Episodes

  • KYL LIVE @ the Hideout

    KYL LIVE @ the Hideout
    Oct 3 2025
    A 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 card f*cked up, it wasn't his fault). On that note, I mistakenly refer to Artemisia ludoviciana when I meant Artemisia vulgaris.

    full episodes of this podcast are available ad free on the Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
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    2 hrs and 7 mins
  • KYL Tour Rants 25

    KYL Tour Rants 25
    Sep 28 2025
    Rants 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, Lincoln vs Omaha Nebraska, Feral Paht and more.

    Thanks to the all the venues that put us up and thanks to everyone who came out for the shows/presentations in Milwaukee, St Paul, Omaha, Lincoln, Kansas City, Omaha, Lincoln and the Quad Cities.

    As Always, Ad-Free Episodes of the podcast are available on the Patrol for 5 bucks a month at : https://www.patreon.com/c/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • Chicago Coyotes, Prairie Psychedelia, Landscape Architects

    Chicago Coyotes, Prairie Psychedelia, Landscape Architects
    Sep 21 2025
    Ad-Free episodes of the podcast are available on the Patreon at www.patreon/crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Trouble in the Food Forest

    Trouble in the Food Forest
    Sep 5 2025
    Why is there such a strong correlation between invasion biology denial, anthropocentrism, ecological illiteracy and permaculture? How can permaculture move forward while at the same time acknowledging the functionality of native plant ecosystems and why the designation of "native" is not some frivolous, arbitrary, or puritanical designation? In this 40 minute conversation between myself and Lilly Anderson-Messec we talk about what permaculture is, its focus on functionality (to humans) and why there tends to be such a predictable link between those who espouse staunch invasion biology denial and their holistic integrative biodynamic permaculture food forest.
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    43 mins
  • "Spiritual Remedies of Nuevo León"

    "Spiritual Remedies of Nuevo León"
    Sep 3 2025
    In 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 frequently have red leaves, Mexican Oak Diversity, Tillandsia usneoides in Oak woodlands, Calochortus marcellae, Malacomeles denticulata ecotypes, why Crotalus morulus (Tamaulipan Rock Rattlesnake) possibly one of the coolest members of the genus

    Ad-Free Episodes of the Crime Pays podcast are available on the Patreon at :
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    FLORA OF NUEVO LEON CHECKLIST PDF : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ukTNSvThl65KUlKpm0wLzUTRklvZiBc_/view?usp=drive_link

    CONCRETE BOTANY (Out April 2026) PRE-ORDER :
    https://geni.us/ConcreteBotany
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    2 hrs and 15 mins
  • Adam Haritan from Learn Your Land

    Adam Haritan from Learn Your Land
    Aug 26 2025
    This 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 American Forests - Fungi, Plants, Insects, & more. In this episode we talk about how fire suppression has caused an explosion in tick populations, along with a multitude of other factors. We also discuss medicinal mushrooms of Eastern North America, surviving stands of American Chestnuts, the importance of geology, and how Paw Paw trees might be neurotoxic. We also talk about how humans having a connection to (and knowledge of) the land that they live on is a matter of existential health, almost more so than anything else.

    Adam's been producing the Learn Your Land youtube channel for ten years and has an extensive library of videos about a diversity of topics, and unlike me, he doesn't curse like a madman so his videos are appropriate for all ages. Please check the youtube (especially the tick episode!) and go down a wormhole. Also check out www.learnyourland.com for more info on what he does, a link to his onlince courses, and a list of the videos he's done.

    All episodes of the Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt podcast are available Ad-Free on the Patreon at :
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    2 hrs
  • Rants about Compost Sh*tting, Plant Metabolism, Compensation Point, Etc

    Rants about Compost Sh*tting, Plant Metabolism, Compensation Point, Etc
    Aug 20 2025
    Ad-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 point, idiotic spelling mistakes, C3 and C4 photosynthesis, why nighttime temperatures prevent growing some plants in some areas, public land grab in Florida by sleazebag developers embedded in state government, Kill Your Lawn Tour 2025, calcareous shale exposures of Pueblo County, Colorado.
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    2 hrs and 10 mins
  • Colorado Springs Southwards

    Colorado Springs Southwards
    Aug 12 2025
    Rants about Green Tea, Lactose Intolerance, mycoheterotrophic plants in New Mexico, Colorado Springs Shale Exposures, Native Plant Takeovers of municipal landscaping greenhouses, Rock Sage, 300 million year old limestone, and more.

    Ad-Free Episodes of the podcast are available for 5 bucks a month on the patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt

    To pre-order the book Concrete Botany, visit https://geni.us/ConcreteBotany
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    1 hr and 37 mins