A loose, real-time quiz where wrong guesses become part of the entertainment.
The segment turns a simple quiz into a playable little pressure test for Justin Hamilton, with Brydon "the Shark" Coverdale holding back the answers until the end.

Comedians, television, trivia and the news, all tangled together
Justin Hamilton hosts a rotating cast of comedians, collaborators and quiz minds for chats that wander from festival stand-up to streaming picks to the state of world politics. It is loose, opinionated and built around people who genuinely like talking to each other.
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Justin Hamilton has been making this podcast for a long time, and it shows in the ease of it. Nobody explains the premise. The show simply starts, usually with a quick note about what is coming and who is in the room. The current run leans on named segments, each handed to a specific collaborator. The Stack, with Garth Jones, covers books and the people who make them. Golden Streams brings back Steve Malk to work through television. I Should Have Known That is the newest addition, a ten-question quiz put to Hamilton by Brydon Coverdale, known from The Chase Australia and from writing questions for papers and quiz shows around the country. That segment is designed for the audience to play along in real time, pen in hand or driving. The quiz also demonstrates how the show works generally: a question about population figures becomes a tangent about why the Winter Olympics feel like a smaller contest than the Summer, since running belongs to everyone and skiing does not. Then it snaps back. The interview episodes follow the same rhythm. Comedians arrive with festival shows to talk about, and the conversation covers the craft honestly, including the awkward stage where the title exists before the material does. Hamilton is openly admiring of the guests he books, and says so, which gives the interviews a generosity that a colder format could not manage. Television talk gets serious about method, including a long stretch on the value of a documentary maker who lets subjects reveal themselves rather than confronting them directly. Politics is never a separate segment, just a place the talk keeps landing. Trade agreements, military spending, an election where a minor party outpolled the Greens, and a running argument about whether the political system permits good intentions to survive contact with it. There is a nostalgic thread too, including a case for 1989 to 2001 as the best window to have been alive in the West. Language is unguarded and the political material is blunt. Between segments Hamilton mentions his newsletter and a serialised memoir covering his earliest paid gigs in the nineties, presented as a direct line to listeners rather than a marketing push. Episodes carry advertising, some of it read from scripts that sit oddly against the loose talk around them. What holds it together is a host who treats his audience as people already in the conversation, and guests who are comfortable enough to be funny, unfinished and occasionally furious in the same conversation.
Made for: Listeners who follow Australian stand-up and live comedy festivals, and who enjoy long, digressive conversations about television, books and politics. It suits anyone who wants critical opinions delivered by friends rather than by a review format.
What sets it apart: Rather than running one interview template, the show rotates named segments with regular collaborators, including a trivia round built for the audience to answer along in real time. Comedy-industry talk and blunt political argument sit in the same episode without either being sanded down.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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Books, life, and the tender difficult middle.
Justin Hamilton introduces a new season of his podcast with a catch-up conversation with Will Anderson, discussing their changed morning routines and promoting his new bi-weekly newsletter.
Author Garth Jones joins to discuss novels, graphic novels, and current reading, with a reading from works in progress.
Comedian Justin Hamilton is joined by television expert Steve Malk to discuss current TV shows.
Comedian Justin Hamilton analyzes Alien: Earth Episode 2, 'Mr.
Tegan Higginbotham returns to The Justin Hamilton Podcast to discuss Gnomes, a six-episode Stan horror comedy about killer garden gnomes that premieres 8 October.
Justin Hamilton and Brydon Coverdale turn The Justin Hamilton Podcast into a live 10-question quiz that listeners can play along with.
Lehmo tells Justin Hamilton that the career work he is proudest of is nine troop tours, including eight to the Middle East and one to East Timor, plus an Australian Army Service Medal for Operation Slipper.
["Justin Hamilton and Steve Malk use this episode to point listeners at Jury Duty season 2, Last One Laughing, Louis Theroux\u2019s Inside the Manosphere, and The Pitt season 2.", "Jury Duty season 2 moves the prank-documentary setup to a company retreat at Rockin\u2019 Grandma\u2019s Hot Sauce, where Anthony, Doug, Dougie Jr., and a remote IT worker all shape the tension.", "Last One Laughing gets a breakdown of its eight-comedian format, with Bob Mortimer, David Mitchell, Alan Carr, and Sam Campbell all named as key players and Sam singled out in a full-body canary outfit.", "Louis Theroux\u2019s documentary is described as putting boys from 7 or 8 up to 15 or 16 in the path of misogynistic content, while The Pitt season 2 centers on the strain between Robbie, Dana, and Dr.
Justin Hamilton introduces his friend Jenny Tian and her new stand-up show 'When Life Gives You Oranges', discussing her comedy evolution and upcoming festival appearances.
Justin Hamilton introduces comedian Alice Fraser, discussing her return to the podcast and her upcoming shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Comedian Justin Hamilton is joined by returning guest Garth Jones on The Justin Hamilton Podcast to work through a stack of recent books and graphic novels, including Michael Winkler's Grief Dog, Brendan Colley's Season for Flying Saucers, and John Tottenham's Service.
On the Justin Hamilton Podcast, host Justin Hamilton checks in with comedian Tegan Higginbotham on her return to stand-up, opening with an Oscars debate about Timothee Chalamet's Best Actor loss and Michael B.
Justin Hamilton kicks off season 9 of his podcast with guest Molk to discuss the premiere of The Pitt season 2 and upcoming TV shows.
Host and author Garth Jones discuss their favorite movies of 2025 in the final podcast episode of the season.
Author Garth Jones discusses the new Predator Badlands film and shares his curated list of favorite books published in 2025, mostly by Australian and New Zealand authors.