The Nicnac Podcast
The audio blog of Nicnac Marsh featuring conversations about divergent life.
Episodes
Nicnac Podcast Season 18 Ep 7 Autism Acceptance No Longer Enough!
In this episode, Nicnac talks about their experience of autism and its disabling effects while living in the US. They offer some suggestions on where to donate your resources if you are capable. They also encourage people inclined to vote to start new parties and suggest that as a way to foster a more supportive and nurturing environment for all neurotypes. Finally, they admit that while life in
Nicnac Podcast Season 18 Ep 6: Reseaching my next Opportunity
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Nicnac Podcast Season 18 Episode 5: Dear Denmark
In this episode, Nicnac responds to a social media post from Denmark concerning hatred in the United States.Raindrop Rahposdy by Option 42. Used with the artist's permission.The Fools Guide By Antony Rotunno. Used with the artist's permission.
Nicnac Podcast Season 18 Episode 4: I am Human
In this episode, Nicnac tries to find hope in the midst of swirling thoughts.Raindrop Rahposdy by Option 42. Used with the artist's permission.The Fools Guide By Antony Rotunno. Used with the artist's permission.
Nicnac Podcast Season 18 Ep 3: A Last Ditch Effort
In this episode, Nicnac talks about and reads some of their recent writing. This includes a letter to the State Governors, the Prime Minister of Canada, and some other writings.Should you want to reuse these letters, please feel free to do so. They are included belowRaindrop Rhapsody by Option 42. Used with the artist's permission.The Fools Guide By Antony Rotunno. Used with the artist's
Nicnac Podcast Season 18 Ep 2: Fixing a Shithole
In this episode, Nicnac talks about the ever-decaying state of democracy and wonders if it was ever really a thing to begin with. They also talk about Star Trek and how they interpret its implications for the human condition. They include a recent letter they wrote to their reps about the state of the United States, and end by begging for change in the US or a safe retirement for them and their sp
Nicnac Podcast Season 18 Episode 1: Speak Like Your Life Depends On It Because It Does!
In this episode, Nicnac returns from a long hiatus to advocate for expanding our rights to include economic rights. They also talk about how they are coping with the world, given that they are disabled, neurodivergent, and trans.Nicnac’s Rights:All people of the world and all visitors thereto shall have:1. A right to make their own reproductive choices. Including terminating their own pregnancy at
FSRideAlong Se10ep1:PMDGB772 from EGLL to KSEA
In this episode Nicnac catches up on flight sim an real aviation news while flying the PMDG Boeing 777-200ER from London to Seattle. Come ride along!
Nicnac Podcast SE17Ep3:Remember Your History
In this episode Nicnac takes the time to reconsider revolutionary thinking and encourages others who are disenfranchised to do the same before designing and implementing a replacement system.
Nicnac Podcast SE17 Ep 2 The Dark Winter
In this episode Nicnac reflects on life under fascism and hopes their words might make it to the future
FSRideAlong:S9EP2 Beyond 777 Heavan
In this episode Nicnac reviews Beyond ATC. They also give their initial impression of The FlightFactor 777 for X-Plane 12 and wonder if the team expanded the scope of the simulation too much. more to come on the latter next month!
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Nicnac Podcast SEason 17 Ep 1 Dissociating My Life Away
In this episode Nicnac attempts to explain their podfade while trying to tackle Season 17 with as much vigor as they can muster. If you would like to support their work please rate the podcast in your favorite podcatcher, lave a review or check out their Patreon
FSRideAlong:Season 9 EP 1:The Long Rudderless Way To A 787
In this episode Nicnac examines The Working Title/Asobo Boeing 787 and The Kuro and Horizen Sim Mods available for it. Is It Worth It to buy MSFS Premium Deluxe Editon to get these 787 mods? Listen to find out! Nicnac also talks about some flight sim hardware issues they have been having and what flight sim hardware they aspire to get next. Finely, Nicnac mentions a recent interview with Robert R
FSRideAlong:SE9 Ep 0 Be Patient
In this episode Nicnac returns from their long hiatus. They encourage simmers to be patient in the wake of the disastrous release of Microsoft Flight Sim 2024. They also encourage simmers to keep using MSFS 2020 or XPlane 12 while they are waiting for the new platform to mature.
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FSRideAlong: Oh Canada (Again)
In this episode Nicnac completes the Atlantic crossing phase of their trip from Austria to Seattle in the Aerobask Diamond DA50RG in X-Plane 11. While en-route they start removing P3D scenery because the time has come to start looking to the future.
