Popcorn Panopticon

Nick the Rat Radio · Jul 8, 2026 · 2h 56m

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…