Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. Larsen: Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. You like the fuzzy stem. Santore: 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. Okay. You know, maybe not being seen for, for God knows how long. I, of course, would let my common sense and care for an animal in need override their recommendation if it happened again, but I understand why they have to say that.. "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. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. Listen to me. I believe Northern Pacific rattlesnake. Larsen: Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. Oh, what's going on here? Then there are people who got sucked in because of one of those viral videos. You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. That's near Kankakee. 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. Joseph Anthony Bosa ( / bos /; born July 11, 1995) is an American football outside linebacker for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). This shits connected., Theres a parallel between Santores efforts and the present plight of his city. Santore was born in Chicago; his mother was an elementary school teacher and his father left on his first birthday. Cmere, hey, youre OK, shhh, a mans voice can be heard as he runs after a small, skittish coyote through the tall grass. The One Subscription to Fuel All Your Adventures. Okay. It's just the way it is. Personal Quotes (3) I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and ask more questions. Journalist - SF Bay Area. 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. But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. I thought, "Oh, shit!" My work has appeared in newsprint, magazines, websites, and the missed connections section of Craigslist, where I write personalized notes to drivers who cut me off in traffic. So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. And especially where we are now as a species with our understanding of science and the world and all this technology that we have. 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. Uh, where you get summer rain. Braidwood Dunes is another really good one. What is plant systematics? I don't want to hear that. Of course. A Low-Brow, Crass Approach to Plant Ecology & Evolution as muttered by a Misanthropic Chicago Italian. The video captivated peoples hearts and went massively viral, with people applauding Santore for his commitment to trying to help the coyote and loving the thicker than normal Chicago accent that he puts on for his videos. Is there anything you miss about living in Chicago? He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. 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. and he says that accent as a joke, like it just makes him laugh. 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. Joey was interested in science and growing things from an early age: he recalls trips to the Field Museum and propagating elm trees in his backyard. They tried to turn it into a golf course in the 1960s; luckily, that plan failed. 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. In real life, his lilt isnt nearly so exaggerated. Then theres his voice: a native Chicagoan, he can sound like hes on an SNL skit about Da Bears. As a fellow phyto-obsessive personality, Joey is dedicating most of his spare time to not only understanding plant diversity but also sharing his passion for botany with the world. 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? Although he doesnt have a degree in botany, Santore tells TIME that nature is his true passion. I mean, on some level it looks, it looks like a weed. 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. Theyre extremely opportunistic, theyre extremely intelligent animals, so they do whatever they need to do to seek resources. I asked what he thought about the video going viral. And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. "I'm stuffing envelopes right now," he told me from his home in West Oakland. 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. 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. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. 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. 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: Oh, what's going on here? 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. Larsen: Asclepias prostrata is just one species, native to one relatively small ecosystem. Warning: The video above contains graphic language. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. "I liked trees originally because they are so big. I wasnt able to make it there that day so I decided I would bring it there the next morning. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. It was grossly underweight.. 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. It makes life a lot more interesting. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. That's one of mine. 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. Trees are a side pursuit. So I did that and I got her to eat a little bit, he says. Will: Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. The 23-minute videoreleased the week before the murals revealis the work of a tattooed, foulmouthed Chicago transplant who for the past few years has been quietly greening up Oakland. About that Chicago accent: He lays it on thick for the camera. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. The first steps to learning more is realizingyour own ignorance, and then beingwillingto work beyond that. But she was covered in fleas and ticks and mites and also had some nasal discharge. When it comes to wildlife rehabilitation for coyotes, its extremely challenging for coyote pups, she says. I guess it's for the better. 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. 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. Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall. I didn't realize botany could be so cool. Larsen: And they did find some. However, the downtime has allowed him to post more videos about botanizing the Bay Area. Specifically, trees. Apr 29, 2020 - Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. 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. And this is a problem. But Ive had my rabies titer, if it makes you feel any better.. It's a giant a part of how I make my cash." Santore has a whole bunch [] But it's his voice that's the real star of the show. But it's his voice that's the real star of the show. 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. And Jesse's with me. This episode was written and produced by me, Maren Larsen:, and edited by Michael Roberts. 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. 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 starts in Chicago, where he was raised by a single mother who was an elementary school teacher. Will: It looks like a weed. Got a tip? 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. One Atmosphere commissioned a 60-by-30-foot mural of climate activist Greta Thunberg for San Franciscos Union Square. She was really sick, I could tell. Right. Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. It's the oldest psychedelic substance known to man. Joey: You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. He's published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers One single rock can tie a person back to the event in which that rock was created, whether it was a volcanic eruption 20 million years ago or the gradual deposition ofsediments in an ocean 400 million years ago. With Joey Santore. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. And it clearly has a special place in Joey's heart, based on a t-shirt he sells. Larsen: But Joey doesn't see a weed. 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. The Tribune did confirm his identity in a public records search but agreed not to reveal it. 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.. But if [the video] gets people to smile a little bit, that's cool. I have been driving freight trains for, I dunno, the past 15 years. 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. By Monday morning, the clip had 8 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. It was nothing personal, but I rejected them all unless we had mutual friends. Editors Note: Transcriptions of episodes of the Outside Podcast are created with a mix of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain some grammatical errors or slight deviations from the audio. To see this whole thing being paraded around as a cute clickbait video kind of bummed me out. 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. The main plus-side to any of this viral stuff is that maybe it'll encourage more people to look at the world like that. 