Valentine's Day

the potential to be the absolute best day of the year. Now, there are some cases I've experienced this where it can actually be the worst day of the year because you're expecting it to be the vest Lin it just comes tumbling down faster than you can hold on to it. But also, if you're not in a relationship, it's kind of a confusing day. And h That's where I'm at

this year. Now, don't get me wrong, I am definitely like out there this year twenty twenty three, I was very much so like here, I'm not talking to anybody. I am staying shingle. This year, I'm like, yo, let's find some loan that sounds fun. But I haven't done that yet by Valentine's Day, so that's that. But it's interesting. I actually have found that I enjoy Valentine's Day more not in a relationship, and that truly is just because my experience of Valentine's Day being in a relationship is

a bit jenky. And we will deep dive into that a little bit. I don't want to get too deep into it because it is a pretty dramatic story, but we'll get into that in the middle of this podcast at some point in time. But I will say, asides from that one Valentine's Day mishap, I do actually really really think it is a fun holiday. I love seeing what people do for each other. I like celebrating it with people who I'm not in a relationship with a friend's family. I think that is something that is so

cute that you can do. What do people do like their little Gallantines. I think it's just it's fun. It can be a fun holiday. I remember when I was little, there was this one Valentine's Day where I was actually in Palm Springs with my grandma and grandpa and it was just me, just my mom, and then it was actually my dad's parents, so it was my mom's in laws, and so it wasn't like we were with her mom or her dad. It was just it was the opposite

side of the family. Anyways, Cubic game and brought me like this like cutey little like heart basket and it was like a little Teddy bear and it was like fun because especially as a kid, you know, you don't even really know what Valentine's Day is or like what it's about. You just you know the Easter money comes and you go egg hunting and that's what Easter is, but you don't You're like, what the heck is Valentine's Day about? And so for my grandparents have my mom

to do that for me on Valentine's Day. It's one of those memories that's so interesting because I have no photos of it. My family and I never talk about it, but somehow it is actually like really deeply engraved in my memory, which is a little confusing because I feel like from the time I was younger, the only memories that I have are things like that I've seen on my mom's Facebook or that I've been told about. But

that Valentine's Day memory is something that we never talk about. Actually, tonight, I want to talk to my mom about that and see if she remembers that the same way that I do. I mean, I was probably four three, I was little. I was really really little. But hey man, it's deep, deep, deep engraved in my brain. I've actually had one Valentine's Day where I was in a relationship. I had two Valentine's Days, uh so one on one in the relationship and then another one where I was talking to somebody

but it never went anywhere, but it was. It was it was actually kind of like a cute vibe to like be like we're celebrating Valentine's Day where each other's Valentine's but we're not each other's Valentine's shit. Like it was like it was like we're not because like that'd be weird, but like we are because like I think you're you're cool and you think I'm cool. It was, it was cute vibe. But I've only ever had one Valentine's Day where I was in a serious, serious relationship.

And I think where I went wrong is I was expecting it to be the most magical day to freaking ever happen, and I we we were not gonna be with each other in person, but we were, you know, of course, going to FaceTime and cooked dinner together over the phone, and we had we had we had really cute plans and yeah, it just it just came tolling down really really fast. And it's actually like a joke that we still talk about today, like of what a

freaking hot mess express and wreck it was. But I think just creating the expectation of like, oh, this day is gonna be so big, I mean I think I think I thought it was gonna be like my wedding day or something like. I was really really to the nine. So for any first time or was out there there, if this is your first time being in a relationship. For Valentine's Day, I can't tell you how to have a good one, but I can tell you how to avoid a bad one, and that is by overhyping it

to be a super, super incredible one. Go in, have fun. Is Valentine's Day. It's meant to be light. It is not the biggest day of the year. It is not your anniversary, it is not your birthday, it is not Christmas. It's just Valentine's Day. It's a day to give some extra love. So if I could give any advice to any any first timers out there going into your first relationship based Valentine's Day, just enjoy it. Don't try to

make it something that doesn't need to be. Because I've been there, I've done that, and I will never do that again. Also, if there's any people out there who have any advice for me, please be my guest. I need all the advice in the relationship world for me this year. I feel like Valentine's Day, I'm actually gonna be in Atlanta, where so who knows, maybe I'll go on a tender date or something. But actually that's one thing that I'm gonna do. This whole topic you'll hear

about this next week. Dating as a celebrity. It's very interesting. I can't actually have like dating app profiles because they see my name, they get deleted, and I, you know, I put my put my driver's license in, I put my passport in, get deleted. God. I could literally give him my social Security number and they'd be like, that's not you, and I'll be like, okay, I guess it's not. Yeah, We'll get into that next week. Enjoy that that's gonna be that's gonna be a fun topic to deep dive on.

