About

Last Of The Line is just middle-aged men talking about life.

A podcast about friendship, memories and brutal character assassinations. An extension of our WhatsApp group, we ramble across topics we know little about, including the future, parenting, sport, film / tv / music, tech, travel, cars, finance, health, property, gaming, wine, war, and of course, much to some's dismay, cricket.

Format

With no less than four and no more than six participants each episode, your hosts Sam and Jon do their best to keep the conversation interesting, on topic, and under two hours.

We've agreed to make 100 episodes, as often as we can. God help us all.

Our Story

When our friendship group hit 40, and our family and friends started dropping like flies. Before one of them sadly passed away, in their last conversation, he gave Sam an idea. Sam couldn't let it drop, as it felt like the last gift he had left behind.

He had done everything that was expected of someone slowly but inevitably going to die. He'd organised a final family holiday, sorted his will, arranged his finances, ticked off items on his bucket list, spent quality time with his wife and children, and written them letters to open throughout their lives.

But he was sad that so few people, and in particular his young children, would ever know how funny he was in an adult environment. He saved a lot of his best material for his friends. They would never hear him tell his favourite anecdote, recount old memories, make edgy jokes, or see for themselves that his friends thought he was genuinely hilarious. He wished that he had done something about this, he just never worked out what, before it was too late.

Last Of The Line is our attempt to honour his idea, for our own children, for when the worst inevitably comes for one of us.

This podcast is dedicated to him, and to all the conversations that ran out of time.

Why Last Of The Line?

We sit at the fault line between two worlds — the last generation to grow up without the internet, and the first to raise children who’ll never know life without it. We remember when things ended, not just when they updated. This podcast is our way of capturing that in-between perspective before the line moves on without us, to make sense of life on the edge of two eras, before the batteries finally run out.