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February 12, 2025 • 40 mins

Big Ben talks about Kellen Moore getting hired on as the Saints new head coach, Aaron Boone saying the Yankees would have 'more class' than the Dodgers if they won the World Series, #QueenOfHears w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!

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It turns out the Saints have gone marching into the
coaching carousel finally, Well come in the beginning of another
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Speaker 5 (01:34):
B as we talk a.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Mile a minute all night long, a couple of different directions.
Now I was at a cloverleaf intersection. There's several directions
that I could have gone. As a matter of fact,
there were some other stories I considered, but I thought, well,
there's only so many coaching jobs in the NFL, and
we spend so much time enlightening us on you and

(01:58):
us the lighting you on the coaching carousel. So the
noise you heard on Tuesday was the sound of breaks screeching,
and that was the sound made as the coaching carousel
came to a final stop. That's it, That's all she wrote.
And the final move has made. The New Orleans football

(02:21):
team that did not have a coach did not have
a coach. Now we kind of knew who they were
going to hire, but they still had to do the
docu sign. And they have completed the docu sign. We
are told the New Orleans Saints have hired the Eagles
offensive coordinator Kellen Moore.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
He is the new coach in the Big easy, so.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
He gets the job, and I know the mayor of
Philadelphia very excited that Kellen Moore will be taking over
as the head coach there in New Orleans, wishing Kellen
the best of luck. I assure you, hey owee see.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
Yeah, let's go Bert.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
No, no, you go go Saints. The Saints go marching
into the coaching higher move. And it comes two days
after the Eagles eliminated and dominated Cannes.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
City in Super Bowl fifty nine.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
So thirty six years old, Kellen Moore getting his first
go round in the big chair. He's in the big
chair head coaching job in the NFL. So let us
discuss the question for the esteem panel, Kellen Moore getting
the head coaching job.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
For the New Orleans Saints. Is this a good match?

Speaker 3 (03:44):
So I've got boomerang, pontiff and bus station and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to provide you a running start, a running start. So,
out of the available candidates, after a several minute long

(04:05):
mallor investigation and deliberation, I have determined, as a member
of the honorable jury, that this is a marriage of convenience.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
It is a marriage of convenience. It's an arranged marriage.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
In many ways, Kellen Moore wanted and desperately needed to
get a head coaching job.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
This go round now he had to because a couple
of years ago.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
We'll get into it, but Kellen Moore was in position
to get a head coaching job and it didn't work
out for him, and then he fell off the.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
Tracks, if you will.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
And so Kellen Moore wanted to strike while the iron
was hot. Here the Eagle playoff run. This was his opportunity.
And the New Orleans Saints they suck, right when your
franchise blows, what do you do? It's a starter job.
The Saints has always been a starter job in the NFL.
For coaches, it's powerball. And originally they had their eye

(04:59):
on Cliff King, and he didn't have their eye. He
didn't have his eyes on them, and so there was
no mutual interest there. So they pivoted and they said,
all right, well we want to play the lottery, the
coaching lottery.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
So who are we going to hire?

Speaker 3 (05:11):
What first time coach are we going to hire? And
they said, you know what, let's grab the boomerang. And
Kellen Moore is a boomerang, kind of a higher coming
back around right boomerang, you throw it out, comes back
at you. He was tagged I'm old enough to remember.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
As we chew away at this.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
I'm old enough to remember when Kellen Moore was determined
as a prodigy by Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys,
and then.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
He fell down, down, down, down down into the gutter.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
It was you know, dog eat dog world all that,
and he was whacked by Jerry Jones.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
There was a power play, power play, power play.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
By Mike McCarthy, the former NFL head coach, and so
the move was Kellen Moore went out to la and
he hung out with that yoga coach Brandon Staley with
the Chargers for a year and then climb back up
the coaching ladder, goes to Philadelphia and he ends up
finding paydirt. Not because suddenly he became a better coach.

