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The Obligatory PSU Podcast
The Obligatory PSU Podcast features wide-ranging discussions of Penn State sports, Nittany Lions football in particular, and all things Penn State and Happy Valley from the cast of The Obligatory PSU Pregame Show: Former Penn State and NFL defensive lineman Brandon Noble (’92-97), campus icon Mike “the Mailman” Herr, Mount Nittany Conservancy Board Secretary Kevin Horne, and seven-time Sam's Club Member Chris Buchignani. Along with a rotating cast of characters from around State College and…
Episodes
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SPRING '21 Episode 17: Penn State Scrimmage Summary w/ Nubyjas Wilborn
Only freshmen and reporters were allowed inside Beaver Stadium for what turned out to be the first of two Fake Blue-White Saturdays (with the next to follow a…
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SPRING '21 Episode 16: Penn State Spring Roster Review
Fake Blue-White Saturday is upon us, so why not mark the occasion by squeezing the last droplets of #content from a traditionally substance-free weekend that…
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SPRING '21 Episode 15: Penn State Spring Football Stories #2
More feeding the #content-starved beast with morsels of news and insight plumbed from the depths of Penn State Spring Football coach and player interviews…
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SPRING '21 Episode 14: Penn State Spring Football Stories #1
Spring football is back in Happy Valley for the first time in nearly two years, and for a program that struggled mightily through 2020 without the benefit of…
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SPRING '21 Episode 13: The NCAA on Trial
What a mess. For many years now (and several decades prior, really), the NCAA and its member schools have been losing ground in their seemingly-hopeless battle…
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SPRING '21 Episode 12: Penn State Reporter Mark Wogenrich, SI.com
SI.com's Penn State reporter Mark Wogenrich returns to the show to talk about the transition from the bad, fake season of 2020 to the critical offseason and…
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SPRING '21 Episode 11: Jeff "Ironhead" Byers, Voice of Penn State Wrestling
Despite falling just shy of the overall team championship at the 2021 NCAA Wrestling Tournament, Penn State's second-place finish included a spectacular…
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SPRING '21 Episode 10: David Eckert of Blue White Illustrated (Penn State Hockey, Hoops+)
Blue White Illustrated's resident jack of all trades David Eckert visits the show to talk about the present and future for Penn State's men's basketball and…
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SPRING '21 Episode 9: Penn State Letterman Brandon Noble (Part 2)
Brandon continues recounting his football journey, this time focusing on his two seasons as a full-time starter for Penn State. These years spanned a…
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SPRING '21 Episode 8: Penn State Letterman Brandon Noble (Part 1 Redux)
Re-releasing Part One of our interview with Obligatory co-host Brandon Noble (originally published in August 2019) in advance of the all-new second installment…
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SPRING '21 Episode 7: Penn State's Promising Winter
Although adversity of all kinds plagued the Nittany Lions last season on their way to a historic 0-5 start, hope is on the horizon and help is on the way. From…
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SPRING '21 Episode 6: Facilities Follies
Water slides and flight simulators for all. Penn State's plan to spend millions on renovations and upgrades to the Lasch football building created a stir when…
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SPRING '21 Episode 5: Penn State's 2020 Good & Bad, Part 2
If nothing else, the wild fake season of 2020 was history-making for the Penn State Nittany Lions, in ways both awful (0-5) and terrific (900 wins). From a…
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SPRING '21 Episode 4: Penn State's 2020 Good & Bad, Part 1
2020 was a year like none other for all of us, so it only makes sense that it was historic in all the wrong ways for James Franklin and the Penn State Nittany…
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SPRING '21 Episode 3: Penn State Offense Past & Future w/ For The Blogy
The guys welcome in Coach Nick Codutti of ForTheBlogy.com to talk about the past and future of Penn State's offense under James Franklin. All season long, For…
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SPRING '21 Episode 2: Penn State Hires OC Mike Yurcich
In a genuinely shocking power move, James Franklin relieved first-year offensive coordinator Kirk Ciarrocca of his duties as Penn State's offensive coordinator…
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SPRING '21 Episode 1: Penn State Portal Plunder
And we're back. After enjoying some time off for the holidays (just like Penn State), the guys return to wrap up the 2020 bowl season and dig into the…
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FALL '20 Episode 33: State College isn't "Bowls-burg"
So that's that. You can close the book on Penn State's 2020 fake season. Unlike many teams across the country and most of their Big Ten peers, the Nittany…
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FALL '20 Episode 32: Recruiting, Illinois & the Big Ten are Dumb
The snow is falling in Happy Valley for early National Signing Day. In a year in which the Nittany Lions gave their fans plenty of reasons to worry about the…
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FALL '20 Episode 31: Threeve
Is this ostensibly the "Michigan State wrap-up show?" Yes. Does the conversation eventually meander its way back to some discussion of Penn State's 39-24…
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FALL '20 Episode 30: Penn State Going for 901
Well, it has been, as they'd say in days of yore, "a long, strange trip," but we are finally coming down to the last weeks of 2020 and its suitably bizarre…
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FALL '20 Episode 29: Silent Knights
It wasn't always pretty, and in the end, it was, after all, only Rutgers, but dammit, in a season full of misery and disappointment, the "surging" Nittany…
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FALL '20 Episode 28: Must We Discuss Rutgers?
