it's still there. But I also try to keep [the videos] lighthearted. 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. 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 totally fascinating stuff, man. Journalist - SF Bay Area. Hes published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers. I was just in Sonora, Mexico, looking at plants. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. 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. and the majority of the day, we're looking for this rare milkweed Asclepias prostrata. And in particular, that pup being in thinner body condition and being possibly hungry, that wouldnt be unexpected to see it at different times of day or night, she explains. He has rather unexpectedly earned a bit of internet fame due to his passion for a far less adrenaline-inducing subject: plants. Larsen: Asclepias prostrata is just one species, native to one relatively small ecosystem. His life as a guerrilla forester began when he noticed some of the public spaces the city was ignoring. Well, first off, I'm not really trying to create YouTube fluff. 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. But as he told Jesse Will while they traveled around South Texas, once he hit his teen years he tended to get into trouble. 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. Maybe I should have just left her alone. 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. Today. Look at that beautiful bastard, not flowering yet may not flower this year at all. Joey Bosa. Santore: Anyway guys, here we are once again. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. 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. Earlier this month, WTTW Channel 11 profiled him (using the name Joey Santore) and though he does have a noticeable Chicago accent, it's not nearly as heavy as what you hear in his nature. 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. This plant has adapted to lie dormant in its underground rhizome for years until conditions are right. He hasn't looked back ever since. He started growing rare conifers from seed. You can read Jesse's story on Outside Online. So I put all this narration through this voice of a 50-year-old Chicago mook from the West Side. Think Dan Aykroyd in The Blues Brothers dialed to 11. You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. To find enough real estate to survive, these prostrata often end up finding their home in the middle of the road. Joey Santore holds his cell phone, widescreen-style, in his fingers, one of which is tattooed with a ruler's hash marks. But you also get the feeling that botany gave him a way to make sense of the world, and of humans' place within it. Joey Santore, based in Oakland, California, specializing in Cupressaceae, currently studying native California Cypresses. There's enough cat videos and cute videos with corny narratives. Looking back, she was really sick. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. Like I just got really excited when I would read about this stuff. I guess it's for the better. Theres so many different wildlife disease concerns that have significant overlap with human health impact.. Larsen: As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. and see what grows around you and then just start learning plants by family and genus, which is how they're all grouped together. I try to always encourage people to download Wikipedia andiNaturalistonto their phones as a resource. That's a Crotalus Organus NorPac. Joey's presentation to the Houston Native Prairie Association will be a series of . Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. 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. But many thrive, and some of his earliest plantings are now impressive specimens. But if [the video] gets people to smile a little bit, that's cool. 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. 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.. 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. 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. Santore: I thought you was a gopher snake at first. My aim is to give people a context in which to place [the nature] they see around them. "I'm stuffing envelopes proper now," he advised me from his house in West Oakland. 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 the damn opposite leaves looking at it. 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 shooting the shit. Will: Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. Is there anything you miss about living in Chicago? 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. And when its fur was wet, I realized how skinny this thing was. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. Larsen: Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. Real banger right there. Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall. I got like 120 Facebook friend requests from middle-aged white ladies in Iowa. I realize maybe I shouldnt have done that because it probably stressed it out, but again this thing was covered in parasites, he says. I want to inspire people to look at the world differently, he says. If you want to take a look at what I've been up to more seriously, check out my resume. Specifically, trees. It's this squat plant. 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. The next day I called around and the nearest wildlife rehab was like 2 hours away down south. You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. Take it easy, buddy. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. I don't want to hear that. The first steps to learning more is realizing your own ignorance, and then being willing to work beyond that. Every academic botanist that I talked to was super stoked on his work. I bet a bunch of illegal tree planting. 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. I buried her in the backyard at the house I was staying at, and then the next day when I was at work, it just kind of struck me.. Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie is another excellent one, down by Joliet. And this is a problem. So its mostly a joke, because most science communication is dry and boring. Joey Santore @JoeySantore Recently finished filming our 1st piece for a show encouraging people to kill their lawns & replace with low-maintenance native - or at least non-invasive - gardens. And Jesse's with 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. Soon, he was in deep. As with some content posted on Twitter, @eedrk did not create the video. There's another one just coming up right in the middle of the road, it's a goddamned big prostrata. Refreshingly Funny Ice Cream Man's Prank Video Is a Delicious Summer Treat. 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. 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 Might just be cooking up carbs, storing it in that tuber and then going dormant for a while. They tried to turn it into a golf course in the 1960s; luckily, that plan failed. The penalty, which came . 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. 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. I guess I view all those videos as kind of a long-running piece of sketch comedy. I have been driving freight trains for, I dunno, the past 15 years. Los Angeles Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa wasn't happy with the officials on Saturday night. 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. 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? His appeal is all about sounding nothing like the stereotypical botanist. This modern Johnny Appleseed would have preferred to have been out planting when we met, but some corrective shoulder surgery has him temporarily sidelined. Released on 03/11/2022. Its like get a side hustle and then use it to fund your pursuit of knowledge in the world and be able to share that with others, he explains. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. Okay. I don't want to hear that. I don't know, six or seven years give or take. I impersonate these Chicago characters as a joke to make the subject material more interesting, he says. 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. 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. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. So it's like kind of a full circle moment, right? Larsen: Oh, yeah, there we go. [upbeat . And maybe you have a better likelihood of accepting. I just don't think what you're doing is safe behavior. All English Franais. Get access to more than 30 brands, premium video, exclusive content, events, mapping, and more. 