I guess what, mengo, what's that? Well? All right, so I'm sure you've heard this thing the El Paso Zoo is doing where you can actually pay to have a cockroach named for your ex, and then they take the cockroach and they feed it to a mere cat. Have you heard about this? I have. I feel like it's all over the net this week. And it's not just them. I mean I read about these zoos that are taking off salmon. You can name the salmon after your ex, and then they feed it to bears and somebody. That feels so much crueler. Yeah, I think that's just different. That's just not right. You know. The cockroach thing is one thing, but away the El Paso Zoo was the first one I read about, and apparently the response has been incredible. In fact, because the number of names the zoo has received far out numbers the number of cockroaches that their mere cats can actually eat in a day, they've had to come up with these, you know, different solutions. So just to keep the pace and to make sure that every roach gets sacrificed. This week, the zoo has recruited these cotton top tamarins, some golden tamarins and some white headed marm SE's just to join in all this Valentine's Day fund So you know, whether you're a jilted lover looking for ideas or happily coupled up and just looking for some entertaining facts on Valentine's Day, We've got you covered on nine things. So let's dive in. Either podcast listeners, welcome the part time genius. I'm Will Pearson and as always I'm joined by my good friend Man Guesh hot Ticketer and sitting behind that soundproof glass in a room full of candles and just blasting Verry wide on the speakers. Actually I can hear it through what we say is the soundproof glass, but it is so loud, just kind of setting the mood for today's show. I guess that's our friend and producer Tristan McNeil. Yeah. It actually reminds me of this back age we used to do in mental last where we used to test slogans and phrases and we'd asked things like why can't you compare apples and oranges or whatever and use signs to back it up, And we tested that classic at slogan is Virginia really for lovers. I'm sure you remember this, but we look at the flowers sent for capita, the amount of Marvin Gay on radio stations, wine consumption, and all these other romantic indicators that we came up with, and we realized that actually, Virginia isn't for lovers, it's eleventh best for lovers or something like yeah, yeah, And if I for sorry for all of our Ohio listeners out there, I think they may have come in dead last. And that's the topping the list which which may have shown this might have been slightly flawed was Alaska, I think because of all the bed and breakfast and the wine consumption per capital. But it was a fun study to look at. But anyway, speaking of love, what what the fact do you think you should start with for today's Valentine's Day special? So I kind of like your trend of starting with anti Valentine's Day traditions like naming that cockroach for your X or whatever. Well, actually I also saw that this guy in Shanghai bought every other movie seat at a movie theater on Valentine's Day just so that couples would show up and not be able to sit together, which feels like a ridiculous prank and almost like an evil genius thing to do. But you know, in that vein, I'm going to talk about vinegar Valentine's. So by the mid eight hundreds, Americans and the Brits had sort of fallen in love with this idea of sending Valentine's and they often made them by hand with lace, and then printers got into the act and started mass producing cards for the holidays. But if you weren't into the holiday, or you wanted to show that special someone that you really don't care, you could send out a vinegar Valentine. And sometimes you'd see these referred to as penny dreadfuls or sometimes comic Valentine's. So what was inside of vinegar Valentine? Basically it was just like a card full of horrible right, it would be crass illustrations, these short insulting poems. They're almost like an early form of trolling because you'd send them anonymously. But here's what researcher Gabe pulled from eighteen seventy five for us. It has a picture of a young woman throwing a bucket of water in a man's face, and it reads quote, here's a pretty cool reception. At least you'll say, there's no deception. It says as plain as it can say, old fellow, you'd best stop away. What weird? Anti Valentine's These cards were actually doubly insulting, because not only did the person you were sending them to have to guess who hated you enough to send you one, but they also had to pay for the postage on delivery. But the concept was such a hit that by the mid nineteenth century, fountain sales were actually equally split between the loving kind and the vinegar kind. And and does the Smithsonian like have a bunch of these cards preserved? You know, I've actually had the same question, Like I was wondering, where can I see this