Nick's Non-fiction

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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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

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