Back to Valentine's Day. This year, I'll be working. I feel like I'm gonna like want to have a friend like come down to in landa they hang out with me or something. I don't know. I'm gonna be there alone. My family will bop in and out. But because it's such a work driven trip and I'll be there filming a bunch, it's kind of just like, you know what, It's just like, let's all like, it's I want to be living alone for the first time. It's gonna be crazy.

Expect a podcast about that one when I get back. Ideally, my perfect Valentine's Day this year, Oh man, if I could find a girlfriend in the next day, if we counna have a nice movie night, that would be my ideal Valentine's Day. But I can't. So let me just fantasize here for a second. All right, I'm just gonna fantasize for a bit. I feel like my perfect Valentine's Day, Okay. You know what I've always wanted to do, like a movie based date, so like I see people do it

with ratituey all the time. I've actually never seen Rati Twoe, so I can't speak on it, but I'm gonna I'm gonna use Elf as an example because I feel like a lot of people have seen Elf. I know the ins and outs of Elf. And so even though it's not like a love movie, just like stick with me here for a second. So we wake up in the morning and we watch the movie and we get inspired. Now, all the actions are pre activity are pre planned, the meals are pre planned, but we watch a movie in

the morning to get inspired. So then like you know how he for breakfast and Elf has the spaghetti with all the like fricking candy and all that stuff on it. We would do that, you know what I mean, we would have we would have that for breakfast, and then our day, you know, we would spend it in New York City. We'd go into the we'd find we'd google

World's Best coffee shop, and we'd go there. We'd go, you know, into the bedstore that like sells the mattresses and like go jump on them, just like get kicked out for fun and like make a memory. We'd frogger across all of the streets to like that's what he did in the movie, you know what I mean, go

around revolving doors, because that's how he was. We'd do like just like funny things that like you could do that like was in the movie, to have like a full day inspired by the movie, right, and then eat all the food again. So like in that meal they had another spaghetti dinner, but this stuff was good spaghetti with I think doctor Pepper. Right, So we'd go out for like fancy dinner, get some fancy spaghetti, and then have some Doctor Pepper, you know what I mean, just

like really live it up. And then we go home at night, we cuddle up, we cozy up, and what do we do. We watch the movie again. Now, reason being we watched the movie again is because think about while watching the movie, the laughs that we would have about ourselves being idiots throughout the day, like having those moments, you know what I mean. We'd see him eat the breakfast and be like, oh yeah, that was so good, this running haha and it he's so cute, so fun

and so cudly. Obviously Elf is a very very random movie to do it with, but it was just so easy to give the visual concept while you're probably just listening to this, but you get what I mean. And I think it would be so cute, so fun. I've yet to do that. I think that'd be a perfect date. Look, even if it's not Valentine's Day, because odds are with the track that I'm on right now, not gonna have a girl by Valentine's Day. But that would just be a cute date to do throughout any time of the year.

I feel like that's something that like you can only do in your twenties. I mean, I feel like you're doing it. It would just be word if my parents did it, you know what I mean. And my parents my parents are God, my mom is forty nine. She just turn forty nine, and my dad is fifty three. They could just turn fifty three, maybe fifty four, I don't know. But so that would be something that like I would be like, all right, why are you all

recreating out for a date night? Like that's strange, but literally, like, if that's your vibe, that's your vibe, live it up. But I feel like that would that's that's that's my perfect Valentine's Day. I feel like it is a day you do gotta go above and beyond if you're in a relationship and do something like that, Like I feel like that is a pretty extravagant adventure. But if you don't like to go above and beyond, I feel like just a nice sweet day cooking together, baking together. Oh

my god. Another cute one would be like if for a Valentine's Day gift, I got my significant other, whoever got their significant other like these like huty little baking outfits, and then a bunch of stuff to bake, like get muffin mix and cookies and cakes, and like all day

long you are just baking. You're baking as much stuff as you possibly can, right, Cookies, cupcakes, cakes, muffins, everything you can think of, brownies, freaking all of the above, rice, crispy trees, oh my gosh, like think of baskets you can make. Right, then you just have fun making it all day long. You're eating it all day long. You're having fun with it all day long. You're listening to

fun music all day long. And then after you could eat it, you could take it to like you could take your shelter and don't you could take to a fire station. You could do something good with it. Man, I need these dates to happen if my future girlfriend is listening to this. Dear future girlfriend, here's a few things you need. If my future girlfriend's listening to this, those are the dates that I want to go on.

