Conspiracy Cabal

Brendan Nugent has been charged over the alleged attack on independent federal MP Helen Haines outside her electorate office in Wangaratta. Police allege the incident was targeted, while investigators continue to examine the motive behind the attack. Nugent has not entered a plea, and the matter remains before the courts. Questions have since emerged about Nugent's background, his online activity, and whether warning signs were missed prior to the alleged attack. Others have pointed to reports of mental health concerns and prior interactions with authorities, though no clear motive has yet been established by police. 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. Contact the show at conspiracycabalpod@outlook.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Senator Jordon Steele-John is under-fire for alleged mistreatment of women, which he denies. However, the story also points to an alleged cover up by The Greens, and a secret dossier on how to handle the allegations against Steele-John. The Greens have denied any existence of a secret dossier. 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 Contact the show at conspiracycabalpod@outlook.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alex Jones has said plenty of strange things, but few have travelled further than his claim that chemicals in the water are changing the sexuality of animals, and of people too. It sounds absurd. Yet there’s a real pesticide, a real scientist’s frog research, and real restrictions in Australia on where that chemical can be sprayed. Nothing makes a conspiracy go off like a sex scandal, so this week the Cabal goes there. Rich and Nick are joined by the Cabal’s newest member, former investigative journalist Bension Siebert, who worked with Rich on the podcast Pray Harder. After he was made redundant in 2025, Bension turned to sex work. He found it more meaningful than he expected and more secure than journalism, and it’s now paying for the investigation he’s scripting. The frog problem: A “gay bomb” once floated by a US military research lab, the herbicide atrazine, Tyrone Hayes’s frog studies, and a small study of semen quality in 86 Missouri men. The guys explain why Australia restricted atrazine in 1997 and…

In the days before the attacks, traders placed unusually large bets that United and American Airlines stock would fall. Those were the two airlines whose planes were hijacked. The 9/11 Commission found no sign that anyone had advance knowledge. A finance professor, a former Australian market regulator, and a widow who testified before the Commission all saw something different. "Follow the money." That was the advice to Bob Woodward during Watergate, and 25 years after September 11, it may be the best way into the one 9/11 theory that won't go away. This week, Rich and Nick quickly run through the five best-known 9/11 theories before following the money into the trades that regulators, academics, and families have argued about for a quarter of a century. The guys look at whether any of the theories have any kernel of truth. The intelligence failures were real, with warnings about hijacked planes flying into buildings circulating as far back as 1998. Some of this is statistics: put-to-call ratios, trading…

Reports in Israel are suggesting that Benjamin Netanyahu received a warning about the October 7th attacks and failed to take action. As well, Manchester City faces punishment for mass cheating. 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.

In the mountains of southwest China sits a radio telescope big enough to swallow the MCG. It's built to listen to the cosmos. Meanwhile, Beijing has reportedly brought in a science-fiction writer to advise on what to do if something out there answers. That writer is Cixin Liu, author of The Three-Body Problem. His big idea, the "dark forest," says the universe is full of silent hunters, and any civilisation that reveals itself gets destroyed. So what does China think it's listening for, and why does it want the man who wrote that theory in the room? This week, Rich and Nick head into the dark forest. They start with the Three-Body Problem trilogy and move on to real telescopes, unexplained signals, and what happens to the human mind on the day disclosure stops being hypothetical. - The silence problem: Trisolarans, sophons, and decades of signals we've already sent out. If any civilisation out there is far more advanced than us, announcing ourselves may be the worst thing we could have done. Our only edge…

Lachie Neale got off, and he's now free to play in the Grand Final. Couldn't have happened to a better bloke. Also, the PM has called a hasty press conference to detail how a rogue Open AI agent hacked into Medicare. 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.

