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. Explore. He tried going to college, but while he enjoyed learning, it seemed like a waste of time and money since he didn't yet know what he wanted to do. Santore: Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. You know, maybe not being seen for, for God knows how long. Oh, yeah, there we go. He says that working as a freight train operator rather than spending his time in school has allowed him to pursue that passion. And, uh, Joey Sentore is like mentioned, you know, in terms of this plant. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. Okay. 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. Drawings 2019 - 2021; 2010-18; 2005-09; 1995-2004; 1990-94; 1983-88 . She was really sick, I could tell. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. 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.. It's botany 101, mashed up with expletive-laced tirades about consumerist, car-based American culture. 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.. She had nasal discharge and eye discharge and was just covered in parasites. We don't get that here. Despite Santores good intentions, its never a good idea for humans to interact with a wild animal in this way regardless of the situation, Victoria Monroe, the California Department of Fish and Wildlifes Conflict Programs Coordinator says. Larsen: 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. He's shooting the shit. Soon, he was in deep. According to Jesse Will, Joey's subscribers don't fit any kind of mold. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. The video, he said, is from late June when he was in small Siskiyou County, California, in the northern part of the state. This blend of well-informed science, minor lawbreaking, and humorous rants about the ills of society is what draws people to Joey's YouTube channel, as well as his Instagram account, and his podcast. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Digital Uh, he has one that says plant milkweed or get fucked. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. 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. I mean, on some level it looks, it looks like a weed. I want to help you but I dont want to get bitten, he tells the pup in his put-on accent. And even more specifically, conifers. 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. This plant has adapted to lie dormant in its underground rhizome for years until conditions are right. And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. Larsen: Joey's video from South Texas has some 50,000 views and counting. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. Jesse Will: 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. 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. He's published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers I bet a bunch of illegal tree planting. 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. 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.. Whether its oaks or Oaklanders, theres a lack of suitable habitat for many. So maybe it'll be okay. A knowledge of the relationships between living things and how we have all evolved to survive over time is a coping mechanism and a glimmer of hope in the age of increasingly dire predictions about the progress and effects of climate change. Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. Suddenly I'm able to zoom out and see how the world around me works and how I fit into it and, and observe these relationships that different organisms have with each other. 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? I guess it's for the better. The attention is somewhat unwanted. Larsen: But Joey doesn't see a weed. Shh, its ok. Im not gonna f with you. But, about that voice. That's just the funny accent. Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. Like the most unofficial citizen scientist possibly you could think of is now one of the researchers,being noted on the, the government paper of record on this stuff. I have been driving freight trains for, I dunno, the past 15 years. 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. Anyway guys, here we are once again. Joey Santore holds his cell phone, widescreen-style, in his fingers, one of which is tattooed with a ruler's hash marks. 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. Well, he's not pilfered. Come along. 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. Subscribe for free today! When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. The Field Museum is great too. 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. 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! When I was a kid, a lot of my friends had dads like that. I thought, "Oh, shit!" We have since expanded our show and now offer a range of story formats, including interviews with the biggest figures in sports, adventure, and politics, as well as reports from our correspondents in the field. If someone spots a wild animal that theyre concerned about, Monroe recommends that they contact the Department of Fish and Wildlife directly to assess the situation. JASON HENRY "I liked trees originally because they are so big. 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. I don't know why you're taking that kind of stance with me. This episode is brought to you by Visit Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor lovers. Joey Santore Oakland, California Favorite Activities Makes the turd of, uh, uh, life in modern society easier through a swallow, helps it go down easier. Amidst mild profanity, general irreverence and a thick Chicago accent, Joey examines plant life and the nature of the rocks and soil they grow on, as . Santore: So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. You got those undulate leaf margins with the slightest hint of anthocyanin pigments produced in the red on a leaf margin right there. 