Episode 555

Boy's night in the sewer gets weird fast — Nick cracks a high-potency THC seltzer live on air and things go sideways from there. A dermatologist trip turns into a full skin-diagnosis breakdown, a caller talks drones, wind vortexes, and DJI surveillance paranoia, and the two of them spiral into a debate about witches, estrogen, and courtroom hormones. Somewhere in the chaos there's a mouse in the walls, a possible ghost, and a guy who allegedly drowned in a barrel of LSD.

From there it's pure late-night internet rabbit hole: DLSS5 melting Cloud's face, a Fox News sugar-and-caffeine segment that spirals into accidental child-eating jokes, a melatonin study that might explain everyone's heart problems, a haunted garment factory in Bangladesh, and a "possessed" group of miners in Honduras that turns out to be heatstroke. Value-for-value donations read live, a couple of songs get played (and probably muted later), and the government may or may not show up asking questions. Another fully unscripted night on Nick the Rat Radio.

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A paranoid rat discusses conspiracies, secret agendas, and things they don't want you to know — while playing hand-picked underground music. Call in live: 1-917-719-5923

Originally aired: 09/02/26

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Episode 554

Nick the Rat comes at you straight from the sewer with a full dose of 2026 dread. Nick breaks down his new side hustle training AI (yes, he's literally getting paid to help the robots learn), reacts to Bill Gates' essay on which jobs might survive the AI takeover, and dives deep (CLANKER TALK!) into the World Humanoid Robot Games where China cleaned house with hundreds of competing bots doing everything from tug-of-war to breakdancing. From there it's a grim tour through a catastrophic Nepal glacier collapse, a stacked week of celebrity deaths, and physicist Sabine Hossenfelder's takedown of the quantum computing hype cycle.

Then the mailbag opens up: donations, snacks, a Dame Nancy shoutout, and a couple of unhinged voicemails including a surprise appearance from the sewer's least favorite squatter, Xindu. Nick riffs on AI art discourse (with an assist from Dr. Dre), reviews the dino disaster flick "End of Oak Street," previews GTA 6 and the Witcher 3 remaster, and closes out with some real talk about the job hunt grind. Grab a snack, settle into the sewer, and let's get depressed together... value for value, baby.

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A paranoid rat discusses conspiracies, secret agendas, and things they don't want you to know — while playing hand-picked underground music. Call in live: 1-917-719-5923

Originally aired: 08/26/26

All music is Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0). All artists are credited during the episode.

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Episode 553

Nick the Rat Radio comes in hot from deep in the sewer — open phone lines, a Modena cancer trial that spirals into CRISPR conspiracy talk, a Spirit Halloween costume crawl gone completely off the rails, and an extended AI-generated bit about MLK's FBI tapes that has to be heard to be believed. Callers drop in on drones, blind soccer players, Twin Peaks, Daemon by Daniel Suarez, and why lawns are secretly a scam — plus a donation segment that turns into a full-blown accusation of dime-based deception against a longtime listener named Tom.

As always, it's loosey-goosey, unscripted, and running on value-for-value support from the listeners. Grab a coffee, settle into the muck, and let the sewer take you where it wants to go tonight. Connection is protection. ITM.

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A paranoid rat discusses conspiracies, secret agendas, and things they don't want you to know — while playing hand-picked underground music. Call in live: 1-917-719-5923

Originally aired: 08/19/26

All music is Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0). All artists are credited during the episode.

For more info: www.nicktherat.com

Episode 552

Welcome back to the sewer, everybody. Tonight Nick goes full conspiracy theorist with a spicy (and completely unhinged) theory: the Salem witch trials never happened the way you think — they were staged BY witches to protect themselves, and they've been quietly running society ever since. Nick breaks down over 20 "pieces of evidence" ranging from sex toys to skincare routines to the women's bathroom line, takes live calls from actual self-proclaimed witches, and somehow ends up talking about pee. Plus: movie reviews (Obsession vs. The Backrooms, Spider-Man Noir), Quake and Killer Frequency talk, a Brad Pitt sobriety update, a Wordle fail, back pain and pillow surgery, and a mailbag stuffed with $2 bills courtesy of author M. Andrew Jones.

As always, this is a value-for-value show — if you got something out of it, toss a few bucks or a weird piece of mail our way. New episodes of Nick the Rat Radio drop weekly under the Dark Sewer Network banner. Grab a beer, don't summon anything, and enjoy.

