The Last Word Podcast
Nastassia Jones, Co-Founder of the Last Hurrah Funerals and Comedian Jonathan Schuster invite a different legend each week to come and plan their final farewell. From location, tunes, and final disposition, each episode follows the trio scheming grand and often weirdly specific and personal funeral wishes. Nothing is off-limits here. The Last Word tosses hushed tunes and solemn discussions for lively, wrong-town chats that ultimately make conversations about death a touch less intimidating.
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Episodes
Sunday Jul 27, 2025
Sunday Jul 27, 2025
In our season finale, Rhys Mitchell joins us to plan his cherry-laden farewell after a dramatic lightning strike, a cozy composting, and a send-off full of laughter. Thanks for listening, laughing, and grieving with us. We’ll be back next season with more Last Words.
Sunday Jul 20, 2025
Sunday Jul 20, 2025
This week on The Last Word, Dave Quirk serves up a lovely little farewell in Bright—vegan snacks, nice yarns, and music that… well, let’s just say it’s a choice.
Sunday Jul 13, 2025
Sunday Jul 13, 2025
This week on The Last Word, Xander Allan plans a farewell with all the essentials: hors d'oeuvres, ham off the bone, good whisky, and his signature cowboy boots.
A send-off with flavour and flair. Just how he’d want it.
Sunday Jul 06, 2025
Sunday Jul 06, 2025
This week on The Last Word podcast: Oliver Coleman plans a farewell that’s part pilgrimage, part pagan pageant. After a 3-day hike to a mountain in the heavens, guests will be treated to a vegetarian medieval feast, a funeral pyre, and a full-bodied straddling of the living and spiritual realms.
Sunday Jun 29, 2025
Sunday Jun 29, 2025
This week on The Last Word with Nat Harris, we plan a funeral straight out of Days of Our Lives.
There’s a chandelier collapse, Cher straddles a coffin, and the dress code is: floor-length drama.
Sunday Jun 22, 2025
Sunday Jun 22, 2025
This week on The Last Word, Cameron Duggan joins us for our crookest and horniest episode yet.
There’s chaos, cremation with benefits. Perhaps sit this one out Nan.
Strap in (or on), it’s a ride.
Sunday Jun 15, 2025
Sunday Jun 15, 2025
This week on The Last Word we say auf Wiedersehen with Maren May — planning her farewell in Frankfurt, complete with schnapps, nudity, and unreasonably good vibes. Prost to going out with absolutely no clothes and no regrets.
Sunday Jun 08, 2025
Sunday Jun 08, 2025
This week on The Last Word Podcast we catch up with comedian Zack Dyer, who’s planning to go out chill but swinging — literally. A peaceful farewell in full fighting stance, a see-through coffin, and more XXXX than a Queensland wake can handle. It’s laid-back, legendary, and lager-fuelled.
Sunday Jun 01, 2025
Sunday Jun 01, 2025
This week on The Last Word with Nastassia Jones and Jonathan Schuster: we plan Urvi Majumdar’s ultimate farewell—complete with a VR Cheaper Buy Miles experience, fancy eats, and just a sprinkle of psychedelics.
Sunday May 25, 2025
Sunday May 25, 2025
On this week’s The Last Word Podcast, Nastassia Jones and Jonathan Schuster welcome the wonderful Lewis Garnham to plan a farewell that’s part funeral, part beach party.
Think natural burial, ocean views, and a send-off stacked with bangin’ food and drinks, and naturally many, many tangents.