It’s an episode of looking back this week, with both Bronwyn and Mark revisiting old stories. Bronwyn gives us an update on cult member and soon-to-be US Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, while Mark has been keeping his eye on the resurrection of the Global Flourishing group in Auckland. Katrina has been learning all about hacking a…

Yeah Nah Pasaran is back in 2025 but we're still writing 2005 on all our cheques. This week we talk to anti-fascist blogger Bob From Brockley about 20 years of blogging, the state of the far-Right in Old Britannia, and campism.Andy Fleming, Cam Smith, Bob from Brockley

We’re back after a well-deserved Christmas break, and we have more aliens to talk about. After hearing about Mark’s job as Best Man at a wedding where the guests were mostly either Jehovah’s Witnesses or Salvation Army members, Katrina keeps us updated on the latest proposed addition to the Drake Equation, bringing estimates of the number of alien …

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…

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 t…

For our final show in 2024, we had a chat with Elise Thomas about misinformation, disinformation and social media bans for the kids.Andy Fleming, Cam Smith, Elise Thomas

This week we have a chat with Benjamin Moffitt about populism, reality TV and funny little blokes.Andy Fleming, Cam Smith, Benjamin Moffitt

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 …

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. About this episode Articles we talk…

Journalist Amanda Moore has not been making friends in the Grand Old Party. She joins us to discuss some of her recent reporting which had the Trump campaign hopping mad.Andy Fleming, Cam Smith, Amanda Moore

This week we have a chat with investigative journalist David Neiwert about his book 'The Age of Insurrection: The Ongoing War on American Democracy'.Andy Fleming, Cam Smith, David Neiwert

This week we have a chat with Noelle Cook about the women of January 6 and the new documentary The Conspiracists.Andy Fleming, Cam Smith, Noelle Cook

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 pr…

This week we have a chat with Dr Rebecca Yeo about their book Disabling Migration Controls and the links between disability & migrant justice.Andy Fleming, Cam Smith, Rebecca Yeo

This week we have a yarn with our man in America, Jason Wilson, about the US election campaign which Kamala Harris is almost certainly going to win.Andy Fleming, Cam Smith, Jason Wilson

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, an…

This week we have a chat with Talia Lavin about their new book Wild Faith: How The Christian Right Is Taking Over America - and no need to fret, there will be some textual exegesis.Andy Fleming, Cam Smith, Talia Lavin

This week we're joined again by SOS and Sandee of the Tinfoil Tales podcast to update us on the trials (sometimes literally) and travails of Australia's conspiracist movement.Andy Fleming, Cam Smith, SOS, Sandee

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 ch…

This week we had a yarn with James Hogg, a historian whose research ‘focuses on Australian anti-fascism in the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the role of migrants and the Communist Party of Australia’.Andy Fleming, Cam Smith, James Hogg

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.…

This week we have a yarn with journalist Lucy Hamilton about the Atlas Network and junk tanks.Andy Fleming, Cam Smith, Lucy Hamilton

We’ve not scared Katrina or Brad away yet, so the Yeah… Nah! team are marching on, to pastures new. Both Mark and Bronwyn have been poking around astrology software, trying to figure out what, and who, makes it tick. Brad has tried to make sense of the impossible - homeopathy - and its use in treating horses. And Katrina looks into creative ways to…

This week we're joined by investigative journalist Ariel Bogle to discuss banning social media, algorithmic bias and Terrorgram.Andy Fleming, Cam Smith, Ariel Bogle

It’s our first episode with new co-hosts Katrina Borthwick and Brad MacClure, so the Yeah… Nah! squad 2.0 get to work tackling some topical issues. Bronwyn, Katrina and Mark have all suffered through watching the entire season of spiritual healing reality TV show Lost Resort, and have a lot to say about it. Katrina has looked into a dubious chiropr…

This week we have a yarn with Gabriel Kuhn, the General Secretary of the Central Organisation of Swedish Workers, about all matters Swedish.Andy Fleming, Cam Smith, Gabriel Kuhn

It’s the end of an era for the Yeah… Nah! podcast as we bid Craig farewell. After we recover from the shock of his departure, we get down to business. Brian Paavo joins us from his helicopter to tell us about his recent visit to Scientology in Honolulu, Bronwyn snakes her way through Spiritualist history, from the enactment of the Spiritualist Chur…

This week we have a chat with Joe Mulhall from Hope Not Hate about the recent anti-migrant riots in the UK, as well as the anti-racist counter-protests.Cam Smith, Joe Mulhall

This week we talk to Aurelien Mondon [X/Twitter] about racist rioting in the UK and Belfast in the wake of the murders in Southport.Andy Fleming, Cam Smith, Aurelien Mondon

Craig is back and as busy as ever, so you might be listening to this podcast on a day that is not Thursday. This week we are chewing the fat about intuitive eating, The Divine Light Mission, and bad batteries. About this episode Articles we talk about: The Child Lord of the Universe: Prem Rawat and the Divine Light Mission, Part 1 The child god gro…

This week we have a yarn with Crikey’s Cam Wilson [X/Twitter] about the Wieambilla inquest, AI/LLM, (Australian) media, and navigating the treacherous waters off the coast of #FreezePeach.Andy Fleming, Cam Smith, Cam Wilson

This week we talk to Tomas Rothaus [X/Twitter]. Tomas is the author of several forthcoming titles, including Another War Is Possible: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era (PM Press, 2025). We spoke to Tomas about Argentina under Milei, the importance of political spaces such as La Cultura del Barrio, anarchism, anti-fascism a…