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Dark facts, loose wires, no reverence.
Occultae Veritatis Podcast - OVPOD treats grim subjects like aviation accidents, canoe tragedy, deepfakes, and strange cosmic extremes with casual irreverence. The tone is part research hangout, part gallows-comedy derailment, with frequent warnings that the conversation gets disturbing and unserious.
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Occultae Veritatis Podcast - OVPOD is a dark-topic conversation show with a loose Canadian ensemble energy and a taste for the uncomfortable. Its subjects range widely. One episode breaks down Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 with attention to climb rates, thin air, engine performance, and failed restart conditions. Another revisits aviation milestones, including wartime jet aircraft and the strange demands placed on pilots learning dangerous new machines. The Timiskaming Canoe Tragedy brings the show into historical-disaster territory. Red-headed giants pulls it toward fringe history and ancient-human lore. Strange New Worlds turns outward, explaining exoplanet detection, lensing, and why rare alignments make follow-up observations difficult. Deepfakes Part Deux moves into generative AI, political ads, synthetic media, and distrust in online evidence. Then there is an episode about excrement, because OVPOD does not treat tastefulness as a boundary. The show’s defining mode is contrast. It can explain a technical chain of failure with real care, then interrupt itself with a joke, a soundboard bit, or a deliberately childish aside. It opens with explicit listener-discretion warnings and repeatedly signals that its speakers should not be treated as final authorities. That self-deprecating frame matters. OVPOD is not a polished investigative series, and it is not trying to be one. It is a research-and-riffing room where disturbing history, odd science, conspiracy culture, disasters, and gross trivia all get pulled into the same orbit. The pacing can be jagged, but the jaggedness is part of the identity. For listeners who like grim material softened by irreverence, it has a strong signal. For listeners who need restraint, it will likely be too chaotic.
Made for: Best for listeners who like grim history, strange science, disasters, and fringe subjects filtered through irreverent group banter. It suits people who can handle disturbing material and crude humor without needing a formal documentary tone.
What sets it apart: OVPOD stands apart by pairing real explanations of crashes, cosmic phenomena, AI fakery, and historical tragedies with an intentionally unruly room dynamic. The show keeps reminding the audience not to confuse its chaos for authority, which makes its looseness part of the product rather than a flaw.
Four curious Canadians venture into the darkest, most misunderstood, or contentious areas of our reality. Real life lore from the mouths of Ood, Sage, Leon, and Richard.Pack a bowl, join the cult, put us in your ears!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
OVPOD pairs dark group humor with patient explanations of failures, misinformation, and the human decisions behind consequential events.
Occultae Veritatis Podcast - OVPOD turns detailed explainers into unruly group conversations. Ood, Sage, Leon, and Richard move through an anthology format where a prepared account is repeatedly questioned, clarified, and interrupted by dark humor.
Serious research gets heckled by a soundboard demon, and somehow you still learn things.
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A filthy, self-aware riff on waste, habit, and black ivory coffee.
It settles into the muck quickly, which suits a piece that keeps reminding listeners the hosts are not exactly factual authorities. The running talk moves from shit jokes to health-care desensitization, from service plumbers to black ivory coffee, that elephant-dung product…
A profane, self-aware look at AI fakery, political spin, and the backlash it sparks.
This episode circles AI-fueled political absurdity, with attention on the Andrew Cuomo campaign's generated ad aimed at Zoran Mamdani and the swift backlash that followed.
A rough-edged crash story that turns altitude, airspeed, and engine failure into plain English.
The episode reads like a crash report with a pulse, opening with a violence warning before moving into the climb to 41,000 feet, the 500-feet-per-minute setting, and the slow drain of energy that left the CRJ200 in trouble.
ME 262 stories, later nods to Solar Impulse 2 and Alice, and a banter-heavy flow keep the episode centered on flight.
Occulte Veritatis Podcast leans into aviation history with Leon Filger and Richard Bigley, and the ME 262 section gives the episode its sharpest lift.
A noisy, self-mocking primer on how astronomers find planets by reading bent starlight.
OVPOD frames lensing as a plain but vivid way to spot planets by watching a star's light bend. The episode is at its best when it stays with the mechanics: how a planet's gravity can shift the lens, why alignment with Earth has to be very rare, and how that rare setup can still…
Loose commentary turns a 1990s anti-drug cartoon into a strange, politically charged nostalgia trip.
A 1990s anti-drug cartoon gives the host and Richard Bigley plenty to push against, and their loose, intoxicated commentary finds the oddness in almost every turn.
True crime with raised eyebrows.
True crime with a messy-TV side channel.
Australian history, restored from the record.
True crime from the investigators’ side.
Homicide cases, evidence first.
Ood and Richard Bigley spend a Patreon preview watching Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, a 1990s anti-drug PSA built around Smurfs, Garfield, Alvin, Pooh, and Michelangelo.
The hosts of Occulte Veritatis introduce themselves and discuss recording remotely due to the Omicron variant in Saskatchewan.
The hosts of the Occult Veritatis podcast introduce a game while discussing true crime and other dark topics.
Case #231, 'Our Shittiest Episode,' has Arthur Tallis, Sage Murray, Rude Gallifrey, Richie, and Richard Bigley spending the run on poop biology, poop smells, and weird uses for waste.
On Occultae Veritatis Podcast, hosts Sage Murray and Richard Bigley revisit Richard's 2019 warning about deepfake technology to survey how dramatically it has evolved, citing a 1,740% rise in North American deepfake fraud from 2022 to 2023 and a case where a finance worker wired $25 million after a video call where every participant but him was an AI-generated deepfake.
The hosts of Occult Averitatis Podcast discuss the most extreme things in the universe, from planets to violent crimes.
The hosts of Occulte Veritatis podcast introduce an episode about red-headed giants, a supposed crossover between seven-foot-tall hominids and modern humans.
A true crime podcast episode about the Timiskaming canoe tragedy, introduced with a montage of disturbing audio clips.
Occultae Veritatis Podcast's "Case #226: Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701" follows a Bombardier CRJ200 repositioning flight from Little Rock, Arkansas to Minneapolis-St.
Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1 reached Mach 1.06 at 43,000 feet on October 14, 1947.
Case #224, "Strange New Worlds," turns from Babylonian planet-watching and Copernicus into a tour of exoplanets, starting with the question of whether Earth-like planets are rare.
The hosts of the Occult a Veritatis podcast introduce a game episode while discussing crime statistics and pop culture references.
This episode of Oculte Veritatis introduces the cult Love Has Won and its leader Amy Carlson.
A discussion about the horrifying and disturbing shock sites that populated the early internet, including Tub Girl and other grotesque content.