Feb. 13, 2025

"We Are the Hansons: Valentine’s Day Traditions, History, and Special Moments | Valentine's Edition Show"

"We Are the Hansons: Valentine’s Day Traditions, History, and Special Moments | Valentine's Edition Show"

Join the Hanson family for a heartfelt and fun Valentine’s Day special! In this Valentine’s Edition of We Are the Hansons, we dive into our favorite Valentine’s Day traditions, explore the history behind the holiday, and share the things that make it extra special for us and our kids. From memorable celebrations to meaningful moments, we cover everything that makes Valentine’s Day unforgettable. Tune in for heartwarming stories and family fun as we celebrate love together!

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Welcome to We Are the Hansons. Love is in the air,

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and so are we. That's right, Welcome back to We

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Are the Hansons, where family, fun, and a little bit

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of chaos always seem to come together. Today we're feeling

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in love with a special Valentine's episode of Very Hanson's

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Valentine's We're talking some love stories, some favorite traditions, and

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maybe even some embarrassing Valentine's moments. Plus we got some

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surprises along the way. So grab your chocolates, cozy up

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with someone you love. Are maybe just some desserts and

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let's get into it. How are you?

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I am great?

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Well, here we are another Valentine's Day. Can you believe

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we've had twenty two Valentine's Days together?

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Yeah?

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Twenty two? Like, yeah, I feel like I'm getting a

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little bit long in the tooth. What do you think

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about that?

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Yeah?

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Do you think so?

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Yeah?

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Like I never thought that I would remember a day

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where I couldn't go to sleep because my shoulders hurt.

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You know what I'm saying.

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Yep.

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So, you know, obviously, with as many kids as we have,

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we kind of take advantage of holidays like this, you know,

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to pass on what we feels important, you know, and like, yes,

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we can all admit Valentine's Day is a hallmark holiday.

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I yeah, for sure.

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But here's the thing. Every year, Maya tells me the

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same thing, what do you want for Valentine's Day? Nothing?

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Don't get me anything.

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I don't like stuff like No.

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No, you do know, but because like you should, just

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see your eyes light up when you get flowers or

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a bottle of wine, or even though you don't like chocolate,

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you like getting the chocolate because you do eat it

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even though you don't like it.

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No, I don't eat it.

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Oh you eat it.

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I'm not a chocolate person.

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But you know past that, especially with the kids, you know,

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some people, some people are very much like well, it's

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just for you know, people that are dating or people

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that are married. What do you think about that?

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No, I I've always done for the kids.

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Well, I think it's important because when your little girls

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see what you got them, their eyes light up. Yes, okay.

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And I grew up I had some pretty important men

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in my life, good men, and I feel very lucky

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for that. And you know, they all kind of reverberated

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the same thing that little girls up to long in

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the tooth ladies. They all want to be treated like ladies.

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And I think that Valentine's is kind of special because

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you're thinking about them, you know, or you're the person

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or the wife, the daughter, whatever, They know that you

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were thinking about them and only them at that moment.

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Does that make sense, Yes, we'll explain that.

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Well. I think it's more about knowing your loved yeah,

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and feeling special.

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But well that's just it, Like you're thinking to them,

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so they feel special. And you know, that's kind of

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always been my deal when it comes to Valentine's with you,

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is I want you to know that you're still special

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to me besides being a mother, you know, besides being

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that you're my wife. I think you're hot. I would

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like being with you because of who you were when

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we met. And I think Valentines is kind of that

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day where you get to like rekindle that feeling you think, so, yeah,

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you know, like you're going out. I mean, you've got

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so many kids now it's hard not to think about

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the kids in some sort of fashion. But at some

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point you have to get back to being a couple.

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At some point, all the kids are going to be

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out of this house and it's just going to be

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like me and you again, and there is something to

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be said for the husband and wife, not the mother

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and father at that point.

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Yes, I would have to agree with that, just because

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you're going to be it's just.

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Going to be you two, it is. I mean, we've

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had some kind of funny Valentine's stories, like I'll give

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you one, folks, I'll give you a good one. In

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the prior state we used to live in, Maya has

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a hankering. Is that a word hankering? Well it is now, Okay,

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it's a hankering, okay. And she had this hankering for

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this specific Mexican food restaurant and she absolutely loved it. Okay.

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And you've never really been a drinker, no, you know,

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the times that I've seen you actually drink have been very,

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very few and far in between. However, this should be

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a red flag edition because they had margarita bulls.

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They were fishbowl margarita.

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Yeah, that's they were huge, and I remember you having one.

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You're like, oh, that's so good. I probably shouldn't have

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another one, but you.

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Did well half of the other one.

