Our Guest Tonight:

• Justin Smith
  • Palmetto Coast Exotics
  • The Herpetoculture Podcast
  • The Chondrocast (4:25,
  • Herpetoculture Magazine
  • Snakes n stogies
• How did you get started in reptiles? (6:15, 9:30
• When did you take it up a notch? (12:30, 14:00, 15:45
• What is your direction and focus these days? (16:35, 20:00
• What do you see long term for your trajectory keeping snakes? (23:00, 27:00,
• How did THP start? (30:25, 34:00,
• What motivated you to start the Chondrocast? (41:00, 42:00, 49:00
• How did you decide to carve out even further time to start a FREE magazine publication? (51:30, 53:15, 54:30,
• Snakes N Stogies? (1:02:00, 1:03:00,

New Guest Closing Questions:

1. Who do you look up to most in the reptile world? (rob stone, eric burke, harlin wall,
2. What is your holy grail reptile to keep? (Gonyosoma janseni, ruschi’s, atheris nitchei,
3. If you could devote an entire bedroom to one species to build a massive vivarium, what would you keep and design? (rough scale enclosure, scrub pair enclosure (Wamena))
4. If you could go back in time to a younger you right before you got into reptiles, what wisdom would you impart upon your younger self? (warn myself I’m going to get hooked for life)
5. If you could pass on one piece of advice to the listeners about keeping snakes/reptiles, what would it be? (ignore social media, enjoy what you’re keeping, don’t get caught up in the popularity contest,

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