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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz For generation after generation, Toltec shamans have passed down their wisdom through teaching stories. In The Wisdom of the Shamans: What the Ancient Masters Can Teach Us About Love and Life, Toltec shaman and master storyteller don Jose Ruiz shares some of the most popular stories from his family's oral tradition and offers corresponding lessons that illustrate the larger ideas within each story. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 4:50 About the Author 7:05 Ch1: Shaman 13:35 Ch2: The Eagle & The Snake 20:20 Ch3: The Riverman 26:35 Ch4: Quetzalcoatl 32:35 Ch5: The Jungle 35:40 Ch6: The Devils Cave 41:25 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZSW_VdawBtI Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Featuring not only philosophers but also playwrights, anthropologists, convicts, and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist Café follows the existentialists' story from the first rebellious spark through the Second World War to its role in postwar liberation movements such as anti-colonialism, feminism, and gay rights. Interweaving biography and philosophy, it is the epic account of passionate encounters - fights, love affairs, mentorships, rebellions, and long partnerships and a vital investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 5:20 About the Author 7:25 Ch1: Sarte 18:20 Ch2: The Magician from Messkirch 24:05 Ch3: Occupation Liberation 31:25 Ch4: The Dancing Philosopher 37:20 Ch5: The Imponderable Bloom 45:15 Next Time & Goodbye! 45:45 Da Hang/Newz YouTube: https://youtu.be/EqKipaZh7n8 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Basketball journalist Roland Lazenby spent almost thirty years covering Michael Jordan's career in college and the pros. He witnessed Jordan's growth from a skinny rookie to the instantly recognizable global ambassador for basketball whose business savvy and success have millions of kids still wanting to be just like Mike. Yet Lazenby also witnessed the Michael Jordan whose drive and appetite are more fearsome and more insatiable than any of his fans could begin to know. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 introduction 4:40 About the Author 6:30 Ch1: Early Life 11:10 Ch2: Career Cut Short 15:05 Ch3: Re-retired 19:00 Ch4: Old Head 25:55 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/roYJK_Ttgu0 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz This is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all while introducing acid (then legal) to hundreds of like-minded folks, staging impromptu jam sessions, dodging the Feds, and meeting some of the most revolutionary figures of the day. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 5:55 About the Author 8:45 Ch1: Black Shiny FBI Shoes 13:35 Ch2: Pranksters Assemble 19:00 Ch3: Bussn 25:00 Ch4: Hells Angels 30:30 Ch5: 60s Shenanigans 35:55 Ch6: End of the Road 41:55 Next Time & Goodbye YouTube: https://youtu.be/z8lBfnUfKlc Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them—from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Readers will learn when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message from the text. 0:00 Introduction 3:35 About the Author 5:30 Ch1: 4 Readers 15:25 Ch2: In Theory 19:45 Ch3: In Practicality 27:25 Ch4: How to Read 31:30 Next Time & Goodbye YouTube: https://youtu.be/bCSaq3Mtu9Y Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz If you'd put a young John Osbourne up against a wall with the other kids from his street and asked which one was gonna make it to the age of sixty, which one would end up with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and Beverly Hills, nobody would’ve put money on John, no f**king way. But here he is, ready to tell his story, in his own words, for the first time. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 3:00 About the Author 5:40 Ch1: Blackstory 18:30 Ch2: Signed 24:15 Ch3: Solo 29:15 Ch4: Ozzify 35:05 Ch5: Ozzmosis 39:30 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/OpgQOJhV-nY Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz In a cave in the Himalayas, a guide discovers a self-mutilated body with the warning--Satan exists. In the Kalahari Desert, a nun unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity called Older-than-Old. In Bosnia, something has been feeding upon the dead in a mass grave. So begins mankind’s most shocking realization: that the underworld is a vast geological labyrinth populated by another race of beings. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 4:40 About the Author 7:00 Ch1: The Himalayas 13:50 Ch2: Kalahari Desert 19:40 Ch3: Camp Molly 25:15 Ch4: Java 31:15 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/_Vcqdrd_DlY Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz The Critique of Pure Reason is a book by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, in which the author seeks to determine the limits and scope of metaphysics. Kant builds on the work of empiricist philosophers such as John Locke and David Hume. Prior to Kant, it was thought that all a priori knowledge must be analytic. Kant, however, argues that our knowledge of mathematics, of the first principles of natural science, and of metaphysics, is both a priori and synthetic. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 6:00 About the Author 7:50 Ch1: Critique of Pure Reason 12:45 Ch2: Empiricism 18:00 Ch3: The Method 23:30 Ch4: Religion 30:00 Ch5: Organize 36:25 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/25BFkTxsnGo Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Liminal Spaces is a quiet horror anthology from well-known dark writers such as: Joanna Koch, Jessica McHugh, Mark Allan. Stories about characters who have–wittingly or unwittingly–crossed a threshold. Those who have left something behind, yet are not quite somewhere or something else. They are in-between, and are neither one thing, nor another. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 3:45 About the Author 5:25 Ch1: Her Haunted House 11:20 Ch2: Mirror Mirror 18:50 Ch3: Rotten to the Core 29:10 Ch4: Cabinet People 35:05 Ch5: The Black Door 42:50 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/rV21JUR-FII Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Girls and women were once second-class citizens in the nation's schools. Americans responded with concerted efforts to give girls and women the attention and assistance that was long overdue. Now, after two major waves of feminism and decades of policy reform, women have made massive strides in education. Today they outperform men in nearly every measure of social, academic, and vocational well-being. Christina Hoff Sommers contends that it's time to take a hard look at present-day realities and recognize that boys need help. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 6:30 About the Author 8:15 Ch1: No Country for Young Men 14:55 Ch2: Save the Males 18:10 Ch3: Why Johnny Cant Read or Write 21:30 Ch4: The Moral Life of Boys 24:15 Ch5: War & Peace 27:25 Next Time & Goodbye! 28:00 The Hang YouTube: https://youtu.be/1VBS6QIaOkk Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz In Your Brain on Porn Wilson provides a concise introduction to the phenomenon of Internet porn addiction that draws on both first-person accounts and the findings of cognitive neuroscience. In a voice that is generous and humane, he also offers advice for those who want to stop using Internet pornography. The publication of Your Brain on Porn is a landmark in our attempts to understand, and remain balanced in, a world where addiction is big business. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 5:15 About the Author 6:35 Ch1: What’re We Dealing With 17:55 Ch2: Wanting Run Amok 25:50 Ch3: Regaining Control 33:05 Ch4: Conclusions 37:50 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/aSIPAifGNjs Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Laura Hillenbrand brought to life one of the great survivor tales of World War II about Louis Zamperini missing in action in the Pacific theater. In Unbroken, a dirt poor Italian immigrant runs his way from the LA Colosseum to the 1936 Berlin Olympics and as far as Hitlers luxury box. Louis lined up with his fellow country men to fly the experimental machinery of the day. The B-24, a.k.a. the flying coffin, would have Louis lost at sea in the equatorial Pacific where Amelia Aerhart disappeared just six years earlier. 48 days lost at sea, stabbing away sharks while floating 2000 miles into enemy territory is only the beginning of his odyssey of survival. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 5:55 About the Author 8:40 Ch1: Life of Louis 13:55 Ch2: Into War 20:40 Ch3: Downed 27:10 Ch4: Missing at Sea 34:20 Ch5: POW/MIA 42:00 Ch6: Omori 47:00 Ch7: Unbroken 54:10 Next Time & Goodbye! 54:40 Th