He boy, oh boy, I will say. One Valentine's Day, this is the same one that was a little bit strange, but I got actually one of the best best Valentine's Day gifts from the person I was dating at this time, and it was Lady Gaga Oreos. There was a lot in the Valentine's DA package, but the Lady Gaga Oreos, Oh my god, we're so good. So the story was I was in Canada actually, and so they didn't make them and they were exclusive only in America, and so she went out and bought them for me and shipped

them to me, and it was freaking awesome. That was for sure the best Valentine's Day gift that I've ever received. Oh, lies, I take that back. I think Ezra got his tattoo for Valentine's Day. No, it so was for Valentine's Day. Okay, So we were we were on tour and this was in twenty twenty two and as were at the time. I mean we we we we were very very very close. And the thing about Ezra is him and I have

a very very very special relationship. It's a very very interesting unconditional love that I think, no matter what we go through in life, and I mean I think he would probably say the same thing, we will always unconditionally love each other no matter what. And anyways, so go back to twenty twenty two Valentine's Day. He was my Valentine and we lived it up like we are both the gay as gay can be, but we you would

have thought we were married for the day. Anyways, he loses all his things, and so for him I got him like eight air tags and all the different holders and like things have put it on, and then some like Cuty candy and some Cuty fidget toys because he was fishing with everything at the time, and so just like some Cuty things that he needs. And he comes up to me and he was like, I have to just show you what I got you. You don't get to keep it, but I have to show it to you.

And he had gotten my logo tattooed in white on his I believe it's on his left leg right above his kneecap might be on his right leg and now it's I'm stuck quite literally stuck on him. And that I mean, it was just so special, like what are like, that's that's something that you only do for someone that you know is gonna be around for forever. And that is something that I will forever, forever cherish and that was that was a sweet memory. He did it while we were out on tour and it was just cute.

I remember the day he showed it to me, and then the healing process and it's scatting and then he had this like bright red version of my logo and then it ended up being really cool. It's a white tattoo. It's that was very special Valentine's I guess. So I'll give that one to Ezra. There are actually Jojo like Valentines out there. Jojo see what branded kids Valentines. There's a bunch of different ones. There's these little gummy rings

that you can put in like Valentine's Day boxes. There's cards, there's been like the things that you take to school, you know, where it's like like pencil pack and stuff like that. There's a bunch of different Jojo Valentine's ay cards, and that is one of the products actually that when I saw it in store the first time, I was like, dang, my face is on that too, Like that's he said. I never I never knew what my face was gonna be on. I know that sounds very very strange, but

the way that it was all structured. A lot of times products would come out in stores and I would be seeing them for the first time, which at first was something that made me very upset. But then once I realized kind of the scale that things were on, I realized, oh, there's just like no way they could be like, hey, here's every single thing we're doing. And so seeing the Jojo Valentines for the first time was very interesting. I mean it was kind of like when

I saw the band aids for the first time. Or there was like these like crunch packs, which is a like lunch kit type of thing that has apples, fruit snacks and animal crackers. There's like a little JoJo's juice like energy drink or vitamin drink can. There's so many crazy Jojo products, but I feel like there's like those very certain ones. I was just like, dang, we really did that like, that's that's pretty wild. Like seeing the

SpongeBob and Mickey Mouse and Jojo Valentines. That was something that was very strange for me about my head around and what was always crazy to me. And I did this with all of my products, is I would go into the store and I would see them and I

would compare it to what was next to it. So just say my doll was next to an Elsa doll, I would be I would take note of like, whoa, there was one Jojo doll left, And a lot of times, I mean, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say that about Elsa specifically because I also obviously still selling today she sells very very well. But normally whatever I was next to there was a lot more of. And I

noticed that with Halloween costumes and the Valentines. I noticed that with there was a lot of everything that was next to up, but only one or two Jojo Valentines left. And so every time I was at the store, i'd buy them because I just like, if there's only one or two, like I want to have one. I want to play. Uh. I feel like this year I need people to give Valentines too. I could give them to the people that I'll be working with. That'd be cute.

I could make everyone like a cute little Valentine. Oh wait, I think I'm gonna do that. That'd be such a fun project too, for me to do for the fierce few weeks. WHI I'm in Atlanta. Yes, that's happening. That is happening. That is absolut freaking lutely happening. If I was a kid right now and I could go to the store and pick out a Valentine and make it like for my classroom, Oh my god, that's freaking precious.

