as you go, and I'm like, I don't know, and
he's always like, you know, you need a bigger pot
(13:20):
for that or a bigger bowl. And it's true, I
would always manage to find the smallest bowl or smallest
pot to cook things in. And I don't know why.
Maybe it's a challenge for me, like I don't like
the easy road clearly. Yeah, I don't know. So when
(13:43):
we split up, I honestly took like two years off
of cooking. I we you know, pre made stuff we
would order in Postmates like, which you know wasn't practical,
but it was like I needed a break and like
it was triggering. And maybe because our last fight before
(14:07):
we broke up took place in the kitchen, could be that.
Maybe anyway, But I've been getting back into cooking lately
and I hope to keep going with it. So so yeah, sorry,
I mean to get all dark there, but the share
(14:30):
and my feelings, oh and I love a good red lip.
On fourth of July. I have to do red, white
and blue because I just have to. And I love
a good red lip. I don't care how old you are.
You know that old notion that forty and over you
(14:54):
could not wear red lipstick anymore. It's like, uh, says who, No,
you cannot wear white after a labor day? Why? Like
those are like archaic rules of fashion and beauty that
I choose to rebel against. Yeah so yeah, good red
(15:18):
lip great glasses. Ah. I love holidays. I love any
holiday because it's time to celebrate and just be with
your family, and it gives to you a reason to
kind of get together and kind of do something that
maybe you wouldn't do typically, And whether that's just cooking
(15:42):
or barbecuing or you know, having a pool day, just
something that like maybe we take for granted normally. It's
like today we're doing it because it's fourth of July.
I love that. Oh. On my watermelon jigglers, I always
make that, which is jello and you make it with
(16:04):
the watermelon rind and it's watermelon jello, and then you
cut it up to like slices of watermelon and it
has the Riine. Oh, those are always very popular. The
kids eat that. Okay, now I want to go eat
well again. Happy fourth of July, Happy Independence Day. Oh
(16:28):
and we always have one more thing. We always have
to watch Independence Day, which my kids are like, it's okay.
I'm like, what do you mean this movie still stands up?
Oh my god, Will Smith, Jeff Goldbloom. I love that
movie so much, love it. I still cry, I still
(16:49):
root for them. I know what's gonna happen. You're still
am excited every time. But I do make the kids
watch it every year, every evening when like the sun
has set and we've gone and watched firework somewhere, come
back and I'm like, here we go Independence Day. And
they deal with it because I busted my ass, eat
(17:12):
food for them all day, cleaned up their damn water balloons.
So at that point in the evening, yowe me, so
watch Independence Day. Yeah, you don't have to watch that
movie just on fourth of July. It's pretty cool to
watch in the fourth of July. That's just a tory hack,
(17:33):
no toy tip. I don't know. But have a great day, Okay,
don't listen to me anymore. Go enjoy your day Love
you guys, Stay safe. Bye.
Misspelling with Tori Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast. Hi you guys,
Happy Fourth of July. I can't believe it's fourth of July.
The summer goes so quick, oh so quick. They see
things go really quick when you're a kid, and then
(00:30):
slow down when you're an adult. No, no, no, no, it's
the opposite. When you're a kid, if everything feels like
it's lasting forever, when you're adult, it just goes so fast,
so fast, she could hold onto the moments. Yeah, okay,
I kind of got that right. But I hope everyone
is enjoying this holiday with your family, with friends, loved ones,
(00:54):
or living it up by yourself. But we love for
the July here in our family. Bo has been talking
about Fourth of July for probably two months now, yeah,
maybe three, like it's one of his favorites. And when
I ask him, I'm like, what does Fourth of July
(01:17):
mean to you? He says fun? And then I said, okay,
what do you love to do or looking forward to
doing for Fourth of July? And he said setting off
fireworks in water balloons. I'm like, okay, well, you're not
going to set up fireworks because that's illegal, But you
(01:38):
know what he likes those little party bags you can
get like Target or Walmarts anywhere really cvs. And it
has like the little poppers in it, you know where
you like it looks like a little bottle and pull
it and it goes woo. Very minimal stuff. So that's
what he calls fireworks. Except I remember when I was
(01:59):
a kid, we always spent Fourth of July at our
beach house in Malibu, which is now sadly gone. It
burned down the fires in January. But yeah, every summer
we would build a fire pit and my dad would
fill it with wood and we would roast hot dogs
(02:22):
and some moors and my mom, I don't know where
she found them, like were they more accessible back then,
but she would get those sparklers. And we loved the
sparklers because in the night on the beach, we would
like move them around and write things in the sky
(02:42):
and it almost looks like you're writing it as it's
like firing down. Oh remember those worms. You would like
light those worms and it just kind of was like
a smoke thing, but it would crawl up like a worm.
What are those called? I gotta find those for the kids. Anyway.
I feel like you can't get sparklers anymore. Like those
aren't illegal, are they? I don't know. They're a fun though. Anyway.
