I've been very fortunate to have been allowed to talk on the radio for the last few years, on the topic of skepticism. Anything and everything has been fair game, and I've tried to mix a skeptical critique of news stories with some field work - going out and visiting various weird and wonderful places and groups and talking about my experiences.

Here are my notes from the show, which I tended to write a few hours before I went live. I didn't often use the notes while I was on air, but they helped me to sort out my thoughts. Some of these are fully typed up, but others (especially when I've had limited time after an event to put my thoughts together) are just lists of talking points.

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• 16 August 2015

• Advertising Standards Authority Complaints

• Martin Harris is Supreme Winner at the Pharmacy Awards

• Dr Jim Mason - Creationist

• Bravo Award

• Waisake Naholo's miracle healing

• Resene Promotes Colour Therapy

• 13 December 2015

• Save the Wellington Astrology Centre

• Faith healer Rod Parsley seeks conventional treatment for throat cancer

• Eighty children get chickenpox at school that calls for 'tolerance' of vaccine dodgers

• Disciplined osteopath George McKenzie yet to apologise

• Bronx priest stole more than $1M from two NYC churches

• Marlborough clairvoyant steals $250,000 from couple in rest home

• Anti-vaxxer's baby hospitalised with whooping cough

• 15 November 2015

• End of the World Predictions

• 11 October 2015

• The world ends... again

• Perth Electrical Engineer finds errors in climate models

• Online real estate agency offers ghost-free home certification

• NHS wants to employ a Spiritual Healer

• Zimbabwe prophet's attempt to prove he can walk on air' falls flat

• MagneSleep lost an ASA complaint

• 4 October 2015

• Clairvoyant solves phantom freaking out Dunedin

• Haka gives ABs more than a psychological lift

• NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars

• Doctors and pharmacists clash over complementary medicines

• More sex for a healthy prostate - report

• 27 September 2015

• California's Drought Is A Government Conspiracy

• Kiwi traveller in Peru dies after Amazon drug ritual

• Dalai Lama Says a Female Successor Should Be Very Attractive

• Blood Moon on September 28 will bring huge earth-destroying earthquakes

• Jesus brain scan a miracle

• 20 September 2015

• GOP Candidates and Vaccines

• IgNobel Prizes

• Appetite for diet supplements benefits few, experts say

• 7 February 2016

• Are antioxidant-rich products good for us?

• KFC wins payout over China mutant chicken rumours

• Sandy Hook truther to face jury

• Split verdict for 'pH Miracle' author

• Jonathan Sarfati's New Zealand Visit

• Donald Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

• 17 April 2016

• Claims chiropractors can treat ADHD, allergies 'misleading' customers

• Family First vows to fight move to de-register it as charity

• Water fluoridation - DHBs to take control from councils under Govt proposal

• Luckiest Lotto stores revealed

• Skeptics' visit to the Mind Body Spirit Fair

• Former anti-vaxxer's emotional plea following newborn daughter contracting whooping cough

• 13 March 2016

• Ten of the healthiest herbs and spices to keep you fighting fit

• Adult Coloring Books and Mandalas, A Warning For Christians

• The Mandela Effect

• Call for council to make Christchurch parks spray-free

• 28 February 2016

• Acupuncture Works! (Not really)

• NZ gets its first Flying Spaghetti Monster marriage celebrant

• Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay more than AU$100 million in suit linking talcum powder to ovarian cancer

• Sydney IV.ME clinic closed after client hospitalised

• NZ Natural Health Products Bill

• 21 February 2016

• Homeopathy effective for 0 out of 68 illnesses, study finds

• Sea monster washes up in Australia

• Justice Scalia murder conspiracy

• Texas Board of Education hopeful believes Obama was a homosexual prostitute

• Shane Warne believes alien experiments turned monkeys into humans

• 14 February 2016

• Bags with coins in spotted at Muriwai Cafe

• David Icke Coming to New Zealand

• Whakatane flip-flops on fluoride

• Fast food Fakery

• New video of 'Yeti' at ski resort sparks Internet debate

• 17 July 2016

• Muslim call "For Public Purity", asking for people to hide dogs, appears to be a hoax

• Sad news for Pastafarianism

• FYI needs help categorising OIA requests

• The NZ Herald does it again with "natural" remedies for glandular fever

• US Pastor says that Pokemon are "digital demons"

