Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 106 minutes
- Episodes
- 262
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
An Interview with Tom Givnish
2 hrs of conversation about Adaptive Radiation, Hawaiian Lobeliads, & Calochortus Evolution
01:53:48 |
Wed 14 Oct 2020
East Texas Sandy Coastal Plain & Ft Worth Dry Prairies
East Texas botany, Ft Worth Botanic Garden /Home Depot Garden Center, Longleaf Pine Forest, Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sleaze, Limestone Dry Prairie Endemics, Complaining about the heat, etc.
01:53:55 |
Tue 13 Oct 2020
Michigan Upper Peninsula Geology, Missouri Prairie, Texas Limestone Remnants
PSA - your donations enable this here content. If you can throw a couple bucks to venmo address "societyishell", I would appreciate the hell out of it. The tank is running low at the moment and could…
01:27:54 |
Tue 29 Sep 2020
I-80 Cross Country Botany, Maskless Rednecks, Ambrosia Exploration
A brief week-long trip East after fleeing the state of California (which is all on fire again) brings us into contact with a cast of prairie species and the unique nature of the Ambrosia dungeon (sub…
01:46:20 |
Fri 04 Sep 2020
Botanist Michael Dillon & South American Nightshades
A 90 min conversation with retired Field Museum botanist Michael Dillon about the genus Nolana and South American botany.
01:54:18 |
Sun 02 Aug 2020
A ConversationAbout Mycology with Christian Schwarz
A forty minute profanity-laced trade on the flux of events and garden destruction by semi-conscious contractors followed by a graceful interview concerningmmycological affairs with the wonderful Chri…
02:08:50 |
Thu 30 Jul 2020
Darlingtonia, Flu Klux Klan, Illegal Gardening
The focus today is on Darlingtonia, trolling the Flu Klux Klan, Social Justice Warriors attacking science by obsessing about racist Eugenics programs from 100 years ago, and Illegal Gardening.
01:40:48 |
Sat 18 Jul 2020
Coral Pink Sand Dunes Milkweed, Southern Utah Botany, Vertic Limestones, Shitting in Kyle's Firepit
(the intro song recording quality is horrible. Skip to 2:30 rather than leave me an obnoxious comment about it Fuckface).
Coral Pink Sand Dunes Milkweed, Southern Utah Botany, Vertic Limestones, Shit…
Coral Pink Sand Dunes Milkweed, Southern Utah Botany, Vertic Limestones, Shit…
01:57:58 |
Tue 23 Jun 2020
Phantom Orchids & Sneaking to the Botanic Garden
Rants about Cephalanthera austiniae, the phantom orchid, and disjunct populations of Opuntia fragilis. Sneaking in to the Botanic garden after hours.
This podcast sponsored by Eucerin.
This podcast sponsored by Eucerin.
01:40:58 |
Fri 12 Jun 2020
Propagation as a Means of Refraining From Homicide
90 minutes of ranting on plant propagation, metabolism, and Chiranthodendron pentadactylon from the chocolate subfamily of the Mallow Family.
01:39:21 |
Sun 17 May 2020
A Conversation with Matt Candeais
Matt Candeais is a botanist from Buffalo, New York, currently residing in Illinois and working on his PhD. He is the man behind the In Defense of Plants "podcast.
02:16:58 |
Fri 01 May 2020
"I Was a Teenage Eco-Fascist"
A thirty minute rant mocking the "eco-fascist" chant among science-blind social theorists and leftwing bloggers (why do fellow lefties not criticize these nitwits?), Sonoran Desert Parasites, Mojave …
02:16:07 |
Fri 17 Apr 2020
Pandemic Southwest Botany
Join us as we take a look at some limestone endemics of Death Valley and then Gypsum endemics of Nevada and Utah. Learn why the state of Arizona is akin to a "people of Walmart" calendar. Arctomecon …
01:31:22 |
Wed 01 Apr 2020
A Conversation with Matt Ritter
A real nice conversation with Matt Ritter, an author and professor at California Polytechnic State University about botany, plant ecology, human society in which we also wax philosophical about a wid…
01:47:43 |
Wed 11 Mar 2020
Coronavirus & Sunflowers
An astute comparison of adaptative radiations in Asteraceae with the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Plus, Carl Zimmer kicks Mike Pence in the cock. 90 minutes of rambling with Isaac Lichter, and why com…
01:54:30 |
Sat 07 Mar 2020
Coronavirus & Sunflowers
An astute comparison of adaptative radiations in Asteraceae with the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Plus, Carl Zimmer kicks Mike Pence in the cock. 90 minutes of rambling with Isaac Lichter, and why com…
01:54:30 |
Sat 07 Mar 2020
Parasitic conifers & Amborella(New Caledonia 2)
This is the second episode on New Caledonian botany, with continued fanatic ranting on the wonders of ultramafic geology and botany as well as musings on the futility of eating jackfruit and the pond…
01:35:28 |
Thu 13 Feb 2020
New Caledonia, Disjointed Ranting, Conifer Dungeons, Biogeography of Southern Hemisphere Lineages, Mosquitoes
Did I contract Dengue Fever yesterday on Moo Mountain whilst hiking to a relict population of Araucaria humboldtensis? Was New Caledonia submerged for 20 million years and then recolonized by numerou…
01:38:40 |
Sun 02 Feb 2020
Plant Breeding, Fern Sex, Dark Humor, South Africa, A Conversation with Martin Grantham
A conversation with a botanical wizard, explorer, conservationist, and plant propagator, my friend the illustrious Martin Grantham. 3 hrs long but worth a listen. We explore comedic misanthropy, a br…
03:02:42 |
Thu 02 Jan 2020
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