January 8, 2026 • 21 mins
Indiana Hoosiers football star QB Fernando Mendoza reveals he doesn't use social media, except for LinkedIn and YouTube. However, we do find it odd that young people don't have a social media input. Also what does the social media app you use say about you? And we go over things that were normal in the 80s & 90s that would seem odd to do today. Plus, Rich has his betting picks for NFL Wild Card Weekend and College Football Playoffs, courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook, CODE: CRSHOW
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Yo, here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
First episode, first of the year, twenty twenty six, actually
episode one twenty three, though over promised Covino and Rich
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This is the stuff we don't have time for on
(00:28):
our regular show. Grand no doub We're gonna talk some
Bowl games. I got some picks for this weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Then I think are lucks. I don't know how some
of these points spreads are what they are, so we'll
go over our picks. I saw a pretty cool list
on social media things that were totally normal in our
childhood in the eighties or nineties that would be fucking
weird right now.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Well, I'm glad you brought up social media because we
spend a lot of time on it right doing the
ball scroll by the way, I follow us oh Rich
at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio. It's sort
of a way of life. But I do see a
lot of pushback with younger kids. I have a teenage daughter,
and I see them trying to stay away, but they
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got the itch and they go back. But Fernando Mendoza,
he's all the buzz, especially this weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I often wonder if we didn't do what we did,
if we weren't on iHeart and Fox and all the
you know, the things we do, would I be on
social media as much? Do I use this as an
excuse like, well, it's for work, like or would I
just still be like scroll and scroll and scrolling. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Man's killing our brains. Our attention spans is so bad.
It's getting worse, and you have to ask yourself when
you're on and when you're posting, am I sharing or bragging?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Right?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Because you see a lot of bragging but you're still
watching and is gross and you hate yourself afterward. But
this weekend the Chick fil A Peach Bowl number five
Oregon at number one Indiana, Fernando Mendoza is all the buzz.
And he said this week that he has no social media.
And I want to know, in today's world, when you
(02:01):
see a young player who says everything right and seems
so likable, when he says something like this, you say,
right on, man, I like him even more, or do
you think something else, take a listen and keep it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
To my process and keep it to my routine and
not change too much.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
But also not really having social media only I'm linked
you too on my.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Phone right now. It's really helped putting things perspective and
keep all the opinions of in the billion opinions so
on the online reading, Oh, Rando's great, Franto sucks. I'm
listening to what my quarterback goes on which channel? Woodner says, Wow,
things with the quarterbacks in our room? Do you think?
So that's my focus is and that's how I've been
able to play my best football so far.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And first of all, can I get the obvious out
of the way. I do want to applaud the maturity,
for the maturity, wow, daring to be different, putting it down,
having the restraint, the discipline, for being a great role model.
I mean, he's so lovable, this kid. But at the
same time, because what we're learning rich as we mature,
is that two things can be true. Right, So for
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as much as I commend them and we I do,
you know, not being on social.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Media when you're the starting quarterback Heisman Trophy winner with
all the options in the world and probably partnerships that
want to do business with you, and they're like, oh,
but you're not on social, Like.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It's not just curiosity, right, and what are people saying?
Who's interested in?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Bigger man?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I do find it more odd being a young person
to not have a social media footprint.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah. I have some buddies that are younger that are
in the dating world, and if they bump into a
girl and they tell a woman, yeah, I'm just not
on social that's like a red flag, Like what do
you mean you're not on social? Like they think you're
hiding something, like you're a serial killer.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I think it's an immediate red flag in today's world
because you don't have to use it right because we
tend to abuse it. But if you don't have a presence,
if you don't have an Instagram, if you don't have
a Facebook page, I understand TikTok maybe too younger, Snapchat
young for some of you, but if you don't have it,
it says that you're trying to hide something in a
(04:05):
weird way. No, Like people that I know that don't
have these things makes me say, hmm, like I have
an ex girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Seriously, who you're running from Yeah. No, but I have
one ex girlfriend. You can't find her online. She murdered someone.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
No image search, no nothing, no social media and it
you know what it says to me what happened.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Never got over you? Yeah, man, I must have. Really
she gained two hundred pounds just sitting there eating ice
cream thinking about Steve Kabin.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
No, but you know what, it says to me that
she's hiding from something, She's running away from the world.
And it might not mean that, but it does scream
that if you think about it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That I find funny. Did you hear what he said?
He does have YouTube, so he does watch videos? Yeah,
he said LinkedIn? What is he applying for a job
after college? Like, hey, raiders, hold your pick, I have
an interview with this accounting firm LinkedIn. You know, it's
ironic out there. Do you have a LinkedIn?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
We're radio Mozo's for a living. I don't have a LinkedIn.
I have everything else. I don't have a LinkedIn, which
is ironic about the whole thing because he has one,
and what's he using it for? I don't know to
connect I guess, but yeah, maybe endorsement deals could go
through that. But he's got agents for that and people
guiding him the right way. You know, what does it
say to you when you meet someone in today's world
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if they have no social media?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Does it matter how old they are? Can we break
down the different social media is real quick?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I think we should.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And I do think it matters how old they are,
because I do see a pushback of kids. You know
how kids are like, we don't go to Facebook because
they think that's for old people. They're trying to put
it down a little bit more and live life. They
want more memories, they want more tangible, they want more substance.
They're at least trying because they know that something's not
right with the way we're living.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Now, let's talk about the different socials. Yeah, we could
all agree Facebook that your parents, that's family. You're on
Facebook to see your cousin's doing or your classmate from
high school. Facebook is as the older person in social media,
your aunt Sharon and your aunt Nancy, and so they
could see you post a picture. You post a picture
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of your kids on Christmas and your aunt likes it,
and that's Facebook. Now. I mean, maybe I'm showing my age,
but if you're roughly forty Instagram is probably my most used,
but a younger person would be like, see, I'm on TikTok,
but I will go to Instagram first.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Instagram is my first as well. Instagram also killed the bombshell.
Remember in the nineties you'd go to Spencer Gifts and
you look through all the posters of all the hot
chicks like oh yeah, Jenny McCarthy, Carmen le with.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Scroll scroll everywhere. There's no such thing as as like
a bombshell anymore because everyone's hot.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, it's just booty scrolling all day and you know,
sports updates, and that brings me to x Twitter that
I use for sports primarily.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I think a lot of sports consumers use that the most, right,
So x twitter is what I use for sports highlights
and if there's a breaking news story like something you
know in Venezuela or the terrible story in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
If I want to see like an update Twitter for
news or being out here in La is that an earthquake?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Let me say.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Chrissy Teagan says so yes. So I think Twitter for updates.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Instagram's might go to TikTok are parents and aunts and
uncles on Facebook. See is there something like you said Snapchat.
I've never even young care. Yeah, but I have one.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And maybe that's even to keep your kids honest, right,
they know you're there, See, they can't be going to
rogue on it. I think even as a parent, like
you should have these accounts so that you know what
your kids up to.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Younger kids are using Snapchat, that's how they communicate, but
discord in that chord to communicate with Snapchat primarily. So yeah,
I think it says something about who you are, what
you're into. Although this is all positive with Mendoza, not
everyone is him.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Let meres one more Mendoza question. Yeah, he Let's say
he goes on to a national championship number one pick,
the Raiders go after him. He's you know, he's the
young fresh star. Tom Brady chooses him to be a Raider.
Does Mendoza? First of all, is it a situation where
he's looked at the combine and all these things? Like
way impressive because of that? Is that like a big
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plus when you could imagine a lot of these kids
are distracted by that? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I think it shows his commitment, right, Like he's so focused,
he's so zoned in that he doesn't need any of
that distraction.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So you heard what he said. I mean, I don't
need to repeat it, but I will. He said, he's
only concerned about what his quarterback coach says, his friends
and family and his coaches. He doesn't care if people
say Mendoza sucks or Mendoz is awesome. He's like, I
don't need that noise. Imagine if you have that maturity
your age. He's twenty seven years old and it has
that maturity.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So he nailed it right, because that's all that truly matters.
But good luck with that, but also a little easier
for him. On a side note, another interesting story you
may have missed about Mendoza. Who's all the buzz this weekend.
Maybe your future raider. He has a lot of family,
so maybe that's all he needs. I saw something insane
about him.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
He says.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
What keeps him grounded and keeps him connected to family
isn't Facebook, clearly right, it's Mendoza family reunions that they
have every four years, and it keeps them connected and
has that sense of family and love. But it's not
the family reunion that maybe you used to have when
(09:38):
you were a kids. I feel like they've gone away
family reunions much like block parties.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
They don't exist anymore. Happen eight hundred Mendozas is Carlos Mendoza,
the mental manager there. Not only that his family got
to the US in like nineteen sixty two or something
like that, and there's eight hundred mendozas that he's related to.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yo. In my family, I'm one of five kids, right,
I have to color code, yo. My parents.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
My parents are like shocked if they could get all
of their kids at the house at the same time.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Now, I know, I know, it's a sad reality. I
live in Los Angeles, my brothers in Maryland, my sisters
in New York. Would you believe we've been together with
our kids, all three siblings in a room with my
two kids, my brother's two kids, and my sister's daughter,
the five grand the five my mom's five grandkids. Yeah,
one time, one time. On the top of this guy's
got eight hundred people. Imagine being able one. You know,
(10:33):
it's a true testament to who he is and why
he is man. He's got a lot of love and
a lot of support, and that's insane, dude. My mom
cries and wants to take pictures if all her kids
we were just there for Thanksgiving, that was like the
first time in ten years. Mightbe be the last time.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
We were all together. Imagine getting eight hundred family members together.
That's insane. So hey, if you didn't like them a lot,
you probably like them even more now.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Good luck to Mendoz. I'll give you my college picks
out of course, NFL Wildcard in a second. But you
brought up some retro stuff there. You said back in
the day, family reunions, block parties. You know, my wife
was trying to see if the neighbors around here it's
much old neighbors. She's like, do you think they'd want
to do a block party? Like that was fun in
the eighties and nineties. But I don't know if block
parties are a thing anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Dude, when you were a kid, party, yeah, it was
like the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, I think neighbors now used to know your neighbors.
Which brought up an interesting thing. I saw a list
on social media taking a social media too. It was
things that were perfectly normal in the eighties and nineties.
You know, said about this random Mendoza will never see it.
You'll never know this list. I'll never know this list.
Things that were normal when we were on our come up,
when you were a little boy in the eighties and nineties,
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that if you did this stuff now, your kids would
be like what, dad, Like, what did you do? Let
me name a couple just for the hell of it.
It's not even that long ago. But the idea of
going to a restaurant and being like, yeah, non smoking, please,
oh my, it's a smoking sex allowed to think like
literally just twenty feet away. It's like you could smoke there,
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but here you can't smoke. Like the idea that you
were at a restaurant in half the place people had
SIGs lit.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I mean even on airplanes people were allowed to smoke. Right,
if you want to go back even further, But yeah,
that's so weird going back to the eighties and nineties.
But you know what, you know what makes me think
of like our early party days when I met you. Yeah,
we'd be partying and hoboken and people will be smoking
at the bar and that's just how it was. Remember
how your clothes would smell when you'd get home.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I remember girls you would date would be mad because
their hair would stall. Where we grew up New Jersey,
you were allowed to smoke at bars, but then New
York put the kaibosh on that. So I remember at
one point, if you went to a bar in New
York City you were good Jersey. You would come home
smell like an ashtrak dude smoking.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Sections You're so right about that, just like right behind you,
some guy was smoking, but you were in the non smoking.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Our buddy, comedian Sebastian Menescalco talks about this, but the
idea of dropping by someone's house, Like you remember your parents,
like the door, would you know, a little knock on
the door, it'd be like your mom or dad's friends
and then just coming by to say I was in
the neighborhood, just saying hi. Like the idea of a stop.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
My mom would bust out the entemens, you know how
it goes. And nowadays, yeah, you're.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Like, who the hell is that. I tried to explain
this to my kids the other day. Another thing on
this list the idea of a landline a home way.
If you get that knock, you assume it's a delivery service. Yeah,
it's Amazon, that today's way, and then they take a
picture and walk away. Yeah, that's it. My kids couldn't
believe that there was, you know, no smartphones kids. There
was a landline and when it rang, you said hello
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inquisitively because you didn't know who it was, like hello,
because it could be Grandma, it could be a telemarketer,
it could be your dad calling from work. I am
running late, like you didn't.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Know, they'll id yeah, the mystery of the call. So again,
this is normal in the nineties. Weird now.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah. The idea of you riding bikes around town, maybe
going to the mall with your friends or girlfriends, going
out somewhere.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I think the idea of even meeting up with your friends,
like how did you My daughter always asks me, how
did you find them?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I'm like, yeah, you know, I even say that I
have a meeting spot I had. I had one of
my buddies who has a kid that's in college, said,
how did you guys communicate? And I said, try erase
sports on your door? Oh in college?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah. But the idea though, trying to tell your young
kids that, yeah, we were gone all day and guess what,
our mom and dad didn't know where we were, Like
your daughter's sixteen, Yeah, and you like you were doing
that at twelve tracker on the phone. Yeah, you know,
they are every minute of the day. I imagine you
were way younger than her and you just left in
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the morning and you're like, ya, right, mom will be
home for dinner. You played with football, went to the park.
You don't she didn't know where you were.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Now, I didn't see this list, but I got one,
Like I'll bring this up every once in a while.
I'll mention how like we cared about rollover minutes and
nights and weekends.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And the me needs.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
You know, when we used our phones, and how we
would shut them off off to save the battery. We
didn't use our cell phones all day and night. You
would shut it off again even before that calling card
is you're roughly forty ish, you remember the days of
counting nights and weekends like there were there were cell
phone plans, and you'd be like, all right, four hundred
any time minutes plus three nights and weekends. That sounds good,
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and you'd like, why do I need more minutes? Like
that ship was wild?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Two more? How about this one? The idea of not
texting the girl you have a crush on or hitting
her up writing a note, folding it like a little
football and handing it to her in school and waiting
to see if she read it and wrote you back.
And I never knew how to fold it. There, handing
your crush a note. Yeah, you think your daughter is
(15:45):
handing notes to her little pals? No, the texting all
day long? Yeah, not at all.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You know, is it weird that I still have all
those notes just to boost my ego?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I have them all.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I have some of them to tell me how great
I am, have crates of them in the I'll give
you one more. My parents added, this is a silly one,
but how about we watch a show that we're obsessed with?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Right, Like, you'll watch it. You'll get a fresh new
show on Netflix or Hulu or HBO Max. And sometimes
you're like, oh, man, like eight episodes. When we were kids,
all shows we're like twenty five episodes a season. And
now where we get like like Chad Powers, which I loved,
I was telling you the day on Hulu six episodes.
(16:27):
You just want us to beast in me eight this episode?
Like we you know, we forget that when we were kids,
the quality probably sucked, but there was like twenty five episodes.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Normal in the nineties. Now you could add to the list.
By the way, if you missed the show, you just
missed it too. That was normal in the nineties. You know,
you missed a big plot line. Sucks, hey, unless you
hit the plane record. All right, So normally nineties weird.
Now hit us up at COCAA Fox Sports Radio when.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Your parents would set the VCR to tape something, and
it really was a crapshoot because you're like, I don't
know if it's gonna work. Hey, we're going out. We're
going out to uh, you know, your brother has a
baseball game, so we get a tape. Alf. I hope
it works. Just if you missed it, you missed it.
That's all right. Let's get into this. Your picks for
the week we talked about Carlos Mendoz. Let's talk about
college football. First. Listen, I'm not gonna bullshit yet. I'm
(17:17):
not the biggest college guy, but I have been watching
a little more than usual this season, especially the exciting
playoffs we've been watching. I hate to say this because
our our buddy, super agent Sewan Wyman's an Ole miss fan.
But our buddy Michael Yo hit me up, he's a
Miami guy. Yeah, I think Miami's got momentum, gaining momentum,
and how do you bet against Carlos Mendoza. Both games
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are like three, three and a half points on the SPREADDA,
I'm going money line. I'm going Miami Indiana, and I
think that'll be your national championship in two weeks. I
really do. I think Indiana is a team of freaking
destiny and Miami at this stage looks unbeatable, So I
think this is going to line up to be an
amazing national championship. So in I'm just going moneyline parlay
(18:02):
Miami Indiana. That could be wrong, but I feel like
that's what my gut's telling me.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Okay, now, and you got quite the gun after all
that boozing and schmoozing in Vegas this week, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Let's go to the NFL Wildcard weekend. Now, the Panthers.
I'm not saying this because I'm an NFC West guy
and a Niners fan, and I'm not saying the Rams
are gonna lose. But as my little straight BT says here,
I mean over ten's a lot of points. Over ten
means if the Rams are winning twenty eight fourteen, and
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there's like a couple of minutes off of the game
and there's one bullshit like touchdown at the end. Ten's
a lot. I feel like this game could very well
be twenty eight twenty and you know, the Rams just
have a bullshit performance and you know it's in Carolina.
I think the Rams win, but I just feel like
something's telling me that Carolina surprises us and just keeps
(18:59):
it relatively close truth is. I mean, the Rams could
beat them like twenty five, and I know.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Nobody knows, but I would like to see that happen.
I mean, I'm hoping just for the fun after the
fun of it.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Now, I have a teaser bet that I feel like
I want to lock in a lot on because I
feel like this is such a great bet. My forty
nine ers are now I don't know what are people
just hating on my niners? You know they're now five
and a half point underdogs. Well, it's not that they're
hating on them. Injuries.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I know.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
It's the injuries and the conspiracies on the injuries.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I know. I don't know if you saw that. I
know who didn't.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Mendoza didn't see it because it's all over social media,
but it's how they lost to Seattle. It's the fact
that they couldn't really move the bag.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
They looked dead on offense after scoring like forty points
a game for a month, right, remember that they were there.
Punker didn't punt for like a month and a half,
and now all of a sudden, people think they can't
put up points. Eagles defense is good, but they're five
and a half point underdogs. Make the forty nine Ers
an eleven and a half point on underdog. I love
that bet. I think the Niners could straight up win
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this game. So eleven and a half points, I'll take it.
I agree with you, and I think the Jags could
win at home against Buffalo. Now, even if they don't win,
I like the Jags getting more than a touchdown as
an underdog. So lock it in. Niners Jags both big underdogs,
and I'm calling this the I think they could win.
So this is a no brainer to me. So Niners, Jags,
(20:26):
lock it. Load it, as Spot always says, screenshoty, screenshot,
it is your national championship prediction. A little too many
points for the for the Rams, I don't like over
ten points and Niners, Jags, Teaser Town Baby.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Do you know what I'm thinking this whole time is
that Mendoza's probably watching this show because he watches YouTube,
Covino and rich FSR. But he'll never know the new
Doctor Pepper jingle that's all over social media. Doctor Pap Baby,
It's cool and.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Good? Did I say cool? It's good? He'll never know,
He'll never know the fun of this. We'll enjoy your weekend.
And by the way, if you're a football fan, geez
today tomorrow and then Friday, Saturday, Sunday Monday. We have
five days Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Monday of high stakes football.
Stay enjoy who gives me a football boner? I'll be
(21:21):
honest with you. I We'll see you guys later. A
rima there, gee baby, see you an the over promised lame.
Enjoy your foosball
Yo, here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
First episode, first of the year, twenty twenty six, actually
episode one twenty three, though over promised Covino and Rich
from Fox Sports Radio our bonus pod. But we are
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This is the stuff we don't have time for on
(00:28):
our regular show. Grand no doub We're gonna talk some
Bowl games. I got some picks for this weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Then I think are lucks. I don't know how some
of these points spreads are what they are, so we'll
go over our picks. I saw a pretty cool list
on social media things that were totally normal in our
childhood in the eighties or nineties that would be fucking
weird right now.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Well, I'm glad you brought up social media because we
spend a lot of time on it right doing the
ball scroll by the way, I follow us oh Rich
at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio. It's sort
of a way of life. But I do see a
lot of pushback with younger kids. I have a teenage daughter,
and I see them trying to stay away, but they
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got the itch and they go back. But Fernando Mendoza,
he's all the buzz, especially this weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I often wonder if we didn't do what we did,
if we weren't on iHeart and Fox and all the
you know, the things we do, would I be on
social media as much? Do I use this as an
excuse like, well, it's for work, like or would I
just still be like scroll and scroll and scrolling. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Man's killing our brains. Our attention spans is so bad.
It's getting worse, and you have to ask yourself when
you're on and when you're posting, am I sharing or bragging?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Right?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Because you see a lot of bragging but you're still
watching and is gross and you hate yourself afterward. But
this weekend the Chick fil A Peach Bowl number five
Oregon at number one Indiana, Fernando Mendoza is all the buzz.
And he said this week that he has no social media.
And I want to know, in today's world, when you
(02:01):
see a young player who says everything right and seems
so likable, when he says something like this, you say,
right on, man, I like him even more, or do
you think something else, take a listen and keep it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
To my process and keep it to my routine and
not change too much.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
But also not really having social media only I'm linked
you too on my.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Phone right now. It's really helped putting things perspective and
keep all the opinions of in the billion opinions so
on the online reading, Oh, Rando's great, Franto sucks. I'm
listening to what my quarterback goes on which channel? Woodner says, Wow,
things with the quarterbacks in our room? Do you think?
So that's my focus is and that's how I've been
able to play my best football so far.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And first of all, can I get the obvious out
of the way. I do want to applaud the maturity,
for the maturity, wow, daring to be different, putting it down,
having the restraint, the discipline, for being a great role model.
I mean, he's so lovable, this kid. But at the
same time, because what we're learning rich as we mature,
is that two things can be true. Right, So for
(03:00):
as much as I commend them and we I do,
you know, not being on social.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Media when you're the starting quarterback Heisman Trophy winner with
all the options in the world and probably partnerships that
want to do business with you, and they're like, oh,
but you're not on social, Like.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It's not just curiosity, right, and what are people saying?
Who's interested in?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Bigger man?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I do find it more odd being a young person
to not have a social media footprint.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah. I have some buddies that are younger that are
in the dating world, and if they bump into a
girl and they tell a woman, yeah, I'm just not
on social that's like a red flag, Like what do
you mean you're not on social? Like they think you're
hiding something, like you're a serial killer.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I think it's an immediate red flag in today's world
because you don't have to use it right because we
tend to abuse it. But if you don't have a presence,
if you don't have an Instagram, if you don't have
a Facebook page, I understand TikTok maybe too younger, Snapchat
young for some of you, but if you don't have it,
it says that you're trying to hide something in a
(04:05):
weird way. No, Like people that I know that don't
have these things makes me say, hmm, like I have
an ex girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Seriously, who you're running from Yeah. No, but I have
one ex girlfriend. You can't find her online. She murdered someone.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
No image search, no nothing, no social media and it
you know what it says to me what happened.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Never got over you? Yeah, man, I must have. Really
she gained two hundred pounds just sitting there eating ice
cream thinking about Steve Kabin.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
No, but you know what, it says to me that
she's hiding from something, She's running away from the world.
And it might not mean that, but it does scream
that if you think about it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That I find funny. Did you hear what he said?
He does have YouTube, so he does watch videos? Yeah,
he said LinkedIn? What is he applying for a job
after college? Like, hey, raiders, hold your pick, I have
an interview with this accounting firm LinkedIn. You know, it's
ironic out there. Do you have a LinkedIn?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
We're radio Mozo's for a living. I don't have a LinkedIn.
I have everything else. I don't have a LinkedIn, which
is ironic about the whole thing because he has one,
and what's he using it for? I don't know to
connect I guess, but yeah, maybe endorsement deals could go
through that. But he's got agents for that and people
guiding him the right way. You know, what does it
say to you when you meet someone in today's world
(05:25):
if they have no social media?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Does it matter how old they are? Can we break
down the different social media is real quick?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I think we should.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And I do think it matters how old they are,
because I do see a pushback of kids. You know
how kids are like, we don't go to Facebook because
they think that's for old people. They're trying to put
it down a little bit more and live life. They
want more memories, they want more tangible, they want more substance.
They're at least trying because they know that something's not
right with the way we're living.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Now, let's talk about the different socials. Yeah, we could
all agree Facebook that your parents, that's family. You're on
Facebook to see your cousin's doing or your classmate from
high school. Facebook is as the older person in social media,
your aunt Sharon and your aunt Nancy, and so they
could see you post a picture. You post a picture
(06:11):
of your kids on Christmas and your aunt likes it,
and that's Facebook. Now. I mean, maybe I'm showing my age,
but if you're roughly forty Instagram is probably my most used,
but a younger person would be like, see, I'm on TikTok,
but I will go to Instagram first.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Instagram is my first as well. Instagram also killed the bombshell.
Remember in the nineties you'd go to Spencer Gifts and
you look through all the posters of all the hot
chicks like oh yeah, Jenny McCarthy, Carmen le with.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Scroll scroll everywhere. There's no such thing as as like
a bombshell anymore because everyone's hot.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, it's just booty scrolling all day and you know,
sports updates, and that brings me to x Twitter that
I use for sports primarily.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I think a lot of sports consumers use that the most, right,
So x twitter is what I use for sports highlights
and if there's a breaking news story like something you
know in Venezuela or the terrible story in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
If I want to see like an update Twitter for
news or being out here in La is that an earthquake?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Let me say.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Chrissy Teagan says so yes. So I think Twitter for updates.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Instagram's might go to TikTok are parents and aunts and
uncles on Facebook. See is there something like you said Snapchat.
I've never even young care. Yeah, but I have one.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And maybe that's even to keep your kids honest, right,
they know you're there, See, they can't be going to
rogue on it. I think even as a parent, like
you should have these accounts so that you know what
your kids up to.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Younger kids are using Snapchat, that's how they communicate, but
discord in that chord to communicate with Snapchat primarily. So yeah,
I think it says something about who you are, what
you're into. Although this is all positive with Mendoza, not
everyone is him.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Let meres one more Mendoza question. Yeah, he Let's say
he goes on to a national championship number one pick,
the Raiders go after him. He's you know, he's the
young fresh star. Tom Brady chooses him to be a Raider.
Does Mendoza? First of all, is it a situation where
he's looked at the combine and all these things? Like
way impressive because of that? Is that like a big
(08:29):
plus when you could imagine a lot of these kids
are distracted by that? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I think it shows his commitment, right, Like he's so focused,
he's so zoned in that he doesn't need any of
that distraction.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So you heard what he said. I mean, I don't
need to repeat it, but I will. He said, he's
only concerned about what his quarterback coach says, his friends
and family and his coaches. He doesn't care if people
say Mendoza sucks or Mendoz is awesome. He's like, I
don't need that noise. Imagine if you have that maturity
your age. He's twenty seven years old and it has
that maturity.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So he nailed it right, because that's all that truly matters.
But good luck with that, but also a little easier
for him. On a side note, another interesting story you
may have missed about Mendoza. Who's all the buzz this weekend.
Maybe your future raider. He has a lot of family,
so maybe that's all he needs. I saw something insane
about him.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
He says.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
What keeps him grounded and keeps him connected to family
isn't Facebook, clearly right, it's Mendoza family reunions that they
have every four years, and it keeps them connected and
has that sense of family and love. But it's not
the family reunion that maybe you used to have when
(09:38):
you were a kids. I feel like they've gone away
family reunions much like block parties.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
They don't exist anymore. Happen eight hundred Mendozas is Carlos Mendoza,
the mental manager there. Not only that his family got
to the US in like nineteen sixty two or something
like that, and there's eight hundred mendozas that he's related to.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yo. In my family, I'm one of five kids, right,
I have to color code, yo. My parents.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
My parents are like shocked if they could get all
of their kids at the house at the same time.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Now, I know, I know, it's a sad reality. I
live in Los Angeles, my brothers in Maryland, my sisters
in New York. Would you believe we've been together with
our kids, all three siblings in a room with my
two kids, my brother's two kids, and my sister's daughter,
the five grand the five my mom's five grandkids. Yeah,
one time, one time. On the top of this guy's
got eight hundred people. Imagine being able one. You know,
(10:33):
it's a true testament to who he is and why
he is man. He's got a lot of love and
a lot of support, and that's insane, dude. My mom
cries and wants to take pictures if all her kids
we were just there for Thanksgiving, that was like the
first time in ten years. Mightbe be the last time.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
We were all together. Imagine getting eight hundred family members together.
That's insane. So hey, if you didn't like them a lot,
you probably like them even more now.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Good luck to Mendoz. I'll give you my college picks
out of course, NFL Wildcard in a second. But you
brought up some retro stuff there. You said back in
the day, family reunions, block parties. You know, my wife
was trying to see if the neighbors around here it's
much old neighbors. She's like, do you think they'd want
to do a block party? Like that was fun in
the eighties and nineties. But I don't know if block
parties are a thing anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Dude, when you were a kid, party, yeah, it was
like the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, I think neighbors now used to know your neighbors.
