Conspiracy Cabal

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The sh*t that's in your group chat...just a fair bit more fact checked and a lot more explained.   Big Pharma. The deep state. The crisis actors. Alien life. Spy agencies and cover ups. Whatever it is, award winning journo Richard Baker and Dr Nick Coatsworth are your guides on the search for the kernel of truth.   Conspiracies are everywhere right now. But, we don’t peddle theories, we go to their point of origin and follow the breadcrumbs to sort the bullsh*t from the verified, while keeping an open mind to things that can’t be explained.   Rich has spent years exposing the crooked and corrupt, and Nick has copped death threats from people who thought he was one of THEM. They know what real cover-ups look like, and they also know what happens when paranoia meets the algorithm.   Sometimes the conspiracy is real. Sometimes it's designed to sell you on something. Often, it's both.   Our mission is to entertain and inform. Rather than condemn and judge.   Hear the Conspiracy Cabal every week, and contact the show at conspiracycabal@outlook.com Conspiracy Cabal is proudly supported by WholeLife. Use code CABAL10 for $10 off your first order of $50 or more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 1 day ago

    FEATURE: The Disappearance of Flight VH-MDX | Barrington Tops

    Five souls. A sailing trip in the Whitsundays. A charter flight home. And then, nothing. On the evening of 9 August 1981, a Cessna 210 carrying four Sydney workmates and their pilot who were on their way back back from a holiday in the Whitsunday Passage lost contact after flying into adverse weather, with the last known contact placing it over the Barrington Tops. More than four decades on, no trace of the aircraft or its occupants has ever been found, despite extensive searches. This week we go through the last known minutes of VH-MDX. The flight had already refuelled at the Gold Coast and was tracking down the coast toward Sydney when things started going wrong. Just after passing the CRAVN waypoint, the pilot reported severe turbulence and downdrafts, and that his artificial horizon and gyroscopic direction indicator had both failed, the two instruments a pilot needs most when the ground disappears into cloud. Radar had the aircraft roughly 40 kilometres northwest of its planned track, near the Barrington Tops. The pilot then reported ice building on the airframe and difficulty holding altitude. His last transmission, at 7:39pm, put him at 5,000 feet. The instrument failure: why both the artificial horizon and heading indicator dying at once, in cloud, over mountains, at night, is about the worst combination a pilot can faceThe track that doesn't add up: how a plane on a coastal flight plan ended up dozens of kilometres inland and off course before anyone on the ground knew something was wrongForty years of searching: satellite imagery, aerial photography, magnetometer sweeps, and even chemical sampling of streams running out of the search area — and still nothingThe wreck that refuses to be found: competing theories on where MDX actually went down, why the terrain itself may be swallowing the evidence, and the amateur search teams still combing the Tops todayThe rational explanation vs. the folklore: how a straightforward, tragic weather accident became one of the enduring unsolved mysteries of Australian aviation — and what people have filled that vacuum with ever since Some of this is a matter of official record. Some of it, where MDX actually rests, genuinely isn't known. This week, Rich Baker, Dr. Nick Coatsworth and special guest Dean Frith go through the flight data, the search history, and the terrain that's kept a Cessna and five men hidden for over forty years. Contact the show at conspiracycabal@outlook.com. The Conspiracy Cabal doesn't promote conspiracy theories — we examine them. We search for the kernel of truth in every story, exploring how conspiracies start, why they persist, and what drives people to believe them. Contact the show at conspiracycabalpod@outlook.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    FEATURE: The Disappearance of Flight VH-MDX | Barrington Tops

  2. 21 Aug

    THE WEEK IN CONSPIRACY: Big Build Royal Commission feat. Dan Andrews?

    Will the former Premier be forced to face the music ahead of misconduct relating to Victoria's Big Build? Contact the show at conspiracycabal@outlook.com Get in touch with us: https://forms.gle/VaZB5S32KUGcuQVb6 The Conspiracy Cabal doesn't promote conspiracy theories — we examine them. We search for the kernel of truth in every story, exploring how conspiracies start, why they persist, and what drives people to believe them. Contact the show at conspiracycabalpod@outlook.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    THE WEEK IN CONSPIRACY: Big Build Royal Commission feat. Dan Andrews?

