Special Guest: Ge Wang
The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish
The Athletic
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic’s Matt Fortuna visits with Notre Dame graduate and ESQ Clothing founder Ge Wang in ESQ’s Chicago office. Ge took an unconventional path from South Bend into the fashion industry, and his ties to the university and the Irish football program run deep. Here, he talks about his journey while dishing on his favorite coaches and players to work with. And, of course, he and Matt talk about the state of the program as spring ball gets underway.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome to the shamrock. |
| 0:18.0 | Matt Fortuna here to help keep you covered while Notre Dame enjoys |
| 0:21.0 | a spring break. Pete Sampson is often presumably trying to open up his own coffee shop after |
| 0:25.8 | last week's episode. Moka Joes, latte Larry's. How about Pete's pours for all of you, Kirby |
| 0:31.2 | enthusiasm fans out there? But Pete will be back with us next week. Today on the show, we're going |
| 0:35.7 | to visit with Gaw Wang, a name many of you |
| 0:37.9 | are likely familiar with. Gah is a Notre Dame graduate and the founder of ESQ clothing, which |
| 0:43.1 | has dressed many Irish players when they head off to the NFL. Goh will speak about his deep ties |
| 0:47.9 | to the university, his connections to the roster and coaching staff, his unique path into his |
| 0:52.4 | current business, and of course, help us get ready |
| 0:55.0 | for the rest of Spring Ball down in South Bend. Be sure to stick around until the end for a fascinating |
| 0:59.8 | anecdote involving Father Hesberg and many more fun stories. I really think Neuradame graduates |
| 1:04.7 | out there are going to enjoy this one. So without further ado, here's God. |
| 1:12.5 | We now welcome in ESQ Clothing founder in 2008 Notre Dame graduate, Gawang. |
| 1:18.9 | God, thanks so much for joining us today. |
| 1:20.3 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:21.9 | It's my second time in this office. |
| 1:23.6 | I was here a few years ago with a failed attempt to shadow Ronnie Stanley, which turned |
| 1:28.6 | into a nice fun afternoon hanging with you and Notre Dame legend Matthias Farley. |
| 1:32.9 | It's been that long, huh? Hey, Matthias is killing it. So props to him. I mean, I remember, |
| 1:39.5 | I'm just going to go right into it. I remember this Matthias Farley story, and we're really close friends. |
| 1:45.9 | And it seems like, I seem kind of like, I probably shouldn't have said this, but I literally |
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