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Yeah. Well, it was more like I would say like

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three quarters, No, you know, maybe four fifths no, something

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like that. Anyways, you just started laughing uncontrollably, and you know,

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we came home and it's Valentine's so you know, you

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think you're gonna set up watch a movie or something

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like that. We came back from meeting. You went right

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to bed and fell asleep.

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Yeah. Well they say tequila is supposed to make your

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clothes fall off, but it doesn't always.

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No, it made your eyelids drop, that's the truth. Yeah,

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it's you know, things like that or tonight, it's a

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little bit different Valentine's. For us, we're gonna go enjoy

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ourselves another day. And that's one great thing about holidays

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and our family sometimes because of so many people, we

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are so used to celebrating holidays on different days because

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we want to get the family together. In this case,

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we want to get rid of the kids and just

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mean you go out. So we're going to go out

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and celebrate another day. But for the family, we're going

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to be watching or why should I say watching, it's

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movie night.

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Yeah, it's our favorite time.

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Absolutely. So like our deal is get some popcorn, put

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on something that the kids have wanted to watch We're safe, cozy,

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having fun, laughing, doing all that stuff, and the kids

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absolutely love it. You forgot the snacks, Yeah, snacks, but

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I didn't mention them, just because I didn't want the

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girls to hear what they got for Valentine's Day. Wow,

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So I can't say what snacks. No, just snacks, snacks

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and a lot of big snacks, but snacks that you

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could get, you know, when we actually go to a movie, yes, yes,

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So now my daughter she's going out tomorrow night with

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her boyfriend and they're watching a scary Valentine's movie.

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Yeah, one I want to see.

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See. I just I'm not into that, folks. I just

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there's nothing scary to me anymore.

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Whatever glory I don't get.

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Have you ever seen me scared of a movie?

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On the edge of your seat? And yes, nomore jumped

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a few times.

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If I jumped those because I had an itch?

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No, yes, it was.

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Now I with Valentine's As parents, it's fun to watch kids,

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you know, as they're growing up. Now, they watched us

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do Valentine's They watched us do things, and it's funny

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to pick up the subtleties of how our children treat

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their significant others and and what they expect to be

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treated like just from watching us, don't you.

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Think, Uh yeah, you know, in a good way.

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Tell them a story.

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Well, I've always been that parent that I want my

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kids to know that they're thought about. So Valentine's Day

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at school, I would go out and get what I needed,

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and most of the time it was either flowers, you know,

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the crush soda, yeah, balloons, and I would make chocolate

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covered strawberries and I would go and deliver it to

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each school for each child.

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Yep, I remember that. And you know there's also other

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things you can do. I truly believe that if you

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can help somebody, you should help somebody. And the schools

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are pretty good about knowing who's never going to get

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anything for Valentine's Day. So you can bring stuff up

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to most public schools and say, hey, give this or

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give these or whatever to whoever you think isn't going

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to get anything for Valentine's And man, I'll tell you what,

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that just brightens up their face. It brightens up their days.

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It gives them a little bit of self confidence because

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sometimes man, these kids's home life when they say some

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kids live in hell, it's the truth.

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Yeah, it's sad, very sad to see.

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So now I expect my boys to at least act

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as good as I did for Valentine's Don't you expect

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that of them?

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I expect that of them. And I also expect our

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girls to be the same.

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Oh absolutely, But I think I think that we've spoiled

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our girls a little bit to where their expectations are.

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Probably we probably about it. Their expectations are way higher

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than I think the average person, especially for Valentine's Day,

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than the average person would expect.

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I don't know. I think Morgan and Madison are that

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they've been spoiled big time. Morgan Madison very persy and

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torn m Now Torren's not that persy.

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She's not prissy, but she definitely uh wants respect and

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she's gonna get respect no matter what.

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And she'll let you know it too.

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Right now. The thing is is our youngest daughter, Aneline

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is a little mini me. Yeah literally, like whatever I do,

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she does when it comes to like I'll tell you

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how my Valentine's Day morning started. I'm the first one

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to get up and usually Aneline is the second followed,

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like literally like rubbing the sleep in her eyes. And

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what does she do in the morning.

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With dead dad? Make me a cup of coffee.

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That's right. So my Valentine's Days started out and she

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got what is it? Chocolate caramel coffee creamer.

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Okay, Now, for those of you that don't know, there

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is a few things going on with her, and I'm

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telling you, I think that that one cup of coffee

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in the morning. It's it's actually like half half coffee

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half creamer. But I really think that that made a

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difference in a good way for her.

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What do you think, I don't know. I I guess

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I see more of the bad side than the good

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because I guess.

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I'm the abdast and you're the pessimist.

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No, it's because I'm always cleaning it up.

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Now. It is what it is. I think that no

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matter where you come from, Valentine's Day is something important.

