Talking Lamar - Naked Pagan to Hug Me Hearts (Airdate 2/9/2024)
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Now! Media | Bob & Sheri
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🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Today's Oddcast - Talking Lamar - Naked Pagan to Hug Me Hearts (Airdate 2/9/2024)
In honor of Valentine's Day, Lamar's got an Oddcast packed with interesting facts about the history of one of the most loved (or hated) holidays.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this special romantic edition of Talking Lamar. |
| 0:04.4 | On this episode, we are talking about Valentine's Day, how it began, and a lot of fascinating facts that you may not know. |
| 0:13.4 | What are you talking about? |
| 0:14.3 | What are you talking about? |
| 0:15.4 | Sorry, I forgot what I was talking about. |
| 0:16.7 | What are you talking about? |
| 0:17.5 | I am talking to you. |
| 0:18.6 | That's just what I was talking about. |
| 0:20.4 | It's Talking Lamar I am talking to you. That's just what I was talking about. It's talking Lamar. |
| 0:23.0 | It may surprise you to know that Valentine's Day has not always been candy flowers and cards. |
| 0:30.4 | According to Roman legend, around 600 BC, King Amulis ordered Romulus and Riemus, his twin nephews, and founders of Rome, to be thrown into the Tiber River to drown. |
| 0:44.9 | A servant took pity on them, however, and placed them inside a basket on the river instead. |
| 0:51.3 | The basket floated down the river, they got hung on a vine. The brothers were then |
| 0:56.1 | rescued and cared for by a she wolf in a den. They grew up, went back, and killed King Amulis. |
| 1:04.7 | To celebrate, they started the feast of the Lupercal. Now, this kind of, in this feast, there was like ritual sacrifice, |
| 1:13.6 | everybody's running around naked, men are picking women's names out of a jar and hooking up, |
| 1:20.1 | which would have been called a key party, but they didn't have keys back then. Over time, |
| 1:24.9 | the naked part lost its popularity. |
| 1:28.4 | I'm not sure how that happens, but it did. |
| 1:31.3 | So the fest of the Lupercal continued each February around the 14th. |
| 1:36.5 | And on that day, in the 3rd century AD, a man named Valentine was imprisoned by the Roman Emperor for assisting persecuted Christians. |
| 1:48.2 | He was told to reject his faith in Jesus or be killed. Valentine refused and was beheaded. |
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