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. As his online handle suggests, botany doesnt cover the bills. Nothing major, but a shovel takes two arms. Botanist Joey Santore. Larsen: But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. Can anyone help? It was nothing personal, but I rejected them all unless we had mutual friends. And this is a problem. And then, uh, of course these are a couple of mine as well. This is what happens when you dont have any regulations in place to protect the people on the bottom, he says. For his part, Santore says that while he understands why the Department of Fish and Wildlife recommends avoiding direct contact with wild animals, he feels there can be extenuating circumstances. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. Uh, where you get summer rain. A Low-Brow, Crass Approach to Plant Ecology & Evolution as muttered by a Misanthropic Chicago Italian. Thats basically all I do is I look at rare plants, I photograph them, I make notes and then share that information with the general public and make silly botany videos too., "It looked grossly malnourished. So 30 hours after I found this thing, I woke up and was going to take it to this rehab center on my way back down south. Member Since November 2014. It was grossly underweight.. Let's see. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. There's little nuances of social mannerisms that I miss about Chicago, like that voice I channel on the YouTube page. 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. Larsen: Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. Thats cute, you think youre tough. In the coyote video, which he said was taken in Siskiyou County, Calif., Santore can be seen following a pup that appears to be in poor condition through a field until it finally lies down and lets him pet and pick it up. He admits to being borderline contemptuous of maples and rosebushes. I wasnt going to be able to make it there that day, so I figured I would take it Monday. Riding the rails, he got an up-close tour of the geologic time scale exposed by railroad cuts: layers of rock dating back millennia. 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. and the majority of the day, we're looking for this rare milkweed Asclepias prostrata. Larsen: Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. Perhaps because the accent (and its attendant colloquialisms) has become such a rarity, when it does turn up in a piece of media, people notice which could be one of the reasons why the coyote video has generated so much attention. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. He's squatting in carpenter jeans and dusty black oxfords, scanning each. He would print out papers to read during downtime on the trains. I don't know why. I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. Shhh, what appened to yer fokes?. According to the man behind the video Joey Santore, an Oakland-based, self-taught botanist who runs the YouTube channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't the pup died two nights after he. countries. We're, we're keeping it civil. I got like 120 Facebook friend requests from middle-aged white ladies in Iowa. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. Maybe I should have just left her alone. Then there are people who got sucked in because of one of those viral videos. Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. (Joey Santore). Joey Santore @JoeySantore Recently finished filming our 1st piece for a show encouraging people to kill their lawns & replace with low-maintenance native - or at least non-invasive - gardens. Plants, Redwing boots, dogs. Today. But on Thursday, the Chicagoland native went viral when a profanity-laden clip of him comforting a sick coyote pup surfaced on Twitter, garnering upwards of 8 million views. I saw it (the coyote) running across the road, it looked grossly malnourished. He played college football at Ohio State and was selected third overall by the (then San Diego) Chargers in the 2016 NFL Draft, where he was named NFL Defensive Rookie . And even more specifically, conifers. Listen to me. In the video we see a gentleman who I believe sincerely was coming from a place of compassion, Monroe told TIME. Luckily, it seems like most of the comments have been from these middle-aged women in the middle of the country who just love seeing this cute pupgetting a bath. Larsen: Milkweed is a favorite of many botanists because of its critical importance to the endangered monarch butterfly. We dont value plants, we dont value habitat, often we dont value each other. With Joey Santore. It's totally fascinating stuff, man. Right. You got a fuzzy stem, you got a fuzzy stem. Some of his trees are now over 30 feet tall! You got the damn opposite leaves looking at it. Apr 29, 2020 - Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. That was just the revelation then that God, I don't know shit. I like the ambiance of railroads. Allying with Nature to Regenerate our Living Planet, Perhaps our favorite botanist to watch and learn from, Joey Santore offers us a bit of a different spin on the world of botany with his informative and hilarious (often PG-13) YouTube channel. Larsen: In a move akin to an art thief becoming a museum security guard, train-hopping Joey Santore applied for a job with Union Pacific and was hired on as a brakeman. Larsen: In other words, as the ecosystems around us erode under humanity's touch, understanding the ways they fit together is more crucial than ever. I don't want to hear that. Get access to more than 30 brands, premium video, exclusive content, events, mapping, and more. Learn to spot shallow conformity in social circles and don't waste your time on them, study plants and geology instead. Then, in 2012, he officially