Nick's Non-fiction

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz In more than twenty-five years spent "chasing" monsters, Godfrey has found that it often remains unclear whether the sightings are simply mistaken animals, hoaxes, or coincidence. When all the speculation is said and done, one question remains for fans and researchers: Are the creatures "real," or are they entirely "other-world?" Godfrey suspects that it isn't an either/or question--our reality operates on a scale from dense matter to realms the human eye cannot see. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 2:15 About the Author 3:20 Ch1 Modern legends 12:40 Ch2: Dogman 20:50 Ch3: Made in the Shade 28:30 Ch4: Hidden Little People 37:15 Ch5: I Saw Bigfoot 44:10 Next Time & Goodbye! Youtube: https://youtu.be/Ns5jNiP7dUE Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand’s provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—that man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress... Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 5:10 About the Author 7:20 Ch1: Backstory 13:55 Ch2: The Firm 27:30 Ch3: The Temple 38:20 Ch4: Gail Wynand 42:20 Ch5: The End 53:00 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf7U0TrS5tY Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Admired by millions as the star of Man vs. Wild and the acclaimed NGC series Running Wild, global adventurer Bear Grylls has explored places few would dare to go. Now, he shares time-honored lessons for leading an adventurous life through stories drawn from his personal experiences, as well as encounters with a diverse group of celebrities who have participated in his wildly popular television shows. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 1:55 About the Author 3:00 Ch1: Ur In 11:25 Ch2: Siberia 17:15 Ch3: Dirtiest 23:20 Ch4: Improvise Adapt Overcome 28:10 Ch5 Top Secret 33:00 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/zEN5iMallaY Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz In this book, Kenneth Folk hope to present a conceptual framework in which to place meditation and related contemplative practices, and to show how this particular branch of human development is as essential to a human life well-lived as psychological health, emotional maturity, or physical fitness. In fact, the various kinds of mental and physical fitness work together such that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts; one step forward on any of the lines of human development makes it easier to access any of the others.
Sub Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 3:40 About the Author 5:25 Ch1: Contemplative Fitness 9:50 Ch2: Backstory 16:30 Ch3: Retreat 24:55 Ch4: Dont Stop Retreating 35:40 Ch5: The Method 42:00 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/tSpR1sjOUVE Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner take us inside their thought process and teach us all how to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally. In Think Like A Freak, they offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms. The topics range from business to philanthropy to sports to politics, all with the goal of retraining your brain Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 5:05 About the Author 7:25 Ch1: Think Like a Freak 13:10 Ch2: Three Hardest Words 18:45 Ch3: Whats Your Problem 24:55 Ch4: Think Like A Child 32:10 Ch5: Freakanomics 39:40 Next Time & Goodbye! 44:45 Da Newz YouTube: https://youtu.be/6AaPNMoAfm8 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC against the charges of "corrupting the young”. The "Apology" has its earlier meaning of speaking in defense of a cause or of one's beliefs or actions. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 2:30 About the Author 3:25 Ch1: Oracle at Delphi 9:30 Ch2: Socratiiic Method 18:40 Ch3: Gadfly 23:50 Ch4: Unexamined Life 25:35 Ch5: Sophistry 28:50 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/RSgPYm-eZik Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, this book is the compass for a new and revolutionary world. Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you: How to cultivate selective ignorance, what the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are, and How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50–80% off. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 3:40 About the Author 5:30 Ch1: D is for Definition 18:05 Ch2: E is for Evaluation 28:45 Ch3: A is for Automation 35:30 Ch4: L is for Liberation 43:15 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AFhL4HU3A4 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers―some willingly, some unwittingly―have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 3:00 About the Author 4:20 Ch1: A Head Is a Terrible Thing to Waste 11:20 Ch2: Crimes of Anatomy 19:45 Ch3: Life & Death 24:40 Ch4: Dead Man Driving 28:10 Ch5: How to Know If You're Dead 33:45 Ch6: Alternate Endings 38:20 Next Time & Goodbye!

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz With hundreds of sold-out concert dates each year, over 20 albums, two Grammys, two Cable ACE awards, and more HBO specials that anyone else, George Carlin is more popular than ever. Now Carlin's New York Times bestselling book comes to paperback. Filled with thoughts, musings, questions, lists, beliefs, curiosities, monologues, assertions, assumptions, and other delicious verbal ordeals, Brain Droppings is drop-dead funny. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 5:30 About the Author 8:35 Ch1: Things I Can Do Without 15:35 Ch2: Origin 22:45 Ch3: Big Ideas 29:35 Ch4: Bigger Ideas 36:00 Next Time & Goodbye 40:20 Da Newz