Ivan Milat was convicted of seven murders and died in a prison hospital bed in 2019, still insisting he didn't do it. Almost nobody in Australia believes him. But a New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into unsolved murders and missing persons is now asking a different, more uncomfortable question: were seven enough? This week, Rich and Nick dig into the growing list of cold cases with Milat's name attached to them - from a stabbing on a beach when he was 22, to a body found after he was already behind bars - and sit down with a former NSW detective pushing for a coercive-powers commission to finally crack them. The near-miss problem: Englishman Paul Onions, a gun, a rope, a highway shootout - and the report to police that went nowhere until bodies started turning up in a state forest The Wanda Beach problem: a 1965 double murder, a police artist's sketch, a photo of a 22-year-old Milat shown to the sitting Premier, and a resemblance nobody can quite explain away The ballistics problem: an 18-year-old…

Dr Nick says we need to have a conversation about covid mandates (again), and Rich loses his dog mid recording. 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.

Every Sunday morning in Benton, Arkansas, a small congregation gathers to hear a sermon from a man some of them believe is Elvis Presley. Not "sounds like him." Not "channels his spirit." Actually him — alive, aged into his eighties, and preaching under an assumed name because, as one longtime fan put it, he hopes "one day he will stand up and say who he is." Pastor Bob Joyce has said, on the record, more than once, that he is not Elvis Presley. It hasn't slowed the theory down at all. This week, part two: Rich and Nick sit back down with Greg Page to trace where the "he's still out there" theory has actually gone since 1977 — from a plane ticket that couldn't have existed to a pulpit in Arkansas that a lot of people can't stop looking at. - The sightings problem: supermarket check-out lines, a Kalamazoo bus station, a monastery in the Midwest — and why almost every "credible" sighting traces back to a book someone was trying to sell - The Bob Joyce problem: an elderly pastor whose sermons get read as coded…

Yeah, maybe we're all cooked? 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.

On the morning Elvis Presley died, someone booked a plane ticket out of Memphis under the name John Burrows — the alias he used on every hotel rooming list for the better part of two decades. It's the detail conspiracy theorists reach for first. It's also, according to the guest on this episode, one of the least mysterious things that happened that week, because what actually emptied out Graceland in the days that followed makes the fake-death theory look almost quaint by comparison. This week — part one of two — Rich Baker and Nick Coatsworth sit down with Greg Page: former Wiggle, lifelong Elvis collector, and the man who ended up owning (and later returning) the tag cut from the pajama pants Elvis was wearing when he died. The alias problem: John Burrows, a same-day plane ticket, and why a real escape plan probably wouldn't reuse a name that was already on every tour document he'd ever signed The Graceland problem: the "Rape of Graceland" — staff who realized their paychecks had just ended looting the…

For the best part of recorded history, it was the tallest structure human beings had ever built. 2.3 million blocks of limestone, some weighing three tons, stacked with a margin of error so small it wasn't even detectable until the 19th century. Nobody has ever fully explained how it was done - or why anyone would bother getting a tomb that precise. This week we dig into Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods and the case for a lost civilization behind the Great Pyramid of Giza. No wheels, no scaffold, and an eastern face aligned to true north within 0.015 percent — tight enough that mainstream Egyptologists still don't fully agree on how it was done, let alone why it needed to be that precise. The construction problem: a 24-man haul team, 7,100 newtons of force, and the maths on laying a block every three to six minutes for 20 years The precision problem: an eastern face aligned to true north within three arcminutes, and how anyone got there without modern instruments The flood myth problem: why…

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…

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.

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 forgotten The second call: November 23, 1963 — the same voice, back within a day of the murder, naming Moscow's money…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

Barnaby goes BANG on his dog. Or maybe there wasn't a dog?? Also, a US senator dies, but then another one doesn't? Or maybe not. Who knows ffs. 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.