gallery of these? But uh, you know, the cards were super popular, but for obvious reasons, people didn't keep them around. You know, you don't want your grandson like finding a card that says everyone thinks you're an ignorant, loud or whatever. Alright, Well, in a very different direction, we all know that candy sales spike on Valentine's Day, that's no surprise, but the amount of money spent is pretty staggering. So Americans spend over one point eight billion dollars on Valentine's candy alone. What's also fun to look at is what candies vary, you know, from state to state. So I just imagine, like, isn't it just the heart shaped boxes that dominate? Like you know, I just imagined, like the traditional chocolate is really what sells well. They're actually the second most sold candies and this comes from a list that candy store dot com puts together. But conversation hearts take the top spot in twenty three states, and heart shaped boxes do particularly well in New York, Texas, Ohio, and Alaska. So I know we said they were last in love, but they know how to find those heart shaped boxes. They actually top the list in I think it's fourteen states, but you know there are some other out liars, So thirteen states either chose chocolate roses chocolate shaped like hearts, so not not the boxes, but the actual chocolate itself, and of course Eminem's. And because I feel like we should mention Delaware for your sake, Delaware's top candy choice for Valentine's Day is Hershey Kisses, which I'd never heard before, but that sounds unpretentious and sweet, just like Delaware, so that that makes sense to me. They actually share that honor with Utah, South Dakota, and Arkansas. So what about your homestate? What about Alabama? Yeah, Alabama is also an outlier. So our number one Valentine's Day treat is candy necklaces, which I know that I have ever purchased a candy necklace. I guess I don't know what's wrong with me. But anyway, where do you want to go next? Well, how about the other big seller for the holiday, which is flowers and specifically roses. So, like candy, there's a tremendous amount of money spent on roses. Two d fifty million roses are grown specifically for Valentine's Day every single year. But if you've ever done any sort of like last minute shopping for the whole days, you'll notice the prices actually spike. And the thing we learned this week is that it isn't just traditional price gouging, but it's more complicated than that. So to meet that sort of demand, growers need about fifty to seventy days to get the roses ready. They also have to dispatch extra trucks airplanes, to ship all these roses in in time. Plus it's a terrible time for weather, so you've got to account for like hail storms and droughts, which also sort of play with the amount you have in terms of like the supply. All of that means we're getting more roses from Latin America or even NYA to fix those weather concerns. Anyway, the trick to not getting price couch, which I learned this week, is basically to plan ahead. Someone did a study this and because most online flower shops allow you to order roses thirty days in advance, if you order no later than January, you'll actually get the best deal on them. M I'm guessing most people do not get their orders in by that. But alright, well, this may seem like a weird connection, but I want to share a fact that I think is interesting about Leap Day, which is obviously the one extra day every four years falls at the very end of February, But for years and years, leap Day was long considered the one acceptable time when a woman could actually propose to a man instead of the other way around, and according to Gabe, the tradition likely started in Ireland and England back in the I think the late seventeen hundreds, and so by the nineteenth century is Valentine's Day cards became more popular. If a woman sent a Valentine during a leap year, it was actually to be taken as an official marriage proposal. And that's really interesting. And I'm guessing you mean a traditional Valentine, not a vinegar one in that case. One well, I mean, what's also interesting to me is how long this leap date tradition continued. So it actually went on until the nineteen seventies. In fact, in February of nineteen seventy six, the New York Times finally declared the tradition dead, or at least they declared it a ne ccerian. So here's what they wrote in these liberated Times. Every day is leap day, every day is leep day, and lived by those words. So, you know, on that similar note, one thing that's interesting to me is that Valentine's Day in Japan has kind of this quasi feminist slant. And this goes back to seven when the Mary Chocolate Company introduced Valentine's Day of the country, but in kind of a translation gap, and and you know, I love translation errors. Like James Bond. That film Doctor No in Japan was actually called we Don't Need a Doctor there. Um I love that. But so