(06:14):
I don't Kellen Mordan to become a better coach. He
just happened to find that that formula which is Sekwon Barkley,
Jalen hurts some absolute terrific fat guys on the offensive line,
and it all, it all clicked on all cylinders. And
so the Eagles offense, they weren't in the top five

(06:34):
in yards or points, but they weren't far outside that.
They were eighth in total yards seventh in points. The
NERD stats, the EPA stats are very good, very good
for the Eagles offense, and they ended up winning the
Super Bowl.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
Now turn the page.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
So what are the positives and what are the negatives
about the Saints coaching job for Kellen Moore? So you
take the good with the bad, and you take the
bad with the good. The good, well, obviously there's only
so many of these jobs. You get a seat at
the grown ups table if you're Kellen Moore, one of
thirty two jobs. You're also, in many ways the pontiff

(07:16):
of the Saints. I know I'm crossing religious terms, but
you get to enjoy the blessing as the pontiff of
the Saints. Low expectations, right, low expectation. Does any man, woman.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Or child think that that team's any good?

Speaker 4 (07:33):
Now?

Speaker 3 (07:34):
They suck? Right, And so nobody's anticipating a quantum leap
in the Bayou. And that means that Kellen Moore does
not have the weight of needing immediate results, has to
go out there and dominate and all that stuff and
none of that right now. The bad the bad is
you're essentially coaching Vince Vaughn's dodgeball team. A bunch of

(07:58):
average joes. That's the roster, a bunch of average players.
The expectations are low because you have for the moment,
we'll see if this continues, Derek Carr, if you look
up Derek Carr in the dictionary, can't play at a
high level more than a couple of games every year.

Speaker 5 (08:14):
You have an aging Alvin Kamara in the backfield.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
So, in other words, Jalen Hurts and Sequon Barkley are
not walking through those doors at the Superdome.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
And if they do walk through those doors, they're wearing Eagles.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Uniforms, or maybe Barkley's wearing some other uniform But Kellen Moore,
in his time as an NFL assistant, has shown that
he can have amazing success when coaching top notch players.
But when you're the Saints coach, you're coaching turds and
you have to polish a lot of turds.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
He hasn't shown the ability to do that.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
He coached a bunch of turds in Dallas, and you
can see Dak Prescott there with the Cowboys and it
didn't go all that well. Didn't coach up Dak Prescott.
Dak Prescott, who's a mediocre NFL quarterback and Kellen Moore
clearly proving he was not the problem in that relationship.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
And we'll see if he can.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
Coach up players to overachieve in New Orleans, increase productivity.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
And that's always the challenge.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
I get to do more with less, good luck, you'll
end up with googly eyes.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
All right. Last word?

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Here, will Kellen Moore's departure hurt Jalen Hurts.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
In twenty twenty five?

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Right now, Kellen Moore is leaving Philadelphia and I've already
seen this pop up. Well, this is a body blow,
body blow for Jalen Hurts. Oh my god, Jalen Hurts
not gonna have his offensive coordinator right after the Super Bowl. No,
so I expect the Eagles, whether Kellen Moore came back
or not, the Birds were gonna go down a couple
of rungs, a couple of tears down. And it's not

(09:57):
because Kellen Moore's coaching the Saints.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
This anything.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
This is a positive mitzvah for Jalen Hurts because he
can say, well, you know he has the excuse a well,
Kellen Moore wasn't there. But I think it's poppycock Kellen Moore,
if anything, was writing the coattails of Saquon Barkley and
that offensive line. And it's not some kind of wizardry

(10:21):
from the offensive play caller.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
We're it all clicked. The Philadelphia offensive coordinator job.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
It's like going to a bus station and the turnstile
at the bus station and people come and go and
the turnstyle goes circling around. They had Shane Steichen, who's
a failed NFL head coach in Indianapolis.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
He's no good.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Brian Johnson who lasted one year in twenty twenty four
or twenty twenty three rather, and then they had Kellen
Moore in twenty twenty four. So another one bites the dust,
another one moves on, Another body gets elevated to be
named later.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
In twenty twenty five, a bigger concern.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
The Eagles now have the winner's curse, the winner's curse?
Will they be fat and satisfied and the bullseye.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Is on their back?

Speaker 3 (11:16):
And that whole argument I keep going back though, and
I can't help myself. The juiciest part of Kellen Moore
getting the job with the Saints is the biggest loser
is Dak Prescott. Because the Dak Prescott marching in Chowder society.
Their argument was, well, the teammates aren't that great, the

(11:39):
coaching's not that great.

Speaker 5 (11:40):
You know this thing.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well, Kellen Moore went to Philadelphia, had a lot of success.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
Again, I don't think it was all him, but he
had a lot of success with good players. He didn't
hold the good players back. Right.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
One of the arguments is, well, you know, Dak's being
held back by the Dak Prescott marching and Chowder society.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
It's hard to make that argument.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
That Dak Prescott was being held back by Kellen Moore
in that run, and so.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
He showed he's not the problem.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
So it's a referendum on Dakota, like, dude, what are
you doing? I mean, and the Cowboys forced Kellen Moore out.
Now he gets a head coaching job, and it's reminiscent.
I remember when Sean Payton. Now I know, way am
I saying Sean Payton and Kellen Moore are going to
be one in the same.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
But Sean Payton had been a rising.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Star in the coaching ranks and then took a couple
of steps back and then climb back up and became
the Saints coach, and things worked out pretty well. Uh
for for Sean Payton. I don't know that in my
crystal ball. That doesn't happen for Kellen Moore. But I
have a crystal ball that leans negative. My crystal I
bought it on TIMU and it leans negative. So that's

(12:50):
kind of how that works.

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Speaker 5 (14:10):
Well you're talking to baseball? What's wrong with you? Have
you lost your mind? No? I've not lost my mind.
But we have a mantra on this show.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
We start out every day looking for the things that
are interesting to talk about.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
I thought this was.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Several of my compadres sent me the story, including the
bus driver Roberto, who's a friend of the show forever,
Roberto who left drive a bus.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
But our lead is from spring training, Arizona and Florida.
The content city.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yeah, wow, sports chatter filling up with Bronx bomber angst,
Bronx bomber angst. Now, if you didn't see this or
hear about it, maybe you're not into the baseball stuff
yet I get it. I thought this was a good story,
and I have editorial control, so I am going with
his story.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
Yankees manager Aaron Boone, who is like a tenured professor
at Harvard. You can't get rhythm, Aaron Boone.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
So Aaron Boone was spitting mad as the Yankees get
ready to start spring training here, get spring training underway
in Florida. Aaron Boone very upset after hearing the criticism
directed to his Yankee team that was levied by the
Doyers after they bludgeoned the Yankees in last year's World Series. Boone,

(15:33):
as the Yankees begin spring training camp in Florida, said,
the Yankees will quote handle things with a little more
class if New York wins the Fall Classic in twenty
twenty five.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
Keep in mind that you're.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
In high school now and the last if you're in
high school right now, like as a freshman or a
sophomore in high.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
School, when you were like born. The Yankees last one
World Series? How about that? Yeah, Yankees' last one in nine.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
My computer like brain tells me that sixteen years ago.
And the way the Yankees are going, uh, it's the
big apple. You say, it's a big rotten apple. They're
not going the right direction. So let us discuss good story.

Speaker 5 (16:15):
Right.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
So it's after the World Series. Months and months have passed.
World Series was what late October, early November. World Series ends,
You go through December, January. Now we're into February and
still still this is an issue. So the question can
you parse the words?

Speaker 5 (16:35):
Can you parse the words.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Of manager Aaron Boone when he says the Yankees will
have more class than the Dawyers.