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A paranoid rat discusses conspiracies, secret agendas, and things they don't want you to know — while playing hand-picked underground music. Call in live: 1-917-719-5923

Originally aired: 08/12/26

All music is Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0). All artists are credited during the episode.

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Episode 551

Nick the Rat Radio gets weird fast — Nick recaps meeting Lavish from Behind the Schemes IRL (and scoring a coveted Casio GBX-100), then spirals through a grab bag of chaos: Einstein's double-cousin wife, a fake(?) Perez Hilton meltdown, a tragic NYC e-bike death nobody's explaining properly, and an AI job interview where Nick trash-talks his old boss to a robot. Add in Hank Green's AI research controversy, Eli Roth's AI-assisted flop, and a rescue-dog-turned-meat-market story out of China, and things only get stranger from there.

Then the show goes full body-horror: drug-resistant Candida auris, face-dwelling Demodex mites with no anus, flock camera laser hacks, and a truly unhinged caller segment about K9 steak sauce and pubic hair salons. Nick closes out with NYC's new government grocery stores, the Kalshi gambling lawsuit, RFK's $5 seafood cooking show, and a brewery that lost its liquor license over a "free beer if Trump dies" promo. It's a laidback news night that somehow ends up being the grossest episode in show history — value-for-value, no filter, straight from the sewer.

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A paranoid rat discusses conspiracies, secret agendas, and things they don't want you to know — while playing hand-picked underground music. Call in live: 1-917-719-5923

Originally aired: 08/05/26

All music is Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0). All artists are credited during the episode.

For more info: www.nicktherat.com

Episode 550

This week in the sewer: no music, no AI gimmicks, just raw rat radio. We crack open a 1989 Sears Christmas catalog and lose our minds over $700 pearl bracelets and Pee-wee Herman watches, pay respects to John C. Dvorak with some heartfelt (and heartbroken) voicemails, and dig into Sam Altman calling himself a genie-maker while his sister drops a scorched-earth Christmas parody song about him. Add in mutant rats that are outsmarting poison, a wild new ADHD drug breakdown, and Elon suing Minnesota over an AI nudity law, and you've got a genuinely unhinged episode.

Grab a beer, get comfortable, and let the sewer wash over you. Full voicemail segment, donation shoutouts, and a brand new stinky Hawaiian shirt story you didn't ask for but are getting anyway. Nick the Rat Radio — Dark Sewer Network. Subscribe, donate a few duckets in the bucket, and stay fun.

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A paranoid rat discusses conspiracies, secret agendas, and things they don't want you to know — while playing hand-picked underground music. Call in live: 1-917-719-5923

Originally aired: 07/29/26

All music is Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0). All artists are credited during the episode.

For more info: www.nicktherat.com

Episode 549

This week's episode of Nick the Rat Radio opens heavy — a rough week of sickness, a dead microphone, and the loss of podcasting legend John C. Dvorak. Nick shares tributes from Adam Curry and Chris Wilson, takes emotional calls from longtime listeners, and reflects on 20+ years of No Agenda before eventually finding his way back to the chaos: Nvidia's origin story with Sega, NASA's canceled moon lander, and a very deep dive into eggs, Monte Cristos, and Lightning Network nodes with a caller.

Then the sewer really opens up — the cyclospora "shittening" tearing through Taco Bell and Taylor Farms, a fresh Dark Sewer Network News dispatch from Jane Hanoi (demonic sewer alligators, plumbing poltergeists, and the Rat King's rat uprising), reckless geoengineering experiments dumping chemicals into the ocean and sky, a bison-tossing grandpa, the JD Vance corn dog discourse, and the ongoing Charlie Kirk statue drama in Times Square. A wild, emotional, all-over-the-place episode — as always, straight from the sewer.

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A paranoid rat discusses conspiracies, secret agendas, and things they don't want you to know — while playing hand-picked underground music. Call in live: 1-917-719-5923

Originally aired: 07/22/26

All music is Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0). All artists are credited during the episode.

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Episode 548

Nick the Rat is back, rambling through a chaotic Wednesday night filled with Magic: The Gathering gripes (including that disappointing Star Trek set), second-degree burn updates from an overzealous solo session, and passionate pitches for “dick lotion.” He reviews board game hauls like Talisman and Sons of Anarchy, roasts Christopher Nolan and live-action remakes, then dives into the real weirdness happening in New York: exploding cyclospora parasites in the lettuce and Legionnaires’ bacteria in the AC.

