Hi, B.Nation, welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to you by our friends at Fandul.

That's Trevor Troberts.

I'm Brian Driscoll.

We've got a great show for you playing today.

And we're going to bring it as best weekend today because Trevor, I need to make sure that as my dad's driving around today

working, that he has a great show to listen to because it is his birthday. It's his 71st birthday. April 7th was my mom's 70th birthday. Wish her a very happy birthday. And today it's my dad's 71st birthday. So happy birthday, dad. I know he listens, Trev. He's still, he's finally gotten over your minions comment. He's over it.

He's passed it. He's moved past it. So it took a while. You know, they went on a cruise last week with my sister and the grandkids. So I think that helped him get over it. You know, you thank my sister for that one. But, but yeah, no, he's past it. But yeah, dad, happy birthday. We love you. Appreciate you. And I hope you have an awesome day.

And I hope you enjoy the show.

Treb and I have a jam-packed schedule for you guys today. And we're really looking forward to diving into this. It's going to be a fun topic today, Treve. Very, very fun. Well, let me rephrase. going to be some fun topics today that we're very much looking forward to discussing.

I was about to say, man, I got I started rechecking my outline. going to be some fun topics today that we're very much looking forward to discussing.

I was about to say, man, I got, I started rechecking my outline. I was like, one topic. I was like, I think I might have the wrong thing. Oh, no, I didn't prep the right way. I was like, here we go. But no, man. One huge topic, Trev. Did you not get the email? I swear I sent it to you, man. my bad.

I need to get it together.

Vice President, my butt.

Yeah, right.

That's the... I swear I sent it to you, man. My bad. I need to get it together.

Vice President, my butt. Yeah, right. That's the show topic is the side of me. That's the Vince Troberts. Trevor Troberge is ready to rock and roll today. But yes, happy birthday to Brian's Day. I hope it's a great day. My dad's birthday is actually in two days. So funny how that pans out. That's awesome. Our bad birthdays are two days apart.

So April is the second best month of the year.

May is the best month of the year clearly since, you know, because like April's cool. It's, you know, it's my, it's my wedding anniversary, your dad's birthday, both of my parents' birthdays. And then May, of course, is the month because that's both of our birthdays. So 100%. But Brian's right. We have a loaded show coming to your guys as way today. We're kicking things off. Now, Friday is the last practice that we have access to prior to the blue gold game. Saturday. Saturday, excuse me. Days are starting to run together. Saturday is the last practice. Yeah, it's off-season is flying by before you know.

I need the season because I know just, I mean, I guess outside of their season opener, every day that Notre Dame plays until the postseason, it's going to be a Saturday.

But yes, Saturday is the last practice that we have access to before the Blue Gold game.

So we're going to kick off today's show by kind of going through what we're hoping to see.

We get full access. We're going to be there the entire time. We're going to break down what we want to see from the team as a whole, more big picture, talk about offense and then talk about defense. And then in part two of today's show, like the title suggests of today's podcast, there's been a lot of chatter this offseason so far about Notre Dame's schedule this year. Nobody's claiming that it's a gauntlet, but it's also not like what Texas Tech and Penn State schedule looks like. The truth is somewhere in between. So we're going to kind of break it down by opponent and not give like this is what Notre Dame has to do to win, but more so this is what the opponents have to do for this schedule to be looked at in a certain light.

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