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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! In Awakenings, one of the top selling non-fiction books of all time, we take a trip to Mt. Carmel, NY to meet post-encephalatic patients, reviewing their life from a vessel which they’ve been trapped inside. Dr. Sacks was one of the leading researchers in the fight against Parkinson’s being the first to have assembled a history of the disease. In order to combat this amalgamation of malfunctions, Shock said the medical community needs to combine resources and focus attention on finding causes rather than treating side effects. Like a leukemia patient mustering every bit of strength and technology within their means to rid themselves of cancer, the pharmaceutical industry would need to unite to put to rest this end of life mental degeneration. This book accounts the introduction of L-DOPA a dopamine antagonizer that revitalized catatonic patients to a level of youth they didn't know was within them. Before an age where 1/8 of peo

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! The Mighty Mississippi and Colorado River were once a beatnik’s favorite way to traverse the country for free. From the 1930s through 70s hitchhiking became the preferred method of transportation for Americas youth. Jack Keruak is one of the countries greatest travel writers to date and takes us on his destinaiton-less cross-country adventure in On the Road. Your host having driven several thousand miles and lived in multiple states this year alone gives a first hand perspective of life on the open road. Although written in the 1950s this timeless tale profiles the usual suspects you'll find in modern nomadic communities; all of the roamers, wanderers, gypsies, poets, grifters, con-men, criminals and lovers. Those with an untamed wanderlust and appetite for human experience will appreciate todays anecdote ridden narrative made with a whole lotta heart. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00:35 Introduction 0:0

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Why lose yourself in the VR world when you're already in it?! Rizwan Virk, former game developer and MIT computer scientist, warns us in this cautionary tale about the statistical likelihood of our reality being a simulation. Many religions such as the Buddhist game of Samsara and visionaries like Stephen Hawking, Phillip K Dick and Elon Musk concur it is more likely than not this is one grand simulation. To support this point Rizwan takes us from the beginnings of 8 bit gaming to the downloadable open worlds of today. If our computing power persists in accordance with Murphys Law our supercomputers will render simulations with NPCs of a greater intellect than you and I! Has it already happened? Albert Einstein once said, “reality is merely an illusion albeit, a persistent one”. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00:45 Introduction 0:03:45 About the Author 0:08:45 Ch1: Simulated Consciousness 0:22:10 Ch2: Po

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! On the night of August 8th, 1969 Sharon Tate and friends were barbarically murdered in the hills of Hollywood which would result in the longest and most expensive trial until OJ Simpson’s. Investigative reporter, Tom O’Neill dedicated thirteen years to the case exposing perjury and coverups in Vincent Bugliosi's (prosecuting attorney) retroactive accounts in Helter Skelter. The decade long hunt takes us to Haight Ashbury during the Summer of Love with declassified accounts of Charlie Manson visiting CIA black sites. Come on down the rabbit hole for one of the highest notoriety true crime cases and the ten year search dedicated to the alternative agendas within. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:01:00 Introduction 0:03:30 About the Author 0:08:20 Ch1: The Crime of the Century 0:19:40 Ch2: Aura of Danger 0:28:00 Ch3: The Golden Penetrators 0:35:20 Ch4: Holes in Helter Skelter 0:40:15 Ch5: LA County Sheriffs

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! One of the best to ever do it, author Stephen King breaks down his process in the first of his few nonfiction books, On Writing. This read takes us from the humble beginnings of his hero’s journey cranking out masterpieces like Carrie and The Shining on a typewriter. Kings penniless lifestyles embodies that of an artist which he finds mandatory to be a writer, always making yourself available to the muse. His practice of watering your ideas like a plant every day has lead to more scripts sold to Hollywood than any fiction writer of our time. Looking at the anatomy and physiology of literature as vocabulary and syntax, makes Kings formulas essential for aspiring writers. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:01:20 Introduction 0:04:00 About the Author 0:12:45 Ch1: Levels to This 0:20:20 Ch2: Read A Lot 0:29:15 Ch3: Write A Lot 0:37:15 Ch4: The Writing Enviorment 0:44:45 Ch5 Characters Over Plot 0:50:15 Ch6: Ama