• 10 July 2016

• Bee Venom is supposedly an effective cosmetic

• Noah's Ark "replica" opens in Kentucky, US

• US man thinks he knows "the secret" to winning the lottery

• Sensing murder episodes are being rerun on TVNZ

• 3 July 2016

• Christchurch City Council to reduce use of weedkiller

• 110 Nobel laureates tell Greenpeace they are wrong about GMOs

• Jail time for dad who treated son's meningitis with alternative treatments

• Ken Ring tells people not to trust anything

• 26 June 2016

• 1,000 UK Vets say homeopathy should be banned

• Tony Robbins followers injured walking on hot coals

• NZ Herald prints article saying that taking selfies can damage your skin

• Stuff removes article on Colloidal Silver

• Blink-182 Guitarist denies he's left band to chase UFOs

• 19 June 2016

• Beauty Clinics are treating people instead of referring them

• Bilderberg Group meeting in Watford, England

• CYF can't say if they pay for alternative treatments

• UFO Spotted in Christchurch

• Dr Shaun Holt warns about cancer cures

• 12 June 2016

• Alt Med peddler Chris Savage stopped at Auckland airport

• Dodgy claims made about sawdust therapy in Auckland

• Singer Bobby Brown claims he had sex with a ghost

• Climate change deniers added to Christchurch coastal erosion panel

• National MP Maureen Pugh 'doesn't believe in pharmaceutical drugs'

• 5 June 2016

• Osteopath admits performing acupuncture without qualifications

• Family First research 'high school level' statistics

• 1080 blamed for kiwi bird deaths

• Rush Limbaugh weighs in on Harambe the gorilla

• 27 November 2016

• Bioptron call me

• Skeptics Conference

• Lots of earthquake nonsense

• 13 November 2016

• The Vice President-Elect is crazy!

• Go Green Expo full of woo

• 21 October 2016

• Indonesian "Bigfoot" caught on camera

• Chinese Man telling women's futures by touching their breasts!

• MedSafe has registered over a thousand unproven homeopathic health products as medicines

• Rival "health" bracelet sellers in NZ end up in punch-up

• 25 September 2016

• Anti Fluoride Group to promote DHB Candidates

• Dodgy Thai cancer clinic criticised

• Homeopathy Column removed from local paper

• New Sensing Murder Episode being recorded

• 18 September 2016

• Free Effective Altruism book

• Atheist documentary maker comes to NZ

• Homeopathy Column being removed from local paper

• Stuff uncritically publishes more medical nonsense

• Trump gets medical opinion from Oz

• 28 August 2016

• We should all drink alcohol for our health

• Chiropractic for Pregnancy Issues?

• Are processed foods causing mental illness?

• SBH press complaints

• 21 August 2016

• Brian Cox argues with Australian senator about climate change

• Not all water in NZ is chlorinated

• Stuff article on superfoods actually talks sense!

• Naturopathic Murder

• Witch Doctor in Wellington

• 7 August 2016

• David Icke Auckland Talk

• 4 December 2016

• NZ Skeptics Conference

• 2 April 2017

• Citizen Science and Planet 9

• Vaxxed Premiered at Reading Cinemas LynnMall

• NASA spends over $1 million on theology

• 26 March 2017

• Shaquille O'Neal believes in a flat earth?

• I wrote a letter to the NZ Medical Journal

• Census adds new non-religious categories

• 19 March 2017

• Australian who faked cancer diagnosis and cure found guilty

• Interview with Sensing Murder producers

• 5 March 2017

• My Visit to faith healer Father John Rea

• 19 February 2017

• Vaxxed movie showing in Auckland in April

• Whales were stranded by "weather modification" technology

• Strange lottery "tactic" - buying multiple tickets with the same numbers

• Homeopathic Teething Tablets linked to US deaths for sale in NZ

• 18 December 2016

• Colin Meads using "magic water" for his cancer

• Fiji Government conned by scam artist

• MMM Scam hits Nigeria

• Applied Kinesiology

• Earthquake "predictor" shows his true colours

• 22 January 2017

• Scientology "Ideal Org" Grand Opening

• 29 January 2017

• Kiwi Creationism

• 5 February 2017

• Ex fraudster released early trying alternative cancer treatment

• Ricky Gervais talks about science vs belief

• Scientology out on the streets in Grafton

• 30 July 2017

• There a major conspiracy theory I've never heard of!

