200. Spiritually Depraved and Misery-Inducing Landscapes of North America w/ Joey Santore

200. Spiritually Depraved and Misery-Inducing Landscapes of North America w/ Joey Santore

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September 2, 2026 · 1h 30m

About this episode

Joey Santore discusses the spiritual and ecological implications of modern American landscaping and the dystopian realities of North America.

This episode is in a way a spiritual rant which you can watch or listen ad-free at https://www.rfemedia.com/ This episode is in a way a spiritual rant. Dystopia intensifies but do not despair! As star base after star base are constructed on coastal wetlands just be consoled that one way or the other, this ride ain’t lasting forever. Joey Santore is a botanist, artist, author and ex-railroader who travels the world documenting plant life. He is the host and producer of the youtube channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t and was the host of a small-scale tv show called Kill Your Lawn. He advocates for native plants, building a closer human relationship with Earth’s plant life, and a re-thinking of modern American horticulture and landscaping due to its mundane disconnection from both ecological and biological reality. You can follow him here: https://www.youtube.com/@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt https://www.instagram.com/crime_pays_but_botany_doesnt/ https://thornscrubsanctuary.org/

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Host: Colonial Outcasts

Guest: Joey Santore

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Organizations: Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t, Kill Your Lawn, thornscrubsanctuary.org

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