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Nick the Rat Radio
Paranoid cartoon rat with paranormal podcast and a phone line : 917 719 5923
Recent Episodes
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Mass Lore
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…
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Lights Off
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 …
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Screamers
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…
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Moist Yonic fall
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 d…
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Candy Court
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 deserv…
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Ghosted Hard
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. Thing…
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Sewer Confessions
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…
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Robot Rapture
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 glaci…
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Costume Chaos
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 deceptio…
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Witch Please
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. P…
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Sewer Fungus
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 thin…
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Xmas in July
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 ov…
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RIP John C. Dvorak
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. …
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Final Fluidity
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 t…
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Popcorn Panopticon
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 liter…
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Syphilis Sewer Secrets
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 companie…
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They Stole Dead Babies
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 accountab…
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Trickster Mind
Episode 544 What if the thing you're trying to avoid is exactly what your brain is steering you toward? This week on Nick the Rat Radio, we go deep on the Trickster — the ancient psychological force that every culture on Earth independently discovered, and how it's now hardwired into your nervous system, your mythology, and your AI chatbot. From Carl Jung to Robert Anton Wilson to fighter pilot target fixation, we map out why the thing you fear keeps finding you — and how to flip the script and drive it inste…