appropriated space in the park for rare trees, including Baker, Tecate, Santa Cruz, and Guadalupe cypresses, along with lodgepole pines, coast (aka California) evergreen live oaks, and incense cedars. It's this squat plant. I don't know why. All right. I realize maybe I shouldnt have done that because it probably stressed it out, but again this thing was covered in parasites, he says. A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. I ended up bringing it to the house I was staying at about 15 miles away and called around for wildlife rescue and the nearest one was about a 2 hour drive south. This rekindled his love for the sciences, but it wasn't until he found a used astronomy textbook that he really started to get obsessed. This plant has adapted to lie dormant in its underground rhizome for years until conditions are right. by Joey Santore, a self-taught botanist and producer of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't YouTube channel, which he describes as "a low-brow, crass approach to plant ecology as muttered by a misanthropic Chicago Italian.". There's another one just coming up right in the middle of the road, it's a goddamned big prostrata. I was just in Sonora, Mexico, looking at plants. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. 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. 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. And then the YouTube account blew up, which is cool. I went out and bought some of these books that you recommended and I'm learning so much. That's what really makes it worth it gettingpeople excited about learning and the natural world, which is the antidote to all the ugliness and stress and anxiety of the human world. I think the video obviously it got a lot of hits I think it touched people in different ways. I mix tragedy with comedy to make it more digestible and less futile-seeming. 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. 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. Well, first off, I'm not really trying to create YouTube fluff. He didnt grow up in a traditional way and has not had the traditional jobs that bring you into this field. 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? My yard now looks a little different from the neighbors next thing you know, it's going to be all milkweed. 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. Larsen: He was kicked out of military school and got into graffiti and the punk scene. [Terrier survives coyote attack caught on camera in Northfield]. Most of the prairies have been destroyed, but there's still these little islands left that people can go check out. 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. So I did that and I got her to eat a little bit, he says. It looks like a weed. It's everyone from dope growers to amateur science geeks to viewers who just stumbled onto his YouTube. Amidst mild profanity and general irreverence, we examine plant life (the base of Earth's food chain) and the nature of the rocks and soil they grow on, as well as the evolutionary adaptations that enable . And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. These are just names Im channeling in the form of an ongoing science project to make the information more captivating because the typical dry and boring delivery you usually see has failed people., [Photos: Baby animals from around the world]. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. Trees are a side pursuit. 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. Take it easy, buddy. We spoke to Santore about his complicated feelings on his newfound fame, how the natural world can be abalm for modern anxieties, and why he plays up his Chicago accent for the camera. The Chicago vernacular is kind of dyin out, especially as cities get more gentrified and you get more dog day care and coffee boutiques moving into these old Chicago neighborhoods. I want to get more people excited about it, because theres a lot of dark (crud) coming our way. Journalist - SF Bay Area. Outsides longstanding literary storytelling tradition comes to life inaudio with features that will both entertain and inform listeners. That's one of mine. Larsen: Oh, yeah, there we go. Suddenly I'm able to zoom out and see how the world around me works and how I fit into it and, and observe these relationships that different organisms have with each other. Late in the afternoon Thursday, the twitter account @eedrk posted a two-minute video and captioned it: Guy with a thick Chicago accent helps coyote pup.. This is Plant Support. Santore: I've been breaking relatively unimpactful laws my whole life. I impersonate these Chicago characters as a joke to make the subject material more interesting, he says. They just hide. Theyre extremely opportunistic, theyre extremely intelligent animals, so they do whatever they need to do to seek resources. And they did find some. Tony Santoro is the online alias of West Oakland resident Joey Santore, whose YouTube channel Crime Pays but Botany Doesnt is a rebuff to conventional nature documentaries. Possibilities opened up. 