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Like every year we get gifts, and sometimes they're little gifts,

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like you remember when we were flat broke, but we

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still quick trip. They had the dollar roses yep, And

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you could go there and you could get one rose

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for a dollar, and man, we would try so hard

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to make sure that we always had at least a

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dollar to go get the kids at least a rose.

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And then do you remember when the chocolates were not cheap. Yeah,

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like you couldn't get chocolates for under five six bucks.

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They didn't have the little kids one dollar hearts with

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chocolates in them back then. So we would try really hard,

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and we'd always get them something. It might have been fruit,

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it might have been a rose, it might have been

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but all the kids always got something, and I think

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that's an important tradition. And we'd always watch something sappy,

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you know, something you liked on the movie. But tomorrow

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I think we're gonna watch.

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Yeah, yeah, or or I want to do yes.

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Well, what do you think. I don't know. It's gonna

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be a toss up. I think we're gonna let the

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kids vote on it. And then when me and you

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go out. My tradition for Valentine's Day is I really

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only want a steak.

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I just like food. Yeah, well we know that they

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know who doesn't like food.

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But you know, I have seen people on Valentine's Day

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just crushed because there's significant other I didn't get them

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what they wanted, or they didn't spend so much. I

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was reading something today that it's said that the average

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guy that's going to take a gallout on Valentine's Day

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spends one hundred and ninety seven dollars. Does that sound

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right to you?

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God no, if you had to do that with your kids,

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your wife, I mean, you know.

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I don't think I would even spend twenty bucks on

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Valentine's Day.

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I mean, how long do you keep Valentine? I mean, okay,

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if you get cologne or something, you'll keep that for

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a while. But how long do chocolates last?

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I don't know because I don't need it.

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How long the flowers last?

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Couple of weeks?

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Right, So you know, it is what it is. But

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I think that sometimes people put too much value on

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presence and not enough value on the thought. Yes, like

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I've gotten Anelin made me that Plato stuff. She made

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me castles today with putty yep. And then I got

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a letter or a Valentine I guess from torn So.

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And then the kids when they went with you last

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night to Walmart, had to get Dad something. Yeah, but

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that's that's kind of part of the other thing that

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is in our repertoire about things that we do when

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it comes to Christmas and Valentine's and sometimes birthdays, just

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depending on what we have for money. We always tried

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to let the kids pick something out for whoever, simply

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because most of the joy that you get from gifts

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is not receiving gifts, it's giving gifts. And you can

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see it in the little kids when they go get

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this stuff.

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Yes, and I'd rather like the I like to be

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the gifter, not the receiver. Just to see your kids

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open it and their face light up, that's the best

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gift to me.

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Yeah, And I actually prefer watching them give somebody the

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gift that they picked out for them, Yes, because that

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really means something. And then as they get older, what

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you start seeing Like this last summer, the girls wanted

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to make some extra money, so we went down and

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we got a bunch of watermelons and they sold watermelons

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and they made some money. But the thing was they

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really spent the money on everybody else.

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Yeah, my kids are definitely the gifters well.

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And I think that's important. I think you have to

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have a value for yourself. But I also think that

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it's important to have empathy, and it's important to introduce

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kids to understand that and I think it helps a

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lot with having kids that have expectations where they're they're

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almost narcissists at some point where they expect this to happen.

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That I think our kids know that we aren't just

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going to give them money and stuff. They have to

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earn that.

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Well, they do. But Valentine's is one of those things

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that you know as the girls get older, I mean, like, gosh,

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there's nothing worse than right before preteen and very young

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teen girls because they're always looking for that kind of

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stuff or always did this boy say anything about me?

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Or did this you know what I'm saying, Why is

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that a thing?

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Or I hope for flowers on Valentine's Day from somebody.

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I think that dad is a thing worldwide that every

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single girl has, like in her what would you say,

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dream box?

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Yeah, they dream.

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That some point maybe, and it doesn't have to be

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like their prince Charming. They just have this dream that

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at some point in their life some guy is going

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to go all out on them for Valentine's Day and

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make them feel like the princess they grew up thinking

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they were.

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Well, that should be how it is.

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It is, well, and I'm hoping that more girls get

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to feel that feeling.

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And my boys better do the same for their girlfriends.

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Damn right, they better Now it is what it is.

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What else do we do for Valentine's That that is

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like a what would you say, a handsome tradition.

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We always make good meals. If we don't go out

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to eat, we make a family meal for people or

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kids and us.

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That's that's a true thing. And then you know, many

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years we had it where the kids came over and

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if they had girlfriends or boyfriends, they'd come over and

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we didn't play video games. We literally played board games

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or we played cards or whatever. And there's a lot

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of those games online and it's I think it's funner

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when you get everybody in there playing those types of

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games and having fun and you don't have a good

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meal and then wind down with a good movie.

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Yes, like Credator, just to sit home and relax.

