Yeah... Nah! – Détails, épisodes et analyse

We’re all over the show with our new episode of Yeah… Nah!, starting with Mark talking about his recent visit to another Creationist talk - and this one was as inspiring as it was factual. Katrina’s been concerning herself with the question of whether octopuses are going to take over the world, and Bronwyn’s managed to dig up some archive material about a small church in Lower Hutt that appears to have had more than its fair share of controversy and bad behaviour during its lifetime.

• Articles we talk about:
  • How Creationism Hurts My Brain
  • Could Octopodes take over the world?
  • Commonwealth Covenant Church: A forgotten NZ sect
• Newsletter issues these articles appear in:
  • 2025-05-12
• Mentioned in this episode:
  • Dr Kemp’s Petition
  • Decult Film Night

In this episode of the Yeah… Nah! podcast, the team ponder an email sent in by Barry Lennox, who knows a little more about EMF than the people selling EMF Rocks. Katrina finishes off her series on Sovereign Citizens, looking at how the courts have dealt with the madness, and Bronwyn and Mark both have some weird and wonderful stories about the Catholic church, just in time for the Conclave.

• Articles we talk about:
  • Catholic Conspiracies
  • Holy Weed and Holy Forgeries
  • SoulCore - Catholic Yoga
  • EMF WooWoo
  • Sovereign Citizens: Part Three - the Courts
• Newsletter issues these articles appear in:
  • 2025-04-28

CONTENT WARNING: This episode involves Mark describing his colonic irrigation in excruciating detail, and includes audio samples of his ordeal. As well as this horrendous segment, Bronwyn talks about how December in NZ is connected with UFOs and aliens, and Brad has tried to answer a question about playing a piano on Mars, a thought experiment that turns out to have more depth to it than you might think.

• Articles we talk about:
  • How would a piano sound on Mars?
  • Ring around Uranus: My Colonic, part 1
• Newsletter issues these articles appear in:
  • 2024-12-23

The Yeah… Nah! crew are preparing for Christmas, and for Mark this means getting ready for his upcoming colonic irrigation.  Bronwyn has spent the last month annoying Mark by sending him AI videos of buff and chubby cats, and then decided to try to figure out what’s motivating the people who have been making them. Brad has noticed a relatively new trend that vocalists are using, and wonders if it’s a case of form above function. Katrina has found some pretty obscure local cryptids, although it appears that all of them have likely rational explanations. And finally Mark has been watching sermons given by Jonathan Ayling, the CEO of the Free Speech Union, and wonders whether his love of free speech hides an ulterior motive.

• Articles we talk about:
  • Chubby the AI cat: Another image scan, Elsagate 2024, or a bit of both?
  • Hip-singing and vocal fry; why do I hate them so much?
  • Cryptids of New Zealand: Part 1
  • Cryptids of New Zealand: Part 2
  • Jonathan Ayling - a wolf in sheep’s clothing
• Newsletter issues these articles appear in:
  • 2024-11-25
  • 2024-12-09
  • 2025-01-21

The team are back from the NZ Skeptics’ annual conference and ready to give you their honest thoughts on how the event went, along with a low-down of each of the speakers’ talks. And, as if that isn’t enough to fill an entire episode, we also hear from Bronwyn about claims that lasers can cure autism, and from Mark who has now watched three out of five Christian apologist movies in the God’s Not Dead series from Pureflix, and has failed to solve a mystery.

• Articles we talk about:
  • Post Conference Thoughts
  • Wham, Bam, Autism Scam: Pew pew Autism lasers
  • God's Not Dead 3: A Light in Darkness
• Newsletter issues these articles appear in:
  • 2024-11-25

We’re at the NZ Skeptics’ annual conference for this special live recording of Yeah… Nah! We reveal our Bent Spoon, Bravo and Skeptic of the Year winners, trash talk the Go Green Expo (and LifeWave in particular) and try to convince our live audience that going on a ghost hunting tour is a really fun thing to do.

• Articles we talk about:
  • Go Green Garbage
  • X39 Patches, brought to you by LifeWave
  • There's a patch for that: LifeWave moves into New Zealand
  • Ghost Hunting for Skeptics
  • Post Conference Thoughts
• Newsletter issues these articles appear in:
  • 2024-11-11
  • 2024-11-25

Mark and Bronwyn are back from the DeCult conference, and have some thoughts about their experiences while they were there, and some of the suggestions that had been floated about how to deal with the issue of cults. Mark comes full-circle on the idea of a weirdly shaped straw, Katrina wants to be a super-hero, but is disappointed in the lack of progress science is making to realise her dreams. And Brad gets horsey again, trying to figure out why some of his friends and colleagues pay good money for ineffective equine treatments.

Warning: This episode has brief mentions of abuse during the cult segment.

• Articles we talk about:
  • Decompressing from DeCult
  • Anti-Ageing Straws
  • Superhero science IRL
  • Equine Touch
• Newsletter issues these articles appear in:
  • 2024-10-29

Another fortnight, another episode of your favourite podcast, Yeah… Nah! This time round the block, we’re all over the place, starting with Katrina talking about the history of Halloween traditions. Mark has been farming his children for content again, and has learned about Aura Points. Bronwyn’s found yet another dodgy piece of autism research, and Brad’s been considering the importance of choosing your words carefully.

• Articles we talk about:
  • All Hallows Eve
  • Aura Points
  • Wham, Bam, Autism Scams: Reversing Autism through diet and therapy
  • Weaponising Words
• Newsletter issues these articles appear in:
  • 2024-10-14

Brad’s just had surgery, but that’s not stopping him from coming onto the podcast this week, where the team talk about his operation, as well as a brain drink he was given by a well-meaning client. Katrina talks about multivariate data analysis, and Mark considers whether sticking your tongue against the roof of your mouth is going to give you a chiselled jaw and perfect teeth.

• Articles we talk about:
  • More variables please (with sprinkles on top)
  • Mewing
  • Ārepa: great minds drink alike? Or a storm in a drink bottle?
• Newsletter issues these articles appear in:
  • 2024-09-30

In this VERY special episode, Mark and Bronwyn talk with Anke, a journalist with a long-standing interest in cult groups who is organising a weekend conference in Christchurch in October that focuses on all things culty. We talk about cult survivors, cult experts, the difficulties of organising a large event, and Anke’s hopes for the future.