But I also try to keep [the videos] lighthearted. Will: It looks like a weed. As with some content posted on Twitter, @eedrk did not create the video. This video went viral when Joey posted it back in 2019, but venomous snakes are not his typical beat. Okay. Makes the turd of, uh, uh, life in modern society easier through a swallow, helps it go down easier. 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. That's just my personal take. 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." According to Jesse Will, Joey's subscribers don't fit any kind of mold. Larsen: This video went viral when Joey posted it back in 2019, but venomous snakes are not his typical beat. The animal appears sickly and unwell and the man tries to determine if he can catch it and bring it to a rescue center. I want to help you but I dont want to get bitten, he tells the pup in his put-on accent. Who is the man behind an accent more commonly associated with a Chicago firehouse than an open expanse of mountains and grassland? 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. countries. I saw it (the coyote) running across the road, it looked grossly malnourished. The biggest population of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader. another adaptation to that, uh, aridity that, that dry climate. When you speak to them in person that accent gets dialed way back down. 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. 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. The One Subscription to Fuel All Your Adventures. Will: Uh, he has one that says plant milkweed or get fucked. Milkweed is a favorite of many botanists because of its critical importance to the endangered monarch butterfly. It's kind of funny. 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. We're going to turn it to shit. 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. To see this whole thing being paraded around as a cute clickbait video kind of bummed me out. All Rights Reserved. A low-brow, crass approach to plant ecology as muttered by a misanthropic Chicago Italian. Joey Santore holds his cell phone, widescreen-style, in his fingers, one of which is tattooed with a ruler's hash marks. Here's Joey pointing out a colony of the quarter-sized gray-green buttons in the video he made about the day. Will: 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. Asclepius prostrata, the prostrate milkweed. 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. Joey: You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. He started growing rare conifers from seed. 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. 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. And then a few years later I went back and took some classes, a geology class, an oceanography class and a biology class. and the majority of the day, we're looking for this rare milkweed Asclepias prostrata. 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 the video we see a gentleman who I believe sincerely was coming from a place of compassion, Monroe told TIME. You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. I was just in Sonora, Mexico, looking at plants. He's just borrowing. 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. But if [the video] gets people to smile a little bit, that's cool. 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.". 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. 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. Larsen: And they did find some. I believe you; I believe youre so tough., Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. So it's like kind of a full circle moment, right? But he also had this aside at the time, that was like, I get it, yeah of course you had to pitch the psychedelic angle. Behind the camera, the 39-year-old doesn't dress the part of your typical field scientist, instead opting for Oxfords, carpenter jeans, and a baseball cap. 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. Might just be cooking up carbs, storing it in that tuber and then going dormant for a while. 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. Add to that the threat of invasive buffelgrass, which is fast outcompeting this important little weed. Im in absolute awe of the sheer depth of his accent, Twitter user @kevinefarrell commented. Specifically, trees. Santore was born in Chicago; his mother was an elementary school teacher and his father left on his first birthday. 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. Like I just got really excited when I would read about this stuff. So I did that and I got her to eat a little bit, he says. 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. 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. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. Allow me to introduce you to Joey Santore. Uh, where you get summer rain. But she was covered in fleas and ticks and mites and also had some nasal discharge. If there's one thing philosophically learning about natural sciences has done for me, it's to tell me that it's all going to be okay." Joey Santore He is an ex-punk and a former freight train engineer who has been self-taught in his field. Joey's video from South Texas has some 50,000 views and counting. I would be a lot more angry of a person if I didn't have this. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night." But it's his voice that's the real star of the show. it's still there. But is now just kind of leftover. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. It was funny, going out to California when I moved out there. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. and the majority of the day, we're looking for this rare milkweed Asclepias prostrata. And this is a problem. Joey travels around the world and takes you on plant walks, with colorful commentary. 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. 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. Theyre very unpredictableThis gentleman couldve easily been bit or scratched., She went on to say that he brought up some legitimate concerns in the video. You got to get out of the road. 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. So a lot of them just kind of look like shit, right. However, the downtime has allowed him to post more videos about botanizing the Bay Area. Larsen: But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. Meanwhile, across the bay, Tony Santoros Guide to Illegal Tree-Planting debuted. I don't know why. 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 has been throwing shade figuratively and literally in his adopted hometown since moving there in 2006. It plays into some of the more gross elements of human nature. Paintings. He has rather unexpectedly earned a bit of internet fame due to his passion for a far less adrenaline-inducing subject: plants. 2018-21; 2010-17; 1999-2009; 1990-99; 1983-90; 1978-83; 1974-77; 1972-1973; Drawings. 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. Yesterday. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. Here's Joey pointing out a colony of the quarter-sized gray-green buttons in the video he made about the day. 