The Earned 5-Star Podcast: A Notre Dame Podcast

The Earned 5-Star Podcast: A Notre Dame Podcast

The home of FFSN's Notre Dame Fighting Irish podcast feed. A feed for the Notre Dame fan, by the Notre Dame fan.

Episodes

Notre Dame puts on its big boy pants

October 8, 2025 • 159 mins
Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are fashionably back together to bring you all the heat concerning the Notre Dame Football program. In this episode... HELLO! Baseball is ruining my life (but also not). Flags might be the work of satan and all of his dominions - and they must be stopped. Let's talk about Notre Dame's win over Boise State. Even when he's not great, CJ Carr is pretty good which is outstanding. We fall HAR...
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Notre Dame goes from beating hogs to busting broncos

October 1, 2025 • 139 mins
Joshua and Brendan have little time for show notes so here's a quick rundown: Hello. Notre Dame beat the crap out of Arkansas. College Football Playoff picture. Previewing Notre Dame's game against Boise State. OFD Top 20. Weekly game picks. We did the thing. And plenty more weaved in and out of the show. Please RATE and REVIEW! All reviews left on Apple Podcasts will be read on the next Earned 5-Star Podca...
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USC learned it by watching Notre Dame

September 24, 2025 • 18 mins
There has been some reporting about Netflix and some side moves that were trying to be made with USC to stream the Battle for the Jeweled Shillelagh. So, we need to talk about Notre Dame VS USC, media rights, the plays to keep this rivalry intact, but more importantly... how Southern Cal really wished it was Notre Dame. Just real quick Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Notre Dame Boils Over For Hog Roast

September 24, 2025 • 156 mins
Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are marked safe from pumpkin spice latte's to bring you the most professional Notre Dame Football show. In this episode: Hello! For whom the bell tolls. Notre Dame blasts Purdue with offense. We fight about CJ Carr. A big conversation about the defense. Depth chart changes. Looking for a Great House. REVIEWS! Brendan breaks down Arkansas and what we should be worried about and w...
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Notre Dame should push the 10 wins in a row button

September 17, 2025 • 144 mins
Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back in the fold to talk about the Notre Dame football program — which is currently 0-2 and ranked #24 in the nation. In this episode: HELLO! The Berenstein Bears age gap opens up old Jetsons wounds. Notre Dame’s 41-40 loss to Texas A&M was a brutal game to watch. The defensive issues are pretty clear, so why aren’t they being fixed? Why is the Leprecat so prominent? We’re not going ...
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Notre Dame Faces the Invading Texas A&M Cult

September 10, 2025 • 161 mins
Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back in GAME WEEK mode as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish host the Texas A&M Aggies in a top 25 showdown in South Bend. In this episode: HELLO! Dishwasher VS Microwave. This is a college football podcast. Notre Dame rises in the polls. Another AP voter blunder. We yell about South Florida and Jude provides analogies that aren't so great. Brendan breaks down the Texas A&M Aggies. ...
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Notre Dame Worfing might still be a thing

September 3, 2025 • 137 mins
Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are here after Notre Dame’s week one loss to the Miami Hurricanes to talk the game and walk the walk. In this episode: Hello! Tigers VS Mets is a disaster. Getting right into the action. Dylan shows up for the cheese. CJ Carr was great and we’re all happy that nothing from Sunday night made us question the winner of the Notre Dame quarterback competition. The offensive line problems is v...
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Notre Dame vs Miami — Don’t Gaslight Me Bro

August 27, 2025 • 144 mins
Joshua and Brendan are setting the table for the beginning of the Notre Dame Football season as the Irish are set to travel to South Florida to take on the Miami Hurricanes. In this episode: HELLO! The GMC Sports Report with Benny Russo. Jude is conferencing.  What do you know about Big Cheese? Week ZERO already happened and there’s a debate about how much it actually delivered. Notre Dame releases its first seas...
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The journey begins for Notre Dame's new QB1

August 20, 2025 • 118 mins
Notre Dame finally announced who QB1 will be for the 2025 season, so Joshua, Brendan, and Jude took a quick moment out of their dad chores to have a nice little chat about it all. In this episode: HELLO! Benny “Ballgame” Russo and the GMC Sports Report. Baseball is on. Notre Dame announced that sophomore CJ Carr will be the Irish starting quarterback moving forward. How the boys feel about the decision. Lets bre...
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All the prop bets for Notre Dame Football

