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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioral research, Daniel Goleman shows the factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well. These factors, which include self-awareness, self-discipline, and empathy, add up to a different way of being smart—and they aren’t fixed at birth. Although shaped by childhood experiences, emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened throughout our adulthood with immediate benefits to our health, relationships and work. Subscribe, Share, Mobile Links and Time-stamps below! 0:00:50 Introduction 0:03:30 About the Author 0:05:30 Ch1: Emotional Hijacking 0:15:50 Ch2: When Smart is Dumb 0:21:45 Ch3: Passions Slaves 0:31:00 Ch4: The Roots of Empathy 0:38:00 Ch5: Managing with Heart 0:45:25 Ch6: Mind and Medicine 0:53:55 Ch7: Trauma and Relearning 0:59:20 Ch8: Schooling the Emotions 1:06:00 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: htt

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! It is assumed that every inch of the world has been explored and charted; that there is nowhere new to go. But perhaps it is the everyday places around us, the cities we live in, that need to be rediscovered. What does it feel like to find the city’s edge, to explore its forgotten tunnels and scale unfinished skyscrapers high above the metropolis? Explore Everything reclaims the city, recasting it as a place for endless adventure. Plotting expeditions from London, Paris, Berlin, Detroit, Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Bradley L. Garrett has evaded urban security in order to experience the city in ways beyond the boundaries of conventional life. He calls it ‘place hacking’: the recoding of closed, secret, hidden and forgotten urban space to make them realms of opportunity. The book combines philosophy, politics and adventure, on our rights to the city and how to understand the twenty-first century metropolis. Subscribe, S

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! From drone warfare in the Middle East to digital spying by the National Security Agency, the U.S. government has harnessed the power of cutting-edge technology to awesome effect. What happens when ordinary people have the same tools at their fingertips? Advances in cybertechnology, biotechnology, and robotics mean that more people than ever before have access to potentially dangerous technologies from MAVs to computer networks and biological agents which could be used to attack states and private citizens alike. As history suggests experimental armaments can just as easily be turned against its own people. Subscribe, Share, Mobile Links and Time-stamps below! 0:00:55 Introduction 0:04:45 About the Author 0:07:15 Ch1: Offensive Capabilities 0:17:45 Ch2: Vulnerabilities 0:23:40 Ch3: Defensive Capabilities 0:30:20 Ch4: Social Order 0:41:05 Ch5: Rethinking Liberty 0:45:30 Ch6: Future Surveillance 0:55:05 Ch7: Dom

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Jokes change from generation to generation, but the experience of the comedian transcends the ages: the drive, jealousy, heartbreak, and triumph. From the Marx Brothers to Milton Berle to George Carlin to Eddie Murphy to Louis CK—comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century’s worth of rebels and groundbreakers, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts, forgotten stars and workaday plodders in this essential history of American comedy. Subscribe, Share, Mobile Links and Time-stamps below! 0:01:30 Introduction 0:05:55 About the Author 0:08:20 Ch1: Vaudeville Comedians 0:18:45 Ch2: Radio 0:25:25 Ch3: Night Clubs 0:31:50 Ch4: Television 0:38:10 Ch5: Las Vegas 0:41:40 Ch6: Standup's Great Change 0:48:30 Ch7: Percolation of the Mid 60s 0:53:10 Ch8: Hippie Madness 0:57:30 Ch9: 1970s & First Comedy Clubs 1:02:25 Ch10: The Standup Comedy Boom 1:08:50 Ch11: 1990s 1:10:50 Ch12: The New Millennium 1:14:50 Next Tim

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Long before the height of Athens and the Academy, thinkers had been debating materialism and trying to find the philosopher king. Lao Tzu’s Tao té Ching is a 2500 year old self help bestseller responsible for putting China in the philosophical debate. Along with timeless one liners adopted by the Buddhists this show analyzes Eastern and Western differences in thought and how this effects our respective sOcIeTiEs. Should over achievers be encouraged for their endeavor or as Eastern education indicates ‘the nail who stands out gets hit on the head’? California banning advanced math classes suggest the West is assimilating to the East quicker than sovereignty can spread. Subscribe, Share, Mobile Links and Time-stmps below! 0:00:35 Introduction 0:04:00 About the Author 0:06:45 Ch1: Tzutopia 0:14:40 Ch2: Heaven and Hell 0:23:55 Ch3: The Space Between 0:30:25 Ch4: Taody Duty Time 0:35:40 Ch5: 5g Virtue Signal 0:41:25 Ch6: Yin

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! The Next Wave is a new skateboarding history book that details 1990-2020. Propelled by dozens of exclusive features and interviews with skateboarding’s most prominent riders, company owners and industry members, the text provides a comprehensive look into the highlights of the past several decades. With the support of several noted photographers, the book also serves as a visual testament to skateboarding’s recent developments. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below 00:55 Introduction 04:20 Ch1: The 90s 11:30 Ch2: The 00s 27:05 Ch3: The 10s 44:25 Ch4: Looking Forward 49:00 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/rKkiWq1k_Ks Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=44297973 Thanks for stopping by!

