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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz!

Mao Tse-tung took control of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949 and declared the beginning of a Hundred-Year Marathon to become the worlds leading superpower. Intelligence expert Mike Pillsbury wrote this book as mandatory reading for American foreign policy advisors in the wake of their new supreme leader Xi. Americans see ourself as the world superpower, how could you not while spending $4T/yr on the military. Theres a war as cold as ice underway, it continues to drop in temperature the further we wade into an age of digital disinformation, covert coups and nonlinear warfare. This time the stakes are a bit higher than staking a flag on the moon, we’re talking about the race to become the head of the hydra, leader of a federation of nations.

No doubt we’re top shit in the U S of A, but who’s to say other countries cant take a shot at the title? The US is twenty plus trillion dollars in debt to China, meanwhile Nike and Apple lobby against child labor laws in their country. This show is a balanced commentary on the past millennium where China was beholden to the British Empire via the opium trade, much like China influencing the American opioid epidemic with fentanyl. We’ll weigh into the equation gaffs of government like the 1949 Chinese event that shall not be named where protestors were flattened to pancakes. How does this compare to Big Tech censorship in the US where million man marches are ignored by the corporate media if it does not fit their global narrative. Beware the empathy effect, analyzing a foreign totalitarian may make you realize the fascist in your own mayors. Ben Franklin said it best, “Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults” China Numba Won!

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0:00:25 Introduction

0:02:50 About the Author

0:04:45 Ch1: The Chinese Dream

0:11:10 Ch2: Warring States

0:18:45 Ch3: Mr. White & Mrs. Green

0:27:10 Ch4: America the Great Satan

0:32:00 Ch5: China’s Message Police 36-39 clip it

0:39:20 Ch6: The Assassins Mace

0:47:25 Ch7: The Capitalist Charade

0:52:05 Ch8: China World Order 2049

0:57:50 Ch9: Warning Shots

1:01:15 Ch10: America as a Warring State

1:05:00 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Economist Steven Landsburg applies his K-theory to the heart in bestseller, More Sex is Safer Sex. In the 1990s Oprah warned that within a decade 1/4 of adults would have AIDs. The answer may be an inconvenient truth, but how come we continuously overestimate domestic threats to a point of hysteria? Landsburg knows predictive studies are largely unreliable tying this into the macroeconomics of micropenises. Sex is dirty and the academic tracking of STDs over time has been less than sterile. Bringing to life the ‘Anti-sex League’ from 1984 wont bring us any closer to eradicating herpes than the puritans made it. Wait, you guys ARE wearing your masks during sex right?

The failing war on drugs shows how, decriminalizing substances and funding rehabilitation does not catalyze a generation of housewives to get into fentanyl. Funding the opiod epidemic or birth control would create a community of safe sex/user-ship where the deviants/addicts can ween off ;) together. Landsburg covers the polluting the river myth of one person with an std ruining a sexual community likening it to the bad apple theory on wall street. Another corrupt actor will always fill the vacuum so the way to purify the market of sex would be incentivizing moral men. Everyone wants a bad boy until they’re crying alone on another Valentines Day, why not a social program this year rewarding men who turn in used rubbers? This book covers the future of sex with government funded matchmaking much like Japans emperor mandated girlfriends. Enjoy this years dirtiest edition, nuzzle up to your bae and press play xD \uWu/.

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01:00 Introduction

03:30 About the Author

06:00 Ch1: More Sex Is Safer Sex

11:00 Ch2: Be Fruitful and Multiply

14:25 Ch3: What I Like About Scrooge

18:30 Ch4: Who’s the Fairest of Them All

22:55 Ch5 How to Fix Politics

28:10 Ch6 How to Fix the Justice System

31:50 Ch7: How to Fix Everything Else

35:30 Ch8: Oh No, It’s A Girl!