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Yeah. Well, it always feels like we're going one hundred

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miles per hour. It always does so. And the other

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thing is is on Valentine's I think it's important to

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remember for the parents. I'm talking it's important to remember

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who you were and who they were and all of

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the things that you went through together, like all the

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battles that you as a team went through together. And

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then remember when you're getting that that gift or giving

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whatever it may be, that it's almost like saying, cheers,

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look at the crap we've been through and we're still here.

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I love you, you know what I'm saying.

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Yes, I mean, we probably have a twenty page book

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of things that we've gone through in life together.

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Battled through, like literally battled through.

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Pure hell some of them.

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Yeah, So, I mean the good and the bad, the hills,

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the valleys, the mountains, the canyons. I mean, every life

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goes through them. You know, I feel pretty blessed because

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we've had some awesome things, We've had some great learning lessons,

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but we've always been surrounded by love. And I see

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people just my friend that passed away not too long ago,

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he chose to go, and the reason that he chose

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to go was he didn't have that love around him.

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He was lonely, he didn't have that, and you know,

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it broke my heart to see that, But it makes

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me appreciate what we've had and what we've built more

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than ever.

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Yeah, it was very sad. I honestly feel like he

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died from loneliness.

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Yeah, and I you know, it's just that reciprocation of love,

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is that reciprocation of respect. And sometimes I think for

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Valentine's for a guy, sometimes it's like a pat on

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the back, like you're doing good. You know. I think

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that's more because most guys are not into the UI

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guy gooshy, lovey dovey you know stuff. You know, you

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know what I'm saying. I mean, it's not that we

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don't like being love we're just not into the uiguy.

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You know that doesn't even sound right.

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Well guy buttercake type love stuff. Now, we like to

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be loved and we like loving, but we're just not

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into that, you know, princess bride type stuff.

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Some men, I think, are you know, you're thinking wrong.

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I know a lot of guys, a lot of them,

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and guys can be romantic. Like I'm a romantic. I'm

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just not the ouey guy type romantic. I'm a romance romantic.

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Well, you gotta give to get.

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Well you do. And that's part of Valentine's Day some

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people was the sweetest day. Yeah, some people do stuff

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for that, but we kind of settled on Valentine's I

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think it was because when we were in school, we

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made our own Valentine's Box, you remember that, I do,

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and then you got to go get the cards with

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everybody's name, and then you would, you know, put Valentine's

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candy or whatever, and then you'd stick it into everybody's box.

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And then even the candy at that time with the cards,

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there was one special Valentine in there that you got

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to give to the person that was your Valentine. Did

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you know that?

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I did not know that, So I thought it was interesting.

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Today I did a show with the other podcast and

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we went into the history of Valentine's Day? And did

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you know that Valentine's Day started by two different guys

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named Valentine. I did not know that, okay, And both

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of them became martyrs.

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What is that?

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Okay? So the one guy decided that he was going

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to marry soldiers even though the Roman emperor said that

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he could not, so he started marrying them, and they

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tortured him to death. His last name was Valentine, and

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the other one married the jailer's daughter, and they were

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helping what they considered freemen escape the jail, so it's

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this epic love story type thing, and they go to

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drawn quarter him, and if you don't know what that is,

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that's where they hook his arms and his legs up

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to horses and then they rip him apart, and the

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executioner let him send her a message, and he basically

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proclaimed his love for her and said yours truly Valentine,

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or be your Valentine or something like that because his

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last name was Valentine, so be my Valentine came from

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what he wrote to this woman. So literally, the history

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of Valentine's Day is about sacrifice and about love, So

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I mean that's kind of enchanting.

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Yeah, that didn't sound like a love story.

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To me, Well it did to me. I mean, one

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guy literally died because he was marrying people that loved

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each other under protest from the king, and the other

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guy died because he was helping set free freemen with

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his lover at the time. And the last thing he

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wrote was his profession of love to her, and then

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he signed I'm your Valentine or something like that, So

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you know, I thought that was cool. Well, you know,

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when you go to Valentine's especially after you've been together

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for a while when we just were dating. The Valentine's

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had a whole new meeting. It was a different meaning

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back then. Yep, you know, you know what I'm saying.

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But anyways, folks, that is a very special day for

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the Hanson crew. And this has been a very special

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Valentines with the Hansons.

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Yes, very special.

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So thank you for listening. We love you guys. When

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are they going to hear from you again?

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Tomorrow?

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Tomorrow expect another episode. Remember, you can go to Spotify,

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you can go to Spreaker, you can go to YouTube.

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There's a million places that you can catch We are

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the Hansons, and we got a couple important things coming

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up on the show. We can't really say anything about yet. No,

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but it's really exciting and it's really fun and I

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hope you guys will stay with this for this journey.

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We love you guys.

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