  3. 18 Aug

    26: This Australian Predicted JFK's Assassination | Canberra Chauffeur

    Thirteen months before Dallas, a phone rang in the U.S. embassy in Canberra. A man claiming to be a Polish chauffeur for the Soviet embassy said Iron Curtain countries had put $100,000 on the president's head. The Americans wrote it up, filed it, and moved on.Then the president was shot. And the same voice called back. This week we dig into one of the strangest footnotes in the declassified JFK files: an anonymous tipster in suburban Canberra who predicted an assassination over a year in advance, then rang the day after it happened to remind everyone he'd been right. Australian intelligence and the CIA spent years trying to run him down — and couldn't. No Polish national ever worked the Soviet motor pool. No plates matched. No name, no face, no paper trail. Just a voice, twice, exactly when it mattered. The first call: October 15, 1962 — a warning about a Soviet-financed hit, filed and nearly forgottenThe second call: November 23, 1963 — the same voice, back within a day of the murder, naming Moscow's moneyThe chauffeur problem: why ASIO and the CIA agreed Soviet embassies didn't hire local nationals as drivers — so who was he?The vehicle that wasn't there: a described car and plates that matched no registry, and the claim that Soviet officials kept spare plates on hand to swap on demand Some of this is documented in black and white in the National Archives. Some of it — who this man actually was — may never be known. This week, Rich Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth work through what the files really say, why a minor Cold War tip got flagged all the way to Helms' desk, and what it means that a mystery caller from Canberra got the timing right twice. Contact the show at conspiracycabal@outlook.com. The Conspiracy Cabal doesn't promote conspiracy theories — we examine them. We search for the kernel of truth in every story, exploring how conspiracies start, why they persist, and what drives people to believe them. Contact the show at conspiracycabalpod@outlook.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    26: This Australian Predicted JFK's Assassination | Canberra Chauffeur

  4. 11 Aug

    25: Robert F. Kennedy Jr's War on Health | The Nestle Baby Formula Scandal

    In the 1970s, Nestlé sent representatives into some of the poorest communities in the developing world. They wore white coats. They carried themselves like nurses. And they told new mothers, again and again, that formula was better for their babies than breast milk — knowing that once lactation stopped, that mother was a customer for as long as the baby needed feeding. There was no wreckage to point to, no single smoking document, just a pattern of behavior so consistent that Nestlé's name still hasn't fully recovered, fifty years on. Now the man auditing the food industry's sins is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — an avowed anti-vaxxer who spent decades as a litigant against corporate polluters, somehow now running the U.S. Department of Health under Trump 2.0, and somehow uniting MAGA diehards with the public-health establishment he used to fight. So is "Make America Healthy Again" a genuine reckoning with an industry that's been running the tobacco playbook with better marketing, or one more unlikely coalition that won't survive contact with a Big Mac? - RFK Jr.'s seismic and paradoxical shift: how a man who built his name suing corporations for environmental harm became Secretary of Health, and why food, not vaccines, is the fight that's actually uniting his strangest allies - The Nestlé Baby Formula scandal: the reps dressed as medical professionals, the mothers in developing nations told a lie that suited a business model, and why the damage to Nestlé's name still hasn't fully faded fifty years later - The corporate anatomy of Big Food: the handful of conglomerates — Associated British Foods, Mondelez among them — that control everything from the sugar refinery to the supermarket shelf, and what a $30-billion snack company's own sustainability report reveals when you actually read it - The tobacco and pharma parallel: unconstrained profit motive, monopoly power, no real competition — the exact conditions the hosts have already traced through Big Tobacco and Big Pharma this season, now applied to what's in your pantry - Where "big" stops being neutral: the hosts try to draw the line between ordinary corporate scale and the kind of deliberate deception that turns a company into a conspiracy Some of this is documented fact. Some is where reasonable people land on different sides. And if you want the chapters that set this one up, go back to the tobacco and pharma episodes earlier this season. Join Rich Baker and Dr Nick Coatsworth as they suss it all out. Contact the show at conspiracycabal@outlook.com Get in touch with us: https://forms.gle/VaZB5S32KUGcuQVb6 The Conspiracy Cabal doesn't promote conspiracy theories — we examine them. We search for the kernel of truth in every story, exploring how conspiracies start, why they persist, and what drives people to believe them. Contact the show at conspiracycabalpod@outlook.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    25: Robert F. Kennedy Jr's War on Health | The Nestle Baby Formula Scandal

  5. 9 Aug

    THE WEEK IN CONSPIRACY: Convicted Rapist Ralph Carr & Victoria's Suppression Order Bias

    Rapist Ralph Carr's name was suppressed for years under a loophole rule utilised by savvy lawyers. But why is this law in place, and what can be done to change it? Contact the show at conspiracycabal@outlook.com. The Conspiracy Cabal doesn't promote conspiracy theories - we examine them. We search for the kernel of truth in every story, exploring how conspiracies start, why they persist, and what drives people to believe them. Contact the show at conspiracycabalpod@outlook.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  6. 4 Aug

    24: Putin's Secret UFO Documents | What is he hiding?

