To see this whole thing being paraded around as a cute clickbait video kind of bummed me out. I think it's kind of risky. Magazines, Or create a free account to access more articles, 'It Just Kind of Struck Me.' Using a stick that does not seem nearly long enough to me, Joey herds the snake out of harm's way as it flicks its tongue ominously, seeming to tolerate -- just barely -- this loud, swearing man trying to save it. Santore: They planted a lot of these roses, which are dying and they planted a bunch of trees that are native to the Eastern U.S. But many thrive, and some of his earliest plantings are now impressive specimens. Apr 29, 2020 - Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. Now based in Oakland, California, he was in Arizona on a botany trip when I reached him by email. The Outside Podcast is made possible by our Outside+ members. Soon, he was in deep. Refreshingly Funny Ice Cream Man's Prank Video Is a Delicious Summer Treat. You can follow Joey Santore on his YouTube channel, Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't, or on his instagram and podcast of the same name. He started growing rare conifers from seed. After hearing Joey talk about milkweed, I'm personally in the mood to go plant a whole shit ton of it maybe even in places where I'm not supposed to. Joey is standing in the middle of a road in Central California, filming with his phone as he has a heart-to-heart with a very distressed looking Northern Pacific rattlesnake. So its mostly a joke, because most science communication is dry and boring. That was just the revelation then that God, I don't know shit. And even more specifically, conifers. May 26, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Jesse Will interviewed Joey Santore. Okay. Aside from the hits, Santores long-form videos offer a panoramic botanical and geological breakdown of a location, explaining current topics like plant speciation and biogeography, alongside profane rants about climate change and the state of things in general. Milkweed is a favorite of many botanists because of its critical importance to the endangered monarch butterfly. And even more specifically, conifers. Just enter the code pod25 at checkout. The penalty, which came . Hi, I'm Joey Santore, plant lover, botanist, and working class mook. Larsen: But you also get the feeling that botany gave him a way to make sense of the world, and of humans' place within it. Even if it gets really ugly, it's still gonna be okay. We're, we're keeping it civil. And despite his cynical-seeming exterior, Joey finds beauty in all of this, too. It's doing pretty good. Take it easy, buddy. Santore: It's, it's like this, recently born into consciousness, species of primate is now able to figure out the world, dissect the world around it and figure out how it fits in. And when its fur was wet, I realized how skinny this thing was. So I ham the Chicago accent up a little bit and put on this character of a geriatric, you know, extroverted, really turned-up loudmouth West Side Italian because my familys Italian, thats mostly what I know, just to make it funny and whatever. You need help! Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. Shhh, what appened to yer fokes?. Like I just got really excited when I would read about this stuff. Joey travels around the world and takes you on plant walks, with colorful commentary. They just hide. So maybe it'll be okay. And I have no context for anything outside of it. All right. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. Okay. You know, maybe not being seen for, for God knows how long. Things that were formerly bland to them become these organisms with their own evolutionary lineages. Rainy winter is planting season, giving his seedlings months to take root. You got your coryphantha, you know, and it all just coming up in the dappled light, the understory of, of the thorn scrub, which of course is getting cleared away at an increasing rate to make room for the fucking Panda express uh, tumor of modern society. Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com. I would probably say the same thing to somebody cause theres a lot of jackaes out there, he says. The tragedy here is we're destroying a lot of this as our population grows, so I guess that's where my misanthropy comes up. Were gonna need this kind of awareness of ourselves in the world to be able to deal with it., Video 1: Santoree Youtube ChannelVideo 2: Interview. After Staley picked it up and gave it back to him, Bosa threw it down again. Larsen: I first learned about Joey a few years ago, in a video titled "Guide to Illegal Tree Planting," which was sent my way by a friend familiar with my affinity for both botany and what's known as "guerilla gardening." Botanist Joey Santore. Look at that beautiful bastard, not flowering yet may not flower this year at all. As with some content posted on Twitter, @eedrk did not create the video. You got those undulate leaf margins with the slightest hint of anthocyanin pigments produced in the red on a leaf margin right there. I would be a lot more angry of a person if I didn't have this. Im in absolute awe of the sheer depth of his accent, Twitter user @kevinefarrell commented. As his online handle suggests, botany doesnt cover the bills. I just want to create a more pleasant place to go, he says, and provide some sort of food or benefit to birds, bugs, and shit like that.. He's going to take that opportunity to, uh, go drive the vroom vroom around and what the shit, you know, let's keep going. The Field Museum is great too. But Ive had my rabies titer, if it makes you feel any better.. But it's his voice that's the real star of the show. I obviously don't talk like that in real life I got an accent, but I don't talk like that. So I did that and I got her to eat a little bit, he says. Maybe