The Nik Hawks Show

The Nik Hawks Show


Latest Episodes

Ep 66: Opportunity of a Lifetime
March 08, 2019

This one covers one of my favorite stories, Ralph A. telling us about the opportunity of a lifetime.  Enjoy the wanderings, for how often to lift weights on a maintenance plan to the latest hobby and books I'm reading.  I finish off with a...

Ep 65: Nik-i-sode
February 18, 2019

Random thoughts, recent news, and books I'm reading.  Capacity for luck, creating a long term high, towels vs toilet paper and what happens when you're not prepared for the best day ever.  Let's do this!

Ep 64: Nik-i-sode
January 02, 2019

These are all the thoughts for the podcast gathered since mid-way through November, from wild ideas about waves and tides to the idea of 1st vs 3rd world consequences and finishes up with what books & movies I'm recommending.   Enjoy!  

Ep 63: Roy Harris
December 21, 2018

Excellence in teaching (martial arts)

Episode 22: Pete Scobell & Traumatic Brain Injury
July 17, 2014

We asked Pete to come on because of his work with treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and bringing awareness of what TBI is (a concussion) as well as the best ways we currently know to treat it. Funnily enough, the most advance treatment for TBI so

Episode 21: Steve Underwood, Wild Fire Expert
June 29, 2014

Steve Underwood is the Fire Management Officer out at Mesa Verde National Park and a 26 year veteran of fighting forest fires. He is also one of the most well read folks you’ll ever meet. In this podcast we talk about many different famous wildfires,

Episode 20: Billy Waugh, Special Forces & CIA soldier
May 31, 2014

When Robert Young Pelton suggests you look somebody up for an interview, we think it’s a pretty good idea to follow up on that, which is how this episode with Billy Waugh came to be. Having not heard much about Waugh before RYP mentioned him, I was sto

Episode 19: Robert Young Pelton on Southern Sudan
May 14, 2014

I signed up a while ago for the RYP newsletter, so when it dropped into my box on Monday I wasn't surprised. It was a quick note from the man himself about a recent piece he'd done for VICE on South Sudan. I asked if he wanted to come pimp the piece on

Episode 18: Phil Zimmerman, Cryptographer Extraordinaire
April 14, 2014

Phil Zimmerman is one of the world's experts on cryptography, which is the study and application of ensuring that no one but you and the person you're talking to can understand what you're saying. In 1991 Phil invented the way that we secure email commun

Episode 17: Victor Davis Hanson
March 20, 2014

Victor Davis Hanson, author of a number of books on military and more specifically ancient Greek military history as well as farming from the agrarian hoplite perspective, joins us for this episode of the Paleo Treats podcast. Having been inspired to gro