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FSRideAlong: Flying The DA50RG On A Shoestring
In this episode, Nicnac talks about the first 3 legs of her virtual trip from The Diamond Factory near Vienna, Austria to Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, USA. For live tweets please follow @nicnacjak on Twitter
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Nicnac Podcast: Actual Better Help II
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TW/CW Suicide Discussions
In this episode Nicnac and Vinny talk about medications, treatment and home remedies as well as the high incidence of suicide in autistic people and other neurodivergent people as they continue to struggle against a neurotypical world that seems hell bent on their destruction
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Nicnac Podcast: A Smoking Ember
In this episode Nicnac and Vinny struggle to keep their partnership healthy as they face burcatic nightmares in getting benefits after getting married amid rising costs and unprecedented stress.
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Nicnac Podcast: Gender Roles And Other Social Boxen From a Autistic Couples Perepctive
In this episode Nicnac and Vinny explore the idea of being autigender as they work to understand gender and other social constructs though the autistic lens. Nicnac also tries to keep it together though the stress of the many hurdles of being married on disability income.
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Nicnac Podcast-Inertia
In this episode Nicnac and Vinny experience a great deal of inertia as they continue to adjust to their new life together. While they remain happy there is no beating around the bush: being in love while being on the spectrum is not easy!
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Dreams Do Come True But They Don't Come Easy
In this episode Nicnac and Vinny share thier raw take on newly wed life and the challenges that they face as they start their adventure in Seattle.
Nicnac Podcast: Pinch Me
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In this episode Nicnac drops a quick update on their impending nuptials and move to Seattle
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Nicnac Podcast: Dream Spoonies
In this episode Vinny joins Nicnac to talk about dreams both good and bad and how they effect their lives as spoonies. You can learn more about spoon theory here
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Nicnac Podcast: Actual Better Help
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In this episode Nicnac checks in with their partner Vinny to talk about getting better help on the spectrum and simulation gaming.
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Nicnac Podcast : Stress Gated
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In this episode Nicnac laments the needless pressure caused by the many ‘stress gates’ they are navigating through and hopes that their work and the work of others may eventually lead to a less hostile world for divergent people like themselves
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FSRide Along: Xplaning X-Plane 12
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In this episode, Nicnac finds their excitement for X-Plane 12 after seeing that they mostly meet the recommended specs and are blown away with the default A330. They also mention project covert gamer to flight simmer.
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Nicnac Podcast :Routine Disruption
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In this episode, Nicnac offers some sage advice on gender transitions,integrity, life and neurodivergence as they continue to try to hold themselves together. “If you’re going through
Nicnac Podcast: Don't Stop
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In this episode Nicnac tries to keep her momentum as she faces a variety of hurdles in the next few months before hopefully moving to Seattle to be with her partner
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FSRideAlong: X-Plane and MSFS a Year Later
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In this episode Nicnac reviews the results of The Navigraph Survey, and talks about her recent retry of MSFS after using mostly X-Plane for general aviation in Season 7 of FSRideAlong. See you next year for Season 8!
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Nicnac Podcast: Help Me Take This Mask Off
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In this episode Nicnac tries to deal with all the things the universe is challenging her with while expressing gratitude for the autistic and neurodivergent communities.
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FSRideAlong: This Girl Like Diamonds And Things She Can Not Afford
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In this episode Nicnac expresses her disappointment in The Sim Solutions DA40NG. She also muses about general aviation tech, flying cars and elitism and gatekeeping in flight simulation. Having been a simmer since 1999 or so it’s a scene that she occasionally grows weary of. Finely, she celebrates and does some critical thinking about her year with X
Nicnac Podcast: The Guilty Season
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In this episode Nicnac turns her attention to the insincerity she perceives in many of the winter holiday traditions. She deduces that this behavior is driven by guilt and suggests an alternate course of action amidst her struggle to save money and keep her momentum.
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FSRideAlong: Wake Up And Smell The Jet A
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In this episode Nicnac talks about diving into The DA62 and a few airliner flights in the sim after returning from their brief visit to Seattle. They lament some of the limitations of the simulation offered by The Aerobask DA62 particularly when it comes to the overlays on the x1000 and a few aircraft systems. But, overall the
Nicnac Podcast: Accountability Day
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In this episode Nicnac tries to challenge themselves and listeners to do better than Thanksgiving and the way we are supposed to spend the holiday. Nicnac impresses the importance of holding ourselves and our ancestors accountable for our atrocities and failings in the never ending pursuit of a world, species, and life that su
Nicnac Podcast: Damn You southern Oregon
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In this episode, Nicnac recaps their trip to Seattle and ponders how to move forward with a move to Seattle that will stick within six months.
