The Earned 5-Star Podcast: A Notre Dame Podcast

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan pull-start another E5S podcast to talk about the most important issues concerning Notre Dame Football after 22 days of summer. In this episode: Hello! The fresco mural. Little League updates. REVIEWS! The Harry Potter controversy continues. Snitches get stitches (and Joshua ain't watching). Sub movie monkey paw. Nike VS Under Armour and the inevitability of Notre Dame's a...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back for a summer podcast about Notre Dame Football that was two minutes in the making - but has lived for decades in our hearts. In this episode: Hotels, weddings, and cheeseburgers in hell. Friends in low places and hills that Brendan dies on. Things we don't watch. A fairly long-winded discussion about Notre Dame football recruiting in the new world of college foot...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan flip open the podcast machine after a week off, and a massive amount of Notre Dame news gushing through the pipeline. In this episode: HELLO! Joshua's great pizza problem and a plea for sponsorship. REVIEWS! That's DOCTOR Vowles to you buddy. Jack Swarbrick is on his way out as the Notre Dame athletic director. Swarbrick's legacy at Notre Dame. A well-dressed Italian to t...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back like Voltron to open up the Pod Machine of Destiny to talk about our beloved Notre Dame Football program (and other things). In this episode: HELLO! Red Bull's roster is elite. Brendan threatens Joshua'a heirs with The Shirt. Little League update and revenge of the tie. REVIEWS! Defending against the evils of Olive Garden. All of the poop talk anyone could ever w...

Jude and Brendan are left to their own devices to pod about Notre Dame football, as Joshua was inconsolable after a Little League highway robbery that resulted in a tie due to cheating (rough night y'all). In this episode: Conference expansion for college football. Conference realignment for college football. NLRB Notre Dame's recruiting as it pertains to the NFL Draft. Marcus Freeman as a recruit...

Joshua and Brendan crack open the podcast dispenser for what is almost a type of emergency episode following some interesting Notre Dame Football news items from the day. In this episode: HELLO! A neighbor's betrayal. Joshua isn't stopping with cargo shorts on the "take back" campaign, but does he go too far? REVIEWS! A brief insider tale from the BK recruiting machine. Regionalized position talen...

Joshua welcomes Pittsburgh Panthers beat writer, Amanda Godsey, to the podcast to cover a wide variety of topics around the wonderful world of college football. Some of the things we discussed: Pitt pitting. The ACC and Pitt's place. Pat Narduzzi and his Notre Dame feelings. It's a Big East kind of a year. Super conference super future. Phil Jurkovec and his social media mastery. Tyler Palko. And...

In an attempt to help make our Notre Dame listeners smarter about college football, the Earned 5-Star Podcast is going forward with an offseason plan to interview some of our favorite college football writers and personalities around the country. It's a plan so brilliant, I really can't believe other podcasters don't have these things called "guests" on their own shows. First up is the Shutdown Fu...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan have just one more hurdle to jump before we can finish the 2022 Notre Dame Football cycle - and that's this podcast following the NFL Draft. In this episode: HELLO! An earthquake just hit. Home Run Inn inventory. REVIEWS! Jude is gonna get back to us with a real answer. Transfer Portal madness. Dealing with the loss of Logan Diggs. Notre Dame's need in the portal before f...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are coming in like an iced latte for a venti podcast after a big weekend performance by the Notre Dame football program in the annual Blue-Gold Game - we're totally serious. In this episode: HELLO! A couple of life stories from Joshua coming straight out of Hicksville. REVIEWS! Home Run Inn pizza FOREVER. We promise more guests. The spring game happened, and people are oo...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are running wild with spring fever and can't wait to provide the best damn preview pod for Notre Dame's annual Blue-Gold game that you've ever heard. In this episode: HELLO! Swimming in Lake Michigan while almost in Canada. REVIEWS! A fun explanation of how we earned that valuable fifth star. A Michigan Wolverines civil war is fun and all... and we certainly have our top...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan kick open the Pandora's box of podcast machines to talk about what we know when it comes to Notre Dame football - which certainly doesn't have much to do with spring ball due to the lack of info. Cool. In this episode: Hello! Easter Candy VS other candy. Pierogi Pop. REVIEWS! An amendment was made. Still not speaking Spanish. We continue our villain series with a special...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back to podcast like blood-thirsty pod warriors about Notre Dame football (and a little more). This week we are joined by our good friend, Greg Flammang (@greg2126) from ISD's Hit and Hustle podcast/show. In this episode: HELLO! Four adjectives to use for Tommy Rees and automatic swaggy. A shorts beef that might be regional, but Joshua is ready to roll. REVIEWS! A ful...

