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The Forward's Backwards podcast is an in-depth and unofficial look at Forward Madison FC of USL League One. Hosts Keith Poniewaz and Dan Fallon recap matches, complain about stuff (mostly officials), dive into Madison with Neil Hlavaty, and recap this day in Forward Madison History.

Keith Poniewaz and Dan Fallon (hosts)


    • Jun 28, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • monthly NEW EPISODES
    • 51m AVG DURATION
    • 85 EPISODES


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    Latest episodes from Forward's Backwards Podcast

    Episode 81 Resurrection

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2022 40:19


    Forwards Backwards launches #hotflocksummer, recounts the Henny Derby, and forgets about the CLT (just like a man, am I right!?!)

    Episode 81

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 42:38


    Keith returns from Berlin Germany... Rather than discussing Bucks heartbreak or Hertha Berlin heartbreak we focus on Forward Madison. Pod bigamy is also discussed.

    Episode 80- Withdrawn

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2022 35:17


    Kyle and Keith talk about soccer in a way that is sure to please all fans of Forward Madison soccer club

    Episode 79: Renaissance

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2022 49:20


    A nuanced review of Forward Madison Football Club which is sure to be enjoyed by everyone who follows Forward Madison Football Club.

    Episode 78 Enconium

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2021 56:06


    Episode 78 Enconium by Keith Poniewaz and Dan Fallon (hosts)

    Episode 76- Denouement

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2021 40:38


    There are beer related complaints, we stare into the great existential void, and discuss Madison v Chatta on Halloween eve. The usual.

    Episode 75 Expiration

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2021 49:51


    Keith and Kyle recap Union Omaha and FC Tuscon. There are references to obscure cultural topics... It's ultimately better without audio, but you knew that.

    Episode 74 Furor

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2021 38:33


    Episode 74 Furor by Keith Poniewaz and Dan Fallon (hosts)

    Episode 73 Amorphous

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2021 44:37


    Life is slow dying...

    Episode 72: Systolic

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2021 53:19


    CAMP MINGO! KEITH'S BLOOD PRESSURE! TIES!

    Episode 72- Systolic

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2021 53:19


    Episode 72- Systolic by Keith Poniewaz and Dan Fallon (hosts)

    Episode 71- Blunted

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2021 41:21


    Episode 71- Blunted by Keith Poniewaz and Dan Fallon (hosts)

    Episode 70 Phishing

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2021 46:24


    The Phish x Forwards Backwards Collaboration no one wanted.

    Episode 69: nice

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2021 37:54


    Episode 69: nice by Keith Poniewaz and Dan Fallon (hosts)

    Episode 68: Stalemate

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2021 56:32


    Kyle and Keith continue to talk Bucks in Six, a captain's performance, and why we keep conceding the same damn goal... And Keith and Kyle undergo Freudian Twitter analysis...

    Episode 67: Hexagonal

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2021 40:43


    Episode 67: Hexagonal by Keith Poniewaz and Dan Fallon (hosts)

    Episode 66 Turgidismo

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2021 31:57


    Paisley keeps us on a tight... leash... this episode. Keith and Kyle recap an overheated yet turgid match from last Saturday and provide some insight to the upcoming Juneteenth celebration versus Revs II.

    Episode 65 Atrocious

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2021 47:58


    VAR. Humidity. Union Omaha. The only bright spot? An official pod blessing of TallMingo and Sara's Wedding.

    Episode 64: superpod

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2021 47:08


    Lots of actual football talk with a brief discussion of cannibalism thrown in.

    Episode 63? Sartorial

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2021 73:20


    We talk Flock Fashion with Mike Quieto. Reminder we are not responsible for the content of our own podcast.

    Episode 62 Penetration

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2021 73:20


    The Sacred and Profane: We discuss the church of Breese Stevens and Dan Fallon's vomit. The only League One podcast to give you a Rashomon-esque recap of the Derek Gebhard goal. And to make a Rashomon reference.

    Episode 60 Revivification

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2021 46:23


    We discuss manure, ties in Tuscon and don't discuss USL League One reffing.

    Episode 59- Bedlam

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2021 59:05


    We spend 9.5 minutes talking Forward and 50 minutes talking about how capitalism is a grim unending hellscape that amuses us to death until we explode from our own amusement. Somehow we forget to mention Schopenhauer or Kafka.

    Episode 58 Pandemonium

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2021 37:26


    The USL League One preview against which all other previews will be judged.

    Episode 57: Revenants

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2021 62:47


    Neil Hlavaty and Dan Fallon are back with Kyle and Keith. They talk the roster as it stands and a bunch of other junk. Finally, they celebrate the career of J.C. Banks: "he's one of our own."

    Episode 56 Smorgasbord

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2021 51:45


    Keith and Kyle (Dan is on parental leave) are joined by Andrew Schmidt, Zach Zwadzich, Liam Geoghan Smith, Grant Pieters and Chris Fox (Colin Shekem in abstentia)to discuss how they're raising money for kids with cancer, how the Med Marauders got started, and an MF Doom-Featherstone Flamingos roll out. At various points, the guests poke the hosts on some of their favorite subjects like Grant Wahl, The Weeknd and Tom "The Goat" Brady.

    EMERGENCY- Kubapalooza - 12:24:20, 9.02 AM

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2020 75:26


    this one defies description... Producer Paisley's got a hangover...

    Episode 55: Roseus

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2020 52:58


    The Concacaf Opera, Inbounds and Outbounds for Forward Madison, and our new segment that rejects listener input...

