Podcast Episodes

SPRING '20 Episode 9: Is Bill O'Brien Hurting His Reputation?

Episode 32

Time spent alone with your thoughts (and without any sports) during quarantine affords the opportunity to ponder the answers to life's big questions. In this episode, the guys (minus Mailman) talk ab…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

SPRING '20 Episode 8: TribLive's Chris "Buzzsaw" Adamski

Episode 31

Perhaps no two-year span in the history of Penn State football held a greater combination of good, bad, unforgettable, regrettable, remarkable, and confusing than 2013-2014. This time period saw argu…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

SPRING '20 Episode 7: Postcards from the Edge

Episode 30

Another week spent sheltering at home, and we can happily report that Mike the Mailman is safe and sound. In this episode, the gang fields Twitter questions from the audience (keeping fully on-brand,…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

SPRING '20 Episode 6: Quarantine Blues

Episode 29

Nobody wants to be the one who infected Mike the Mailman with coronavirus, so social distancing it is. For the first time in a long time, the full cast of The Obligatory PSU Pregame Show gets togethe…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

SPRING '20 Episode 5: THON Mail Call & More

Episode 28

Way back in 1989, Penn State students first invited an increasingly-recognizable campus postal worker to deliver mail to the dancers at the annual Dance Marathon (held in the White Building). Over th…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

SPRING '20 Episode 4: Unsolved Murders at Penn State

Episode 27

Most Penn Staters have heard of the unsolved murder in the Pattee Library stacks, but few know the whole story. This week, the guys sit down with true crime author Derek J. Sherwood to discuss his bo…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

SPRING '20 Episode 3: Ben Jones of StateCollege.com

Episode 26

Ben Jones is a Happy Valley native who launched onto the scene as an on-the-ground student reporter during the early days of the Sandusky scandal and has spent nearly a decade covering Penn State spo…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

SPRING '20 Episode 2: Penn State Hoops & Hockey w/ David Eckert of BWI

Episode 25

The new year is bringing what may be one of best Winter/Spring sports seasons for Penn State in many years; the men's ice hockey team is ranked in the top 10 and poised for a postseason run at the Fr…

Published on 5 years, 11 months ago

SPRING '20 Episode 1: 2019 Nittany Lions in Review

Episode 24

Back again, and still better than nothing. #Obligatory kicks off its 2020 podcasting season with a look back at 2019.

Penn State entered the season on the heels of an underwhelming 2018 season that s…

Published on 5 years, 11 months ago

FALL '19 Episode 13: Bowling for Roses (or Orange Cotton)

Episode 23

Penn State's path to Pasadena still looks open after the final week of the regular season, but did a decidedly lackluster showing at home versus lowly Rutgers imperils the Lions' New Years Six chance…

Published on 6 years ago