I remember I got. I don't think I ever got to for school, but I think I remember my brother doing it, and I got to for dance, like you know how like in classes, like in school in grade school, you take it to like your class and you have your little box that you make with a little hole in it. Then you pass them out and you get some That is one of those things about school that I alas. I always was like, oh my brother got to do that, and I don't like I always thought

that was cute, But then I always got too. With dancing at the dance studio, we're always in a Valentine's exchange like that. If I was a kid, now, oh my gosh, I would go so full out Freddy, Eddie and Teddy one day. And my babies, they have no clue what they were getting themselves into. I saw this, I saw this Instagram pos I was like a breakfast charconery board, and I was like, oh, Freddie, Eddie and Teddy will be waking up to a breakfast charcreery board

every single morning. I cannot wait for it. If anyone doesn't know, Freddy, Eddie and Teddy are my future children one day. I talk about them all the time. People in my life at first are like, oh, Freddy, Andie and Teddy, like this is a hilarious joke. But then they realize like, oh wait, she's not kidding. No, no, no, I'm not kidding at all. So yeah, Freddy Andie and Teddy are my my pretend babies. Freddy's a girl, Eddie and Teddy are twin boys, and one day they will

be here. But those kids, oh my god, they're gonna have the most full out Valentine's Day boxes, No Valentines, no dating. Think I'll let my kids date when they're like you know what. Here's what I'll let my kids date when they are mature enough, not old enough, when they are mature enough to make a good decision about who they want to spend a lot of their time with. If you are thirteen and there's another good kid influence around you that you want to hang out with a bunch,

live your life. But if you're thirteen and there's a bad kid that you're like, man, this person's hot. Mother's girl boy, I don't care. I don't care who my kids end up with. But if they're like, all, this kid's hot, I like them. It's a bad person. This is great. No, that's not happening. That's not happening. If Freddy, Eddie and Teddy can make a good decision at a young age, that's fine. Go for it, have fun, live your life, be smart, call me when you need me.

But if they can't, that's on the base things on the base. Things with Freddy, Eddie and Teddy will when they're mature enough. Same thing with like getting a phone when you're returned of I should do a whole podcast about the future of my momhood, because then in a few years I could make a podcast listening back and probably laughing at myself. Oh my god, that's actually great. I fully want to do that. That'd be so fun.

I will say A fun part about Valentine's Day is it is a great time of the year for the best love movies. I specifically am a romcom girl. One of my favorite freaking movies in the whole world is Just Go with It. If you've never seen this movie with Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler, you are freaking missing out that movie. And then there's a Murder Mystery series, Murderniversary one and Murder Mystery two. Both of those are amazing that those ones also have Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler.

And personally, Just Go with It I think is the funniest movie literally ever made. I watched it for the very first time with two of my best friends on a cruise ship, and I was hooked. Got my family into it. I used to watch it every night before I fell asleep. Like that movie, top tier movie. If I can give you any advice on what movie to watch for Valentine's Day, that's the winner. That would actually

be a great one to recreate as a date. They do a lot of fun stuff, and that they go to like places like it's like the version of like a chucky cheese. They go like swimming in a lake. They go, that would be so fun. They go to freaking Hawaii to swim with dolphins or something. Future girlfriend we're recreating. Just go with it because that means I gonna watch a movie twice in one day, and that's my freaking dream side form movies. Music also becomes really

really popular amongst this holiday. I feel like, amongst all holidays, Halloween rolls around, and you got all the Halloween songs, Christmas rolls around, you got all the Christmas songs. Valentine's rolls around, and you do got all the love songs that come in. Personally, my favorite love songs are Love of My Life, but Queen, I love that song. It's a little dramatic, but I love it, and good old Fashioned Lover boy Ah. Both of those songs are just

so good. Queen is so good. Also, g Flip, anyone who knows me knows how fucking obsessed I am with my drum teacher. G Flip is the coolest artist literally in the world. I could hype them up every day of my life. I do hype them up every day of my life. My poor my poor parents have to hear it all the time. They just released a cover of them singing with on Triple J of them singing

Cruel Summer. Oh my god, it is so good. So g is non binary and they are married to Krishelle from selling Sanset and they are the best married couple literally ever. I look at their relationship and I just freaking idolize them both. I mean, they're both amazing people gotten to know them both, and they were both just phenom. I mean I couldn't. I literally could gush over them for my whole life and never get tired of it, never get bored of it. Anyways, my poor parents have

to hear about it all the time. They released a cover of Cruel Summer, and I feel like that actually might be like my Valentine's to hit of the year. It's just od so good they made it. This is the rampage that I was starting go on. They're non binary, and so they make a version, a very very queer version of the song. You know, it talks about femaleset of male. It is. It is so good. They changed that one. There she looks so pretty, like a devil is cool and they made it. She looks up grinnin

