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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.

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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: Domestic Governance

1:03:10 Next Time & Goodbye!

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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.

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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 Time & Goodbye!

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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.

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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 & Yang

0:47:05 Ch7: General Tao’s Chicken

0:53:20 Ch8: Tao or Never

1:04:20 Next Time & Goodbye!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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

0:56:55 Ch10: 1600

1:04:30 Next Time & Goodbye!

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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 hacker. In all epidemics alike a fiscally aware empire will favor retaliation over prevention. Adam suggests The Consumer Protection Act which costs banks $34 Billion annually, will not last long with Spencer Bauchus of the House Banking Committee openly admitting “federal litigation takes their orders from banks”.

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00:20 Introduction

04:00 About the Author

05:30 Ch1: History of Identity

15:30 Ch2: Swiping Happens

20:30 Ch3: The Three Ms

26:50 Ch4: Its a Hard Knock Life

30:40 Ch5: From Dangerous to Deadly

37:50 Ch6: Culture Eats Strategy

40:40 Ch7: The Highest Law

46:00 Next Time & Goodbye!

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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.

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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

43:25 Habit 7: Renewal

47:40 Next Time & Goodbye!

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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 believe in them after a certain age. We’ll integrate eyewitness accounts of those who survived the USSR/Mao and how Communism is invalid in theory and in practice. This thirty page manifesto is riddled with contradiction and no real solution to the class divide other than easier access to rebellion. Stay tuned as we build our own republic, remembering the founding fathers who would see the current addendum's to the Bill of Rights as a massive hammer and sickle stamp.

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00:55 Introduction

03:45 About the Author

06:20 Ch1: Bourgeoisie and Proletarian

22:00 Ch2: Proles and Communists

39:15 Ch3: Socialist Literature

49:10 Ch4: Foreign Relations

56:25 Next Time & Goodbye!

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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).

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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!

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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 system and black nobility throughout the ages. The program includes eery comparisons to the ominous League of Shadows as we wait for a Batman to save planet Gotham.

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00:20 Introduction

03:15 About the Author

06:15 Ch1: Promise of Global Institutions

14:10 Ch2: Broken Promises

22:15 Ch3: Freedom to Choose

27:10 Ch4: IMF Epic Fail

35:10 Ch5: Mischievous Trade Laws

38:40 Ch6: Better Roads to the Market

42:20 Ch7: IMF Other Agendas

47:10 Ch8: The Way Ahead

55:30Next Time & Goodbye!

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