Nick the Rat Radio

Episode 564

Tonight's Nick the Rat Radio is a solo night with a lot of loose ends. Nick opens with his post-Halloween blues: a mashed-up slasher costume, $40 of Reese’s Pieces and KitKats he’s now eating himself, and a rant about the new Candyman, which he says glues Tony Todd’s face onto a different actor for the finale. He also covers the new Dvorak Party Line show (he’s a guest this Sunday), a Twitch chatter who got banned for slurs, whether the songs on SoundCloud are all AI now, and the “blue wave or red wave” election chatter.

The rest of the night is callers, music, and news. A regular phones in with a running list of the greatest love songs (the Swiffer-themed “Swept for You” is a highlight), and the hoofmeister’s voicemails keep demanding that Nick quit the show. Then come the weekly value-for-value donations. Nick covers the Collins Dictionary word of the year (“mogging”), a software engineer who got a religious exemption from using AI at work, a possible radio signal from a star system 238 light years away, and a fast-acting psychedelic nasal spray for treatment-resistant depression. Subscribe, send some cheese, and keep the sewer chat going.

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Originally aired: 11/04/26

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Episode 563

It’s Halloween week in the sewer! On Episode 563 of Nick the Rat Radio, I carve a sacrificial pumpkin live while catching you up on the week: the end of the No Agenda stream, last week’s interview with John S. Dvorak, and a mouse that got caught in a trap with no bait in it. Plus movie and TV reviews (Carrie, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Body Bags, and Joe Bob’s Last Drive-In), and a stubbed pinky toe that deserves its own documentary.

Stick around for a walking tour of the best Halloween houses in Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights (full footage on my Medium Scape channel), a pile of spooky voicemails, a live caller, shout-outs to everyone who donated, and a creepy set of CC-licensed tracks from Artgen, Bigfoot Beats, Sick Suburbia, and DJ Giraffiel. This is a value-for-value show. If you got something out of it, you can support at nicktherat.com/donate.html. Mail: P.O. Box 90549, Brooklyn, NY 11209. Stay spooky!

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Originally aired: 10/28/26

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Episode 562

Nick welcomes John S. Dvorak, AI geek and co-host of DHUnplugged, for a wide-ranging chat from the sewer. They cover favorite music and coding soundtracks, bookshelves full of philosophy and California history, growing up with review copies of every game console, VR headaches, and raising a kid on 90s games and Playdate. From there it gets weird: JC’s takes on AI (workflows over agents, why he’s wary of regulation, and a story that made him walk away from Anthropic), data privacy, time and causality, aliens, ghosts, biophotons, Christian theology, and whether Roddenberry made a deal with the devil for Star Trek.

After JC signs off, the show settles into its usual rhythm: music breaks, the weekly value-for-value donation segment, and shout-outs to the Twitch subs and donors. Nick then runs through the TV he’d steer you away from (looking at you, Paradise), what he’s liking (Carrie), the Shudder-for-Joe-Bob Halloween dilemma, and a countdown of America’s 13 most haunted places. Next week: pumpkin carving. Subscribe, grab some cheese, and party in the sewer.

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Originally aired: 10/21/26

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

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Episode 561

Nick the Rat Radio is back from the sewer with a Halloween-season deep dive into urban legends, myths, and the strange stories we all swear happened to a cousin’s coworker. Nick breaks down the classics, from Bloody Mary and the vanishing hitchhiker to spider egg boils, razor blades in apples, and George Washington’s “wooden” teeth, and asks whether any of them were ever real. He also pitches his own theory: today’s urban legends aren’t campfire stories anymore, they’re the news cycle, and he calls this new wave “mass lore.”.

Along the way you get a rundown of this week’s headlines and a spooky media diary covering Rose Red, the new Carrie series, Rob Zombie’s Halloween, and Warlock. There are live voicemails, a caller’s Japan report (conveyor belt sushi, “rust” wasabi, and a go-kart ride through Tokyo in a beaver costume), a Pi-hole business pitch, and a brand new urban legend to close out the night. Next week John S. Dvorak joins the show. Grab a mug of root beer, keep it spooky, and enjoy the fall from inside your bunker.

