About this podcast
Why do some plants grow where they do? How can geology cause new plant species to evolve? Why are some plants pollinated by flies, some by bats, some by birds, and others by bees? How does a plant evolve to look like a rock? How can destroying lawns soothe the soul? This is a show about plants and plant habitat through the lens of natural selection and ecology, with a side of neurotic ranting, light humor, occasional profanity, & the perpetual search for the filthiest taqueria bathroom.
Episodes
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- Bolivia Rants · 1 h 54 min2 hours of rants - recorded from a filthy motel room in Miami, Florida during an intermittend layover - about the route from Santa Cruz dela Sierra, Bolivia West into the dry…
- Nonhuman Teachers presents Joey Santore - _Kicked Outta the Botanic Garden_ · 1 h 57 minOriginally recorded June of 2026 in Los Angeles California.
- Paleobotanical Origins of The Reflecting Pool Disaster · 2 h 7 minIn this episode we talk with Chuck Delwiche about the early evolution of land plants, photosynthetic bacteria, what Earth may have looked like 4 billion years ago, what some of…
- Corruption, Cronyism, & Destroying a National Park · 50 minLaiken Jordahl is the national public lands advocate for the center for biological diversity. In this episode he tells us about the destruction of Big bend National Park for a…
- Taos & Denver Rants · 1 h 22 minRants about Taos, Garden Design in the sba to j aisle, how to tell if a plant has massive tuberous roots, Peteria scoparia, a new species of Paronychia leucochthonicola, Texas…
- Tennessee Oak Savanna Rants · 1 h 59 minAd-free episodes of the podcast are available on the crime pays but botany doesn't patreon. A reminder to any complaining jadrools : I don't choose the ads. Your own algorithm…
- June in Ft. Worth Rants · 1 h 37 minEpisodes of the Crime Pays Podcast are available Ad-Free on the Patreon at www.patreon.com/crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt Rants about the Extinction of the Ft. Worth Prairie, the…
- Interstate 8 Tour Rants · 1 h 51 minEpisodes of the Crime Pays Podcast are available Ad-Free on the Patreon at www.patreon.com/crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt In this episode we rant about all night drives through the…
- North Carolina Rants (NSFW) · 1 h 35 min(NSFW) Rants about Dr Phil, Fire Ecology, Carnivorous Plants, the Piedmont Forests of North Carolina, Sandhills, Coastal Plain Longleaf Pine Savannas and more... All Episodes of…
- Culture and Plants in Nuevo León, Mexico : Carlos "Aztekium" Velasco · 1 h 15 minEpisodes of the Crime Pays Podcast are available Ad-Free on the Patreon at www.patreon.com/crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt Carlos "Aztekium" Velasco is a biologist, educator, and…
- Oakland Bio - Saumitra Kelkar · 1 h 36 minSaumitra Kelkar is a biologist and public educator In Oakland, California. This episode we talk about getting kids into nature, Bay area plant habitats, human selection of native…
- Dirty Backyard Biology with Damon Tighe · 1 h 59 minIn this episode we talk about the dead fly fungus, fertilizing Trichocereus with piss, how to get a good compost heap running, the science of backyard microbes, human manure…
- Nuevo Leon & Borderlands Rants · 1 h 53 minRants about Mexican Cops, finding Arroyo Sweetwood in the wild, refugial canyons of the Sierra Madre that feel like humid forests in Georgia, and more . Ad-Free Episodes of the…
- Rafflesia Rants · 1 h 36 minAd-Free episodes of the Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt podcast are available on the Patreon at: www.patreon.com/crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt Rants about the Philippines, street trees…
- Philippine Rants · 1 h 43 minEpisodes of the Crime Pays Podcast are available Ad-Free on the Patreon at www.patreon.com/crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt In this episode we talk Philippines Botany with Jayson…
