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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.

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Wednesday · 2 hr 7 min
Paleobotanical Origins of The Reflecting Pool Disaster
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...
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August 31 · 49 min
Corruption, Cronyism, & Destroying a National Park
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...
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August 25 · 1 hr 22 min
Taos & Denver Rants
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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August 5 · 1 hr 59 min
Tennessee Oak Savanna Rants
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...
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July 3 · 1 hr 37 min
June in Ft. Worth Rants
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...
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June 10 · 1 hr 51 min
Interstate 8 Tour Rants
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...
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May 25 · 1 hr 35 min
North Carolina Rants (NSFW)
(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 the Crime Pays Podcast are available Ad-Free on the Patreon at...
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May 14 · 1 hr 15 min
Culture and Plants in Nuevo León, Mexico : Carlos "Aztekium" Velasco
Episodes 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 naturalist in Nuevo León, Mexico who has been teaching and studying the...
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May 8 · 1 hr 36 min
Oakland Bio - Saumitra Kelkar
Saumitra 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 plants and native plant cultivars, remnant edible wild gardens created...
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May 5 · 1 hr 59 min
Dirty Backyard Biology with Damon Tighe
In 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 composting, cultivating oyster mushrooms, trying to find out what mycorrhizal...
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May 4 · 1 hr 53 min
Nuevo Leon & Borderlands Rants
Rants 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 Crime Pays Podcast are available on the patreon at...
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April 17 · 1 hr 36 min
Rafflesia Rants
Ad-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 of Manila, the jade vine Stronglyodon macrobotrys, the parasitic plant...
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April 6 · 1 hr 43 min
Philippine Rants
Episodes 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 Mansibang and Johnny Altomonte from Philippine Taxonomic Initiative. We talk...
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March 31 · 1 hr 17 min
Back Porch Rants
All 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 housing development in South Texas, mowing (and "dethatching") dead turf...
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March 15 · 1 hr 51 min
Drought Tolerant Rants
Ad-free episodes of The Crime pays but Botany doesn't podcast can be listened to on the Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
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March 11 · 2 hr 12 min
Botanizing California in a 2000 Honda Civic, with Jessie Dickson
All 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 California Native Plants with Jessie Dickson aka "Sacramento Food...
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March 2 · 1 hr 46 min
Missouri
All episodes of The Crime pays podcast are available ad free on the Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
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February 19 · 2 hr 12 min
Rainwater Harvesting & Plants-As-Infrastructure with Brad Lancaster
Brad 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 trees. He has helped covince the city of Tucson to update its own...
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February 16 · 1 hr 58 min
Ecuador Rantzzzz
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January 28 · 1 hr 31 min
Rants about the Texas Caper, Abuelitas Hating Nature, Asphalt Heat Islands, etc
Ad-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 surrounded by McMansions, the Asphalt Heat Island, the South Texas Caper...
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