{"podcast":{"title":"Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews","slug":"night-clerk-radio-haunted-music-reviews-357758","podcast_index_feed_id":357758,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/4zkW_2gM","website_url":"https://nightclerkradio.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/80a0b216-a118-44c0-b38a-59c645383e4b/5081a574-a521-4de7-894d-2f85096ded06/3000x3000/08-night-clerk-radio.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Ross Payton","episode_count":154,"summary":"Birk and Ross plumb the depths of vaporwave, dark ambient, and other haunted genres of music. Discover new music to listen to and find out why we're drawn to retro aesthetics and dark music.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-23T02:17:22.666522+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/night-clerk-radio-haunted-music-reviews-357758"},"episode":{"title":"Vibing with The Rat Man in Vermis","slug":"vibing-with-the-rat-man-in-vermis","published_at":"2025-06-30T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/night-clerk-radio-haunted-music-reviews-357758/vibing-with-the-rat-man-in-vermis","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/night-clerk-radio-haunted-music-reviews-357758","url":"https://nightclerkradio.com/episodes/vibing-with-the-rat-man-in-vermis-XrikNckw","audio_url":"https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/c3fb1cd0-f098-4363-8d95-6e7a5330dfc6/episodes/afce32bd-11b8-40d7-8b0e-764d19538457/audio/c304f669-c216-48e8-bbd6-9850e3b97eda/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=4zkW_2gM","summary":"In this episode, we’re exploring one of our favorite metagenres: haunted media about media that never existed. This time, we’re delving into Vermis, a strategy guide for a game that doesn’t exist. It’s a beautiful and evocative collection of art and worldbuilding from the artist Plastiboo. We also check out the accompanying dungeon synth album by Radagast, released on cassette by HDK. Choose the nature of your flesh and then join us in the well!","meta_description":"In this episode, we’re exploring one of our favorite metagenres: haunted media about media that never existed. This time, we’re delving into Vermis, a str…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2054,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/night-clerk-radio-haunted-music-reviews-357758/episodes/vibing-with-the-rat-man-in-vermis/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/night-clerk-radio-haunted-music-reviews-357758/vibing-with-the-rat-man-in-vermis.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}