Speaker 5 (16:44):
If they win the World Series in twenty twenty five.
All right, so buckle up, buccaroo.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
I've got Kremlin, Suckersville, and Blues Brothers. We will combine
all of these things together and we're going to make
a slice of authentic key lime pie from this local
key Lime Pie shop in Florida. And so that's that's

(17:11):
what we're gonna do. We're gonna make some key lime pie.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
So n burn.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yeah, Aaron Boone is seeing ghosts. He's like Sam Darnold, right,
it's a Poulter Guy situation. He's being haunted by Yankees
of years gone by and the fact that the Yankees
did the old slip and fall. I've fallen. I can't
get up in the World Series. From Freddie Freeman's iconic

(17:37):
walk off Grand Slam to begin the Fall classic to
the performance that ended it, the bloopers and practical jokes
in Game five of the World Series, this performance has
opened the oozing pus from the Yankees.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
Now Aaron Boone annoyed, and.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
He's really upset with two guys, Chris Taylor and Joe Kelly,
who criticized the Yankees and their inability to field the baseball,
their inability to run the bases. They're just blatant lack
of fundamentals the bedrock of baseball in the Bronx and
even though they're getting paid a lot of money, there's
not good at that. And these comments came out in

(18:18):
the aftermath of the World Series and saying that the
New York's issues in those areas were well known. I
believe Chris Taylor had said that, and Joe Kelly just
went scorched earth and said that the Yankees just essentially
poopied down their leg. They poopied down their leg. So
Aaron Boone, after a minutes long Mallard deliberation, I have

(18:42):
determined that Aaron Boone is like the Kremlin. He supports
online censorship. He does not want the truth to get out.
He wants to silence the opposition and spoiler alert, spoiler alert,
both Chris Taylor and Joe Kelly were spot on. No
lies detected. The Yankees were a mediocre to bad defensive

(19:08):
team that had been their kryptonite. They were not a
fundamentally well schooled team. And Joe Kelly is also right
that the Yankees did. I don't know they pooped down
their leg. I think they urinated down their leg. It
was a massive failure what the Yankees did in Game
five of the World Series. And in case you've forgotten,
because we've gone through a few months here since the

(19:28):
World Series, Garrett Cole was on the mound, he was
working on a no hitter.

Speaker 5 (19:33):
It was the fifth inning. He had a five run lead,
highest paid pitcher in baseball, Garrett Cole.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Five run lead at home, the Boogeynown Bronx Yankee Stadium.
And then there was not one, not two, but three
egregious boners by the Bronx Bombers, beginning with that Aaron Judge,
El Kapitan, Aaron Judge who of the fly ball in

(20:01):
center field.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
Then you had the.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Next jeter, Anthony Volpi, who had a throwing error. And
the cherry on top of the poopy Sunday was Garrett Cole,
the highest paid pitcher in baseball, too lazy to cover
first base on a ground ball to Anthony Rizzo. And
the way I look at this and then the main
reason Aaron Boone's upsets why defending the pride of the

(20:25):
Yankees and all that, that's not what this is. Aaron
Boone at his core realizes he failed the Yankees, that
he did a bad job as Yankee manager, and he
kept his job because the ownership of the Yankees don't
care that much.

Speaker 5 (20:38):
Now, that's not the old man Steinbrenner.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
It's the kids, and the kids just run it as
a business and as long as Cashman's there, Boone will
be there. But it's the same concept we use in football,
we use it in baseball. And Aaron Boone knows this.
You're either coaching it or you're allowing it to happen.
But either way it's on Aaron Boone. Either Aaron Boone
is allowed it to happen, meaning he's not doing the

(21:02):
fundamental drills and trying to improve the Yankees defensively.

Speaker 5 (21:06):
Or or you know, he's kind of looking the other way.
Either way, it's not good.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Now we move from baseball and we go to Philadelphi
huddle around the radio, but we go to Philly for
a little basketball talk. There were some whispers out I
thought this was intriguing around the NBA that say, despite
all of these wild trade rumors and some of the
big trades that have actually happened, like Jimmy Butler traded

(21:33):
and Luca not really a trade more of a giveaway,
make a wish for the Lakers. So Joel Embiid in Philly,
his injuries are so massive combined with his contract, he
has three years and one hundred and ninety two million
dollars on the contract extension that the seventy six Ers,

(21:54):
even if they tried to trade Joel Embiid, they wouldn't
be able to. He is not a tradable commodity for Philadelphia.
That is the money quote that report making the rounds here.
The chatter is that Joel Embiid, with all of the
injury woes and his contract, he is not tradable by

(22:16):
the Sixers right now. Believe it or not. Believe it
or not. So I believe it to a point. And
with all of these trades, the NBA trade deadline out,
it's over. It doesn't mean no more trades until the
off season. But Joel Embiid, we know he's still in Philly,
and that tells.