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Described by Murray Rothbard as "the greatest case for anarchist political philosophy ever written", Spooner's lengthy essay is still referenced by philosophers today. In it, he argues that the American Civil War violated the US Constitution, thus rendering it null and void. An indispensable read for political historians both amateur and professional alike. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 4:00 About the Author 6:55 Ch1: The Social Contract 15:55 Ch2: Voting 21:25 Ch3: Taxation 26:25 Ch4: Constitutionality 33:45 Ch5 Law & Reason 46:35 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/sLj-R27noYw Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans’ changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and how social structures—whether they be PTA, church, or political parties—have disintegrated. Until the publication of this groundbreaking work, no one had so deftly diagnosed the harm that these broken bonds have wreaked on our physical and civic health, nor had anyone exalted their fundamental power in creating a society that is happy, healthy, and safe. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 4:55 About the Author 6:55 Ch1: Blame Game 13:50 Ch2: Political Participation 23:00 Ch3: Religious Participation 28:30 Ch4: Work Place 32:35 Ch5: Social Connections 42:35 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/puvBD3QBPEo Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz  In Future Memory, Atwater shows that structural and chemical changes are occurring in our brains, changes indicative of higher evolutionary development. This mind-blowing exploration of an astonishing topic traces her findings and explores its implications for the individual and for society. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 5:30 About the Author 8:30 Ch1: Terminology 16:25 Ch2: Reality Shifts 23:00 Ch3: Future Memory Phenomena 33:15 Ch4: Remembering 40:30 Ch5: The Flow 49:00 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/HZHPxl38IKY Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz In Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together―some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries―to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that Wall Street generates profits. If you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 4:20 About the Author 5:55 Ch1: Cheat to Win 11:25 Ch2: Canadian Counter 18:05 Ch3: Flash Crash 22:45 Ch4: Sleeper Cell 27:40 Ch5: The Big Shart 31:40 Next Time & Goodbye! 34:55 Bonus YouTube: https://youtu.be/SKTpMmBGU10 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz The owl has held a place of reverence and mystique throughout history. Mike Clelland has collected a wealth of first-hand accounts in which owls manifest in the highly charged moments that surround outer body experiences. There is a strangeness to these accounts that defy simple explanations. This book explores implications that go far beyond what more conservative researchers would dare consider. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 3:20 About the Author 5:00 Ch1: Early Encounters 13:35 Ch2: Screen Memories 19:55 Ch3: Real Owls 25:20 Ch3: Owl Oddities 31:45 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/2jJ2FtHf3oI Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity—and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 3:30 About the Author 6:00 Act1: The Lomans 12:30 Act2: Mr. Niceguy 18:30 Act3: Worst Day Ever 24:50 Act4: The Hoes 34:15 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nicks-non-fiction/id1450771426 Patreon: https://youtu.be/HOW5F1eBmx8

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Want to know what really turns your partner on? A Billion Wicked Thoughts offers the clearest picture ever of the differences between male and female sexuality and the teeming diversity of human desire. What makes men attracted to images and so predictable in their appetites? What makes the set up to a romantic evening so important for a woman? Why are women’s desires so hard to predict? Neuroscientists Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam reveal the mechanics of sexual relationships based on their extensive research into mountains of new data. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 5:40 About the Author 7:50 Ch1: Rule 34 17:30 Ch2: What Do We Really Like? 26:15 Ch3: Male Desire 32:30 Ch4: Female Desire 40:05 Ch5: Cumclusion 44:00 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/3uJLXugW6Xs Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen entwines a variety of candid, firsthand accounts, bringing to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed both the way explorers would henceforth navigate the oceans and history itself. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 5:35 About the Author Ch1: 7:30 Man Without a Country Ch2:15:20 Come Sail Away Ch3: 21:10 The Crucible of Leadership Ch4: 25:10 The Dragons Tale Ch5: 28:45 The Final Battle Ch6: 34:15 Aftermath 37:05 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/dtJm0gs6Qtg Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz The woods and forests can be a true dichotomy of experiences. For many they offer a peaceful connection to nature, but for some they have been a source of terror. In the shadows of towering trees and hidden in the brush, these unlucky few have encountered creatures that most think only inhabit our nightmares. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 5:15 About the Author 6:50 The Organ 9:50 Ch2: The Giant Snake 13:40 Ch3: Disintegrating People 17:10 Ch4: The Spirit Tree 21:55 Ch5: Native American Spirits 27:40 Ch6: The Pig 30:25 Ch7: Evil In the Woods 37:50 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/9SlffVHXnSI Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides, he shows how inevitably the course of revolution leads to tyranny. As old regimes throughout the world collapse, The Rebel resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 4:35 About the Author 7:20 Ch1: Whats a Rebel? 13:15 Ch2: Ordinary vs Metaphysical 20:25 Ch3: Rebellion vs. Revolution 30:40 Ch4: fArt 34:50 Ch5: Conclusion 38:45 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/YiYBpkaOFn4 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz The River of Doubt is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows, boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, the book has inspired even the most dead of us inside. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 3:55 About the Author 5:30 Ch1: Sud America 14:10 Ch2: Into the Wilderness 21:30 Ch3: The Descent 27:45 Ch4: Iron Cruelty 31:55 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/mau-EoGtFC0 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche