Episodes

Nov 7

This week in the Salamander Cave Stacy of Roots, Scoots & Scales joins me to talk all about Shinisauru!! This lizard is one that so many people dream of keeping and Stacy is kind enough to share as much knowledge as she can in this jammed pack episode!!

Oct 31

This week in the Salamander Cave Tim Herman of Indoor Ecosystems stops by to talk all about Caudata!! I love learning about salamanders and Tim is one of best when it comes to keeping and natural history!!! I hope you enjoy!!

Oct 24

This week in the Salamander Cave Chris of Edgewood Dart Frogs joins me to talk about well.......you guessed it dart frogs!!!! Chris has decades of experience working with some of natures most beautiful creatures, and has one of the coolest set ups at at one of the biggest herp shows in the country!! I hope you enjoy the listen!!!

Oct 18

This week in the Salamander Cave Riley of Riley's Reptiles joins me! We talk about Morelia and my favorite geckos Strophurus!!! I had such a great time chatting with Riley he's a great guy full of awesome knowledge. I hope you enjoy the listen!!!

Oct 10

This week in the salamander cave Adeline Robinson joins me to talk all about her art, animals, and shares stories about NARBC Tinley Park! Adeline art always blows me away if you haven't checked her out then do yourself a favor and go look for yourself!!! I hope everyone enjoys the listen!!!

Oct 3

This week in the salamander cave Christen owner of Stygian of Exotics stops by to talk all things Candoia!! We talk a little about colubrids because well duh!?! I hope you enjoy the show!!!

Sep 26

This week in the Salamander Cave a very special guest joins me!! Tasman has been a major source of inspiration to me and I couldn't be happier to record with him!! Tasman is the founder of Hondu Herp, a nonprofit organization that works with conservation in Honduras (Please check them out links below). He also is doing some really cool research with reptile diversity! I hope you enjoy!!! Honduherp.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADN5XZ3DmvU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNotJNE_FwU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4TwAsjfVD8 Instagram.org/honduherp Instagram.org/tasmanology Instagram.org/half.inch.hero

Sep 20

This week in the Salamander Cave Emilio stops by to talk about one my favorite animals Goniurosaurus aka Cave Geckos!! This Episode was recorded over the course of two days so there is a major transition but I think you will enjoy it!!

Sep 9

Estivation is over as temperatures cool down here in the salamander cave! And what better way to slither back into things the with Mike from the Slithering Salamander Scapes YouTube channel!! Mike is very passionate about Caudata just like your host and he builds some of the coolest enclosures I've seen!! We talk about his salamanders and his thought process when he constructs these awesome habitats!!

Aug 1

In this heart warming episode Clint Bartley Joins me in the salamander cave!! We cover so much!! What it takes to run a successful reptile shop, Colubrid fest, misogyny, and some heart warming stories about people who we love and why we are so happy to have the people we do within our community!!!

Jul 25

In this very special episode Chelsea Martin joins me in the salamander cave, or should I call it the snake den? We take a deep dive into her trail blazing research on rattlesnake behavior!!! Chelsea's research has changed my perspective on snake behavior, and I took so much away from chatting with her!!

Jul 23

This bonus show is all about frog week! Frog week is an event that Aaron created and bring attention to our native cold blooded friends! What is frog week you ask? well tune and and learn all that there is to goes into this event!!!

Jul 18

In this very special episode Rachel Pikstein joins me in the salamander cave to all about Snake Week!!! Not only do we talk about all the cool events around the week Rachel dives into her research and venomous keeping!!!!

Jul 13

This week in the Salamander Cave Joe Mailhot of Frograck joins me!! We take a deep dive into Bumblebee toads!! This beautiful little toad I find so fascinating!! And after listening to Joe I have a feeling you will love them too!!!!

Jul 6

This week in the Salamander cave Dr Steven Tillis joins me to talk all about Sepentovirus. His research is shedding a light on virus that can be extremely detrimental to some of our favorite animals. We dive into his work and touch on some of his animals that he holds near and dear.

Jun 28

This week in the Salamander Cave I'm flying solo! I run down my trip to Florida for IHS ( INTERNATIONAL HERPETOLOGICAL SYMPOSIUM) I open up a lot about sobriety and why this Symposium is now so special to me. I had a wonderful time! Next week we will back to interviews but I didn't want to put out a crazy long show. I hope you enjoy!!!!

Jun 21

This week Warren Klein of Bushveld Reptiles joins me in the Salamander Cave to talk all about one of my favorite snakes... African House Snakes!!! These snakes are sooooo much fun to have and Warren shares so much awesome information on them!!!!!

Jun 13

This week in the salamander cave Uncle Mike stops by to talk about Varanus!!! Mike is one of my favorite people in our community and I was so thrilled to be joined by him!!!

Jun 7

This week in the salamander cave Bryan Waterloo sits down with me to talk about Varanus varius (Lacy Monitors). We then talk about travel, zoos and so much more! Bryan has so many stories from our community and I'm so happy to share our conversation with you!!

May 31

This week in the Salamander Cave Heather owner of Fairytail Dragons joins me to talk all about blue tongue skinks!

May 24

Billy Sveen stop by the salamander, we talk about DIY and the animal welfare act!!

May 17

This week in a very dusty salamander cave (I explain in the intro of the show) Tie and Scott Eipper join me to talk about Aussie herping, varanids, elapids and geckos oh my!!!

May 10

Justin Julander drops by the salamander cave to talk herping and keeping Nephrurus aka the adorable knobtail gecko

May 3

This week in the salamander cave Brain Duracka stop by to talk about about Blue Tail Monitors ( Varanus doreanus)!

Apr 26

Anthony hangs out in the Salamander Cave this week to talk about black breasted leaf turtle ( Geoemyda spengleri)!!

Apr 19

Asen Joins me in the salamander cave this week to talk Aussie pythons and herping WA!

Apr 12

Frank stops by the salamander cave to talk all about herping the world, traveling and importing!

Apr 5

Myke stop by the salamander cave to talk about aquatic snakes and IHS!!!

Mar 29

Dr. Zac Loughman spends some time with me to go over his process for writing a herp book!

Mar 23

Tyler hangs out with me in the salamander cave talk about Whites tree frogs ( Litoria caerulea) and the Mexican Dumpy Frog (Agalychnis dacnicolor).

Mar 17

I'm flying solo to catch up with everything going on in life the salamander cave and of course Tinley Park!!!

Mar 9

Ron Stops by the salamander cave to chat herps!

Mar 2

Keith and I chat about Sanzinia!

Mar 2

Rain and I talk history, breeding and so much more!

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Feb 1

Jan 25

Jan 19

Jake Bratz share his story after taking a venomous bite from a Crotalus atrox or commonly know as a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake

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Oct 6, 2024

Lucas and I talk higher education black heads and jungle carpets!!

Sep 29, 2024

Strophurus and other not so main stream gecko talk!

Sep 22, 2024

Anthony and I chat about the herp hobby geckos and books!!

Sep 20, 2024

Fire sal talk!!

Sep 8, 2024

Meet me!! Your host Matt, the typical intro show. Listen to me ramble about my collection and my goals for the show.