Nick the Rat Radio

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.

For more info: www.nicktherat.com

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.

For more info: www.nicktherat.com

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