Formidable Opponents

Send us a message and get a shoutout! The movies of Kevin Smith have had a huge impact on us spanning the past four decades.  Smith's intelligent philosophy, random musings, pop culture dialogue and quick  humor has been a huge inspiration for us and we now get to show our appreciation for someone who introduced us to Snowba...er, um, talents like Jason Lee and Jason Mewes (among countless ot...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! Stone Temple Pilots is a band we've always been fascinated by.  Their consistency, catalog and talent help to carry the rock scene when grunge was fading out and rock was left trying to find an identity.  STP had their ups and downs as a band but they hold a special place in our hearts for the memories, albums and the great live shows we got to witness. ...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! We all know that there are certain songs we can only tolerate for a season  (If you listen to Mariah's "All I Want for Christmas" outside it's requisite November-December confines, well, first of, why?  Secondly,  maybe don't).  Halloween is also a big music themed holiday.  We may not directly connect many of these tunes to Halloween...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! This week on Formidable Opponents, we are joined by Jenna and Danielle from the Did Not Need to Know Podcast, as they shift gears a bit to talk about something a little less gory and unbelievable.  It's that time of year and you know we have to talk horror movies, more specifically those scenes that were the most memorable.  So whether your weapon of choi...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! This week on Formidable Opponents we take a look back at some of our most cherished and fun Halloween memories (as well as a haunting figure in a cornfield that nearly beheaded Bob and Joseph).  Join us as this week we talk, candy, traditions, and our favorite memories of Halloween, as Formidable Opponents sets the mood for the best (or 2nd best, or 3rd best)...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! On part one of our two part series, "Top 10 Rock Bands," we had the opportunity to talk about what made us fans of the genre, all whilst touching upon our different tastes and musical preferences.  On this episode, you'll get the same insight, disagreement, comedy and debate as Formidable Opponents lists our top 5 rock bands of all-time, as comp...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! We're back after a short hiatus and back to talking about rock music.  It's a genre we've covered with our greatest rock songs of each decade episodes and it now culminates into a two part series where we each list our top ten rock bands.  For this episode, we're covering bands 10-6, so join us on this episode of  Formidable Opponents for a...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! The 90s dance craze bought us some of the most memorable music of the time.  Wedged between over-sized flannel and Raiders Starter  jackets, the spandex singlet wearing contingency of 90s lore emerged as a popular genre.  Although there weren't many who admitted to enjoying the pulse pounding bass, the operatic and over-the-top choruses replete with the o...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! This week on Formidable Opponents nobody is going to "break-a" our strides, for we will build this thing together, standing strong together, nothing's gonna stop us now,  (not even an absent guest).  This week we're in a great mood as we debate, "Best Feel Good Song."  What's not to feel good about?  We're thankful for y...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! This week on Formidable Opponents, we revisit the video game franchises that have given us and continue to give us some of our most memorable moments.  Like a proper sequel, we've learned a lot since our last foray into this topic.  We sound better, we know what we're doing (sorta) and we've introduced a new character.  Our buddy Danny G. joins...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! On this episode of Formidable Opponents, we explore that next crucial step in an actors career.  No, we're not talking about winning the Academy Award.  We are talking about those actors that took a leap into faith and decided to pursue a side hustle as singers.  Look, they can't all be like Jack Wagner ("All I Need" was a criminally underr...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! Metallica is synonymous with many things.  Metal, success, screwing up our burned CD compilations after upending Napster (sometimes you just want to follow up “The Unforgiven” with “Purple Rain,” while you eat your feelings).  We’ll get into that but more importantly, we’re paying homage to a band that influenced our musical tastes, provided us with countless...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! Welcome to episode 58, THAT's 58 , NOT 57 as wrongly mentioned in the intro (Give us a break, we're all still in vacation mode).  Once a year around this time we call truce and in that rare moment, we enjoy each other's company.  On this episode, we take a look back at the things that brought us together and extemporaneously share our thoughts a...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! Summer, a time to relax, reflect and of course, there’s no better way to do that than sitting pool side, partaking in your refreshing beverage of choice and listening to your favorite Summer songs.  Here at Formidable Opponents, not only would we like to keep all of our collective 29 and a half fingers in tact post 4th of July, we also like to keep the Summer...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! On this episode of Formidable Opponents, we discuss and debate a bygone era of rock that is often overlooked.  They say it takes time to appreciate what you once had and maybe enough time hasn't passed to appreciate the zeitgeist of the millennium's first wave of rock that maybe the public has yet to reflectively embrace but divorced dad's in Ul...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! We've managed, or at least have tried to describe "the era of excess" as best we could throughout our 80s focused episodes.  You would think by now, nothing could or would surprise us but the more topics we focus on during the epoch of New Coke and Styrofoam container "Keep the cool side cool, keep the hot side hot"  fast food meals ke...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! There's nothing like a great breakup song to get you through the most difficult of times.  They bring us comfort, relief, or, if you're gluttons for punishment like us, they offer you a companion that not only allows you to absorb that heartbreak at a whole other level, but they can also speak for us.  Music is wonderful like that, you can't tel...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! Opening movie scenes have taught us so much.  Be careful where you swim, burying a dead body can seem not so sinister, if accompanied by smooth narration and a classic crooner soundtrack and if you don't tip your servers before a bank heist, it may come back to haunt you.  A great opening movie scene can tell us everything we need to know about what we ar...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! Garden Gnomes...bad idea for a Mother's Day gift, new episode of Formidable Opponents, a great idea for a Mother's Day gift!  We waited a whole year to honor the greatest TV Moms in history.  To the funny, charming, intelligent, beautiful women who have graced our tv screens and to the ones who have graced our lives, we say, thank you.  Moms, thank y...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! This week on Formidable Opponents we revisit a simpler time, a time where if you were angry you could just dance or drive or gleefully money launder your troubles away.  A time where your problems could be solved in under four minutes, as long as they are accompanied by a synthesizer and intentionally dramatic lyrics.  Yes, this week we are putting one foot in...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! What better way to celebrate a 50th episode than to celebrate arguable the best band that ever lived?  This week Formidable Opponents regale in the splendor that is the music of The Beatles.  We give our takes on some of the best all-time classics the band gave us with the style, charm and humor we've provided you on at least 13 or 14  of our previous 49...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! This week Formidable Opponents kicks off the first in a two part series discussing the most influential band that ever lived.  We found that it was better to tear them down before we built them up (just to keep them humble, ya know).  As iconic as the Beatles were, it didn't give them immunity from releasing some truly awful songs, every once and a while....

Send us a message and get a shoutout! It's not like us to say "Soory," but in this case, we'll make that exception.   We had to do it!  After many jokes about the band, we decided to do an episode focused purely on one of the most critically hated rock bands in history.  We here at Formidable Opponents took on the difficult task to defend the Nickelback songs that got a bad rap...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! Hey, yo.  This week on Formidable Opponents, noted rock radio DJ, memorabilia collector,  co-host of Youtube's, "The Rock N Chaz" Show  and 3 times Kumite Tournament champion (non brick breaking division), Charlie  Corona joins us as we talk about movie posters, and their impact in encompassing the importance, message and feeling of a film.  On...

Send us a message and get a shoutout! With many giving praise to the new Batman film ("The Batman"),  Formidable Opponents has decided to take a look back at the history of Batman films -- more specifically, the stars who donned the cape, cowl and rubber nippled armor.    We have now witness different cinematic interpretations of this comic book legend spanning five consecutive decades. ...