Nick's Non-fiction

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

Gather ‘round for the best story ever told about the most famous man who ever lived. The life of Jesus Christ is an epic saga which the Catholic Church somehow turned into that snoozefest, The Bible. A child of the Enlightenment, Thomas Jefferson, was the best writer of his time authoring the Declaration of Independence and The Jefferson Bible, all factual accounts of the second testament in chronological order. Today's show synopsizes Christ's Bethlehem Backstory where he was exiled from the family for stopping his uncle Herod from hitting on his widowed aunt. You can never trust a drunk uncle during the holiday season. Thus began a life of ostracization, on which he doubled down and started speaking publicly about the debtors prison which was the Roman banking system (very illegal).

He began washing the poor and quoting scripture off the dome at temple, a rare skill for the time which attracted just as many haters as followers. After he initiated the movement to ban traders from the temple people knew he meant business. We’ll be analyzing some of Jesus’s best one liners and examining his timeless parables including the sermon on the mount. Jesus was born and raised a Jew and by God did he entertain like one. We’re combining Christmas and Easter, going all the way to Judas’s betrayal as this is the Bible with all the fat cut off. Enjoy some sacrilegious humor to celebrate this hippies birthday and take a few spiritual lessons for the road.

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00:25 Introduction

02:35 About the Author

05:50 Pb1: Bethlehem Backstory

13:50 Pb2: Sermon on the Mount

22:20 Pb3: Apostle Entourage

30:15 Pb4: Supernatural

38:35 Pb5: Cult Following

43:45 Pb6: Shepherding Allegations

48:20 Pb7: The Last Supper

52:40 Pb8: Betrayal

1:00:10 Next Time & Goodbye!

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There are over 14,000 of these in the continental United States. No, not hospitals, not food banks, not national parks… McDonalds! Since the 1950s America has embraced the takeover of burger-town and our health records reflect it. In Eric Schlosser’s bestseller Fast Food Nation we examine how the American diet has changed more in the past 40 years than in the past 40k. While the Roman republic was fed by citizen farmers, people of the American empire couldn't be more disconnected from their food. This Upton Sinclair style investigation visits the countries biggest slaughter houses and Hamburger University to see how in under 50 years our highways were astroturfed into a repetitive fast food Anywhere USA.

Todays show takes us to Aberdeen, Idaho, home to the biggest potato farm in the observable universe. Here we learn what makes the fries taste so good and who owns these plantations alongside 85k other acres of land. Schlosser tackles the monopoly on meat, where before 1980 the top four producers made up 21% of the market, now they compose 84% of all meat. This author was in the Super Size me film, has avoided meat libel law suits, remained ahead of the curve all to expose the truth behind the tendies. Have a fat and happy thanksgiving this year, try to lay off the Soylent Green.

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00:55 Introduction

03:15 About the Author

06:05 Ch1: Founding Fathers

15:30 Ch2: Your Trusted Friends

25:15 Ch3: Behind the Counter

29:30 Ch4: Franchise

31:30 Ch5: Why the Fries Taste So Good

35:45 Ch6: Home on the Range

37:30 Ch7: Cogs in the Great Machine

39:45 Ch8: The Most Dangerous Job

43:40 Ch9: Whats in the Meat?

47:00 Ch10: Global Realization

52:05 Ch11: Have it Your Way

56:15 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Jon Ronson is the go-to source for cancel culture in the 2010s with his national bestseller So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. For the book Jon periodically interviewed Justine Sacco who drew 12 billion Google hits from her tweet, “Going to Africa this weekend, hope I don't get AIDs. jk, Im white”. Jon takes the story a layer deeper discovering bot farms, infomorphs and Twitter imposters who cracked the mobs whip. Later chapters expose the men behind the algorithms as Jon was ostracized from his Washington Post/NYTimes writer friends for insufficiently supporting their agenda. As we witness the death of Hollywood it becomes more evident as a culture one of our favorite things to do is build something up just to tear it right back down.

It’s concerning that the worlds formidable power is running off a document built to restrict three branches of government with no mention of global state run media, something the founding fathers could have never predicted. Jon calls on the voter to reconsider our legacy medias ability to act as judge, jury, executioner and or exile-er. Plato was all for a council of professional peers exercising proper judgement. It’d be hard to imagine he’d encourage twitter mobs in the utopian republic. From technocratic gang-stalking to the elites ‘Pinkerton’ private army of jackbooted thugs, Jon uncovers who pushes the accelerator on the social dilemma.