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! A follow up to our most aired episode to date pays homage to Anthony Bourdain on the second anniversary of his passing. Medium Raw made for back-to-back bestsellers after Kitchen Confidential had risen Bourdain to mainstream success. The edgy chef who prides himself on independence navigates the corporate water of the Foodnetwork throughout this book, highlighting the middle years of his career. Befriending Wolfgang Puck, Emrill, and Gordon Ramsay helped him stay afloat until creating his own production company to fulfill his wanderlust. Taste some embalmed meat and feculent hotdogs as we gear up for Bourdain's final new work, a posthumous book to be released this October. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:01:05 Introduction 0:04:35 About the Author 0:08:20 Ch1: Selling Out 0:15:15 Ch2: The Happy Ending 0:20:55 Ch3: So You Wanna Be a Chef? 0:27:10 Ch4: Cooktarded 0:34:50 Ch5: Wanderlust 0:38:20 Ch6: Meat

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Jordan Belfort went from making a million dollars a week at 26 to international criminal by 36. The Wolf of Wall Street exposes the rathole infested American economy and profiles what kind of people fullfill the American dream to the highest degree. With a little help from Martin Scorsese masterpiece, todays show depicts the high speed lifestyle of top echelon stock brokers breaking into globally influential amounts of wealth. Stay tuned for our sneak peak of a sure banger to come July 15th. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00:45 Introduction 0:02:45 About the Author 0:08:00 Ch1: Daily Commute 0:17:10 Ch2: Stratford Oakmont 0:26:05 Ch3: The Big Trade 0:30:10 Ch4: Land of Ratholes 0:34:45 Ch5: Old London Town 0:39:00 Ch6: Smuggle Sisters 0:44:20 Ch7: Wolf in Sheeps Clothing 0:54:15 Ch8: The Ludes 1:00:15 Ch9: The Most Powerful Drug 1:03:15 Ch10: Rough Waters 1:08:40 Ch11: Reintegration 1:13:00 Next Time

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! In this 15 page story Leonard E. Read follows the life of an ordinary pencil around the world. Written at the height of McCarthyism, this book showed the masses the benefit to a free market via the life of a pencil while Soviets stood on line for bread and toilet paper. "But it wasn't real communism". History has shown when one entity controls the means of production, rising industries are unable to maintain pure competition. This book will serve as an intro to free market capitalism due to thousand page Mises economic textbooks clogging up the production pipeline of the show. Analyzing the American marketplace of ideas will serve as the perfect segue into our July first jackpot, don't miss it! Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00:45 Introduction 0:03:25 About the Author 0:08:35 My Family the Trees 0:12:00 Innumerable Antecedents 0:20:00 No One Knows 0:23:20 No Mastermind 0:29:20 Testimony Galore 0:37:45

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Ex-Harvad professor, psychologist and activist, Timothy Leary takes us to the edge of the universe in The Psychedelic Experience. The Bible, Torah and Koran are full of riddles and hidden messages meanwhile the Tibetan Book of the Dead declassified famous accounts of near death experiences and spiritual awakenings, which in most religion is kept hidden by the clergy. Yogis, transcendental mediators and psychonauts corroborate Leary’s findings of cured life-long addiction, neurogenesis and spiritual awakening. All practices that Christ was rumored to have engaged in during his lost years wandering and holistically healing the people of India. In todays show Leary picks up the ball on humanities biggest running secret of where we go when the lights turn off. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:01:20 Introduction 0:03:20 About the Author 0:09:40 Introduction 0:19:00 1stBardo: Ego Loss & Non-game Ecstasy 0:32:40

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! This week we have Albert Camus's breakthrough novel and the first of his works featured on the show. Notorious for introducing the idea of absurdism, this book follows Mersault from the death of his mother to the death of his own. More positive than the other existentialists, Camus presents his lovers philosophy as in life or anything, you get what you give. Enjoy an erotic Parisian murder mystery from an author who finds humor in the most absurd situations in life. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00:40 Introduction 0:03:10 About the Author 0:07:25 Ch1: No Way Out 0:13:00 Ch2: Algerian Afternoons 0:20:50 Ch3: Surrealist Daydream 0:30:20 Ch4: The Beach House 0:36:30 Ch5: The Big House 0:43:45 Ch6: Break a Leg 0:54:00 Ch7: You Get What You Give 0:57:50 Next Months Book & Goodbye! Mobile Links: YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R9iKCpQxi0 ApplePodcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Thanks

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Egypt, Greece, The Roman, The Persian Empires all decay’d with time. Why would America be any different? Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges explores the concept of corrosion in his most recent book, America the Farewell Tour. Writing since the collapse of the USSR, Hedges shows our country flooding with addiction, racial infighting, gambling and sadism faster than Atlantis. A timely episode injects some end of the world commentary as the pandemic-recession rages on. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00:30 Introduction 0:03:20 About the Author 0:07:45 Ch1: Decay 0:33:00 Ch2: Opioids 0:41:35 Ch3: Work 0:49:45 Ch4: Sadism 0:58:05 Ch5: Hate 1:04:25 Ch6: Gambling 1:12:30 Ch7: Freedom 1:21:10 Mid-Month Book & Goodbye! Nick's Non-fiction links: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h95YkGEcDY0 ApplePodcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Thanks for stopping by!

