The Backstory: My bloody valentine!
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Emotional attachment is thousands of years old, but it actually started off with apes! For humans, Valentine’s Day started off as a blood-soaked pagan fertility festival loaded with alcohol, nudity, and blood! On the flip side, the romance element is a pretty recent invention. You can thank the Victorians for that. Plus, find out who sent the first Valentine!
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| 0:00.0 | As we celebrate Valentine's Day, I wanted to refresh a popular backstory episode from a year ago, |
| 0:06.3 | and I've added a whole lot of new info and some interesting sidebars. |
| 0:11.3 | All right, big sigh here. Romance sounds really great, right? |
| 0:15.3 | It's got all of the upside of love and sex and none of the downside. |
| 0:19.4 | But there was a time when Valentine's Day was celebrated really differently. |
| 0:24.2 | Imagine a guy you may or may not partner with wanting to increase your fertility. |
| 0:29.0 | So he sacrifices an animal and then slaps you over and over again with a bloody hide. |
| 0:33.8 | And you kind of like it. |
| 0:35.2 | He does the same to others as well. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm Patty Steele. How Valentine's Day has evolved. That's next on the backstory. This is David Eagleman, host of the science podcast, Inner Cosmos. |
| 0:50.3 | For Valentine's Day, we're diving into the question, what is love from the brain's point of view? |
| 0:57.5 | What does love have to do with how you were raised or the symmetry of someone's face or the smell of their underarms? |
| 1:04.5 | Why does the character of love change throughout our lives? |
| 1:08.9 | Why is heartbreak like drug withdrawal? |
| 1:12.0 | And what does any of this have to do with sweaty t-shirts or rom-coms or monogamous animals |
| 1:17.6 | and the future of love and AI? |
| 1:21.2 | Join me for this week's Inner Cosmos for a deep dive into the neurobiology of love. |
| 1:28.0 | Listen to Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:37.2 | Why would you do that to me when I thought we were friends? |
| 1:40.7 | We are friends. |
| 1:42.2 | Los Angeles 2021. |
| 1:44.3 | A friendly neighbor appears out of nowhere |
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