Welcome to the latest episode of the Shamrock.

It's game week of Notre Dame Ohio State, joined as always by my co-host in Chicago, Matt

Fortuna and special guests this week.

We teased him last week.

Ari Wasserman from The Athletic.

You can hear him on Stars Matter.

Pretty much anything Andy Staples does.

He's a former Ohio State beat reporter for us.

Now covers recruiting on a national level.

He loves a filet of fish.

He's a man of many tangents.

So expect that on this podcast today. Ari, how are you?

How are you getting ready for Notre Dame, Ohio State this weekend?

It's a program near and dear to your heart.

Notre Dame.

Oh, yeah.

You talk about them all the time on Stars Matter.

I mean, I've been anybody who, if there's any crossover to the Shamrock to Stars Matter, and I hope there is, knows that I've been, I've been pumping some sunshine up, up South Ben's Alley a little bit. I feel like I have to, like, bring you back to Earth sometimes when we're exchanging Slack messages. I think that it's going really well. I'm still coming to terms of the fact that Matt Fortuna has replaced me as the Ohio State beatwriter this week.

For one week.

But no, I'm very much looking forward to the game.

And I think that this is a game that I wish if I were the commissioner of college football I would have on the schedule every year.

I just think there's something special about both of those programs and they're so close.

...