About this episode
<a href="https://tix.to/pm-book-tour"target="_blank" >Book tour event details and ticket info here</a>.<br/><br/>An iconic cartoon character liberated from copyright, journalism from the world of competitive spreadsheeting, a controversial piece of US currency. Each year the Planet Money team dedicates an episode to the things we simply love and think you, our audience, will also love.<br/><br/>In this year’s Valentine’s Day episode:<br/><br/><ul class="rte2-style-ul" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px;"><li><a href="https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/"target="_blank" >The Public Domain Day list</a> from Jennifer Jenkins’ of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain and her colleagues. </li><li>Jesse Dougherty’s article “Between the sheets at the college Excel Championship” which is behind a paywall. <a href="https://collegesportsmoney.substack.com/"target="_blank" >Here is Jesse’s substack</a>. </li><li><a href="https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/"target="_blank" >404 Media’s excellent journalism</a> on the tech that ICE is using</li><li>An ode to the language of the penny, including songs like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnz_gbDJnhI"target="_blank" >Pennies from Heaven</a>. </li><li>The only self-check out that doesn’t waste your time. </li><li>And we made public domain Valentine’s cards. </li></ul><br>Download THE OFFICIAL Planet Money valentine <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/w5jcio1w98okftefdxk3z/Official-Planet-Money-Valentine-2026.pdf?rlkey=8vbbras56o6jigkvmftfvia1b&st=jte9em3s&dl=0"target="_blank" >here</a>.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.planetmoneybook.com/"target="_blank" ><em>Pre-order the Planet Money book and get a free gift</em></a><em>. / </em><a href="https://n.pr/3HlREPz"target="_blank" ><em>Subscribe to Planet Money+</em></a><em> </em><br/><br/><em>Listen free: </em><a href="http://n.pr/PM-digital"target="_blank" ><em>Apple Podcasts</em></a><em>, </em><a href="https://n.pr/3gTkQlR"target="_blank" ><em>Spotify</em></a><em>, </em><a href="https://n.pr/3Bkb17W"target="_blank" ><em>the NPR app</em></a><em> or anywhere you get podcasts.</em><br/><br/><a href="https://n.pr/3h92GwS"target="_blank" ><em>Facebook</em></a><em> / </em><a href="https://n.pr/3FqLuws"target="_blank" ><em>Instagram</em></a><em> / </em><a href="https://n.pr/3sGZdrq"target="_blank" ><em>TikTok</em></a><em> / Our weekly </em><a href="https://n.pr/3zrFvUB"target="_blank" ><em>Newsletter</em></a><em>.</em><br/><br/><em>This episode of Planet Money was hosted by Kenny Malone. It was produced by James Sneed with help from Sam Yellowhorse Kesler, fact-checked by Sierra Juarez, engineered by Cena Loffredo & Kwesi Lee, and edited by our executive producer Alex Goldmark.</em><br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>