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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 across Nittany Nation, the guys focus on the stories, issues, and personalities surrounding the Blue and White fan experience.The Obligatory PSU Podcast delivers fun and insightful commentary on the teams, University, and place that are beloved by many thousands of students, alumni, and fans. There’s no pretense of objectivity or “journalistic” distance here; these guys are here because they care, and their Penn State knowledge and love shine through in every installment. The goal is to touch on a
Unknown Host hosts The Obligatory PSU Podcast, a sports show with 212 episodes published.
Penn State's 2025 football season officially came to a close with the Nittany Lions' 22-10 victory over Clemson in the Pinstripe Bowl. While both rosters were limited by player injuries and opt-outs, interim head coach T
As calendar year 2025 approaches its end, the guys pour some egg nog, gather around the yule log, and retell the long and winding tale of a crazy year in Penn State football. Sure to warm your heart and freeze your blood
Penn State football has a new head coach! It may have taken Pat Kraft a couple of months, cost us a recruiting class, and ended with a stranger-than-fiction leaked audio scandal destined for memetic infamy, but Penn Stat
Mercifully overshadowed by the real news of the day (Matt Campbell to PSU), the largely innocuous leaked audio of athletic director Pat Kraft's behind-closed-doors meeting with leaders of the football team put one final,
Is it gonna be Kalani Sitake? Jeff Brohm? Some shadowy mystery candidate? And whoever it ends up being, will that guy actually have a roster left to coach by the time he gets here? As we all sit on increasingly uncomfort
BONUS CONTENT: As hinted at during this week's show, we couldn't let the Terry Smith momentum pass - along with quite possibly our last (God willing) opportunity to speculate about Penn State's head coaching search - wit
TER-RY! TER-RY! TER-RY! The Beaver Stadium crowd chanted for one of their own as he'd just vanquished a fellow Nittany Lion in a battle of Paterno legacies leading hobbled blue bloods. Kaytron Allen became Penn State's a
Penn State's former coach, James Franklin, has officially locked down his next gig. Penn State's current coach, Terry Smith, got his first win, brought home the Land-Grant Trophy, and then brought down the house with an
From the players to the coaches to the fans, everybody brought their Saturday best against Indiana, but in keeping with the theme of this cursed season, it wasn't enough. The Hoosiers prevailed, and in heart-breaking fas
Following the annual dispiriting loss to Ohio State - somehow both more AND less discouraging than usual - the unranked Penn State Nittany Lions return home to face undefeated and second-ranked Indiana as double-digit un
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 the Nittany Lions mak
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 Horne got into the good s
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 head football coach of
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 dysfunctional football perfo
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 HOBBITS waiting to d
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, because UCLA becko
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, mere contemplation o
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 oversamples that population
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 overreactions to what, at th
Thanks to the podcast's Fall 2025 sponsor: Gold Hen *Use promo code MAILMAN at checkout To whatever extent a powerhouse football program grafted onto an R1 land-grant university can have a meaningful relationship with a
Matt Campbell
associate professor of Genitourinary Medical Oncology · university/medical institution (not specified)
1 appearance on this show
Jim Knowles
Penn State
1 appearance on this show
Mike Levine
Assistant Professor of Musicology · Christopher Newport University
3 appearances on this show
Tim Buckley
former CEO and chairman at Vanguard · Let's Talk Penn State Podcast
1 appearance on this show
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