
The Nicnac Podcast
By Nicnac Marsh

The Nicnac PodcastJul 31, 2023

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
Check out the Aerobask model of The DA50RG for x-Plane 11 and 12 at https://aerobask.com/da50.php
Check out the real DA50RG which just got FAA certification at https://www.diamondaircraft.com/en/private-owners/aircraft/da50/overview/

Nicnac Podcast: Actual Better Help II
Show Notes
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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Depression Not Caused By Serotonin Imbalance
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The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno
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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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Much love,
Nicnac and Vinny

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

Nicnac Podcast: Pinch Me
Show Notes
In this episode Nicnac drops a quick update on their impending nuptials and move to Seattle
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The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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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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The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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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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The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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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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The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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FSRide Along: Xplaning X-Plane 12
Show Notes
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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Support for FSrideAlong comes from Simply Magpie Virtual Airline and Flying Club based in Newcastle, England, and by the generous contributions of listeners like you.
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The music is Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. Find them at atticaattica.bandcamp.com
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Nicnac Podcast :Routine Disruption
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Show Notes
Note: Nicnac is still having adudo difficulties; they did their best in the edit and are working to resolve them. Your patience is appreciated!
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 hell keep on going”.
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The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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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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The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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FSRideAlong: X-Plane and MSFS a Year Later
Show Notes
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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Support for FSrideAlong comes from Simply Magpie Virtual Airline and Flying Club based in Newcastle, England, and by the generous contributions of listeners like you.
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The music is Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. Find them at atticaattica.bandcamp.com
The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by The Nicnac Podcast Network and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
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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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The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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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-Plane 11.
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Support for FSrideAlong comes from Simply Magpie Virtual Airline and Flying Club based in Newcastle, England, and by the generous contributions of listeners like you.
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The music is Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. Find them at atticaattica.bandcamp.com
The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by The Nicnac Podcast Network and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
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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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The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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FSRideAlong: Wake Up And Smell The Jet A
Show Notes
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 they have been enjoying it as they dive back into the sim. They are looking forward to getting their hands on The Sim Solutions DA40NG and plan to report back next month. They also mention The Navigraph Survey and express their thanks to the team for all their hard work. If you are a member of the sim community please take the time to fill it out!
Nicnac will be back in December. She hopes you have a sim filled time in between.
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Support for FSrideAlong comes from Simply Magpie Virtual Airline and Flying Club based in Newcastle, England, and by the generous contributions of listeners like you.
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The music is Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. Find them at atticaattica.bandcamp.com
The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by The Nicnac Podcast Network and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
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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 sucks less.
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The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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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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The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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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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The music is The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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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 games content to the rest of her long running podcast.
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The music is The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by The Nicnac Podcast Network and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Support for fsridealong.com comes from Simply Magpie Virtual Airline and Flying Club based in Newcastle, England

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 connection can offer in the face of the harsh outside world.
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The music is The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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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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The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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FSRideAlong: Balancing The Four Forces Of Flight
Show Notes
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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Support for FSrideAlong comes from Simply Magpie Virtual Airline and Flying Club based in Newcastle, England, and by the generous contributions of listeners like you.
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The music is Catch Me If You Can by Attrica Attrica. Find them at atticaattica.bandcamp.com
The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by The Nicnac Podcast Network and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
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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 times. She is continuing her climb up the mountain and hopes you are as well
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The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
If you enjoy this music please support these artists by buying their work or making donations! The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by The Nicnac Podcast Network and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

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 but they both express much hope and look forward to future conversations and a more positive world heavily influenced by queer culture.
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The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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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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The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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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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The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by Nicnac Marsh and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Nicnac Podcast: Coming Along
Show Notes
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 and new connection the world over and asks for your support in keeping this labor of love going.
Credits
The music is Raindrop Rahspody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
Referenced: Nothing To Prove by The Doubleclicks (they have a badass new musical too!) You Won’t See Me by Anne Murray and The Beatles If you enjoy this music please support these artists by buying their work or making donations!
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Nicnac Podcast: The Fear You Won't See Me
Show Notes
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 friend soon.
Credits
The music is Raindrop Rahspody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
Referenced: Nothing To Prove by The Doubleclicks (they have a badass new musical too!) You Won’t See Me by Anne Murray and The Beatles If you enjoy this music please support these artists by buying their work or making donations!
The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by Nicnac Marsh and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

