Hungry Trilobyte Podcast

Tiffanie Lovett is a figure skater based out of San Diego, CA.  A lifelong fan of science fiction, one day she felt the need to perform her ice dances to the music from Star Trek, and a new passion for fusing her art with scifi was born!  In this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, Tiffanie clues me in on the world of ice skating and the two of us compare notes on, not only Trek, but Babylon 5, Stargate,...

Lorrisa and CJ Julianus are a married couple who founded Binary Star pictures.  Their first movie, The Misadventures of Mistress Maneater, is available now.  In this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, we look at how the two made the call to create this film and how they set themselves and their project apart. — See Show Notes at www. AaronBossig.com Follow me on Twitter - @AaronBossig Podcast logo and g...

Author of numerous books, Allison Church comes to Hungry Trilobyte as part of the #Fans4Healing project. In this episode, she and I will talk about how getting into Star Trek fandom helped her understand how to understand her value as a person, as well as how to adapt to her life as a transgender woman. When discussing Star Trek, she mentions how much she loves both Discovery and TOS, and I offer...

John Vorhaus first visited Hungry Trilobyte in Episode #92. Today, he returns to refocus his talk on writing comedy into a talk on specifically writing stand-up comedy. His new book, The Little Book of Stand-Up is available now. John and I compare and contrast it with his earlier work, The Comic Toolbox. — See Show Notes at www. AaronBossig.com Follow me on Twitter - @AaronBossig Podcast logo and...

Heather Antos is currently a senior editor at IDW, after having worked with several other comic publishers. She credits her work to a life passion for telling stories, and in this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, the two of us talk about what we look for in a story. Did being a voracious reader as a child give her the tools to create as an adult, or is there more to it? — See Show Notes at www. AaronB...

Anyone who has seen Home Alone, Billy Madison, Friends or Seinfeld will recognize Larry Hankin in a second. Diehard fans will also spot him in Star Trek and Married With Children. In this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, Larry and I start off by discussing acting and finding creativity (we all have it!) and then move on to trying to understand if we have any hope for surviving as a people—on earth or...

In addition to being a filmmaker and fellow podcaster, Ash Congiliando is the writer behind the Tales from the Toy Cave blog. In this episode, Ash and I have a frank talk about a possible end in the adult toy collector hobby, and how being film buffs for many years has given us different ways of looking at movies we might have (in another lifetime) trashed completely. — See Show Notes at www. Aaro...

Frank Conniff (known to MST3K fans as “TV’s Frank”) is now the star of a riffing show called The Mads Are Back. The two of us spend a lot of time talking about discovering movies, appreciating offbeat cinema, and how the movie culture has grown and changed over the years, particularly in our lifetimes. From silent films, to the studio system era, to Disney’s takeover of Marvel, there’s a lot to co...

Jeffrey Weissman is a veteran actor, known on screen for his roles in Twilight Zone: The Movie and Back to the Future, Part II. He comes to Hungry Trilobyte to discuss his journey through stage and screen, and I really enjoy hearing his insights on playing iconic figures such as Mark Twain and Larry Fine. Toward the end of the show, Jeffrey treats me to a choice sampling of his rare behind-the-sce...

Val Narr is an artist who also has a concern for mental health and giving people the guidance they need to better their lives. Her Twitter series, Life Advice with Counselor Troi, illustrates principles of therapy through examples from Deanna Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation. In this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, Val and I discuss why this works so well, and how much wisdom can be found in th...

Jarrod Alberich comes back to Hungry Trilobyte (after discussing James Bond in another episode. Today he adds his perspective to our discussion of the connection between fandom and mental health. Jarrod has taught leadership courses in which the concept of Emotional Intelligence is a main topic. He and I take that and apply it to internet culture as a whole. — See Show Notes at www. AaronBossig.co...

Bekah George is a life coach and therapist. She comes to Hungry Trilobyte to share her experience with mental health care at Shear Visions Coaching. She and I get into the specifics of why it is so difficult to discuss mental health care in our culture, and how we can make it easier to approach care. We get into the specifics of what separates a therapist from a coach, as well as the advantages an...

Jason Pollock, host of the It's Me Jason podcast, gets together with me to swap stories of how fandom has built its own cultures. He has some great insights into stand-up, and even rolled one of his bits into a coloring book titled "The Fly That Refused to Die". When we hit talk of MST3K, I recount to him the story of how Jackey Raye Neyman Jones rediscovered Manos (as she tells in her book) and I...

