Joshua jumps in an escape pod from the Earned 5-Star mothership to have a quiet chat about Notre Dame Football and the transfer portal. In this episode: The new normal. The wide receiver situation. The futility of breaking news and people doing their worst Pete Thamel impersonation. Explanations that most people won't like. A different way to look at the portal. Terrible comments are terrible comments. And plenty of other quick (and not so quick) thoughts mixed in throughout the show. It was only supposed to be 20 minutes... Please RATE and REVIEW! All reviews left on Apple Podcasts will be ..read more

Brendan and Jude hotwire the pod machine to talk about the end of the Notre Dame Football season. There are no show notes today, but even without Joshua you still get over 2 hours of fantastic podding. You're just going to have to listen carefully this time around. Please RATE and REVIEW! All reviews left on Apple Podcasts will be read on the next Earned 5-Star Podcast. Go Irish! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ..read more

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan stiff-armed another cozy fall evening with their families to talk about Notre Dame's recent win over the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, and to preview the final regular season game for the Irish - the Stanford Cardinal. In this episode: HELLO! Joshua is late to a funeral. Let's talk about the Michigan Wolverines for a while because we should never ease up on hammering them for being a bunch of cheaters. True villain things and a certain level of respect. Federal prison or what? Notre Dame blew out Wake Forest and we're here to talk about like five plays of the game. The ..read more

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back to preview Senior Day for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish as they take on ACC foe, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. In this episode: Hello. We appreciate hearing back from you. Candy war victory. Let's talk about hipsters. Attractive actresses. The pac12 Network and the joy of Periscope. Stop shaving your facial hair unless you really want to break your covenant with god. Uniform talk... SOCK TALK. The dream is alive for Joshua's Iowa Hawkeyes. Previewing the Demon Deacons and Brendan does the thing. The Earned 5-Star Top 20. Mobster movies. The terribleness of ..read more

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are here to recap the bye week we just had for Notre Dame Football. This was supposed to be a massive Q&A episode, but Joshua absolutely dropped the ball - so sorry about that. In this episode: HELLO! Just a tip if you live in the Fort Wayne area - or ever have a date night with the wife in any normal American city. Thanksgiving pregaming. The Oxford comma. The Michigan Wolverines snuggle right up to their villain role and Jude is here for it. The dream is still alive for the Iowa Hawkeyes. James Franklin is trash and the Penn State Nittany Lions continue to be a ..read more

Joshua and Brendan team up to pod about Notre Dame's loss to the Clemson Tigers and the overall aftermath of that harsh reality. Jude lucks out by being off for the week. In this episode: HELLO! Ohio gets on the level of Michigan and New York. REVIEWS! Fighting the weight of expectations. How bad is it really? Kentucky geography. The disappointment of the Sam Hartman experience. Things that happened in the loss to Clemson. Things that didn't happen in the loss to Clemson. Offensive woes. Less field goals and more field balls. Weekly game picks and Joshua's slide. There are some pretty funky l ..read more

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are well rested after Notre Dame's cheeseburger bye week (part 1) and the 58-7 stomping of Pat Narduzzi and the Pittsburgh Panthers. Next up for the Irish is Dabo Swinney and the Clemson Tigers, and we're here to talk about it (among other things). In this episode: HELLO! Should Joshua join a cult? REVIEWS! We go in about the Michigan Wolverines and their CheatyMcCheatypants asses. Explaining why we didn't really review the win over Pitt. Marcus Freeman leaving starters in the game a wee bit too long? The race for the Doak Walker Award. More Michigan madness. Spooky ..read more

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are finally (mostly) recovered after Notre Dame's 48-20 win over Southern Cal. The pod machine is up and running and they're here to party. In this episode (and in no particular order): HELLO! Napoleon and dealing with flippant Russia. The hours leading up to the game and the gift of Buffalo Trace. Joshua drives half-naked. REVIEWS! The postgame craziness, and the immortalization of Sam Hartman. Finding the visitor's tunnel. Meet me at the 50. The game was over when.... Xavier Watts had an all-time banger. Al Golden is really good at his job. The destruction of Caleb ..read more

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan bust out of the insane asylum and run directly to the first pod machine they can find to talk about Notre Dame's horrific performance against the Louisville Cardinals and to preview the Battle of the Jeweled Shillelagh against the USC Trojans... which is to say that the trio took a moment but they're here now. In this episode: HELLO! Fun facts to start your day. An amazing major league baseball conversation. Was the Louisville game more like Miami in 2017 or Michigan in 2019? Either way... it ain't good. Louisville was UP for this game. Notre Dame and the Worf Effect ..read more

Joshua and Jude had to walk to the podcast machine without Brendan this week to discuss Notre Dame's 21-14 win over the Duke Blue Devils down inside Wallace Wade Stadium. In this episode: HELLO! Jude and the Roman Empire. We're fired up and start talking about the game right away. REVIEWS! Green jersey jinx or nah? Billy Joel hatred. Going through the Duke game. Howard Cross the game wrecker. Philip Riley... is he really that good? Joshua is fully convinced that the fix is in and the ACC is conspiring against Notre Dame. Marcus Freeman's decision to play for the field goal and Audric Estime t ..read more