Okay. That's near Kankakee. Well, he's not pilfered. You're ob-, obviously a NorPac. 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. He's shooting the shit. He has rather unexpectedly earned a bit of internet fame due to his passion for a far less adrenaline-inducing subject: plants. 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. Member Since November 2014. 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. I want to learn how this stuff works. [upbeat . Joey is a botanist & producer of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't YouTube channel. He's squatting in carpenter jeans and dusty black oxfords, scanning each. 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. Did some redneck shoot your parents whats going on? But I also try to keep [the videos] lighthearted. 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. Joey was born in Chicago and yet --. You can read Jesse's story on Outside Online. You got those undulate leaf margins with the slightest hint of anthocyanin pigments produced in the red on a leaf margin right there. They tried to turn it into a golf course in the 1960s; luckily, that plan failed. And then a few years later I went back and took some classes, a geology class, an oceanography class and a biology class. I didn't realize botany could be so cool. 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. A lot of folks think that coyotes in particular are purely nocturnal or even crepuscular, which is like dawn, dusk, night. But as he told Jesse Will while they traveled around South Texas, once he hit his teen years he tended to get into trouble. A halfway decent knock-knock joke? Joey Santore | major gifts fundraising at charity: water Hi there. 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. Hes not afraid to mix the sacred, mundane, and lewd. Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. I wasnt going to be able to make it there that day, so I figured I would take it Monday. 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. If it gets people to hate coyotes a little less and not demonize them, I'm down with it. I wasnt able to make it there that day so I decided I would bring it there the next morning. Joey is extremely interested in natural evolutionary adaptation, observing how plants evolved into different forms and determining how and why each one got to be exactly where they are. 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 . Bosa removed and slammed his helmet on the ground while still on the field. 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. Last fall, two very different approaches to addressing climate change unfolded in the Bay Area. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. It's kind of funny. But also, I grew up knowing guys like that, you know? 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. 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. Take it easy, buddy. Soon, he was in deep. Absolutely. and the majority of the day, we're looking for this rare milkweed Asclepias prostrata. email me. It was like a blank canvas, he says, very much like graffitiing except less likely to piss people off., Santore goes for species that are fast-growing and resilient, preferably native. 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. So it's like kind of a full circle moment, right? Then there are people who got sucked in because of one of those viral videos. Outsides longstanding literary storytelling tradition comes to life inaudio with features that will both entertain and inform listeners. Soon, he was in deep. And even more specifically, conifers. 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. I like the ambiance of railroads. 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. This episode is brought to you by Visit Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor lovers. 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. 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. Okay. Come along. Subscribe for free today! Let's see. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. Volo Bog near Crystal Lake is another great resource. One was that this gentleman was so singleminded in his approach to try and achieve a compassionate outcome for this young animal, she says. 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. 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. He started growing rare conifers from seed. 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. By Cirrus Wood Apr 27, 2020 West Oakland resident Joey Santore is often on the lookout for neglected medians or public spaces where he might secretly plant a tree. 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. Over the course of 13 years with Union Pacific, he worked his way up to an engineer, reading about the latest updates in the field of botany whenever he could. Earlier this month, WTTW Channel 11 profiled him (using the name Joey Santore) and though he does have a noticeable Chicago accent, its not nearly as heavy as what you hear in his nature videos (or his voice memo to me). My yard now looks a little different from the neighbors next thing you know, it's going to be all milkweed. Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall. We're going to turn it to shit. 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. Sorry. Allow me to introduce you to Joey Santore. Learn more about all the benefits of membership at outsideonline.com/podplus. Consider this your heads-up that there are going to be quite a few curse words in this episode. His appeal is all about sounding nothing like the stereotypical botanist. I'm not trying to harass you. Join Outside+ to get Outside magazine, access to exclusive content, 1,000s of training plans, and more. It's doing pretty good. At the time, I was like, "Whatever, shit happens, animals die." The Tribune did confirm his identity in a public records search but agreed not to reveal it. But regrettably, it had a very sad epilogue. So I ham the Chicago accent up a little bit and put on this character of a geriatric, you know, extroverted, really turned-up loudmouth West Side Italian because my familys Italian, thats mostly what I know, just to make it funny and whatever. 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. 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.. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night.". A shantytown of homeless people has sprung up adjacent to the neighborhood where hes been doing much of his planting. I was like, I feel like an ignoramus. 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. and the majority of the day, we're looking for this rare milkweed Asclepias prostrata. 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. Personal Quotes (3) I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and ask more questions. And even more specifically, conifers. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. 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. 2018-21; 2010-17; 1999-2009; 1990-99; 1983-90; 1978-83; 1974-77; 1972-1973; Drawings. The Landscape Architecture Podcast. 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. There's another one just coming up right in the middle of the road, it's a goddamned big prostrata. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. A botanist is just someone who studies plants, which is what I doI do it solely because I want to learn.. 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 was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. Larsen: Milkweed is a favorite of many botanists because of its critical importance to the endangered monarch butterfly. Obviously the accents canned, he said. The One Subscription to Fuel All Your Adventures. It's the oldest psychedelic substance known to man. But it's his voice that's the real star of the show. That's just the funny accent. Among Santores fans are plant geeks, outdoor enthusiasts, and cannabis growers who were worm-holed into Santores channel while looking up plant propagation. And it clearly has a special place in Joey's heart, based on a t-shirt he sells. 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. Santore: I thought you was a gopher snake at first. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. 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. Joey: You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. Will: It's the oldest psychedelic substance known to man. The first steps to learning more is realizing your own ignorance, and then being willing to work beyond that. This shits connected., Theres a parallel between Santores efforts and the present plight of his city. Asclepius prostrata, the prostrate milkweed. 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. Just enter the code pod25 at checkout. He's just borrowing. 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. Who is the man behind an accent more commonly associated with a Chicago firehouse than an open expanse of mountains and grassland? I guess why I talk like that is, one, I want to make the science communication more funny. 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. Uh, he has one that says plant milkweed or get fucked. If you want to take a look at what I've been up to more seriously, check out my resume. But again, we always say that people should not pursue, chase, corner or attempt to capture wildlife because it places the person and the animal at risk.. What did you think when you saw that video went viral? He has lots of tattoos and no college degree and is. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. (Photo by Jesse Will) I called Joey Santore just as he'd returned from a botanizing trip to South Africa. It makes life a lot more interesting. He undoubtedly spurred people who'd never heard about milkweed to give a damn about the plant. My aim is to give people a context in which to place [the nature] they see around them. 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. Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. We're, we're keeping it civil. There's little nuances of social mannerisms that I miss about Chicago, like that voice I channel on the YouTube page. 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 do you hope viewers take away from your channel? So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. Looking for Tony Santoro online? 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 Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher who first studied with Plato and then became a disciple 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. 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. There's another one just coming up right in the middle of the road, it's a goddamned big prostrata. 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. iNaturalist joeysantore Joey Santore Curator Joined: Nov 17, 2016 Last Active: Jan 14, 2023 iNaturalist I look at plants & rocks with an emphasis on edaphic endemism, biogeography, speciation and cool evolutionary histories (long lonely branches or broad radiations). It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. Learn more about all the fun to be had across the state at visitmississippi.org. 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. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. He adds that if he had known how sick the coyote was, he wouldve tried to get it to a wildlife rehabilitation center sooner. And this is a problem. Larsen: But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. 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. Shh, its ok. Im not gonna f with you. I bet a bunch of illegal tree planting. 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 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. You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. Like I just got really excited when I would read about this stuff. Meet the Misanthropic Chicago Italian Who Charmed Twitter, 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website, I try to always encourage people to download Wikipedia and, onto their phones as a resource. To see this whole thing being paraded around as a cute clickbait video kind of bummed me out. But if [the video] gets people to smile a little bit, that's cool. 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. I thought you was a gopher snake at first. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. And then, uh, of course these are a couple of mine as well. It makes sense. 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. 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. I don't know why you're taking that kind of stance with me. 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. Theres unfortunately a sad ending to the story of a guy with a thick Chicago accent trying to rescue a struggling coyote pup. 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. 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. Kind of a bummer! Look at that beautiful bastard, not flowering yet may not flower this year at all. Thats cute, you think youre tough. Especially young, sick or injured wildlife. Possibilities opened up. She had nasal discharge and eye discharge and was just covered in parasites. 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? Learn more about all the adventures to be had across Mississippi at visitmississippi.org. 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." 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. I want to get more people excited about it, because theres a lot of dark (crud) coming our way. This plant has adapted to lie dormant in its underground rhizome for years until conditions are right. Oh, yeah, there we go. All right. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. And I have no context for anything outside of it. You get, for instance, a cactus that's native to the Chicago area. Braidwood Dunes is another really good one. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. So I said, fuck it, I'm just gonna be who I am. I think it's kind of risky. All 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. Beyond the tenderheartedness, what really made the video was Santore's thick, Bill Swerski-esque Chicago accent. I saw it (the coyote) running across the road, it looked grossly malnourished. 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. It's botany 101, mashed up with expletive-laced tirades about consumerist, car-based American culture. And Jesse's with me. Every academic botanist that I talked to was super stoked on his work. We don't know what would happen if it disappeared completely, but Joey says that he doesn't want to find out. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. 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? Joey travels around the world and takes you on plant walks, with "colorful" commentary. A Low-Brow, Crass Approach to Plant Ecology & Evolution as muttered by a Misanthropic Chicago Italian. I got like 120 Facebook friend requests from middle-aged white ladies in Iowa. 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. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. The animal appears sickly and unwell and the man tries to determine if he can catch it and bring it to a rescue center. 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. 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. You got to get out of the road. We're, we're keeping it civil. I think it's kind of risky. 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. 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.. 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. Santore: I've been breaking relatively unimpactful laws my whole life. "I'm stuffing envelopes right now," he told me from his home in West Oakland. Some of his tree babies meet an untimely end, felled by pollution, city maintenance, or swerving vehicles. Well, first off, I'm not really trying to create YouTube fluff. Santore has been throwing shade figuratively and literally in his adopted hometown since moving there in 2006. Specifically, trees. It's this squat plant. Larsen: Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. another adaptation to that, uh, aridity that, that dry climate. Makes the turd of, uh, uh, life in modern society easier through a swallow, helps it go down easier. Makes the turd of, uh, uh, life in modern society easier through a swallow, helps it go down easier. 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 when its fur was wet, I realized how skinny this thing was. The Field Museum is great too. I just been planting trees, sometimes with permission, mostly without, uh, because the city I live in kind of dropped the ball so hard on their, uh, uh, public beautification efforts. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. His priority is making habitats, not only leaves and pretty flowers. You know, maybe not being seen for, for God knows how long. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. That's one of mine. The self-taught botanist sounds off on going viral, preserving the natural world, and the story behind that accent. That's one of mine. 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. But you also get the feeling that botany gave him a way to make sense of the world, and of humans' place within it. 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. (Face-to-face, the 37-year-old Santore softens his accent to about 8.) By Monday morning, the clip had 8 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. I just don't think what you're doing is safe behavior. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. He's on your level. Learn to spot shallow conformity in social circles and don't waste your time on them, study plants and geology instead. Santore works a day job driving diesel locomotives. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. Of course. With Joey Santore. Everything I know (about nature and botany) I basically learned myself, he said. Cirrus Wood is a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley. That's just my personal take. During an AFC wild-card . By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. and see what grows around you and then just start learning plants by family and genus, which is how they're all grouped together. 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. Whether its oaks or Oaklanders, theres a lack of suitable habitat for many. This is journalist Jesse Will, who profiled Joey for Outside Online. Will: Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. And they did find some. All English Franais. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. Here's Joey pointing out a colony of the quarter-sized gray-green buttons in the video he made about the day. 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. Let's see. 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 sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. A good read? A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. 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. And Jesse's with me. If you like what we do here, please support our work on an ongoing basis. We're going to turn it to shit. 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. 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