Nick's Non-fiction

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.

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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!

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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.

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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 Morning!

36:35 Ch7: Typecast to the Top

43:05 Ch8: The Golden Dude

46:50 Ch9: Weapons of Self Destruction

50:55 Ch10: Gone

58:50 Next Time & Goodbye!

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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.

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00:45 Introduction

02:45 About the Author

05:15 Ch1: Three Rules of Epidemics

11:45 Ch2: The Law of the Few

21:40 Ch3: The Stickiness Factor

27:00 Ch4: The Power of Context

37:00 Ch5: The Magic Number

43:00 Ch6: Rumors & Sneakers

49:45 Ch7: Suicide & Cigarettes

54:50 Ch8: Conclusion

56:30 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Stop hitting yourself. Why’re you hitting yourself? Few people understand the sinister cycle of stress perpetrated by cigarettes as well as Allen Carr. A 30 year smoker averaging 60 butts a day has helped over 15 million people quit with his bestseller How to Stop Smoking. In 1971 cigarettes were legally re-defined as a package instead of a product. Your favorite brand of smokes is merely a delivery mechanism for nicotine and additional addictive chemicals only added for the sake of inducing dependence. For a hundred years now the science has been suppressed while 480,000 Americans drop dead a year from smoking and over five million worldwide. Carr details unsuccessful quitters biggest regrets are trying their first cigarette.

Ok boomer, well my juul, eleaf and vaporfi are all non-addictive… The only thing more cranky than a boomer without cable is a doomer who’s stiiizy needs to be charged. Ellen Degenerous credits this book with helping her quit, non-honorable mention goes to her staff for substitutional stress relief. This show is a layered look into why we take self-destructive action weighing in how much the Marlboro Man must’ve gotten laid. If counterculture is your goal then smoking through your neck and using a voice modulator are the holy grail of badass. Maybe Bill Hicks was right, “Mine says warning, may cause fetal injury or premature birth, found my brand… Just don't get the ones that say lung cancer”.

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0:00:35 Introduction

0:02:45 About the Author

0:04:20 Ch1: Addiction

0:12:00 Ch2: The Sinister Trap

0:22:20 Ch3: Withdrawal

0:30:05 Ch4: Self Imposed Slavery

0:38:40 Ch5: A Social Habit

0:49:40 Ch6: Will it Be Difficult?

0:55:15 Ch7: Your Last Cigarette

1:00:50 Ch8: Final Instructions

1:05:50 Next Time & Goodbye!

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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.

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00:50 Introduction

03:40 About the Author

05:30 Ch1: The Motley House

11:15 Ch2: Born Too Loose

14:00 Ch3: Toast of the Town

21:00 Ch4: Shout at the Devil

27:45 Ch5: Save Our Souls

32:30 Ch6: Girls Girls Girls

34:10 Ch7: Our Best Friends are Drug Dealers

36:25 Ch8: Our Best Friends were Drug Dealers

41:30 Ch9/10: Without You

47:00 Ch11: The Guns, The Women, The Ego

50:45 Ch12: Hollywood Ending

52:25 Next Time & Goodbye!

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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 entrapment tool to galvanize young middle eastern radicals. Barber brings up the origins of American militiamen and the long lost ideas of confederalism while speculating on the FCCs ability to limit broadcast spectra. This Sunday at the community rec center I’ll be holding try-outs for the latest division of ISIS. As MTV fell QVC plugged the hole representing the global conjugation of ideas and culture. Prepare to go theoretically deep on the political compass’s classic rivalry between authoritarianism and libertarianism.

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0:00:50 Introduction

0:04:00 About the Author

0:06:30 Ch1: Fall of the West

0:14:40 Ch2: Rise of the East

0:20:10 Ch3: Hollywood Service

0:26:30 Ch4: TV & Theme Parking

0:34:15 Ch5: Jihadism in the Pacific Rim

0:44:50 Ch6: New World Disorder

0:55:50 Ch7: Berlin Bureaucrats

1:04:40 Ch8: A World of McWorld

1:14:40 Next Time& Goodbye

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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 recognizing this data going to show even at the apex of academia your future is in the hands of the Super Crunchers.

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0:00:45 Introduction

0:03:25 About the Author

0:06:25 Ch1: Who’s Doing Your Thinking for You?

0:13:45 Ch2: Creating Your Own Data

0:21:25 Ch3: Government By Chance

0:27:20 Ch4: Evidence Based Medicine

0:33:55 Ch5: Experts vs. Equations

0:38:30 Ch6: Why Not?

0:46:00 Ch7: Are We Having Fun Yet?

0:51:55 Ch8: Future of Intuition

0:59:25 Next Time & Goodbye!

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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 “minimum conference room” laws for hotels to extort higher margins from the company. So ya like bureaucratic overreach? Leigh drops some insider info on Airbnb’s mandatory CIA partnership with former director George Tenet to monitor cultural influence. Order more towels, soak in the tub and enjoy the pursuit of two men who wont take no for an answer in a game rigged against them from the start.

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00:30 Introduction

03:20 About the Author

05:10 Ch1: The Hustle

13:10 Ch2: Building a Company

19:30 Ch3: Airbnb Nation

24:20 Ch4: The Bad & The Ugly

32:30 Ch5: SwampBnb

40:10 Ch6: Hospitality Disrupted

44:50 Ch7: Learning to Lead

49:15 Ch8 What’s Next?

57:10 Next Time & Goodbye

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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 most misconceived authors in history takes us on his emotional rollercoaster all for the self empowering assertion that a truly free spirit can only exist with a disciplined will.

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0:00:20 Introduction

0:02:35 About the Author

0:05:30 Ch1: Who Let the Dogma Out?

0:14:10 Ch2: On the Prejudice of Philosophers

0:23:25 Ch3: The Free Spirit

0:29:30 Ch4: The Religious Mood

0:42:05 Ch5: Epigrams & Interludes

0:45:15 Ch6: Mass Morals

0:53:20 Ch7: We Scholars

0:58:00 Ch8: Incel Power

1:01:35 Ch9: People and Fatherlands

1:08:20 Ch10: What is Noble?

1:15:40 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Last year to celebrate Woman’s Month we marched with Betty Friedan in the streets, this year we’re getting nasty with Nancy Friday in the sheets. My Secret Garden was blasphemy in its era of puritanical repression, with time it has become fundamental for helping woman of all ages understand their sexuality. Nancy wrote this book after her boyfriend kicked her to the curb for admitting she was thinking of her ex during sex. Nancy details her troubled internal monologue thinking she was the only one in a poodle skirt who had a kink. She dedicated her career to liberating the true female libido speaking on the biggest platforms for her time, Larry King Live, Good Morning America and Oprah. A grown womans perspective will be interpreted by a 24 year old jackhammering stud of a host providing flawless first date tips: After showing up late to assert dominance and lower expectations, be sure to avoid asking personal questions as women hate talking about themselves. To solidify her stance on feminism make sure she splits the check. I hope you're carrying a condom bro because on todays show we detail the different categories of courtship that ring the bell.

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00:25 Introduction

03:05 About the Author

05:40 Ch1: Tell Me What You’re Thinking About, He Said

11:00 Ch2: Why Fantasize When You Have Me

20:00 Ch3: The House of Horny

38:10 Ch4: Show Ya Moves

42:00 Ch5: Guilt and Fantasy

45:15 Ch6: Acceptance

47:15 Ch7: Quickies

53:10 Next Time & Goodbye!

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