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent of the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there were a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. The results are optimal improvisational accounts leaving the reader with great clarity and hilarity. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 4:20 About the Author 5:55 Ch1-5: What If? 30:45 Shmoke break 32:25 The Hang YouTube: https://youtu.be/h2xoMM6FvT8 Patreon:

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz (Announcement: The full hour has been restored. Part 2 is 100% free of thought.) Steve Harvey can't count the number of impressive women he's met over the years; the many incredible women who can run a business, have three kids, maintain a household in tiptop shape, and chair a church group all at the same time. So when it comes to relationships, why can't these same women figure out what makes men commit? According to Steve, it's because they're asking other women for advice when they should be going directly to the source. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 7:00 About the Author 9:10 Ch1: The Mindset of a Man 16:00 Ch2: Man Love 21:40 Ch3: Why Men Do What They Do? 28:45 Ch4: The 5 Questions 34:40 Ch5: How to Get the Ring 41:20 Conclusion 42:00 The Hang YouTube: https://youtu.be/BAbpEZ4pHPw Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Emile Durkheim’s Suicide addresses the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes. Written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists, this classic argues that suicide primarily results from a lack of integration of the individual into society. Suicide provides readers with an understanding of the impetus for suicide and its psychological impact on the victim, family, and society. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 9:30 About the Author 12:15 Ch1: Extra Social Factors 22:15 Ch2: Religion 29:05 Ch3: Education 35:40 Ch4: Quetelet 44:05 Ch5: I Would Understand 46:45 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/2O6gkihTcNE Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz  Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the breakdown of Islam to the legalization of drugs. Informed by years of medical practice in a wide variety of settings, his acquaintance with the outer limits of human experience allows him to discover the universal in the local and the particular, and makes him impatient with the humbug and obscurantism that have too long marred our social and political life. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 7:20 About the Author 9:30 Ch1: The Frivolity of Evil 16:55 Ch2: How to Read Society 23:15 Ch3: Trash Violence & Versace 28:25 Ch4: What We Have to Lose 29:35 Ch5: After Empire 32:20 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/xy6m6-m0JcU Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Microdosing is the latest way to improve performance, stave off chronic pain, and alleviate a variety of other ailments like anxiety and depression. Unlike a psychedelic trip, microdosing does not alter your mental status or interfere with day-to-day life. Part handbook and part workbook, whether you have experience with psychedelics or are simply curious to learn more, The Microdosing Guidebook has everything you need to get started on your healing journey. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 6:45 About the Author 8:15 Ch1: Briefing 15:35 Ch2: Protocol 24:40 Ch3: Sided Effects 29:35 Ch4: Legality 32:10 Ch5: Work Book 34:40 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/ei8brs24xQE Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS. Like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to his prize. But to win, he will have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life and love in the real world which he’s always been so desperate to escape. A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 3:00 About the Author 9:00 Ch1: Oasis Origins 13:55 Ch2: Level Up 19:10 Ch3: Get Real 31:40 Ch4: End Game 38:15 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/sBtSeIkoz-

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Written nearly 2000 Years ago, Meditations remains profoundly relevant for anyone seeking to lead a meaningful life. The Meditations is divided into12 books that chronicle different periods of Aurelius' life. Each book is not in chronological order and it was written for no one but himself. A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, it remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 5:00 Introduction but for real 10:50 About the Author 13:30 Meditations Book 1-12 39:35 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/ITTpJA---8c Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche Thanks for stopping by

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz In The End of the World is just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging. A world ending. A world beginning. Zeihan brings readers along for an illuminating ride packed with foresight, wit, and irreverence. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 7:05 About the Author 9:35 Ch1: How the Beginning Began 20:05 Ch2: Worlds End 30:25 Ch3: Energy 38:45 Ch4: Industrial Manufacturing 49:10 Ch5: Agriculture 1:01:20 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/hp7zKOVGoFc Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche