Welcome to the latest episode of the Shamrock.

I'm Pete Sampson, rejoined by my co-host, Matt Fortuna, who is recovered from what was not food poisoning, but was just a daycare bug, which many of our listeners

have been afflicted with in the past and can appreciate.

And today, special guest, she's with Metal Arc Media, the Dan Levitard show, the Golick

and Smetty podcast, also walking proof that Notre Dame does take transfers from football

schools, Jess Vitana.

Thank you for coming on the show, especially after you were on campus last weekend to watch

Notre Dame Stanford in person. Yeah, what a game to come back to. I was not expecting the outcome.

I don't think many Notre Dame fans were. I thought this would be a pleasant weekend of

stress-free football watching, and yet instead I came away with a night that I hope to forget

very soon. So how are you feeling? You might be feeling worse than I did Saturday night based on your

up close and personal experience. How was that to be back?

Well, I mean, it was great to be back.

I had a live show with Golick at O'Rourke's Friday night.

So that went really well.

So I had a really nice time, I have to admit.

It was one of my first times being back on campus and actually having time to like walk around and do stuff.

But yeah, the game was super disappointing.

I mean, I had done more game prep than usual having done the live show Friday night.

And I'm, you know, I'm a child of the of the Charlie Weiss era where, you know, my earliest

Notre Dame football memories are blowing some of those games and

just having really sad, depressing Saturday weekends because of Notre Dame football. So I'm always

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