Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. Before we start the show or the show that we

recorded a couple of hours ago, some news broke that we wanted to address right up at the top here.

Legendary Notre Dame coach, Lou Holtz passed away at 89 years old. Holtz had been failing

health for a while, so it did not come as shock. He had been

in hospice. He had an incredible career as a college football coach that spanned, I think,

about three or four decades, Arkansas, Minnesota, South Carolina, but most remembered Bruce

for his time at Notre Dame, where he was quite a character and quite a

huge winner and the last Notre Dame coach to win a national championship.

Yeah, I would describe him as the iconic coach of Notre Dame. For a lot of us who aren't

over 60 or 65, you probably don't remember seeing Arapars Hegan. You certainly don't remember the great coaches

before him. But Lou Holtz got, he came after Jerry Faust, who was a high school coach who took,

who got the job. It didn't go great, obviously. With him, Lou Holtz came in. He made Notre Dame

a powerhouse really fast. And because he had a lot of personality and a ton of one liners, he made them very interesting.

Whether you love Notre Dame or hated them, Notre Dame really mattered.

And it was interesting for me, just because, like, I was, at one point, I was an art major.

And one of the last things I have from my days in art was actually I drew this cartoon

of Lou Holtz and Jimmy Johnson and some of their players.

It was really depicting the Miami Notre Dame rivalry.

For a while in the 80s, it was the hottest rivalry in college football.

And, you know, he was just, in a lot of ways to me,

he was bigger than Notre Dame,

which is kind of unthinkable to say,

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