The One Where We Celebrate Valentine’s Day

2024-02-12

We Have To Go To Dinner! I Need A Necklace! From when the show was A Reasonable Day, Alyssa and Kevin discuss Valentine’s Day as one enthusiast and one slightly more skeptic.They talk the history of the holiday, their personal highs and lows on the day, and Alyssa gives Kevin a chaotic Valentine’s themed quiz. Alyssa Savino is a writer, a pop culture enthusiast, and is "deeply Midwestern." Subscribe to her newsletter, Soft Earlobe, listen to her "mini-podcast" (often about snacks) Xylophone Break, and follow her on Twit...

We Have To Go To Dinner! I Need A Necklace!

From when the show was A Reasonable Day, Alyssa and Kevin discuss Valentine’s Day as one enthusiast and one slightly more skeptic.They talk the history of the holiday, their personal highs and lows on the day, and Alyssa gives Kevin a chaotic Valentine’s themed quiz.

Alyssa Savino is a writer, a pop culture enthusiast, and is "deeply Midwestern." Subscribe to her newsletter, Soft Earlobe, listen to her "mini-podcast" (often about snacks) Xylophone Break, and follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

Kevin Krein is a writer and host of the Anhedonic Headphones Podcast. His music writing (and some of his non-music writing) is on Anhedonic Headphones, or you can follow him on Twitter and Instagram.

Theme Music:

"Your Type" (Instrumental), written by Carly Rae Jepsen, Rami Yacoub, Carl Falk, Wayne Hector, and Tavish Crowe; performed by Carly Rae Jepsen.

Music Credits:

“Black Flowers,” written by Ira Kaplan, James McNew, and Georgia Hubley; performed by Yo La Tengo. I Am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your Ass, Matador, 2006.

“Maps,” written by Brian Chase, Karen Lee Orzolek, and Nick Zinner; performed by Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Fever to Tell, Interscope, 2003.

“Love You For A Long Time,” written by Maggie Rogers, Doc McKinney, and Michael Sonier; performed by Maggie Rogers. Capitol/Debay, 2019.

“Can’t Help Falling in Love,” written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss; performed by Kina Grannis. Crazy Rich Asians, Watertower, 2018.

“L-O-V-E,” written by Bert Kaempfert and Milt Gabler; performed by Nat King Cole. L-O-V-E, Capitol, 1964.

“You’re Still The One,” written by Eileen Twain and Robert John Lange; performed by Shania Twain. Come On Over, Mercury, 1997.

“Love You Like That,” written by Michelle Buzz, Jason Gill, and Dagny Sandvik; performed by Dagny. Republic, 2017.

“Love,” written by Floyd Huddleston and George Bruns; performed by Nancy Adams. Robin Hood, Disney, 1973.

“Your Love,” written by Dave Bayley and Paul Epworth; performed by Glass Animals. Dreamland, Republic, 2020.

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