Speaker 5 (22:35):
Me this is very deep. That is a dead giveaway.
Dead giveaway.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Joel is in the same category as Ben Simmons, as
Kawhi Leonard. Just two seasons ago, he won the Most
Valuable Player Award. Now, I shouldn't have won the last year.
It should have gone to Jokic again, but they gave
it to Embiid and they felt bad for him because
he bitched a lot, and so they gave.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
Embiid the MVP that year.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
However, he continues to be more unreliable and is a
diminished asset.

Speaker 5 (23:06):
I was actually watching some.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
Of the The Sixers game because I got nothing else
going on on Tuesday, and it was about a minute
to go before halftime, and Embiid goes down. And every
time he goes down, it's like Anthony Davis or Kawhidi,
all these guys are the same.

Speaker 5 (23:22):
They're all frauds, right, They're so fragile.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
It's like Humpty dumpty, Humpty dumpty fell down and you're like, oh,
hit me out, and he's.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
Like so dramatic, grabbing, Oh my god, my arm. The
whole thing. It's it's so pathetic.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Now, as far as the question at hand, and I said,
I am, I believe it to a point. The reason
I only believe it to a point that Joel Embiid
is not tradable right now by the Sixers is in
order for the seventy six ers to get out from
under Joel Ebead's deal, they would have to visit a
town called Suckersville, and Sucker, you're never that far away

(23:57):
from Suckersville. You're never that far away. So far they've
been unable to reach Suckersville. Maybe the moat around Suckersville,
the drawbridge is up around Suckersville, and they can't get
into Suckersville. But you just have to find a team
dumb enough to take Embiid. I'm worried the Clippers are
gonna take Embid, that they'll trade for Embiid and they'll

(24:19):
make some kind of wild deal and they'll reunite Ben
Simmons and Joel Embiid. But if you're a poker player
and you're at the table playing poker, right, and if
you look around the table and there's like three or
four other people at the table, you play poker, and
you don't see the sucker at the table, the suckers
you right. So that's a generally pretty good rule of thumb,

(24:40):
and so Joel Embiid. The sixers of the Sucker to
this point, trust the process. They trusted the process.

Speaker 5 (24:46):
They haven't won anything.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
And now they've got this guy that can't either can't
stay healthy or it's just not that into it and
has some issues.

Speaker 5 (24:56):
Got into it with a Philadelphia media guy because he
can't control his emotion.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Joel Embiid and so there you are all right now,
final point to the high speed sports wire. We go
the high speed sports wire, the wire burning up. The
Lakers have made a move. They've acquired their guy. Move
over Wilt Chamberlain. Move over Kareem abdul Jabbar. Move over

(25:22):
Wilt Chamberlain. The Lakers have added a center. The Lakers
have made their move. They have completed the team. They
are now championship ready. The LA Lakers. I don't know
if you're ready for this or not.

Speaker 5 (25:35):
They waived Christian Wood.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
And they did a roster buyout edition. Roster buyout edition.
The LA Lakers adding to their legacy, writing another chapter
the greatness of Laker basketball. They have added Alex lenn
The LA Lakers have added Alex Lenn That is their

(25:58):
new center. Congratulations Kers, congratulations tremendous pick up, unbelievable. The
entire NBA is shocked. How could the Lakers have gotten
this guy? It must be rigged. So Alex Lenn was
supposed to sign with the Pacers, but he decided he'd
rather just live in LA and have all the historians
lick his toes. And so the Lakers they needed somebody

(26:23):
because Charlotte waived that guy. Or Charlotte traded Mark Williams
and the Lakers decided they didn't want him because he
was damaged goods. So he went back to North Carolina
and the Lakers have added Alex Lenn to fill the
center position.

Speaker 5 (26:39):
Does that hit the spot?