Every morning at the Gerson clinic in Tijuana, patients wake up and drink juice. Then they drink more juice. Then they have a coffee enema. Then more juice. Thirteen glasses before dinner, every day, for weeks - at a cost that runs to thirty thousand dollars a month. The people doing it are not gullible. He also prescribed coffee enemas and carrot juice to cancer patients, charged them a significant amount of money, and kept his own records in a way that made independent verification essentially impossible. Both of those things are true, and the wellness industry has spent seventy years making sure you only hear about one of them. So what does it mean when a protocol this easy to debunk has this many true believers — and some of them have the scans to back it up? 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. The Albert Schweitzer problem: why the most credentialled…

One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts is in the spotlight after his chemtrails take, alrighty Malcolm go off? Plus, some more UFO gear from Trump and a whole heap of new smoking data drops. HUFF IT UP! Contact the show at conspiracycabal@outlook.com. The Conspiracy Cabal doesn't promote conspiracy theories- it examines 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 murder of Andres Escobar rocked Colombia. Plus, did Australia try to bribe their way to a world cup? In 1994, Colombia entered the World Cup tipped as one of the favorites to win it all. But after a shocking own-goal by beloved defender Andrés Escobar led to their early exit, the national tragedy turned fatal. Just days after returning home to Medellín, Andrés was gunned down in a nightclub parking lot. It remains one of the darkest and most scrutinized moments in sporting history, exposing a terrifying intersection of athletic passion, high-stakes gambling, and cartel violence. This week, Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth examine the tragic death of the "Gentleman of Soccer" to separate urban legend from the grim reality of 1990s Colombia, exploring how a simple game became a matter of life and death. The rise of "Narco-Football": How the billions of drug kingpins like Pablo Escobar (no relation to Andrés) bankrolled Colombian football, transformed local clubs into international powerhouses, and…

Donny's on the phone, and FIFA is listening! What's the DJ? No red card? Yes sir no problem sir. Half of Australia can't pay for a flat white because Telstra went down, Beijing is just "testing the waters," right? Hosted by Rich Baker and Dr Nick Coatsworth, the Conspiracy Cabal is on the hunt for the kernel of truth. Contact the show at conspiracycabal@outlook.com. The Conspiracy Cabal doesn't promote conspiracy theories - it examines them. We search for the kernel of truth in every story, exploring how conspiracies begin, why they endure, and what drives people to believe them. Contact the show at conspiracycabalpod@outlook.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are bikies running the Labor government? And how big is the CFMEU influence? For years, the Big Build has been promoted as the largest infrastructure investment in Victorian history. But behind the billions of dollars in public spending, allegations have emerged of intimidation, organised crime infiltration, corruption, and extraordinary failures of oversight. For decades, rumours about the influence of the CFMEU circulated throughout the construction industry. This week, Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth are joined by award-winning investigative journalist Nick McKenzie to separate political rhetoric from documented evidence as they examine the allegations surrounding the CFMEU, the Victorian Big Build, organised crime infiltration, and what Australia's biggest corruption scandal could mean for the future of the construction industry. The official history: how the CFMEU became one of Australia's most powerful unions, the rise of Victoria's Big Build, the relationship between government, unions and major…

Geelong is the place to go for many things, but UFOs? Well, apparently so. Plus, more World Cup match-fixing controversy (Sepp are you there?) and some Aussies have been charged with spying on behalf of the Russians. What is this, 1979? Hosted by Rich Baker and Dr Nick Coatsworth, the Conspiracy Cabal is on the hunt for the kernel of truth. Contact the show at conspiracycabal@outlook.com. The Conspiracy Cabal doesn't promote conspiracy theories - it examines them. We search for the kernel of truth in every story, exploring how conspiracies begin, why they endure, and what drives people to believe them. Contact the show at conspiracycabalpod@outlook.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Released in 1939, it transformed Judy Garland into an international star and became a defining piece of Hollywood history. But behind the Technicolor magic was a production marked by exhausting schedules, dangerous working conditions, and an industry that abused women and children. For decades, stories surrounding the film have grown into something much darker. Because when a movie is surrounded by on-set injuries, cast members who suffer extraordinary personal tragedies, urban legends that refuse to die, and one of Hollywood's greatest stars spends a lifetime battling the consequences of childhood fame, people begin to wonder whether The Wizard of Oz was simply an unlucky production, or whether it carries a curse. This week, Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth separate Hollywood myth from historical fact as they explore the so-called Curse of The Wizard of Oz, the brutal realities of the Golden Age studio system, and the heartbreaking treatment of Judy Garland. The official history: the making of The…

