Episodes

Christoph & Violeta Meyer (left) and Susan Myers (right) Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Fifty Eight! I hope all of you remain safe and healthy out there. This show is a couple weeks late, thanks to some software issues and me jumping in the car and heading for Georgia and Florida for a week. Thanks for your patience, and the good news is that I recorded another show while down in the southeast, which I will add to the queue of pending episodes. Now before we get to this week’s episode, I...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Fifty Seven! I hope all of you remain safe and healthy out there. Like many of you out there, I am so ready for winter to be over, or at least, the return of temperatures above the freezing mark! It’s been a rough one here in central Illinois. Now before we get to the show, I want to take a minute to thank all of the show’s patrons! I appreciate all of the folks who help keep the show going and to reach fifty-plus episodes!. To others in the listening audie...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Fifty Six! I hope all of you remain safe and healthy out there. It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and I’m back in the US after a couple weeks of herping in Peru. It was great to get back to the rain forest after a two year absence. Our group had a great time and we saw some cool amphibians and reptiles, despite a rather dry start to the rainy season. Now before we get to the show, I want to take a minute to thank all of the show’s patrons! I appreciate all of the fol...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Fifty Five! I hope all of you remain safe and healthy out there as we move into the new year. Here ‘s the first episode of 2022 and I’m squeezing it in before I leave for Peru later this week. I’m looking forward to returning to the rainforest after a two-year hiatus, and of course I will be recording some interviews while I’m down there. Now before we get to the show, I want to take a minute to thank all of the show’s patrons! I appreciate all of the folks...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Fifty Four! I hope all of you remain safe and healthy out there, and I wish you the best of this holiday season and a Happy New Year. I’m putting this together on New Year’s Eve, so this is the last show of the year. 2022 is looking good, and just to give you an update I have a couple recorded episodes in the edit process, and a half dozen interviews that I classify as “agreed to but not yet scheduled”, so January looks to be a busy month. And I’m hoping to ...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Fifty Three! Things are good here in central Illinois, and I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. I wish you safe travels if you are journeying for the upcoming Christmas holiday season. Patrons! I want to give a shout-out to new Patreon member Ben Stegenga! Thank you Ben, much appreciated! And thanks as always to all of the folks who help keep the show going and to reach fifty-plus episodes!. To others in the listening audience, if you like the ...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Fifty Two! Things are good here in central Illinois, and I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. Safe travels if you are journeying for the Thanksgiving holiday this week. Patrons! I want to give a shout-out to new Patreon member Alicia Ballard! Thank you Alicia, much appreciated! And thanks as always to all of the folks who help keep the show going and to reach fifty episodes!. To others in the listening audience, if you like the show, please con...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Fifty One! Things are good here in central Illinois, and I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. It’s good to be back, I’ve been a bit busy over the past few weeks, first there was my usual fall visit to Snake Road, which for me at this point is a chance to see old friends and make some new ones. After that I headed down to Florida to do a little herping, and I managed to get some cool lifers, including Blue-striped Ribbons and Blue-striped Garters...

Hello everyone, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there, and welcome to Episode Fifty! Yay! It feels good to make it to half-a-hundred shows. It’s a nice milestone to reach!. And this episode features another installment of Herp Science Sunday with Dr. Alex Krohn, and I’m very excited about that and I hope you are too. Patrons! I want to give a shout-out to Peter Berg for his one-time contribution. Thanks Pete! And thanks as always to all of the folks who help keep the show going and t...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Forty Nine! Things are good here in central Illinois, and I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. Here we go with another midweek episode because once again I will be out and about this weekend. A lot of folks say that May is THE month for finding amphibians and reptiles, here in the Northern Hemisphere. But I have to say that I am nearly as busy in October as I am in May, and I see herps in comparable numbers. So I have a big block of away-time co...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Forty Eight! I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. We’re edging towards fall here and that means that a trip to southern Illinois is looming – time for another visit to Snake Road, to visit with friends and walk the road and maybe see a serpent or twenty. I’m looking forward to it as I always do. SMP Patrons! I want to thank our latest Patreon member, Pearson McGovern! Thank you so much for supporting the show, Pearson! I also want to thank Tom ...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Forty Seven! I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. I’m back in SMP World Headquarters after a brief hiatus (AKA herping) in Mexico of all places. I went down to Baja California with a group of folks and we dipped all the way down to the northern portions of Baja Sur, and I can now claim to have traveled every inch of Mexico’s highway one. I’m thinking there should be a patch or a merit badge for that. So a couple thousand miles in a little Chevy ...

Matt and Joe Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Forty Six! I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. It’s the dog days of summer here at So Much Pingle world headquarters and the afternoons are plenty hot and humid. The flower garden still looks pretty good, but the tomato plants are scraggly and tired. But in my general area it’s also the time of year when female copperheads and rattlesnakes are close to giving birth. I got to see a couple gravid timber rattlesnakes last weekend whil...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Forty Five! I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. I myself have been a little bit under the weather and the show is about a week behind schedule, so thanks for your patience with regard to new episodes. SMP Patrons! I want to thank our latest Patreon member, Myles Masterson! Thank you so much for supporting the show, Myles! And thanks as always to all of the folks who help keep the show going. To others in the listening audience, if you like the...

Hello again, everyone, and welcome to Episode Forty Four! I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there! It’s hot, humid, and full-bore summer here at the SMP world headquarters, so I took a little time off yesterday for some creek walking and queen-snaking. The cold water felt great and there were plenty of Nerodia sipedon and Regina septemvittata to observe. I like the fact that when it’s miserably hot, I can change my game a little and still get some herp-time in. Patrons! Thanks as alway...

Hello again, everyone, and welcome to Episode Forty Three! I hope you all remain safe and healthy as we move through July and into the peak of summer (sort of, it’s been very rainy and mild where I live for the past few weeks). Patrons! Thanks as always to all of the folks who help keep the show going. To others in the listening audience, if you like the show, please consider supporting it via the So Much Pingle Patreon page. You can also support the show via one-time contributions via PayPal o...

Illustrations from the Varanus and Spadefoot papers. Click image for full size Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Forty Two! It’s good to be back after a bit of a vacation, I was off in Mexico for a few weeks, chasing some herps in various locations. But as always, I am not idle while on the road, and I captured some recordings for future episodes because that’s how this show rolls. SMP Patrons! I want to thank our latest Patreon member, Moses Michelsohn! Thank you so much for supporting the...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Forty One! It is the Memorial Day weekend here in the United States, and this weekend also marks the one year anniversary for the So Much Pingle podcast! And that makes this episode the last of Season One! Who knows where Season Two will take us? It’s a mystery to me too. Patrons! I want to take the time to thank all of the folks who help to support the show, either through Patreon or other means – I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your generosity. You...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Forty! I hope you all remain safe and healthy here in this fine month of May, the busiest of months for those of us in North America who enjoy getting out and seeing amphibians and reptiles. I just got back from a trip out west where John, Tim and I drove all over Nevada, California, Arizona and Utah, and we saw a bunch of cool herps, including a dozen or so species that were new to me. As per usual I bring my mobile recording studio along, in the hopes of r...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Thirty Nine! And I hope you all remain safe and healthy as we move towards May, a busy time for herps and herp lovers in many places across the planet. PATREONERS! Here’s a shout-out to new supporters Martin Habecker and Daniel Dye! Thank you so much for supporting the show, and thanks as always to all of the folks who help keep the show going. To others in the listening audience, if you like the show, please consider supporting it via the So Much Pingle Pa...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Thirty Eight of the SMP show! I hope you all remain safe and healthy, and it’s great to be back after a few weeks off. I was not idle during that time, I was out in the field for 21 days, and I recorded material for several shows during that time, including this one. PATREONERS! Here’s a shout-out to new supporters Jeremy Schumacher, Neill Jones, and Alec Gordon! Thank you so much for supporting the show, and thanks as always to all of the folks who help ke...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Thirty Seven! I hope you all remain safe and healthy and hopefully many of you are getting your vaccine doses. Spring is here where I live and I managed to get the intros and outros recorded for this episode despite a trio of chainsaws working on a tree in the neighbor’s yard. Tricky timing but done. PATREONERS! Here’s a shout-out to new supporter Tom Eles from Ontario! Tom took the PayPal option and thank you so much good sir. Hopefully we will meet again ...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Thirty Six! I hope everyone remains happy and healthy as we move into spring here in the northern hemisphere. It is a wild and wooly day out today here in central Illinois, with high winds and freezing rain, but spring will not be denied. PATREONERS! Here’s a shout-out to new Patreon contributors to the show since the last episode: Jeremiah Easter and Richard Legere! Thank you Jeremiah, and thank you Richard, and thanks so much to all of my Patreoners for s...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Thirty Five! Apologies for the delay, thanks for your patience, and much warmth and good wishes to everyone. PATREONERS! Here’s a shout-out to new Patreon contributors to the show since the last episode: William Bone! Thank you William! 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 th...