Her Loyal Sons Podcast

Typically during a bye week, we all fondly remember Charlie Weis and his infamous cheeseburger comments. However, with New Mexico and Bob Davie looming on the horizon, I moved to shelve the cheeseburgers and switch to hot dogs in honor of a certain incident that is detailed in this episode. With the hot dog focus, Shane and I naturally wanted a solid round of #snacktalk. So, naturally, we brought on a guest, Jessica Smetana of Sports Illustrated and the Most Valuable Podcast, to join us in discussing hot dogs of all kinds. Oh, and we ask her about Notre Dame things too. I guess that's important and of interest as well. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

Week one games are often sloppy and Notre Dame, unfortunately, was not an exception. While the Irish came away with a 35-17 victory at Louisville, sloppy play, especially from the offense and Ian Book, gave many a ND fan some Monday night heartburn. As we will attempt to do after all night games this season, Shane and I hit record shortly after the final whistle. Come for the level-headed, we got to sleep on it recap of the national scene in week 1. Stay for the knee-jerk reactions about ND's less-than-optimal performance. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

College football has returned and that means the most accurate of all preview methods, the NCAA Sim, is back! While we can't ever promise much here at HLS, we can promise that this prediction will be completely unique from anything else that you read or hear up until Monday's kickoff. Plus, Shane regales us with tales of a Chicago trip done to perfection. We debut a brand new segment for the season. We revel in college football's opening kickoffs. We have an unbelievable technical meltdown because I decided to turn off my XBox to reduce background noise. This pod has everything. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

We've finally made it. Week 1 is upon us and that means Eddie and I have our altar to Gamblor prepped and ready for a full slate of college football picks. Don't forget to join in on the fun at the HLS Pick 'Em for a chance to win all kinds of free swag. Week 1 was 29 games to pick. It's gonna get weird immediately and I'm unbelievably pumped. #HAILGAMBLOR --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

Can bad things happen during the 2019 Notre Dame football season? Absolutely! But with only a few days away from Irish football, we decided to have Chris (aka Rakes of the Rakes Report) on and convince ourselves that ND will go 14-0 while taking potshots at our rivals and Michigan. Come join us as we talk about the upcoming season, what we are looking forward to, and just how many points we want Book to put up on Brian Van Gorder and Bob Davie. Also, be sure to sign up for the Rakes Report newsletter and subscribe to the Rakes Report pod as well. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

There is actual college football this Saturday! That means it's time to pick against some spreads and get our futures picks on. Plus, enjoy a treat in the cold open of me unexpectedly having to drink an Extra Life milestone drink to celebrate $2,500 raised so far. #HAILGAMBLOR --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

I can think of no better way to properly kick off our regular podcasting schedule than an episode with loads of technical issues. Thankfully, the majority of these were limited to the live stream as the amount of control I had over our Twitch stream degraded to zero midway through. Thankfully, we pulled the episode off and, despite Audition also throwing errors at me, the podcast audio will be devoid of (most of) the headaches we saw on the stream. It's a good thing too because I attended the Solid Verbal's Fantasy Things Draft live. The event gave me a chance to interview Ty Hildenbrandt of the Solid Verbal and Sean Bass, Sports Director of The Ticket, DFW's top sports radio station, who, much to my surprise, grew up a Notre Dame fan. Shane also runs the most important #SnackTalk segment that we've ever done, recapping his life-changing experience with a certain chicken sandwich. Friendly reminder: We are doing a private stream of an NCAA sim for charity this Thursday, August 22. Any donation of $5 or more m

College football preview magazine season is the first sign that the wonderfully stupid sport that we all know and love is right around the corner. As has now become tradition for the past couple of years, Tyler James from the South Bend Tribune joins the pod to discuss Notre Dame football and the ND Insider preview magazine (which you can and should purchase here). Come get your fall camp hype on as we talk about magazine cover-boy Julian Okwara, Ian Book, how we feel about the 2019 season, and of course, all the hot and spicy fast food takes you can handle. Additional Important Charity Note! @bridgetgoirish is taking her desire to get Brady Quinn into the NBC broadcast booth to the campaign trail--for a great cause! Each purchase of a campaign sticker or mug at our store will see all proceeds go directly to my Extra Life campaign, which benefits the Children's Hospital Foundation of Oklahoma City--a cause near and dear to my heart in honor of Aven who was taken far too soon from this world because of Leukemi

Do you have a sports bucket list? Could you imagine trying to cross off everything in say a single year? How about attending a sporting event every day for a year? Your answers probably went from yes to no rather quickly, but Jamie Reidy attempted to do just this (keyword: attempted). Jamie joins the podcast to talk about his book Need One! and the various sporting events that he saw along the way--from tailgating in the grove, to hitting a local bowling league. After the interview, I discuss a bit of what would make up my Sports Year and how Jamie's journey reminded me of what is by far my favorite thing about sports: the people. If you'd like to read about Jamie's incredible and ridiculous journey, head over here and purchase Need One! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