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Annaka Harris, wife of world famous neuroscientist and academic Sam Harris takes us for an easy read defining consciousness. This NYTimes Bestseller analyzes ‘the hard problem of consciousness’ synchronicities and panpsychism. Scientists cower at the idea of intangible forces like love and consciousness, radio hosts on the other hand jump for joy over a topic you can explore with impunity. Take a trip inward during your isolation, embrace the psychedelia of the situation, hone that meditation practice because we’ve got our first break through experience on the horizon. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:01:00 Introduction 0:03:50 About the Author 0:06:15 Ch1: A Mystery Hiding in Plain Sight 0:14:25 Ch2: Intuitions and Illusions 0:24:05 Ch3: Is Consciousness Free? 0:30:45 Ch4: Along for the Ride 0:37:10 Ch5: Who Are We? 0:42:10 Ch6: Is Consciousness Everywhere? 0:50:45 Ch7: Beyond Panpsychism? 0:54:35 Ch8:

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Satiate your Spring Fever with our first Sports edition as well as Anthology. In this light hearted edition we reminisce on the days of little league while authors and players dissect the Anatomy of Baseball. Slide on that jock strap and steal a fistful of sunflower seeds as we see baseball from from its nostalgic roots to the present. Controversial Americana content to come the first of May :o Follow, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00:40 Introduction 0:03:30 At the Park 0:14:10 My Glove 0:21:35 My Career 0:26:45 Field of Dreams 0:30:30 The Southworths 0:33:15 The Bat 0:37:35 My Outfield 0:40:45 The 1950s 0:44:30 Ode to the Baseball Cap 0:47:25 Edge of the World 0:51:45 Fred the fan 0:55:30 Umpiring 1:02:15 First Base of Last Resort 1:05:55 Ya Gotta Believe 1:09:00 Asterisk on the Record 1:11:00 The Baseball Pastoral 1:13:10 On the Ball 1:17:20 Next Month’s Book & Goodbye! Nick's Non-fiction links: YT: https://yo

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! In this very special bonus edition, we learn from the King of Quarantine how to survive self-isolation. Fyodor Dostoyevsky survived the firing wall and years in the gulag for many of his revolutionary works which were labeled as treasonous ideas. This dangerous introspection is what became the groundwork of modern psychology. A predecessor to Freud and Erikson, Fyodor explores the depths of mans consciousness and the best way to deal with the human condition here in Notes from Underground. Prepare yourself for an esoteric journey, I’ll be charging by the hour. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00:40 Introduction 0:02:45 About the Author 0:09:20 Ch1: The Underground Man 0:19:05 Ch2: Life is a Toothache 0:25:50 Ch3: Pesky Self-Awareness 0:36:10 Ch4: Pursuit of Happiness 0:41:30 Ch5: Lobotomize Me 0:52:15 Apropos of the Wet Snow 0:53:40 Ch6: Civil Disobedience 0:58:40 Ch7: High School Reunion 1:05:25 Ch8: Br

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Time to stick it to the man on our first ever band world tour. Paul Stanley, The Starchild, takes us on his journey from crappy NYC apartments to the worlds largest stages in under four years. A model for later rock bands to come, KISS has been a household name for 50 years, making their way into the Rock and Roll all of Fame in 2014. Whether you circumvent the system or color within the lines, this book brings to light the pitfalls of those who attain unimaginable success. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00:35 Introduction 0:05:00 Pt1: No Place for Hiding, No Place to Run 0:30:00 Pt2: Out on the Street for a Living 1:20:20 Pt3: I’ve Been Up, I’ve been Down 1:53:40 Pt4: Under the Gun 2:01:45 Pt5: Highway to Heartbreak 2:06:40 Pt6: KISS Forever 2:11:20 Mid-Month Book & Goodbye Nick's Non-fiction links: YT: https://youtu.be/tUXi45lKfJk ApplePodcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nicks-non-

