Old Love and the Cat With a Mustache | No Suck Saturday #056

The A.M. Update

Aaron McIntire

News, Daily News, Politics

4.9 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Heisman winner and national champ Fernando Mendoza's father never stood to cheer during the big game, staying seated to support his wife with multiple sclerosis who couldn't stand—capturing quiet, profound love amid the spotlight. A Virginia couple who eloped 70 years ago finally renewed their vows at ages 91 and 90, surrounded by family for the wedding they'd always dreamed of. Plus, an honest recap of a recent smoke detector failure that derailed an early-rising streak, a four-year missing cat reunion, everyday heroes lifting a crashed medical helicopter to save lives, and the surprising dominance of religion-focused podcasts in a massive English-language data set.

No Suck Saturday, Fernando Mendoza family, multiple sclerosis support, 70-year vow renewal, smoke detector mishap, missing cat reunion Tinsel, helicopter crash heroes, religion podcasts data, CS Lewis Mere Christianity Hope, good news roundup

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to No Sucks Saturday on the AOMO Meat.
0:14.0	Greetings and welcome to another edition of No Sucks Saturday.
0:17.3	It's where the suck of the news cycle hopefully goes to die.
0:21.6	I'm Aaron McIntyre,
0:31.0	joined as always by my beautiful Bella. How are you doing? Good? That good? I thought there was more.
0:38.2	Sorry. No. How are you doing? Just open-ended question. I did have a weird facial expression.
0:38.9	You did.
0:41.1	Well, I don't know if I had a weird facial expression.
0:42.2	My face felt weird.
0:44.7	It did look a little, a little funky.
0:45.6	A little funky.
0:46.8	We've got five stories.
0:53.5	We think objectively do not suck as well as a continuation of our Bible study, our book study in mere Christianity. At first, as I said,
0:57.5	five stories. We think objectively do not suck. Now, there are about 30 million people who
1:03.1	tuned in the other night. So if you're one of the few who maybe doesn't know this story,
1:08.5	Heisman winning and National Championship MVP, Fernando Mendoza, has a mom who has been
1:15.7	uber supportive of him, goes to most every one of his games, and his mom has multiple
1:22.9	sclerosis.
1:24.5	Now, the cameras on ABC caught his mom and dad on multiple occasions during big moments when Mendoza made big plays, including that incredible run on fourth down, where he had to break several tackles, keep his balance, and then dive towards the end zone.
1:42.4	The cameras pan to his parents, and his dad stayed sitting towards the end zone. The cameras panned to his parents and his dad
1:45.7	stayed sitting down the entire time.
1:48.0	And one of his little brother's friends miced up there. What the cameras saw and saw over and over
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Aaron McIntire, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Aaron McIntire and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.