{"podcast":{"title":"Natural Connections","slug":"natural-connections-90209","podcast_index_feed_id":90209,"rss_url":"https://cablenaturalhistorymuseum.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://cablenaturalhistorymuseum.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/4/7/6/a4765a07d301e418/podcast_logo.jpg","author":"Emily Stone","episode_count":99,"summary":"Natural Connections is a weekly newspaper column created by Emily Stone, the Naturalist/Education Director at the Cable Natural History Museum in Cable, Wisconsin. In each episode, Emily reads her fun and informative weekly column about Northwoods Nature.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209"},"episode":{"title":"406 - Mulling over Mullein","slug":"406-mulling-over-mullein","published_at":"2025-12-25T18:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209/406-mulling-over-mullein","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209","url":"https://cablenaturalhistorymuseum.libsyn.com/406-mulling-over-mullein","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cablenaturalhistorymuseum/406_-_Mulling_over_Mullein.mp3?dest-id=491045","summary":"This is the season for lists highlighting our most-listened-to or best-of-whatevers at the end of the year, so I decided to dig into the stats on my Natural Connections blog. To my surprise, the most-read article in 2025 was one I wrote in February of 2016 about a plant called mullein. In August 2025 it spiked in popularity, far above my normal readership. I have no idea why. I recently told someone the story of finding the chickadee-cached seed in the mullein stalk, but I'd forgotten about the rest of the article. It's fun! And appropriate to this season. So, I hope you enjoy it as much as the 1.24K other readers did, too! Happy New Year! –Emily","meta_description":"This is the season for lists highlighting our most-listened-to or best-of-whatevers at the end of the year, so I decided to dig into the stats on my Natur…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":396,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/natural-connections-90209/episodes/406-mulling-over-mullein/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209/406-mulling-over-mullein.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}