Viola Nation: for Fiorentina fans

Cinders. Ash. Dark, roiling skies. A desolate landscape strewn with rubble. This, dear listener, is where your favorite Fiorentina podcast idiots reach you from. We shriek into the uncaring heavens, hoping to hear an echo that will prove that their are limits to our suffering, but our calls continue into a cold and endless universe, weakening until they vanish without ever seeing an end to the suffering. Why, yes, we are indeed recording in the aftermath of a psychically destructive defeat against Como [https://www.violanation.com/fiorentina-match-coverage/20079/fiorentina-1-2-como-serie-a-match-report-this-is-not-going-well]. However did you guess? As you’d expect, we’re diving deep into what went wrong here. Whether it’s the personnel or the tactics, we’re leaving no stone unturned. Much like the season itself, we’re so upside-down that we’re changing roles mid-podcast. This time around, it’s Producer Mike who completely diverts us into a long conversation about wine pairings, which may be for the b best given that we also touched on McMike’s oddly erotic dreams while Tito blithely plows through all of it. Turns out that we were wrong with our last episode [https://www.violanation.com/viola-station/20033/viola-station-86-new-fiorentina-podcast-episode-lets-talk-about-real-games-thank-goodness], and that’s on us. We’re very sorry. Thank you as always to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sport Social Podcast Network⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://live.sport-social.co.uk/] for hosting us and to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Windchime Weather⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://windchimeweather.bandcamp.com/track/sober-dumb] (Nate's got new music out!) for the music. And as always, we hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed making this. You could leave a rating and review if you want, but whatever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

It's taken us months of waiting and we've gotten so frustrated that McMike pulled out all his hair, but we finally have additional games to talk about. Join two-thirds of your favorite Fiorentina podcast idiots (McMike's getting experimental Rogaine treatments and also moving house) to talk about the Viola in real, live games. Calcio is back. Because the transfer window industrial complex remains the single greatest driver of discourse in this accursed sport, we do have more mercato discussions, running through the arrivals of Hans Nicolussi Caviglia and Tariq Lamptey and how they'll shape this team's season. The real highlight for us, though, is having actual Fiorentina games to talk about, although the Producer Mike therapy episode and Miner Talk (way less scary to write than say out loud) with Tito. Thank you to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sport Social Podcast Network⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.violanation.com/2025/2/7/24360373/viola-station-72-3-dudes-in-full-flail-mode-over-the-mercato-fiorentina-podcast-new-episode] for hosting us and to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Windchime Weather⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://windchimeweather.bandcamp.com/] for the music. As always, we hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed making this. You could leave a rating and review if you want, but whatever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

Endless summer? More like endless bummer. Because Fiorentina isn't playing, obviously. Your favorite Fiorentina podcast idiots are back and we're so tired of the estival inactivity that we've turned to making outlandish predictions. Yep, we're putting our names on some big predictions for this upcoming season, predictions that are of course completely correct and won't make us look like morons in 9 months. We don't just get hung up on the future, though. We also talk about the recent past, trying to glean what we can from preseason. McMike also prodded us into a discussion of Fiorentina's midfield and whether or not it's good enough. Along the way, we learned about what number of teeth in West Virginia is the right number of teeth in West Virginia, Producer Mike "Guinness in a Peroni Glass" Hines favorite lines from the New Jersey poet laureate (not that one), and Lorenzo the Lion in a gimp mask. You can find the show by searching “Viola Station” wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you to ⁠⁠⁠⁠Sport Social Podcast Network⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.violanation.com/2025/2/7/24360373/viola-station-72-3-dudes-in-full-flail-mode-over-the-mercato-fiorentina-podcast-new-episode] for hosting us and to ⁠⁠⁠⁠Windchime Weather⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://windchimeweather.bandcamp.com/] for the music. As always, we hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed making this. You could leave a rating and review if you want, but whatever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

Welcome back to Viola Station, everyone, where 2 of your 3 favorite Fiorentina podcast idiots brave the heat and ennui of summer to talk about the Leicester City friendly and the transfer market. On the topic of the former, we chop up the action a little bit while trying to remember that these friendlies are utterly meaningless while still trying to draw some sort of conclusion. After that, we delve into the transfer market, discussing new signing Simon Sohm and some of the departures we're expecting and the Fiorentina salary structure and its implications. Along the way, we discuss Producer Mike's haunted house, some offhand disdain for Pisa, and Mbarney Nzola. Thank you to ⁠⁠⁠Sport Social Podcast Network⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.violanation.com/2025/2/7/24360373/viola-station-72-3-dudes-in-full-flail-mode-over-the-mercato-fiorentina-podcast-new-episode] for hosting us and to ⁠⁠⁠Windchime Weather⁠⁠⁠ [https://windchimeweather.bandcamp.com/] for the music. As always, we hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed making this. You could leave a rating and review if you want, but whatever. You can reach out to us on the website [https://www.violanation.com/], Twitter [https://x.com/Viola_Nation], or Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/violanation.bsky.social]. Forza Viola! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

The mercury's high, the sleeves are short, the sun is hot, and the takes are even hotter. That's what happens when in July, when your favorite Fiorentina podcast idiots are running on SPF (Speculatively Positive Foolishness) fumes and delivering some blistering takes. Before we get to takes, though, we run through the conclusion of Moise Kean Release Clause Minidrama and Stefano Pioli's introductory press conference. After that, though, each of us tried to outdo the others in irresponsible optimism, before doing a quick rundown of the transfer rumors. Along the way, we learned about McMike's Tuscan hot dog conundrum and Producer Mike's second stroker theory. Thank you to ⁠⁠Sport Social Podcast Network⁠⁠ [https://www.sbnation.com/e/24124414] for hosting us and to ⁠⁠Windchime Weather⁠⁠ [https://windchimeweather.bandcamp.com/] for the music. As always, we hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed making this. You could leave a rating and review if you want, but whatever. You can also hit us up on the website [https://www.violanation.com/], Twitter [https://x.com/Viola_Nation], or Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/violanation.bsky.social] if you feel like it. Forza Viola! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]