Weekend Variety Wireless - Hour 2 - 16/09/18

This hour, Skeptical Thoughts. Skeptic Mark Honeychurch joins Ryan Bradley in for RadioLIVE's Graeme Hill to expose this weeks woos and scams. First up Mark discusses his Church visits this morning. A visiting academic, Hamed from Iran, had never seen a Christian service before so Mark decided to show him two extremes of what church can be. They discuss Hameds impression of the two services, and how one was a lot more like what he was expecting than the other. Then Ryan and Mark take a look at Indian scammers. Mark had a phone call from Spark this week, and after speaking to a couple of Indian Gentlemen who explained that his private IP address had been made public. Of course it was a scam. Mark luckily thought to record the conversation a couple of minutes into it. Then Ryan and Mark visit the topic of Alex Jones. This comes in light of a recent interview in which Jones cut of US Republican Senator Marco Rubio, and came across as somewhat unhinged. Then, Rachel Buchanan joins Ryan Bradley in for RadioLIVEs Graeme Hill to take a look at her new book Ko Taranaki Te Maunga which roughly translates to Taranaki My Mountain. The book looks at Te Pahuatanga, or the invasion of Parihaka. In 1881 over 1500 trips invade the village off the coast of Taranaki that resulted in the expulsion of many iwi members, the destruction of buildings and the jailing of two prominent chiefs. The book itself also explores Rachels own very personal story of Parihaka. It begins with the death of Rachels father, a man with connections to many of Taranakis eight iwi. She goes on to discuss her own connection to Taranaki - both the land and the mountain. She explores the impact of its confiscation not just on its people but on society as a whole. Weekend Variety Wireless with Ryan Bradley in for Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.