So Much Pingle

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode One Hundred and Three!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there, including all the folks who are recovering in the aftermath of hurricanes Helene and Milton. As always, I am grateful to all the show’s patrons who help to keep the show moving forward. And if you’re out there listening and you would like to kick in a few bucks,...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode One Hundred and Two!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there, including all the folks who are recovering in the aftermath of hurricanes Helene and Milton. Well my summer hiatus is over and it’s time to start cranking out the content once again. I really needed a break, not only to get the creative juices flowing again, but to...

Hey folks, as always, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. This is just a little episode marking the beginning of a show hiatus.  When I was a kid, the auto plant in my town would occasionally shut down for a few months, for “re-tooling” – something necessary when they switched from making sedans to making mini-vans, for example. That’s what is happening with S...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode One Hundred!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. I can’t deny it, it feels pretty good to reach the one hundred show mark, four and a half years and one pandemic after I started this project.  The experience has been all the things – interesting, challenging, frustrating, and ultimately, rewarding.  I listen to a few pod...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode Ninety Nine!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. This show is dedicated to the memory of Gary Pinson .  Gary lived over in the Missouri Ozarks and every October he and his family would come over to Snake Road in southern Illinois, which is where I first met him.  It got to be a thing every year, meeting up with Gary and...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode Ninety Eight!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. After traveling for the better part of a month, it’s good to be back home and back in the podcast studio. As always, I am grateful to all the show’s patrons who help to keep the show moving forward. And if you’re out there listening and you would like to kick in a f...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode Ninety Seven!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. I just got back from a great herping trip to Suriname.  You may remember my conversation with Dick and Lieke back in episode 79 and it was fun to go visit and see how they operate herp tours there, and the answer is they do very well.  I was with a small group and we saw...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode Ninety Six!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. It’s the last Sunday in April which means that this is the last episode in Season Four – we start Season Five on the first of May and I should have a show out around the middle of May, after I return from a trip to Suriname. And as always, I am grateful to all the show’s pa...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode Ninety Five!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. SMP Patrons! I want to thank a couple of new Patreoners! – Derek Gillespie and Paul Duren , thank you both so much for supporting the show!  Much appreciated!  And as always, I am grateful to all the show’s patrons who help to keep the show moving forward. And if you’re ou...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode Ninety Four!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. SMP Patrons! I want to thank a couple of folks for their support – Clint Guadiana , for his contribution via Patreon, and Dave Weber , who made another one-time contribution via PayPal.  Thank you Clint and Dave! And as always, I am grateful to all the show’s patrons...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode Ninety Three!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there, and happy Ground Hog Day! SMP Patrons! I want to thank  Justin Coburn for his contribution to the So Much Pingle podcast, via Patreon. Much appreciated, Justin , thank you so much.  And as always, I am grateful to all the show’s patrons who help to keep the show moving fo...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode Ninety Two!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. I want to wish you all a wonderful holiday season and a prosperous New Year, and let there be peace for everyone in the days ahead. And as always, I am grateful to all the show’s patrons who help to keep the show moving forward. And if you’re out there listening and you wou...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode Ninety One!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. We’re rolling into December and like many people, I have a big block of family time coming up, so I am pushing to get this episode finished and out sooner, rather than later.  I wish you all a wonderful holiday season, and peace on earth for everyone.  And be safe out there...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode Ninety!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. And as always, I am grateful to all the show’s patrons who help to keep the show moving forward. And if you’re out there listening and you would like to kick in a few bucks, it’s easy to do, you simply go to the  So Much Pingle Patreon page . You can support the show for as lit...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode Eighty Nine!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. SMP Patrons! I want to thank Shawn LaRochelle for his contribution to the So Much Pingle podcast, via Patreon. Much appreciated, Shawn, thank you so much.  And as always, I am grateful to all the show’s patrons who help to keep the show moving forward. And if you’re out th...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode Eighty Eight!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. And as always, I am grateful to all the show’s patrons who help to keep the show moving forward. And if you’re out there listening and you would like to kick in a few bucks, it’s easy to do, you simply go to the  So Much Pingle Patreon page . You can support the show for...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode Eighty Seven!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. And as always, I am grateful to all the show’s patrons who help to keep the show moving forward. And if you’re out there listening and you would like to kick in a few bucks, it’s easy to do, you simply go to the  So Much Pingle Patreon page . You can support the show for...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode Eighty Six!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. Before we get to today’s episode, I want to thank Gerry Salmon for his one-time donation to the So Much Pingle podcast. Much appreciated, Gerry, thank you so much.  And as always, I am grateful to all the show’s patrons who help to keep the show moving forward. And if you’r...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode Eighty Five!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. And for those of you experiencing extra-high temperatures, I hope you all are staying cool and hydrated. As always, I want to thank everyone who keeps the show rolling along. And if you’re out there listening and you would like to kick in a few bucks, it’s easy to do, you...

Hello everyone and welcome to  Episode Eighty Four!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. It’s good to be back in the recording studio after a long absence, and I appreciate everyone’s patience while I was out having a good time. I spent several weeks in Thailand, on a herping trip that started in Bangkok and finished at the southern tip of the country, on the...

Hello everyone and welcome to the show!  Mike Pingleton here, and I am your host for these proceedings.  And here we go with Episode Eighty Three , and I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there.  It’s early June here at the So Much Pingle world headquarters, and my flower garden is starting to POP!  It’s a great time if you’re into that sort of thing. Well I’ve been kind of busy over the la...

Hello everyone and welcome to the show!  Mike Pingleton here, and I am your host for these proceedings.  And here we go with Episode Eighty Two, and I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there.  It’s a lovely Sunday morning in May and I can’t wait to get out in it after I’m done putting this together. So Much Pingle Patrons!  A big thank you to the show’s newest patron, Skylar Hopkins!...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Eighty One!   And Season Four!   And while we’re at it, I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. In this episode, I talk with Gerold Merker , who with his son Walter recently published an updated edition of The Gray-banded Kingsnake, which I think is a fabulous book.  I talk with Gerold about the book, about west Texas, and of course, Gray-bands...

Josh, Whitney, Brenna, Sam, John, and MJ Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Eighty!   A nice round number and I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. First up, I want to give a shoutout to Claire Pedersen , who only found out about the show recently but has been working her way through the episodes in chronological order.  She’s more than halfway through so I expect it won’t be long b...

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode 79 !  It’s been a while since an episode dropped and I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there. I’ve had the best excuse for not getting a show out for a while – I’ve been traveling!  I just got back from two weeks in Madagascar, and before that I spent most of January and February in Peru.  I am home for a while now, so the show...