like the devil. Oh my god, it's so hot. If you haven't seen it yet, go watch it. Went freaking viral as viral can be, as it should. But yeah, I feel like I feel like Chrishelle and ge are truly a couple that I really, really really look up to. I think their relationship just feels very genuine, and I think that's something that's trigging to tell us sometimes with celebrities. I mean, you look at celebrities and you're like, is your relationship real? Is it not? Are you happy? Are

you sad? Or you think I feel like you see so many celebrities and you're like, man, they have the best relationship ever. Boom bam. Next day, some dramatic news article comes out and it's like, wait, what I thought y'all were the happiest humans ever. And so it's getting harder and harder to tell off of social media, like who I would really really want to be like? I mean, I have a lot of best friends who are in very good relationships. I have Rachel and Abby, who's in

an incredible relationship with each other. My brother is also dating an incredible girl, my brother Jay, and her name is also Abby different Abby. Do not get them confused, but I really I feel like I look to my family for like good relationship influences. I definitely have been in few relationships and I've been very public about them. And I have also been in that position of like, hey, here's me and the happiest relationship ever, when really behind

closed doors, it wasn't. And I think that's something that you just kind of got to take for what it's worth. Is know that sometimes the people who look the happiest truly or not, and so don't want social media cloud your judgment on all these people look so happy, I'm not happy. What is this? I'm I'm nah, You're only saying they want to show you on Instagram and on TikTok. I've been in that position. I've been that person. I will never be again. I My goal is to keep

future relationships as private as private can be. I know they're going to be public just because I'm very, very very public. But at some point I feel like I gotta gotta I gotta rein it in. I feel like I like casting my fish hook as far out into the ocean as humanly possible. And now I'm like reeling it in so hard, but like my right arm's getting tired, so I gotta like hold it aquately and do it with my left arm, but I'm still reeling it in.

That's how I feel like with relationships. But it's it's fun, it's entertaining. I feel like, to wrap up this podcast, I should let you all in on a little secret on who my dream Valentine is. Believe it or not, I have about seventy two of them. I'm going through a phase this year. I don't know what it is. I am. I'm just I'm very much so like I think everybody in the freaking world this year is just like so perfect, so beautiful, so amazing. So I'm I'm

a little bit all over the place. But ideally my dream Valentine of course, Billie Eilish, can't I mean, it's Billie Eilish. Well, it's Billie Eilish, of course, Miley Cyrus my ah, freaking oh amazing. Look I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say j Flip Anchorshell. I don't want either of them to be my Valentine. That's such a lie. But you know what I want. I want to spend Valentine's

Day with them. Maybe it's with binoculars on from a mile away and they don't know that I'm there, but like, I just feel like they would have the most perfect Valentine's Day. They have each other as their Valentine, and I want them to live their life and have the best day together. But I just want to witness it. Like what does a dream Valentine's Day look like? Because I feel like they have it. Oh oh, that'll be amazing. Aside from that, I feel like just friends this year.

I feel like friends are my vibe for Valentine's Day. Maybe Starzy, my puppy stars he can be my Valentine. Who knows. I got a whole twenty four hours before the day starts. I could go find somebody quick. You know. I saw this thing that's like, do a bunch of dates, tell a bunch of people to show up to this one place, don't tell them that it's you, YadA YadA YadA, and then you show up and you have your own personal, personal bachelorette. I was like, maybe I'll do that this year.

Who knows, I'll find somebody, I got twenty four hours. I'm gonna stop talking now and I'm gonna go find myself a Valentine. I'm kidding, I'm not. I'm gonna stop talking now, and we all know what i'm gonna do. I'm gonna check my phone, I'm gonna get some water, and then I'm probably gonna go play the drums. That's basically what I do all day, every day now, is play the drums. I love y'all. Thank you so much for listening to Jegesian now. I hope you have truly

a phenomenal Valentine's Day. If it's not a good one, don't worry. Rolls around every single year, same day every year. You're gonna be fine. You're gonna have another one. I've had a few sinds of my shitty one, and look at me. I'm still here. I'm still standing. The day goes on, and if you have good Valentine's Day, I'm so proud of you. I hope it was the best day I ever Enjoy it, enjoy being happy, find something to smile. Well. I love y'all, and I'll see you

next time, or I'll talk to you next time. You'll listen to me next time. I don't know, probably won't see me though, because it is a podcast. This is Thank you so much for listening, everybody. Be sure to follow us on Instagram and TikTok at Jojesua Now Podcast. Be sure to write us a review and maybe, if you're feeling to leave us five stars, I'll see you next week.