Nick's Non-fiction
201 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHumor and entertainment as always with radio show/podcast host and comic, Nick Muniz.
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Nick’s Non-fiction | The Pleasure Trap
April 09, 2024 13:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Inspired by stunning original research, comprehensive clinical studies, and their successes with thousands of patients, the authors construct a new paradigm for the psychology of health that offers fresh hope for anyone stuck in a self-destructive cycle. Learn unique insights into the factors that make us susceptible to dietary and lifestyle excesses; then discover how to restore the biological processes design...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Some Kind of Monster
April 02, 2024 17:30 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz With James Hetfield at the helm, Metallica went from being thrash pioneers to heavy metal gods. He overcame adolescent upheaval and personal demons—including his parents’ divorce, his mother’s untimely death and severe alcoholism—to become metal’s biggest star. Subscribe, Share, Links below! My Instagram: www.instagram.com/hairysh1t/?... My Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheNiche
Nick’s Non-fiction | Sleep Smarter
March 19, 2024 18:00 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz When it comes to health, there is one criminally overlooked element: sleep. That’s what Shawn Stevenson learned when a degenerative bone disease crushed his dream of becoming a professional athlete. Like many of us, he gave up on his health and his body, until he decided there must be a better way. Through better sleep and optimized nutrition, Stevenson not only healed his body but also achieved fitness and busi...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Tyranny of Merit
March 12, 2024 18:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the American credo that "you can make it if you try". The consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fueled populist protest and extreme polarization, and led to deep distrust of both government and our fellow citizens--leaving us mo...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Florence Scovel Shinn
March 05, 2024 20:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Florence Scovel Shinn was an American artist and book illustrator by trade but she is probably best remembered for her inspirational works of self-empowerment. Shinn began self publishing her works in 1925 with the introduction of “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, “Your Word Is Your Wand”, “The Secret Door to Success” and “The Power of the Spoken Word” all of which are collected together in this edition. S...
Nick’s Non-fiction | The Hidden Persuaders
February 27, 2024 13:55 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz A classic examination of how our thoughts and feelings are manipulated by business, media and politicians, The Hidden Persuaders was the first book to expose the hidden world of “motivation research,” the psychological technique that advertisers use to probe our minds in order to control our actions as consumers. Through analysis of products, political campaigns and television programs of the 1950s, Packard show...
Nick’s Non-fiction | The Wheel of Time
February 20, 2024 18:30 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Originally drawn to Yaqui Indian spiritual leader don Juan Matus for his knowledge of mind-altering plants, bestselling author Carlos Castaneda soon immersed himself in the sorcerer’s magical world entirely. Ten years after his first encounter with the shaman, Castaneda examines his field notes and comes to understand what don Juan knew all along—that these plants are merely a means to understanding the alternat...
Nick’s Non-fiction | The Hustler & The Champ
February 13, 2024 14:00 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Here is a riveting account of a high stakes shoot-out between pool's two most famous personalities. Fats and Mosconi were born the same year, but were vastly different characters: one stood for artistry, the other for show business; one brought dignity to pool, the other made it fun. They are without a doubt the two most important players ever to hold a cue. This is the ultimate tale of American sportsmanship. S...
Nick’s Non-fiction | A Return to Love
February 06, 2024 21:00 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz This mega-bestselling spiritual guide has become a classic. Williamson reveals how we each can become a miracle worker through the expression of love in our daily lives. Whether psychic pain is in the area of relationships, career, or health, she shows us how love is a potent force, the key to inner peace, and how by practicing love we can make our own lives more fulfilling while creating a more peaceful and lov...
Nick’s Non-fiction | You Are The Placebo
January 30, 2024 21:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Is it possible to heal by thought alone—without drugs or surgery? The truth is that it happens more often than you might expect. In You Are the Placebo, Dr. Joe Dispenza shares numerous documented cases of those who reversed cancer, heart disease, depression, crippling arthritis, and even the tremors of Parkinson’s disease by believing in a placebo. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links below! My Instagram: www.instag...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Zoology
January 23, 2024 20:30 - 22 minutes - 21 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz This visual reference book starts with the question "what is an animal?" and takes you through the animal kingdom - mammals, reptiles, birds, and sea creatures. It uses a unique head-to-toe approach that showcases in spectacular detail special features like the flight feathers of a parrot, the antenna of a moth, or the tentacles of coral. Check out the Patreon for a top secret edition from this Saturday. Subscri...
Nick’s Non-fiction | The Idiot
January 16, 2024 13:45 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin— known as the “idiot”—pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his family. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated, he soon finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn in...
Nick’s Non-fiction | 100 Secrets for Health & Rejuvenation
January 09, 2024 13:33 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz lying in the face of mainstream medicine and society's many health myths-here is a book that finally proves that good health is not only easily achievable-no matter where you are right now-it's your natural state. In this new, expanded edition of Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation, best-selling author Andreas Moritz reveals the most common but rarely recognized reasons behind illness and aging. Subscri...
Nick’s Non-fiction | The Secret of Being Happy
December 26, 2023 20:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Imagine for a moment that someone takes you into a huge room, packed with the most complex technology you'd ever seen and offers to show you how to operate the system so that you can instantly bounce your attitude from one of negativity and doubt to an attitude of optimism, cheerfulness and hope. How radically would your life change if you could switch, at will, from living life down to living life up? What wo...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Mental Science
December 19, 2023 19:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Thomas Troward (1847-1916) was an English author whose works influenced the New Thought Movement and mystic Christianity. William James characterized Troward's Edinburgh "Lectures on Mental Science" as "far and away the ablest statement of philosophy I have met, beautiful in its sustained clearness of thought and style, a really classic statement." According to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) archivist Nell Wing, ear...
