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Back to SearchSUMMER '20 Episode 3: Why Prepare?
Episode 44
Plans. Everybody has them, as Mike Tyson once said, until they start getting punched in the face. Well, "everybody" except maybe Noble, Chris, Kevin,…
6 years, 3 months ago
SUMMER '20 Episode 2: Penn State, The Playoffs & the Agony of "Almost"
Episode 43
There's something to be said for 5 to 15 in the college football rankings as the most miserable, polarizing, and frustrating zone to inhabit in all o…
6 years, 3 months ago
SUMMER '20 Episode 1: Oasis of Nonsense in the Desert of Awful
Episode 42
Everything is confusing, uncertain, and, for the most part, terrible. In such volatile times, the Obligatory crew retrenches to the one thing for whi…
6 years, 3 months ago
SPRING '20 Episode 18: Football? Football.
Episode 41
After many weeks of mostly pessimism over the fate of college football in 2020, the dark clouds seems to be quickly parting, and now at least a somew…
6 years, 3 months ago
SPRING '20 Episode 17: Booze & Quarantine w/ Kirk French
Episode 40
Always a welcome guest on any Obligatory property, Penn State's resident professor of “Booze and Culture” Dr. Kirk French, who was recently honored a…
6 years, 4 months ago
SPRING '20 Episode 16: (Olive) Garden of Earthly Delights
Episode 39
The things we do for breadsticks... In this installment of the podcast, a full episode's worth of the sort of absurdity that could only emerge from o…
6 years, 4 months ago
SPRING '20 Episode 15: Penn State Memories
Episode 38
The live experience of college football sets it apart from most other sports. There are few other settings where you can experience something as thri…
6 years, 4 months ago
SPRING '20 Episode 14: Fiesta, Fires & Fritz
Episode 37
For many Penn State fans, one of the highlights of the entire quarantine came last week when NBC Sports replayed the 1987 Fiesta Bowl, Penn State's d…
6 years, 4 months ago
SPRING '20 Episode 13: Nonsense & NIL
Episode 36
Before launching our upcoming multi-episode look back at great Penn State football from the past, the guys take a customary spin through all manner o…
6 years, 4 months ago
SPRING '20 Episode 12: Penn State & the NFL Draft
Episode 35
In a time when the sports world has been turned completely upside down, the NFL Draft continues on undeterred (even though it will be on Zoom), and s…
6 years, 5 months ago