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Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

 Tony Santore

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. 


Earth Sciences Natural Sciences Comedy Science
Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
106 minutes
Episodes
262
Years Active
2019 - 2025
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Native Bee Ecology with Sam Droege

Native Bee Ecology with Sam Droege

Sam Droege is a scientist who studies bees and bee behavior based out of Maryland. In this episode we talk bee ecology, how to attract them to your yard, their nesting and habitat requirements, why t…
02:00:03  |   Wed 18 Oct 2023
KILL YOUR LAWN... & MAKE IT THE LAW.

KILL YOUR LAWN... & MAKE IT THE LAW.

This episode is an interview with Jeff & Janet Crouch, who sued their Maryland HOA in 2019 and ended up changing state law. Legislation that was enacted in 2021 now makes it illegal for HOAs in the s…
01:03:17  |   Mon 16 Oct 2023
Ethnobotany & Plants You've Never Heard of w/ Anthony Basil Rodriguez

Ethnobotany & Plants You've Never Heard of w/ Anthony Basil Rodriguez

Anthony Basil Rodriguez is an ethnobotanist from the Bronx, New York that has traveled the world studying wild bananas. In this episode we talked about his travels all over the world and other notabl…
02:04:49  |   Mon 09 Oct 2023
Butterflies and Border Walls

Butterflies and Border Walls

Marianna Wright is the director of the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, which provides critical habitat for wildlife in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. The National Butterfly Center…
01:47:59  |   Sat 07 Oct 2023
Cornell Herbarium, Brooklyn Cactus, VA Buckwheat

Cornell Herbarium, Brooklyn Cactus, VA Buckwheat

This episode consists of a 90 minute rant about the wonders of Cornell University Herbarium (1 million specimens you schmuck), how a cactus came to grow in Brooklyn, Botanizing a filthy industrial cr…
01:34:45  |   Fri 29 Sep 2023
Floral Scents & Pollination Systems w/ Dr. Rob Rugoso, Cornell University

Floral Scents & Pollination Systems w/ Dr. Rob Rugoso, Cornell University

In this episode with Dr. Rob Rugoso from Cornell University we discuss the chemistry of floral scents, how scent evolves (ie Clarkia breweri), night pollination, flowers that trap their pollinators, …
01:52:10  |   Wed 27 Sep 2023
Prairie Rants & the Herbaceous Perennial Habit

Prairie Rants & the Herbaceous Perennial Habit

A rant about how prairie soils get built, what exactly a "herbaceous perennial" is and why this habit is so relevant and important to remember when talking about the prairie, how important prairie gr…
00:57:02  |   Sat 16 Sep 2023
Setting Fire to Suburbia w/ Gerould Wilhelm

Setting Fire to Suburbia w/ Gerould Wilhelm

Gerould Wilhelm is one of the two authors of Flora of the Chicago Region - A Floristic & Ecological Synthesis. In this episode we talk about a number of topics, from prairie hydrology, native America…
02:30:07  |   Wed 13 Sep 2023
Paleobotany with Fabiany Herrera

Paleobotany with Fabiany Herrera

Fabiany Herrera is a paleobotanist specializing on a diverse array of time periods and paleofloras, including the Mazon Creek Flora from the Carboniferous when Lycopods were friggin' trees, as well a…
01:06:39  |   Wed 06 Sep 2023
CHICAGO CONFLICT & GLACIAL TILL SUMMER BASH

CHICAGO CONFLICT & GLACIAL TILL SUMMER BASH

A one hour rant about Glacial Till, Kankakee Mallow, Sand Prairies, Stiff Designs for Native Plant Landscapes, Emulating the "Beautiful Chaos" of the prairie, etc.
01:01:11  |   Mon 04 Sep 2023
How Ancient Glaciers Affect Peyote - a Conversation with Keeper Trout from Cactus Conservation Institute

How Ancient Glaciers Affect Peyote - a Conversation with Keeper Trout from Cactus Conservation Institute

Keeper Trout is one of the founding members of Cactus Conservation Institute and a research scientist who - along with Dr. Martin Terry - has studied a number of the cactus species in South Texas for…
02:27:25  |   Thu 24 Aug 2023
Philippines Botany, East Texas Yucca Pollination, etc w/Adam Black

Philippines Botany, East Texas Yucca Pollination, etc w/Adam Black

In this episode we talk about the botany of the Philippines (influenced by a remarkable tectonic setting), volcanic activity, ultramafic soil, "ant-plants" like Myrmecodia (Rubiaceae), Dipterocarpace…
01:27:46  |   Sat 19 Aug 2023
Fighting with City Hall, Star Cactus Mortality, et

Fighting with City Hall, Star Cactus Mortality, et

Rants about Fighting with City Hall over Native Plant Gardens & Tree Planting, Creepy New Age "Healers", mortality in Star Cactus (Astrophytum asterias) from the recent drought and heat, Loving-Kindn…
01:26:10  |   Thu 17 Aug 2023
New Age Massage Parlors, Philosophical Coping, etc

New Age Massage Parlors, Philosophical Coping, etc

Rants about New Age Massage Parlors, Philosophically coping with "the human tumor" & habitat destruction, acid abstinence & 40 year old virgins, black nectar in the genus Melianthus, etc.
01:02:20  |   Sun 13 Aug 2023
A Conversation About Cactus Poaching with Jared Margulies

A Conversation About Cactus Poaching with Jared Margulies

Listen to this podcast ad-free on the Patreon at :

https://www.patreon.com/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt

Jared Margulies is the author of the upcoming book "The Cactus Hunters", a book focusing on cactus a…
01:49:32  |   Fri 11 Aug 2023
Catching up with Kyle Lybarger of The Native Habitat Project

Catching up with Kyle Lybarger of The Native Habitat Project

In this episode we catch up with Kyle Lybarger of the wildly popular Native Habitat Project and talk about seed-collecting, lawn-killing, burn regimes, the benefits and necessity of hunting and much …
01:35:05  |   Sat 22 Jul 2023
A Conversation About Tabernanthe iboga

A Conversation About Tabernanthe iboga

Intro ends at 8:00. Reminder all episodes can be listened to ad-free by subscribing to the Crime Pays Patreon at :
https://www.patreon.com/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt

This 1 hour and 40 minute episode co…
01:52:07  |   Thu 20 Jul 2023
Brazil Atlantic Forest & Cerrado Vegetation Rants

Brazil Atlantic Forest & Cerrado Vegetation Rants

First 30 minutes occur on a winded, 900 meter elevation-gain hike. A more thorough, less distracted rant starts at 30:00.

Rants about Brazilian Atlantic Forests and Cerrado (Seh-Haddo) vegetation, sea…
01:35:16  |   Wed 12 Jul 2023
Geologic German Chocolate Summer Bash & Basalt Flows with Nick Zentner

Geologic German Chocolate Summer Bash & Basalt Flows with Nick Zentner

Intro ends at 6:30

Nick Zentner is a professor of geology at Central Washington University and host of a in-the-field geology YouTube Channel. He has numerous lectures available online at www.NickZent…
01:34:46  |   Fri 23 Jun 2023
Some Notable Remarks On New Zealand's Flora

Some Notable Remarks On New Zealand's Flora

This episode is basically a 90 minute rambling rant about New Zealand plants & plant ecology, where by a repeated fascination and fixation is expressed with the evolutionary selection pressures produ…
01:40:39  |   Wed 21 Jun 2023
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