Your weekly conspiracy update, tuck in folks this is a good one. This week, Bill Gates' links to Jeffrey Epstein are back in the spotlight, we look at the bizarre alleged abduction during Brazil v Scotland at the World Cup, and Richard Baker shares the story of the time he and Nick McKenzie were sued after an investigation into organised crime. Some stories are backed by evidence. Others are fuelled by speculation. We sort through the facts, the claims, and the questions that keep these conspiracies alive. Contact the show at conspiracycabal@outlook.com. The Conspiracy Cabal doesn't promote conspiracy theories - it examines them. We search for the kernel of truth in every story, exploring how conspiracies begin, why they endure, and what drives people to believe them. Contact the show at conspiracycabalpod@outlook.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 31 August 1997, Princess Diana died in a car crash in a Paris tunnel. The official investigation concluded that the driver was intoxicated, driving at excessive speed, and attempting to evade pursuing photographers. Multiple inquiries in both France and the United Kingdom reached the same conclusion. The case was closed. But for millions of people, it never really ended. Because when the most photographed woman in the world dies under extraordinary circumstances, after publicly challenging powerful institutions, while involved in relationships that generated global headlines, a simple explanation can start to feel insufficient. Especially when questions linger, witnesses disagree, documents disappear into bureaucracy, and every answer seems to generate two new suspicions. So what happens when one of the most investigated deaths in modern history becomes one of the most enduring conspiracy theories ever told? This week, Richard Baker, Dr. Nick Coatsworth and special guest Angie Simpson examine what we…

In 1977, a US Senate hearing confirmed that the American military had been secretly seeding clouds over Vietnam for a decade. The program was called Operation Popeye. Its existence had been classified. Its goal was to extend the monsoon season and flood enemy supply lines. It worked. And when it came out, the government's position was essentially: yes, we did that, and no, we won't be discussing what else we've done since. So what does it mean when the most outlandish-sounding theory has a declassified paper trail — and the official line is still that there's nothing to see in the sky? This week, Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth go through what the evidence actually shows, and what the gap between those two things tells us. Solar geoengineering and who's doing it: the Harvard experiment, the UN framework, and the researchers who say large-scale aerosol injection is already happening outside any public oversight or consent The soil and water data: what independent tests keep finding, what barium and…

Bill Gates bug goes BITE and now you can't eat a souva?? Between 2010 and 2022, the CDC identified more than 110,000 suspected cases of alpha-gal syndrome in the United States, with estimates suggesting the real number could be closer to 450,000. People developing a potentially life-threatening allergy to red meat after a tick bite, and never knowing why. And the lone star tick is spreading north, fast. Rich and Nick go through what the science says, what the conspiracy says back, and review the new Spielberg film Disclosure Day. Join Rich Baker and Dr Nick Coatsworth as they wade in. 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.

On April 8th, 1994, an electrician arrived at a Seattle mansion to install a security system and found the body of the most famous musician on the planet. He'd been there for three days. Seattle Police ruled it suicide before the week was out. Thirty years later, a peer-reviewed forensic paper published in an international journal says they got it wrong. So what does it mean when the official story has more holes in it than the investigation that produced it? In this episode, 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. The toxicology report: heroin levels so extreme that forensic experts say he couldn't have physically pulled the trigger, and why that question was closed anyway The suicide note: what it actually says, the handwriting dispute, and the theory that the bottom half was written by someone else entirely Tom Grant, the private investigator she hired who became her most…