Which brought up an interesting thing. I saw a list
on social media taking a social media too. It was
things that were perfectly normal in the eighties and nineties.
You know, said about this random Mendoza will never see it.
You'll never know this list. I'll never know this list.
Things that were normal when we were on our come up,
when you were a little boy in the eighties and nineties,
(11:44):
that if you did this stuff now, your kids would
be like what, dad, Like, what did you do? Let
me name a couple just for the hell of it.
It's not even that long ago. But the idea of
going to a restaurant and being like, yeah, non smoking, please,
oh my, it's a smoking sex allowed to think like
literally just twenty feet away. It's like you could smoke there,
(12:05):
but here you can't smoke. Like the idea that you
were at a restaurant in half the place people had
SIGs lit.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I mean even on airplanes people were allowed to smoke. Right,
if you want to go back even further, But yeah,
that's so weird going back to the eighties and nineties.
But you know what, you know what makes me think
of like our early party days when I met you. Yeah,
we'd be partying and hoboken and people will be smoking
at the bar and that's just how it was. Remember
how your clothes would smell when you'd get home.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I remember girls you would date would be mad because
their hair would stall. Where we grew up New Jersey,
you were allowed to smoke at bars, but then New
York put the kaibosh on that. So I remember at
one point, if you went to a bar in New
York City you were good Jersey. You would come home
smell like an ashtrak dude smoking.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Sections You're so right about that, just like right behind you,
some guy was smoking, but you were in the non smoking.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Our buddy, comedian Sebastian Menescalco talks about this, but the
idea of dropping by someone's house, Like you remember your parents,
like the door, would you know, a little knock on
the door, it'd be like your mom or dad's friends
and then just coming by to say I was in
the neighborhood, just saying hi. Like the idea of a stop.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
My mom would bust out the entemens, you know how
it goes. And nowadays, yeah, you're.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Like, who the hell is that. I tried to explain
this to my kids the other day. Another thing on
this list the idea of a landline a home way.
If you get that knock, you assume it's a delivery service. Yeah,
it's Amazon, that today's way, and then they take a
picture and walk away. Yeah, that's it. My kids couldn't
believe that there was, you know, no smartphones kids. There
was a landline and when it rang, you said hello
(13:36):
inquisitively because you didn't know who it was, like hello,
because it could be Grandma, it could be a telemarketer,
it could be your dad calling from work. I am
running late, like you didn't.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Know, they'll id yeah, the mystery of the call. So again,
this is normal in the nineties. Weird now.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah. The idea of you riding bikes around town, maybe
going to the mall with your friends or girlfriends, going
out somewhere.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I think the idea of even meeting up with your friends,
like how did you My daughter always asks me, how
did you find them?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I'm like, yeah, you know, I even say that I
have a meeting spot I had. I had one of
my buddies who has a kid that's in college, said,
how did you guys communicate? And I said, try erase
sports on your door? Oh in college?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah. But the idea though, trying to tell your young
kids that, yeah, we were gone all day and guess what,
our mom and dad didn't know where we were, Like
your daughter's sixteen, Yeah, and you like you were doing
that at twelve tracker on the phone. Yeah, you know,
they are every minute of the day. I imagine you
were way younger than her and you just left in
(14:40):
the morning and you're like, ya, right, mom will be
home for dinner. You played with football, went to the park.
You don't she didn't know where you were.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Now, I didn't see this list, but I got one,
Like I'll bring this up every once in a while.
I'll mention how like we cared about rollover minutes and
nights and weekends.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And the me needs.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
You know, when we used our phones, and how we
would shut them off off to save the battery. We
didn't use our cell phones all day and night. You
would shut it off again even before that calling card
is you're roughly forty ish, you remember the days of
counting nights and weekends like there were there were cell
phone plans, and you'd be like, all right, four hundred
any time minutes plus three nights and weekends. That sounds good,
(15:19):
and you'd like, why do I need more minutes? Like
that ship was wild?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Two more? How about this one? The idea of not
texting the girl you have a crush on or hitting
her up writing a note, folding it like a little
football and handing it to her in school and waiting
to see if she read it and wrote you back.
And I never knew how to fold it. There, handing
your crush a note. Yeah, you think your daughter is
(15:45):
handing notes to her little pals? No, the texting all
day long? Yeah, not at all.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You know, is it weird that I still have all
those notes just to boost my ego?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I have them all.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I have some of them to tell me how great
I am, have crates of them in the I'll give
you one more. My parents added, this is a silly one,
but how about we watch a show that we're obsessed with?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Right, Like, you'll watch it. You'll get a fresh new
show on Netflix or Hulu or HBO Max. And sometimes
you're like, oh, man, like eight episodes. When we were kids,
all shows we're like twenty five episodes a season. And
now where we get like like Chad Powers, which I loved,
I was telling you the day on Hulu six episodes.
