The Earned 5-Star Podcast: A Notre Dame Podcast

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are here to pod out their feelings after Notre Dame's 21-10 loss to the Ohio State Buckeyes to start the 2022 college football season. In this episode: HELLO! Proper "GO IRISH" etiquette out in the wild. REVIEWS! Diving right into the action (after dragging BK a wee bit). Was Notre Dame's initial drive unforgivable? Did Notre Dame really play to "not lose by much" or did...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan simultaneously look over at the podcast bell operator and yelled DING DING as it's Ohio State game week for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. In this episode: HELLO! McDonald's and pumpkin latte crisis management. Jayson Ademilola said the quiet part out loud and walks the path of a righteous man. The depth chart is out and we have more minor comments than questions. The NFL...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are tossing one last bucket of rocks into the offseason podcast pond while staring down the ocean of the upcoming Notre Dame Football season. In this episode: HELLO! School supply conundrum. REVIEWS! Can the Irish win a national championship with 12 players on the field? The go to Target furniture finish is espresso. A Notre Dame recruiting rant is actually a YOU SHOULD L...

Joshua and Brendan fell down the podcast hole this week while Jude was out living his life before the Notre Dame football season hits. In this episode: Pizza recall hits hard - but soccer moms may have it harder. REVIEWS! Jude has a special connection with people. Our beef with John Ourand's type of framing. Notre Dame, NBC, and the Big Ten - it's a thing. Workshopping a Notre Dame football schedu...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan shake off the oppressive heat and humidity of August football weather to bring you a Notre Dame Football podcast 9 days in the making. In this episode: HELLO! Joshua just wants to buy a damn turtle - Russian or otherwise. A West Virginia wedding and lessons learned for trips to see the Irish play football. The ONE player we all want to win the Heisman Trophy. The battle f...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan broke out the Barbies, put the bras on their heads, and opened up the podcast portal as we get closer and closer to the start of the Notre Dame football season. In this episode: HELLO! Breakfast battles, and why everyone else is way better than the Golden Arches. The Bon Jovi effect. Penguins are dope. Some Peacock news... how much money is there? REVIEWS! A new Notre Dam...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back at it as we accelerate faster and faster towards the start of the college football season, and Notre Dame's showdown in Columbus with Ohio State. In this episode: HELLO! The Holy Fruit Trinity. REVIEWS! The Rose Bowl stranglehold. Know your history! The Michigan State Spartans are more deserving of a place on Notre Dame's schedule than the Navy Midshipmen. PROP B...

Episode 8: Mike Golic Jr., DraftKings First off, if you missed Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 you can catch up in the links provided! Episode 8 features former Notre Dame football player, Mike Golic Jr. We dove into the Bachelor, his new podcast as a part of DraftKings, Resurrecting South Bend Nightclubs, and where you can find him in the booth this fall. He is an incredible representation of the ...

Episode 7: Joshua Vowles, OFD First off, if you missed Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 you can catch up in the links provided! Episode 7 features Joshua Vowles from our very own OFD. Josh brought me under his wing and allowed me to write for OFD and even do things like this series. I owe a lot to him for giving a 24 year a chance to write back in 2017. He is loyal, down to earth, a great shit talker,...

Episode 6: Tom Loy, 247 Sports First off, if you missed Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 you can catch up in the links provided! Episode 6 features Tom Loy from 247 Sports. Tom has been a guy who I have always admired as he is tenacious on the recruiting trail. He has been a supporter of OFD and totally gets what we do. Like last week, all feedback is greatly appreciated and if there are any guests you’re...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan returned to the podcast portal for the first time in almost two weeks and were fully prepared to start digging their teeth into the upcoming Notre Dame Football season. The problem is... there's just a whole bunch of Notre Dame offseason left in us. In this episode: Hello! Inflation is a myth. Trash advanced stats remain trash advanced stats. Conference realignment talk i...

Episode 3: Matt Freeman, Irish Sports Daily First off, if you missed Episode 1, 2, 3, or 4 you can catch up in the links provides! Episode 5 features Matt Freeman from Irish Sports Daily (ISD). Matt took a less traditional route to his career on the beat, but has been a staple for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. We cover how he got here and some of the key elements of building and maintaining relat...

