{"podcast":{"title":"Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't","slug":"crime-pays-but-botany-doesn-t-244480","podcast_index_feed_id":244480,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5634537/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/crime-pays-but-botany-doesnt","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/aabef98da4722f208d0d3b834538f52f.jpg","author":"Tony Santore","episode_count":289,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crime-pays-but-botany-doesn-t-244480"},"episode":{"title":"Culture and Plants in Nuevo León, Mexico : Carlos \"Aztekium\" Velasco","slug":"culture-and-plants-in-nuevo-le-n-mexico-carlos-aztekium-velasco","published_at":"2026-05-14T17:27:19+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crime-pays-but-botany-doesn-t-244480/culture-and-plants-in-nuevo-le-n-mexico-carlos-aztekium-velasco","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crime-pays-but-botany-doesn-t-244480","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/culture-and-plants-in-nuevo-leon-mexico-carlos-aztekium-velasco--72008204","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72008204/aztekium.mp3","summary":"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 region's botany for 30+ years. He has written a guidebook to the plants of Nuevo León and helped describe new species such as Astrophytum caput-medusae. In this episode we talk about the endemic plants of the Sierra Madre, the habitat of Huasteca Canyon, the urban river known as Rio Santa Catarina and its potential as native plant habitat, Ethnobotany of Mexican Plants, a growing appreciation of native plants in Northern Mexican culture, why the North lost so much of its Ethnobotany compared to the South, and more.","meta_description":"Episodes of the Crime Pays Podcast are available Ad-Free on the Patreon at www.patreon.com/crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt Carlos \"Aztekium\" Velasco is a biologi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4549,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crime-pays-but-botany-doesn-t-244480/episodes/culture-and-plants-in-nuevo-le-n-mexico-carlos-aztekium-velasco/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crime-pays-but-botany-doesn-t-244480/culture-and-plants-in-nuevo-le-n-mexico-carlos-aztekium-velasco.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}