Here we are, another Wednesday email on a Thursday, which is pretty close, let's be honest.
Last night Adam and Geoff were busy at the Australian Sports Commission Awards, where we notched a Highly Commended in the best podcast category - essentially a silver medal behind the sport me...
2024-02-22 08:44:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, what do you know. A Wednesday email on a Wednesday. We did it.
We're about to get into the third Test of the India-England series - see Cam's preview episode above - with Adam and some Daniel Norcross joining him for the Daily. We'll simultaneously be covering the Australia-South Afri...
2024-02-14 04:43:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hard to think of many more popular award winners than Mitch Marsh this last week, and his acceptance speech has immediately become iconic. As iconic as TFW sending out the first Wednesday email for February on a Saturday. How did that happen?
There was still a lot going on this week. Our co...
2024-02-10 04:05:21 +0000 UTC View Post
West Indies via Shamar Joseph in Brisbane. England from 190 behind in Hyderabad. South Africa's women beating Australia for the first time. And most of all, The FInal Word XI becoming The Final Word XVII and making it three wins in a row in our January 26 game at Birchgrove against the Newtown Br...
2024-01-31 04:41:21 +0000 UTC View Post
It has been all Bharat all the time - with he and Geoff in Adelaide together, we did four Daily shows, the live Story Time at the Ark, and the weekly show on Monday.
Now we're into a new phase, with the England tour of India about to start, where Cam Ponsonby will be reporting back for TFW....
2024-01-24 17:39:17 +0000 UTC View Post
That only took two and a bit days, which means that Bharat and Geoff didn't have quite as much work to do as they might have done, in between organising a live Story Time. So instead of being at the ground, we're sitting in the Adelaide hills figuring out what to put in the next weekly show.
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Did you come to the Sydney live show? If so, you saw Michael Bevan on rare form, a room full of people cheering replays 30 years later, and some of you even managed to find a pub with us after the show. Quite the quest.
Some good news is that for those who weren't there, this interview will...
2024-01-12 03:28:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Start as you mean to go on, they say. Which in our case means sending the first Wednesday email of the year out on a Saturday. Look, there has been a Test match to think about. Rizwan is attempting a ridiculous appeal against David Warner as we type.
But the most important thing is th...
2024-01-06 01:31:39 +0000 UTC View Post
There's nothing like a hometown Test match to give us the chance to up our wardrobe game, without the limitations of living out of a satchel. We reckon we did a decent job across the four days, that so nearly ended up being five.
It was a pretty special week in Melbourne, packing in v...
2023-12-30 08:26:56 +0000 UTC View Post
We had a great time in Perth. It was warm, it was mild, it was blue and clear. Every time you walk across the footbridge or take the train over the causeway, you are flying in a world of sky and water. And Pakistan's capitulation on the fourth day at least allowed Adam a more manageable travel sc...
2023-12-22 05:44:21 +0000 UTC View Post
It's quite impressive, in a way, to not only forget to post the email on Wednesday this week, but also forget to post it at all last week. That makes 16 days since the last time we sent one out. Whoops. We can blame a combination of things: babies and their upended sleep cycles, Meredith Music Fe...
2023-12-22 05:29:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Ah well, it had to happen sometime. We are back in Melbourne together this week, which has many things to like about it, such as sitting together in backyard dappled sunshine to record the weekly show. It always feels best doing it that way. We even did a video version of this one.
Fu...
2023-12-06 04:31:32 +0000 UTC View Post
He's good at photos, that Phil Brown. He has been back and forth between England and Australia for so long that he doesn't have a distinct idea of what home is, but he can still look up at a New South Wales sky and see some magic.
For us, there is something very special about getting back t...
2023-11-29 16:11:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Phew. That took some doing. And we're not even talking about the Australian cricket team, we're talking about the Australian podcasting team - apparently we released 67 episodes during the span of the tournament, with 48 Daily shows and 15 longer episodes covering the Weekly, Story Time, and Adam...
2023-11-23 06:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We've already had one, and we're waiting for the next. It's Week 3 of November on The Final Word, and the last week of our World Cup coverage. Before our TFW Daily for India's win over New Zealand (audio here, video abo...
