The Earned 5-Star Podcast: A Notre Dame Podcast

Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football News and Notes 8/24 Hello. We heard the complaint. This is something new. The projected offensive and defensive starters for Notre Dame against the Florida State Seminoles. The odds. I promise this will be worth your 10-15 minutes (at least in a few weeks). While this is attached to the OFD Podcast, please reserve your Apple Podcast ratings for the actual OFD Pod...

Joshua and Brendan cracked open a cold bottle of podcast machine to talk about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and college football as a whole. Jude was unavailable to be with us in voice, but we were told he was with us in mixed spirits - so it's all good vibes. In this episode: Fall is in the air and you can definitely smell it. Some fall camp musings. The AP Poll is out and boy oh boy do we have...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back on the pod machine to talk about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Our recording session comes at an awkward time seeing as how we are recording this the night before the first fully open practice to the media - but here we are. In this episode: We found a new enemy and it comes from a familiar place in the Big 10. Yes... we're talking about New Michigan, the Wiscon...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back on the pod machine to talk about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, their recruiting efforts, and stuff on and off the football field. In this episode: The season of "Fall" begins on August 1 according to my wife, so that's what we're going with. REVIEWS! Somehow we rope ourselves into some "The Shirt" discussion. We bring Irish Illustrated's Tom Loy onto the show. L...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back on the pod machine and are ready to talk about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and their place in college football. In this episode: REVIEWS! The pizza takes are extremely on brand. The Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners are just being the most college football that they can be. National writers and their gaslighting of the situation. A minimalists hope for confe...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan set sail aboard the S.S. No Pasta Scissors to podcast island to talk about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish - and other things of course. In this episode: Brendan is officially the music sensei now. REVIEWS! Why does there seem to be very little chatter about the upcoming season for Notre Dame among the national media? Debating the merits of THIS podcast requesting interview...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back on the pod machine to talk about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program, and now that it is the middle of July, the discussion gets deeper and deeper. In this episode: Naked and afraid. REVIEWS! A slight counterpoint to Frank and Greg about Marcus Freeman. It's prop bet time and Joshua takes the high road about being right about Javon McKinley. Who is the...

Jude and Brendan ditched Joshua this week to travel to distant lands - but no matter. The OFD Roster is deep, and Matt Greene was plugged into the podcast machine this week to talk about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and college sports in general. In this episode: Notre Dame's recruiting effort in the 2022 and 2023 class - but we ain't touching 2024 right now because we aren't aliens. The Top 5 na...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back together after a couple of weeks of our very own Jay Leno helping us out (yes, we're talking about Greg). It's still June, and we have some time to kill before we start hammering away at the 2021 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football season with every ounce of our souls - so this episode is a mixed bag of something. In this episode: REVIEWS! Would you take 10-2 this...

Joshua and Brendan are joined by Greg in place of Jude this week - so basically Greg is Jay Leno. There's a lot to talk about with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program, but so much of it is like sifting through sand because there aren't enough definitive answers... and that's where we come in. In this episode: We get rowdy about the college football playoff and Notre Dame's place in it a...

Brendan and Jude are Joshless this week, but best friend of the pod Greg Flammang (@greg2126) from UHND.com was able to take time out of his busy LA lifestyle to come on the show and talk about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish - and much more. In this episode: There was a t-shirt twist with The Good Brand, Homefield. Some might say it was SHIRT SHENANIGANS! Greg is here... so of course we're talking...

Joshua sat down for an Off The Rails episode 24 hours after the playoff news surfaced. The cat is out of the bag and the new college football playoff model that includes 12 teams is all but assured moving forward. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish will certainly be included in this new format, but for the first time, their access is not on the same level as the other blue blood programs. So let's talk...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan break out the pod machine for our special time with all of you to talk about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program. In this episode: Can you run 21 MPH? Showing Homefield a little more love. REVIEWS! An impromptu pizza debate leaves Jude scarred and broken. The Jarrett Patterson situation. Doing what's best for the player - what's that? The possibility of a 12 te...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan have traveled back from the year 2029 to bring you great knowledge about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program (and more!). In this episode: Happy Tim Brando Day! Beautiful REVIEWS with poetry and girlfriend approval. Schedule talk - like playing the Michigan Wolverines just 8 more times. We discuss Bill Connelly's 7-5 projection for Notre Dame via the SP+ formul...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back in the podcast machine to best college football podcast about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. In this episode: Welcome all you truth warriors. Roofing Wars. Stretching out towards the end of COVID. Unnatural praise for Nick Saban. HOMEFIELD APPAREL IS NOW AN OFFICIAL SPONSOR OF ONE FOOT DOWN AND THE OFD PODCAST... and we talk at great length about this. So... Jack...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back in the podcast machine to talk about a couple of things concerning the Notre Dame Fighting Irish - so it shouldn't take too long. In this episode: The Little League experience REVIEWS! Pick one song. ONE. We approach the topic of normalization. What should Notre Dame fans start to normalize? The "normal" discussion goes off into about 20 different branches, but t...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back again to talk about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. There's still a fair amount of news rolling in that must be discussed before we start breaking out some themed pods, so in this episode... We get right into Dillan Gibbons and his decision to transfer to Florida State. REVIEWS! The Jordan Johnson situation. The wide receiver room and what we don't know won't kill...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan put a bow on what was an amazingly busy weekend in the world of sports - and for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program in particular. In this episode: Critiquing the Peacock. The future of Notre Dame football broadcasts - like is this thing happening on USA ever again? Was the Blue-Gold game entertaining? The future at quarterback with Jack Coan. Another future a...

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish had a great day 2 of the NFL Draft with 5 players selected in the first 100 picks overall. They also produced an insane stat via their offensive linemen - so let's talk about it for a minute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A quick (and short) reaction to the first round of the NFL Draft. A first round that did NOT have Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah selected - or Liam Eichenberg for that matter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan storm the podcast beach with their totally excellent microphone surfboards, for some quality time - to talk to you about the big weekend coming up for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. In this episode: Battling NFL people about college players. The list guy must be stopped. The greatness of Eastern Michigan's uniforms. Trashing mock drafts because that's what you do with gar...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are here to defend the Island of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish against relentless attack. More importantly - and much more true - we are here to answer all of the questions in our mailbag. In this episode: Jude ate a cookie. SHOTS! SHOTS!! SHOTS!!! The highness of Kyle Hamilton. Ultimate Notre Dame Fighter... coaches edition. Surprises for 2021. Paint colors. Notre Dame q...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back on the pod machine to give you an episode worthy of a long day mowing the yard as a fan of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. In this episode... Greetings The Notre Dame practice clips. A very heavy talk about MTV's Unplugged. Some random conversation about spring football. Offensive line talk. The weakness of Steve Sarkisian. ESPN's first FPI rankings are out and we...

Joshua and Brendan sat down on a wonderful spring night to talk about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and since Jude was unavailable, we brought our good friend Greg Flammang back onto the show (@greg2126). In this episode: The true origin story of vanilla and DAMMIT... go figure. REVIEWS! Would the 2012 Notre Dame team have beaten the 2021 Ohio State Buckeyes? This ain't Brady Quinn hate. John Hug...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan turned the pod machine back on and they are determined to save your soul from normal spring football coverage of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. In this episode... We legit talk about weather and hiking because we are old ass dads. Notre Dame has sent us 6 whole minutes of practice footage and we're here to talk about it. The most underrated - and least talked about - part...