Fred's Fun Fact: Origin Story of Valentine's Day

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fred Show is on Fred's Fun Fact.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Fred Fun, Let's not learn so much.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Here's a fun fact. I didn't know. I know that
Kiki went to Jerry Springer. Yes, I know. I just
learned that your mom used to go to Jerry Springer
quote unquote all the time. Like her and.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Jerry were cool, Like he knew who she was. Yeah,
my mom was about it. Yeah, he is the nicest.
He was the nicest guy by the way. He was
on here a bunch of times. He's a nice guy.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
And then I learned the Jason Brown and his mom
went to Jerry Springer. What a nice family activity. Yes,
it was for her birthday.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
I don't remember which birthday, but I took her because
we would always like watch it at home, and so
we went to a life taping.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, it was wild. It's so sweet, right, I need
to I need to rethink what I'm doing for my
mom for Valentine's Day. However, on Valentine's say have a
fun fact for you. They're a multiple version of how
Valentine's Day came to be. However, one is that it
started as a Roman festival known as luper Kalia. Naturally

(01:08):
rolls off the tongue. According to Britannica, it included fertility
rights and the pairing off of women with men by lottery.
Of course, yeah, it's just a lottery system, you know.
But if it's a fertility right, you know, do you
guys be careful today, okay, my goodness, be careful. Make

(01:28):
sure you make sure you get a good drawing. You
draw a good man in the lottery, you know what
I mean. More Press show next