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." Santore: I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. According to Jesse Will, Joey's subscribers don't fit any kind of mold. To find enough real estate to survive, these prostrata often end up finding their home in the middle of the road. Joey Santore is a photographer, presenter, botanist, known for Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't (2019). 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. All right. 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. Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com. Santore: Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. We dont value plants, we dont value habitat, often we dont value each other. Check out our Patreon page for more info. 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. The next day I called around and the nearest wildlife rehab was like 2 hours away down south. He would print out papers to read during downtime on the trains. May 26, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. He went on to say that his friend who works at a wildlife rehab facility told him to keep the coyote in a cool, dark and quiet place and try to give it some food and water. We have constructed attractive Patreon tiers that allow you to be fully recognized for your regular contribution. 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. 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? His priority is making habitats, not only leaves and pretty flowers. One was that this gentleman was so singleminded in his approach to try and achieve a compassionate outcome for this young animal, she says. Right now Im in Sonora, Arizona. I would probably say the same thing to somebody cause theres a lot of jackaes out there, he says. Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. Joey Santore | major gifts fundraising at charity: water Hi there. Can anyone help? 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. Hes not afraid to mix the sacred, mundane, and lewd. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night. Learn more about all the benefits of membership at outsideonline.com/podplus. Obviously the accents canned, he said. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. (Picture by Jesse Will) I known as Joey Santore simply as he'd returned from a botanizing journey to South Africa. I'm not trying to harass you. He adds that if he had known how sick the coyote was, he wouldve tried to get it to a wildlife rehabilitation center sooner. [upbeat . And around that time I hired out with the railroad, where I got a locomotive license. Most of the prairies have been destroyed, but there's still these little islands left that people can go check out. Grew these both from seed. Learn more about all the fun to be had across the state at visitmississippi.org. My yard now looks a little different from the neighbors next thing you know, it's going to be all milkweed. I have a friend that works at a wildlife rehab, and she told me it was good to keep it in a quiet, calm place, so I kept it in the basement. I associate them with a place to like get away from people and, kind of open air playground. A low-brow, crass approach to plant ecology as muttered by a misanthropic Chicago Italian. It makes the nausea a little bit easier to deal with. It makes sense. 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. It's this squat plant. (He also produces a podcast of the same name.) Just enter the code pod25 at checkout. Will: Uh, he has one that says plant milkweed or get fucked. And Jesse's with me. Some of his trees are now over 30 feet tall! 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. There's a wealth of stuff in the Chicago area that people should check out. 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. and he says that accent as a joke, like it just makes him laugh. 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? Did some redneck shoot your parents whats going on? World United States United Kingdom Canada Australia South Africa Israel India France Belgium Switzerland. I impersonate these Chicago characters as a joke to make the subject material more interesting, he says. He has lots of tattoos and no college degree and is known for illegal tree-planting projects. I'm not trying to harass you. 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. Shhh, what appened to yer fokes?. All right. Joey's video from South Texas has some 50,000 views and counting. 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. 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. 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. Shh, its ok. Im not gonna f with you. You can hit the Explore button [iniNaturalist] and see what grows around you and then just start learning plants by family and genus, which is how they're all grouped together. and the majority of the day, we're looking for this rare milkweed Asclepias prostrata. It's kind of funny. You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. it's still there. His life as a guerrilla forester began when he noticed some of the public spaces the city was ignoring. I wasnt going to be able to make it there that day, so I figured I would take it Monday. I want to share themand [talk about] what a tragedy it is that people don't know this stuff is here. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. First in his backyard in Oakland, and then, as he ran out of space, at the median park close by that became the star of that illegal tree planting video. During an AFC wild-card . Painted on the side of an eight-story building, the fiery teenager looks determined and unbowed, gazing down at pedestrians and traffic with eyes the size of windscreens. But then the next day, it kind of messed me up a little bit more. You knows what Im gonna do, Im gonna take you to a nice rehab facility. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. 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. And especially where we are now as a species with our understanding of science and the world and all this technology that we have. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. He is an ex-punk and a former freight train engineer who has been self-taught in his field. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. I've had everyone from teenagers to suburban dads tell me, Hey, I saw your page. 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. 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. I thought you was a gopher snake at first. And then, uh, of course these are a couple of mine as well. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. He's shooting the shit. But many thrive, and some of his earliest plantings are now impressive specimens. Come along. But before I did that I decided to give it a flea bath, which was probably a stupid idea in retrospect, since I think it might have just been shocked by it. another adaptation to that, uh, aridity that, that dry climate. [Terrier survives coyote attack caught on camera in Northfield]. 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. Guy with a thick Chicago accent helps coyote pup, Newest rescued sea otter pups make their fuzzy debuts at Shedd, Photos: Baby animals from around the world, Terrier survives coyote attack caught on camera in Northfield, WTTW Channel 11 profiled him (using the name Joey Santore, I wrote about the Chicago accent and its near total disappearance from TV and film, Microsoft cuts 10,000 jobs, about 5% of global workforce, Seth Jones rallies Chicago Blackhawks past the Buffalo Sabres 4-3 in overtime to close out 4-3-0 homestand, Kevin Warren and Justin Fields, once divided in the Big Ten during the pandemic, are now united with the Chicago Bears, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. We're going to turn it to shit. 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. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. 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! Joey Bosa. Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie is another excellent one, down by Joliet. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. I don't know, six or seven years give or take. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. That's one of mine. Consider this your heads-up that there are going to be quite a few curse words in this episode. And it's it's, uh, that kind of grated me. But on the other hand, the sad part of the story is that the thing died before I was able to get it to a rehab center. He undoubtedly spurred people who'd never heard about milkweed to give a damn about the plant. (Joey Santore). Nowadays he films the trips he takes in search of some of the rarest plants on the planet. 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