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Hello everyone, and welcome to Episode Thirty Two! Holy cow it’s cold here (thank you polar vortex!) and I’m just gonna stay inside today. I’ve got my coffee, I’m thinking of warm places and I’m whispering encouraging words to the furnace, so it’s all good.
Before we get into this week’s episode, I hope you enjoyed Episode 31, the Jargon Episode, and if you liked the panel discussion format, I would love to hear from you about it. If you have suggestions for another discussion-type show, send them to me and thanks!
PATREONERS! Here’s a shout-out to new Patreon contributors to the show since the last episode: David Burkart, and Adam Cooner!. Thank you Dave and Adam, and thanks so much to all of my Patreoners for supporting the show! I really appreciate it. To others in the listening audience, if you like the show, please consider supporting it via the So Much Pingle Patreon page. And thanks in advance!
Our guest this week is Dusty Rhoads, a Texan living in Texas, who recently completed his Master’s degree at TCU. This episode focuses on two of Dusty’s ongoing interests – the Trans-Pecos Ratsnake (Bogertophis subocularis), and the Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum). So many people (including me) were introduced to the “H-Snake” by reading “The Search for Subocularis“, a chapter in the late Carl Kauffeld’s book Snakes: The Keeper and the Kept. Our guest Dusty literally wrote the book on Subocs (see photo) and has a book on Texas Horned Lizards coming soon. I enjoyed our talk and learned quite a bit more about these iconic reptiles, and by the way, Dusty still has copies of his book available (send a note to ‘subocs@gmail.com’).
Thanks for coming on the show, Dusty! And folks, if you haven’t done so yet, please take the time to rate this podcast on whatever platform you use – that goes a long way to support the show and spread the good word.
And as always, please keep the comments and suggestions coming! The show email is somuchpingle@gmail.com, and there’s also a So Much Pingle group on Facebook, for discussion, comments, feedback, suggestions, herp confessions, tips for herping better, etc.
Cheers! Mike
Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Thirty One, recorded on New Year’s Day! And I hope you all remain happy and healthy and that 2021 will be a good year for all of you.
Hello again everyone, and welcome to Episode Thirty! Today’s episode was recorded just before Christmas. And I hope you are all doing well – keeping your heads down and remaining healthy.
Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Twenty Nine! I hope you all remain safe and healthy as we make our way into 2021. I took a few weeks off over the holidays to rest and recharge, but I also recorded some interviews, including this episode.
Jeff has also been heavily involved in research and conservation efforts for West Indian rock iguanas (genus Cyclura), and consequently he is a coauthor of 
Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Twenty Seven! And we add yet another country to the list with this episode, a lengthy conversation with Belgian researcher / author/ herper Jeroen Speybroeck, recorded on Thanksgiving. We had a lot to talk about during this episode, including Jeroen’s fire salamander research, herping in various places around the globe, and also his very good field guide to the herps of Britain and Europe (see second photo). Jeroen and I are both life listers, and we talk about that a bit, and for the second show in a row, Australian thorny devils (Moloch) are discussed (top photo of lucky Jeroen and a thorny devil, I’m just a bit envious).
Another thing Jeroen and I have in common is the documenting of herp adventures – his 
Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Twenty Six! We’ve had shows coming from the United States, Mexico, and Canada, and now we get to add Australia to the list. Last month I talked with Scott Eipper, who hails from Brisbane, up in southeast Queensland. Scott and his wife Tie own and operate 
Hello again everyone and welcome to Episode Twenty Five! The episode where I experiment with a different format – 13 segments featuring a baker’s dozen of folks sharing their best and worst (or worst and best) experiences in the realm of amphibians and reptiles. That’s twenty six anecdotes, if you think about it. I have been collecting these tales of woe and woah for a few months now – many thanks to Andy, Mack, Bryan, Phil, Matt, Marisa, Shaun, Brandon, John, Pat, Alex, and Justin for your participation in this project. I had a lot of fun talking with this group and (with one notable exception) no two stories are alike!
Hey there everyone! Welcome to Episode Twenty Four! Thanks for your patience, I had a lot of crazy stuff going on over the past couple of weeks! I think I’m back on track again and I plan on releasing another episode next week for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. This week’s guest is my friend and co-author, Josh Holbrook, and this past October I got to sit around a campfire with Josh, down in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, and we had a nice fireside chat.
Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Twenty Three! I like turtles, you like turtles, we all like turtles, so I’m very happy to have Carl Franklin on the show to talk about – turtles. There’s Carl in the photo with a double-handful of Alligator Snappers. Carl is a very busy person, with an impressive list of accomplishments to date, and along with talking about turtles, we also cover a number of other topics – including flying turtles, weaponized turtles, and worm lizards. And who doesn’t like worm lizards? It’s been a long while since I spoke with Carl, so I was happy to sit down with him for ninety minutes and do some catching up, and I hope you all enjoy our conversation as well. It was so much fun for me.
FUTURE SHOW NOTE: My request for herp jargon is coming to an end – the window closes in one week! I’ve got a neat little pile, but I need more! Get those pithy phrases and clever words to me via the show email below, and we’ll get a future episode together from the results!