Rats In The Gutter

Trilling echolalia of the inner chamber, walls slowly closing in, but they’re gilt chintz so we don’t mind. Also fuck Luxon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oscars? Buzzy. Raglan? Buzzy. PR relationships? Buzzy. A tight five? Buzzy. Marmite sandwiches? Buzzy. Davide Seymour’s natal alcohol syndrome? Priceless. Get every episode early and in video, PLUS our bonus BTS episodes, on our Patreon xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Absurdity as a radical gesture, refusal to treat the body more specifically the face as a profitable asset, and the unbearable lightness of race. Enjoy. Get every episode early and in video, PLUS our bonus BTS episodes, on our Patreon xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re counting the days until impact with NASA announcing the immanent arrival of a ‘city killer’ asteroid, just as Brian Tamaki is counting the days until the antagonized queers and exploited Maori and Pacifica families in his congregation cobra-strike-back. Stay tuned Tamaki you fat fuck. Get every episode early and in video, PLUS our bonus BTS episodes, on our Patreon xx Get your tickets for th...

This country’s going to hell in a diamanté handbag, kinda puts a damper on Pride. So we’re ashamed. Get every episode early and in video, PLUS our bonus BTS episodes, on our Patreon xx Get your tickets for the crossover GAYZ IN THE GUTTER show with Chris Parker and Eli Matthewson on Feb. 17th here ! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week the rats discuss conservative delusion (such as recolonisation), being pet lovers, the unbearable lightness of fanny sweat, Beyonce’s calculated Virgo moves, and reformer pilates. Get every episode early and in video, PLUS our bonus BTS episodes, on our Patreon xx Get your tickets for the crossover GAYZ IN THE GUTTER show with Chris Parker and Eli Matthewson on Feb. 17th here ! Hosted on...

Historical inaccuracies abound! Was David of David and Goliath fame a flamer? Was Jack the Ripper doing Queen Victoria’s bidding? Am I a natural blonde? Listen to find out. Get every episode early and in video, PLUS our bonus BTS episodes, on our Patreon xx Get your tickets for the crossover GAYZ IN THE GUTTER show with Chris Parker and Eli Matthewson on Feb. 17th here ! Hosted on Acast. See acast...

Welcome to the facelift. A new and improved Rats 2.0 (if you’ve paid for it). The non-pay-wall peasant channel is still as good, but let’s be honest, your stinginess is as attractive as a naked honey-covered Elon Musk coming down your chimney in the middle of the night. As of now we’re journalists. Enjoy the facts. Get every episode early and in video, PLUS our bonus BTS episodes, on our Patreon x...

there’s an ambience of despair this episode. But rats are survivors. Except for countries so poverty stricken people eat them. Like what New Zealand under our current prime minister. Get every episode early and in video, PLUS our bonus BTS episodes, on our Patreon xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With Sam and Johanna away on holiday, here's a bonus episode released last month on our Patreon ! Back soon, happy 2025 ratties xx Welcome again behind the pay wall where everything’s on the table. This week we can’t help noticing how positively Aryan Troye Sivan is no matter how many brown hotties he hooks up with on stage. Also, Johanna is hungover. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...

Poly-tics - The government is a choad parade of gross incompetence and double chins and we’ve had a guts full! Also merry xmas. Get every episode early and in video, PLUS our bonus BTS episodes, on our Patreon xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

LIVE FROM THE BASEMENT THEATRE - This week's episode is coming to you live and rancid in front of an actual audience. As Sam and Johanna catalogue the insanity of the year that was they cannot help being drawn back to the cherry on top of 2024 - Luigi Mangione and his 9incher. Get episodes early and in video on our Patreon xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rats gets lice. Not these rats. But we’ve heard it’s a thing. The following is a speculative journey on the parasitical nature of politics, religion, and other ideologies. With jokes. Get episodes early and in video on our Patreon xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Um, this episode is about Wicked. Obviously. Sorry if we’re predictable but that’s on the carnival feeling the gays and the girls get from a big budget lezzy coded musical fantasy epic about the importance of being cunt.  Get episodes early and in video on our Patreon xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There’s nothing harder in this volatile climate than getting out of bed in the morning, closely followed by trying to put a coherent label on what kind of ‘ism’ we’re currently suffering from. This week, like every week, the rats give it a (futile) go. Get episodes early and in video on our Patreon xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shit’s real, shit’s dark; shit’s real dark. This week the rats talk various radical forms of feminist solidarity, bespoke seventeenth century violin design, and of course return to the source (the imminent arrival of intergalactic life forms) Get episodes early and in video on our Patreon xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sam and Johanna go broad this week! From Auckland new goblin bar to lute wielding exes in press ons to Esther Perel deep romance interrogation ; come for Anne Franks lost musical career and stay for Sam’s bottom line. Get episodes early and in video on our Patreon xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

the country is being run by sociopaths with micro penises. This week the rats call the corners and their enraged and like-minded peers towards a solution outside of discourse. Get episodes early and in video on our Patreon xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sam and Johanna are on a political rampage! Spanning the suffrage movement, Gertrude Steins iron reign, and NZ government moving against its own capital city in a powerful surge of hypocrisy, our rats offer their a variety of their extremist left wing views with minimal solutions! Get episodes early and in video on our Patreon xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

an ambiently bitter episode. includes a review of Ariana Grande’s racial fluidity, a loving rib on theatre, and the usual white-noise you’d expect from the rats that live in your walls. Get episodes early and in video on our Patreon xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Theatre, faggotry, more faggotry, very public meltdowns. Welcome to this week’s intellectually stimulating potpourri of an episode. We speculate on Abe Lincoln’s sexuality, Mary Todd’s alcoholism, and whether or not we’d fuck a skinhead. Get episodes early and in video on our Patreon xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ancestry, misogyny, wellness, an oddly earnest hour(ish) of rats this week. Basically the only real journalism left in this country after the budget cuts. enjoy. Get episodes early and in video on our Patreon xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

take a cozy and harrowingly unfiltered 50 min break with a recording of our latest live appearance. If you listen quietly you can hear people leaving the theatre midway. Get episodes early and in video on our Patreon xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

this week we talk to NZ Herald journalist Emma Gleason about life, love, and the dystopian abolishment of truth in a media landscape that has no center. Support us on Patreon for video episodes and more xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

this week the rats speculate whether a midi allegation has substance or is just the blue-haired posturing of a hysterical plaintiff with a bone to pick. Support us on Patreon for video episodes, bonus episodes and more xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.