• Rural US Doctor may have to leave NZ

• Sensing Murder hasn't helped NZ Police

• 16 July 2017

• GMO Bananas may save lives

• Gifting Circles now illegal

• Siggi Henry profiled in the Spinoff

• Vaxxed is still a nuisance in NZ

• 2 July 2017

• Baby kept sick by mother's bad decision

• InfoWars promotes theory that NASA keeps slave kids on Mars

• I went to a Scientology Event

• 18 June 2017

• Breatharians make Dangerous Claims

• Probable nonsense promoted at Hamilton Fieldays

• Auckland Church Promoting Magical Oil

• I was visited by Jehovah's Witnesses

• 11 June 2017

• Apparently I need a colonic

• Credulous alt-med article on Radio NZ

• Aussie shows how lax sham journals can be

• 4 June 2017

• Robert Bigelow believes aliens are on earth

• USA "pulls out" of the Paris Climate Accord

• Nice article about Dave Hansford and 1080

• Don't put ground up wasp's nest in your vagina

• 21 May 2017

• Proof of a flat earth

• Blasphemy Law may finally be repealed

• Proof that people were in NZ before Maori?

• 7 May 2017

• Te Kiri Gold makers forced to release a statement

• Nigel Antony Gray Still Crazy

• 23 April 2017

• Arise Church

• Kelvin Cruickshank talks to Jonah Lomu

• 9 April 2017

• Te Kiri Gold Cancer "Treatment" on sale

• Otago Uni Screened Vaxxed

• 12 November 2017

• Go Green Expo still full of woo

• Ghost in TradeMe mirror

• Sexual Harassment of kids is okay, because of Joseph and Mary?

• Dr Libby Weaver hits the news - twice

• 5 November 2017

• Auckland thinking of dropping Glyphosate

• NZ Skeptics conference in Wellington

• Women Stranded at Sea for 5 months

• Children handed religious tracts at Halloween

• 15 October 2017

• Doterra selling cancer cure in NZ

• Breast Milk Soap

• Christchurch private detective offering lie detector test which is unlikely to work

• 8 October 2017

• Sun protection pill goes on sale in NZ

• New healing device about to go on sale in NZ

• Conspiracy Theorists waste no time after Las Vegas shooting

• 1 October 2017

• The Apocalypse has been moved

• The FreeMan movement/Sovereign Citizens

• Some great common sense advice from Rob Stock at Stuff

• 3 September 2017

• One-sided article updated after complaint

• Nonsense book gets free media coverage

• Newshub thought a picture of someone holding something rectangular was newsworthy

• Iraq was Invaded because they had a stargate

• 27 August 2017

• Naturopath Implicated in Cancer Deaths

• Satanic Panic

• 6 August 2017

• Daughter conned into selling her possessions

• Haunted Doll "strikes" again

• Jacinta Ardern Conspiracy!

• Finally, a skeptical story about Lotto

• 11 March 2018

• New Zealand's own Fantastical AI

• Reiki Meeting in New Plymouth

• Is the US ignoring UFOs?

• 25 February 2018

• Attack Survivor has to defend himself

• Teen Lays Eggs

• Pastafarianism Knocked Back

• NZ Herald Promoting Animal Quackery

• Memorising a big number will create a black hole?

• 3 December 2017

• Acupuncture websites are misleading

• Gluckman talks about science denialism

• Most UK Water Boards use dowsing

• Holes in popular conspiracy theories

• 11 February 2018

• The ASA has written some new guidelines… and they're crap!

• Can Cannabis Cure Cancer?

• Elon Musk proves the earth is round - or does he?

• Homeopathy Course Cancelled at Canadian College

• Raw Water is Daft

• 28 January 2018

• Treating Bears with Acupuncture

• Peppering of Rabbits?

• Unvaccinated Pets

• Scientology in Disguise

• Another quake prediction

• 21 January 2018

• Homeopathic treatment for Autism?

• Grounding

• Ex naturopath being sued

• 17 December 2017

• UK has scrapped useless treatments

• My visit to the OTO

• First Pastafarian Citizenship in NZ

• Spontaneous Human Combustion in London

• Nonsense Pharmacy to open in Wellington

• 18 March 2018

• Is Dunedin's Regent Theatre Haunted?

• Local psychic plays the odds, gets lucky

• Auckland woman builds fence to keep radiation out

• Quack "doctor" opens up clinic in Auckland

• 24 June 2018

• Government hoping to scrap blasphemy law

• Cannabis Oil for cancer, again...

• Is hot dog water good for you?

