Podcast Episodes

FALL '25 Episode 14: Run for Cover

Episode 183

Bye Week's over now. Back to the real world.

Penn State didn't get the win in Terry Smith's debut as interim head coach versus Iowa, but they did cover the spread for the first time this season. Can t…

Published on 2 months ago

FALL '25 Episode 13: Try, Try Again

Episode 182

Time to refocus on football, concentrate on all that lies ahead, and make an uplifting episode about the future and its boundless possibilities. Or at least that was the plan for this week. Then Horn…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

FALL '25 Episode 12: #Unraveled

Episode 181

What began with such promise and hope in the wake of Bill O'Brien's departure has now come to an end in a fashion heretofore unseen at Penn State. James Franklin has been relieved of his duties as he…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

FALL '25 BONUS: Northwestern Debacle Instant Reaction

From bad to worse to inconceivable (and yes, we know what it means).

After another picture-perfect afternoon and wonderful weekend of celebration in Happy Valley was soured by an inexplicably dysfunct…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

FALL '25 Episode 11: All Good Things

Episode 180

FRODO glances at SAM ... he is WEEPING.

CLOSE ON: FRODO wrapping an ARM around SAM’S SHOULDER.

FRODO  (calm)
I'm glad to be with you, Samwise  Gamgee, here at the end of all things.

HIGH WIDE: TWO TINY…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

FALL '25 Episode 10: You Have Died of Dysentery

Episode 179

Welp....

Nothing quite like a fresh Obligatory when the guys are (sadly) at their best to cure what ails ya.

Uncurl yourself from the fetal position, take your medicine, and crawl back into the saddle,…

Published on 3 months ago

FALL '25 Episode 9: Duck Hunt

Episode 178

PREEMPTIVE THERAPY! For us (some of us at least)? Certainly. For you too? Maybe also yes.

Every so often, there comes a crucial inflection point so fraught with meaning and pregnant with possibility, …

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

FALL '25 Episode 8: Champagne Villanova in the Sky

Episode 177

There's a shortage of folks who can seamlessly code switch between profane tirades over football minutiae and waxing poetic about the magic of the Nittany Valley, and the cast of this progrum oversam…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

FALL '25 Episode 7: Penn State is Still Number Two

Episode 176

Two games into a purported national championship run, the Nittany Lions are playing like their national ranking - number two.

Packed with the sort of therapeutic soul-searching, gut-wrenching overreac…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

FALL '25 Episode 6: Just Do It, One Last Time

Episode 175

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To whatever extent a powerhouse football program grafted onto an R1 land-grant university can have a meaningful…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago