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

The Mighty Mississippi and Colorado River were once a beatnik’s favorite way to traverse the country for free. From the 1930s through 70s hitchhiking became the preferred method of transportation for Americas youth. Jack Keruak is one of the countries greatest travel writers to date and takes us on his destinaiton-less cross-country adventure in On the Road. Your host having driven several thousand miles and lived in multiple states this year alone gives a first hand perspective of life on the open road. Although written in the 1950s this timeless tale profiles the usual suspects you'll find in modern nomadic communities; all of the roamers, wanderers, gypsies, poets, grifters, con-men, criminals and lovers. Those with an untamed wanderlust and appetite for human experience will appreciate todays anecdote ridden narrative made with a whole lotta heart.

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0:00:35 Introduction

0:02:15 About the Author

0:05:35 Ch1: The Greatest Ride

0:15:35 Ch2: Rocky Mountain High

0:25:30 Ch3: The Golden Coast

0:32:35 Ch4: Northeast Reunion

0:39:30 Ch5: On the Road Again

0:49:35 Ch6: Highway to Hell

0:58:20 Ch7: Road is Life

1:02:55 Ch8: End of the Road

1:17:10 Next Time & Goodbye!

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

Why lose yourself in the VR world when you're already in it?! Rizwan Virk, former game developer and MIT computer scientist, warns us in this cautionary tale about the statistical likelihood of our reality being a simulation. Many religions such as the Buddhist game of Samsara and visionaries like Stephen Hawking, Phillip K Dick and Elon Musk concur it is more likely than not this is one grand simulation. To support this point Rizwan takes us from the beginnings of 8 bit gaming to the downloadable open worlds of today. If our computing power persists in accordance with Murphys Law our supercomputers will render simulations with NPCs of a greater intellect than you and I! Has it already happened? Albert Einstein once said, “reality is merely an illusion albeit, a persistent one”.

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0:00:45 Introduction

0:03:45 About the Author

0:08:45 Ch1: Simulated Consciousness

0:22:10 Ch2: Pong to MMOPRGs

0:33:30 Ch3: VR to Mind-Interfaces

0:45:10 Ch4: AI & Downloadable Consciousness

0:53:00 Ch5: Gods of the Odds

0:59:00 Ch6: Conditional Rendering

1:06:15 Ch7: Parallel Universes

1:11:11 Ch8: Pixels and Quanta

1:15:45 Ch9: Unexplained Areas

1:19:10 Ch10: Religious Programming

1:27:15 Ch11: Skeptics & Believers

1:30:40 Ch12: The Great Simulation

1:37:15 Next Time & Goodbye!

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On the night of August 8th, 1969 Sharon Tate and friends were barbarically murdered in the hills of Hollywood which would result in the longest and most expensive trial until OJ Simpson’s. Investigative reporter, Tom O’Neill dedicated thirteen years to the case exposing perjury and coverups in Vincent Bugliosi's (prosecuting attorney) retroactive accounts in Helter Skelter. The decade long hunt takes us to Haight Ashbury during the Summer of Love with declassified accounts of Charlie Manson visiting CIA black sites. Come on down the rabbit hole for one of the highest notoriety true crime cases and the ten year search dedicated to the alternative agendas within.

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0:01:00 Introduction

0:03:30 About the Author

0:08:20 Ch1: The Crime of the Century

0:19:40 Ch2: Aura of Danger

0:28:00 Ch3: The Golden Penetrators

0:35:20 Ch4: Holes in Helter Skelter

0:40:15 Ch5: LA County Sheriffs Office

0:50:25 Ch6: Who Was Reeve Whitson?

0:55:00 Ch7: Counterintelligence

1:01:55 Ch8: The Lawyer Swap

1:06:25 Ch9: Get Out of Jail Free

1:10:35 Ch10: Haight Ashbury Free Med Clinic

1:17:30 Ch11: Mind Control

1:24:55 Ch12: Where Does It All Go?

1:30:45 Next Time & Goodbye!

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One of the best to ever do it, author Stephen King breaks down his process in the first of his few nonfiction books, On Writing. This read takes us from the humble beginnings of his hero’s journey cranking out masterpieces like Carrie and The Shining on a typewriter. Kings penniless lifestyles embodies that of an artist which he finds mandatory to be a writer, always making yourself available to the muse. His practice of watering your ideas like a plant every day has lead to more scripts sold to Hollywood than any fiction writer of our time. Looking at the anatomy and physiology of literature as vocabulary and syntax, makes Kings formulas essential for aspiring writers.

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0:01:20 Introduction

0:04:00 About the Author

0:12:45 Ch1: Levels to This

0:20:20 Ch2: Read A Lot

0:29:15 Ch3: Write A Lot

0:37:15 Ch4: The Writing Enviorment

0:44:45 Ch5 Characters Over Plot

0:50:15 Ch6: Amazing Detail

0:53:15 Ch7: Dialogue

0:57:30 Ch8: Narration

1:00:50 Ch9: Theme

1:03:10 Ch10: Revision

1:06:15 Ch11: Pace

1:07:10 Ch12: Research

1:09:50 Ch13: Publishing/Agents

1:12:35 Ch14: Penniless

1:15:50 Next Time & Goodbye!

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A follow up to our most aired episode to date pays homage to Anthony Bourdain on the second anniversary of his passing. Medium Raw made for back-to-back bestsellers after Kitchen Confidential had risen Bourdain to mainstream success. The edgy chef who prides himself on independence navigates the corporate water of the Foodnetwork throughout this book, highlighting the middle years of his career. Befriending Wolfgang Puck, Emrill, and Gordon Ramsay helped him stay afloat until creating his own production company to fulfill his wanderlust. Taste some embalmed meat and feculent hotdogs as we gear up for Bourdain's final new work, a posthumous book to be released this October.

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0:01:05 Introduction

0:04:35 About the Author

0:08:20 Ch1: Selling Out

0:15:15 Ch2: The Happy Ending

0:20:55 Ch3: So You Wanna Be a Chef?

0:27:10 Ch4: Cooktarded

0:34:50 Ch5: Wanderlust

0:38:20 Ch6: Meat

0:45:45 Ch7: Fatherhood

0:49:10 Ch8: Chef Chiefdom

0:54:00 Ch9: The Fury

0:58:30 Ch10: Men at Work

1:06:00 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Jordan Belfort went from making a million dollars a week at 26 to international criminal by 36. The Wolf of Wall Street exposes the rathole infested American economy and profiles what kind of people fullfill the American dream to the highest degree. With a little help from Martin Scorsese masterpiece, todays show depicts the high speed lifestyle of top echelon stock brokers breaking into globally influential amounts of wealth. Stay tuned for our sneak peak of a sure banger to come July 15th.

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0:00:45 Introduction

0:02:45 About the Author

0:08:00 Ch1: Daily Commute

0:17:10 Ch2: Stratford Oakmont

0:26:05 Ch3: The Big Trade

0:30:10 Ch4: Land of Ratholes

0:34:45 Ch5: Old London Town

0:39:00 Ch6: Smuggle Sisters

0:44:20 Ch7: Wolf in Sheeps Clothing

0:54:15 Ch8: The Ludes

1:00:15 Ch9: The Most Powerful Drug

1:03:15 Ch10: Rough Waters

1:08:40 Ch11: Reintegration

1:13:00 Next Time & Goodbye!

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In this 15 page story Leonard E. Read follows the life of an ordinary pencil around the world. Written at the height of McCarthyism, this book showed the masses the benefit to a free market via the life of a pencil while Soviets stood on line for bread and toilet paper. "But it wasn't real communism". History has shown when one entity controls the means of production, rising industries are unable to maintain pure competition. This book will serve as an intro to free market capitalism due to thousand page Mises economic textbooks clogging up the production pipeline of the show. Analyzing the American marketplace of ideas will serve as the perfect segue into our July first jackpot, don't miss it!

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0:00:45 Introduction

0:03:25 About the Author

0:08:35 My Family the Trees

0:12:00 Innumerable Antecedents

0:20:00 No One Knows

0:23:20 No Mastermind

0:29:20 Testimony Galore

0:37:45 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Ex-Harvad professor, psychologist and activist, Timothy Leary takes us to the edge of the universe in The Psychedelic Experience. The Bible, Torah and Koran are full of riddles and hidden messages meanwhile the Tibetan Book of the Dead declassified famous accounts of near death experiences and spiritual awakenings, which in most religion is kept hidden by the clergy. Yogis, transcendental mediators and psychonauts corroborate Leary’s findings of cured life-long addiction, neurogenesis and spiritual awakening. All practices that Christ was rumored to have engaged in during his lost years wandering and holistically healing the people of India. In todays show Leary picks up the ball on humanities biggest running secret of where we go when the lights turn off.

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0:01:20 Introduction

0:03:20 About the Author

0:09:40 Introduction

0:19:00 1stBardo: Ego Loss & Non-game Ecstasy

0:32:40 2ndBardo: Hallucinations

0:47:50 3rdBardo: The Period of Reentry

0:52:05 Conclusion

0:58:00 Next Time & Goodbye!

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This week we have Albert Camus's breakthrough novel and the first of his works featured on the show. Notorious for introducing the idea of absurdism, this book follows Mersault from the death of his mother to the death of his own. More positive than the other existentialists, Camus presents his lovers philosophy as in life or anything, you get what you give. Enjoy an erotic Parisian murder mystery from an author who finds humor in the most absurd situations in life.

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0:00:40 Introduction

0:03:10 About the Author

0:07:25 Ch1: No Way Out

0:13:00 Ch2: Algerian Afternoons

0:20:50 Ch3: Surrealist Daydream

0:30:20 Ch4: The Beach House

0:36:30 Ch5: The Big House

0:43:45 Ch6: Break a Leg

0:54:00 Ch7: You Get What You Give

0:57:50 Next Months Book & Goodbye!

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Egypt, Greece, The Roman, The Persian Empires all decay’d with time. Why would America be any different? Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges explores the concept of corrosion in his most recent book, America the Farewell Tour. Writing since the collapse of the USSR, Hedges shows our country flooding with addiction, racial infighting, gambling and sadism faster than Atlantis. A timely episode injects some end of the world commentary as the pandemic-recession rages on.

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0:00:30 Introduction

0:03:20 About the Author

0:07:45 Ch1: Decay

0:33:00 Ch2: Opioids

0:41:35 Ch3: Work

0:49:45 Ch4: Sadism

0:58:05 Ch5: Hate

1:04:25 Ch6: Gambling

1:12:30 Ch7: Freedom

1:21:10 Mid-Month Book & Goodbye!

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