Welcome to the worlds first Yelp Review Review with your host Nick Muniz! Chboi analyzes a local restaurants business model, gives you a taste of the product, trashes some yelpers then ranks the establishment. Our premier edition investigates Bocaza Mexican Grille, a classic burrito spot smack-dab in the heart of Denver. Make sure to subscribe on Apple Podcast/Google Play for some bi-weeky, experimental content. See you the first of April for the flagship Nick’s Non-Fiction Band World Tour. 00:00 Introduction 01:45 Bocaza 05:10 The Food 08:15 Yelp Review Review 16:25 Next Time YT: https://youtu.be/gxm3etYJHqw ApplePodcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Thanks for Stopping By!

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! In 2020 women graduate with higher GPA’s and earn more from age 25-35 than men. Betty Friedan, Margaret Thatcher and Beyonce would say the disenfranchised still have a long way to go. For Woman's Month we have one of the top selling non-fiction books of all time which is credited with mobilizing women to begin the second wave of feminism in the 1960s. As a lifelong columnist and activist, Betty shows you behind the mystic of the all-American housewife. Unfortunately, the doll house/romantic comedy reality we sell our little girls more often leads to depression than fulfillment. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00:45 Introduction 0:02:35 About the Author 0:06:25 Ch1: The Nameless Problem 0:16:30 Ch2: Happy Housewife Heroine 0:24:15 Ch3: Identity Crisis 0:27:25 Ch4: The Passionate Journey 0:32:30 Ch5: Sexual Solipsism of Freud 0:36:30 Ch6: Margaret Mead's Protest 0:41:00 Ch7: Don’t do School; Stay in Drugs

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Aristotle was almost ran out of Greece for suggesting the Earth was round. Da Vinci and Newton had many household inventions that were destroyed by the crown to reinforce religion. Tesla and Einstein were coopted by the government to pursue nuclear bombs rather than free energy. Science works most ethically when in the hands of the people, not as a predictive tool to start a carbon tax on the middle class. Curtis White having worked in neuroscience, exposes the plethora of information about the brain we speculate on and how this is common in most sciences. Our most controversial episode to date will give you a healthy dose of skepticism in a world of fast answers. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00:35 Introduction 0:03:40 About the Author 0:08:20 Prologue 0:13:13 Ch1: Whats a Good Lunch 0:32:10 Ch2: Romanticism vs. Counterculture 0:41:20 Ch3: DNA in Control 0:49:00 Ch4: Who Invented the Mop? 0:58:45 Ch

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! “Hey Butt-head, are we gonna score?” Weekend warriors ask themselves this every Friday during t-shirt time preparing for the club. Ask no further! With the secret knowledge disseminated from The Game you will never go home alone again. Neil Strauss is a NYTimes and Rolling Stones journalist with several best selling books. He has been on the road with Motley Crue, ghost-written stand up comedians autobiographies, picked-up Britany Spears, rightfully ascending to the status of Hollywood Insider. Prepare to ‘score’. To balance out the testosterone levels of the show, March 1st will be in celebration of Women’s Month. Our mid-month book is tackling the new blind religion of science, don't miss it! Subscribe, Share, Links below for a mobile sideshow! 0:00:30 Introduction 0:02:00 About the Author 0:07:00 Step1: Select a Target 0:18:45 Step2: Approach & Open 0:39:15 Step3: Demonstrate Value 0:55:30 Step4: Disarm the Obstacle 1:04

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! If you could replay a 25 year segment of your life would you do it? Would you remember how to replicate the past? What if you’re the only one? For our first fiction edition, Ken Grimwood presents this timeless premise and delivers an adventure showing how most people would react. Many would try to change real world events, become a millionaire with future knowledge or secure the one that got away. Our protagonist Jeff does all these taking us on an inter dimensional love story that aims to wake up a society to the cyclical nature of time. Thanks for tuning in for our first mid-month show. Be back February 1st with a nonfiction chronicle of coitus to celebrate the month of love. Subscribe, Share, mobile goons check out iTunes! 0:00:45 Introduction 0:02:20 Hairysh1t 0:04:00 2020 Coming Events 0:07:00 Meme of the Month 0:10:30 This Past Month 0:14:25 About the Author 0:19:15 The Concept 0:24:15 Replay 0:30:00 Inf