Episodes
DESPITE THE BEST EFFORTS OF MY INNUMERABLE FOES, EPISODE 17 HAS ARRIVED WITH FORCE AND FURY! AND YES, LISTENERS, I AM CONSTANTLY BESET BY MY SHORT-SIGHTED LESSERS WHO SEEK AT EVERY TURN TO THWART MY GRANDIOSE PLOTS, BUT WHEN ONE IS POSSESSED OF SUCH TENACITY AND CREATIVITY AS MYSELF, ONE NEED NOT WORRY! WHO BUT SKELETOR WOULD NOT ONLY LEVERAGE THE SALE OF BAKED GOODS TO OVERCOME FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES, BUT ALSO MANAGE TO INCLUDE IMPORTANT FACTOIDS ABOUT BOTH CARDAMOM AND CACAO, DESPITE THE...
Published 11/15/21
hey y'all. with things at snake mountain being kinda up in the air still, i figured i'd drop a little something into the feed in the meantime. it's something i worked on a bit on the side when i popped over to etheria. perfuma and some of the other princesses over there wanted to try their hand at podcasting, so i gave them a hand. i think it turned out pretty good. they gave some advice, they talked about stuff... one of them really liked punking this cat lady for some reason... anyway, you...
Published 11/01/21
if you listened to the last episode, you know stuff got weird. guess what? stuff is no less weird in this one. i think i need a break. i hear etheria is nice this time of year... Cast: Skeletor: Dan Mulkerin Riley: Kit Mulkerin Mer-Man: Nathaniel Hubbard Evil-Lyn: Marissa Bond Beast Man: Rafael Medina Two Bad: Jef Aldritch and Jon Taylor He-Buddy #1: Miles Schneiderman
Published 10/15/21
well, uh... how to describe this one? if you've been listening, you know about snake mountain's money problems. the gang decides to fix it with a dinner theater murder mystery and... well, things get pretty weird. i'm writing this way after all this stuff happened, obviously, and i'm still trying to figure out how to process all this. i dunno, just listen i guess. you'll see what i mean. Cast: Skeletor: Dan Mulkerin Riley: Kit Mulkerin Mer-Man: Nathaniel Hubbard Evil-Lyn: Marissa Bond ...
Published 10/01/21
WHEN YOU GAZE INTO EPISODE 13, EPISODE 13 ALSO GAZES INTO YOU! YET YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF WELCOMING ITS PIERCING STARE, FOR DESPITE THE CONSTANT CONNIVING INTERRUPTIONS OF BOTH A TREASONOUS, LARCENOUS PEACE LILY *AND* THE LATEST OF SNAKE MOUNTAIN'S MORONIC MONARCHS, THIS EPISODE STILL MANAGES TO DIG INTO SUCH DIVERSE TOPICS AS CARING FOR PEPEROMIAS, DEALING WITH MOLD GROWTH IN YOUR SOIL, AND THE POTENTIAL LETHALITY OF GINGKO TREES! AND THAT WAS ONLY THE PRE-PLANNED KNOWLEDGE PRESENTED IN THIS...
Published 09/15/21
THERE EXISTS NO FREEDOM FROM EPISODE 12, ONLY FREEDOM *THROUGH* EPISODE 12! JUST AS I CAN FIND NO FREEDOM FROM THE YOKE OF ETERNIA'S MOST IRKSOME HOLIDAY, SIBLING'S DAY! THAT'S RIGHT LISTENER, EVEN WHILST TRAPPED ON A BOAT WITH TWO OF ETERNIA'S MOST BRAINLESS BEARDED BUMBLERS (AND ALSO TWO OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE LARGELY FINE), I STILL FIND TIME AND OPPORTUNITY TO FURTHER YOUR CRITICAL BOTANICAL EDUCATION! WE LEARN OF PLANTS THAT CAN DOUBLE AS CUSHIONING FOR THOSE IN YOUR LIFE WHO REGULARLY...
Published 09/01/21
THEY SAY THAT DEATH RIDES A PALE HORSE... AND SO, TOO, DOES EPISODE 11! AND DESPITE THE SLIGHTLY UNCONVENTIONAL SETTING OF THIS RECORDING (DUE IN NO SMALL PART TO THE CURRENTLY UNCONVENTIONAL LAYOUT OF SNAKE MOUNTAIN), MY FONT OF GARDENING KNOWLEDGE REMAINS FREE-FLOWING! ALL THE BETTER FOR YOU HAPLESS HARE-BRAINED HORTICULTURALISTS, AS WE DISCUSS THE NIGH-UBIQUITOUS SPIDER PLANT! WE EXAMINE THE POTENTIAL LETHALITY OF ROSEMARY! AND IF YOU ARE LAMENTING THE FACT THAT WE DON'T GET INTO IDEAL...
Published 08/15/21
FALL ON YOUR KNEES IN GRATEFUL SUPPLICATION BEFORE EPISODE TEN! YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL TO ME ON A CONSTANT AND DAILY BASIS, BUT THAT GRATITUDE IS ESPECIALLY APPROPRIATE NOW, AS THIS IS THE LONG-AWAITED SUCCULENT EPISODE! THAT'S RIGHT, HERE WE WILL EXAMINE THAT EVER-SO PERSISTENT AND SELF-DESTRUCTIVE IMPULSE THAT COMES TO GARDENERS OF ALL LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE: THE URGE TO ATTEMPT TO KEEP ALIVE A PLANT THAT PREFERS ARID ENVIRONMENTS! A DIFFICULT TASK MADE ALL THE MORE DIFFICULT BY THE...
Published 08/01/21
YOUR NIGHTMARE CONTINUES UNABATED AS THE NEWEST EPISODE OF GARDEN PLOTS WITH SKELETOR EMERGES INTO AN UNPREPARED WORLD! DO NOT ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE SIMILARLY UNPREPARED, LISTENER, AS A NUMBER OF TOPICS OF OVERWHELMING IMPORTANCE ARE DISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODE! THAT'S RIGHT, NOT ONLY DOES THIS EPISODE PROVIDE YOU WITH LITERALLY PRICELESS INFORMATION ABOUT WEEDS, GARDENING TOOLS, AND SQUASH, DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE THOSE AMONG US WHO ARE LEGION? WHO ARE LIKELY CAPABLE OF TRANSFORMING INTO A...
Published 07/15/21
guess what? some weird stuff happened and we have a non-normal episode. again. i know, i'm shocked too. you may not learn as much about plants this time around, but maybe you'll learn something about... life? you'll definitely learn that you can't trust a single person in or around snake mountain, that's for sure.
Published 07/01/21
NOTHING CAN STOP THE TERRIFYING MOMENTUM OF EPISODE SEVEN! THAT'S RIGHT, NOT EVEN SOME DOWNRIGHT IMPLAUSIBLE ARCHITECTURAL REDESIGNS FROM SPITEFUL CONTRACTARIANS! IT DOES CHANGE THE OVERALL TEXTURE OF THE EPISODE, BUT DON'T THINK FOR A MOMENT THAT MEANS THAT YOU'LL BE RECEIVING ANY LESS THAN AN OVERWHELMING AMOUNT OF PLANT FACTOIDS! YOU'LL BE ENLIGHTENED ABOUT THE FERAL AND HIGHLY PRACTICAL BUTTERFLY WEED! YOU'LL HAVE YOUR EYES OPENED TO THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE TIMES TO WATER YOUR PLANTS! YOU'LL...
Published 06/15/21
NOTE THE DEEP FEELINGS OF DREAD IN YOUR BONES WHEN YOU LOOK UPON EPISODE SIX, LISTENER, AND TAKE CARE THAT YOU TREAD LIGHTLY! ALSO NOTE HOW IMMEDIATE THE REGRET IS WHEN MY OWN RIGHTEOUS LEADERSHIP IS REJECTED, AS MY FORMER MINIONS DEMONSTRATE ALL TOO CLEARLY IN THIS VERY EPISODE! BUT THE LEARNING DOESN'T STOP THERE, AS WE DELVE INTO THE SECRETS OF FERTILIZERS, A LISTENER QUESTION SHEDS SOME LIGHT ON PROBLEMS WITH TOMATO HARVESTS, AND WE EVEN GET SOME INCIDENTAL EXPLANATIONS ABOUT PROPAGATING...
Published 06/01/21
MARK YOU THIS DATE IN HISTORY, O MEEK AND TREMBLING LISTENER, FOR THIS IS THE DAY THAT YOU EXPERIENCED THE UNMATCHED FORCE OF EPISODE FIVE! AND THIS IS TRULY A MILESTONE EPISODE, AS THIS MARKS ONE OF THE FEW, IF ONLY, TIMES THAT A GUEST ON THIS SHOW HAS ACTUALLY BEEN WELCOME! WHICH, OF COURSE, DOESN'T PREVENT A VERITABLE PARADE OF *UN*INVITED GUESTS FROM FOLLOWING IN HIS FOOTSTEPS! FEAR NOT, FOR UNMITIGATED BUFFOONERY IS NO MATCH FOR MY GARDENING MIGHT, AND OUR DISCUSSIONS ON OXALIS...
Published 05/15/21
IF YOU AWOKE THIS MORNING WITH AN INDEFINABLE BUT UNDENIABLE FEELING OF DREAD, THAT WAS YOUR BODY'S RESPONSE TO THE INCOMING TERROR OF EPISODE 4! AND WHAT COULD BE MORE TERRIFYING AND DREAD-INDUCING THAN CONSTANT INTERRUPTIONS OF MY GARDENING GENIUS? MY WRATH UPON THOSE WHO INTERRUPT ME, OF COURSE! TRUE, THE ILL-DRESSED CONTRACTORS AND NUMBER-CRUNCHING MINIONS IN THIS EPISODE WERE NOT *IMMEDIATELY* SMOTE DOWN BY MY ARCANE MIGHT UPON COMMITTING THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS, BUT THAT IS ONLY BECAUSE I...