    Russia has been tracking unidentified aerial phenomena since before the term existed. The Soviet military ran a classified investigation called Program SETKA from 1978 to 1990 - twelve years, thousands of filed reports, senior military personnel as witnesses - and when the USSR collapsed and the files were briefly, partially opened, what came out was strange enough that the Russian government quietly closed them again. That was 1993. Nobody in the western press followed up. And Putin, who knows where every other body is buried, has never once been asked about it on the record. So what does it mean when the country with the second-largest nuclear arsenal and a seventy-year history of UAP investigation has said almost nothing - while the Americans have said just enough to make you stop asking? This week, Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth go through what the evidence actually shows, what's been conveniently overlooked, and what the gap between those two things tells us. Program SETKA: what the Soviet military was actually investigating, the rank of the officers filing reports, and what the partially declassified files described before the archive door closed again in 1993The Petrozavodsk incident: the 1977 event over a major Russian city witnessed by hundreds of people including police and harbour workers, reported on the front page of Tass, and never officially explained by any government that was askedPutin and the disclosure question: every on-record statement he has made about UAPs, what a former Russian defence minister said publicly in 2012 that would have ended any western official's career, and why neither statement got a follow-upThe military overlap: the specific coordinates where Russian UAP sightings cluster, what else is at those coordinates, and whether the phenomenon respects the same boundaries that nuclear infrastructure does on both sides of the iron curtainThe coordination problem: what it would mean if Russia and the United States have been aware of the same phenomenon for seventy years and chosen independently to say nothing, and which explanation for that silence is actually more unsettling Some of this is documented. Some is genuinely unknown. And almost none of it is as settled as the people who control the archives want you to believe. Join Rich Baker and Dr Nick Coatsworth as they suss it all out. Contact the show at conspiracycabal@outlook.com. The Conspiracy Cabal doesn't promote conspiracy theories - we examine them. We search for the kernel of truth in every story, exploring how conspiracies start, why they persist, and what drives people to believe them. Contact the show at conspiracycabalpod@outlook.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    24: Putin's Secret UFO Documents | What is he hiding?

  7. 31 Jul

    THE WEEK IN CONSPIRACY: Jacinta Allan departs, Fauci questioned

    Jacinta Allan has resigned as Victorian premier. What does this mean for a building sector royal commission? As well, Anthony Fauci faces questions and gives some rogue answers. Join Rich Baker and Dr Nick Coatsworth as they suss it all out. Contact the show at conspiracycabal@outlook.com The Conspiracy Cabal doesn't promote conspiracy theories — we examine them. We search for the kernel of truth in every story, exploring how conspiracies start, why they persist, and what drives people to believe them. Contact the show at conspiracycabalpod@outlook.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    THE WEEK IN CONSPIRACY: Jacinta Allan departs, Fauci questioned

  8. 28 Jul

    23: Where is Fred Valentich? | UFOs over Bass Strait

    On the night of October 21, 1978, a 20-year-old pilot named Frederick Valentich radioed Melbourne air traffic control to report an unidentified aircraft pacing him over Bass Strait. He described a long shape with a green light, an engine that didn't sound like a normal aircraft, and then, seventeen seconds of unexplained metallic scraping. Then nothing. No wreckage. No body. No confirmed radar trace. The Department of Transport's official finding, filed years later, was "reason for disappearance: unknown." Forty-eight years on, that stretch of water between Victoria and Tasmania has become one of the most argued-over patches of sky in the southern hemisphere. So was this a young, inexperienced pilot who became spatially disoriented and flew upside down into the sea — or did Bass Strait swallow something the official transcript still can't explain? The full radio transcript, and the line investigators still can't agree on: was Valentich describing a UFO, or panicking about engine trouble he didn't have the hours to diagnose?Why no wreckage from a Cessna 182 has ever washed up, in a strait that has surrendered debris from other crashes within daysThe competing theory that he staged his own disappearance to fly on to a new life, and the family members who have always rejected itA 1982 photograph, taken the same night by a witness on the ground, that some analysts say shows an engine intake — and others say shows nothing at allWhy the Bureau of Air Safety Investigation closed its file without ever determining a cause, an outcome almost unheard of in Australian aviation history Some of this is documented. Some is genuinely unknown. And almost none of it is as settled as the people who closed the file want you to believe. Join Rich Baker and Dr Nick Coatsworth as they suss it all out. Contact the show at conspiracycabal@outlook.com The Conspiracy Cabal doesn't promote conspiracy theories — we examine them. We search for the kernel of truth in every story, exploring how conspiracies start, why they persist, and what drives people to believe them. Contact the show at conspiracycabalpod@outlook.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    23: Where is Fred Valentich? | UFOs over Bass Strait
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The sh*t that's in your group chat...just a fair bit more fact checked and a lot more explained.   Big Pharma. The deep state. The crisis actors. Alien life. Spy agencies and cover ups. Whatever it is, award winning journo Richard Baker and Dr Nick Coatsworth are your guides on the search for the kernel of truth.   Conspiracies are everywhere right now. But, we don’t peddle theories, we go to their point of origin and follow the breadcrumbs to sort the bullsh*t from the verified, while keeping an open mind to things that can’t be explained.   Rich has spent years exposing the crooked and corrupt, and Nick has copped death threats from people who thought he was one of THEM. They know what real cover-ups look like, and they also know what happens when paranoia meets the algorithm.   Sometimes the conspiracy is real. Sometimes it's designed to sell you on something. Often, it's both.   Our mission is to entertain and inform. Rather than condemn and judge.   Hear the Conspiracy Cabal every week, and contact the show at conspiracycabal@outlook.com Conspiracy Cabal is proudly supported by WholeLife. Use code CABAL10 for $10 off your first order of $50 or more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Southern Ocean Media
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    36
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Southern Ocean Media
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    Conspiracy Cabal