Penn State hits the road for a second straight week in search of a win that will resonate in the moment and for eternity - a badly-needed follow-up to a…
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FALL '20 Episode 27: Michigan Man? Handled.
In the name of all that is holy and good, rejoice and give thanks! Your Penn State Nittany Lions are no longer winless for this horrendous 2020 campaign, in…
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FALL '20 Episode 26.2: And Michigan Still Sucks
What is our possibly-brilliant nickname and gimmick for this game on Saturday? You'll just have to listen and find out. It's a special holiday-week bonus…
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FALL '20 Episode 26.1: Nubyjas Wilborn, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In this installment, the guys welcome in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Penn State reporter Nubyjas Wilborn, who first met Kevin when they both traveled to…
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FALL '20 Episode 25: Historic Futility
Welcome to the new normal. We now live in a world where a Penn State football team has begun a season with five consecutive losses, a dubious historic…
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FALL '20 Episode 24: Corn Belted
In this special mid-week Corn Belt Omnibus edition of Obligatory, the guys look back on another frustrating Saturday, as the Penn State's trip to Lincoln…
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FALL '20 Episode 23: Centre Film Festival & Nebraska
The Nittany Lions may be reeling at 0-3, but there's always a lot to celebrate here in Happy Valley. The guys take a break from the doom and gloom of football…
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FALL '20 Episode 22: Embarrassing Garbage
Already teetering on the brink of collapse at 0-2, the Penn State Nittany Lions are now fully circling the drain after a tragic 35-19 home loss to the Maryland…
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FALL '20 Episode 21: Talking Penn State w/ Ben Jones of StateCollege.com
Ben Jones, Penn State beat reporter for StateCollege.com, joins the guys to talk about the experience of covering Nittany Lions football in a global pandemic…
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FALL '20 Episode 20: Ohio State Autopsy w/ Donnie Collins, Scranton Times-Tribune
In this episode, the guys break down a clash of legendary titans in Happy Valley. But after discussing the Fantasy Flavor League's concluding matchup of…
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FALL '20 Episode 19: Ohio State Visits Spooky Valley
If Penn State hosts a night game and no fans are there to see it, is it still a White Out? Like everything else on the carnival ride from Hell called 2020…
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FALL '20 Episode 18: We Lost to Indiana
Well, we asked for Big Ten football in 2020, and we got it. A classic case of "Be careful what you wish for." What can you say about a program with playoff…
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FALL '20 Episode 17: Indiana, Indiana (and Pat Chambers)
Pat Chambers tosses the Penn State news cycle into appropriate-for-2020 chaos by resigning only days before the long-delayed start of the football season…
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FALL '20 Episode 16: Penn State Roster Breakdown (Defense)
Friend of the show Mike Levine returns, joining Chris to break down the Penn State Nittany Lions defense by position (reuniting the LION 90.7fm's 2000-01…
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FALL '20 Episode 15: Penn State Roster Breakdown (Offense)
Chris enlists the assistance of friend and fellow LION 90.7fm alum Mike Levine to analyze the 2020 Penn State roster in two installments, beginning with the…
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FALL '20 Episode 14: Blur Your Russell Athletics Logo
Penn State Athletics has put out the call for fan-generated videos to use inside Beaver Stadium and on social media. Chris is ready to start filming; Mike the…
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FALL '20 Episode 13: Franklin's Great Hires, O'Brien Fired w/ Chad Washington
Week 2 of the Penn State Berkey Creamery's Fantasy Flavor League kicks off with a playoff-worthy matchup of Cookies 'n Cream versus Chocolate Chip Cookie…
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FALL '20 Episode 12: Storylines for Penn State's 2020
It's October. We're getting real, live Penn State football this month! With the season approaching, Chris, Kevin, and Mailman kick around some potential…
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FALL '20 Episode 11: A College Offense Explosion?
