Episodes

  • 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.

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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
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    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

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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • I 10 Ramblings to New Mexico

    I 10 Ramblings to New Mexico
    Aug 2 2025
    Disjointed Rants about New Mexico's Sacramento Mountains, Mormons, the origins of Ivermectin, Rat-Trap Pitcher plants and Nepenthes hybrids, and more.

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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • Neotropical Oak Forests & Bush-Checking Becky

    Neotropical Oak Forests & Bush-Checking Becky
    Jul 25 2025
    In this episode we rant about Neotropical High-elevation Oak forests of Central America, what the hell introgression is (swapping genes between two species through hybridization and back-crossing to potentially create a new species, though sometimes it just introduces adaptive traits into existing species), the checking of a racist Becky into a bush by a fed-up member of the populace, the neotropical parasitic plant Corynaea crass and how its monoecious and what that means, cloud forests extravaganzas with Solandra brachycalyx (Solanaceae), and more.

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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • Sashaying Around West Texas Sky Islands

    Sashaying Around West Texas Sky Islands
    Jul 5 2025
    Rants about Davis Mountains fungi, Ponderosa Pine Death from drought, torrential Texas rains, West Texas alcoholics, Mandevilla hypoleuca, Echeveria strictiflora, Growing Madrones, American Smoke Trees in Austin, Madrones in San Antonio, Dystopia and more....
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • Four Corners Botany

    Four Corners Botany
    Jun 18 2025
    Rants about Northern New Mexico, Gypsum endemics, Dwarf Milkweed, the Horseshoe Bend Motel Photo, Botany of Horseshoe Bend, Pediocactus in the high desert of Northern Arizona, Why telling people that eating Saguaro fruits isn't as bad as Caucasian liberals might want you to think is, How anthropocentric uses of plants might hook some people into the larger perspective of botany and ecology and reverence for the living world, and more.

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    1 hr and 58 mins
  • Carlsbad Butt Clinic & Sandhills Plant Life

    Carlsbad Butt Clinic & Sandhills Plant Life
    Jun 1 2025
    Rants about colonoscopies, plant life on the sandhills East of Carlsbad New Mexico, Eurytaenia hinckleyi (Apiaceae ), Pomaria jamesii (Fabaceae), the Sierra Madre and more

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    1 hr and 56 mins