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

• Bravo Award

• Advertising Standards Authority Complaints

• Martin Harris is Supreme Winner at the Pharmacy Awards

• Dr Jim Mason - Creationist

• 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

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

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

• Anti-vaxxer's baby hospitalised with whooping cough

• 15 November 2015

• End of the World Predictions

• 11 October 2015

• Online real estate agency offers ghost-free home certification

• The world ends... again

• Perth Electrical Engineer finds errors in climate models

• NHS wants to employ a Spiritual Healer

• MagneSleep lost an ASA complaint

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

• 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

• Kiwi traveller in Peru dies after Amazon drug ritual

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

• California's Drought Is A Government Conspiracy

• Dalai Lama Says a Female Successor Should Be Very Attractive

• Jesus brain scan a miracle

• 20 September 2015

• GOP Candidates and Vaccines

• IgNobel Prizes

• Appetite for diet supplements benefits few, experts say

• 17 April 2016

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

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

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

• 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

• The Mandela Effect

• Adult Coloring Books and Mandalas, A Warning For Christians

• Call for council to make Christchurch parks spray-free

• 28 February 2016

• NZ gets its first Flying Spaghetti Monster marriage celebrant

• Sydney IV.ME clinic closed after client hospitalised

• Acupuncture Works! (Not really)

• NZ Natural Health Products Bill

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

• 21 February 2016

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

• Sea monster washes up in Australia

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

• Justice Scalia murder conspiracy

• Shane Warne believes alien experiments turned monkeys into humans

• 14 February 2016

• Fast food Fakery

• Whakatane flip-flops on fluoride

• Bags with coins in spotted at Muriwai Cafe

• David Icke Coming to New Zealand

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

• 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 July 2016

• FYI needs help categorising OIA requests

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

• Sad news for Pastafarianism

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

• US Pastor says that Pokemon are "digital demons"

• 10 July 2016

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

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

• Bee Venom is supposedly an effective cosmetic

• Sensing murder episodes are being rerun on TVNZ

• 3 July 2016

• 110 Nobel laureates tell Greenpeace they are wrong about GMOs

• Christchurch City Council to reduce use of weedkiller

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

• Ken Ring tells people not to trust anything

• 26 June 2016

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

• 1,000 UK Vets say homeopathy should be banned

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

• Tony Robbins followers injured walking on hot coals

• Stuff removes article on Colloidal Silver

• 19 June 2016

• Bilderberg Group meeting in Watford, England

• Beauty Clinics are treating people instead of referring them

• UFO Spotted in Christchurch

• Dr Shaun Holt warns about cancer cures

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

• 12 June 2016

• Climate change deniers added to Christchurch coastal erosion panel

• Singer Bobby Brown claims he had sex with a ghost

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

• Alt Med peddler Chris Savage stopped at Auckland airport

• Dodgy claims made about sawdust therapy in Auckland

• 5 June 2016

• 1080 blamed for kiwi bird deaths

• Family First research 'high school level' statistics

• Osteopath admits performing acupuncture without qualifications

• Rush Limbaugh weighs in on Harambe the gorilla

• 13 November 2016

• Go Green Expo full of woo

• The Vice President-Elect is crazy!

• 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

• 27 November 2016

• Skeptics Conference

• Bioptron call me

• Lots of earthquake nonsense

• 25 September 2016

• Dodgy Thai cancer clinic criticised

• Anti Fluoride Group to promote DHB Candidates

• 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

• Trump gets medical opinion from Oz

• Stuff uncritically publishes more medical nonsense

• 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

• Stuff article on superfoods actually talks sense!

• Witch Doctor in Wellington

• Not all water in NZ is chlorinated

• Naturopathic Murder

• 7 August 2016

• David Icke Auckland Talk

• 2 April 2017

• NASA spends over $1 million on theology

• Vaxxed Premiered at Reading Cinemas LynnMall

• Citizen Science and Planet 9

• 26 March 2017

• Census adds new non-religious categories

• I wrote a letter to the NZ Medical Journal

• Shaquille O'Neal believes in a flat earth?

• 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

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

• Vaxxed movie showing in Auckland in April

• Whales were stranded by "weather modification" technology

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

• 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

• 29 January 2017

• Kiwi Creationism

• 18 December 2016

• Colin Meads using "magic water" for his cancer

• Earthquake "predictor" shows his true colours

• Applied Kinesiology

• MMM Scam hits Nigeria

• Fiji Government conned by scam artist

• 4 December 2016

• NZ Skeptics Conference

• 22 January 2017

• Scientology "Ideal Org" Grand Opening

• 30 July 2017

• Rural US Doctor may have to leave NZ

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

• 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

• I was visited by Jehovah's Witnesses

• Auckland Church Promoting Magical Oil

• 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

• USA "pulls out" of the Paris Climate Accord

• Nice article about Dave Hansford and 1080

• Robert Bigelow believes aliens are on earth

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

• 21 May 2017

• Blasphemy Law may finally be repealed

• Proof of a flat earth

• Proof that people were in NZ before Maori?

• 7 May 2017

• Nigel Antony Gray Still Crazy

• Te Kiri Gold makers forced to release a statement

• 23 April 2017

• Arise Church

• Kelvin Cruickshank talks to Jonah Lomu

• 9 April 2017

• Otago Uni Screened Vaxxed

• Te Kiri Gold Cancer "Treatment" on sale

• 12 November 2017

• Ghost in TradeMe mirror

• Go Green Expo still full of woo

• Dr Libby Weaver hits the news - twice

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

• 5 November 2017

• Auckland thinking of dropping Glyphosate

• NZ Skeptics conference in Wellington

• Children handed religious tracts at Halloween

• Women Stranded at Sea for 5 months

• 15 October 2017

• Doterra selling cancer cure in NZ

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

• Breast Milk Soap

• 8 October 2017

• New healing device about to go on sale in NZ

• Sun protection pill goes 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

• Nonsense book gets free media coverage

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

• One-sided article updated after complaint

• Iraq was Invaded because they had a stargate

• 6 August 2017

• Daughter conned into selling her possessions

• Haunted Doll "strikes" again

• Jacinta Ardern Conspiracy!

• Finally, a skeptical story about Lotto

• 27 August 2017

• Naturopath Implicated in Cancer Deaths

• Satanic Panic

• 3 December 2017

• Most UK Water Boards use dowsing

• Acupuncture websites are misleading

• Gluckman talks about science denialism

• Holes in popular conspiracy theories

• 17 December 2017

• My visit to the OTO

• UK has scrapped useless treatments

• First Pastafarian Citizenship in NZ

• Spontaneous Human Combustion in London

• Nonsense Pharmacy to open in Wellington

• 21 January 2018

• Grounding

• Ex naturopath being sued

• Homeopathic treatment for Autism?

• 28 January 2018

• Treating Bears with Acupuncture

• Peppering of Rabbits?

• Unvaccinated Pets

• Another quake prediction

• Scientology in Disguise

• 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

• 25 February 2018

• Attack Survivor has to defend himself

• Pastafarianism Knocked Back

• Memorising a big number will create a black hole?

• Teen Lays Eggs

• NZ Herald Promoting Animal Quackery

• 11 March 2018

• New Zealand's own Fantastical AI

• Reiki Meeting in New Plymouth

• Is the US ignoring UFOs?

• 24 June 2018

• Cannabis Oil for cancer, again...

• Government hoping to scrap blasphemy law

• Is hot dog water good for you?

• LED lights are apparently not safe for us

• 10 June 2018

• Dr Oz promoting Astrology

• NHS defends its decision to dump homeopathy

• Shakti Mat

• NZ Doctor complains to ASA about weet-bix

• 27 May 2018

• First NZ Flat Earth Conference

• New search for Loch Ness Monster

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

• Spirit Whisperer guilty of indecent assault

• Kangen Water has made the news again :(

• 13 May 2018

• Does your star sign dictate how you drive?

• Healing Crystals

• Personalised Vitamins

• Dawkins has been to visit NZ

• 29 April 2018

• Dr Google

• Ken Ring is predicting earthquakes again

• V2K - what is it?

• Homeopaths trying to "cure" Autism

• 15 April 2018

• Therapeutic Mushroom Coffee

• The US is losing the war on ignorance

• Did NASA Astronauts see aliens?

• The Keeper of the Secrets

• 18 March 2018

• Local psychic plays the odds, gets lucky

• Auckland woman builds fence to keep radiation out

• Quack "doctor" opens up clinic in Auckland

• Is Dunedin's Regent Theatre Haunted?

• 8 April 2018

• New NZ Diet aid Calocurb launched

• Who cons the conmen?

• Does god hate vaccines?

• Call for government funding of natural therapies

• 28 October 2018

• Blasphemy law likely to be removed in Ireland

• HRV fined for false claims

• Can natural health products be bad for you?

• 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

• Wellington's "Allergy" Expo

• Catholic Church Abuse

• Jehovah's Witnesses recommend staying with an abusive partner

• Khandallah School allowing evangelism

• 5 August 2018

• Humanist Conference

• QAnon

• 8 July 2018

• Bullet repelling magic in Nigeria

• Chiropractors finding it hard to be ethical

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

• HRV admits they deceived customers

• 14 October 2018

• Have I been hacked?

• I tried Kangen Water

• Pakistanis trying to influence justice

• Australian Bent Spoon winner

• 19 August 2018

• My JW weekend

• 22 July 2018

• Alternative cancer therapies linked to earlier death

• Prophet Arrested for Attempted Resurrection

• Massive payout for talc "victims"

• Visa issues for International Humanists

• 21 December 2020

• Does anyone know what Dark DNA is?