- Back Porch Rants · 1 h 17 minAll episodes of the Crime Pays Podcast are available at www.patreon.com/Crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt Rants about saving the Borderlands Caper Tree, salvaging star cactus from a…
- Drought Tolerant Rants · 1 h 51 minAd-free episodes of The Crime pays but Botany doesn't podcast can be listened to on the Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
- Botanizing California in a 2000 Honda Civic, with Jessie Dickson · 2 h 12 minAll episodes of the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't podcast are available - without obnoxious ads - on the Patreon at www.patreon.com/Crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt A conversation about…
- Missouri · 1 h 46 minAll episodes of The Crime pays podcast are available ad free on the Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
- Rainwater Harvesting & Plants-As-Infrastructure with Brad Lancaster · 2 h 12 minBrad Lancaster is a guerilla tree-planter and rainwater harvester in Tucson who has been instrumental in changing the way that the city he lives in treats rainwater and street…
- Ecuador Rantzzzz · 1 h 58 minAll episodes of The Crime pays podcast can be listened to ad-free on the patreon : www.patreon.com/crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt
- Rants about the Texas Caper, Abuelitas Hating Nature, Asphalt Heat Islands, etc · 1 h 31 minAd-free episodes of the CPBBD podcast can be heard at www.patreon.com/crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt In this episode we talk about South Texas Development, remnant thorn forests…
- Rants about Tree Planting, the Urban Heat Island, Etc · 1 h 24 minAd-free episodes of the podcast can be enjoyed on the crime pays Patreon at www.patreon.com/crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt Opening song is about Jerry Falwell.
- Estado de Hidalgo Rants · 1 h 16 minRants about the plant life of the state of Hidalgo Mexico, including but not limited to Cephalocereus senilis, Fouquieria fasciculata, Fouquieria purpusii, Magnolia scheidiana…
- San Luis Potosí Rants · 1 h 12 minIn this episode we rant about cacti that grow in ephemeral lagoons, 1500 year old Montezuma Cypresses, cryptic cacti that grow in salty mud basins, Mexican Jays dispersing…
- Climate Town with Rollie Williams · 1 h 37 minAd-Free episodes of the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't podcast are available on the Patreon at www.patreon.com/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt Rollie Williams is host of the youtube…
- Please Don't "Save the (honey)Bees" · 1 h 53 minReed Booth and his assistant Hosh are killer bee exterminators based out of Bisbee, Arizona. In this episode we talk about the ferocity of the scutellata hybrid (aka "killer…
- Native Bee Diversity w/ Krystle Hickman · 2 h 11 minAd-Free episodes of the podcast are available on the Patreon at : www.patreon.com/Crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt Krystle Hickman is a biologist, native bee researcher, and…
- Black Forager : On Connecting with the Living World · 2 h 24 minA 2 hour conversation with Alexis Nicole Nelson aka Black Forager about connecting with the living world, ethnobotany, lawn-killing, native plants, hopefulness and humility…
- Paleoforaging - The Ethnobotany of Some Central Texas Plants w/ Cyrus Harp · 2 h 19 minCyrus Harp is an ethnobotanist, ethnobiologist and author based out of Cetral Texas. In this episode we talk about a number of different plant species, chipping chert, using…
- How to Love a Forest - with Ethan Tapper · 1 h 43 minEthan Tapper is a forester, author and ecologist out of Vermont, USA. He advocates for a practice called "Ecological Forestry", as opposed to the short-term-gain/long-term-loss…
- Florida Rants · 1 h 58 min*Rants about the fire-dependent sand scrub of Central Florida, some of the rarest, most unique and underappreciated plants of the world. The plant community here occurs in…
- KYL LIVE @ the Hideout · 2 h 6 minA live show originally recorded at The Hideout in Chicago on September 13th 2025. First 4 minutes got cut off accidentally by the sound guy, who otherwise did a great job (the sd…