It's spring football time for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and we almost let one of the all-time great podcast traditions slip away without a fight... the GREAT NAMING OF NAMES! As it goes with any simple tradition... the greatness is in the simplicity, and the appreciation of those that love it (looking right into your beaver butt eyes Brendan). Please RATE and REVIEW! All reviews left on Apple...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan follow up on a chaotic weekend regarding Notre Dame athletics and bring on Matt Brown from the Extra Points Newsletter to help clarify Jack Swarbrick's and Father Jenkins' actions with the New York Times op-ed. In this episode: HELLO! Is an Ace a face card? REVIEWS! We always knew this podcast was artificially intelligent. Joshua's kitchen fresco. Jude and Joshua welcome...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back to start a new era for the pod... The Earned 5-Star Podcast on the Fans First Sports Network is now a real thing (and 99.9% the exact same as what things used to be). We just wished there was MORE Notre Dame football news to talk about - but that never stopped us from creating a two-hour podcast before, so LFG! In this episode: HELLO! Quick power ranking of home...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are prepping for Notre Dame football's spring practice period by prepping for the prep with some podding. Got it? In this episode: HELLO! It was a bloody mess. REVIEWS! Our listeners tripped over themselves to defend the honor of the podcast, and we are here for that (and mostly that by the sound of it). Notre Dame to the Big 10? No... but we break out the conference real...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are here to tell you - IT'S SPRING - so now the pod has sprung for the latest Notre Dame Football news (kind of). In this episode... Yeah... I'm not going to bulletpoint this week either. If I did, I might spoil the surprise that is this show. Somehow we covered all of the relevant points surrounding the Notre Dame football program which is highlighted by the recent hirin...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan dust off the old pod machine to breakdown a full range of emotion concerning Notre Dame Football's offensive coordinator search, and the hiring/promotion of Gerad A.K.A Gerard A.K.A. War Daddy Parker. You don't need a bulletpoint list of the material in this episode. We're here - even if it's a little later than others - to go from 3 candidates, to hockey parades, to fumb...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back on the hunt for the perfect Notre Dame football podcast episode, and even though this isn't it... we think you'll have some fun with it. In this episode: HELLO! The saga of Brian Kelly and his divorce -- which didn't happen. Notre Dame is still very much in the hunt for the perfect offensive coordinator. Real news has been scarce, but the tidbits we do have are p...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan were all set to have some drunken fun with a "Notre Dame Football Honey-Do List" pod, and then the Alabama Crimson Tide came calling for Tommy Rees to have something for his own - FOR HIS OWN MIKE! And so... in this episode: You don't need a long list of bullet-point topics for this particular show. The fellas go through the fast pace of how we got here with Rees bolting...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan make it back to the pod machine after a long break to answer all of your Notre Dame Football questions - and whatever else. In this episode: HELLO! Justify your job - losers! REVIEWS! Best ND game we saw in person. Making our Thomas the Tank Engine feelings clear. Will Notre Dame ditch Under Armour for Nike? Fancy White Castle. The best bear available doesn't need Prozac....

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are ready to put a bow on the 2022 Notre Dame football season, and that's the challenge for the pod. In this episode: Hello! Chunky Alfredo sauce and Cubans in the restroom. REVIEWS! Get on this TRAIN! A lot of words in Spanish... or at least it was supposed to be Spanish. Georgia absolutely HOUSED TCU. The Notre Dame double standard for the playoffs. The final polls are...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan welcome in the new year for Notre Dame Football with tidings of comfort and joy. In this episode: HELLO! Recasting Dan Brown's world with Indiana Jones because Joshua saw an old cowboy. Scientology and the Amish... basically the same thing. REVIEWS! Notre Dame's Gator Bowl win over the South Carolina Gamecocks. Tyler Buchner's big 7 touchdown day. Notre Dame's dominant 2n...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan sit down for a yuletide pod session as Notre Dame prepares to take on the South Carolina Gamecocks in the Gator Bowl. In this episode: HELLO! A couple of bad Christmas gifts and one gift that was really well done. REVIEWS! Villains and recruiting. The Sam Hartman saga is looking like the real thing thanks to Papa Thamel. Hartman as a prospect... we agree he is really good...