• Crystal Healing that works?

• Glittery Just Desserts

• A Sikh Visit

• We have our own Monolith

• 30 November 2020

• A visit to AMORC

• Billy TK’s Religious Influences

• Guerrilla Skeptics strike again

• 2020 - A Desert Odyssey

• Colour Therapy

• 9 November 2020

• Can a jade amulet protect against COVID?

• NZ’s Luminate Festival is moving away from reality

• Not everyone loved Randi

• WWG1WGA

• 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

• 17 March 2021

• Builders Of The Adytum

• Should we be worried about blood clots?

• The Luck of the Cantabrians

• Football Index is just a Ponzi Scheme

• Christchurch massacre conspiracy theories

• An Open Letter to Plan B

• Beware of Scientologists Bearing Gifts

• QAnon 2.0?

• 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

• Jewish space laser

• Ngaire McCarthy

• Reiki is here to save us all

• 17 January 2021

• Lockdown Protests

• Psychic Predictions

• 11 January 2021

• A Faraday Cage to protect you from WiFi

• Auckland Lockdown Protest

• Beware of JP Sears

• Musical Vaccine

• 1 January 2021

• 2020 In Review

• 24 March 2021

• Football Index is nothing more than a Ponzi Scheme

• Should we worry about LED bulbs?

• Freedom Rally

• Prayers @ Parliament

• Oumuamua probably isn’t aliens

• 12 May 2021

• Evorich - where con, cult and crypto collide

• The fastest hands in Russia?

• Simon Bridges for Jesus for NZ

• 5 May 2021

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

• Christchurch health clinic bans vaccinated customers

• 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

• Miami School quarantines vaccinated staff members

• TV Psychic didn’t see it coming

• 21 April 2021

• Another credulous alt-med article from a Stuff journalist

• The Exclusive Brethren are spying on ex members

• Are thousands dying from COVID vaccines?

• Are Christian men worried about their penis size?

• 14 April 2021

• New COVID misinformation pamphlet

• The Pope is a hologram

• How to help those who have lost their way

• The Prince Philip Movement

• Sue Grey update

• UFOs over Melbourne?

• 7 April 2021

• Homeopathic Hippo Sweat Sun Block

• Evergreen’s sins go beyond blocking the Suez Canal

• A timely reminder for schools

• Sue Grey is threatening to sue the Government

• 31 March 2021

• Is BitCoin like a Ponzi Scheme?

• A BitCoin Primer

• 22 August 2021

• Lockdown Bingo

• An alternative legal opinion

• (Another) Psychic Failure

• 9 August 2021

• Hate Speech Submission

• QAnonsense

• 21 July 2021

• Psychic Kelvin is on tour

• Famous actress jailed for her role in NXIVM

• Conspiracy Farmers

• When scientists go wrong

• 7 July 2021

• Birds aren’t real

• 30 June 2021

• Earth 2

• Fun With Numbers!

• Lady Crown

• 23 June 2021

• US Senator has novel plan to combat climate change

• Petition for a Military Coup in NZ

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

• 16 June 2021

• New Freeland

• How not to handle a COVID outbreak

• 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

• 19 May 2021

• Herbs for weight loss don’t work

• Sue Grey may have had a valid point

• WTF is Vortex Water?

• 24 November 2021

• Amy Benjamin "Resigns" from AUT

• Look who got themselves arrested

• The Skeptics’ annual conference

• Wanaka Health Bridge

• 10 November 2021

• Givealittle being used to fund bogus treatments

• Things are a little crazy right now

• JFK Jr is a no-show

• 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

• 13 October 2021

• The thin end of the QAnon wedge

• Will the US mint a trillion dollar coin?

• Psychic sued for false claims

• The big Vaccine Push

• 6 September 2021

• Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword

• Don’t take Horse Dewormer

• The Satanists are doing god’s work

• 17 November 2021

• Were Satanists involved in the Travis Scott tragedy?

• Jacinda Ardern is not selling cryptocurrency

• 20 October 2021

• Were Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by an Asteroid?

• Doctors Speaking Out with Science

• Mike Adams behind mass misinformation campaign

• When Doctors go wrong

• 20 September 2021

• Conversion Conversation

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

• 6 October 2021

• An evening of I Ching

• Alex Jones loses in court, again

• 27 September 2021

• Wellness Influencers

• 3 January 2022

• Lotus-Heart fined for "taking a stand"

• An unusual vaccine endorsement

• Nuclear Gandhi

• 15 December 2021

• Brian Tamaki is God

• The Great Australian Psychic Prediction Project

• 8 December 2021

• Black Oxygen Organics - the new panacea

• Tiger King’s Psychic

• Sneaky Scientology Duping the Media

• 1 December 2021

• Is Celine Dion suffering from vaccine injury?

• Tin Foil Treatments

• The sad death of Rex Warwood