August 11, 2025 • 176 mins
Joshua, Jude, and Brendan finally had a chance to sit down and hammer out everyone’s favorite episode about Notre Dame Football… our prop bets for the 2025 season. In this episode: Three nails in a tire. Making sure we say this is FALL CAMP per our contract with the Creator. Let’s talk about CJ Carr vs Kenny Minchey, but let’s do it in a way that makes sense. Jude’s love of Steve Angeli. Getting into the prop bets....
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Kind of talking about Notre Dame’s start to fall camp

August 4, 2025 • 132 mins
Notre Dame Football’s fall camp is underway, and we suppose that means we should get back to work and put that laid back summer vibe behind us. Sort of. In this episode: HELLO! Cheergate in NW Ohio. Brendan is dealing with a summer hangover of sorts. The overreaction to the start of fall camp. CJ Carr vs Kenny Minchey... we still kind of need pads and contact, but sure, let’s dive into all. REVIEWS! The Hei...
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Struggling to get to Notre Dame Football season

July 19, 2025 • 115 mins
Joshua, Jude, and Brendan have FINALLY made it back to the pod machine after a summer hiatus (which won’t be the last one — sorry, not sorry) to talk about anything and everything surrounding Notre Dame Football (before the media blitz happened in New York). In this episode: Hello! Don’t cheat on your spouse ever — especially at a lame Coldplay concert. The impact of the Charles Jagusah injury to the Irish offensive line...
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Notre Dame Football Villains X

June 30, 2025 • 171 mins
Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are happily back together to breakdown the latest Notre Dame Football news as the most professional pros in all of the Notre Dame world. In this episode: HELLO! The breakfast hack that triggers all of the fast food emotions. Notre Dame football recruiting is on an absolute heater right now, and we take this moment to kick the Kansas State Wildcats while they’re down. Of course we were right a...
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Marcus Freeman is stuffing James Franklin in a locker (again)

June 20, 2025 • 151 mins
Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are ready for the summer heat wave — which is also another name for the current state of Notre Dame football recruiting. The boys are primed and ready for a good chat. In this episode: HELLO! An entirely different take on the Star Wars sequels. Let’s talk about Notre Dame Football recruiting. The Elite 11. Marcus Freeman VS James Franklin is the gift that keeps giving. Preseason rankings...
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Answering all of the Notre Dame Football questions very professionally

June 13, 2025 • 159 mins
Joshua, Jude, and Brendan have a lot of answering to do this week — but how much of it really concerns Notre Dame Football? We promise you that it’s a lot more than you might be thinking, and it’s done very professionally. No other show notes are needed this week. 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....
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Let's talk about a shirtless Marcus Freeman

June 4, 2025 • 114 mins
Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are ready to venture into PODCAST AFTER DARK territory as they try to deal with this particular Notre Dame Football offseason. It's a NO NOTES kind of a week because we don't want to spoil all of the surprises on this week's episode (or we're just incredibly lazy and getting used to a new way of recording the pod - you decide). Please RATE and REVIEW! All reviews left on Apple Podcasts will be read on t...
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The Lost Flavors of Notre Dame Football

May 29, 2025 • 143 mins
Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are frsh off of a Memorial Day week long bender and ready to talk about only the most important things concerning the Notre Dame football program. In this episode: Hello! The Detroit Tigers. More baseball talk because the baseball is good. The lost flavors of our life. The symbiotic relationship between milk and cereal (no Big Grain donations were accepted by this podcast). Notre Dame VS...
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USC and Lincoln Riley are scared to death of Notre Dame

May 14, 2025 • 117 mins
Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back for another tri-conversation about Notre Dame football and they TRY hard to make sense out of the most recent college football news. In this episode: HELLO! The Flying Dutchmen? Does the Irish baseball team have a chance of making a regional? Notre Dame has three night games on their home football schedule. Is Joshua changing his tune about Notre Dame vs Navy or is it something el...
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We willed a rivalry between Notre Dame and Clemson into existence

May 8, 2025 • 116 mins
Joshua and Brendan are ready to talk about Notre Dame football while holding down the fort as Jude takes up shop inside the Vatican waiting for the results from the conclave and the naming of a new Pope. Kind of. In this episode: HELLO! The case against wallets in 2025. The Michigan Wolverines are in serious trouble, and we don’t feel bad about it. Will the NCAA drop the hammer on Sherrone Moore? The future of the...
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The Notre Dame NFL Draft AFTERPARTY

April 30, 2025 • 128 mins
Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back from NFL Draft weekend with a hop in their step and a glass full of gin. Notre Dame Football had a good weekend, and they want to spin it the right way. In this episode: HELLO! It’s real spring now and things are happening. Let’s get into the NFL Draft and Notre Dame’s pretty good weekend. Shedeur Sanders and his incredible baggage and drama and whatever else you want to call it. T...
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