38:00 Ch9: Giving Your All

40:50 Ch10: How to Read the News

43:30 Ch11: Matters of Life and Death

46:30 Ch12: Central Banker of the Soul

49:40 Next Time & Goodbye

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Todays show takes us to the South Pole and beyond in the infamous imperial trans-antarctic trek lead by Ernest Shackelton. The story takes place in 1915 and is considered the symbolic end to “the heroic age”. Many men dream about discovering new land and being the first to set foot in uncharted territory. A lot of these peoples minds would change after reading the risks these ex-pirates took just to make it to the continent alone. Us 21st century men: born too late to explore the globe, born too early too explore the stars, born just in time to explore our feelings.

Her majesty, The Endurance, breaks the ice with her jet black hull, penetrating deep into the arctic circle with 27 men, 69 sled-dogs and 1 cat (Chippy) aboard. Shackelton spent months adrift in a life raft, hitching up to ice floes and saving men from falling into crevasses. Do breath icicles hanging from your mouth, nose and eyes sound like a good time? How about eating only penguin hoosh for over a year? Oddly enough, after the fact the adventurers missed their time adrift as survival situations reveal more about leadership, teamwork and human psychology than any ethical lab study. Don’t forget your mittens, preparation is essential in any domain that’ll test how much hell you can endure.

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00:40 Introduction

02:55 About the Author

05:15 Ch1: The Heroic Age

11:45 Ch2: South

18:30 Ch3: The Breakup

23:55 Ch4: Patience Camp

30:15 Ch5: Into the Boats

34:30 Ch6: Voyage of the Caird

37:50 Ch7: South Georgia Island

42:45 Ch8: Elephant Island

47:45 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nikolai Munov!

One of the fathers of philosophy and a personal favorite, Dostoyevsky reconsiders the questions our culture is predicated on in Crime and Punishment. A young man Razkolnikov has been beaten down by life with a starving mother and a sister about to whore herself to a man who doesn't love her. After intensely portrayed months of contemplating his own morality the boy calculates the benefit to the community of killing the town pawn broker which would free her captive niece, relieve the town of their debt and save his mother and sister. After the plan is carried out all hell breaks loose and Razkolnikov is left with the intense guilt of murder which continues to plagues his conventional morality. One of the top must reads of the past 150 years portrays a young mans development into adulthood by taking the law into his own hands with Fyodor's iconic interpretation of criminology.

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00:30 Introduction

02:35 About the Author

05:05 Book1: Why Fight? Life is Sad Enough

20:00 Book2: Guilty Vigilante

31:10 Book3: Ya Breakn’ Ya Mothas Heart

39:20 Book4: I’m in Love with a Stripper

44:35 Book5: Can’t Touch This

48:05 Book5: Atonement

52:05 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Chris McCandless is the poster child for “Reject modernity: Embrace monke”. Jon Krakauer is the author you would want to investigate your adventurous death as done in bestseller, Into the Wild. A young educated ideologue donated his savings, burnt his cash and began a journey hitchhiking across the United States. He Tom Sawyered down the Colorado River into Mexico and worked on communal farms in South Dakota. Mother nature became his only tolerable companion eventually luring him into the Alaskan Bush. The original Nature boy, Henry David Thoreau said it best on top of Krakeur writing from his identical personal experience as a young man, “It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature”. This story analyzes the mentality behind a nomadic being, are they explorers in the wrong age, pilgrims without religion or brutish societally inapt apes? The choice is yours. Harambe once said, “Humans claim to value autonomy but when given the chance to break free from the chains of industrial society… they refuse. Curious.”

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00:40 Introduction

03:00 About the Author

05:05 Ch1: The Stampede Trail

09:05 Ch2: Rubber Tramp

14:05 Ch3: Natures Relapse

19:30 Ch4: Proud Bastard

26:10 Ch5: Leather Tramp

29:25 Ch6: El Segundo Familia

31:20 Ch7: The Devils Thumbprint

35:25 Ch8: Into the Wild

44:30 Next Time & Goodbye!

