I wasnt going to be able to make it there that day, so I figured I would take it Monday. And even more specifically, conifers. Just enter the code pod25 at checkout. Well, first off, I'm not really trying to create YouTube fluff. Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. The animal appears sickly and unwell and the man tries to determine if he can catch it and bring it to a rescue center. 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. You're ob-, obviously a NorPac. They just hide. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. May 26, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Let's see. I mean, she almost certainly would have died she was underweight and she had mucus in her nose and eyes but maybe she would have been food for something else. This plant has adapted to lie dormant in its underground rhizome for years until conditions are right. 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. Listen to me. 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: Allow me to introduce you to Joey Santore. 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. Most important is the Garfield Park Conservatory, which is free and features plants from all over the world. Joey Santore is a photographer, presenter, botanist, known for Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't (2019). 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. My yard now looks a little different from the neighbors next thing you know, it's going to be all milkweed. Will: It's the oldest psychedelic substance known to man. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. Santore works a day job driving diesel locomotives. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. 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. 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. 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. Larsen: But Joey doesn't see a weed. Member Since November 2014. and he says that accent as a joke, like it just makes him laugh. 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. Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall. 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. You need help! There's enough cat videos and cute videos with corny narratives. Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. As his online handle suggests, botany doesnt cover the bills. I mix tragedy with comedy to make it more digestible and less futile-seeming. 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. Joey Santore, based in Oakland, California, specializing in Cupressaceae, currently studying native California Cypresses. Today I'm here to answer your plant questions via Twitter. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. His life as a guerrilla forester began when he noticed some of the public spaces the city was ignoring. He was kicked out of military school and got into graffiti and the punk scene. 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. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. Learn more about all the fun to be had across the state at visitmississippi.org. Here's Joey pointing out a colony of the quarter-sized gray-green buttons in the video he made about the day. 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: Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. This video went viral when Joey posted it back in 2019, but venomous snakes are not his typical beat. Every time it feels like an apocalyptic story with this plant. I don't want to hear that. His appeal is all about sounding nothing like the stereotypical botanist. 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. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. I guess why I talk like that is, one, I want to make the science communication more funny. 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. Joey Santore holds his cell phone, widescreen-style, in his fingers, one of which is tattooed with a ruler's hash marks. So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. In real life, his lilt isnt nearly so exaggerated. It was crossing a road on like a 90-degree day at 2 p.m, he says. And it's it's, uh, that kind of grated me. Santore: I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. I mean, on some level it looks, it looks like a weed. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Here's Joey pointing out a colony of the quarter-sized gray-green buttons in the video he made about the day. I don't want to hear that. Im in absolute awe of the sheer depth of his accent, Twitter user @kevinefarrell commented. You gotta go to a rehab facility or sometin You need help, you know? WARNING: This video includes foul language. Allow me to introduce you to Joey Santore. [upbeat . Joeys a breath of fresh air. Joey's video from South Texas has some 50,000 views and counting. And then a few years later I went back and took some classes, a geology class, an oceanography class and a biology class. At the time, I was like, "Whatever, shit happens, animals die." I obviously don't talk like that in real life I got an accent, but I don't talk like that. I saw it (the coyote) running across the road, it looked grossly malnourished. 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 normally crepuscular or theyre out at night.". I thought, "Oh, shit!" First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. I would be a lot more angry of a person if I didn't have this. I've been breaking relatively unimpactful laws my whole life. Is there anything you miss about living in Chicago? Will: Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. At certain times of year, especially this time of year, they are often active during the day. Of course. 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. It's doing pretty good. All Rights Reserved. Larsen: But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. Then theres his voice: a native Chicagoan, he can sound like hes on an SNL skit about Da Bears. But also, I grew up knowing guys like that, you know? And around that time I hired out with the railroad, where I got a locomotive license. Makes the turd of, uh, uh, life in modern society easier through a swallow, helps it go down easier. But I also try to keep [the videos] lighthearted. Can anyone help? He has lots of tattoos and no college degree and is known for illegal tree-planting projects. The penalty, which came . Joey is a botanist & producer of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't YouTube channel. When Joey Santore went searching for a biological "origin story" of sorts, he stumbled into the world of botany. Unfortunately, it seems this particular coyote pup may have already had something wrong with it when Santore stumbled upon it. This episode was written and produced by me, Maren Larsen:, and edited by Michael Roberts. But also,[coyotes] are heavily persecuted. I've had everyone from teenagers to suburban dads tell me, Hey, I saw your page. 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, and when I talked to him on the phone, he's he's like, yeah, I know where some populations of that are, you know, I'm going to go look for some new ones. Absolutely. Anyone who lives in Chicago knows that Tony Santoro is an actual person. Even if it gets really ugly, it's still gonna be okay. Warning: The video above contains graphic language. 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. Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. 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.. I'm a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley, California. He now works as a freight train driver in Oakland, where he frequently makes trips into the wilderness in search of native plants. Joey travels around the world and takes you on plant walks, with colorful commentary. Right now Im in Sonora, Arizona. Larsen: 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. Joey was born in Chicago and yet --. Santore: 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. (Face-to-face, the 37-year-old Santore softens his accent to about 8.) 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. It makes sense. He says that working as a freight train operator rather than spending his time in school has allowed him to pursue that passion. I guess it's for the better. 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. 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. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. It's just the way it is. So I said, fuck it, I'm just gonna be who I am. Learn to spot shallow conformity in social circles and don't waste your time on them, study plants and geology instead. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. Also, we're offering new members a 25% discount. 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." Hes published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers. A shantytown of homeless people has sprung up adjacent to the neighborhood where hes been doing much of his planting. The fish and wildlife service posted their proposal to put Asclepius prostrata, the plant that he was searching for the day that I shattered him on the endangered species list. I went to college and studied sociology and communication but dropped out to travel. I mean, on some level it looks, it looks like a weed. I want to inspire people to look at the world differently, he says. A lot of folks think that coyotes in particular are purely nocturnal or even crepuscular, which is like dawn, dusk, night. Santore: I like the ambiance of railroads. The Tribune did confirm his identity in a public records search but agreed not to reveal it. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. 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. and he says that accent as a joke, like it just makes him laugh. 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." It's this squat plant. Refreshingly Funny Ice Cream Man's Prank Video Is a Delicious Summer Treat. I would just be going [to school] to learn this stuff rather than get that piece of paper and thats kind of the whole idea behind the Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt thing. Grew these both from seed. Larsen: 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. 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. Hes not afraid to mix the sacred, mundane, and lewd. I just don't think what you're doing is safe behavior. So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. That's just the funny accent. Plants, Redwing boots, dogs. Santore is turned on to the outdoors because hes turned off by everything else. The Thick Chicago Accent Guy Addresses the Sad Fate of the Coyote Pup From the Video. These are animals that dont let you get close to them, but it was so sick I was able to get up close to it and I could see it was kind of scraggly and it was totally malnourished and underweight., After realizing that the coyote was covered in parasites, including ticks and fleas, Santore says that he decided to give it a bath. 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. 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. You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. The soil type is different there, it's all really sandy. 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. 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. But many thrive, and some of his earliest plantings are now impressive specimens. it's still there. Just to get more voices into the fold to invite more people to care about this stuff, because any interest that they get is, is a good thing. Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher who first studied with Plato and then became a disciple Beyond the tenderheartedness, what really made the video was Santore's thick, Bill Swerski-esque Chicago accent. It's the oldest psychedelic substance known to man. And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. Maren Larsen (host): From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. [Outside the city], there's Wolf Road Prairie, [plus] a couple prairies down in Markham. There's a wealth of stuff in the Chicago area that people should check out. Let's see. 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.". 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 am trying to find this guy to invite him to Santa Barbara. And I have no context for anything outside of it. 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. Santore: So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. 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. Might just be cooking up carbs, storing it in that tuber and then going dormant for a while. Santore: I've been breaking relatively unimpactful laws my whole life. 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 got a fuzzy stem, you got a fuzzy stem. 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. 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? Add to that the threat of invasive buffelgrass, which is fast outcompeting this important little weed. He's shooting the shit. Although he doesnt have a degree in botany, Santore tells TIME that nature is his true passion. Looking back, she was really sick. But if [the video] gets people to smile a little bit, that's cool. 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. He's on your level. Yesterday. Larsen: Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. 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. No, it's not like that. As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. Among Santores fans are plant geeks, outdoor enthusiasts, and cannabis growers who were worm-holed into Santores channel while looking up plant propagation. I want to share themand [talk about] what a tragedy it is that people don't know this stuff is here. You get, for instance, a cactus that's native to the Chicago area. And Jesse's with me. 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. The mannerisms at least among the white people out there were super soft and delicate and kind of passive, with an NPR voice. They just hide. Will: It looks like a weed. I was just in Sonora, Mexico, looking at plants. Learn more about all the adventures to be had across Mississippi at visitmississippi.org. And especially where we are now as a species with our understanding of science and the world and all this technology that we have. Consider this your heads-up that there are going to be quite a few curse words in this episode. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. I would probably say the same thing to somebody cause theres a lot of jackaes out there, he says. Cmere, hey, youre OK, shhh, a mans voice can be heard as he runs after a small, skittish coyote through the tall grass. 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. And this is a problem. 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. Joey Bosa. Maybe I should have just left her alone. Theres unfortunately a sad ending to the story of a guy with a thick Chicago accent trying to rescue a struggling coyote pup. I want to learn how this stuff works. I impersonate these Chicago characters as a joke to make the subject material more interesting, he says. Joey's presentation to the Houston Native Prairie Association will be a series of . 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. 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.. 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. Magazines, Digital 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. We have constructed attractive Patreon tiers that allow you to be fully recognized for your regular contribution. 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. You got to get out of the road. 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. This modern Johnny Appleseed would have preferred to have been out planting when we met, but some corrective shoulder surgery has him temporarily sidelined. I don't know why. 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. The Landscape Architecture Podcast. 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. I'm Joey Santore: a Connecticut-born, Brooklyn-living, nonprofit-working, cooking-loving, playlist-making, lucid-dreaming, karate-coaching, twenty-something. A low-brow, crass approach to plant ecology as muttered by a misanthropic Chicago Italian. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. Things that were formerly bland to them become these organisms with their own evolutionary lineages. 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. That's one of mine. 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.. 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. Joey travels around the world and takes you on plant walks, with "colorful" commentary. Get access to more than 30 brands, premium video, exclusive content, events, mapping, and more. 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