2023-11-16 07:54:10 +0000 UTC View Post
That was quite a week. It was quite a Tuesday. It was also a reason why the Wednesday email is going out on Friday again, for November Week 2. We were a little bit distracted, ok?
You will all know that Glenn Maxwell produced the greatest individual ODI miracle. There are any number of pure...
2023-11-10 10:48:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy November. It is the first Wednesday of the month, and the first time in weeks that we've got this email out on time. The fact that it is November also means that is mathematically possible for this World Cup to eventually end, as Geoff continues to bounce around India and Adam keeps trackin...
2023-11-01 10:35:30 +0000 UTC View Post
What else would we put as top billing? Sure, the Wednesday email might be going out on Friday again, but the story at the top is the one that's most important, after a truly mad night out in Delhi this week. The video up top is our response.
The rest of the World Cup Daily shows are on the ...
2023-10-27 18:52:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello TFW world. It has been another of those weeks, as is evident by the Wednesday email coming out on a Friday again. But you know, days are arbitrary constructions aren't they? Either way, it's Week 3 of October, and we still have a lot of World Cup to go. But it has got more spicy - not just ...
2023-10-20 09:22:51 +0000 UTC View Post
We didn't make a big deal of this beforehand, because we weren't quite sure that it was going to come together, but now it has - The Final Word is at least 50% at the World Cup! Geoff made it to Chennai in time for the third day of the tournament, and will be there throughout to do radio commenta...
2023-10-13 13:50:30 +0000 UTC View Post
That's right. Week 1 of October is the beginning of the weeks to come. Why not start with this?
World Cup Daily 2023, Day 0: It's about to land. Ten teams, a dozen cities, the best part of seven weeks. Take a de...
2023-10-05 06:24:32 +0000 UTC View Post
It has to be close. We don't know the photographer's name, but this snap from 80s Brisbane grade cricket features an off-camera intervention from Story Time fave Harald Frei. If you can figure out who took it, let us know.
In other news, it is spring in Melbourne, various grand finals...
2023-09-27 08:08:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This might just have been the most bumper week we've ever put together. Yes, a regular weekly show, plus a couple of TFW Daily episodes as Adam wrapped up the one-day series with England and New Zealand. Story Time 150 was a live online affair with about a hundred people logging on to hang out wi...
2023-09-20 01:25:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello all, the live Story Time hangout for an utterly non-milestone episode will be happening today on a Zoom call. You can connect from 9:45am London time, which is 6:45pm Melbourne time, and those of you in between can work it out from there.
We have a couple of ridiculous stories t...
2023-09-15 05:57:26 +0000 UTC View Post
There'll be a special little extra this Friday, a live broadcast of our recording for the incredibly pointless milestone of Story Time 150. We'll put up a locked post that will also go out as an email, and it will have a Zoom link. Alternatively if you're already on Discord we'll try to broadcast...
2023-09-12 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It's the month off before the World Cup, and we're as busy as ever. Things we've learned recently: "Semper ad finem; numquam ante" is the Latin motto of our "Can't stop, won't stop," and it has held true. Given Adam was going to be at most of the matches while New Zealand toured England, we figur...
2023-09-08 04:44:54 +0000 UTC View Post
We've been predicting this for a while, but here it is. In the closing stages of a close ODI between two Full Member nations, a non-striker run out by the bowler is a big story but not the biggest of the match. The times are indeed changing.
In a rare month of five Wednesdays, this is...
2023-08-30 08:49:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Another week of some pretty cool things happening in Final Word land. We've also finally caught up on the Patreon inbox. If you want to get onto the Discord chat page - hint hint to those recent arrivals - now is the time to message for the code.
Of course, with things quieter, Adam h...
2023-08-23 18:59:38 +0000 UTC View Post
What a week! The full video of the Stephen Fry interview is now live and lots of people have enjoyed watching that one in addition to listening to it. Adam headed down to Lord's to interview Grace Harris, and there will be video of that one next week with the audio already live. And recorded to b...
2023-08-18 08:30:42 +0000 UTC View Post
First of all, exciting that almost a hundred people have newly joined or rejoined the silliness of Patreon over the course of the Ashes. Welcome, and thanks. If we can help you feel at home, let us know. We're working on getting through the message inbox, bear with us. If you can figure out how t...
2023-08-09 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post