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Nicnac Podcast: I Feel The Earth Move
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In this episode, Nicnac tries to process the seismic shifts in her life while enjoying the latter stages of her Seattle visit.
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Nicnac Podcast: Virtual City Builders
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As Nicnac is still in Seattle, she opts to focus this episode on SimCity and and Cities:Skylines and how using these software toys might help inspire one to think about communities in ways outside of the western colonial norm. Nicnac hopes this episode may serve as a kind of bridge connecting FSRideAlong and other simulation g
Nicnac Podcast: Seattle Homecoming
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In this episode, Nicnac reports from Seattle where they are experiencing a very potent mix of old memories and new experiences with their partner after enduring a harrowing Greyhound bus trip from hell. They remind both themselves and their listeners of the importance of connection and the solace and safety the right connectio
Nicnac Podcast: Sleepless 662 Miles South Of Seattle
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In this episode, Nicnac shares that she is traveling to Seattle to see her partner and reconnect with the city in the next few days. She is filled with jitters but knows it will go well.
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FSRideAlong: Balancing The Four Forces Of Flight
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In this episode, Nicnac talks about flying The DA62 vs The SR22 and how their sim spending and time has changed since finding a partner. She also mentions her excitement about the initial devlogs coming from Laminar Research regarding X-Plane 12. Finely Nicnac admits that she will likely be a near-exclusive X-Plane user in the future.
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Nicnac Podcast It’s A Lot (Auti-Mating)
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In this episode, Nicnac tries to get her head out of the happy clouds long enough to think in the face of the challenges posed by all the things that have happened in her life as of late. Although they feel lucky, they know that they and other divergent people like themselves face a severe uphill battle, particularly in these
Nicnac Podcast: Coming Out in California with Moss Wildwing
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In this episode, Nicnac talks with her friend Moss Wildwing about a unique Coming Out Day Experience they both had that inspired each other. They go on to talk about being queer, trans, and otherwise divergent in both Chico and San Francisco. They also discuss mental health and psychology. They come to no definite conclusions
Nicnac Podcast: Actually Autistic Love
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In this episode Nicnac talks with her partner about how they found each other, their shared dreams, and the unique experience of Actually Autistic Love.
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Nicnac Podcast: Send Nicnac Back Home; Help Them Publish (Twitterpated)
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In this episode, Nicnac tells of a new partnership and love that has her crazy twitterpated and happy. She asks listeners to help her get some writing projects finished and work towards seeing her new partner in Seattle. A place she has been homesick for for 10 years anyway.
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Nicnac Podcast: Coming Along
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In this episode, Nicnac notes the personal progress she is making in the midst of the challenge of her transition and her environment. She reflects on the intersection between the leftist community and the LGBTQI+ and neurodivergent communities. An intersection that she views as purely anecdotal but worth noting nonetheless. She is so thankful for her comrades a
Nicnac Podcast: The Fear You Won't See Me
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In this episode, Nicnac finds herself half hearing Anne Murray’s version of “You Won’t See Me”. This ties into her ongoing transition and recent coming-out day events in Nicnac’s mind. She does her best to info dump and tell her story in an entertaining way. With hopes that she may be able to do another conversation episode around this sort of topic with a frien
FSRideAlong: The Secret To Good Simulation Game Design
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In this episode, Nicnac starts branching out to other simulation games to try and demonstrate some good design principles within the storied genre. Nicnac references everything from Oregon Trail to MSFS 2020 to try and get at what makes a simulation game works and what will make it nose dive.
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Nicnac Podcast: Going Beyond The Mind (You Were Cool)
In this episode, Nicnac talks about where she is in divergent life, transitioning and thinking back to a person they once knew in passing who was so cool. She feels the sting of the missed connection even years later and tries to find the good in the missed connection and living the day-to-day challenges of being divergent. Nicnac advises you to skip if you aren’t ready to bawl your eyes out with
Growing Up With Transitions XXVI
In this episode, Nicnac finely completes their cerebral transition. She is psychologically a woman!!!! Still Nicnac but please she/her. The road ahead in autism and gender will be difficult. She needs love. Please; soft gentle empathetic love and support. Take your western medicine elsewhere. She has no interest! She wishes she could tell you this in person. She can't. She has been told off far to
Nicnac Podcast: Shocking Storytelling
*Reminder of Trauma* In this episode Nicnac talks about Dungeon and Dragons and their content creation philosophy. They also talk about #StopTheShock
Nicnac Podcast: Pain
*Trauma Warning* In this episode, Nicnac attempts to create podcast art while dealing with a brain and back on fire as best they can. Hopefully, next episode will be more normal. But, if you want a window into Nicnac's brain this isn't bad!