this was another error and it said the tradition called for women to send chocolate candies to men, and it just got reinforced and it's actually had this interesting impact on the country. It's considered one of the only days that girls can openly express their feelings and their anthropologists who have actually studied this. But the rules around chocolate giving are actually pretty defined. If you want to give it to someone you fee romantic about, you give me choco, which, because of the implications, is usually super high quality and often homemade. And then there's a gary choco, which has no romantic strings whatsoever. It's sort of cheap and store bought, and this is what you give to your co workers are close friends. It's also kind of this platonic chocolate. The name is actually, when you translated to English, means obligation chocolate. And then the last thing is my favorite. It's called choke gary choco. It's kind of the sad subset of gary choco, and it's basically ultra obligation chocolate. So it's given to men that aren't important to a woman, but she feels really sorry for So it's basically pity chocolate, and it's really sad. You know, from a distance, it's funny, but I'm sure as a sixth grader through college grad I would have stuffed my face full of pitty chocolates. I feel these guys, Oh man, that is pretty bad. Well, chocolate obviously plays a big role in Valentine's Day, but you know, I was curious how it got so linked to the holiday, And apparently it really started with Cadburry. And I guess that shouldn't be a huge surprise to us. So chocolate had been around in Europe and the fifteen hundreds and the sixteen hundreds and and and pretty popular. But in the mid nineteenth century, Richard Cadbury invented a way to extract pure cocoa butter from drinking chocolate. And this was done as a way to make it taste better. But the only problem was now he had all this pure cocoa butter and nothing to do with it. So his solution was to use butter and to make a brand new product. And these were these eating chocolates, and so we made this ornate box for them, and you know, they did pretty well. But in eighteen sixty one he hit upon this idea of marketing his chocolate specifically for Valentine's Day. So this time he put them in heart shaped boxes, had some cupids and rosebuds put on the cover, and Cadburry was also kind of a marketing genius because he figured out you could also advertise the worth of the box, so he took out these ads showing that they were great way to you know, to store love letters or things like that and locks of hair and other romantic mementos once the candy had been eaten. And you know, while he might have missed an opportunity by not trying to patent those boxes, he did kick off this tradition that the world now indulges in. That's pretty amazing that he invented the heart shaped box. That's pretty stunning. So we've gone from ultra pity chocolate to heart shaped boxes and I really like where this is going. But we've got two more facts to go. We need to take a quick break. First, welcome back to Part Time Genius. We we're talking about Valentine's Day, so well, I know you kicked off the show with an anti Valentine's Day bent and uh with the whole naming of your ex after a cockroach and then eating that cockroach to a mercat. But how are you planning to close out this fact? Well? I was thinking about doing something grim, like talking about the Museum of Broken Relationships, which you can find in Croatia. You know, they're all these teddy bears and love letters from failed relationships apparently. And the funniest thing to me is this rabbit with a note on it that says the bunny was supposed to travel the world but never got further than Iran. Oh man, that is bleak. But you are not talking about that. It sounds like, so what are you going to talk about? All right? Well, how about a fact on St. Valentine. So, the historical Saint Valentine is believed to have been sainted because he performed secret ceremonies to marry these Catholic couples, and this was in defiance of Roman law, so he became the patron saint of love and of couples. His role as the patron saint of beekeepers is probably unrelated to all this, but also a cool side I like that you kind of double majored in St. Hoodiar. It's it's it's really impressive. But I mean, what's we heard about the story is that historians really can't figure out who Valentine even was. So we're looking at Alice obscura like we always loved to such a great side. But here's how they explain it. Little is really known of the real man or men behind the myth. What is known, more or less is that at least two men by the name of Valentine were known in Italy and died in the late third century, and a third Valentine was located in North Africa around that same time as a saint. The stories of the different men seemed to have merged into one over time, with most of the mythology about Valentine