Australian banter, overcooked to perfection.
How 'Bout This? runs on loose panel banter, quick interruptions, and small premises that refuse to stay small. Recent episodes turn phone etiquette at gigs, British military trivia, footy reaction videos, forgotten recording dates, and leftover pasta into fast, messy comic spirals.
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How 'Bout This? is an Australian improv chat show built around momentum, interruption, and the comic value of taking a small thing far too seriously. It does not need a grand premise. Recent episodes begin with exhausted Comedy Festival chatter, a rare Friday afternoon recording, an episode-number riff, a missed diary arrangement, and a pasta image that somehow explains hundreds of episodes. From there, the show swerves. Concert phone etiquette becomes a miniature ethics debate. Short people filming a gig through a phone becomes oddly practical. A fact about the British Army not using “Royal” becomes the seed of a future airport novel about a corrupt king, soldiers, and a three-book deal nobody asked for. Footy reaction content becomes a fantasy of obligation, a free beanie, and leverage. A throwaway fact about ancient giant pigs turns into bacon logistics. The comedy comes from group pressure. One person makes a claim, another misreads it on purpose, and the bit expands until it has its own little internal politics. It is loose, blunt, and proudly under-polished. That does not mean it is lazy. The rhythm is fast, and the pleasure is hearing the panel catch each other’s tiny openings before the moment disappears. There are recurring signs of a long-running show with its own rituals: episode-number fussing, sign-off nonsense, references to Discord, Comedy Festival fatigue, Murder Village mentions, and self-aware jokes about how much podcast already exists. The show is best when everyone sounds a little tired, a little annoyed, and fully committed to the stupidest possible extension of the idea. Listeners looking for clean interviews or structured comedy essays may find it chaotic. Listeners who like Australian comic banter, footy-adjacent tangents, odd facts, and mock-serious nonsense will understand the machinery very quickly.
Made for: For listeners who like loose comic panels, Australian bluntness, footy-adjacent tangents, and everyday observations stretched into ridiculous fake debates. It suits people who prefer quick riffing over polished interview structure.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is how little it needs to start moving: an episode number, a diary mix-up, a phone at a gig, or a dry fact can become a full comic detour. Its long-running chemistry makes the mess feel lived-in rather than random.
Three of Australia's favourite improvisors Rik Brown, Jason Geary and Karl McConnell get together once a week to chat through the events of the week and follow their noses through an hour of absurdity that will make you laugh. Come to experience their special brand of conversational comedy, stay for the laughs. Enjoy!Facebook: www.facebook.com/sparkhowboutthis?Twitter: @hbtpodcast
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Three quick imaginations turn everyday opinions, stray facts and minor disagreements into elaborate comic detours.
How 'Bout This? turns loose conversation into a chain reaction. Rik Brown, Jason Geary and Karl McConnell can begin with recording-time fatigue or the pronunciation of an episode number, then build the smallest disagreement into a fully occupied comic premise.
A giant pig becomes a bacon blanket, and your idle thoughts have met their match.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Episode 562 turns festival fatigue and concert-phone etiquette into a dry, low-energy comic digression.
Episode 562 of How About This? settles into festival fatigue with a loose, hangout tone, and Jason carries the opening stretch while the others admit they are running on fumes.
Episode 561 turns a rare Friday-afternoon military riff into a crooked comic battle pitch with enough confidence to keep it moving.
Episode 561 of How About This? settles into a rare Friday-afternoon slot and uses that loose energy well. The panel takes one fact about the British Army, the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines, and the Royal Air Force and stretches it into a long, daft argument with real momentum.
A self-aware episode number spins into footy rewards, space bacteria, and cosmic love rocks.
Episode 560 makes a running joke out of its own label, treating the number like something that needs a proper identity before trying it on as a car, airplane glass, and even a hook for why anyone might listen.
David Beckham jokes, weather-app riffing, and quiz banter keep the episode lively.
A repeated David Beckham bit sets the tone, and from there the episode moves into quick, shaggy back-and-forth. A weather app becomes an easy running gag, and the quiz lands as a comic game rather than a straight exercise.
A noisy, quick-stepping panel riff that turns pigs, bacon, and bad prep into comic fuel.
How About This? episode 556 starts at full tilt, using the chant, the missed mic check, and the abrupt "winner Olympics'd you" banter to throw the panel off balance in a way that works.
A dirty equation gives way to a jam-bombed handbag and a drifting music tangent.
Episode 462 treats a number as the start of an argument about what makes something feel equational, then lets that idea drift into Miriam discovering jam pooled in her handbag after her mother handed over a jar with a loose top.
A Friday recording turns British Army lore into a loose airport-novel riff.
Episode 561 treats a rare Friday afternoon recording as a small event, then lets that looseness carry it into familiar PlayNext territory. A second viewing of Hail Mary gives way to Britain's military naming habits, before the conversation settles into an airport-novel pitch…
Tiny debates, treated with heroic seriousness.
The hosts discuss the pronunciation of their episode number 530, reference Hawaii Five-0, and briefly touch on Sydney Sweeney's controversy.
The hosts debate whether 'data' should be treated as singular or plural in common usage, exploring grammatical correctness versus evolving language acceptance.
The hosts discuss their podcast as a tale of vengeance against naysayers and review the violent Netflix series 'Last Samurai Standing'.
In episode 462 of How 'Bout This?, hosts Rik Brown, Jason Geary, and Karl McConnell discuss absurd mathematical equations about the episode number.
In episode 561, hosts Rik Brown, Jason Geary, and Karl McConnell record a rare Friday afternoon session.
The room sounds spent.
Episode 561 opens on a rare Friday-afternoon record.
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The hosts discuss a miscommunication about their recording schedule, with one forgetting an agreement and expressing frustration over the confusion.
This episode humorously discusses leftover pasta as a metaphor for the podcast's content, featuring absurd and random banter.
The hosts open with a recurring David Beckham bit and quickly spin it into a loose comic routine.
Episode 556 opens with a sung welcome that names Vincent Vinovich, Richard Beckham, and Little Karlovski.
The hosts celebrate reaching episode 550 of their podcast with humorous banter about the milestone and their persistence.
The hosts debate whether 'data' should be treated as singular or plural in everyday language, exploring grammatical correctness versus common usage.