- KYL Tour Rants 25 · 1 h 33 minRants about KILL YOUR LAWN tour in the Midwest, River Geography, Hemp Farms in Wisconsin, Prairies, Bison, upset affluent suburban ladies in St Paul, horticultural atrocities…
- Chicago Coyotes, Prairie Psychedelia, Landscape Architects · 1 h 26 minAd-Free episodes of the podcast are available on the Patreon at www.patreon/crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt
- Trouble in the Food Forest · 43 minWhy is there such a strong correlation between invasion biology denial, anthropocentrism, ecological illiteracy and permaculture? How can permaculture move forward while at the…
- "Spiritual Remedies of Nuevo León" · 2 h 14 minIn this episode (after a 30 minute societal rant) we talk about Dioon edule and cycads of the foothills of the Sierra Madre, why hemiparasitic members of the paintbrush family…
- Adam Haritan from Learn Your Land · 2 h 0 minThis episode is a conversation with Adam Haritan from the youtube channel Learn Your Land, which covres a diverse variety of topics related to the ecology of Eastern North…
- Rants about Compost Sh*tting, Plant Metabolism, Compensation Point, Etc · 2 h 9 minAd-Free episodes of the CPBBD podcast are available on the patreon at https://www.patreon.com/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt Today's episode consists of rants about compensation…
- Colorado Springs Southwards · 1 h 36 minRants about Green Tea, Lactose Intolerance, mycoheterotrophic plants in New Mexico, Colorado Springs Shale Exposures, Native Plant Takeovers of municipal landscaping greenhouses…
- I 10 Ramblings to New Mexico · 1 h 38 minDisjointed Rants about New Mexico's Sacramento Mountains, Mormons, the origins of Ivermectin, Rat-Trap Pitcher plants and Nepenthes hybrids, and more. All episodes of the Crime…
- Neotropical Oak Forests & Bush-Checking Becky · 1 h 47 minIn this episode we rant about Neotropical High-elevation Oak forests of Central America, what the hell introgression is (swapping genes between two species through hybridization…
- Sashaying Around West Texas Sky Islands · 1 h 28 minRants about Davis Mountains fungi, Ponderosa Pine Death from drought, torrential Texas rains, West Texas alcoholics, Mandevilla hypoleuca, Echeveria strictiflora, Growing…
- Four Corners Botany · 1 h 57 minRants about Northern New Mexico, Gypsum endemics, Dwarf Milkweed, the Horseshoe Bend Motel Photo, Botany of Horseshoe Bend, Pediocactus in the high desert of Northern Arizona…
- Carlsbad Butt Clinic & Sandhills Plant Life · 1 h 56 minRants about colonoscopies, plant life on the sandhills East of Carlsbad New Mexico, Eurytaenia hinckleyi (Apiaceae ), Pomaria jamesii (Fabaceae), the Sierra Madre and more…
- Hollistic Healing Colon Cleanse in Gypsum Habitats · 1 h 43 minRants about permaculture, holistic livestock snake oil, Southern New Mexico gypsum flats, the Guadalupe Mountains, the Schizandra population in Atlanta that's being overtaken by…
- A Clusterf*ck of Mustards - The Order Brassicales · 1 h 45 minAd-Free versions of this podcast are available for $5 a month on the Crime Pays Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt In this episode we talk with…
- Atlanta, Granitic Knobs, Limestone Glades, Native Habitat Project, Etc. · 2 h 18 minIn this episode we talk about the granite/gneiss knobs that surround the Atlanta, Georgia area and the cool plants that grow there, getting unintentionally shot at by morons at…
- Easter Brunch With Father Santore Livestream · 2 h 1 minA 2 hour, unhinged livestream rant about ecological succession in lawn slaughter, book reviews, the deranged texas anti-plant bill (SB 1868), and more, all done while wearing a…
- Costa Rica Habitat Synopsis Rants · 2 h 32 minEpisodes of the Crime Pays podcast are available Ad-Free on the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't Patreon at: www.patreon.com/crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt In this episode of the podcast…