FSRideAlong: The Secret To Good Simulation Game Design
Show Notes
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.
Credits
Support for FSrideAlong comes from Simply Magpie Virtual Airline and Flying Club based in Newcastle, England, and by the generous contributions of listeners like you.
Thank You!
The music is Catch Me If You Can by Attrica Attrica. Find them at atticaattica.bandcamp.com
The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by Nicnac Marsh and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
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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 love. She thanks you for sticking with her!
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The music is Raindrop Rahspody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by Nicnac Marsh and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

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 too many times. She is a scared little girl. See that!

Nicnac Podcast: Shocking Storytelling

Nicnac Podcast: Pain

Nicnac Podcast: Art Me Gently With a Chainsaw
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!
Show Notes
In this episode, Nicnac returns to unscripted formate to talk more about their fantasy of love, their admiration, and envy of Robert Evans and their not-so-pleasant feelings about their hometown. It somehow turns into the internets strangest personal ad mixed with a pledge drive. Yep Nicnac is definitely divergent as hell. Please support their work!
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The music is Raindrop Rahspody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by Nicnac Marsh and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Nicnac Podcast: It’s Just A Fantasy
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Show Notes
In this episode, Nicnac does their best to process their birthday and more connection issues with other humans without excessive bitterness. They hope they’ve succeeded on some level.
Credits
The music is Raindrop Rahspody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
If you enjoy this music please support these independent artists by buying their work or making donations!
The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by Nicnac Marsh and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

FSRideAlong: Post FSExpo 21
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 conference’s lens of serious simming and the lack of MS/Asobo talks. Not a thing that’s entirely under event organizers’ control due to MS being MS and COVID travel restrictions.
They move on to express their excitement for X-Plane 12 and reassert that they are hoping Laminair counties with the focus on default systems.
Nicnac spends some time talking about what they hope to buy next month: The Toliss A321 and Flight Factor 757 along with Canada4XP & FSimStudios Halifax are likely on that list. Tune in next time to find out where Nicnac lands!
Nicnac closes by giving a shoutout to Ralph of simaddons.com who has long made Candian airports for the MS world and the team at The FSExpo for putting on a good show that will hopefully see the hobby grow in a good way!
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Support for FSrideAlong comes from Simply Magpie Virtual Airline and Flying Club based in Newcastle, England, and by the generous contributions of listeners like you.
Thank You!
The music is Catch Me If You Can by Attrica Attrica. Find them at atticaattica.bandcamp.com
The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by Nicnac Marsh and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
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Nicnac Podcast: The Ugly
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 drops as much of the mask as they can muster and just tries to deal with it in hopes of coming out the other side.
Credits
The music is Raindrop Rahspody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
If you enjoy this music please support these independent artists by buying their work or making donations!
The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by Nicnac Marsh and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Nicnac Podcast: Borderline
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 dramatized look into their mind and their loathing of the gender they were assigned at birth.
They hope they can find someone far from Hellhole, CA who can see them for who they are. And, that they might work together to actually climb the Denali that could be divergent love. For Nicnac knows that people are people too.
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The music is Raindrop Rahspody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
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The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by Nicnac Marsh and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Nicnac Podcast: Genius Is Pain And Being Wrong
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 just the right way. Nicnac hopes they package it in the right way just often enough.
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The music is Raindrop Rahspody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
If you enjoy this music please support these independent artists by buying their work or making donations!
The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by Nicnac Marsh and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

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 and Life and Life Only
Credits
The music is Raindrop Rahspody by Josh Elkinberry, Mr. Rainbow-No Love by Nicnac Marsh, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica.
If you enjoy this music please support these independent artists by buying their work or making donations!
The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by Nicnac Marsh and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Nicnac Podcast: 20 Years
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 reflects on the horrors of 9/11 even from 2,800 miles and 20 years away and tells what they remember of that morning 20 years ago from the perspective of an isolated and burnt-out kid who loves flight sim and hates war and oppression...They talk about the dim view they take of the choices made by world leaders in the 20 years since that day and the 56 years prior to that day
Credits
The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Eikenberry.
The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by Nicnac Marsh and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