Nicnac Podcast: Art Me Gently With a Chainsaw
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Nicnac Podcast: It’s Just A Fantasy
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In this episode, Nicnac does their best to process their birthday a
FSRideAlong: Post FSExpo 21
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In this episode, Nicnac reviews their virtual experience of FSExpo via time-shifting. They were very grateful to have online access to the talks and are chewing on both The Laminar Research Team and The Lockheed Martin Prepare 3D Team. Their only minor criticism of the talks involves not having a good idea of where things stand with MSFS due to the
Nicnac Podcast: The Ugly
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In this episode, Nicnac drops as much of the mask as they can muste
Nicnac Podcast: Borderline
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In this episode, Nicnac’s creativity and life train is jarringly derailed by their very frustrated body’s instance on closeness despite Nicnac’s mind objecting to the cries. This forces Nicnac to explore a different kind of date seeking despite their extremely rational objections and ongoing gender changes.
Nicnac hopes this episode can serve as an admittedly d
Nicnac Podcast: Genius Is Pain And Being Wrong
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In the episode, Nicnac reflects on their second conversation with Antony and tries to signal where they want to go next. This leads Nicnac back to their creative process and the problem of not being commercial while having walked backward into broadcasting. They tie it all to John’s simple statement of fact that genius is pain while noting it has to be packaged
Nicnac Podcast: Nobody Told US
In this episode, Nicnac has the privilege of being rejoined by Antony to wax about the challenges of being creatively divergent in a world nobody told us about. They muse about the last 20 years, the future and the further-flung past in a worthy follow-up to “Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed”. Please check out Antony’s wonderful music and podcasts including Glass Onion: on John Lennon, Film Gold an
Nicnac Podcast: 20 Years
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In this episode, Nicnac reflects on the horrors of 9/11 even from 2
FSRideAlong: 100 (Leg 11)
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In this episode, Nicnac reviews the completion of the 11th and final leg of The Simply Magpie Extreme Tour from Chico, CA US to Newcastle, England, UK in The TorqueSim version of The normally aspirated Cirrus SR22. They also talk about X-Plane, The Flight Factor 767 and A350 as well as The Zibo 737 mod. They celebrate the 100 episode landmark and are looking forw
Nicnac Podcast: Say No To Dogma
In this episode, Nicnac thinks back to the horrors of being a child and having that natural wonder beaten down and suppressed. Although Nicnac has never been able to tolerate children (even as a child) they see and know the pain of childhood. They encourage those that do have the skills needed to be there for children to let them be human. They encourage adults to remember a free their inner child
Nicnac Podcast: They Say It’s Raining
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In this episode, Nicnac reviews some notable media portrayals of Autism and autistic traits
Nicnac Podcast: Being Studied And Treated
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Nicnac Podcast: Going Around Again
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FSRideAlong: Approaching 100...Continue! (Simply Magpie Leg 10)
In this episode Nicnac shares that the next FSRideAlong will be their 100th flight sim audio episode, having started including simulation content in their podcast in 2010. To celebrate Nicnac is committed to finishing The Simply Magpie Extreme Tour where they are taking The Torquesim SR22 from Chico, CA, US to Newcastle, England, UK. For more extensive show notes please visit fsridealong.com
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Nicnac Podcast: Rationally Irrational
In this episode, Nicnac reflects on the view outside their Windows and tries to synthesize the last month or so of their progress and creative endeavors over the last month or so. This is definitely an ongoing creative experiment so Nicnac would appreciate constructive feedback.
Nicnac is thankful to their recent guests for sharing their time effort and views. Please don’t forget to check out past
FSRideAlong: Not Pacific
In this episode Nicnac talks of a frantic string of continuous P3D flights mostly over The Pacific between California and Australia and ending in Toyko before they finely took a full-fledged 24-hour rest. They note their attempts to comply with FAA rest regs even in the sim because fatigue is just as much of a factor in the sim as it is in real life (though real-life consequences are more real). N
FSRideAlong: Ghosts Of Flights Past
In this episode, Nicnac explains why they love taking the PMDG 747 to Melbourne so much despite the crazy trip length from the US west coast. They also talk a bit about The 747, ETOPS, their dream airliner, and their dream sim. If you listen closely the theme song may get explained as well.
