Imagine you were executed centuries later.

You're just like, oh, people are celebrating this.

You're on a Russell, Stover box of chocolate.

Yeah, and they're just giving each other's chocolate.

We are negative fertile with each other's energy.

And they look rushed and they look stressed and I'm like, very good, very good.

I literally feel my blood boiling.

I feel it like, I don't know, Valentine's day is kind of a letdown.

Hello and welcome back to Hot Pursuit, a podcast about creating conversations where nothing is off limits.

This podcast is produced by Asian Boss Girl. I'm M and I hate box chocolates. I'm Jen

and Valentine's Day really gets in the way of my takeout order wait time. I'm Madeline

and I love waiting tables on Valentine's Day because that's when you make bank chin.

Money, money, money, money, money, money.

It is no mystery based off our outfits that today, we are talking about Valentine's Day.

So I thought it would be interesting to give just like a brief history lesson about why

Valentine's Day is Valentine's Day. And it's actually kind of crazy.

So I asked chat GPT this morning to give me like a four point summary of what Valentine's Day is

where it came from. And it has its origins in ancient Rome. And they used to do this ritual in mid-February called Lupercalia.

It's a, it's a fertility festival involving goat sacrifices, running around half-naked,

and ritualized matchmaking.

I think ritual.

Ancient Romans were kind of crazy.

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