The Earned 5-Star Podcast: A Notre Dame Podcast
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Episodes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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).
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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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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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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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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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April 24, 2025 • 137 mins
Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are fresh out of all of the Easter candy that they stole from their children, and are ready to talk about Notre Dame Football and a maybe a couple of other things. It’s fun.
In this episode:
HELLO!
A Star Wars Easter Egg.
A certain quarterback hit the transfer portal and found a new home... and we’re going to talk about it.
Could there still be more transfer portal additions — like at running back?
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April 14, 2025 • 142 mins
Joshua, Jude, and Brendan have sprung into action to talk about Notre Dame Football’s annual Blue-Gold Game. In this episode:
HELLO!
Our bad you guys.
Val Kilmer is a legend.
The spring game format.
Are you watching for game entertainment or to see practice development?
Jude hates everything.
The dangers of knowing too much.
Debating Peacock.
The main event is a juicy discussion about Notre Dame’s quarterback situation bet...
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April 11, 2025 • 25 mins
It's spring and there is Notre Dame Football so that means THE GREAT NAMING OF NAMES still needs to happen. The annual tradition gets a last minute save via Dylan, so you can thank him later.
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March 25, 2025 • 119 mins
Joshua and Brendan were given a charge this week — and that was to make the treacherous journey of talking about Notre Dame Football without their beloved Jude. It’s spring football... so of course they jumped right in.
In this episode:
Hello!
The inner workings of youth baseball in March.
Let’s talk about Steve Angeli, CJ Carr, and Kenny Minchey some more.
An alternative Notre Dame quarterback theory.
Will 2025 Notre Dame lo...
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March 10, 2025 • 124 mins
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