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Originally aired: 10/14/26

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Episode 560

Wednesday-night news-and-nonsense session from the sewer. Nick opens with life updates: a new real job, a day on the set of the horror sci-fi flick Ego Death, and a THC drink that hit way too hard. He digs into Podcast Robot for the Podcast Index, AI music on the podcasting circuit, the Halloween game finally getting a patch, a disappointing run through Rose Red, and the Reese's pumpkin lawsuit.

Then the spooky stuff rolls in: Gas Blasts from Dale, Marlene, Chris and Ray, tarot voicemails that say the rat is quitting, and a campfire classic that ends with "Aren't you glad you didn't turn on the lights?" The rest of the hour is Nick's takes on the headlines: a suspected Russian lab plague, McDonald's AI pricing lawsuit, a fatal Central Park dog-and-cyclist crash, NYC's new homeless encampment policy, the City Council's first AI hearing, and NASA's moon plans. The donation segment and a couple of songs round it out before Nick signs off to go touch grass.

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Originally aired: 10/07/26

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Episode 559

It's Halloween season in the sewer! Nick the Rat ranks 21 iconic horror movie screams from Amaze Balls all the way down to Piss Poor, including Jaws, The Shining, King Kong, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hereditary, Possession, and The Wicker Man. Which scream took the top spot, and which ones were a total letdown? Listen to every scream and see where it landed.

Before the tier list, Nick tells the story of a rainy nor'easter getaway to Peekskill that went wrong: a $200-a-night hotel with a broken phone, paper-thin walls, and a smoky room, plus a lost phone returned by state troopers at midnight. Then he gives his honest take on the new Resident Evil movie, plays with the America.gov chatbot, goes through the week's news, and reads donations from the sewer crew. New episodes every week on Nick the Rat Radio, brought to you by the Dark Sewer Network.

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Originally aired: 09/30/26

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 558

Nick the Rat Radio rolls in on the first chilly night of fall with a grab bag of everything: a possible new job clearing background checks, a wild story about a runner who didn't let a mid-race accident slow her down, Toys "R" Us plotting a comeback, and yet another round of Loch Ness "sightings" debunked by a very dedicated monster hunter. Throw in some Smash Bros. talk, a TV roundup (Reacher spinoffs, Untamed, Killbot), GLP-1 side effect headlines, and a deep etymological detour into words that don't get discussed enough, and you've got a fully unhinged two hours.

Plus: mailbag donations, voicemails about baby bottle pops, a Xindu segment going off the rails, and a Halloween horror story from Mystery Man to close things out. Grab a drink, settle in, and enjoy the chaos — new episodes drop weekly on the Dark Sewer Network.

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Originally aired: 09/23/26

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Episode 557

Nick the Rat cracks open a torch seltzer and dives into the week's weirdest science headlines — a full fruit fly brain map with 130,000+ neurons, and researchers implanting human brain organoids into living mice. Between rants about AI, Black Mirror plot holes, and a very confused pest control call, this episode somehow also becomes a full Halloween candy tier list ranking everything from Reese's to candy corn.

Live callers join in to argue over Jolly Ranchers, debate whether Kit Kats deserve top tier, and question just how much taxpayer money goes into slicing fly brains with electron microscopes. It's science news, Halloween candy chaos, and sewer nonsense all in one unhinged broadcast — value-for-value, no scripts, just vibes.

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Originally aired: 09/16/26

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Episode 556

Grab a Dr. Pepper and settle into the sewer for a spooky-season kickoff that goes off the rails fast. Tonight's episode covers a buggy Halloween video game review, a Friday the 13th licensing horror story, Indian recruiter chaos during the job hunt, a Reacher season 3 rant, and Long Beach Griffy's brutal mushroom accident. Then Mystery Man drops a full campfire horror story, Bigfoot Assault, before a deep dive into the worst video game voice acting ever recorded on audioatrocities.com.

Things get weirder from there: a live phone call with a caller who flew across the country for a girl who ghosted him after a three-week whirlwind romance turns into an hour of brutally honest relationship advice, gas station philosophy on SSRIs and modern dating, and a pest control call gone completely sideways. This is unfiltered, uncut, stream-of-consciousness late night radio from the Dark Sewer Network, gummies, ghost stories, tech rants, and all. Not for the easily offended.

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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: 09/09/26

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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

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

For more info: www.nicktherat.com