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do you guys have traditions i mean what do y'all do are y'all like the romantic types or what

i don't i'd love to hear kind of where how you guys operate during this season of love i think

i first want to hear from you zach are you uh what's your thoughts on val Valentine's Day? I think I'm a hopeless romantic, but Jill would probably say no that I'm not really good at the remembering special occasions. Alan, you know, that's like a fan. That's a curse of the family. That's not necessarily my fire. But that may be some kind of genetics i don't know what

you well yeah i mean my wing for sure very little is done but i i'm very different from

everybody else in my wings so i've always been the weird one so i've always made a big deal about

in fact when uh when my girls were little um I would always do a big thing, not just for

Lisa, but for her and the girls. And so it was like, you know, in that sense, they were my

sweethearts, you know, so I would always, like, get decorations. I would cook or, like, go pick up

food and stuff like that. And I would just make a big deal about not just serving

lisa but the girl so my girls always remember that which i told both their husbands i was like you know

i've set the bar high so we'll see of course you know jay stone um you know he's not going for the bar

you know but lucky for him nan doesn't really care about it anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he probably doesn't, it's no big deal. He probably didn't know when Valentine's Day is. Right, exactly. He probably doesn't know. If you don't know, I mean, oh, well, Jay's told me early on to set the bar low when you first get married and he said, if you set it really low, you set the expectations really low, and anything above the bottom is advancement. And so I went with that. And it did work out well. That's not a good tactic. No, that's terrible. That's terrible advice. Awful advice. And Jayst, I talked about dad giving him bad advice, but he's the worst as well.

I was bad. Well, when we first got married, Jill and I, it wasn't the first Valentine's Day, but her first birthday, which is in February, I'd forgot to do anything or plan anything for her birthday.

Your first year was there, you forgot her birthday. Oh, wow. Is that not bad? And so it was the day of... No card. Like, I mean, nothing. Like, no happy birthday. And I mean, nothing. Just totally forgot. And I get to work. And my sister calls me. I was like, are you doing anything for Jill's birthday tonight? I mean, you haven't taught us and I was like, oh my gosh.

I, calls me. It was like, are you doing anything for Jill's birthday tonight? I mean, you haven't taught us? And I was like, oh my gosh. It just hit. And it was like that moment, like, you know, that dream you have where you, where you, like, you forget to show up for finals or whatever. It was like, that kind of anxiety just like overcame me. And I was like, I have not planned anything so um we still just just still talks about this story to this day so what I did was in a panic

stopped a log green no I caught every one of my friends and I was like guys

tonight prompted impromptued birthday party at the Olive Garden and And so I reserved a table for like 15 people.

We get there, but because it was so last minute, like nobody shows up.

And it's like literally me and Jill sitting at a table all along.

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