FSRideAlong: 100 (Leg 11)
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 forward to attending the online component of FSExpo. They end by thanking listeners, past guests, Attica Attica and Simply Magpie. Will FSRideAlong make it to 200 episodes before 2028? Stay tuned to find out!
(Annoyed Grunt)
GC distance from St. John’s to Shannon is only 1687 NM. Most airliners can do that even before The A220, E2 and MAX. Do you know of a modern piston single that can without ferry tanks let nicnac know
Stats
Leg 11
Route: BIAR/19 RETU1D RETUR DCT ES DCT MATIK DCT BONBY DCT INS DCT LUK DCT KUSEG EGNT/KUSEG.R07
Leg Distance: 840nm
Block Time: 5 hrs 23 min
Air Time: 5 hrs 10 min
Leg Fuel: 62.2 gal
Leg Fuel Bill: $723.13 USD
Final Trip Stats:
$4,224.09 usd for 522.43 us gallons of virtual 100LL
37.12 hrs gate to gate
35.14 hrs in the air
5,508 nautical miles averaging 157 kts over the ground. That works out to 180 mph/ 289 kph.
Great Circle Distance: 4355.5 nm
Distance Increase: 11%
Credits
Support for FSrideAlong comes from Simply Magpie Virtual Airline and Flying Club based in Newcastle, England, and by the generous contributions of listeners like you.
Thank You!
The music is Catch Me If You Can by Attrica Attrica. Find them at atticaattica.bandcamp.com
The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by Nicnac Marsh and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
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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.
Credits
The opening music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Eikenberry.
The closing music is Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. Find them at atticaattica.bandcamp.com.
The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by Nicnac Marsh and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Nicnac Podcast: They Say It’s Raining
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 and puts them in the context of their personal experience of life on the spectrum as best they can. They focus their efforts on Raymond from Rain Man, House from House MD and Leonard and Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory. Nicnac notes that the writers for House and Big Bang claimed their characters weren’t Autistic. Likely to try and give themself artistic license. Although Nicnac loves both shows at various points in their runs Nicnac views this move as dishonest and harmful to people that live the lives portrayed on a daily basis. Rain Man is a far worse case of the writer using Raymond as little more than a cheap story mechanic to force change in the main character (keep in mind Nicnac is a struggling writer. They get these things).
Nicnac again emphasizes the incredible diversity of the spectrum and how little those that don’t have lived experience truly know about Autistic life. Nicnac encourages media creators and consumers to be inclusive ad admit when they fall short. Nicnac strives to hold themselves to the same standard.
Credits
The opening music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Eikenberry.
The closing music is Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. Find them at atticaattica.bandcamp.com.
The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by Nicnac Marsh and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Nicnac Podcast: Being Studied And Treated
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!

Nicnac Podcast: Going Around Again
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!
Show Notes
In this episode, Nicnac wrestles with the reality of their internal world and how that impacts the way they see the external world after losing a social connection they had a lot of hope for earlier in the month. While they know that attempts at sharing their internal world rarely go well no matter the social context, they hold steadfast in their desire to embrace their authentic autistic and borderline self.
They express hope that careful online communities can continue to find the kind of lived truths that medicine and science can’t. Feeling that, although life for anyone not rich white and male is difficult, it’s better to intellectually and emotionally battle oppression than to completely withdraw and mask. Nicnac ain’t down yet. But, they’ve more than had it with a world that is hell-bent on oppressing divergent thoughts.
They close by again encouraging others with lived autistic experience to take Detester Maginzine’s educational survey if they have the capacity to do so. They are putting as much as they can into listening to others with greater or different knowledge of the lived experience than they possess. Please see the links below so you don’t have to take their word for it.
Nicnac Podcast: Telling Our Stories-Interview with Suzanna Chen of Detester Magazine
Credits
The music is Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. Find them at atticaattica.bandcamp.com.
The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by Nicnac Marsh and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License