1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: That's right, We're gonna talk about Fernando Mendoza. It's how 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:12,039 Speaker 1: we started the week talking about IU and the championship team, 3 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: and that's how we're gonna end it as well. And 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: you're telling me I'm on my own during this segment. 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 2: Who yeah, exactly, I can't believe it. 6 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 1: First of all, let's talk about what is going on 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 1: with Fernando Mendoza. He showed off his throwing skills and 8 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: some of his comedic chops. He made an appearance last 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: night on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. 10 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 2: Fernando, What are you? What are you doing here? Jimmy? 11 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 3: Everybody knows that the Night shows where champions go. 12 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 4: So here I am. 13 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 2: That's right, you are. 14 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 3: Since you're here, I have to ask, how's it feel 15 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:52,160 Speaker 3: to win Indiana's first ever football championship. Well, we finally 16 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 3: got our coach ignited a smile, so that was the 17 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 3: biggest accomplishment. No, but for real, Indiana's been a predominantly 18 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 3: of basketball and football has been in purgatory for the 19 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 3: longest time. And our team with co Signetti and a 20 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 3: whole bunch of unrecruited guys, guys Wholay have been out 21 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 3: of their retired lives, now finally marked as national champions. 22 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 3: It means the world, all of us. 23 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: So they went on in Jimmy Fallon. They said, we're 24 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: going to break some records here, and they gave him 25 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: thirty seconds on the clock, and Jimmy Fallon threw up records, albums, 26 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: and Fernando Mendoza he was throwing a football at them 27 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: and seeing how many of them he could break. 28 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 4: Hey, wait a minute, he better not be throwing any 29 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 4: of those seventy eight RPM records. That's what I collect. 30 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 4: Those things are fragile. 31 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 3: See. 32 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: This is what's interesting about this is you're more concerned 33 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 1: about the records that he was throwing the football at 34 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: than anything about Fernando Mendoza. 35 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 4: You know, he seems like a nice kid. I saw 36 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 4: some clips from his Heisman trophy speech. I saw where 37 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 4: he danked his grandparents, So, you know, he seems like 38 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 4: a lovely human being. And evidently he has some sports 39 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 4: getball talent, and I'm glad that he can throw the 40 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 4: ball more better than other people. Good for him. 41 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: How does it feel to be the only man in 42 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: the entire state of Indiana who did not watch that 43 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: football game? 44 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 4: I feel just fine. I got great rest that night, 45 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 4: I got off of work, I played some games, I 46 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 4: had a little bit of dinner, and I do not 47 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 4: feel like I missed out one iota. But that's just 48 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 4: that's just me. 49 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:30,839 Speaker 3: Now. 50 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: You you have often said that you don't participate in 51 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: the you call it the sports getball. 52 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 4: Yes, So the only time, the only time I ever 53 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 4: had a passing knowledge of what was going on in 54 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 4: the sports world is I had briefly signed up for fanduell. 55 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 4: I guess I still have the account, but I signed 56 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 4: up for FanDuel and I got like a two hundred 57 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 4: dollar bonus for putting twenty dollars in the account, and 58 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 4: that was that was my fun money. For about a year. 59 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 4: I would listen to the sports podcast that Hammer and 60 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 4: Rob do the Degenerates next Door, and I would sprinkle 61 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 4: some money on their various bets, and that was the 62 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 4: only time that I had a passing awareness of what 63 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 4: was going on in the sports world. Still didn't watch 64 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 4: any of the games. I would just like check in 65 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:17,799 Speaker 4: and see how my bets did, which ones won, which 66 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 4: one's lost. I kind of knew which games were coming 67 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 4: up because Robin and Hammer would discuss them, but otherwise 68 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 4: totally uninvested. And then eventually Hammer gave me some bad 69 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 4: picks on the Steelers, and then there went all that money. 70 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: So Kurt Signetti famously said, I win, Google me. According 71 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: to Google, they've had over eight million searches and counting, 72 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: and Google having a little fun saying, yep, he won. 73 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: And let's look at some of the numbers. You had 74 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: over thirty point one million viewers of that football game. 75 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: At its peak, thirty three point two million people were 76 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: watching it. It was the second most watched college football 77 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: playoff title game, It was the second best cable telecast ever, 78 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: and it was the most viewed non NFL sports event 79 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: since the sixteen World Series Game seven. Of course, Fernando 80 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 1: Mendoza is saying that he is going to go for 81 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 1: the draft, which is being held in Pittsburgh. But here 82 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: is a woman who wants to petition to keep Fernando 83 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: Mendoza from going to the Raiders. 84 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 5: I'm starting a petition to save Fernando Mendoza from the Raiders. 85 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 2: The Raiders have the first pick. 86 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 5: We know that they need a true franchise quarterback because 87 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 5: what they got going on is just not working. 88 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 2: Geno's not it okay, and we know that Fernando Mendoza 89 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 2: is going to be the first pack. But here's the thing. 90 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 5: He's too wholesome to go to that franchise. I'm sorry, 91 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 5: he's too good for Vegas. We cannot send him to 92 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 5: the Raiders. He needs to go to a good, wholesome 93 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 5: Midwest franchise, perhaps one that needs a quarterback. 94 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 2: I can think of a few. 95 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 5: Can we just find him a soft place to land 96 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,039 Speaker 5: here in the Midwest, save him from the Raiders because 97 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 5: I fear Max Crosby might eat him. Don't know how 98 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 5: we're going to remedy this situation, but I feel like 99 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 5: we could start a petition to do something. 100 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 2: Maybe he'd be willing to break an arm, so he's a. 101 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 5: Little less desirable as a first round. 102 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 2: Pick because arms heel. He'll be okay, but you know 103 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 2: it doesn't heal going to Vegas and becoming a Raider. 104 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 5: So let me know if you guys have any good 105 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 5: ideas or if you want to sign my petition. Again, 106 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 5: I don't really know what my petition is for. It's 107 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 5: mainly just to save this young wholesome man, this all 108 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 5: American guy, from being corrupted by the Raiders franchise. 109 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:29,039 Speaker 4: Yeah, is one guy really carrying the entire team? I 110 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 4: mean again, he seems like a talented kid, He seems 111 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 4: like a nice human being. But is it really one 112 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 4: person on the sports football team that is solely responsible 113 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 4: for the success or Ask Kim, if you ask him. 114 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: The answer is no. Is a team effort spearheaded by 115 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: Chris Signetti. Yeah, him and mister he was the quarterback 116 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 1: and he did win the Heisman. 117 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 2: Okay, it is the Kennelly Casey Show. 118 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 1: It's ninety three WYBC.