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0:00:40 Introduction

0:03:50 About the Author

06:50 Ch1: Glad I’m Not That Guy

14:20 Ch2: The Wilderness

19:50 Ch3: American AIDs

25:45 Ch4: Descending the Ladder

30:05 Ch5: Suck My Dongle

33:50 Ch6: Unshameable

37:35 Ch7: Drowning of Mike Daisy

40:40 Ch8: Al Gorithm

46:10 Ch9: Terror

50:35 Ch10: Cats, Ice Cream, Music

56:50 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Michael Lewis is one of the go-to sources on the hidden fraternal world of stock brokering in Wall Street, London and Paris. Also having written The Big Short and Moneyball, Liar’s Poker was his breakthrough piece exposing the business of buying/selling money and its contribution to Black Monday. The testosterone filled atmosphere of a trading floor mid-80s was a zero sum mentality where you will sell out your own partners or previous employers for a greater sum of market shares. Mike worked over a record number of Frenchman his training year which gained him access to the managers 3-6-3 club. Borrow money at 3%, loan it at 6% and be on the golf course by 3:00.

Todays show examines corporations buying Ginnie Mae loans to later lend at a higher percent to homeowners. Almost like the Sallie Mae loans and student debt bubble today (at least come up with a new name for the scam). Michael Lewis predicts the $4 Trillion bank bailouts of 2008 and 2020 having seen the revolving doors and back door deals with congressional subcommittees. Todays show goes more in depth than our previous shows like The Wolf of Wall Street and Mind of the Market. The junk bond scam served as a precursor for more powerful corporations like Enron a decade later who would be trading entire industries. We’ve got The Smartest Guys in the Room about Enron to come on the channel, for now, the only thing you need to know about the business of money is Rule #1, never mention the money.

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00:20 Introduction

02:35 About the Author

04:50 Ch1: Liar’s Poker

08:15 Ch2: Never Mention the Money

14:15 Ch3: Corporate Culture

20:20 Ch4: Adult Education

25:25 Ch5: Brotherhood of Hoods

32:20 Ch6: The Fat Man’s Money Machine

39:40 Ch7: Salomon Diet

41:40 Ch8: From Geek to Man

45:55 Ch9: Art of war

49:50 Ch10: Junk Bonds

52:25 Ch11: You’ve Got Greenmail

57:10 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Whats the most effective form of birth control? Abstinence. Thats right ladies and gentlemen, fasten your chastity belts, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is on the show this week. We couldn't imagine it today the way we digitally encourage thirst traps with little hearts but at one point in history it was considered taboo to show your butthole to a stranger. Hester Prynn was far from having her ass eaten and was even slut shamed all the way into the forest :( In this classic 1850s tale we recount the events of the Puritan’s witch trials and systematic use of ‘criminals’ to reinforce societal norms. Hawthorne takes us as deep as you can go examining the human condition, original sin and above all, shame! Hearts will be broken, backs will be stabbed and tea will be spilt. Get your sextons out because today we’re navigating the tides of history through the lens of a woke feminist 2020 boss ass bitch.

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00:30 Introduction

03:00 About the Author

09:15 Ch1: Crowd-work

15:30 Ch2: Intercontinental Ghosting

19:25 Ch3: Friendly Fugitive

22:35 Ch4: Custody Battlez

26:20 Ch5: The Leech

29:55 Ch6: Ministers Mic

34:30 Ch7: Everlasting Love

38:45 Ch8: Puritanical Parenting

41:30 Ch9: Walking on Sunshine

44:25 Ch10: New Lease on Life

45:50 Ch11: Relationshipwreck

48:45 Ch12: Headliner

54:45 Next Time & Goodbye!

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As brothers slaughtered one another during the English Civil War, (1642-51) Thomas Hobbes retreated to the Isle of Jersey to compose his masterwork. Leviathan is a praxeological jewel drawing us the geometric foundation of what motivates man and his sovereignties. The famous similarities drawn between the church’s original sin and the monarchs social contract influenced the U.S. constitution a century later. Academics to this day use Hobbes philosophical structure to expose invalid arguments for inherent guilt, like how the impoverished kids born into a trailer park fifty miles from the nearest library have white privilege. Hobbes nature of motion shows the vacuum of power through class structures feeding into the inevitable rise and collapse of Leviathan. Like the English Civil War, and every bureaucracy in history, the true fight isn’t left versus right, it’s top versus bottom.

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0:00:25 Introduction

0:04:30 About the Author

0:08:00 Book1: Of Man

0:15:15 Book2: Of Speech

0:25:40 Book 3: Of Motion

0:33:20 Book4: Of Power

0:41:55 Book5: Of Love

0:46:15 Book6: Social Contract

0:57:20 Book 7: Give Me L̶i̶b̶e̶r̶t̶y̶ Freedom

1:05:25 Book 8: The Law is the Law

1:12:20 Book 9: Moral Compass

1:21:40 Book10: Kingdom of Darkness

1:27:30 Next Time & Goodbye!

