The Nicnac Podcast

*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!

Trigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and divergent life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac returns to unscripted formate to talk more...

Trigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac does their best to process their birthday a...

Download Donate Contact Simply Magpie Show Notes 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...

Trigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac drops as much of the mask as they can muste...

Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes: 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...

Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes 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...

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...

Trigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac reflects on the horrors of 9/11 even from 2...

Full Show Notes at FSRideAlong.com 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...

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...

Trigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac reviews some notable media portrayals of Autism and autistic traits...

Trigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Show Notes Donate

Trigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please skip this one! Donate To Support Nicnac Autistic Education Survey Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac wrestles...

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 Watch...

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...

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...

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. Donate Contact Simply Magpie Other Aviation And Simulation Resources TorqueSim Reality XP X-Plane Matt Guthm...

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...

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. Autistic Education Survey Learn From Autistics Autistamatic YouTube Channel Autist...

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. Donate Credits Check out all of Antony’s work at https://www.ant...

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...

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. Nicnac ends by...

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...

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...