TRUMPY, look at you go big fella dropping some unreal UFO, UAP gear for us to go through. Thank you our orange friend, thank you. On May 8th, the Pentagon quietly uploaded 162 declassified files to a new government website. No press conference. No briefing. Just a link. Two weeks later they did it again. 51 videos, audio recordings, infrared footage of a 2022 formation over Iran. Objects doing things that, in the official documents, get described as "not matching any known Chinese or Russian platforms." The government's own office says most of it is probably drones and balloons. The government's own Congress says that's not good enough, and the 46 videos they specifically demanded still haven't appeared. So what does it mean when the disclosure raises more questions than the secrecy did? In this episode, Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth go through what's actually in the files, what's conspicuously missing, and what the gap between those two things tells us. What the two tranches actually contain — and…

The $7 billion crime industry. The excise rate that built it. The health department that knew — and kept raising the tax anyway. The global protocol to combat illicit tobacco that 100 countries signed, and Australia quietly ignored. The enforcement agency with no enforcement powers, led by someone with no law enforcement experience. The smoking rate data that nobody's measuring — or maybe nobody wants to see. The thing is — some of this is documented. Australia's illicit tobacco market, once a niche customs headache, now accounts for an estimated 75–80% of all tobacco consumed in the country. Firebombings have terrorised suburban shopfronts. Legitimate small businesses can't get insurance. So how did a public health policy designed to stop people smoking end up creating the largest organised crime industry this country has ever seen? In this episode, Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth are joined by Rohan Pike — former AFP, foreign bribery investigator, and the man who's been shouting about illicit tobacco…

The meeting. The man. The tape that wasn't supposed to exist. Chris Koch isn't someone who went looking for Robert Booth Nichols. But Nichols — the self-described "government facilitator" tied to the CIA, arms dealing, organised crime, and the suspicious death of journalist Danny Casolaro — has a way of finding people. And once you're in his orbit, you don't leave unchanged. Koch, a man who has faced charges and served prison time in his own right, joins Rich and Nick for a bonus conversation about what happened when those two worlds collided — and what Nichols showed him in a room that felt less like a home and more like a safe house. Because it wasn't just a conversation. It was a tape. A second version of the Kennedy assassination. One where the driver turns around. The thing is — Koch saw it. And he's never quite been able to explain it away. Who Robert Booth Nichols actually was — government asset, con man, or something the two aren't mutually exclusive How Koch came to meet him, and what that encounter…

The lab leak. The five-eyes suppression. The gain-of-function funding trail. The Beagle experiments. The suppressed treatments. The modellers whose predictions shaped policy but whose data no one could check. The social media companies that quietly moved the goalposts on what counted as misinformation - and who told them to. The thing is - some of this is now documented. The lab leak hypothesis, once treated as a dangerous fringe idea, is now the assessed position of multiple US intelligence agencies. Emails obtained through FOIA requests showed senior scientists privately voicing concerns they publicly dismissed. Gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was partly funded, indirectly, through bodies connected to the NIH - and whether that meets the technical definition of "gain-of-function" became, itself, a political question. So where does the documented end - and the mythology begin? In this episode, Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth go back to the beginning - not to relitigate the…

He was fourteen years old when he helped his father forge documents to survive the Nazi occupation of Budapest. He arrived in London with almost nothing. He became, for one day in September 1992, the man who broke the Bank of England — and pocketed a billion dollars doing it. And somewhere between that refugee boy and the most vilified billionaire on the planet, George Soros became something else entirely: a shape onto which half the world projects its fears. The secret funder of every protest. The architect of open borders. The puppet-master behind prosecutors, presidents, and pandemics. The globalist. The name that arrives, sooner or later, in almost every modern conspiracy theory. The thing is, some of it is documented. He does fund political causes, on a scale that is genuinely extraordinary. His Open Society Foundations have spent billions reshaping legal systems, media organisations, and civil society groups across dozens of countries. Governments have expelled his operations. His own birth country has…

