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Nonsense Podcast

arthwollipot said:
Episode 2: Featuring a puzzling riddle, a skeptical look at recent news and part one of two, discussing our trip to The Living Planet Vegan Festival and the Mind, Body, Spirit Festival.

http://www.nonsensepodcast.com/
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I'm enjoying the podcast a lot, arth. Keep up the good work!

Near the end of Episode two, Jason and the other guy were wondering what logical fallacy was being committed by the ear candling guy at the MBS show who kept saying "but I've been doing this for 13 years" to all your questions. I believe this is the sunk-cost fallacy.

When one makes a hopeless investment, one sometimes reasons: I can’t stop now, otherwise what I’ve invested so far will be lost. This is true, of course, but irrelevant to whether one should continue to invest in the project. Everything one has invested is lost regardless. If there is no hope for success in the future from the investment, then the fact that one has already lost a bundle should lead one to the conclusion that the rational thing to do is to withdraw from the project.

To continue to invest in a hopeless project is irrational. Such behavior may be a pathetic attempt to delay having to face the consequences of one's poor judgment. The irrationality is a way to save face, to appear to be knowledgeable, when in fact one is acting like an idiot.
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orphia nay said:
I'm enjoying the podcast a lot, arth. Keep up the good work!

Near the end of Episode two, Jason and the other guy were wondering what logical fallacy was being committed by the ear candling guy at the MBS show who kept saying "but I've been doing this for 13 years" to all your questions. I believe this is the sunk-cost fallacy.
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Cool! I'll pass that along. I knew about that fallacy, but I didn't know its name.
 
Great work arth. That boy is lucky he wasn't taken to a homeopath, he would now be dead.
 
I've listened to the final edit now, and I'm a little disappointed that Jason didn't use The Guru this time around... :cool:

In other podcasting news, I'm in the process of arranging an interview with none other than Jesus Christ himself!
 
arthwollipot said:
Episode 3 is ready for download!

According to Jason, we received over 1200 downloads over the month of May! How cool is that?
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Yay, and yay!

I've downloaded Episode 3 and am looking forward to listening to it when I'm on holiday this week.
 
Am so looking forward to the interview with Jeezus! :D
 
I'll be interested as I don't know who Neil Saaverda is. If a kook, it still will be good for a giggle.
 
This is his show: http://www.premiereradio.com/shows/view/jesus_christ.html

It's syndicated on a number of American radio stations, but of course we don't get it out here. Susan Lancaster facilitated our "meeting". It's going to be an interesting afternoon.

Oh, and I have a new microphone. Its debut was the Brian Dunning interview. It makes me sound like I actually have a proper voice, so I'll be using it for all podcast recordings from here on.
 
Episode 4 is online. See the link in my sig. This episode features the Brian Dunning interview, amongst other things. It's also the first episode recorded with my new microphone, which makes me sound a whole lot more like I'm really there and not so much like I'm linked in electronically from 400km away.
 
Episode 5 available for download right now!

Featuring Crop Circles, Alien Abduction, Affirmations, Detox, PETA and Forced Abductions/Stolen Generation. Plus an interview with Ordinary Guy from the BrainsMatter Podcast.

I heard on the Skepticality 100th episode that your first five podcasts are always crap, and that you get your groove on after that. Well, we're now over that hurdle. Hopefully from here we will only get better.

Our sixth episode is going to be a Special Report from TAM!
 
Episode 6, and this is a big one.

We cover my experience of TAM7 in Vegas, we feature my interview with Neil Saavedra - who is about the furthest from being a kook that it has been my pleasure to spend time with - and we are getting to know none other than Adam Savage of the Mythbusters!

It's a really good episode, guys. Check it out.
 
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