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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.
And folks, be sure to check out the Texas Turtles website, and if you can, get yourself a cool tshirt and help out Texas Turtles and of course, Texas turtles. Conservation, research, and outreach, y’all.
Also – if you’re interested in worm lizards and amphisbaenians in general, check out WormLizard.org for more information. I’ve managed to see a few different types over the years and I find them fascinating.
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!
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, flying turtles, tips for herping better, etc.
Stay tuned for more episodes! And don’t forget to herp better!
-Mike
Hello everyone! We’re going to hang around south of the border for just a while longer. Episode Twenty Two was recorded in September in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, at the tail-end of a two week visit to Baja Sur. Tim, Bryan, Matt, Mack, Andy, John, Pat, Shaun, Brandon and Jeni agreed to hang around the hotel for an hour or so, with the notion of having a round table discussion about herping in Mexico. Cumulatively, this bunch has spent hundreds of days in Mexico, across many regions, and I thought it was an appropriate group to cover the subject. Thanks to the media’s focus on drug cartels, Mexico can seem like a scary place, and my goal with this round-table was to get folks more comfortable with the idea of visiting and herping there. I can’t wait until I get to go back!
FUTURE SHOW NOTE: My request for herp jargon is coming to an end – the window closes in two weeks! 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!
Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Twenty One! I recorded a bunch of material while in Mexico back in September, including this episode with Shaun, Jeni, and Brandon Vought. I recorded our interview at the Casa Juarez bed and breakfast in La Paz (an excellent place operated by a lovely Italian couple), where we stayed before visiting Isla Cerralvo just off the coast. Herping families are a fairly common thing now, which I think is pretty cool, and so I was happy to get the Voughts talking about their experiences. A herping family and a family of metal heads as well (hence the intro done by Shaun and Brandon). I hope you enjoy our conversation – I know a number of parents who provide their children with full experiences out in the wide world, and not just with amphibians and reptiles. And I’m proud to know them.
Howdy herpsters! And welcome to Episode Twenty! My guest is Steve Marks from Windsor, Ontario. And at left we see composite photos of Steve engaged in tracking fox snakes. Steve and I have been buddies for a long while now, and I am happy to get him on the show and talking about his projects and passions, which are often one and the same thing. One of the things we talked about is the Herb Gray 
Hello everyone and welcome back to the show! After a few weeks off, here we go with Episode Nineteen, which features Dr. Alex Krohn. Alex and I have been friends for a decade, and we have visited some exotic places, and had many an interesting conversation, so I am happy to have one more conversation to share with you!
Hi everyone and welcome! For Episode Eighteen, we travel to Arizona to talk with Michael Cravens. Mike and I go waaaay back, and we’ve spent time in the field together in a number of cool places, and had a number of interesting conversations around various campfires (hence the episode title). Mike and his wife Mary are from Missouri but have lived out in AZ for a number of years now, and it was good for me to chat with my old friend and catch up.
Hello again everyone, and welcome to Episode Sixteen! I’ve been having a conversation with Daniel Dye for more than a decade, and for this segment, microphones were put into play! Along with amphibians and reptiles, Daniel also has a great deal of knowledge and experience with insects, spiders, and other invertebrates, and fortunately for all of us, he’s crafty with a camera, and so there are a number of venues where you can check out his work. We didn’t cover it in the interview, but Daniel is also a serious audiophile, and he has a home audio system that he built himself that will blow your hair back (I’ve been there, done that). I get a kick out of his Facebook posts that feature a delicious breakfast and a selected album to go with it. Jethro Tull’s ‘Minstrel in the Gallery’ was on the turntable this morning – tasty stuff, Daniel!
Be sure to check out Daniel’s 
Hello again everyone, here is Episode Fifteen, the second part of my conversation with Justin Elden on this Sunday double-fun day. The main thrust of our conversation is Justin’s work in Guatemala with the 
Hey there herpsters, it’s Episode Fourteen! What shall we talk about? Let’s ask the triumphant dude on the left, the one with the little viper in a tube. That’s Justin Elden, the viper is Armenian (Montivipera raddei), and guess where they are? In this episode, I talk with Justin about his involvement with the St. Louis Zoo’s