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North American legend Dan Flores, the Attenborough of America, tells the historic battle between Coyotes and humans for arch predators of the continent in Coyote America. This bestseller takes us from the native legends of the half man half dog coyotl to the urban dwelling canids of today. The coyotes intelligence, pack reliance and flexibility mirrors the same qualities that got homo sapiens out of the Serenghetti. Since infiltrating the ancient Aztec city of Tenochitilan, coyotes have weaseled their way into our meta consciousness as a Wiley Coyote never willing to settle. Be sure not to anthropomorphize these killers too much, our 4% difference from orangutans is equal to the coyotes 4% divergence from wolves. Enjoy a light hearted episode exploring the wilderness we currently borrow from the long time land lord coyotes.

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0:00:45 Introduction

0:03:05 About the Author

0:05:05 Ch: About the Species

0:16:55 Ch2: Old Man America

0:26:45 Ch3: Prairie Wolf

0:31:50 Ch4: A War on Wild Things

0:39:35 Ch5: The Arch-Predator of Our Time

0:47:45 Ch6: Morning in America

0:53:00 Ch7: Bright Lights, Big Cities

0:57:35 Ch8: Coyote America

1:02:35 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Ahh, the DMV, where you pay for the workers mistake, literally. It is the embodiment of your tax dollars at work for you. This magical place we cant wait to go back to is a portal of apathy, where everyone is allowed to be their worst self from sea to shining sea. The reverse incentive of socialized commerce is on full display under pandemic precautions where the more understaffed and incompetent you can appear, the more money your division gets in the following years budget. How does that cliche go, ‘they break it, you buy it’? In our second edition of YRR your host gets his license renewed at this hellish retailer and brings to light the communities malcontent of how our imposts are applied.

00:00 Introduction

02:50 The Experience

0:08:30 Yelp Review, Review

0:19:20 Yelp Review, Review Rubric

0:21:40 Next Time

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Smedley Butler is a major general with five medals for heroism and one of nineteen men to receive two medals of honor. He fought in the trenches through WWI and the Mexican Revolution (yes there was an American side). General Butler was an officer in WWII and more secretly the banana wars of Central America, The Caribbean, The Philippines and China. Didja know the DuPont dynasties portfolio grew 950% during the US’s short involvement in WWI? Have you ever took a ganger at the Bush’s Halliburton holdings during both of our invasions of Iraq? This short book that once was a bestseller will act as an introduction for larger reads to come like The Devils Chessboard, revealing secret truces amongst WWII and the beneficiaries of war utilizing their highest form of racket-try.

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0:00:20 Introduction

0:02:50 About the Author

0:07:55 Ch1: War is a Racket

0:27:45 Ch2: Who Makes the Profit?

0:40:05 Ch3: Who Pays the Bills?

0:51:00 Ch4: How to Smash the Racket

0:57:45 Ch5: To Hell With War!

1:04:30 Next Time & Goodbye!

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In Awakenings, one of the top selling non-fiction books of all time, we take a trip to Mt. Carmel, NY to meet post-encephalatic patients, reviewing their life from a vessel which they’ve been trapped inside. Dr. Sacks was one of the leading researchers in the fight against Parkinson’s being the first to have assembled a history of the disease. In order to combat this amalgamation of malfunctions, Shock said the medical community needs to combine resources and focus attention on finding causes rather than treating side effects. Like a leukemia patient mustering every bit of strength and technology within their means to rid themselves of cancer, the pharmaceutical industry would need to unite to put to rest this end of life mental degeneration. This book accounts the introduction of L-DOPA a dopamine antagonizer that revitalized catatonic patients to a level of youth they didn't know was within them. Before an age where 1/8 of people are on antidepressants, Dr. Shock found the key to a healthy sustainable life is holding onto that enlightenment and continuously refining the sense of self.

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0:01:05 Introduction

0:04:40 About the Author

0:08:00 Ch1: Parkinson’s & Sleeping Sickness

0:21:40 Ch2: Frances D.

0:30:25 Ch3: Magda B.

0:35:00 Ch4: Lucky K.

0:40:45 Ch5: Ida T.

0:44:25 Ch6: Aaron E.

0:49:55 Ch7: Leonard L.

0:53:30 Ch8: Perspectives

1:03:15 Ch9:Tribulations

1:10:45 Ch10: Epilogue

1:15:45 Next Time & Goodbye!

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