The Earned 5-Star Podcast: A Notre Dame Podcast

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan ducked and weaved their way to the pod machine and summoned all of the demons of hell to talk about Notre Dame's loss to NIU, and the aftermath. In this episode: HELLO! The tragedy of unneeded sequels - movies, coaching, or otherwise. The many problems of Marcus Freeman. There's a time machine game we can play with Marcus Freeman, and not only could this have happened - i...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan crack open an ice cold bottle of pod to bring you their picks and predictions. Besides Notre Dame VS NIU, the guys breakdown the following games: Michigan VS Texas Georgia Tech VS Syracuse Iowa VS Iowa State NC State VS Tennessee Nebraska VS Colorado Arkansas VS Oklahoma State Pitt VS Cincinnati Kansas VS Illinois Please RATE and REVIEW! All reviews left on Apple Podcasts...

In an effort to give you more "bite size" content from the E5 Podcast, we are separating the Earned 5-Star Top 20 from the main show. Joshua, Jude, Brendan, and Greg break down their votes to give you OUR Top 20 in a world of faulty polls. Head over to One Foot Down for more. Please RATE and REVIEW! All reviews left on Apple Podcasts will be read on the next earned 5-Star Podcast. Go Irish! Learn...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan fire up the pod machine to talk about how right they were about Notre Dame Football - and how they were wrong about nothing (or something like that). In this episode: HELLO! Something is quite fishy in the Village of Hicksville. Taking out poles and moving decades of history. CALL THE FRIGGIN MAYOR! REVIEWS! Infamy for The Athletic on October 4, 2020. Jude is outraged abo...

On this Off The Rails episode on the Earned 5-Star Podcast, Joshua wants to talk a little bit about embracing our favorite Notre Dame Football subject... villainy. There are a lot of predictions rolling in about Notre Dame's game against the Texas A&M Aggies, and most of them are less than flattering. How should you deal with them? How worried should we be about Kyle Field? Please RATE and REVIEW!...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are ready to start the Notre Dame football season, and ready to end being gaslit over the season-opener against the Texas A&M Aggies. In this episode: HELLO! Corn sweat and living in a hell world. The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets... more like Waking GianT. Northwestern's fantastic stadium. We welcome Greg Flammang from Irish Sport Daily to the show (follow Greg on Twitter...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan opened up the Notre Dame Football pod machine and only the most magical of conversations came forth. In this episode: HELLO! Iron Eagle VS Top Gun. Greg hates the troops. Diving right into everyone's questions for the Q&A. Brendan is completely gaslit over conversations about the Texas A&M Aggies. Recasting Knute Rockne All-American. We talk about Duece Knight a bit. What...

In this Off The Rails episode, Joshua revisits a conspiracy theory that was discussed just a few weeks ago. There are some rankings that just came out that help tell the story, and he wants to talk about it. 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

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan took a look at the date and sprinted to the podcast machine as the Notre Dame football season rapidly accelerates toward game one. In this episode: HELLO! Pretty sure medical science reached its peak during the Dark Ages. There is ALWAYS a side hustle. Brain damage is a thing. Drafting OUR boys for the season. The guys get cute because THOSE are the rules. The Deuce Knigh...

Joshua and Brendan push little league baseball to the side to continue to prep for the 2024 Notre Dame Football season. In this episode: HELLO! ARE YOU READY FOR THE RPO BUDDY? More Spanish. If you can play a football game at Wake Forest, you can play a game at West Point. You can't live the conspiracy theory. Let's talk about Tosh Baker and the season-ending injury to Charles Jagusah... are we sc...

On this Off The Rails episode, Joshua brings his daughter Olivia onto the show to talk about her first Notre Dame football game - which was a pretty good one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back inside the pod machine to kickoff the start of Notre Dame football's fall camp. Per tradition, the boys have a long list of prop bets to talk about and much more. In this episode: HELLO! A new frozen pizza ranking? The guys want to talk about Lincoln Riley's coawrdice. REVIEWS! Reddit has entered the chat. 6 degrees of Sheboygan. Uniform talk and putting the Sham...

