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Episode 41 – Fake News with Toby Halligan
We are living in a golden age of bullshit. Nowhere is this more evident than in the media where fake news is now almost indistinguishable...
Episode 40 – Paper Moon with Sarah Baggs
It’s only a paper moon, sailing over a cardboard sea. And this week’s episode is only pop culture queen Sarah Baggs exploring the...
Episode 39 – The Annals Of Gullibility with Stephen Greenspan
Stephen Greenspan has dedicated a large part of his career to explaining why people act gullibly. As a psychologist and author, he’s...
Episode 38 – I Love You FOCUS with Martin Dunlop
There are no two con artists films less alike than I Love You Phillip Morris and FOCUS. One is a true story, the other fiction. One is...
Episode 37 – The Laborastory
The Laborastory is a science storytelling event in Melbourne that comes to tell the stories of science – the heroes, the egos, the...
Episode 36 – Brain Magic with Tony Barnhart
Anthony “Magic Tony” Barnhart is a cognitive psychologist at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He studies the psychological...
Episode 36 – Brain Magic with Tony Barnhart
Anthony “Magic Tony” Barnhart is a cognitive psychologist at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He studies the psychological...
Episode 35 – Now You Seem Mean 2 with Nick Mason
Nick Mason, from the Weekly Planet Podcast, returns to help me deal with my complex feelings about the 2016 film Now You See Me 2. The...
Episode 34 – The Gentle Grafter With Tosh Greenslade
Do you remember that story about the man who sold his fob watch to buy his wife a comb while she sold her hair to buy him a watch chain?...
Episode 33 – Alien Autopsy Part 2 with Spyros Melaris
In the second part of Nicholas’ conversation with Spyros Melaris about the 1995 Alien Autopsy video, Spyros discusses the fallout from...
Episode 31 – Small Time Criminals with Ben McKenzie and Kevin Turner
Ben McKenzie and Kevin Turner just want to play. As two members of Pop Up Playground they create fun, immersive game experiences that...
Episode 30 – The Bullshitters Book Club with Vinny DePonto
Everyone wants to be a good liar. Or at the very least, be able to spot a good liar. But what do you do when all of the books on the...
Episode 29 – Dom and Dumber with Dom Chambers and Bayden Hammond
Dom and Dumber have taken on a mammoth task, combining magic and sketch comedy into an entirely new genre. In this week’s Scamapalooza,...
Episode 28 – Mediums At Large with Paul Zenon
On the last episode, skeptic Richard Saunders talked about treating those who claim they have psychic powers with respect and the level...
Episode 27 – The Million Dollar Challenge with Richard Saunders
“Prove it.” It’s the catch cry of skeptics and critical thinkers around the world. Presented with fraudulent claims of psychic powers and...
Episode 26 – F Is For Fake with Simon Caterson
Orson Welles’ last project before the descending into a life of frozen pea commercials and voicing Transformers was F Is A Fake. The film...
Episode 25 – Romance Scam Survivor with Jan Marshall
Jan Marshall is an extraordinary woman. Having studied psychology, sold computers in the early days of personal computing and travelled...
Welcome To 2016
Scamapalooza returns this week with a miniepisode that, while it doesn’t have a guest, is packed full of news, stories and the tired...
Episode 24 – Houdini and The Medium with Jon Cox
In his time, Harry Houdini was known not just as the world’s most famous magician but also as a hoax-buster, exposing fraudulent psychics...
Episode 23 – The Sun and The Moon with Matthew Goodman
On 25 August, 1835, The Sun newspaper printed a series of hoax articles claiming they’d found life on the moon including man-bats, two...
Here you'll find resources for teaching and promoting critical thinking, scam protection, and deception education. Many are linked to his school incursions while others are just for fun.
Make sure you subscribe to Nicholas's podcast. Scamapalooza. He interviews psychologists, authors, and researchers about why people are so easy to fool.
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