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In 1850 amidst old foggy London town the Crystal Palace was built setting the precedent for convention centers equipped with rudimentary hvac and human processing. The age of indoors has fully taken over, Anthony Townsend elaborates on in Smart Cities how technology brings people into urban areas the same way air conditioning once popularized the suburbs. Technology moves fast as we see the 72º Songdo convention center pioneering dynamic ticketing based on social credit score and smart re-booking. Throughout the book Townsend focus’s on reshaping culture through civic programs and further developing autonomous energy grids. An anecdote about a 1999 hacker successfully compromising part of the Manhattan power grid admits that technology inevitably has hiccups.

Hiccups always happen at the worst time like on your way into an interview. What happens when the impending fleet of driverless cars experiences a bug or a blackout causes thousands of amazon quad-copters to simultaneously fall from the sky? Townsend, a leader of Silicon Valley think tanks, forewarns if we are to create utopian garden cities we have to give up our cars. In order to win the Cold Race against Chinese AI we need a “culture of compliance” so the internet of things can harness our data… Feeling a bit queasy? No matter citizen, Chinese Cisco Vision is on its way to the states, a two way tele-screen in your dwelling linking you via live feed to the government for regular biometric readings. The unavoidable end is a dramatic Tale of Two Cities, as municipal tinkering showed in Rio de Janeiro, one city will prioritize humanity to technology while the other embraces the idea of their think tank legislators. As the World Economic Forum says, “By 2030 You’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy.” Smart Cities here we come!

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0:01:00 Introduction

0:03:50 About the Author

0:07:10 Ch1: The $100 Billion Jackpot

0:16:25 Ch2: Cybernetic Redux

0:22:50 Ch3: Cities of Tomorrow

0:27:55 Ch4: Open Source Metropolis

0:35:55 Ch5: Tinkering Towards Utopia

0:39:55 Ch6: Have Nots

0:44:30 Ch7: Reinventing City Hall

0:49:00 Ch8: Planet of Civic Laboratories

0:52:15 Ch9: Buggy, Brittle & Bugged

0:56:50 Ch10: New Civics for a Smart Century

1:00:50 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Start the year off right with some David Goggins, objectively one of the most refined warriors in our nations history just now budding into a puissant stoic voice. He has been through three special forces hell weeks, ran 130 mile ultra marathons, placed in iron men competitions, broken the world pull-up record and survived two open heart surgeries. His journey starts in an abusive household where he remained illiterate and overweight for 24 years before one day taking a long look in the mirror. Failure showed him time and time again how inspiration is just as potent as lethargy leaving the only lasting drive to come from discipline. Once you've surpassed the chatter of pain in the mind lies the renewable energy of suffering, a buddhist mantra that must be experienced to understand. Join Goggins on his journey of optimization but beware as it’ll hold the mirror of ‘What If?’ straight at the face of the reader.

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0:00:40 Introduction

0:02:25 About the Author

0:05:00 Ch1: I Should’ve Been a Statistic

0:11:15 Ch2: Truth Hurts

0:19:00 Ch3: The Impossible Task

0:27:35 Ch4: Taking Souls

0:33:00 Ch5: An Armored Mind

0:35:20 Ch6: It’s Not About a Trophy

0:40:55 Ch7: The Most Powerful Weapon

0:48:00 Ch8: Talent Not Required

0:52:10 Ch9: Uncommon Against Uncommon

0:54:10 Ch10: The Empowerment of Failure

0:57:05 Ch11: What If

1:01:20 Next Week & Goodbye!

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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz!

Take a trip down memory lane and relive this seasons most cancelable moments. All twelve themed books for the year have their entire plot summarized within ten minutes. This special directors cut adds current commentary to older reads as you witness the birth of a host one month at a time. Enjoy an homage to the year the show doubled in size and un-fog those reading glasses for Season 3's levee of literature about to break.