Paige Feldman is a screenwriter, filmmaker, podcaster, and movie aficionado.  She has been making a promising effort to bring back the genre of romantic comedy.  In this episode, we get to talk about her podcast comedy How to Fall in Love the Hard Way, as well as her upcoming film! — See Show Notes at www. AaronBossig.com Follow me on Twitter - @AaronBossig Podcast logo and graphics by Marcie Lond...

Megan Lloyd is an animation professional and a veteran of Season 2 of Star Trek: Lower Decks. She joins me for this episode of Hungry Trilobyte to talk about how much fun it was to work on Star Trek and how fandom has affected her throughout her life. She and I swap impressions of early seasons of Voyager as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer. — See Show Notes at www. AaronBossig.com Follow me on Tw...

Michael Lloyd is a fresh actor who loves podcasting and has a lot of great views on fandom. He schools me on why he loves horror (and I'm a horror dummy) and we get to compare it to Star Wars and Marvel fandoms. On a more critical note, we get to compare how different fandoms respond to an excess of sequels and reboots. — See Show Notes at www. AaronBossig.com Follow me on Twitter - @AaronBossig P...

Laura Banks is known to Trek fans as the Augment navigator in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. In this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, she and I discuss her experiences on set, what the fandom means to her, and how her character was developed in Trek fiction. We also venture into more real-world topics, Laura shares her experience as an improv and stand-up talent, as well as a podcaster with a specia...

Sam de la Rosa has been an artist with Marvel, DC, IDW, Dark Horse, and other publishers for four decades.  He and I got to talking at Dallas Fan Expo, and he was gracious enough to highlight how comic fans have grown into the new world that's obsessed with superheroes, but might not know the source material. — See Show Notes at www. AaronBossig.com Follow me on Twitter - @AaronBossig Podcast logo...

Marc Morales is an independent film maker, a horror fan, and an all-around movie fanatic. In this episode, he and I discuss his movie about to go into production. We also get the chance to talk about horror fandom (an insider perspective for him and an outsider perspective for me). There’s also a really fun side-chat about how film fanatics were able to research movies in the VHS era, compared to...

Reece Brown is a new actor who just appeared in the movie Social Credit. He and I talk about the value of alternate history stories, and then get into more personal discussion about films. Between Fight Club, Big Fish, and the occasional Star Trek reference, Reece has a lot of great insight into where he wants to go in life and how he wants to treat people on his way. — See Show Notes at www. Aaro...

Adil Hussain is an accomplished actor, known to Hungry Trilobyte fans as Aditya Sahil in Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, as well as Santosh Patel in Life of Pi.  During our discussion, Adil treats us to an amazing analysis of how acting allows us to capture the moment, and he and I discuss how the arts have a way of transcending time, years, and places.  He credits a lot of his perspective to th...

Michael Stephen Myers is an author and playwright, calling upon his experience as a combat veteran in the Vietnam War. In this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, Michael shares several of his works and his motivation for writing them, as well as his journey though PTSD and discovering the outlet offered by creativity. — See Show Notes at www. AaronBossig.com Follow me on Twitter - @AaronBossig Podcast l...

Joshua Christian Azali is a fresh actor, excited about the possibilities the creative field offers him. In this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, he and I discuss the struggles of getting started, giving yourself a smart foundation in order to chase your dreams, and GAMING! Turns out he’s way cooler than I am on the gaming front. — See Show Notes at www. AaronBossig.com Follow me on Twitter - @AaronBos...

Larry Nemecek has been around the Star Trek fandom in so many capacities… as a writer, editor, podcaster, and even as McCoy himself in Star Trek Continues.  In this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, we’re excited for the premiere of the second season of Lower Decks and amused by the joke about the Tom Paris collector’s plate… which made us remember the Collectible Plate fad of the 80s and 90s.   That s...

Edward Lorusso has been a boon to fans of silent film, successfully releasing over a dozen previously lost films on DVD through the use of Kickstarter. His most recent campaign has secured 1921's Straight is the Way. In this episode of Hungry Trilobyte, Edward and I discuss how today's tools are great resources for fans of lost film, how he's a model for anyone trying to serve film history, and th...