On the heels of Notre Dame getting one of their biggest commitments in years, we decided to do a podcast that has absolutely nothing to do with football. It's the offseason and we have Game of Thrones thoughts that we are itching to get out. Come join us as we...uh, bid farewall to our watch. Yeah, let's go with that. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

With the annual Blue/Gold game on Saturday, Shane and I felt it was a perfect excuse to pull out the 'ol NCAA '14 sim once again. Let me tell ya, it did not disappoint. The most accurate prediction method in college football returns to entertain and terrify you into a world of possibilities best described as Pandora's Box. Also in the show, The Shirt returns to a Blue-Grey Sky, but mostly grey and a preview of the #BKHomeboyMadness Championship. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

Yes, the Madness is back. No, not March Madness, but #HLSRecapMadness. This time, we are going full #BKHomeboy style. 64 of the best #BKHomeboy photoshops will duke it out for internet glory. Shane, Garrett, and I have our own Selection Sunday and reveal the field of 64 and break down each entry with the hard-hitting analysis that only we can deliver. Voting is now live. Vote early. Vote often. Yes, this might just be the dumbest thing that we've ever done, but you can't spell "dumbest" without best. Therefore, the best thing that we've ever done. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

With another signing period officially in the books, Shane and I enlist an actual recruiting analyst, Kevin Sinclair of Irish Illustrated, to join us on the podcast. Kevin helped break down the class as well as some of the major storylines in this cycle--including something about vultures and Huskies. Or maybe that was Asa Turner just trying to figure out his future as he said in his own words. I donno, crootin' is weird and people get mad. So come join us on a fun episode looking into the future of our beloved Irish and try and pretend that football hasn't left us. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

In this podcast, we get back to our roots: a complete technological mess. Thankfully the podcast audio went off without an issue because the Twitch live stream and the backup recording somehow failed. Honestly, the season can now truly end in appropriate fashion. We laugh at Michigan. We laugh at Southern Cal. We laugh at AP voters. We laugh at Bama. Come join us for some last moments of college football before it fades away. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

By popular demand, we bring to you virtual Dabo and virtual Saban locking horns in NCAA '14 for our national title preview. There is a bit of Notre Dame in this show as well as we recap recent departures (up to the time of recording on Friday) and I have a little bit of a rant in response to some of the initial fallout of the Cotton Bowl Loss. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

All good things must come to an end, and much like Notre Dame's perfect season, it's time to bid farewell to the picks pod. But before Eddie and I head into that long, cold offseason, we go over the futures picks from the beginning of the year as well as picking Bama and Clemson. There's a tussle at the top, so make sure to get your picks in at herloyalsons.com/pickem and close out strong. We hope you had the time of your life, y'all. Go Irish, #HAILGAMBLOR. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

Yes, the Cotton Bowl was awful. Shane and I dive into the mess with a very active chat. However the highlight, in my opinion at least, was absolutely the interviews that I conducted during the HLS tailgate. Jessica Smetana from Sports Illustrated, and former ND O-linemen, and current ESPN personality, Mike Golic Jr. take top billing. However, don't sleep on an ND fan attending his first game, the HLS OGs, NDEddieMac, and some of my fellow Otters. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

The New Year's Six is finally upon us. This means that it's time to round out the bowl picks, and finally talk some Notre Dame vs Clemson in the Cotton Bowl. Make sure to join in on the fun via herloyalsons.com/pickem for your chance at some free HLS swag. Enjoy the show. Go Irish. #HAILGAMBLOR --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

It's been far too long since we've been able to deliver the most accurate of all college football preview methods: The NCAA '14 Sim. Shane and I took advantage of an unexpected bowl cancellation to deliver a sim of Notre Dame vs Clemson in the Cotton Bowl. Did this turn into a complete disaster or has virtual BK used the break to finally coach normally? ...if you've seen or heard any of these sims, you already know the answer. However, I can promise that this sim absolutely delivers on every entertainment level! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message

The podcast may be a day late, but damn near everyone is .500 or above, so we're definitely not a dollar short! Make sure to join in on the fun via herloyalsons.com/pickem to have your chance at a free piece of merch from the HLS store. Only eight games are down and going on heater can easily win this thing. Oh, and we have all the bowl games available to pick because we know the holidays are here. We cover all the bowl games up to Thursday, December 27 in this episode, so make sure you join us again live over at twitch.tv/herloyalsons at 9:00 p.m. CT/10:00 p.m. ET next week for the remaining bowl picks. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/herloyalsons/message