• LED lights are apparently not safe for us

• 10 June 2018

• Dr Oz promoting Astrology

• Shakti Mat

• NHS defends its decision to dump homeopathy

• NZ Doctor complains to ASA about weet-bix

• 27 May 2018

• First NZ Flat Earth Conference

• Kangen Water has made the news again :(

• New search for Loch Ness Monster

• Dr Oz to join Trump's health focused Presidential Council

• Spirit Whisperer guilty of indecent assault

• 13 May 2018

• Does your star sign dictate how you drive?

• Dawkins has been to visit NZ

• Healing Crystals

• Personalised Vitamins

• 29 April 2018

• Dr Google

• Homeopaths trying to "cure" Autism

• V2K - what is it?

• Ken Ring is predicting earthquakes again

• 15 April 2018

• The US is losing the war on ignorance

• The Keeper of the Secrets

• Therapeutic Mushroom Coffee

• Did NASA Astronauts see aliens?

• 8 April 2018

• Call for government funding of natural therapies

• New NZ Diet aid Calocurb launched

• Does god hate vaccines?

• Who cons the conmen?

• 14 October 2018

• I tried Kangen Water

• Have I been hacked?

• Pakistanis trying to influence justice

• Australian Bent Spoon winner

• 30 September 2018

• A meeting with ex Jehovah's Witnesses

• Backward step at the World Health Organisation

• I went back to the OTO

• 16 September 2018

• Hikoi of a Poisoned Nation

• Church Visits

• Indian Scammers

• Alex Jones is losing his grip

• 2 September 2018

• Catholic Church Abuse

• Wellington's "Allergy" Expo

• Jehovah's Witnesses recommend staying with an abusive partner

• Khandallah School allowing evangelism

• 19 August 2018

• My JW weekend

• 5 August 2018

• Humanist Conference

• QAnon

• 22 July 2018

• Alternative cancer therapies linked to earlier death

• Visa issues for International Humanists

• Massive payout for talc "victims"

• Prophet Arrested for Attempted Resurrection

• 8 July 2018

• Bullet repelling magic in Nigeria

• New HIV vaccine, but is it a made up disease?

• HRV admits they deceived customers

• Chiropractors finding it hard to be ethical

• 30 November 2020

• A visit to AMORC

• Billy TK’s Religious Influences

• Colour Therapy

• 2020 - A Desert Odyssey

• Guerrilla Skeptics strike again

• 9 November 2020

• Can a jade amulet protect against COVID?

• NZ’s Luminate Festival is moving away from reality

• WWG1WGA

• Not everyone loved Randi

• 19 October 2020

• Election Special

• 18 August 2020

• Medical Myths

• 16 December 2018

• Blasphemy Law repeal passes second reading

• SleepDrops in Trouble

• Another Te Kiri Gold celebrity endorsement

• 2 December 2018

• Ark Man

• MoE Religious Instruction Guidelines Consultation

• Go Green Expo full of woo yet again

• 4 November 2018

• Asia Bibi is Acquitted

• Jesus for NZ

• OBDII Fuel Saver

• SleepDrops is fundraising

• 28 October 2018

• HRV fined for false claims

• Can natural health products be bad for you?

• Blasphemy law likely to be removed in Ireland

• 17 March 2021

• Builders Of The Adytum

• Should we be worried about blood clots?

• Football Index is just a Ponzi Scheme

• Christchurch massacre conspiracy theories

• An Open Letter to Plan B

• QAnon 2.0?

• Beware of Scientologists Bearing Gifts

• The Luck of the Cantabrians

• 10 March 2021

• Cat Buttons

• 8 March 2021

• Worried about 5G? There’s a pill for that!

• An unexpected endorsement for the COVID vaccine

• Skeptics 0, Ken Ring 1

• 22 February 2021

• Billy Te Kahika has Quit

• Grant Robertson has Had Enough

• A local Psychic has Guessed Wrong

• Rush Limbaugh has Died

• Conspiracy spam

• 1 February 2021

• Ngaire McCarthy

• Reiki is here to save us all

• Jewish space laser

• 11 January 2021

• A Faraday Cage to protect you from WiFi

• Auckland Lockdown Protest

• Musical Vaccine

• Beware of JP Sears

• 21 December 2020

• Crystal Healing that works?

• Does anyone know what Dark DNA is?

