Welcome to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider, brought to you by Irish Illustrated.com.

We've got a makeshift crew today.

I'm Pete.

Tim O'Malley and then Jake Brown also here.

Tim Priester off on vacation.

Yeah, you're makeshift.

A makeshift?

Yeah, makeshift.

So we got a lot to cover since it's been more than a month since our last podcast.

We've had eight commitments.

The Michigan series is back on.

And we've got a ton of questions to get through in segment two.

So the Michigan series.

Let's start with that.

I am not a quote unquote Notre Dame guy in the sense that I did not grove and South Bend

and I didn't go to Notre Dame.

And I've been quite surprised about the number of Notre Dame fans that have come out of

the woodwork saying that this series is actually a terrible idea and and it's a big mistake by Jack Swarbrick.

So, O'Malley, as a Notre Dame guy, perhaps you can enlighten me on what I'm missing here. I don't know any of those people. Okay. I really don't. I don't get it. I mean, as I wrote on Monday, look, so I'm 43. If you're in your mid-40s or younger than that, you grew up on from fourth grade through

college graduation of never losing to USC as a Notre Dame fan.

It's a long time.

The hatred goes away a little bit.

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