Hey Theresa, will you be my Valentine?

Yes.

Yes!

It's Schmanners! Oh, Hello internet I'm your husband

host and I'm your wife host Teresa McElroy and you're listening to Schmanners. It's extraordinary etiquette

for ordinary occasions hello my dove. Hello dear. How are you? Doing well.

Do you think people will be able to hear the landscaping people in our backyard getting all the gross dead bushes out of there?

Nah. Okay, hey if you hear something, it's definitely not that.

Okay.

Hi.

Hi.

Hello.

We did that already.

Oh no, you're right.

Oh goodness gracious. So this week, it's all about Valentine's.

And we've done kind of like a history of Valentine's, but I wanted to talk more about kind of like the action of

The C. The Underbelly. Yeah. Well more like know, take your questions about the modern times of Valentine's, that

active day that we give each other gifts and maybe the day when hypothetically society sets aside

to show appreciation for one another on that day and that day alone. Is that what you mean?

Here's the thing, listen, I, we often preface the episodes we do. I cannot preface this episode enough. We are going to be talking about

Valentine's and the thing is the history of Valentine's is so super

commercial and it's also incredibly hetero normative and it's just

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