    Episode 54: Commencement

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2020 56:59


    We talk about a lot of stuff-- indeed, this might be the only podcast that covers OJ and Clean Language Psychology-- with the new manager at Forward Madison Carl Craig. Dan, Keith and Kyle are mostly along for the ride.

    Episode 53: Encapsulation

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2020 51:20


    Keith, Kyle and Dan are joined by Rob Chappel to review covering Forward in 2020 and to speculate a bit on 2021. Also, how ironic is having an in-person gathering to discuss banning in-person gatherings...

    Episode 52- Progress

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2020 67:16


    It's unclear what we talk about this week with Peter Wilt, but we shout out Francesca Hong and the Progressive Tradition, so that's cool Dan is out of the 401k.

    Episode 51- Expiscatory

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2020 45:14


    Coaching search... drinking... voting... the usual...

    Episode 50- Denouement

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2020 45:03


    Goodbye to all that: valedictions are given to Coach Daryl Shore.

    Episode 49- Peregrinations

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2020 48:52


    We discuss Caden Clark and his parents and his relationship to Forward Madison and the old relationship between Minnesota United and how Keith and Dan are older than Caden's parents and young soccer players and the NBA and Chris Brady and Michael Vang. We don't discuss any of the matches; we do discuss Vanilla Ice Cream.

    Episode 48 Avian

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2020 57:09


    Specially uploaded for Chairman Schmidt, we talk a bunch of stuff about the match up between Omaha and Forward Madison last week. A perfectly adequate podcast that is probably #betterwithoutaudio. Also, Dan reveals that two men saw him naked before the pod had even begun

    Episode 47- KPSOT

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2020 52:27


    After welcoming Dan back from his Fallonspringa: we laud Landon and take umbrage with the USL; we invent the KPSOT and bring back the Heckin Scale; finally, we talk Tuscon too.

    Episode 46 Flock The Vote

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2020 56:23


    Fuck Chattanooga and Fuck Robin Vos and the other bitch ass Republicans. The pod talks democracy in the park...

    Episode 43- Turgidity

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2020 53:52


    Omar Anguiano stops by to talk kits-- specifically the one La Barra 608 put together with Icarus kits-- and Keith does some dumb voices. Eventually, Kyle and Keith and Omar talk the loss to Greenville.

    Episode 42: Endeavor

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2020 34:27


    Working on the weekend, Kyle and Keith recap Forward versus NEII. We keep it short, but discuss the Vang Train, Ovalle golazo (and who is his doppleganger) and a bunch of other useless things.

    Episode 41: Cooperative

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2020 30:16


    Francesca Hong, Democratic Candidate for the 76th District of Wisconsin joins us... We talk Kenosha, we talk the useless racist Republican party, and we talk Michael Vang and why he matters.

    Episode 40- Caesura

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2020 60:11


    Co-host Kyle Carr speaks about Justice for Jacob Blake. Otherwise, what does the Forward's Backwards Podcast sound like when technical difficulties prevent them from watching the match? Not all that different.

    Episiode 39- Chrysalis

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2020 43:31


    We hope you got your hot takes elsewhere, because Forward's Backwards podcast is serving up leftovers from the Union Omaha match... From Papillon to Wauwatosa... With a side stop in Athens, Georgia... There's also some Kennedy and Carson Daly talk for the heads.

    Episode 38 Vangspotting

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2020 58:30


    USL League 1's number one Canadian Premier League podcast is back to talk Vang-ferroequinology, whether Connor and Josiah need to be named like a wrestling duo or a law firm and head butting...

    Episode 37 Aphasia

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2020 57:23


    Keith, Dan and Kyle try to go as long as they can without discussing the Henny Derby.

    Episode 35 Hennerific

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2020 59:38


    Keith and Kyle discuss the home away from home opener and that Henny Derby feeling with special guest Elliott Barr from the River City 93 podcast. Dele Ali's fashion choices and just how much soccer does Kyle watch are also covered.

    Episode 35- Recrudescence

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2020 59:56


    This week Keith Poniewaz and special co-host Kyle Carr discuss Forward v. North Texas with Neil Hlavaty. They also preview Greenville and offer their meteorological predictions for the "home" opener... No snow is the guess (hope?)

    Episode 34- Entanglements

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2020 52:27


    The flamingo cannot hear the flamingoer .. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming of Forward Madison is discussed with passionate intensity by Dan and Keith along with a cynical prediction of how long the season will last along with Chinese Checkers and lineup graphics. Keith provides a bonus economics lesson...

    Episode 33: Running On Fumes 8

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2020 47:55


    USL's return and the pod's hiatus with Peter Wilt.

    Episode 32: Dissimulation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2020 79:05


    This week's podcast welcomes USL's VP of Communications Ryan Madden to talk about the return of USL and how that's going. Kyle Carr theoretically returns to talk TELETHON, but, actually, we spend about 40 minutes rambling about our love of Liverpool and our crushes on GIni, Hendo, Big Virg, Sadio and the rest of the lads.

    Episode 31: Beneficence

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2020 46:53


    This week, Dan and Keith are joined by Jeffrey Anderson, Grant Pieters, Kyle Carr, and Kelly Ferguson to discuss the Flock's upcoming Telethon and argue about generational differences. Names are mispronounced, music is mentioned, and a good time is had by all.

    Episode 30- Running on Fumes 7

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2020 47:31


    Keith, Dan and Peter discuss the economics of lower division soccer in a pandemic, how to purchase a team and make it US Soccer compliant and whether a 35 minute Tweezer is the best walk out music-- especially with a lead.

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