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Hosted by Mike Trupiano · society · EN-US
The (adoptee) podcast about searching, identity and secrecy
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Contact path
Public web form
Booking probability
19%
Guest openness
Selective
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Signup to Generate a PitchSecret Son is hosted by Mike Trupiano. The show has published 27 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Break On Through to the Mother Side" (2 January 2026, 34 minutes), "A Bigger Boat (a non-adoptee interview episode about the film Jaws)" (2 January 2026, 18 minutes), and "Southern Nights" (23 September 2025, 35 minutes).
Secret Son publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 33 minutes across 27 episodes.
Booking probability for Secret Son is 19%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Secret Son requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Secret Son's contact route on record: public web form.
Mike Trupiano hosts Secret Son, a society podcast with 27 episodes published.
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Episode #5
Hey all, did you know that the day destroys the night and night divides the day? Tune into episode 5 to hear author/writing coach Anne Heffron and I get psychedelic. We talk rocky reunions, wrestling with our demons and...
Episode #1
My interview with actor, writer & director Peter Marino about a very traumatic event we share - seeing the 1975 film Jaws in the cinema at much too young of an age. What followed for us has been a sneaking suspicion...
Episode #18
On today's episode, Patricia Knight Meyer and I talk black market babies, the power of genetic mirroring and the magic of Glen Campbell. Join us! A baby-scoop era black-market "adoptee," Patricia was sold along a curb...
Episode #19
Join Shane Bouel and I as we delve into searching, societal resistance to our search and piecing together our new identity. Shane Bouel, an Australian adoptee, is a compelling voice shedding light on the intricate...
Episode #15
Emma Stevens and I discuss being the adoptee chameleon, secondary rejection and scanning strangers' faces wondering if they might be family. Join us! Emma Stevens is a U.S. domestic adoptee from birth and has survived...
Episode #17
Amy Lokken and I delve into the challenges of being a transracial Minnesota adoptee, the openness of 1970s hippies and the fiery spirit of Betty Jean Lifton. Join us! Amy Lokken is a biracial, transracial adoptee, born...
Episode #16
Join Emily and I as we discuss Paris, embracing the sublimity of a neurodivergent mind and fearfully admitting to others what they actually already know about us. Emily is a 40-year old domestic infant adoptee, born...
Episode #20
Anna Fienbork was adopted as an infant after five days at the hospital. The fact of being adopted was part of her life from early on. The emotional wounds of this early trauma of separation eventually lead her to doing...
Episode #14
Searching and finding disrupts long-standing family dynamics. Jack Dermody and I delve into how newly arrived adoptees are like bombs thrown into a family and how the knowledge gained by searching offers us an...
Episode #12
From rural Chile to urban Sweden, Maria Diemar started life with a huge journey. Join Maria and I as we discuss kidnapping investigations, maddening bureaucratic red tape and '90s Nordic Neo-Nazis. Los Secretos are...
Episode #13
David Lynch's story and mine run rather parallel. BPD adoptive mother? Check. False leads in our father searches? Also check. Our Lady of Corporal Punishment primary school? Oh, yeah. Join David and I as we delve into...
Episode #11
Dave Brown has his own Tales of the City. Join us for episode #11 of Secret Son as we discuss coming out in the 70s, implicit memory and meeting inebriated relatives for the first time. Thanks for listening! I am a...
Episode #10
Hey! Yeah, you! Why not join us for episode #10? Pamela Karanova is a force to be reckoned with in the adoptee community and has a new Substack you should definitely check out! Pamela and I discuss angelic librarians...
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Join me for episode 9 with Shawn Sigler. We cover the usual stuff - KKK relatives, Cold War Berlin and seeing ourselves in photos of our deceased fathers. Shawn has had an incredible journey of persistence, bravery and...
Episode #8
Oi mate, how you going? Join us for episode 8 as I chat with West Coast gal Vicky Graham in her new home in Oz. We investigate the Usual Suspects - romcom-ish reunions, local marsupials and surviving the Land of Misfit...
Episode #6
Hey y'all - between us, some days I just wanna be sedated. This is not one of those days. In episode 6 of Secret Son, I head to the Deep South, set on the porch for a spell and have a leisurely tête-à-tête with Alicia...
Episode #7
Sweet home Chicago! The Windy City plays a big part in Cammie Smith’s story. Join us for episode 7 as we get into how best to sneak into nursing homes, problematic Radio Shack ad campaigns and walking that fine line of...
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Folks, they threw her to the wolves and she’s come back to lead the pack. Superstar podcaster and adoptee activist Haley Radke joins me this week to regale us with tales of being a secret, stalking and the Great White...
Episode #4
Join Secret Son this week as we journey back to a time when it was morning in America. Reagan was president, the Eurythmics were tearing up the charts and the nation was falling in love with a precocious teenager named...
Episode #3
I met therapist/adoptee advocate Joe Soll in the mid-90s in New York City. We'll discuss decades-long family searches, "spaciness" and getting fed up with living in secrecy. As we all slowly beat back the darkness and...
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