July 2025 -- Bonus Episode (Mike Trippiedi)

Send us Fan MailIn Champaign, Illinois– the city that serves as the home base for this podcast– there is a man named Mike Trippiedi. He is an award-winning filmmaker, an accomplished stage actor and director, and the author of three novels. He also happens to be someone that Aaron has known for most of his life.Mike’s new novel is called Abraham Lincoln’s Traveling Medicine Show. It’s a very entertaining revision of the assassination of our nation’s 16th President, as well as the ensuing aftermath. Aaron really enjoyed this novel and wanted to give Mike an opportunity to talk about the process of writing it. Along the way, they chat about being an independent filmmaker, revisionist history, Jack London, A Confederacy of Dunces, and that one horror writer that Rebecca is tired of us bringing up in every episode!