This is not a drill! We repeat - this is not a drill! After 12 months of podcast radio silence, there is finally a new Fistball Australia podcast episode in the house!

Fresh off manning the mics at an immensely successful Men's Fistball World Championships in Mannheim, USA Fistball's Kyle Ejsmont joins the FiFA boys for a second attempt at recording an episode, after a previous attempt last December was unceremoniously, silently binned (due to lack of dedication from our editing team).

This time reigning Australian men's captain Rod "Inanimate Carbon" Matthews joins co-host Chris 'Super Mario' Milne to rhapsodise all things world fistball, filling in at late notice for the calendar clashing Malcolm "Mister Fister" Donnellon.

In this episode we dive in headfirst to discuss the recently completed 2023 IFA Fistball World Championships, discussing all the hot topics, dissecting the biggest stories, and reminiscing about the experience itself on a personal level.

We then turn the camera towards Mr Ejsmont himself, peeling back the curtain to talk about what goes on behind the scenes when you're an integral part of the IFA Media team (in this case, commentating the majority of the 52 games at this tournament), before turning the discussion towards the future of fistball in the USA and the impending difficult decisions surrounding the national team.

Of course, we don't finish there. Super Mario then shoots "Seven Quick Questions" about future World Championships at the boys (which of course are anything but "quick" conversations), before putting forward the submitted listener questions for responses and then finishing up with the standard (but a potentially record number of) shout-outs.

As always, a huge thank you to Rafael Dobler for the theme music to this podcast series.

Fist on!

Timestamps: @3:07 Beers @7:37 Fistball World Championships wrap up @40:33 Behind the curtain of fistball commentating @58:11 The future of USA fistball @1:10:32 Seven Quick (?) Questions @1:42:40 Listener questions @1:50:22 Obligatory shout-outs

Recorded on Saturday, 2nd of September, 2023.