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. And especially where we are now as a species with our understanding of science and the world and all this technology that we have. If you like what we do here, please support our work on an ongoing basis. As with some content posted on Twitter, @eedrk did not create the video. One was rabies transmission and one was mange. Im not going to fuck with you, he promises as he chases the pup, who eventually relents and sits in the grass. In addition we have many gardens here that are maintaining endangered plant species, especially Lotusland. I'm Joey Santore: a Connecticut-born, Brooklyn-living, nonprofit-working, cooking-loving, playlist-making, lucid-dreaming, karate-coaching, twenty-something. Join Outside+ to get Outside magazine, access to exclusive content, 1,000s of training plans, and more. And maybe they'll look at the plants in their backyard in a different way, or maybe they'll yank out some of those plants and replant something. Its a way for me to throw a couple jabs at the elements of society that kind of irk me.. But then the next day, it kind of messed me up a little bit more. (Picture by Jesse Will) I known as Joey Santore simply as he'd returned from a botanizing journey to South Africa. According to the man behind the video Joey Santore, an Oakland-based, self-taught botanist who runs the YouTube channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't the pup died two nights after he discovered it in the northern California countryside in June. Okay. I was out in the country and the nearest rehab center was, like, two hours away, and they weren't open the day I got it. They just hide. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. So I said, fuck it, I'm just gonna be who I am. His appeal is all about sounding nothing like the stereotypical botanist. Larsen: Allow me to introduce you to Joey Santore. By Monday morning, the clip had 8 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. Hes published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers. 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. Santore: Anyway guys, here we are once again. Asclepius prostrata, the prostrate milkweed. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. But I also try to keep [the videos] lighthearted. Larsen: And they did find some. Although Santore was worried about this pup being out during the day, Monroe says thats not actually out of the ordinary. He's just borrowing. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. But also, I grew up knowing guys like that, you know? Per the sponsoring organization, a rendering of the Swedish teen as big as Washingtons face on Mount Rushmore is an effective way to honor and amplify a message of environmental stewardship for a warming planet. And when its fur was wet, I realized how skinny this thing was. Consider this your heads-up that there are going to be quite a few curse words in this episode. That's just my personal take. The whole thing is kind of sad. All right. The mannerisms at least among the white people out there were super soft and delicate and kind of passive, with an NPR voice. May 26, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. It's a real weird cross section of people that are watching this stuff, it's like people that are propagating weed and they got like maybe a little bit more interested in plants than just weed, you know, they want to know more about it. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. But many thrive, and some of his earliest plantings are now impressive specimens. I got [the coyote pup] Saturday and I was going to take it Monday on my way back down south to Oakland because I was in northern California, he told TIME. 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? So a lot of them just kind of look like shit, right. And it clearly has a special place in Joey's heart, based on a t-shirt he sells. We're going to turn it to shit. I believe Northern Pacific rattlesnake. Some of his tree babies meet an untimely end, felled by pollution, city maintenance, or swerving vehicles. 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. You need help! This is ground zero for a lot of environmental action because of the oil spill here in 1969. I think it's kind of risky. Personal Quotes (3) I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and ask more questions. Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. And it clearly has a special place in Joey's heart, based on a t-shirt he sells. And Jesse's with me. email me. We launched in March2016with our first series, Science of Survival, which was developed in partnership with PRX, distributors of the idolized This American Life and The Moth Radio Hour, among others. It makes the nausea a little bit easier to deal with. But then Monday when I woke up and was about to head back down south and take her to the wildlife rehab, she had already passed that night., Santore says that although the coyotes death wasnt entirely unexpected, it still hit him hard. He hasn't looked back ever since. It's kind of funny. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. Santore: I kind of joke humans have like the king might've shit touch, you know, everywhere we go, even if the intent is good, there's enough of us. Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. 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. It's just the way it is. He's just borrowing. All English Franais. We join Santore on a peyote hunt in the South Texas scrublands to try to understand how hes getting so many different kinds of people to geek out on plants. I kind of joke humans have like the king might've shit touch, you know, everywhere we go, even if the intent is good, there's enough of us. He has lots of tattoos and no college degree and is. Refreshingly Funny Ice Cream Man's Prank Video Is a Delicious Summer Treat. Santore: I thought you was a gopher snake at first. 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? I try to always encourage people to download Wikipedia andiNaturalistonto their phones as a resource. A botanist is just someone who studies plants, which is what I doI do it solely because I want to learn.. Got a tip? I'm a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley, California. This is journalist Jesse Will, who profiled Joey for Outside Online. 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. 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. And then a few years later I went back and took some classes, a geology class, an oceanography class and a biology class. 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