Published 05/01/21
i asked the boss man what he wanted for this episode's description, and he just did this kind of threat-mope at me? like he would kill me with his own patheticness? i dunno, there should be a word for it. we'll call it skeletoring. he skeletored really hard at me. so... what happens in this one again? there's some plant talk, we check in with some of the changes in snake mountain, skeletor reveals some pretty dubious financial investment plans, and... well, i guess i *had* been pressuring him...
Published 04/15/21
THERE CAN BE NO ESCAPE FROM THE EXTREMELY FINE AND NOT-AT-ALL-WALLOWING-IN-EXISTENTIAL-DISCONTENT EPISODE TWO! AND SPEAKING OF BEINGS WHO ARE ENTIRELY CONTENT WITH THE CURRENT STATE OF THINGS, I, YOUR MAGNANIMOUS HOST, AM BACK WITH YET MORE GEMS OF GARDENING WISDOM TO FOIST UPON MY BRAINLESS AUDIENCE IN THE HOPES THAT MAYBE, POSSIBLY, SOMETHING MIGHT STICK! HEREIN LIE THE SECRETS TO EFFECTIVE GARDEN LAYOUTS, USING PLANTS TO CLEAN YOUR INDOOR AIR, AND LICHEN! IT'S JUST A SHAME THAT MY SOUND...
Published 04/01/21
I HOPE YOU ENJOYED WHATEVER PITIFUL COMFORT YOU WERE GIVEN DURING THIS PODCAST'S HIATUS, BUT THAT HIATUS--AND YOUR COMFORT--COMES TO AN END NOW! THAT'S RIGHT, DESPITE SUBSTANDARD INDOOR TEMPERATURES, DISAPPOINTING NEW SNAKE MOUNTAIN LEADERSHIP, AND AN UNACCEPTABLY MOUTHY PEACE LILY, GARDEN PLOTS IS BACK TO DELIVER MORE WONDERFUL YET TERRIFYING KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THAT THE WORLD OF PLANT CARE HAS TO OFFER! I REVEAL THE SECRETS OF USING YOUR SHOWER TO MAKE UP FOR YOUR OWN BUNGLING! WE EXPLORE THE...
Published 03/15/21
okay, i'm dragging this thing back into production kicking and screaming if i have to. which, probably. my gpa is hanging on by a thread as it is.
Published 03/01/21
Season 2 of Garden Plots with Skeletor is coming in March! Will any of the stuff in this trailer actually show up in the show? Only one way to find out... Narrator: Nathaniel Hubbard Man-at-Arms: Jarod K Anderson Skeletor: Dan Mulkerin Riley: Kit Mulkerin Evil-Lyn: Marissa Bond Beast Man: Rafael Medina He-Man: Kris Newton Li'l Skelly: Dan Mulkerin Mer-Man: Nathaniel Hubbard He-Buddy #1: Miles Schneiderman Whiplash: Liz Logan Music Used: Truth of the Legend by Kevin MacLeod Link:...
Published 02/15/21
With season 2 on the horizon, our main creative team sat down with the inimitable Lucas Brown from the podcast The Math of You to discuss the creative process behind season 1. Join us as we chat about our weird fascination with certain characters from Masters of the Universe, the myriad ways in which we've failed our own plants, and take some questions from our listening audience!
Published 02/01/21
i can already hear some of you out there saying, "how can this show have a cutting room floor? riley clearly doesn't edit anything." well think again. here's the proof of how wrong you are.
Published 01/15/21
sup fam, hope everyone's having a good holiday. this is another plant-light episode, but c'mon, it's christmas and stuff. we can't be bothered to think about, like, vines or whatever all the time. sometimes you just wanna get together with your buds, reflect on the year, exchange presents, and think about the future. well, there's a little bit of all of that in this episode, but... maybe not in the ways you're thinking. all i can say is that next year is gonna be very interesting.
Published 12/25/20
Season one of Garden Plots with Skeletor may be wrapping up, but there's plenty more to come! Between now and the start of season two, we'll be releasing various bits of bonus and extra content in this feed, including an interview segment with some of the creators of the show, and we want your questions! Please submit any questions you'd like answered on the show on Twitter @garden_plots or via email to [email protected] by Monday, December 21st. Thanks for listening and we...
Published 12/15/20
don't really have the energy for a description, for a lot of reasons. this one is... well, not really a good representation of the podcast's usual theme. i guess we haven't really visited the podcast's usual theme for a bit now, but this one... yeah, stuff happens. i dunno, just listen. i kind of need to lie down for a while. at least i have some funnel cake.
Published 12/15/20
hey y'all. don't let the fact that skeletor still didn't have time to write a description throw you off, this is a totally normal episode of the show. yup, we talk about tons of plants in this one. so many plants. maybe too many plants? i guess that's up to you. but yup, we cover... moss? and mulch? we definitely don't take advantage of the fact that a certain podcast host is in way over his head to chat about personal drama in eternos. why would you even think that?
Published 12/01/20