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (26:42):
Yeah, it definitely hits the spot.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
I could not stop laughing when I saw this that
this is the solution, This is the answer.

Speaker 5 (26:50):
You know what that is. It is a Blues Brothers tune.
Rubber biscuit. It is a rubber biscuit. It is a.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Wish sandwich, the kind of a sandwich where you take
two pieces of bread right, put them together, and you wish.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
You had some meat about Wow. Wow wow. Alex lan
has played in thirty six.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Games for Sacramento this season, and I got to tell you,
I know my basketball.

Speaker 5 (27:16):
This guy's a stud, and I don't know how the
Lakers got him. I don't know how they did it.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
Alex Lanne averaged in Sacramento this year one point four
points per game, one point eight.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Rebounds per game. Very impressive.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Another solid move by the Skinny Suits GM there of
the Lakers, the Wizards had acquired Alex lenn from Sacramento.
It was a three way trade that happened last week
before the deadline, and it was the Marcus Smart trade.
He went from Memphis to the Wizards, and then they

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Speaker 5 (28:12):
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Speaker 2 (28:20):
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Speaker 4 (28:26):
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Speaker 6 (28:32):
Gear Rye, gear Rye to night, gear Ry, to night,
dear Ry. You heard the man. It's time for love
here on the Ben Malor Show. And boys, I don't
know if you know this. It's Valentine's Day weekend.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
Oh god, I am.

Speaker 6 (28:52):
Such a sucker for Valentine's Day.

Speaker 7 (28:54):
I know we talked a little bit about it last week,
but are you boys getting prepared?

Speaker 5 (28:59):
What a scam?

Speaker 6 (29:00):
What are you doing for your lovely lady? Ben?

Speaker 5 (29:03):
Uh? Well, make some food for that's usually the what
I do.

Speaker 6 (29:07):
All right, you're gonna massage her piggies toes?

Speaker 5 (29:11):
Is that their code for the toes?

Speaker 7 (29:12):
May run her off hot bath and give her a massage,
but leave some new diamond earrings on that.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
I've already got the lifetime I've got the lifetime contract, Lorena.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
So there's the you know.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
Right right group, you got the lifetime contract. That's you know,
it's a lifetime deal.

Speaker 6 (29:29):
That doesn't mean the effort. Even before that, you would
not catch me touching toes.

Speaker 5 (29:34):
No, no clicking toes. Nope.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
All right, Well, it is Valentine's Day and I actually
this is sending to an email Lorena. The first question
and it says this guy his name is I think
his name is Shane.

Speaker 5 (29:49):
He's in Texas.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
He said there was a study out this week that
said forty five percent of men aged eighteen to twenty
five have never approached a woman in person to ask
a woman out, Lorena, Is this good or bad for society?
Because I guess it's online dating. I guess the dudes
are doing now online dating.

Speaker 7 (30:12):
So yeah, it's it's a really hard world right now, Ben,
because no one has social skills at all. So I'm
not shocked to hear that, to be honest with you.

Speaker 5 (30:21):
But that's almost half of dudes eighteen twenty five.

Speaker 7 (30:23):
Yeah, and those people are online trying to find people
to date online and then you meet them in person
and socially hard.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
I want these a holds to live my life. Rejection
from women that makes you really enjoy life. Rejected by women,
That's what I remember from dating.

Speaker 5 (30:39):
Yes, you got to get.

Speaker 6 (30:40):
The nasty side eye, like why are you looking at me?

Speaker 5 (30:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (30:44):
Like are you? I got a lot of do you
even think you are allowed to look at me?

Speaker 5 (30:49):
That kind of thing?

Speaker 4 (30:50):
You know?

Speaker 5 (30:51):
Anyway?

Speaker 3 (30:51):
Mad Jack rights and says, isn't mad Jacking a host
of mall or meet and greet at that Zendejas, I
think is anyway, says what inclement? The Valentine's Day suggestions
do you have besides the obvious matt Jack?