(03:07):
It's not like I can type an Instacart and put
in sparklers because nothing's going to come up. So sparkling
Seltzer hard Seltzer, sparkling wine. But the water balloon rage
is real, and yeah, that's that's a hard pill to
(03:31):
swallow because these bunch of balloons and they have Fourth
of July colored ones, red, white, and blue. Good job,
but you know they go through them so fast. So
you hook them up to your water hose. It fills
all the balloons up at once. You can tie them
off easily, and then they just throw them around and
(03:52):
it's literally like you think you're getting a good deal
for the price, and it's like ninety nine balloons, those
ninety nine blue boons are gone in like less than
ninety seconds, and you're like, oh my god. And then
it's can we get another one? Instacart's delivering today. I
know it's a holiday, but insta Caart's delivering, so I
(04:13):
just get four packs and I'm like, okay, this is
what you're doing. That's it. And then they have the
reusable ones, but the kids you're like, yeah, we don't
like those. They don't work as well. It's like, well duh,
you know. Uh, there's like bouncy water balls, but it's
the cleanup of the damn water balloons because I'm stuck
doing it because they don't and they always tell me
(04:37):
we're going to clean it up, and then I come
out and there's just like ends of tied off balloons.
It's almost like I would liken it to the cord,
the cord from a mama to its baby when it
come out and you're like and they snip it and
then it goes into it's like your belly button. I'm
(04:59):
only making this connection because Bo just asked me about
this the other day. When babies come out then billico,
he called it billico and it's umbilical, but I incorrect
them mbillico cord. I don't understand because if it's a
girl baby, like, is it coming out from her privates?
(05:20):
And I'm like, uh no. Oddly, I've had five kids
and I had to think about it for a second
because I'm like, technically, if you're having a natural birth,
I had cea sections, not by choice, but had c
sections because I couldn't dilate. Yeah, I guess it is
all coming out of Loewen's privates. But uh. And then
(05:45):
he was like, oh, no, no, no, it's connected to the
belly button, right, And I said yes, and he was like, oh,
that's cool. Anyway, back to the water balloons. I got distracted.
There's this snipped off belly buttons pretty much covering my pool. No,
(06:06):
it's my pool. I say, everything is ours, but all
of a sudden it's mine because they littered covering the
pool going into the filter in the pool, all over
the back. And I'm just like, this is a hot mess.
You need like literally we can pick that up. You
(06:27):
need like a flow by. Do you know what floby
is for hair. It's like a suction tube and it
cuts hair. You need a flowby for water balloons that
you can easily just suck it all in out on
the deck. That'd be cool. I'm sure it exists tickstop shop.
But of course I still got the water balloons and
(06:52):
we're just trying to pacete ourselves because it's holiday. It's
a holiday week end kind of end of the week. Yeah,
So anyway, and then we always do I like see,
I like old school stuff, but my kids not into it.
(07:16):
So like I'm a deviled egg girl, tried and true.
I have made deviled eggs since and I'm sure it's
because I grew up eating them because my mom made them.
But doubled eggs like my late teens. When I'd have
like my nineteen year old friends over, I'd be serving
doubled eggs and it's like what Anyway, I still make them,
(07:40):
and I have really rad like antique egg trays. They're
really cool, so I always make them. No one eats
them except me, and then they go to waste and
I feel bad about it. You know what, maybe it
should make like four. I love a good Jella mold,
(08:08):
big Jella mold, girl, Gosh, I love an antique Jella mold,
like the copper ones you can hang on your wall.
I'm getting sentimental about antiques now. They just make you
feel cozy and comfy and homie. But yeah, I used
to love to like layer the Jella mold. Again. I
(08:29):
got this from my mom. She used to always make
Jella molds. Hers was like a creamy lime and she
would put I think she would put milk and in
her sour cream movie, so it would be it's it
wasn't translucent, so it'd be thick and look, you know,
(08:50):
like a cool mint green. And then she'd have a
layer of just regular jello and then like, I feel
like a layer of just sour cream. I could be wrong,
I have to, but it was refreshing. And yeah, I
grew up with that too. So I then would make
Jella molds for my kids. Again, they wouldn't eat it.
(09:12):
Oh there's like fruit encased in them. What's that? Uh?
Real fruit? You know something? You know, this isn't like
jello pudding here, like this is good for you, Like
it's real and there's fresh fruit. So but yeah, of
course anything like fresh or anything. They don't want. Always
(09:34):
hot dogs, hamburgers. Oh always make my clam dip, if
you know. You know again something my mom always made
growing up and at the beach we would always have
it for Fourth of July. And I love it, and
actually some of my kids love it, I'm happy to say,
(09:57):
even my twelve year old, who is the pickiest to
eat her. I'm like, Finn, you got to grab this man,
like you're gonna take a girl on a date one day,
And like when you're older in your twenties, and you're
gonna be like, can you just make me a better noodle?
