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Holiday Special: Valentine's Day

Shmanners

Travis McElroy

Etiquette, Society & Culture, Schmanners, Travis Mcelroy, History Of Etiquette, Teresa Mcelroy, Comedy, Mcelroy

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Hello Internet! Welcome to the first (hopefully first of many) of our holiday specials! Learn all about the history and traditions surrounding Valentine's Day!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey Teresa, I got a present for you for Valentine's Day.

0:02.4

What is it?

0:03.4

I did the research for this one.

0:04.6

It's Schmannners! Hello internet. I'm your husband host Travis McElroy and I'm your wife

0:26.8

host Teresa McElroy. This is going to be the first of our holiday specials you

0:31.9

know Valentine's Day is coming out this weekend and we

0:34.5

figured there's a lot of traditions there's a lot of history behind it there's a lot of

0:38.0

etiquette around Valentine's Day so we wanted to jump in and do a quick

0:41.7

special and as a present to my wife I handle the research for this one so that she could prepare for our regular episode which will be coming out tomorrow.

0:51.0

It was one of the nicest surprises I've ever received and I hate surprise presents.

0:57.0

She hates surprises.

0:58.0

I always want to know. I always want to know. I can say in general, our Valentine's days have always been pretty laid back I think

1:06.7

last year was the first year we actually got to celebrate because we weren't working

1:10.0

right we used to work at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and it was a fun time, but we often had to work on Valentine's Day.

1:17.5

And last year was the first year that we didn't, and we like went out to eat.

1:21.0

We didn't. Also, because we're dumb, like we went out to eat, didn't make a reservation, didn't think like, oh, this might be an end.

1:27.6

We just like rolled up to a restaurant, like, we'd like a table please. And they're like, okay, it's going to be like two hours.

1:32.1

I'm like, oh. But the funny thing is, they handed us one of those,

1:35.3

no, no, wait, this was a different place.

1:37.0

Okay, so they took my cell phone number

1:39.1

and they were gonna text us when our table was ready.

1:41.8

So we walk around the block, we're going to go like, you know, pre-game

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