Speaker 7 (31:05):
So yeah, bad weather suggestions for Valentine's Day. Stay inside
in your birthday suits, you know, get some whipped cream
and some fun things to keep you occupied and enjoy
your day. Order Postmates into I don't know why everyone
wants to go out to eat. Restaurants are so busy
right now and you have to smell other people and
like stay home.

Speaker 6 (31:25):
Well they also a bottle of wine. Order your steak
into the house.

Speaker 5 (31:29):
Or just make it yourselves yourself.

Speaker 7 (31:31):
But I'm not a chef. I'm not a chef, and
you know what, no the point now, you know what?

Speaker 5 (31:37):
You know what I want to do with Raina to
really impress my wife. I Am going to buy her
a dozen eggs that will really impress her. A dozen eggs.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
Baller, you're going above and beyond.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
Baller top that boys, that's right, Come on, that's a flex.
Here's some eggs you can ferg dog, right, Sin says,
is it okay to ask my mom to be my Valentine?

Speaker 6 (31:58):
You know, oh my gosh, my baby daddy. It was
so sweet.

Speaker 7 (32:01):
My family never gave Valentine's gifts to, you know, other
people besides who they were dating or married to. So
he gets it for his mom and his sister. He
gets everyone roses and flowers. And I was so shocked.

Speaker 6 (32:14):
I was like, excuse you.

Speaker 7 (32:15):
He's like, yeah, you got to give it to everyone
who you love. So you know what, Yeah, get your
mom some Valentines. Let her know you love her. Yeah,
your little sister, Yeah, let her know what she means
the world to you.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Life Ishi right JT. Spread love is Lorena, that's s JT.
The Wingman says, is it okay to bring my pet
hamster on our Valentine's Day dinner date?

Speaker 6 (32:35):
Ask eminem? If you don't know, look it up.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Georgia Boy says, what is the polite way to ask
your giving another for a certain type of activity.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
Well, you shouldn't have to ask. She should be willingly
just down all the time. I should be one of
her favorite acts.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
I think that's what Georgia Boy wants, so, but I
guess he needs a Yeah. I know Valentine's Day that
you do extra kinky stuff Lorrain and if people into that, no,
I'm asking you are you the expert.

Speaker 5 (33:07):
I'm not the expert.

Speaker 6 (33:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (33:09):
Some people like to, you know, get a little more
frisky on Valentine's Day. They see it as a special
occasion to not just do the vanilla, add a little
spice to your life, all right.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
Legally blind Christopher rights and says, after being married thirty
five years and the wife tells the blind husband, this
is all I want.

Speaker 5 (33:25):
Should I be worried and there's like a couple of
flowers on.

Speaker 6 (33:28):
The table, then no, no, no.

Speaker 5 (33:31):
But you know women. You're a woman. I think you
know women. So women will say one thing, but they
often mean something else.

Speaker 7 (33:37):
Use trick ration, right, Yes, I would like you to
read my mind a bit, that'd be nice.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
Yes, I can only pick football games, and I'm not
good at that.

Speaker 6 (33:47):
Right now, read that a little better to Ben.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
That's the end of the bit, Lorraine, I think the
bit's over. Now we've ended the bit. Queen of Hearts.

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Our combatants in the Steelcage deathmatch.

Speaker 5 (34:38):
That is is password the word Game of the Stars.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Let's say hello to Daniel in Fort Wayne. Hello, Daniels,
this is our crossing guard Daniel. Hello Daniel, good morning,
and I'm sorry I'm not being able.

Speaker 7 (34:54):
Calling the past few weeks because mother Nature wanted to
throw a curveball.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
I understand the life of a crossing guard. People do
not understand the elements that you have to deal with
as a crossing guard.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
And sometimes school gets canceled because the elements do right.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
So it happened, Yeah, exactly, all right, Daniel, you're gonna play.
Who do you want to partner up with?

Speaker 5 (35:15):
Daniel? You got me Lorraina.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
All right, we're in it to win it very good
and we have let's see your far out.

Speaker 5 (35:23):
Dave is in Ohio. Hello, far out Dave, welcome.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Good morning.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Then how are you?

Speaker 5 (35:29):
If I was any better? Why would you say?