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! For many people, Scrabble brings to mind old times with the family around the dining room table or nights spent with friends in a college dorm room or while on vacation. Stefan Fatsis, however, got his interest piqued to explore the competitive world of Scrabble through a Sports Illustrated article. This Wall Street Journal reporter decided to take his interest and turn it into a book. That decision led Fatsis to a strange and convoluted path of self-discovery and obsession; as Fatsis learns more about the game and the people who make playing it a career, he learns more about himself. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:01:00 Introduction 0:0:4:20 About the Author 0:05:50 Ch1: The Park 0:11:25 Ch2: Unrated 0:23:30 Ch3: Edly 0:29:00 Ch4: Tower of Scrabble 0:33:30 Ch5: The Words 0:38:00 Ch6: Matt 0:43:20 Ch7: Marlon in Reno 0:47:15 Ch8: Worlds 0:50:35 Ch9: Dues 0

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Identity theft is on the rise in the digital age snowballing since Genesis when Jacob covered himself in goatskin to impersonate his brother. In Swiped, Adam Levin details the ineffective litigation following data breaches and how the new plan to end internet anonymity is about as rational as banning goats. Impending IP imperialism is an overlooked issue which seeks to further increase censorship, minimize small business and centralize servers. Adam provides you with personal risk management tools when surfing the wild west web, with the caveat that everyone gets got. While the dark web is portrayed as a murky den of thieves it increasingly becomes inhabited by run of the mill internet users looking for a browsing experience closer to ’08. The book shows how civilians are beginning to take refuge in private networks as Medicare leaks are traced back to data dealing doctors rather than the cinematically portrayed neckbeard hac

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With 30 million copies sold, this Harvard alumnus shares his models including the renowned ‘circle of influence’ displaying how to set attainable goals and follow through. With penetrating insights from consulting CEOs, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity. These principles give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 00:40 Introduction 03:30 About the Author 06:00 Habit1: Be Proactive 13:50 Habit2: Begin wit the End in Mind 21:30 Habit3: Put First Things First 27:50 Habit4: Paradigms of Interdependence 33:30 Habit 5: Think Win/Win 37:45 Habit 6: Synergy 43:2

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Communism is more than a state monopoly on all means of production, it is an ideology. Does the abolition of private property and state division of labor rewarding doctors and janitors the same sound fair to you? These reverse-incentive/anti-enlightenment ideas are Karl Marx’s solution to the impenetrable class divide plaguing society since the end of foraging. The Communist Manifesto comes trough with even more radical ideas such as disallowing the proletarian to leave the country nor refer to himself as an individual. These cultish requirements are scrutinized heavily by your red blooded American host, previously outspoken on socialized schooling. Under Marxist education, “All family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labor”. Karl Marx and Santa Clause have a lot in common; luscious beards, a unionized workforce and the inability to

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Mt. Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the worst single-season death toll in the peak's history. The second Krakauer on the program serves as our themed episode for June before some Patreon exclusive content. (https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche). Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 00:55 Introduction 03:45 About the Author 07:25 Ch1: The Seat of God 13:20 Ch2: Base Camp 23:45 Ch3: Camp One 27:50 Ch4: Camp Two 30:40 Ch5: Camp Three 34:20 Ch6: Summit 39:30 Ch7: Summit Plummet 46:25 Ch8: Descent 49:20 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://youtu.be/zIkIyTS9PPA Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=44297973 Thanks for stopping by!

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Nobel prize in economics recipient Joseph Stiglitz risks it all in his national bestseller, Globalization and its Discontents. A former chief economist of the world bank and resident economic advisors to Clinton, keys us into asymmetrical information and unbalanced ledgers. Directly overseeing the transition of the Soviet Union to a capitalist Russia, Stiglitz points out authoritarian trade deals which enrich governments and impoverish people showing the negative overall effects of globalization. He describes the IMF as a henchman for G-7, continuously shaking down developing nations and giving the old “bailout buy-in” to third world countries. The World Trade Org and GATT employ a join or die mentality, rather racially insensitive if your goal is to end poverty, to be regulating indigenous Ethiopian and Kenyan banks into foreclosure. Bring your snorkeling gear, this show goes deep exploring the history of the Roman debtors sys

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Now a Hollywood blockbuster, Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions, at bat for the second time on the show, returning author Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A’s. The visionary general manager Billy Beane, and his strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists go all in on a search of new baseball knowledge. They’ll change the game forever finding insights that give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 00:40 Introduction 03:20 About the Author 04:55 Ch1: How to Find a Ballplayer 13:50 Ch2: The Curse of Talent 17:20 Ch3: Sabermetrics 23:50 Ch4: Draft Day 28:45 Ch5: Scouts Honor 33:40 Ch6: The Trading Desk 37:35 Ch7: The Human Element 42:15 Ch8: The Speed of an Idea 46:40 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy, Robin Williams was a singularly innovative and beloved entertainer. He often came across as a man possessed, holding forth on culture and politics while mixing in personal revelations – all with impulsive, tongue-twisting intensity as he inhabited and shed one character after another with lightning speed. In Good Will Hunting he gave an intense and controlled performance that revealed the true range of his talent. David Itzkoff shows how Williams struggled mightily with addiction and depression with a debilitating condition at the end of his life that affected him in ways his fans never knew. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 00:30 Introduction 03:30 About the Author 05:10 Ch1: The Escape Artist 14:10 Ch2: Legalized Insanity 20:45 Ch3 The Robin Williams Show 24:45 Ch4: Mork Blows His Cork 30:55 Ch5: Mr. Happy 34:45 Ch6: Good