being a patron saint of lovers only dating to the fourteenth century and the writings of Jeffrey Chaucer. So that's what they say. But what's particularly weird about this fact is that if you want to make a pilgrimage to visit St. Valentine's relics, it makes it a little harder because there were more than one, and so you know his supposed skull is on display at a basilica in Rome. One of his shoulder blades was found in a church basement and progue, which so strange. His entire body is said to be housed that churches in both Glasgow and Dublin, and perhaps strangest of all, some unspecified body parts are said to be kept inside a wax replica of the saint at a church in Missouri. So if you truly want to pay homage, there's quite an itinerary in front of you. That is nuts, but I like it. Well. If you don't want to celebrate St. Valentine's Day, there are other options for you, and one of them is Ferris Wheel Day. So apparently February fourteenth is also George Washington Gale Ferris Jr's birthday. He is the dude who built the first Ferris wheel. But as we're looking this up, Cabe also pointed out that Austrians are particularly fond of Ferris wheels, and they don't even use the birthday as the reason for Ferris Wheel Day. Like some enthusiasts, actually claimed that the day was chosen not to mark the inventor's birthday, but because February fourteenth is one of the fairest weather days of the year there, which is perfect for ferris wheel rides, I guess. But if amusement rides aren't your thing, you can also celebrate in general Heart Defect Awareness Day or Bulgarian Wine Day a k a. The Day of the vine Grower, which feels like a good reason to drink, and if you're really in the mood, you can celebrate all three at the same time. Ah, this is just some pretty great facts, you know. I was, I was trying to think about who should win this one, and when I saw Tristan literally fall out of his chair earlier, when you said that's nuts, and I didn't get the pun, I think this one should probably go to him. But I also feel like we need to dedicate this show to our platonic Valentine Gabe, who we could never do this show without, and of course Tristan, who makes the show sound great and makes us sound somewhat coherent, And of course to our fans who are so kind to send us notes and write up reviews for us, and you know we appreciate all of you. But from Mango, Gabe, Tristan and me, Happy Valentine's Day, and thanks so much for listening a STI

I guess what, mengo, what's that? Well? All right, so I'm sure you've heard this thing the El Paso Zoo is doing where you can actually pay to have a cockroach named for your ex, and then they take the cockroach and they feed it to a mere cat. Have you heard about this? I have. I feel like it's all over the net this week. And it's not just them. I mean I read about these zoos that are taking off salmon. You can name the salmon after your ex, and then they feed it to bears and somebody. That feels so much crueler. Yeah, I think that's just different. That's just not right. You know. The cockroach thing is one thing, but away the El Paso Zoo was the first one I read about, and apparently the response has been incredible. In fact, because the number of names the zoo has received far out numbers the number of cockroaches that their mere cats can actually eat in a day, they've had to come up with these, you know, different solutions. So just to keep the pace and to make sure that every roach gets sacrificed. This week, the zoo has recruited these cotton top tamarins, some golden tamarins and some white headed marm SE's just to join in all this Valentine's Day fund So you know, whether you're a jilted lover looking for ideas or happily coupled up and just looking for some entertaining facts on Valentine's Day, We've got you covered on nine things. So let's dive in. Either podcast listeners, welcome the part time genius. I'm Will Pearson and as always I'm joined by my good friend Man Guesh hot Ticketer and sitting behind that soundproof glass in a room full of candles and just blasting Verry wide on the speakers. Actually I can hear it through what we say is the soundproof glass, but it is so loud, just kind of setting the mood for today's show. I guess that's our friend and producer Tristan McNeil. Yeah. It actually reminds me of this back age we used to do in mental last where we used to test slogans and phrases and we'd asked things like why can't you compare apples and oranges or whatever and use signs to back it up, And we tested that classic at slogan is Virginia really for lovers. I'm sure you remember this, but we look at the flowers sent for capita, the amount of Marvin Gay on radio stations, wine consumption, and all these other romantic indicators that we came up with, and we realized that actually, Virginia isn't for lovers, it's eleventh best for lovers or something like yeah, yeah, And if I for sorry for all of our Ohio listeners out there, I think they may have come in dead last. And that's the topping the list which which may have shown this might have been slightly flawed was Alaska, I think because of all the bed and breakfast and the wine consumption per capital. But it was a fun study to look at. But anyway, speaking of love, what what the fact do you think you should start with for today's Valentine's Day special? So I kind of like your trend of starting with anti Valentine's Day traditions like naming that cockroach for your X or whatever. Well, actually I also saw that this guy in Shanghai bought every other movie seat at a movie theater on Valentine's Day just so that couples would show up and not be able to sit together, which feels like a ridiculous prank and almost like an evil genius thing to do. But you know, in that vein, I'm going to talk about vinegar Valentine's. So by the mid eight hundreds, Americans and the Brits had sort of fallen in love with this idea of sending Valentine's and they often made them by hand with lace, and then printers got into the act and started mass producing cards for the holidays. But if you weren't into the holiday, or you wanted to show that special someone that you really don't care, you could send out a vinegar Valentine. And sometimes you'd see these referred to as penny dreadfuls or sometimes comic Valentine's. So what was inside of vinegar Valentine? Basically it was just like a card full of horrible right, it would be crass illustrations, these short insulting poems. They're almost like an early form of trolling because you'd send them anonymously. But here's what researcher Gabe pulled from eighteen seventy five for us. It has a picture of a young woman throwing a bucket of water in a man's face, and it reads quote, here's a pretty cool reception. At least you'll say, there's no deception. It says as plain as it can say, old fellow, you'd best stop away. What weird? Anti Valentine's These cards were actually doubly insulting, because not only did the person you were sending them to have to guess who hated you enough to send you one, but they also had to pay for the postage on delivery. But the concept was such a hit that by the mid nineteenth century, fountain sales were actually equally split between the loving kind and the vinegar kind. And and does the Smithsonian like have a bunch of these cards preserved? You know, I've actually had the same question, Like I was wondering, where can I see this gallery of these? But uh, you know, the cards were super popular, but for obvious reasons, people didn't keep them around. You know, you don't want your grandson like finding a card that says everyone thinks you're an ignorant, loud or whatever. Alright, Well, in a very different direction, we all know that candy sales spike on Valentine's Day, that's no surprise, but the amount of money spent is pretty staggering. So Americans spend over one point eight billion dollars on Valentine's candy alone. What's also fun to look at is what candies vary, you know, from state to state. So I just imagine, like, isn't it just the heart shaped boxes that dominate? Like you know, I just imagined, like the traditional chocolate is really what sells well. They're actually the second most sold candies and this comes from a list that candy store dot com puts together. But conversation hearts take the top spot in twenty three states, and heart shaped boxes do particularly well in New York, Texas, Ohio, and Alaska. So I know we said they were last in love, but they know how to find those heart shaped boxes. They actually top the list in I think it's fourteen states, but you know there are some other out liars, So thirteen states either chose chocolate roses chocolate shaped like hearts, so not not the boxes, but the actual chocolate itself, and of course Eminem's. And because I feel like we should mention Delaware for your sake, Delaware's top candy choice for Valentine's Day is Hershey Kisses, which I'd never heard before, but that sounds unpretentious and sweet, just like Delaware, so that that makes sense to me. They actually share that honor with Utah, South Dakota, and Arkansas. So what about your homestate? What about Alabama? Yeah, Alabama is also an outlier. So our number one Valentine's Day treat is candy necklaces, which I know that I have ever purchased a candy necklace. I guess I don't know what's wrong with me. But anyway, where do you want to go next? Well, how about the other big seller for the holiday, which is flowers and specifically roses. So, like candy, there's a tremendous amount of money spent on roses. Two d fifty million roses are grown specifically for Valentine's Day every single year. But if you've ever done any sort of like last minute shopping for the whole days, you'll notice the prices actually spike. And the thing we learned this week is that it isn't just traditional price gouging, but it's more complicated than that. So to meet that sort of demand, growers need about fifty to seventy days to get the roses ready. They also have to dispatch extra trucks airplanes, to ship all these roses in in time. Plus it's a terrible time for weather, so you've got to account for like hail storms and droughts, which also sort of play with the amount you have in terms of like the supply. All of that means we're getting more roses from Latin America or even NYA to fix those weather concerns. Anyway, the trick to not getting price couch, which I learned this week, is basically to plan ahead. Someone did a study this and because most online flower shops allow you to order roses thirty days in advance, if you order no later than January, you'll actually get the best deal on them. M I'm guessing most people do not get their orders in by that. But alright, well, this may seem like a weird connection, but I want to share a fact that I think is interesting about Leap Day, which is obviously the one extra day every four years falls at the very end of February, But for years and years, leap Day was long considered the one acceptable time when a woman could actually propose to a man instead of the other way around, and according to Gabe, the tradition likely started in Ireland and England back in the I think the late seventeen hundreds, and so by the nineteenth century is Valentine's Day cards became more popular. If a woman sent a Valentine during a leap year, it was actually to be taken as an official marriage proposal. And that's really interesting. And I'm guessing you mean a traditional Valentine, not a vinegar one in that case. One well, I mean, what's also interesting to me is how long this leap date tradition continued. So it actually went on until the nineteen seventies. In fact, in February of nineteen seventy six, the New York Times finally declared the tradition dead, or at least they declared it a ne ccerian. So here's what they wrote in these liberated Times. Every day is leap day, every day is leep day, and lived by those words. So, you know, on that similar note, one thing that's interesting to me is that Valentine's Day in Japan has kind of this quasi feminist slant. And this goes back to seven when the Mary Chocolate Company introduced Valentine's Day of the country, but in kind of a translation gap, and and you know, I love translation errors. Like James Bond. That film Doctor No in Japan was actually called we Don't Need a Doctor there. Um I love that. But so this was another error and it said the tradition called for women to send chocolate candies to men, and it just got reinforced and it's actually had this interesting impact on the country. It's considered one of the only days that girls can openly express their feelings and their anthropologists who have actually studied this. But the rules around chocolate giving are actually pretty defined. If you want to give it to someone you fee romantic about, you give me choco, which, because of the implications, is usually super high quality and often homemade. And then there's a gary choco, which has no romantic strings whatsoever. It's sort of cheap and store bought, and this is what you give to your co workers are close friends. It's also kind of this platonic chocolate. The name is actually, when you translated to English, means obligation chocolate. And then the last thing is my favorite. It's called choke gary choco. It's kind of the sad subset of gary choco, and it's basically ultra obligation chocolate. So it's given to men that aren't important to a woman, but she feels really sorry for So it's basically pity chocolate, and it's really sad. You know, from a distance, it's funny, but I'm sure as a sixth grader through college grad I would have stuffed my face full of pitty chocolates. I feel these guys, Oh man, that is pretty bad. Well, chocolate obviously plays a big role in Valentine's Day, but you know, I was curious how it got so linked to the holiday, And apparently it really started with Cadburry. And I guess that shouldn't be a huge surprise to us. So chocolate had been around in Europe and the fifteen hundreds and the sixteen hundreds and and and pretty popular. But in the mid nineteenth century, Richard Cadbury invented a way to extract pure cocoa butter from drinking chocolate. And this was done as a way to make it taste better. But the only problem was now he had all this pure cocoa butter and nothing to do with it. So his solution was to use butter and to make a brand new product. And these were these eating chocolates, and so we made this ornate box for them, and you know, they did pretty well. But in eighteen sixty one he hit upon this idea of marketing his chocolate specifically for Valentine's Day. So this time he put them in heart shaped boxes, had some cupids and rosebuds put on the cover, and Cadburry was also kind of a marketing genius because he figured out you could also advertise the worth of the box, so he