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Nicnac Podcast: Telling Our Stories: Interview with Suzanna Chen of Detester Magazine, And An Autistic Youth Advocate
In this episode, Nicnac has a conversation with Suzanna Chen. Suzanna is an autistic youth, advocate, and member of the Detester Magazine Team. The team has recently put out a survey designed to improve young autistic life by collecting first-hand accounts of the experience. Please consider completing the survey if you are an autist. Also, be sure to check out the other great work being done at De
Nicnac Podcast: The Philosophy Of Disability
In this episode, Nicnac describes their Philosophy of Disability and the way that the world they live in forces them into thinking about it in many ways at the same time. They reason that the best way to make progress on this is to keep sharing their experience and empathically listening to the experience of others.
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Nicnac Podcast: Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed
In this episode, Nicnac sits down with Antony Rotunno, a teacher, podcaster, musician, truth seeker and life coach to talk about artistic media creation, the search for truth, John Lennon, The Beatles and everything in-between. This is a hugely deep conversation that will likely cause both Nicnac and listeners to rethink some things.
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FSRideAlong: Oshkosh Bygone!
In this episode, Nicnac reviews the relatively light virtual aviation activities they’ve undertaken in the past month. Capstone by poor weather and poor weather in Oshkosh in both cases. Nicnac further reflects on their fifth century in virtual aviation and expresses gratitude to the developers that enable the experience and the simulation community that is so passionate about it. Even if our pass
Nicnac Podcast: Abilities And Need
In this episode, Nicnac briefly returns to one Marx line to get at individual variation and adds a corollary about the social contract.
Nicnac notes the importance of living in a dreamland to keep oneself going but underscores the importance of keeping the ratio of the time one spends in dreamland and the time one spends in the real world as balanced as possible in line with needs.
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Nicnac Podcast: Sometimes I Am Wrong
In this episode, Nicnac reflects on what they took away from the wonderful conversation they had in the last episode with Antony Ruttuno and tries to grapple with their own human failings. They talk about what they learned from finally finding Judy Singer’s work and what they think this means for themselves and the political Neurodiversity Movement at large. They mention that they have started to
Nicnac Podcast: What Is Neurodivergance?
In this episode, Nicnac gives explaining and defining Neurodivergance another try, having felt that they may have glossed over a few things in recent episodes. They return to their favorite historic Psychologist Abraham Maslow to point out an important oversight in his research that some current scholars are beginning to understand. Namely, the internal experience of autism and other forms of neur
Nicnac Podcast: Silicon Valley Meets Hellhole, CA
In this episode, Nicnac covers the history of Hellhole, Ca (Chico, CA) from the little they know about The Mechoopda Maidu to the days of The Bidwells, the agriculture migration, the segregation and sundown era, The Cold War and the town being discovered by Silicon Valley retirees as the nearby foothills burn and the creeks go dry. Nicnac sees what city planners and developers are doing. Namely tr
Ninac Podcast: The Truth Is Out There
In this episode, Nicnac ends up going back to their formative years in the 1990s to examine a bit more of how they become who they are referring to it as “90’s X-Files Culture”. This cultural upbringing when combined with their pre-existing neurodivergent tendencies and childhood cancer trauma made Nicnac into the unique neurodivergent skeptical geek that they are today.
They pose the notion that
Ninac Podcast: Eastbound With A Moral Compass and a Mask
In this episode, Nicnac recovers from burnt out for long enough to try and catch listeners up on their recent life journey. They use their recent virtual cross-country flying experience as a metaphor for their life experience and attempts to fly as far east as possible before ultimately flying west. They are making this metaphorical eastbound trip with nothing more than a highly calibrated moral c
FSRideAlong: Oshkosh By Gosh
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Simply Magpie
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In this episode, Nicnac reviews the lessons from their virtual 15 hour and 9-minute trek from Monterey CA to Oshkosh, WI including the details of the final 3 legs that culminated in a botched landing onto rwy 9 at Oshkosh. They review their virtual flying skill limits and the limits that consumer flight sim technology and flight planning software place on th
FSRideAlong: Piston Signal Cross Countries Continue
Show Notes
In this episode, Nicnac tracks their difficult journey towards Oshkosh in The TorqueSim SR22 and default DA40NG for Microsoft Flight Simulator. They talk about each leg, Monterey to San Carlos, San Carlos to Grand Junction, Grand Junction to Boulder, Boulder to Ainsworth, and Ainsworth to Mankato. They talk about why they are setting aside MSFS again and sticking with XPlane for GA and