Nick’s Non-fiction | The Calcium Lie
December 12, 2023 23:00 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Bones are made of at least a dozen minerals and we need all of them in perfect proportions in order to have healthy bones and healthy bodies. If you get too much calcium, through food sources or by taking supplements, you set yourself up for an array of negative health consequences, including obesity, Type 2 diabetes, Type 2 hypothyroidism, hypertension, depression, problem pregnancies and more. This is the sec...
Nick’s Non-fiction | The World as Will & Representation
December 05, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the nineteenth century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work. Conceived and published before the philosopher was 30 and expanded 25 years later, it is the summation of a lifetime of thought. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links...
Nick’s Non-fiction | The Art of Dreaming
November 28, 2023 13:59 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz The author of The Teachings of Don Juan reveals the spiritual adventures that can be attained through dreams, describing his own journeys into new worlds by using ancient, powerful techniques. 100,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links below My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hairysh1t/?... My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheNiche
Nick’s Non-fiction | Inside Putin’s Russia
November 21, 2023 13:58 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Arising from the shadows of the Soviet secret police, ex-KGB agent Vladimir Putin is the indefinite prime minister of Russia. Elected in 2000, now serving over four terms, Andrew Jack has reported on the president for nearly two decades and composed his take on the federation in Inside Putin’s Russia. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 4:40 About the Author 5:40 Ch1: Coming t...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
November 14, 2023 20:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Once there was a pair of pants. Just an ordinary pair of jeans. But these pants, the Traveling Pants, went on to do great things. This is the story of the four friends—Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen—who made it possible. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 3:20 About the Author 4:40 Ch1: The Rules 9:30 Ch2: Departure 17:45 Ch3: Heating Up 24:15 Ch4: Dog Days 31:10 Ch5: ...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Acres of Skin
October 31, 2023 12:55 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz At a time of increased interest and renewed shock over the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, Acres of Skin sheds light on yet another dark episode of American medical history. In this disturbing expose, Allen M. Hornblum tells the story of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 4:45 About the Author 6:40 Ch1: Zabala 13:20 Ch2: Testing 21:15 Ch3: Pri...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Breath
October 24, 2023 12:58 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisd...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Brave New World
October 17, 2023 12:48 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism d...
Nick’s Non-fiction | The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
October 10, 2023 12:58 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stam...
Nick’s Non-fiction | I Know What I Saw
October 03, 2023 12:49 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBWelcome 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 sca...
Nick’s Non-fiction | The Fountainhead
September 26, 2023 13:05 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBWelcome 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 chall...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Never Give Up
September 19, 2023 12:58 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBWelcome 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, ...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Contemplative Fitness
September 12, 2023 12:54 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBWelcome 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 su...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Think Like a Freak
September 05, 2023 13:08 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBWelcome 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 to...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Mein Kampf
August 29, 2023 12:46 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBWelcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz In the pages of Mein Kampf Hitler presented the world with his dark vision for the future. Years would pass before he attained the power to realize that vision, but Mein Kampf’s existence denies the free world the excuse of ignorance. We dismissed him as a madman and we ignored his wretched book; the result was a tragedy of unprecedented proportions. This is yet another lesson to take from Mein Kampf: the lesson...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Plato’s Apology
August 22, 2023 12:33 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBWelcome 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 2...
Nick’s Non-fiction | The 4hr Work Week
August 15, 2023 14:33 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBWelcome 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...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Stiff
August 07, 2023 14:08 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBWelcome 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 he...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Brain Droppings
August 01, 2023 12:56 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBWelcome 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...
Nick’s Non-fiction | No Treason
July 25, 2023 12:52 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBWelcome 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:...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Bowling Alone
July 18, 2023 13:20 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBWelcome 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 ...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Future Memories
July 11, 2023 12:04 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBWelcome 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...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Flash Boys
July 04, 2023 12:52 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBWelcome 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 h...
Nick’s Non-fiction | The Messengers
June 27, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBWelcome 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, Sha...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Death of a Salesman
June 20, 2023 11:53 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBWelcome 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, betwe...
Nick’s Non-fiction | A Billion Wicked Thoughts
June 13, 2023 12:49 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBWelcome 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...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Over the Edge of the World
June 06, 2023 12:52 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBWelcome 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 henc...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Strange Things in the Woods
May 30, 2023 12:44 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBWelcome 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 O...
Nick’s Non-fiction | The Rebel
May 23, 2023 12:57 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBWelcome 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 ...
Nick’s Non-fiction | The River of Doubt
May 16, 2023 12:35 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBWelcome 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. Sub...
Nick’s Non-fiction | The Wisdom of the Shamans
May 09, 2023 12:55 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBWelcome 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, Sh...
Nick’s Non-fiction | The Existentialist Cafe
May 02, 2023 12:59 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBWelcome 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 - fight...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Michael Jordan
April 25, 2023 12:55 - 24 minutes - 22 MBWelcome 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 a...
Nick’s Non-fiction | Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
April 18, 2023 12:52 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBWelcome 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, Sh...
Nick’s Non-fiction | How to Read a Book
April 11, 2023 12:57 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBWelcome 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....