Episodes

  • Bolivia Rants

    Bolivia Rants
    Oct 4 2026
    2 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 Inter-Andean Valleys and up to the Altiplano, and the many plants encountered along the way :
    Onoseris acerifolia,
    Deuterocohnia meziana,
    Neoraimondia herzogiana,
    Schinus mollis,
    Puya glomerata,
    Schinopsis lorentzii,
    Cereus hankeanus,
    Harrisia tetracantha,
    Blossfeldia liliputana,
    Puya humilis,
    Trichocereus tunariensis,
    Trichocereus bridgesii,
    Zanthoxylum coco,
    Koeberlinia holacantha, and more.
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    1 hr and 55 mins
  • Nonhuman Teachers presents Joey Santore - _Kicked Outta the Botanic Garden_

    Nonhuman Teachers presents Joey Santore - _Kicked Outta the Botanic Garden_
    Oct 1 2026
    Originally recorded June of 2026 in Los Angeles California.
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    1 hr and 57 mins
  • Paleobotanical Origins of The Reflecting Pool Disaster

    Paleobotanical Origins of The Reflecting Pool Disaster
    Sep 16 2026
    In 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 the first land plants look like, why bioluminescent dinoflagellates (Pyrocystis) "light up", and the species of algae responsible for the reflecting pool disaster that nearly have the president an aneurysm over the summer.

    Chuck Delwiche is a professor of biology at University of Maryland who studies green algae, archaea, and the early evolution of plants.

    Reflecting Pool Video

    https://youtu.be/z3rExfzXYSw?is=RRys648nwoEze0dX
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    2 hrs and 8 mins
  • Corruption, Cronyism, & Destroying a National Park

    Corruption, Cronyism, & Destroying a National Park
    Aug 31 2026
    Laiken 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 pointless and unnecessary border wall and what efforts have been made to stop it.
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    50 mins
  • Taos & Denver Rants

    Taos & Denver Rants
    Aug 25 2026
    Rants 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 Madrone in Denver, US intervention in Latin America, and more.
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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • Tennessee Oak Savanna Rants

    Tennessee Oak Savanna Rants
    Aug 5 2026
    Ad-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 does. Thank your corporate overlords.

    This episode contains rants about Tennessee Oak Savannas, suburban Chicago fire ecology, granite balds in South Carolina and Georgia, the close ties between shame, status and native plants in South Texas-Mexican American communities, a hopeful city council meeting about a native plant ordinance, and more.
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    2 hrs
  • June in Ft. Worth Rants

    June in Ft. Worth Rants
    Jul 3 2026
    Episodes 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 rediscovery of Dalea sabinalis, plants with huge taproots, dry limestone plants, idiotic development, getting fleeced and ripped off in Costa Rica, fleabag motels, the Bowel Movement Supermarket, reminiscing about riding freight trains to Ft. Madison Iowa for the $5 cinema, and more
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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • Interstate 8 Tour Rants

    Interstate 8 Tour Rants
    Jun 10 2026
    Episodes 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 desert, meth-amphetamine and Del Taco Management, Phoenix Horticultural Atrocities, the "Kicked Outta Da Botanic Garden" Tour, plumbing leaks, Brad Lancaster's work in the Dunbar Spring Neighborhood of Tucson, and more.
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    1 hr and 51 mins