(16:27):
You just want us to beast in me eight this episode?
Like we you know, we forget that when we were kids,
the quality probably sucked, but there was like twenty five episodes.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Normal in the nineties. Now you could add to the list.
By the way, if you missed the show, you just
missed it too. That was normal in the nineties. You know,
you missed a big plot line. Sucks, hey, unless you
hit the plane record. All right, So normally nineties weird.
Now hit us up at COCAA Fox Sports Radio when.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Your parents would set the VCR to tape something, and
it really was a crapshoot because you're like, I don't
know if it's gonna work. Hey, we're going out. We're
going out to uh, you know, your brother has a
baseball game, so we get a tape. Alf. I hope
it works. Just if you missed it, you missed it.
That's all right. Let's get into this. Your picks for
the week we talked about Carlos Mendoz. Let's talk about
college football. First. Listen, I'm not gonna bullshit yet. I'm
(17:17):
not the biggest college guy, but I have been watching
a little more than usual this season, especially the exciting
playoffs we've been watching. I hate to say this because
our our buddy, super agent Sewan Wyman's an Ole miss fan.
But our buddy Michael Yo hit me up, he's a
Miami guy. Yeah, I think Miami's got momentum, gaining momentum,
and how do you bet against Carlos Mendoza. Both games
(17:37):
are like three, three and a half points on the SPREADDA,
I'm going money line. I'm going Miami Indiana, and I
think that'll be your national championship in two weeks. I
really do. I think Indiana is a team of freaking
destiny and Miami at this stage looks unbeatable, So I
think this is going to line up to be an
amazing national championship. So in I'm just going moneyline parlay
(18:02):
Miami Indiana. That could be wrong, but I feel like
that's what my gut's telling me.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Okay, now, and you got quite the gun after all
that boozing and schmoozing in Vegas this week, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Let's go to the NFL Wildcard weekend. Now, the Panthers.
I'm not saying this because I'm an NFC West guy
and a Niners fan, and I'm not saying the Rams
are gonna lose. But as my little straight BT says here,
I mean over ten's a lot of points. Over ten
means if the Rams are winning twenty eight fourteen, and
(18:37):
there's like a couple of minutes off of the game
and there's one bullshit like touchdown at the end. Ten's
a lot. I feel like this game could very well
be twenty eight twenty and you know, the Rams just
have a bullshit performance and you know it's in Carolina.
I think the Rams win, but I just feel like
something's telling me that Carolina surprises us and just keeps
(18:59):
it relatively close truth is. I mean, the Rams could
beat them like twenty five, and I know.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Nobody knows, but I would like to see that happen.
I mean, I'm hoping just for the fun after the
fun of it.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Now, I have a teaser bet that I feel like
I want to lock in a lot on because I
feel like this is such a great bet. My forty
nine ers are now I don't know what are people
just hating on my niners? You know they're now five
and a half point underdogs. Well, it's not that they're
hating on them. Injuries.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I know.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
It's the injuries and the conspiracies on the injuries.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I know. I don't know if you saw that. I
know who didn't.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Mendoza didn't see it because it's all over social media,
but it's how they lost to Seattle. It's the fact
that they couldn't really move the bag.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
They looked dead on offense after scoring like forty points
a game for a month, right, remember that they were there.
Punker didn't punt for like a month and a half,
and now all of a sudden, people think they can't
put up points. Eagles defense is good, but they're five
and a half point underdogs. Make the forty nine Ers
an eleven and a half point on underdog. I love
that bet. I think the Niners could straight up win
(20:03):
this game. So eleven and a half points, I'll take it.
I agree with you, and I think the Jags could
win at home against Buffalo. Now, even if they don't win,
I like the Jags getting more than a touchdown as
an underdog. So lock it in. Niners Jags both big underdogs,
and I'm calling this the I think they could win.
So this is a no brainer to me. So Niners, Jags,
(20:26):
lock it. Load it, as Spot always says, screenshoty, screenshot,
it is your national championship prediction. A little too many
points for the for the Rams, I don't like over
ten points and Niners, Jags, Teaser Town Baby.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Do you know what I'm thinking this whole time is
that Mendoza's probably watching this show because he watches YouTube,
Covino and rich FSR. But he'll never know the new
Doctor Pepper jingle that's all over social media. Doctor Pap Baby,
It's cool and.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Good? Did I say cool? It's good? He'll never know,
He'll never know the fun of this. We'll enjoy your weekend.
And by the way, if you're a football fan, geez
today tomorrow and then Friday, Saturday, Sunday Monday. We have
five days Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Monday of high stakes football.
Stay enjoy who gives me a football boner? I'll be
(21:21):
honest with you. I We'll see you guys later. A
rima there, gee baby, see you an the over promised lame.
Enjoy your foosball
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