all this explains why his YouTube channel, Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt, has more than a quarter-million subscribers. As Jesse points out, what makes Joey's videos different from so many of the strangely popular educational personalities found on YouTube, is that we rarely see much of Joey himself. I first learned about Joey a few years ago, in a video titled "Guide to Illegal Tree Planting," which was sent my way by a friend familiar with my affinity for both botany and what's known as "guerilla gardening." Like I just got really excited when I would read about this stuff. I've had everyone from teenagers to suburban dads tell me, Hey, I saw your page. I just don't think what you're doing is safe behavior. Los Angeles Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa wasn't happy with the officials on Saturday night. I would rather hear science communication spoken to me from someone like that, than from the super-vanilla, watered down NPR voice that you normally hear.. And especially where we are now as a species with our understanding of science and the world and all this technology that we have. You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. But Joey has his own reasons for loving the plant, chiefly its incredible diversity -- there are hundreds of species of milkweed in North America alone -- and unusual flower morphology, laden with abundant nectar and distinctive pollen structures. Something about that old school Chicago accent conjuring the late, great Dennis Farina combined with his attempt to help an ailing animal seems to be key to the videos popularity. It starts with Joey on a rideshare e-scooter that a friend of his had hacked using some kind of computer chip he bought online. iNaturalist joeysantore Joey Santore Curator Joined: Nov 17, 2016 Last Active: Jan 14, 2023 iNaturalist I look at plants & rocks with an emphasis on edaphic endemism, biogeography, speciation and cool evolutionary histories (long lonely branches or broad radiations). He was kicked out of military school and got into graffiti and the punk scene. All right, not that quietly. It appears that he observed a potentially orphaned coyote pup in poor condition so he was trying to obtain this animal and then transfer it to a wildlife rehabilitator., But Monroe says that his approach presents some challenges. He has rather unexpectedly earned a bit of internet fame due to his passion for a far less adrenaline-inducing subject: plants. And his science is good., The promised land of Southern Utah where the rednecks dance on cancerous housing developments, the cows (poo) chocolate and Pediocactus sileri grows on nearly barren gypsum hills. Which is to say: sometimes what it takes to get us to give a shit about the natural world is a foul-mouthed amateur scientist. Santore: I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. Santore is a self-taught botanist and former freight train driver in Oakland, California who believes the natural world can be a balm for modern anxieties caused by climate change and Capitalism. You got to get out of the road. Anyway guys, here we are once again. Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie is another excellent one, down by Joliet. Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. He admits to being borderline contemptuous of maples and rosebushes. Well, he's not pilfered. I think it's kind of risky. Hes published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers. You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. You're ob-, obviously a NorPac. We dont value anything geologically or botanically unless it has a direct benefit for us., A Life Cleanse in the Waters of Desert Hot Springs. Meet the Misanthropic Chicago Italian Who Charmed Twitter, 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website, I try to always encourage people to download Wikipedia and, onto their phones as a resource. I love getting people excited about these things I've seen. It looks like a weed. He's on your level. Explore. No, it's not like that. He's shooting the shit. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. "I'm stuffing envelopes proper now," he advised me from his house in West Oakland. Joey is extremely interested in natural evolutionary adaptation, observing how plants evolved into different forms and determining how and why each one got to be exactly where they are. You got the damn opposite leaves looking at it. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. And maybe you have a better likelihood of accepting. Theres so many different wildlife disease concerns that have significant overlap with human health impact.. You can see the full 3 minute video (which includes some post-flea bath footage) on the Caters Clips YouTube Channel, which posted it July 5. You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. Santore: So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. He would print out papers to read during downtime on the trains. This is what happens when you dont have any regulations in place to protect the people on the bottom, he says. You gotta go to a rehab facility or sometin You need help, you know? And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. Phone service was spotty so he sent a voice memo back "This is going to be a lot easier than typing with my thumbs on a smartphone, which is really a seventh layer of hell for me (we later connected by phone) answering my questions about the video and the fate of the coyote. I thought, "Oh, shit!" Unfortunately when I found her, I was so far out in the middle of nowhere and I didnt really realize how sick she was until later that night when I brought her home, he says. I think the video obviously it got a lot of hits I think it touched people in different ways. At certain times of year, especially this time of year, they are often active during the day. I found it hard to swallow. Santore has been throwing shade figuratively and literally in his adopted hometown since moving there in 2006. The man behind the voice is a La Grange native and amateur botanist who for reasons of maintaining privacy has posted his videos in character under names such as Joey Santore and Tony Santoro and others. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. You know, maybe not being seen for, for God knows how long. it's still there. Santore, who hails from West Oakland, is YouTube's botany- and profanity-loving phenom by Robert Langellier July 11, 2022 Share This: Botanist Joey Santore. We're, we're keeping it civil. This plant has adapted to lie dormant in its underground rhizome for years until conditions are right. The first steps to learning more is realizingyour own ignorance, and then beingwillingto work beyond that. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. It was recently proposed for the Endangered Species list, and is only observed a few dozen times a year in a handful of locations near the Rio Grande. Joey Bosa was responsible for one of the more costly moments of the Los Angeles Chargers' collapse Saturday, taking a crucial 15-yard penalty after losing his temper on the sideline. Theyre extremely opportunistic, theyre extremely intelligent animals, so they do whatever they need to do to seek resources. Joey made "Guide to Illegal Tree Planting" when he was living in Oakland, California, where a project to enhance the extra-wide median of parkway left him a bit uninspired. Nother payote right there, doing that thing they do, just blendin' in with the gravels that have been deposited over the last, I don't know, 300,000 years by the, uh, meandering channel of the Rio Grand-ee. I remember reading about spectroscopy there and that was what really blew my mind was how you could take the light that's reflected off of a star or a planet and put it through a prism and then you'd get a spectral signature of whatever the atmosphere was composed of or whatever the star was composed of. Larsen: And so, an ex-punk, former-train-hopper-turned-engineer who doesn't have a college degree is getting hundreds of thousands of people excited about botany using just a camera and his voice. Total Photos Contributed: 339 [View all photos] or [See a list of all photos] or [View most recent photos] Collection: Private Trees are a side pursuit. with a website! There's enough cat videos and cute videos with corny narratives. Santore: The biggest population of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader. There's a wealth of stuff in the Chicago area that people should check out. Beyond the tenderheartedness, what really made the video was Santore's thick, Bill Swerski-esque Chicago accent. Joey took matters into his own hands and began slowly replacing the non-native, water-sucking ornamentals the city installed with an assortment of plants he grew himself from seed. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. You knows what Im gonna do, Im gonna take you to a nice rehab facility. That's a Crotalus Organus NorPac. Larsen: Joey had always liked railroads. That's just the funny accent. Joey: You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. A shantytown of homeless people has sprung up adjacent to the neighborhood where hes been doing much of his planting. When it comes to wildlife rehabilitation for coyotes, its extremely challenging for coyote pups, she says. I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and askmore questions. The first steps to learning more is realizing your own ignorance, and then being willing to work beyond that. Joey Santore, based in Oakland, California, specializing in Cupressaceae, currently studying native California Cypresses. Santore is turned on to the outdoors because hes turned off by everything else. Right. I believe Northern Pacific rattlesnake. I don't know why. On his YouTube channel, Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't, which has close to 260,000 subscribers, the vast majority of his videos have him giving half-hour-plus-long lectures on topics like plant morphology and evolutionary relationships in his very distinctive accent. It's botany 101, mashed up with expletive-laced tirades about consumerist, car-based American culture. Theres unfortunately a sad ending to the story of a guy with a thick Chicago accent trying to rescue a struggling coyote pup. Hard to mistake the voice-overs blue-collar, lunch-bucket bawl for Sir David Attenborough when the speaker declares that planting treesgivers of oxygen, creators of atmospheremakes the turd of lifeeasier to swallow.. You have to reach almost a critical mass, like a minimum number of coyote pups of similar age in a rehab situation to rear so that way theyre positioned for success when you release. Santore: And then I realized, I didn't know anything about the country I lived in and it was a big ass country, so why not travel? I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. But he did link to Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt, the YouTube channel where the clip originated, among a collection of nature videos about plants narrated in that same recognizable Chicago accent. Santore is an amateur, self-taught botanist who posts videos nearly every day to his YouTube channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt,which he describes as alow-brow, crass approach to plant ecology as muttered by a misanthropic Chicago Italian.. Joey Bosa. While some scientists bristle at Joey's swearing or his abrasive politics, most professional plant lovers recognize that his approach is having an important impact. Uh, he has one that says plant milkweed or get fucked. And despite his cynical-seeming exterior, Joey finds beauty in all of this, too. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. To find enough real estate to survive, these prostrata often end up finding their home in the middle of the road. Trees that can hack it without pruning and summer watering. Real banger right there. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. The animal appears sickly and unwell and the man tries to determine if he can catch it and bring it to a rescue center. Gypsum-endemic plants of Southern Utah quell the pain of life in this culturally bleak wasteland., Instead of this myopia, where we view everything through the lens of our own life, botany lets you zoom out and see how the world works and observe these relationships that different organisms have with each other. I want to inspire people to look at the world differently, he says. Santore: Anyway guys, here we are once again. But is now just kind of leftover. There's something to be said for keeping something like this around, you know, it's, it's a part of this, this interwoven fabric that supports it, supports the life that's been here for millions of years and is part of the bigger picture. Check out our Patreon page for more info. So I said, fuck it, I'm just gonna be who I am. "Mailing out stickers. Joey is a botanist & producer of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't YouTube channel. While some scientists bristle at Joey's swearing or his abrasive politics, most professional plant lovers recognize that his approach is having an important impact. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. A good read? And then I realized, I didn't know anything about the country I lived in and it was a big ass country, so why not travel? Add to that the threat of invasive buffelgrass, which is fast outcompeting this important little weed. He keeps a stash of 40 to 50 saplings in his backyard and at a friends nursery, awaiting the next chance to sneak a tree onto a median or into another opportune location. You'll see guys posting photos of dead coyotes they shot over the weekend. The YouTube field botany videos came along later, when he realized that much of the habitat he was enhancing, and in some cases creating, merited documentation before it disappeared to make way for a futureless car-slum, as he puts it. I saw it (the coyote) running across the road, it looked grossly malnourished. Take it easy, buddy. I don't know why. An ex-punk and former train engineer who is self-taught in the sciences, Joey Santore does not fit the mold of the stereotypical botanist. It was funny, going out to California when I moved out there. You can plant this thing that would outlive you and maybe destroy the sidewalk," says Oakland resident Joey Santore, whose viral video " Tony Santoro's Guide to Illegal Tree-Planting " playfully documents his subversive efforts to reforest his neighborhood. She also warns that rehabilitating a lone coyote pup is a particularly complicated venture. In addition we have many gardens here that are maintaining endangered plant species, especially Lotusland. It's just the way it is. In real life, his lilt isnt nearly so exaggerated. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. Journalist - SF Bay Area. Then there are people who got sucked in because of one of those viral videos. And then, uh, of course these are a couple of mine as well. Because what better way to understand the guy who created "Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't" than to join him on a hunt for a plant that's a schedule 1 controlled drug? Which brings us to a big question: If Joey can get thousands of people invested in the fate of a scraggly weed, what kind of impact can he have on science and conservation at large? Come along. Last fall, two very different approaches to addressing climate change unfolded in the Bay Area. You're ob-, obviously a NorPac. I wasnt going to be able to make it there that day, so I figured I would take it Monday. Larsen: Using a stick that does not seem nearly long enough to me, Joey herds the snake out of harm's way as it flicks its tongue ominously, seeming to tolerate -- just barely -- this loud, swearing man trying to save it. Let's see. What drew you to making videos about botany? I want to get more people excited about it, because theres a lot of dark (crud) coming our way. Do you have any favorite hikes or excursions you recommend in the Chicago area? But on Thursday, the Chicagoland native went viral when a profanity-laden clip of him comforting a sick coyote. When I was a kid, a lot of my friends had dads like that. And in particular, that pup being in thinner body condition and being possibly hungry, that wouldnt be unexpected to see it at different times of day or night, she explains. And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. Monroe says she hopes the popularity of the video helps spread an important message about human contact with wildlife especially with the recent increase in human-coyote interactions in California. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. Riding the rails, he got an up-close tour of the geologic time scale exposed by railroad cuts: layers of rock dating back millennia. Larsen: And they did find some. Okay. A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. But the truth is that Joey has this sense of raw and unbridled enthusiasm thats elusive to a lot of professionals, says Michael Eason, who runs the Rare Plant Conservation Department at the San Antonio Botanical Garden. It's totally fascinating stuff, man. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. but I think there's other things happening there it's like in this time that we're in, which is like pretty, anti-science he's getting across these scientific ideas by not sounding like he's shouting at you from the ivory tower, right? Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. Bosa removed and slammed his helmet on the ground while still on the field. So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. By Monday morning, the clip had 8 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. When Joey Santore went searching for a biological "origin story" of sorts, he stumbled into the world of botany. Larsen: Milkweed is a favorite of many botanists because of its critical importance to the endangered monarch butterfly. Grew these both from seed. Here's Joey pointing out a colony of the quarter-sized gray-green buttons in the video he made about the day. I am trying to find this guy to invite him to Santa Barbara. Makes the turd of, uh, uh, life in modern society easier through a swallow, helps it go down easier. By his own estimate, he has planted somewhere between 300 and 400 trees, mostly native and drought-tolerant oaks and cypresses, along medians and in parks. Here's Joey pointing out a colony of the quarter-sized gray-green buttons in the video he made about the day. Get access to more than 30 brands, premium video, exclusive content, events, mapping, and more. Santore, who also goes by Joe Blowe and Tony Santoro online (none are his real name, for privacy reasons), grew up in La Grange and lived there until he went to college in California. I went to college and studied sociology and communication but dropped out to travel. If it gets people to hate coyotes a little less and not demonize them, I'm down with it. The soil type is different there, it's all really sandy. (Photo by Jesse Will) I called Joey Santore just as he'd returned from a botanizing trip to South Africa. But as he told Jesse Will while they traveled around South Texas, once he hit his teen years he tended to get into trouble. A low-brow, crass approach to plant ecology as muttered by a misanthropic Chicago Italian. They planted a lot of these roses, which are dying and they planted a bunch of trees that are native to the Eastern U.S. You can read Jesse's story on Outside Online. But if it gives me a chance to get more people excited about botany and plants and viewing the world outside of this depressing human infrastructure in society that I think is killing so many of us slowly, then I guess its good then I guess the clickbait coyote video served a purpose and its all part of my grandiose plan to get more people interested in science and ecology and I guess, this sounds corny, the natural world in general.. Plants, Redwing boots, dogs. And it clearly has a special place in Joey's heart, based on a t-shirt he sells. He's on your level. And around that time I hired out with the railroad, where I got a locomotive license. No, it's not like that. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. A botanist is just someone who studies plants, which is what I doI do it solely because I want to learn.. We're going to turn it to shit. Larsen: After hearing Joey talk about milkweed, I'm personally in the mood to go plant a whole shit ton of it maybe even in places where I'm not supposed to. During an AFC wild-card . As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. Thats not true. Looking for Tony Santoro online? When he ran out of room in his California backyard, he began planting them without permission in public places, including Mandela Median Parkway in Oakland. I just been planting trees, sometimes with permission, mostly without, uh, because the city I live in kind of dropped the ball so hard on their, uh, uh, public beautification efforts. It was nothing personal, but I rejected them all unless we had mutual friends. Santore: It's an idea of the bigger picture, you know, instead of this human myopia, where I'm just I'm just concerned about, I view everything through the lens of my own life. In his videos, he crosses citizen science with vigilante environmentalism. He exposes the secrets of these botanical misfits to us in his own gleefully peculiar style, and we simply cannot get enough! I wasnt able to make it there that day so I decided I would bring it there the next morning. She was really sick, I could tell. But when you hear him talk about what drew him to the science, you get the sense that Joey turned to plants because he was sick of humans. Not in a bad way. Will: Uh, he has one that says plant milkweed or get fucked. "I dont know, the whole thing kind of messes me up thinking about it because it was pretty sad she died that morning when I was due to bring her south to the wildlife rehab that was on my way back to Oakland., "It looked grossly malnourished. email me. We don't know what would happen if it disappeared completely, but Joey says that he doesn't want to find out. One was rabies transmission and one was mange. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. One is that, at the department, we never recommend chasing or cornering or forcibly handling wildlife. Today I'm here to answer your plant questions via Twitter. Basically he stole the scooter or somebody handed him the scooter and that's your intro to the whole video, which just seems like appropriate. His priority is making habitats, not only leaves and pretty flowers. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. So a lot of them just kind of look like shit, right. He has lots of tattoos and no college degree and is known for illegal tree-planting projects. Obviously the accents canned, he said. And this is a problem. and he says that accent as a joke, like it just makes him laugh. Join Outside+ to get Outside magazine, access to exclusive content, 1,000s of training plans, and more. Add to that the threat of invasive buffelgrass, which is fast outcompeting this important little weed. Let's see. Larsen: Oh, yeah, there we go.

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