took out these ads showing that they were great way to you know, to store love letters or things like that and locks of hair and other romantic mementos once the candy had been eaten. And you know, while he might have missed an opportunity by not trying to patent those boxes, he did kick off this tradition that the world now indulges in. That's pretty amazing that he invented the heart shaped box. That's pretty stunning. So we've gone from ultra pity chocolate to heart shaped boxes and I really like where this is going. But we've got two more facts to go. We need to take a quick break. First, welcome back to Part Time Genius. We we're talking about Valentine's Day, so well, I know you kicked off the show with an anti Valentine's Day bent and uh with the whole naming of your ex after a cockroach and then eating that cockroach to a mercat. But how are you planning to close out this fact? Well? I was thinking about doing something grim, like talking about the Museum of Broken Relationships, which you can find in Croatia. You know, they're all these teddy bears and love letters from failed relationships apparently. And the funniest thing to me is this rabbit with a note on it that says the bunny was supposed to travel the world but never got further than Iran. Oh man, that is bleak. But you are not talking about that. It sounds like, so what are you going to talk about? All right? Well, how about a fact on St. Valentine. So, the historical Saint Valentine is believed to have been sainted because he performed secret ceremonies to marry these Catholic couples, and this was in defiance of Roman law, so he became the patron saint of love and of couples. His role as the patron saint of beekeepers is probably unrelated to all this, but also a cool side I like that you kind of double majored in St. Hoodiar. It's it's it's really impressive. But I mean, what's we heard about the story is that historians really can't figure out who Valentine even was. So we're looking at Alice obscura like we always loved to such a great side. But here's how they explain it. Little is really known of the real man or men behind the myth. What is known, more or less is that at least two men by the name of Valentine were known in Italy and died in the late third century, and a third Valentine was located in North Africa around that same time as a saint. The stories of the different men seemed to have merged into one over time, with most of the mythology about Valentine being a patron saint of lovers only dating to the fourteenth century and the writings of Jeffrey Chaucer. So that's what they say. But what's particularly weird about this fact is that if you want to make a pilgrimage to visit St. Valentine's relics, it makes it a little harder because there were more than one, and so you know his supposed skull is on display at a basilica in Rome. One of his shoulder blades was found in a church basement and progue, which so strange. His entire body is said to be housed that churches in both Glasgow and Dublin, and perhaps strangest of all, some unspecified body parts are said to be kept inside a wax replica of the saint at a church in Missouri. So if you truly want to pay homage, there's quite an itinerary in front of you. That is nuts, but I like it. Well. If you don't want to celebrate St. Valentine's Day, there are other options for you, and one of them is Ferris Wheel Day. So apparently February fourteenth is also George Washington Gale Ferris Jr's birthday. He is the dude who built the first Ferris wheel. But as we're looking this up, Cabe also pointed out that Austrians are particularly fond of Ferris wheels, and they don't even use the birthday as the reason for Ferris Wheel Day. Like some enthusiasts, actually claimed that the day was chosen not to mark the inventor's birthday, but because February fourteenth is one of the fairest weather days of the year there, which is perfect for ferris wheel rides, I guess. But if amusement rides aren't your thing, you can also celebrate in general Heart Defect Awareness Day or Bulgarian Wine Day a k a. The Day of the vine Grower, which feels like a good reason to drink, and if you're really in the mood, you can celebrate all three at the same time. Ah, this is just some pretty great facts, you know. I was, I was trying to think about who should win this one, and when I saw Tristan literally fall out of his chair earlier, when you said that's nuts, and I didn't get the pun, I think this one should probably go to him. But I also feel like we need to dedicate this show to our platonic Valentine Gabe, who we could never do this show without, and of course Tristan, who makes the show sound great and makes us sound somewhat coherent, And of course to our fans who are so kind to send us notes and write up reviews for us, and you know we appreciate all of you. But from Mango, Gabe, Tristan and me, Happy Valentine's Day, and thanks so much for listening a STI