Welcome to the latest episode of the Shamrock. I'm Pete Sampson. And surprise, our special A-List guest today is none other than Matt Fortuna.

Matt, thanks for joining the show.

I can only hope this got people as excited as we, as it was when we teased A-List or Tim Brando

on the show around the same time last year.

But there's a little bit more to talk about as far as current events relate with Notre Dame.

But I promise you, I would never hype myself up like that. We will have a couple A-listers. Oh, it'd be fully deserved that. Between now and the playoff. And it's like, I mean, look, I want to remind people, there's a shamrock bump that is very real. Yes. Clark Lee going to Vanderbilt, now Tom Rinaldi, you know, taking a step up from ESPN to Fox, you would think. So just saying. We're the cradle of coaches, the Miami, Ohio of podcast. I'm not sure where the special guests we had in mind would go up in the college football media food chain. but I'm just saying, like, if he's looking

for a little bump, Shamrock's here for you.

That we are.

Well, I'm happy to be here nonetheless.

I'm happy to be talking to you nonetheless.

And, I mean, you set in one of your stories today, signing day is like the third most

important thing going on in Nerd Ames world right now, which is absurd.

And I mean that in a good way.

Oh, yeah.

Big game to talk about.

Big defensive coordinator search to talk about.

Obviously, signing day to talk about.

It's refreshing.

It's awesome.

It's this game, I don't think we can pump it up enough, so to speak.

And personally, like, I think't think we can pump it up enough, so to speak.

And personally, like, I think it's much more enjoyable to kind of sit back and just watch two really good teams play a football game without this being a referendum on Notre Dame football, the program, the way November 7th was, the way Brian Kelly certainly operated under the assumption of while dealing with us that week.

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