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

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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

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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 glacier collapse, a stacked week of celebrity deaths, and physicist Sabine Hossenfelder's takedown of the quantum computing hype cycle.

Then the mailbag opens up: donations, snacks, a Dame Nancy shoutout, and a couple of unhinged voicemails including a surprise appearance from the sewer's least favorite squatter, Xindu. Nick riffs on AI art discourse (with an assist from Dr. Dre), reviews the dino disaster flick "End of Oak Street," previews GTA 6 and the Witcher 3 remaster, and closes out with some real talk about the job hunt grind. Grab a snack, settle into the sewer, and let's get depressed together... value for value, baby.

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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: 08/26/26

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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 deception against a longtime listener named Tom.

As always, it's loosey-goosey, unscripted, and running on value-for-value support from the listeners. Grab a coffee, settle into the muck, and let the sewer take you where it wants to go tonight. Connection is protection. ITM.

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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: 08/19/26

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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

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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