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0:00:05 Introduction

0:01:40 12 Rules for Life

0:07:40 The Game

0:15:00 The Feminine Mystique

0:22:40 Face the Music

0:30:30 America the Farewell Tour

0:40:25 The Psychedelic Experience

0:45:25 The Wolf of Wall Street

0:50:45 On Writing

0:56:05 The Simulation Hypothesis

1:03:40 Coyote America

1:05:05 Fast Food Nation

1:10:50 The Jefferson Bible

1:17:30 Next Season & Goodbye!

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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz!

The law of resources states an idea can be world changing yet will never make it off the ground without adequate funding. You don't have to tell Henry Ford’s rival, William Morrison and his 1890 electric car twice *scoffs in TSLA stock*. Former GM chairman Al Ries is an advertising guru having composed The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing. From the outside, advertising seems like a battle between competitors to inform clientele on how your product is superior. Your host breaks out his old mass media advertising lectures to prove it is more so a game of subliminal messaging and positioning your product to dominate a single domain. Marketing is a battle of perspective over product and just like an architectural masterpiece, one flaw in an ad campaign will send the project crumbling to the ground. The show integrates new failures like the Gilette razor virtue signaling, Kendall Jenner’s political Pepsi and Dove’s backfiring of body positive packaging. We’ll explore the origins of hucksters, how the first Super Bowl operated at a net loss and is now the ceremonial advertising apex. If networks had succumbed to the law of failure they would have never found their largest success right around the corner.

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00:35 Introduction

03:20 About the Author

05:15 Law1: Law of Leadership

10:40 Law2: Law of Category

13:00 Law3: Law of Mind

19:00 Law4: Law of Perception

22:30 Law5: Law of Focus

26:15 Law6: Law of Exclusivity

29:00 Law7: Law of the Ladder

32:40 Law8: Law of Duality

34:45 Law9: Law of Opposite

39:20 Law10: Law of Division

41:45 Law11: Law of Perspective

46:50 Law12: Law Potpurri

49:20 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz!

What if I told you America is more efficient at implementing Maoism than China and the Soviet Union ever were? Provocateur Douglas Murray takes big swings like this among many others in his brand new international bestseller, The Madness of Crowds. The Overton window is shrinking as our allowed topics of discussion are increasingly chose from top down pushing more people towards the socially engineered fringes. Race baiting has gotten so obvious that for the first time in 70 years a record number of minority votes went to the conservative candidate. The progressive agenda is skipping over inherent human rights violations like sovereign drug consumption and instead is campaigning for reparation checks and to disallow airline travel. A traditional liberal Brit, Douglas, admits logical consistency and ethical constitution aren’t part of the social justice warrior lexicon.

From a gay author, this dense read tackles homophobia, transphobia and racism: the latest accusations of a nonbeliever in the public square which are neither provable nor disprovable. Murray shows it isn't a good versus evil battle but a software versus hardware misunderstanding of what it means to truly be in a minority. Douglas has no reservations bringing up post operation suicide rates and “psychosexual” witch doctors as the new conversion camps convincing young men to lop off their cocks. While this book hits every inflammatory topic imaginable its imperative to remember what John Stuart Mill famously said, “Free speech is necessary for a free society”. Today we hear the ideas of a homosexual man writing openly about the tendencies and hijacking of his own community. We’ve entered a postmodern age of cultural marxism where he who feels most oppressed has more value than he who works hardest.

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0:00:20 Introduction

0:03:15 About the Author

0:05:55 Ch1: Gather ‘Round

0:11:20 Ch2: Organizing the Closet

0:19:30 Ch3: Marxist Fondations

0:27:30 Ch4: Broads

0:36:15 Ch5: Catching Waves

0:42:35 Ch6: Melanin Manipulation

0:50:30 Ch7: Forgiveness

0:55:35 Ch8: Trans

1:05:10 Ch9: Clown World

1:10:50 Next Time & Goodbye!

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