Author, Route 66 historian, and the voice of Sheriff or Radiator Springs in the Pixar movie Cars. The very first episode of The Route 66 Podcast features an interview with the biggest advocate of The Mother Road.

Michael talks about his earliest memories of Route 66, the many changes that the road has endured, his work with helping Pixar create a movie about Route 66, and many of the other books that he's written about western life.