• Glittery Just Desserts

• We have our own Monolith

• A Sikh Visit

• 17 January 2021

• Psychic Predictions

• Lockdown Protests

• 1 January 2021

• 2020 In Review

• 5 May 2021

• Christchurch health clinic bans vaccinated customers

• Buy your own Get Out of Jail Free card for only $50

• Lies, Damned Lies and shonky Statistics

• Conspiracy Theorists are Going Underground

• 28 April 2021

• Accelerated Christian Education - ugh

• Influential Biologist in New Zealand

• Essential Oils may not be so essential after all

• TV Psychic didn’t see it coming

• Miami School quarantines vaccinated staff members

• 21 April 2021

• The Exclusive Brethren are spying on ex members

• Another credulous alt-med article from a Stuff journalist

• Are thousands dying from COVID vaccines?

• Are Christian men worried about their penis size?

• 14 April 2021

• New COVID misinformation pamphlet

• How to help those who have lost their way

• The Prince Philip Movement

• The Pope is a hologram

• Sue Grey update

• UFOs over Melbourne?

• 7 April 2021

• Evergreen’s sins go beyond blocking the Suez Canal

• Homeopathic Hippo Sweat Sun Block

• Sue Grey is threatening to sue the Government

• A timely reminder for schools

• 31 March 2021

• Is BitCoin like a Ponzi Scheme?

• A BitCoin Primer

• 24 March 2021

• Football Index is nothing more than a Ponzi Scheme

• Should we worry about LED bulbs?

• Oumuamua probably isn’t aliens

• Freedom Rally

• Prayers @ Parliament

• 9 August 2021

• Hate Speech Submission

• QAnonsense

• 21 July 2021

• Conspiracy Farmers

• Psychic Kelvin is on tour

• When scientists go wrong

• Famous actress jailed for her role in NXIVM

• 7 July 2021

• Birds aren’t real

• 30 June 2021

• Earth 2

• Fun With Numbers!

• Lady Crown

• 23 June 2021

• Petition for a Military Coup in NZ

• US Senator has novel plan to combat climate change

• Proof of UFOs is "just around the corner"...

• 16 June 2021

• How not to handle a COVID outbreak

• New Freeland

• German psychic solves yet another case

• 2 June 2021

• The Theosophical Society

• Voltex can save 90% on your power bill

• 26 May 2021

• Does the COVID vaccine contain a microchip?

• Christian Science - neither Christian nor Scientific

• UFO sighted in Hawkes Bay

• 12 May 2021

• Evorich - where con, cult and crypto collide

• The fastest hands in Russia?

• Simon Bridges for Jesus for NZ

• 19 May 2021

• Herbs for weight loss don’t work

• Sue Grey may have had a valid point

• WTF is Vortex Water?

• 17 November 2021

• Jacinda Ardern is not selling cryptocurrency

• Were Satanists involved in the Travis Scott tragedy?

• 10 November 2021

• Givealittle being used to fund bogus treatments

• JFK Jr is a no-show

• Things are a little crazy right now

• 3 November 2021

• How do you measure haunting?

• Italian Soldiers are roaming the streets of NZ

• 27 October 2021

• Are boats the answer to our rising sea level?

• NZ Doctors Called Sarah Speaking Out with Science

• 20 October 2021

• Were Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by an Asteroid?

• Mike Adams behind mass misinformation campaign

• Doctors Speaking Out with Science

• When Doctors go wrong

• 13 October 2021

• Will the US mint a trillion dollar coin?

• The big Vaccine Push

• Psychic sued for false claims

• The thin end of the QAnon wedge

• 6 October 2021

• Alex Jones loses in court, again

• An evening of I Ching

• 27 September 2021

• Wellness Influencers

• 20 September 2021

• Conversion Conversation

• No, Steve from Blue’s Clues did not leave to join the Army

• 6 September 2021

• Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword

• Don’t take Horse Dewormer

• The Satanists are doing god’s work

• 22 August 2021

• An alternative legal opinion

• Lockdown Bingo

• (Another) Psychic Failure

• 3 January 2022

• An unusual vaccine endorsement

• Lotus-Heart fined for "taking a stand"

• Nuclear Gandhi

• 15 December 2021

• Brian Tamaki is God

• The Great Australian Psychic Prediction Project

• 8 December 2021

• Black Oxygen Organics - the new panacea

• Sneaky Scientology Duping the Media

• Tiger King’s Psychic

• 1 December 2021

• Is Celine Dion suffering from vaccine injury?

• Tin Foil Treatments

• The sad death of Rex Warwood

• 24 November 2021

• Look who got themselves arrested

• Amy Benjamin "Resigns" from AUT

• The Skeptics’ annual conference

• Wanaka Health Bridge