Episode 4: Tyler James, InsideNDSports for The Rivals Network First off, if you missed Episode 1, 2, or 3 you can catch up in the links provides! Episode 4 features a guest I was extremely excited to land! Tyler James is a staple of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish beat. I’ve met Tyler a couple of times briefly and he has been wonderful each time! He shared some great anecdotes on how his career has...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are joined by Greg Flammang in a missile silo deep in Big 10 country - out in Los Angeles. The quartet did its best to put the Notre Dame football news of the last few days into perspective. In this episode: HELLO! A very Cajun review. Notre Dame is cleaning it up on the recruiting trail. Perhaps the best Burrito VS Taco discussion you'll ever hear on a podcast. The USC T...

Episode 3: Tim O’Malley, Irish Illustrated First off, if you missed Episode 1 and 2, you can catch up in the links provides!   Episode 3 features a guest I was extremely excited to land! Tim O’Malley is a staple of the ND beat and is the only Notre Dame Fighting Irish graduate I have slated to interview. I’ve met Tim a couple of times briefly and he has been wonderful each time! He shared some gre...

Episode 2: Ashton Pollard, On3 First off, if you missed Episode 1, you can catch up Here! Episode 2 features an OFD return guest in Ashton Pollard, who joined Josh and Brendan back at the start of the 2021 season. She is covers the Notre Dame Fighting Irish for “On3”, specifically Blue and Gold. We “met” on Twitter and have had plenty of fun interactions over the last year or so. She was gracious...

Episode 1: Pete Sampson, The Athletic Pete Sampson is a writer that I’ve read for years and was someone who I really hoped I’d be able to book. I met him on one occasion a few years back, and he said he appreciated what we did here at OFD, which was music to my ears. I reached out asking if he would be interested in joining the podcast, and he accepted right away. He exceeded my expectations as he...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are tucked away with the modern miracle of central air-conditioning to bring forth a Notre Dame Football podcast worthy of your download. In this episode: HELLO! It's hot and little leaguers need little leagued. Notre Dame Football recruiting is pretty hot itself. Mike Mickens is doing things - and these things are very, very positive. Notre Dame Baseball just crashed out...

Joshua and Brendan travel into pod land without the magnificent talent of Jude with a big batch of great Notre Dame news. In this episode: HELLO! Joshua vents out a little list of personal problems which have no bearing on the podcast - but maybe why it took so damn long between episodes. REVIEWS! Homefield magic for the Irish is wearable. C.J. Carr is Irish and boy do we have a lot to say about i...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan set sail on a voyage to pod about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and there's plenty of rum. In this episode: HELLO! The Frisco Melt remains King and Emperor. The USC Trojans are communist spies or anarchists - either way... they've been exposed. Brian Kelly went on the Paul Finebaum Show and couldn't help himself. What is Marcus Freeman doing that is different than Kelly...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan unlock the secret podcast vault to take a look at our ancient Notre Dame Football scrolls. In this episode: HELLO! George Lucas poops money and Johnny Depp can appreciate that. Sedrick Irvin decommits and we have found the reasons to be acceptable - also known as RIGHT and JUST. The USC Trojans are the #4 team in the country according to ESPN... and we're here to talk abo...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan jump into the podcast hot rod to bring you a real winner of a Notre Dame football podcast. In this episode: HELLO! The integrity of list makers. REVIEWS! We stand by the Bobby Bowden conspiracy and jump into more - COVER UP THE COVER UP! Being loyal to Ohio has no great origin story. An FCS chat. Notre Dame's biggest recruiting challenge might have to do with food despite...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan order up a sack of Notre Dame football podcasts and all we got was this one. In this episode: HELLO! Notre Dame men's lacrosse got screwed and somehow this fact upset fans of the Ohio State Buckeyes. REVIEWS! Doubling down on Kansas State's folly. The NCAA is finally going to enforce NIL rules - or so they say. The 4 team playoff is here to say and there are national beat...

With a college football program as long and as storied as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, there are an incredible number of dates and games that are talked about year after year. Whether it’s a day of great joy like in October 1988 against the Miami Hurricanes, or a few months later when the Irish took down the West Virginia Mountaineers — these are days of great joy that are celebrated all the tim...

Joshua, Jude, and Brendan gather around the podcast bonfire to begin the Notre Dame football ritual of the offseason. In this episode: HELLO! Lawyer letter. REVIEWS! Mount Rushmore of ND beat writers (kind of). Carter Karels deserves special recognition. What game is more important; the Ohio State Buckeyes or the Clemson Tigers? Recapping the NFL Draft. Kevin Austin and Jack Coan. We mention Kyle...