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Why do some trends grow at inexplicably rates almost like they’ve caught on fire? Malcolm Gladwell kindles a luminous understanding of these anomalies in bestseller The Tipping Point. His iconic writing style debriefs the epidemics behind child infotainment and the equally rapid spread of negative ideas portrayed through crime and suicide. Main stream notoriety has been traditionally upheld by the gatekeepers however our open sourced internet has recently revamped Malcolms manifesto. Celebrating a minor tipping point for the channel reaching monetization we’ll take a Nick’s Non-fiction approach to explain what it really means to get “put over” in the digital age. If your business is currently courting investors this is a must read detailing high level salesman, connectors and mavericks you’ll need to employ to attain mass appeal. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 00:45 Introduction 02:45 About the Author 05:

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Investigative reporter Neil Strauss digs up dirt in his bestseller following Mötley Crüe, recently adapted into a trending film on Netflix. Each chapter takes place from a different band members point of view detailing the highest imaginable highs and current financial lows. Decadence has its price as these goons got their moneys worth trashing hotels with Ozzy Osborne and ravaging the countryside for questionably young girls. More than our edition last year about gaming the music industry, this book is a wild ride of survival exploring each mans experience with the machine. We’ll go from the Whiskey a Go Go rapid rise to notoriety, accelerate through sports car crashes to the infamous speedball overdose all in the name of Rock and Roll. Call up Dr Feelgood, its time to Kickstart Your Heart and Take You to the Top. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 00:50 Introduction 03:40 About the Author 05:30 Ch1: The Mot

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! How many times can the empire strike back? For as long as China buys our subtitled CGI. Ben Barber compiled countless citations to once again tell the story of the Rebels vs. the Empire in Jihad vs. McWorld. McDonalds doesn’t sell burgers to 20 million national citizens every day, they serve their customers. The Gilette CEO is on record declaring foreign countries as no longer foreign. In the global market corporations have transcended nations as Dominoes Pizza has a higher annual revenue than Bolivia and Twitter has the power to unperson the Commander in Chief. Barber simplifies the paradigm to a duality pinning corporate imperialism against sovereignty in the form of Jihad. This book will make you question your most indoctrinated beliefs about who is entitled to the natural resources of their forefathers lands. As I’ve seen in my short lifetime alone, blowback is not only ignored by the US govt but packaged as a powerful en

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Ian Ayers bestseller, Super Crunchers, is a deep dive into data and the devout power quantum computing will have over our future. Did you know more accidents are due to drowsy driving than drunk driving? Insurance companies plan on using micro sensors to determine an increases on your premium based on how many lanes you drift across and dreams you drifted into. Super computers are often super douches to those paying most for its service. Airlines are phasing in smart rebooking to upgrade customers who’re most at risk for continued business rather than existing club members. The book arises a Phillip K. Dick contemplation of technology, ‘Is our sole evolutionary purpose to produce technology, passing the baton to the AI, or do we make machines to serve man’? Ayer crosses the pc line into the forbidden science of IQ deviation and the inconsistencies between the sexes. Ex-president of Harvard, Larry Summers was impeached for recog

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! In The Airbnb Story, Leigh Gallagher details the unlikely story of two lax bros fresh out of RISD knocking on heavens door for angel investors. With the simple concept of classing up websites like Craigslist and Couch-surfing, Gebbia and Chesky corralled a $100B evaluation within twelve years now employing over 6,000 people. These two entrepreneurial mates raised a baby together detailing every step of its spree into adulthood. Hiring their first engineer was like designing the DNA for the company as the two aim to be a tier one tech company like Apple. After surviving the staggering infant mortality rate of small business they were onto the investors launchpad then shot into the stratosphere. Airbnb declared victory in its firefight of publicity when Obama showered them with compliments to a Cuban business relations committee. Even with black Jesus’s blessing, the onslaught of civic attacks continue as lawmakers create “minim

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! The digital age has everyone with an iPhone over inundated with useless information, porn and worst of all, ideologies. Friedrich Nietzsche spent a sick, friendless life trying to warn others of the dogma of authority and true will as its only antidote. Throughout Beyond Good & Evil we reside in the house of consciousness witnessing the daily domestic dispute between morality and immorality. This heady nail biter brings up 21st century questions regarding instinct informing consciousness leading to the byproduct of prejudice *Malcolm Gladwell hides erection*. Unlike the bestseller Blink, Nietzsche leaves the cut in his jib airing out his opinions on masculine and feminine cultures of Europe and his least favorite race, women. We’ll tow the lines of absurdism, antinatalism and stoicism proving how modern organized religion is a self help scheme gone wrong, twisting our ethics into a master/slave morality paradigm. One of the mos