The triumverate is still on break this week, but Joshua caught wind of some hellishly weak comments from USC head coach Lincoln Riley about the possible future of the Trojan's rivalry game with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. It's Big 10 media days, and the L.A. coaches are making a bit of an impression. While one can't get words to come out of his mouth, there's another that gave the weakest words...

It's a busy week for the fellas, but Joshua hit record on the podcast machine to ask a simple (but seemingly complicated) question about the Notre Dame Football season. How do you plan on doing Fighting Irish Football this college football season? Are you going to Notre Dame Stadium for a game or two? What are your tailgate plans? What away games are you eying? What's left on that honey-do list? W...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan have crawled out of the swamp ass humidity of the Midwest and into the S.S. Earned 5-Star to talk a little Notre Dame football - which is kind of the point here. In this episode: HELLO! Giant kaboom on the toilet and the misery of a house still standing. Skibidi sigma. Preparing ourselves for too much video game discussion. The Home Run Derby. Ranking Notre Dame's transfe...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back from an extended summer break to dive into some Notre Dame football news. Seeing as how there is a little bit of a shortage in that department we might have other things to talk about as well. In this episode: HELLO! We are diving right into our old shorts. Partners again. REVIEWS! The multiple reviews kind of work like a mailbag this week which we're very gratef...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back to start putting the finishing touches on the end of the "no news" season for Notre Dame football. In this episode: HELLO! Heat dome. Prince Victor makes an appearance to justify a hatred for "The Sandlot." Frozen piss discs. REVIEWS! Owning a jersey number. Medical scholarships. Deuce Knight and the spectrum of "is he really going to end up at Notre Dame?" The w...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan have fulfilled their Father's Day duties and are ready to rip open a fresh pouch of Notre Dame Football talk - if they can find something to sink their teeth in. In this episode... HELLO! The absolute wreckage of the Star Wars franchise is hard to accept and it might be over. The passing of a Notre Dame legend. If you like 90s one hit wonders, Brendan and Jude do their be...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan realize that we're all here for Notre Dame Football and we try to make that happen this week. I didn't have time to bulletpoint the juicy stuff, but there is fun to be had by everyone. 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

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back together to do their best Jack LaLanne impersonation to squeeze the juice out of Notre Dame Football. We are well aware that this offseason has been light as far as pod episodes go... but we're not sorry. It is what it is and we'll have a fun summer together (I promise). In this episode: HELLO! A midwestern shorts opinion. Ironing for fun. Bellmen and restroom at...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back from a multi-week hiatus to talk about Notre Dame football (maybe mostly) and stuff. In this episode: HELLO! Check your rearview mirror at Meijer. Post COVID update. Is Notre Dame paying off photo services to bury bad pics? REVIEWS! Old clothes. Dealing with transfer quarterbacks and transfer kickers. Necklaces - candy, pooka, and otherwise. Hairstyles for the ti...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan return to the podcast holodeck to talk about Notre Dame's performance in the NFL Draft (and then some). In this episode: Hello! Holy water connect. The Iowa Hawkeyes are back on the map. REVIEWS! The holodeck is coming to Notre Dame, so what would we do? The dangerous life of Frank Leahy. Brendan and Joshua battle Jude over how the butterfly effect works in regards to OJ...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan crack open a bottle of podcast magic afer an eventful weekend of Notre Dame Football. In this episode: HELLO! Jumping right into the debate about this year's version of THE SHIRT and the opinions were as strong as the Gildan Heavyweight Cotton that you love. We try to jump into talk about the Blue-Gold game but Jude comes in hot taking out surface level targets. Peacockin...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back together again to talk about Notre Dame football and much more - just as it should be - in a quality dining establishment. In this episode: Hello! Joshua makes a bid to become the next General Secretary of the U.S.S.R. Notre Dame had an open scrimmage and the boys have a little something to say about it all. The CJ Carr hype train is running off of whatever the h...

Joshua and Jude didn't mulch their yards so THEY were available to talk about Notre Dame Football on this day of days -- whereas Brendan is all mulched out (and not in the path of totality for the solar eclipse). In this episode: HELLO! Small talk and its relationship with the weather. Fall love letter. The amount of Notre Dame Football news out there is light - like very light. Borat's divorce. A...