It's a grab bag of Penn State and college football topics as we get closer to once again enjoying Nittany Lions football Saturdays. James Franklin and staff…
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FALL '20 Episode 10: Eating Ice Cream & Opting In
The guys wrap up the conversation on college football recruiting, preview the Penn State Berkey Creamery's Fantasy Flavor League by dissecting the recipes and…
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FALL '20 Episode 9: Penn State Football Recruiting w/ Ryan Snyder, Blue White Illustrated
Like it or not, recruiting is what separates the great from the elite in college football, and no less authoritative a source on Penn State's recruiting than…
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FALL '20 Episode 8: Penn State Football Escapes Limbo
It may have taken some time, a lot of confusion, frustration, and a few false starts (and it may not even be a very wise idea!), but Penn State football is…
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FALL '20 Episode 7: To Play, Or Not to Play?
Does anyone have even the vaguest clue what is happening with Big Ten football in 2020? Doesn't seem like it. Not the cast of The Obligatory PSU Podcast. Not…
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FALL '20 Episode 6: Undrafted Nittany Lion to NFL Vet
With the NFL season upon us, the guys follow up on the last show about former Penn State players who survived cuts to make a professional roster by giving…
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FALL '20 Episode 5: Penn Staters in the NFL feat. Chris Adamski
When James Franklin arrived at Penn State, he listed preparing his players for a shot at the NFL among his top goals, and the program has had great success…
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FALL '20 Episode 4: Penn State Game Day Rituals
After plowing through the festering heap of college football "news" from this week - from unsolicited phone calls from the POTUS to unfounded Twitter…
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FALL '20 Episode 3: Why All the Big Ten Secrecy?
Thanks to pretrial action for a lawsuit that presumably stands little chance of actually succeeding in court, we can finally confirm that there was, in fact, a…
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FALL '20 Episode 2: Classic Nonsense
What better time for a classic Obligatory digression than the pretend start of a non-existent football season? As the gang assembles (like The Avengers, but…
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FALL '20 Episode 1: Countdown to Remote at Penn State?
Place your bets. Mike the Mailman sets the official Obligatory over/under on weeks until Penn State becomes the latest to make the move to remote learning…
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SUMMER '20 Episode 16: College Sports Chaos w/ Dr. R. Scott Kretchmar
Some technical issues held up release of this latest episode, recorded literally as the first news of the Big Ten season's cancellation reached the public. The…
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SUMMER '20 Episode 15: Fake Schedules & No Fans feat. Thomas Frank Carr
The first week of August brought more Penn State and college football news than we've had in like three months - from the release of the Nittany Lions' 2020…
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SUMMER '20 Episode 14: A Ticket to Ride
Enough of these wide-ranging conversations with interesting guests; time to get back to the basics of Obligatory. With Brandon Noble off for the day, Mailman…
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SUMMER '20 Episode 13: Mark Wogenrich, Sports Illustrated
Mark Wogenrich has covered Penn Sate football since 1999, as the long-time Nittany Lions beat reporter for The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and…
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SUMMER '20 Episode 12: Let's Talk Penn State
It's never a bad time to welcome in the hosts of our sister podcast "Let's Talk Penn State." Steve Garguilo and Tim Buckley join the show to talk about the…
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SUMMER '20 Episode 11: Chad Washington, PSUHouston.org
A Texas native, Chad Washington picked Penn State site unseen after meeting a campus recruiter. After arriving in Happy Valley, he experienced snow, wrote for…
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SUMMER '20 Episode 10: College Players Retro #1
With decades of passionate Penn State fandom and, in the case of Brandon Noble, five years wearing the Blue and White followed by a decade in the pros, the…
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SUMMER '20 Episode 9: "Sunshine" Shane McGregor
Shining a ray of Sunshine into dark times. Shane McGregor, who is easily Happy Valley's most recognizable and beloved scout team quarterback, thoughtfully…
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SUMMER '20 Episode 8: Extra Points with Matt Brown
College football author and journalist Matt Brown (not to be confused with State College's own college football author and journalist Matt Brown) specializes…