The main event is a deep, fascinating talk on terminal lucidity — those eerie moments when people with advanced dementia, strokes, or comas suddenly become fully aware and themselves right before death. Nick explores real cases, scientific theories, gamma wave brain surges, and what it might mean for consciousness, the soul, and that final “last rally.” Packed with gas blasts, Mystery Man’s terrifying Bigfoot terminal-lucidity horror story, Jane Hanoi’s horny paranormal news, voicemails, and late-night tangents, this one’s equal parts hilarious, gross, and genuinely thought-provoking.

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A paranoid rat discusses conspiracies, secret agendas, and things they don't want you to know — while playing hand-picked underground music. Call in live: 1-917-719-5923

Originally aired: 07/16/26

All music is Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0). All artists are credited during the episode.

For more info: www.nicktherat.com

Episode 547

Nick the Rat crawls up from the Brooklyn sewers with a grab-bag of end-times energy — mourning the collapse of his favorite podcast, ranting about the video game industry's layoff apocalypse, and reviewing (poorly) a $22 pack of pens from Staples. Things take a darker turn when he dives into the creeping rollout of biometric logins, facial-scan authentication, and data-sharing agreements between government agencies and private contractors — plus a real NYC office-to-apartment conversion that literally started buckling mid-build. Naturally, there's also a tangent on the best way to pop popcorn.

The back half brings the full Dark Sewer Network crew: Bigfoot Assault delivers a gruesome cryptid-vs-alien-hybrid showdown in the Pacific Northwest, Zindu rants about fast food and IBS from his usual filthy corner of the galaxy, and Jane Hanoi covers a haunted ISS, a cursed earthquake artifact, and aliens roasting a Spielberg movie. Along the way: AI actress Tilly Norwood gets torched, a caller debates whether the podcast breakup is fake, and Nick signs up for a real NASA isolation study because why not.

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A paranoid rat discusses conspiracies, secret agendas, and things they don't want you to know — while playing hand-picked underground music. Call in live: 1-917-719-5923

Originally aired: 07/08/26

All music is Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0). All artists are credited during the episode.

For more info: www.nicktherat.com

Episode 546

Nick the Rat is back with a second-degree burn on his paw, a burnt-out voice, and zero filter as he dives into a wild grab bag of underground news. This episode kicks off with a chaotic urgent care story, then spirals into the shocking real history of the 1940s US-government-funded Guatemala syphilis experiments — complete with a "leaked" AI-generated Obama apology call that has to be heard to be believed. From there it's a full descent into the sewer: Sony killing off physical discs, RAM companies getting sued for price fixing, mutant poison-resistant mice invading the Northeast, a synthetic biologist claiming she's built self-replicating lab life, and a deranged AI spiritual guide explaining the "real" reason CERN shut down.

Plus, catch an all-new Bigfoot Assault segment following a doctor's bloody encounter in the Olympic National Forest, a Dark Sewer News Network report from Jane Hanoi covering haunted Roombas and ghost pétanque balls, and Xindu returning with an unhinged rant about why pets are disgusting. Grab your Ching Wan Hung cream, settle in, and stay moist — it's another unforgettable night on Nick the Rat Radio.

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A paranoid rat discusses conspiracies, secret agendas, and things they don't want you to know — while playing hand-picked underground music. Call in live: 1-917-719-5923

Originally aired: 07/01/26

All music is Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0). All artists are credited during the episode.

For more info: www.nicktherat.com

Episode 545

The US government ran a secret global operation to harvest bones and body parts from dead infants without anyone's consent — and it was all to measure nuclear fallout in human tissue. Tonight Nick the Rat breaks down Project Sunshine, the classified AEC program that hired law firms to figure out how to body snatch legally, decided to do it anyway, and never charged a single person. Bill Clinton came close to saying the words. The British press blew the lid off. And nobodys ever been held accountable.

Also on tonight's episode: Nick goes to war on X over AI data centers eating millions of gallons of fresh water every day, Amazon Prime Day purchases reviewed with full sewer rat honesty, GTA6 sells you a box with a download code in it and calls it physical media, Quake turns 30, Jane Hanoi reports from the dark, Stillwater calls in, and the Mystery Man delivers a Bigfoot story so unhinged it should be illegal. Connection is protection. Value for value. ITM.

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A paranoid rat discusses conspiracies, secret agendas, and things they don't want you to know — while playing hand-picked underground music. Call in live: 1-917-719-5923

Originally aired: 06/24/26

All music is Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0). All artists are credited during the episode.

For more info: www.nicktherat.com