A man is found dead in his car on a remote New South Wales road in January 1980, a rifle between his legs and a business card in his pocket bearing the name of a former director of the CIA. Within weeks, his bank — a merchant institution with branches in Chiang Mai, Taipei, Saudi Arabia, and almost nowhere you'd expect an Australian bank to be — had collapsed. Millions were missing. His business partner, a former Green Beret with documented CIA connections, vanished without a trace. And the list of names on the bank's letterhead read less like a board of directors and more like a who's who of American intelligence. Frank Nugan's death was ruled a suicide. Michael Hand was never found. The money was never recovered. And somehow, despite a royal commission, a congressional inquiry, and decades of investigative journalism, the full story of Nugan Hand Bank has never quite made it into the mainstream. In this episode, Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth follow the money — from the heroin fields of the Golden…

The man who lit the world died in Room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel in January 1943, broke, largely forgotten, and in the middle of a world war that desperately wanted what was in his head. The FBI seized his files within hours. His nephew was told they'd found nothing of interest. A government physicist was quietly brought in to review the "death ray" papers. And somewhere along the way, a question started circulating that has never quite gone away: did the US government let Nikola Tesla die, or did they help him along? In this episode, Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth go back to Room 3327 and ask what the official record actually tells us — and what it doesn't. The death itself, the timeline, the hotel maid who found him, and what the scene actually looked like The file seizure, who moved, how fast, and what "Alien Property" really meant in wartime America The death ray, what Tesla's teleforce weapon actually was, how close he'd gotten, and who wanted it John Trump's assessment, what he told the FBI,…

A Chinese submarine loaded with "frog men", the CIA nabbed him with an underwater assassination or...get this...he drowned. Which of these three could it possibly be! Harold Holt had been Prime Minister for less than two years. He was an experienced ocean swimmer. And in the months before he disappeared, Australia was navigating one of the most politically sensitive periods in its history. Vietnam was escalating, Pine Gap was being quietly negotiated, and the relationship between Canberra and Washington was more complicated than the public knew. Then he went for a swim at Cheviot Beach, and was gone. What followed was one of the strangest episodes in Australian political history. No body was ever recovered. The inquest took decades to happen. And somewhere along the way, a theory emerged, that Holt hadn't drowned at all, but had been extracted by a Chinese submarine. In this episode, Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth go back to Cheviot Beach and ask what the official record actually tells us - and what…

Okay so bear with us on this one, we know they're not actually down there....but maaaaybe...nah we know they're not. Or are they.... In 1938, Adolf Hitler sent an expedition to Antarctica. They mapped the terrain, claimed a chunk of it for the Reich, and called it Neuschwabenland. Then the war started, and the story gets buried. Fast forward to 1946. The US Navy launches Operation Highjump - the largest Antarctic expedition in history. Admiral Byrd leads 4,700 men, 13 ships, and 33 aircraft to the most remote continent on Earth. The mission is supposed to last eight months. It's abandoned in eight weeks. Byrd never fully explains why. Rumour has it that Hitler fled to Antarctica, is that what Byrd and his men were looking for? Then there's the ice itself. Beneath Antarctica's surface sit gravitational anomalies so massive and so strange that scientists still can't agree on what's causing them. Some say it's geology. Some say it's something buried. And some people - a lot of people - think the two stories are…

Something's killing cattle out in rural Australia - and whatever it is doesn't leave tracks, doesn't leave blood, and doesn't leave a single explanation. Since the 1970s, thousands of livestock have been found dead across the US with surgical-precision wounds, missing organs, and zero evidence of predators or human activity. Then there's Skinwalker Ranch - a stretch of Utah land so plagued by unexplained phenomena that the US government quietly studied it for years. UFOs, poltergeists, invisible predators, cattle mutilations. All on one property. In this episode, we explore: - Why cattle mutilations show no signs of predation, no blood, and cuts that baffle veterinary pathologists - The FBI's own investigation into mutilations in the 1970s - and why it went nowhere - Skinwalker Ranch: the history, the Sherman family's terrifying experiences, and the secret government research program known as NIDS - The Hitchhiker Effect - claims that paranormal activity follows researchers home from the ranch - Indigenous…