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 around that time I hired out with the railroad, where I got a locomotive license. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. 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. Released on 03/11/2022. You get, for instance, a cactus that's native to the Chicago area. The Field Museum is great too. 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. 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.. You know, and I just dont want to get bitten. Although he doesnt have a degree in botany, Santore tells TIME that nature is his true passion. You know, maybe not being seen for, for God knows how long. That's a Crotalus Organus NorPac. The Thick Chicago Accent Guy Addresses the Sad Fate of the Coyote Pup From the Video. 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. A halfway decent knock-knock joke? You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. Thats not true. 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. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. Will: Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. I obviously don't talk like that in real life I got an accent, but I don't talk like that. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Digital Let's see. I want to share themand [talk about] what a tragedy it is that people don't know this stuff is here. And when its fur was wet, I realized how skinny this thing was. In addition we have many gardens here that are maintaining endangered plant species, especially Lotusland. And then theyll release you back to the wild and you can go eat some feral cats and squirrels and stuff like that, ya know?. 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. It's a giant a part of how I make my cash." Santore has a whole bunch [] Santore: Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. Today. It starts in Chicago, where he was raised by a single mother who was an elementary school teacher. He hadn't cooled off by Monday. 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. Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com. Personal Quotes (3) I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and ask more questions. 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. It's this squat plant. 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? According to the man behind the video Joey Santore, an Oakland-based, self-taught botanist who runs the YouTube channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt the pup died two nights after he discovered it in the northern California countryside in June. So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. World United States United Kingdom Canada Australia South Africa Israel India France Belgium Switzerland. 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. It makes sense. You got those undulate leaf margins with the slightest hint of anthocyanin pigments produced in the red on a leaf margin right there. To find enough real estate to survive, these prostrata often end up finding their home in the middle of the road. But, about that voice. Beyond the tenderheartedness, what really made the video was Santore's thick, Bill Swerski-esque Chicago accent. 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. Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. 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. Right. Magazines, Digital 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? There's little nuances of social mannerisms that I miss about Chicago, like that voice I channel on the YouTube page. And they did find some. I bet a bunch of illegal tree planting. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. Right. Theyre extremely opportunistic, theyre extremely intelligent animals, so they do whatever they need to do to seek resources. Can anyone help? I've been breaking relatively unimpactful laws my whole life. My yard now looks a little different from the neighbors next thing you know, it's going to be all milkweed. 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. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. And, uh, Joey Sentore is like mentioned, you know, in terms of this plant. (Face-to-face, the 37-year-old Santore softens his accent to about 8.) We have constructed attractive Patreon tiers that allow you to be fully recognized for your regular contribution. It makes sense. Of course. (Photo by Jesse Will) I called Joey Santore just as he'd returned from a botanizing trip to South Africa. 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. "I'm stuffing envelopes right now," he told me from his home in West Oakland. 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. A shantytown of homeless people has sprung up adjacent to the neighborhood where hes been doing much of his planting. Also, we're offering new members a 25% discount. Joey Santore is a photographer, presenter, botanist, known for Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't (2019). 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. Joey Santore, based in Oakland, California, specializing in Cupressaceae, currently studying native California Cypresses. Learn more about all the benefits of membership at outsideonline.com/podplus. I want to learn how this stuff works. Well, first off, I'm not really trying to create YouTube fluff. Right now Im in Sonora, Arizona. Every time it feels like an apocalyptic story with this plant. Come along. Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. 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. Some of his trees are now over 30 feet tall! Special interests: Conifers of California, Conifers of Cupressaceae, California Native Cypresses, Arctostaphylos. The whole thing is kind of sad. Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. The Outside Podcast is made possible by our Outside+ members. Every academic botanist that I talked to was super stoked on his work. During an AFC wild-card . (Picture by Jesse Will) I known as Joey Santore simply as he'd returned from a botanizing journey to South Africa. Things that were formerly bland to them become these organisms with their own evolutionary lineages. 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. I don't know why they got to keep grading the road, but you know, you give a man a machine and you tell him, go do this, give him a mower, give him a road grader. "I'm stuffing envelopes proper now," he advised me from his house in West Oakland. Trees that can hack it without pruning and summer watering. She was really sick, I could tell. Apr 29, 2020 - Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. His life as a guerrilla forester began when he noticed some of the public spaces the city was ignoring. Journalist - SF Bay Area. I think the video obviously it got a lot of hits I think it touched people in different ways. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. I don't know, six or seven years give or take. 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.. 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