'Is This Love?' game with Crystal Joy
- A man's wife asks him to watch all eleven seasons of Frasier with her — is this love?
- A man posts 'my girl' with a heart-eyes emoji on Facebook — is this love?
- A woman posts 'my man' with his photo and a heart-eyes emoji on Facebook — is this love?
- A young man writes 'Do you love me? Do you want to be my friend?... check yes or no' — is this love?
- A woman leaves a letter in her husband's briefcase for him to find while he's out of town — is this love?
The hosts play their rare 'Is This Love?' game — 'the top shelf bourbon of games,' only broken out when Crystal Joy visits — with Crystal judging five scenarios. The host running the game (addressed as Mike on air) poses each scenario to the others (addressed on air as Ben and Dan Hudson): (1) a man's wife asks him to watch all eleven seasons of Frasier with her — verdict YES, love, because she noticed he secretly watches Frasier late at night and wants to join him without embarrassing him; (2) a man posts 'my girl' with a heart-eyes emoji on Facebook — verdict NO, that's attention-seeking weirdness, not love; (3) a woman posts 'my man' with his photo and a heart-eyes emoji — no definitive verdict, Crystal says yes-with-backstory (maybe he's celebrating something) and earns points for the backstory while Ben says no; (4) a young man's letter 'Do you love me? Do you want to be my friend?... check yes or no' (the old country song) — verdict NO, he's selfish and talking about himself the whole letter; (5) a woman leaves a letter in her husband's briefcase for him to find while he's out of town — verdict YES, both because absence makes the heart grow fonder and because she's teaching him to read, one letter at a time (the beef jerky red herring means sustenance for the long haul). Crystal wins the game by far, as she did the last time.
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