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History Is Dank

Mysteries Of The Valentine's Day Origin

History Is Dank

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Education, History

5.0584 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Hopefully everyone had a wonderful love filled Valentine's Day. Now what is going on, and why do we celebrate by sending poems, chocolate covered strawberries and flowers? Do other cultures do this, and if so for how long have they? Straight up... who is this dude Valentine? Striders seeks to answer these questions and much more. 

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Sources: history.com ‘Who Was The Real St. Valentine? The Many Myths Behind The Inspiration For Valentine’s Day’ by Livia Gershon, History.com ‘6 Surprising Facts About St. Valentine’ by Elizabeth Hanes, Lingualinx.com, Cntravler.com

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0:00.0

Go for it.

0:02.5

Frigin what up, dude.

0:03.8

Strider Wilson, I'm the host of this podcast.

0:05.9

That's mine.

0:06.4

It's going to be called History is Night.

0:10.0

History is day with Strider Wilson.

0:17.3

Dangness from the come.

0:26.7

Freaking what up, dude. Welcome back to another ep of history is dank dude i'm your host strider wilson dude we got aaron on the sticks dude what up aaron what up just chilling dude

0:32.8

we're recording this episode that's going to come out on a little day that's a very special day, Valentine's Day.

0:41.0

It's going to come out the day after, and hell, maybe I'll be nuts and I'll put it out on that day.

0:44.7

You'll find out and you'll already know when you're listening to this.

0:47.6

But let me just say, you're going to be hearing a lot about Bonin today.

0:52.4

And let me tell you, I'm a guy who talks a lot

0:54.9

about bonin, probably too much as it is. So, spoiler alert, you're going to be hearing a lot about

1:01.2

bonin today because Valentine's Day, it's a day of lovemaking. It's a day of love. And we're

1:07.5

going to get into just sort of this, the origin story of Valentine, or who the hell is St. Valentine, dude?

1:15.2

You know, I mean, maybe he needs to get, you know, the classic house party treatment where, you know, one of your boys who, you know, is like a football player and, you know, maybe he's not too good with the ladies, just like to post up and get his busky on. And maybe he gets off at that party by sort of just, you know, maybe he's not too good with the ladies. He just likes to post up and get his buzzky on.

1:27.6

And maybe he gets off at that party by sort of just, you know, inserting himself as the bouncer, dude. Our buddy Conley used to do that. Just employ himself as the bouncer, grab himself a few mics hards and just post up like that. And just he sees a guy he doesn't recognize, dude, like St. Valentine roll up. be like, who do you know here, bro?

1:47.2

You know, you think you think you're just gonna come in here and hook up

1:51.8

with chicks that my friends are trying to hook up with it uh-uh uh-uh dude pull a fucking you skate

2:00.3

because you should pull a 180. Just cruise on out of here. Who do you know, dude? Do you know where you're at? I know Eric. This is his buddy Connor's house. Oh, sick. You know Eric. All right, Ty. How do you know Eric? Oh, dude. Oh, duh. You guys used to play Little League together? Sick as hell, dude. All right, cruise on in, dude. Maybe we might go like that. And then we know who St. Valentine's is. You know, he's post up with Eric. But today, we're going to be cruising around, you know, delve into a little bit of research. Where does this Valentine's come from? Was he an actual dude? Is it maybe based on some sort of myth?

2:36.1

And then they got extrapolated into this whole thing. And why February 14th? And basically,

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