Nick the Rat Radio

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...

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 pumpki...

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 l...

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...

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 f...

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 As...

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 mo...

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 bot...

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...

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 wo...

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...

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 abo...

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 can...

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 r...

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 agreemen...

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...

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. Bil...

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 ta...

Episode 543 Nick the Rat crawls out of the Brooklyn sewer for Episode 543 with a deep dive into the oldest obsession in human history — demonology. From ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets and King Solomon's grimoire to Elizabethan spirit mediums and the Loudun possessions, Nick traces 5,000 years of humans trying to make contact with something they don't fully understand. Then he asks the question...

Nick the Rat Radio Episode 542 There's no live show this week — because your boy is strapping you to his back and taking you through a full day in the Brooklyn sewers before hopping a flight to Charlotte, NC. Hard-boiled eggs, loose leaf tea, watching the garbage truck run a red light, and a full breakdown of YouTube's AI slop machine and how a nine-second video of a girl fingering goo out-perform...

Nick the Rat Radio Episode 541 Scientists just confirmed it: a entire civilization built 35,000 stone monuments across Europe, dragged quartz boulders 60 miles to place them on fault lines with surgical precision — and then disappeared without a war, without a fire, without a single written word. No genetic trace in anyone alive today. A University of Copenhagen study dropped this year and barely...

Nick the Rat Radio Episode 540 Nick the Rat is sick, pantsless, and on a mission. Episode 540 kicks off with a rant about Google Maps burying street names under business ads, a meditation on robot Frank and his box-flipping career, and some hard questions for John Stewart about who actually gets paid. Then things get deep — literally. Nick dives into the surge of mass whale strandings since 2023,...

Nick the Rat Radio - 539 - Plasma Nexus - Ghosts. UFOs. Psychic experiments. Strange lights. Poltergeists. What if they’re not separate phenomena at all? What if they’re all symptoms of the same thing? #ghosts | #ufo | #uap | #quartz | #faultlines | #psychic | #lights | #poltergeists | #plasma | #ai | #digitalid | #slavery 🎵 Music from Nick the Rat Radio on SoundCloud: 1. Jiglr — Night Rider 2. T...

Nick the Rat Radio - 538 - Hivesync Protocol - From terminator seeds and doomsday vaults to blockchain food mandates and billionaires buying up American farmland — this episode connects the documented, publicly available evidence behind what may be the most ambitious control operation in human history: the systematic takeover of the global food supply. We trace how four corporations now control ov...

Nick the Rat Radio - 537 - Compliance Pipeline - The destruction of real childhood wasn't an accident — it was a process. From Edward Bernays and B.F. Skinner to the Children's Television Act, the Hasbro consolidation, and algorithmic Skinner boxes running on your kid's tablet, the Compliance Pipeline has been under construction for over a century. 🎵 Music from Nick the Rat Radio on SoundCloud: 1...