And she's gonna be like what. So I'm like, you
got to expand your horizon. You gotta eat more stuff.
(10:18):
But he'll get there. I don't pressure him too much.
I just passive aggressively make comments. But he eats. Sorry,
I gottaxait it there he eats the clam dip. I'm like,
of all things, clam dip. That's for the adventurous palette.
And you like that, okay, And you have to start
(10:39):
with ruffles, ruffles with ridges. It's just so you can't
do lays. Sorry, because I like the ridges because the
dip sticks to it better in a different way, gives
it to mension a texture, and I like that. And
I always make French onion dip with which is as
(11:01):
simple as it comes. It's literally french onion soup packets
and sour cream. Best made the day before though, because
it really gets infused with the flavor and it's nice
when it's cold a little bit, and so you put
in the refrigerator and by the next day it's like
perfect again. With ruffles or a big Ruffles family. Yeah, sorry,
(11:27):
I'm talking a lot about food. My mouth's watering right now.
But I know you make like fun drinks, like fun
drinks like cranberry and like I muddle like fresh fruit.
I don't tell them it's from fresh fruit or they
won't need it, and make like blueberry raspberry strawberry like spritzers,
(11:52):
dash of lemonade. It's really good. A little sparkling water
or club soda. Yeah, really good. It's like an awesome mocktail.
And yeah, that's fourth of July. I feel like I
used to go all out when the kids were young,
and Bo's still young, so I feel bad poor fifth baby.
(12:13):
I was just really tired by the time I had him,
proud that I naturally conceived at forty four, but the
other four got the best in week God, I was
the deiy mama bear and now poor Boe. Yeah, since
(12:38):
the divorce, Like, I think that's something that we always
did together, was cook because cooking, oddly, we would always
fight in the kitchen. Dean and I only because you know,
everyone has their technique and different ways of doing things.
And he is he went to culinary school, so he's
(12:58):
a trained he's actually a trained chef, so he would
always want to show me the proper ways. But I'm
like a DIY home cook and if it's not messy,
it didn't come from the heart, so you know. And
he's always like, clean up, ass, you go, clean up
as you go, and I'm like, I don't know, and
he's always like, you know, you need a bigger pot
(13:20):
for that or a bigger bowl. And it's true, I
would always manage to find the smallest bowl or smallest
pot to cook things in. And I don't know why.
Maybe it's a challenge for me, like I don't like
the easy road clearly. Yeah, I don't know. So when
(13:43):
we split up, I honestly took like two years off
of cooking. I we you know, pre made stuff we
would order in Postmates like, which you know wasn't practical,
but it was like I needed a break and like
it was triggering. And maybe because our last fight before
(14:07):
we broke up took place in the kitchen, could be that.
Maybe anyway, But I've been getting back into cooking lately
and I hope to keep going with it. So so yeah, sorry,
I mean to get all dark there, but the share
(14:30):
and my feelings, oh and I love a good red lip.
On fourth of July. I have to do red, white
and blue because I just have to. And I love
a good red lip. I don't care how old you are.
You know that old notion that forty and over you
(14:54):
could not wear red lipstick anymore. It's like, uh, says who, No,
you cannot wear white after a labor day? Why? Like
those are like archaic rules of fashion and beauty that
I choose to rebel against. Yeah so yeah, good red
(15:18):
lip great glasses. Ah. I love holidays. I love any
holiday because it's time to celebrate and just be with
your family, and it gives to you a reason to
kind of get together and kind of do something that
maybe you wouldn't do typically, And whether that's just cooking
(15:42):
or barbecuing or you know, having a pool day, just
something that like maybe we take for granted normally. It's
like today we're doing it because it's fourth of July.
I love that. Oh. On my watermelon jigglers, I always
make that, which is jello and you make it with
(16:04):
the watermelon rind and it's watermelon jello, and then you
cut it up to like slices of watermelon and it
has the Riine. Oh, those are always very popular. The
kids eat that. Okay, now I want to go eat
well again. Happy fourth of July, Happy Independence Day. Oh
(16:28):
and we always have one more thing. We always have
to watch Independence Day, which my kids are like, it's okay.
I'm like, what do you mean this movie still stands up?
Oh my god, Will Smith, Jeff Goldbloom. I love that
movie so much, love it. I still cry, I still
(16:49):
root for them. I know what's gonna happen. You're still
am excited every time. But I do make the kids
watch it every year, every evening when like the sun
has set and we've gone and watched firework somewhere, come
back and I'm like, here we go Independence Day. And
they deal with it because I busted my ass, eat
(17:12):
food for them all day, cleaned up their damn water balloons.
So at that point in the evening, yowe me, so
watch Independence Day. Yeah, you don't have to watch that
movie just on fourth of July. It's pretty cool to
watch in the fourth of July. That's just a tory hack,
(17:33):
no toy tip. I don't know. But have a great day, Okay,
don't listen to me anymore. Go enjoy your day Love
you guys, Stay safe. Bye.
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