So aliens came down and supercharged the sh*t out of a civilisation??? 4500 BCE, advanced civilization appeared virtually overnight in Mesopotamia. The Sumerians developed writing, complex mathematics, astronomical charts, and sophisticated architecture with no apparent predecessor cultures. Some claim this wasn't evolution - it was a reset. A remnant of lost advanced knowledge, or even extra-terrestrial intervention. In this episode, we explore: - Why Sumerian civilization seemingly emerged fully formed with no developmental period - The Anunnaki myths and ancient astronaut theories popularized by Zecharia Sitchin - Advanced astronomical knowledge - how did ancient Sumerians know about planets not visible to the naked eye? - Cuneiform tablets describing genetic manipulation and 'gods from the sky' Göbekli Tepe and evidence of pre-Sumerian advanced cultures - What really explains Sumer's rapid advancement - lost civilizations, aliens, or selective archaeology? Join hosts Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth…

They reject laws, courts, and parking tickets. Sov cits are comin' for the government. Armed with YouTube legal advice and a creative interpretation of the Magna Carta, sovereign citizens believe they've found the ultimate life hack: opting out of government authority entirely. From roadside confrontations that go viral to courtroom stunts that baffle judges, the movement blends DIY micronations, medieval English law, and maritime conspiracy theories into a legal philosophy that occasionally ends in tragedy. In this episode, we explore: The origins of the sovereign citizen movement and its bizarre interpretation of the Magna Carta How "free men on the land" believe they can reject taxes, licenses, and court jurisdiction through magic words Real micronations like Sealand and Hutt River Province - are they legitimate or elaborate performance art? High-profile cases where sovereign citizen tactics derailed trials and endangered lives The connection between sovereign citizens and far-right extremism, militia…

Would you take medical advise from Mel Gibson? We hope the answer is no, but you should listen to this episode either way. From patent games to profit margins that make tech monopolies blush, the pharmaceutical industry has been accused of putting shareholder returns ahead of patient lives for decades. But is Big Pharma actively suppressing a cure for cancer to protect their treatment goldmine? In this episode, we investigate: The economics of cancer treatment versus cure - follow the money trail through oncology patents and revenue models Real cases where pharmaceutical companies buried cheaper alternatives or delayed generic competition Mel Gibson's claims about pharmaceutical industry corruption and what evidence supports (or contradicts) them How cancer research funding actually works and who controls what gets investigated The difference between profit-driven delays and an actual conspiracy to suppress cures Why breakthrough treatments sometimes take decades to reach patients despite promising trial…

Financier, sex trafficker, and perhaps the greatest networker in criminal history. From a working-class background on Coney Island to mansions in Manhattan, Florida, and his private island in the Caribbean, Jeffrey Epstein built an empire of abuse protected by powerful men across Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and perhaps even the British Royal Family. His 2019 death in prison left more questions than answers, and the recent release of over 3 million documents from his files has reignited one of the darkest scandals of our time. In this episode, we explore: How Epstein rose from math teacher to billionaire money manager through connections and manipulation The network of elite men who associated with him before and after his 2008 child sex conviction Whether the scandal validates QAnon's theory of a global elite paedophile ring Evidence suggesting possible intelligence agency connections to Mossad, Russian, or American services Why powerful figures continued partying with Epstein after his criminal…

On April 6, 1966, at Westall High School in Melbourne, over 200 students and teachers witnessed three unidentified flying objects performing aerodynamically impossible maneuvers in broad daylight. One craft descended into a nearby field, sparking decades of questions, government silence, and conspiracy theories. In this episode, we explore: Eyewitness accounts from students who saw the craft up close The mysterious 'radiation burns' suffered by student Tanya Why authorities allegedly silenced witnesses and confiscated evidence The role of researcher Shane Ryan in validating witness testimonies Comparisons to Project Blue Book and other major UFO sightings What really happened at Westall - aliens, military testing, or mass hysteria? Join hosts Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth as they investigate one of Australia's most compelling unsolved mysteries. The Conspiracy Cabal doesn't promote conspiracy theories - we examine them. We search for the kernel of truth in every story, exploring how conspiracies…