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Darn it?

Speaker 5 (35:37):
Question?

Speaker 3 (35:39):
All right, I'd be, I'd be I'd be a no no, fine,
then I'll do them. I'll be a twin, but not
a Minnesota twin because they suck.

Speaker 5 (35:47):
Are you happy living here?

Speaker 3 (35:53):
All right, we'll fine. You hate your state you're living in?
Who do you want to partner up with?

Speaker 2 (35:57):
That's the goop?

Speaker 3 (35:59):
All right, you're out of the show of the raining
we have. We have a list of words one to
ten and uh, let's see crossing guard, my friend, the
crossing guard, Daniel.

Speaker 5 (36:10):
Pick a number one to ten, please, Daniel, I wanted to.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Take the lead, not to concede.

Speaker 5 (36:16):
Number three, number three.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
All right, let's see here it should be this should
be easy, but maybe not.

Speaker 5 (36:26):
Let's go with hmm o, boy, this is actually not
that easy. Let's go with uh, primer, primer. Okay, yeah,
it was a good hand.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Pulled that out of my took us on, my took
us I did. That was all right, good job, but
you were up ten nothing far out day. Pick a
number one to ten, but not three, please, Number two.

Speaker 5 (36:57):
Number two.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
All right, that is easy, Dave.

Speaker 5 (37:02):
Let's go with construct. Yeah, we're tied at ten. It's
a high scoring affair.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
You're listening to our live coverage of Password the word
Game of the Stars, and we go back to everyone's
favorite crossing guard.

Speaker 5 (37:17):
Daniel and fort Wayne Daniel.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
Not two or three, but any other number to ten,
number ten, number ten?

Speaker 5 (37:27):
All right, I think I'm gonna I'm gonna do what
I probably well, I'll just do it. Why not we
just yeah? How about aficionado?

Speaker 6 (37:42):
Daniel has been on hold for a long time, so
he was listening.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
But Daniel listen.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Daniel actually pays attention the guys, you know, he listens
to the show.

Speaker 5 (37:49):
He gets the show. Good job by you, Daniel. We're up. Good. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
Usually in the past we'll use something we just used
on the air and no one will get it right.

Speaker 5 (37:57):
No one pays attention. But you got it right? Could
you about you? All right? Pick a number? Pick a
number four out.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Date number one.

Speaker 5 (38:05):
You didn't say that right, say it right?

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Number one?

Speaker 6 (38:11):
Uh, let's go with uh plunge.

Speaker 7 (38:19):
Suction what.

Speaker 5 (38:22):
No, no, no, all right, I'm gonna use the malord maneuver.
I am.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
I'd like to alert all the affiliates. I'm gonna use
the Mallord maneuver. Are you ready far out day for
the malor maneuver? Yes?

Speaker 1 (38:34):
I am.

Speaker 5 (38:34):
Well, Dave's my partner, so but yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
Say, Dave, I screwed that up. Uh you know all
those d names of the same.

Speaker 5 (38:42):
Sorry, Daniel, all.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
Right, here we go daie nose nose the Malard matuber
o pheel.

Speaker 5 (38:55):
So good, I got time. We got time. Go ahead,
and you pick a number. Pick a number. No, it's
over picking up Daniel. So you shrewed up in the
Daniel wrapped up the night. It's Daniel turning. It's Daniel's
turn to pick. Pick a number. Alright, go ahead, pick
it out, Go ahead? That was it, didn't I go

(39:18):
first with Dive. What are we doing here? He's stalling
so that he can win taking a number, Daniel. Problem
with that? He maybe wants to talk to you. I
don't know. Seven number seven?

Speaker 3 (39:36):
Yeah, now we're out, go Ben, go alright, all right about.

Speaker 5 (39:43):
Explore cover?

Speaker 4 (39:47):
No?

Speaker 5 (39:48):
Uh, let's go with five. Crap?

Speaker 3 (39:55):
No, I went the crossing guard another way. Good job
by Daniel and fort Wayne. All time game show win King.
I won again unbelievable, what a win
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