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. 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. 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. countries. Learn more about all the adventures to be had across Mississippi at visitmississippi.org. Last fall, two very different approaches to addressing climate change unfolded in the Bay Area. Possibilities opened up. He is an ex-punk and a former freight train engineer who has been self-taught in his field. 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 associate them with a place to like get away from people and, kind of open air playground. However, the downtime has allowed him to post more videos about botanizing the Bay Area. Uh, where you get summer rain. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. 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. Volo Bog near Crystal Lake is another great resource. Larsen: Riding the rails, he got an up-close tour of the geologic time scale exposed by railroad cuts: layers of rock dating back millennia. Will: Every academic botanist that I talked to was super stoked on his work. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. You're ob-, obviously a NorPac. He played college football at Ohio State and was selected third overall by the (then San Diego) Chargers in the 2016 NFL Draft, where he was named NFL Defensive Rookie . As his online handle suggests, botany doesnt cover the bills. I love getting people excited about these things I've seen. Transcript. (Joey Santore). Not long after posting the video, the UK-based Caters News Agency contacted him about monetizing the video and he signed a licensing agreement, though said he hasnt been paid any money as of yet. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. Beyond the tenderheartedness, what really made the video was Santore's thick, Bill Swerski-esque Chicago accent. 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. Bosa removed and slammed his helmet on the ground while still on the field. 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. Larsen: Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. When Joey Santore went searching for a biological "origin story" of sorts, he stumbled into the world of botany. 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? Larsen: Allow me to introduce you to Joey Santore. Asclepius prostrata, the prostrate milkweed. Especially young, sick or injured wildlife. I'm Joey Santore: a Connecticut-born, Brooklyn-living, nonprofit-working, cooking-loving, playlist-making, lucid-dreaming, karate-coaching, twenty-something. Makes the turd of, uh, uh, life in modern society easier through a swallow, helps it go down easier. We're, we're keeping it civil. 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. 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. 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. In other words, as the ecosystems around us erode under humanity's touch, understanding the ways they fit together is more crucial than ever. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. Join Outside+ to get Outside magazine, access to exclusive content, 1,000s of training plans, and more. Check out our Patreon page for more info. Okay. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. Okay. They just hide. Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't: Created by Joey Santore. 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. It's totally fascinating stuff, man. Joey: You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. Santore works a day job driving diesel locomotives. I'm not trying to harass you. Outsides longstanding literary storytelling tradition comes to life inaudio with features that will both entertain and inform listeners. 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. That's one of mine. 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. 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. It's just the way it is. Right. (Photo by Jesse Will) I called Joey Santore just as he'd returned from a botanizing trip to South Africa. The Tribune did confirm his identity in a public records search but agreed not to reveal it. Kind of a bummer! From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. 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! I like the ambiance of railroads. A shantytown of homeless people has sprung up adjacent to the neighborhood where hes been doing much of his planting. He didnt grow up in a traditional way and has not had the traditional jobs that bring you into this field. I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. You get, for instance, a cactus that's native to the Chicago area. 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. That's just my personal take. 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. 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. Larsen: This is journalist Jesse Will, who profiled Joey for Outside Online. He's squatting in carpenter jeans and dusty black oxfords, scanning each. But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. I want to help you but I dont want to get bitten, he tells the pup in his put-on accent. Got a tip? In addition we have many gardens here that are maintaining endangered plant species, especially Lotusland. Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. When I was a kid, a lot of my friends had dads like that. But then the next day, it kind of messed me up a little bit more. 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? email me. He was kicked out of military school and got into graffiti and the punk scene. Jesse Will interviewed Joey Santore. 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. 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. He says that working as a freight train operator rather than spending his time in school has allowed him to pursue that passion. And Jesse's with me. 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. He's on your level. Santore: They planted a lot of these roses, which are dying and they planted a bunch of trees that are native to the Eastern U.S. 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. Can anyone help? One was rabies transmission and one was mange. 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? It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. I bet a bunch of illegal tree planting. Santore: So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. What kind of attention have you been getting in the past week? Even if it gets really ugly, it's still gonna be okay. Joey had always liked railroads. He now works as a freight train driver in Oakland, where he frequently makes trips into the wilderness in search of native plants. Uh, where you get summer rain. And so I realized that might happen, but it didnt really mess with me until the day after, he says. Then there are people who got sucked in because of one of those viral videos. May 26, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. 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. What drew you to making videos about botany? 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. Theres unfortunately a sad ending to the story of a guy with a thick Chicago accent trying to rescue a struggling coyote pup. Among Santores fans are plant geeks, outdoor enthusiasts, and cannabis growers who were worm-holed into Santores channel while looking up plant propagation. It looks like a weed. That's near Kankakee. Hi, I'm Joey Santore, plant lover, botanist, and working class mook. another adaptation to that, uh, aridity that, that dry climate. I think it's kind of risky. It's just the way it is. Drawings 2019 - 2021; 2010-18; 2005-09; 1995-2004; 1990-94; 1983-88 . She also warns that rehabilitating a lone coyote pup is a particularly complicated venture. He would print out papers to read during downtime on the trains. The animal appears sickly and unwell and the man tries to determine if he can catch it and bring it to a rescue center. 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. You need help! 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. (Face-to-face, the 37-year-old Santore softens his accent to about 8.) That's a Crotalus Organus NorPac. No, it's not like that. 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. And I have no context for anything outside of it. 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. So I did that and I got her to eat a little bit, he says. I wasnt going to be able to make it there that day, so I figured I would take it Monday. Of course. I remember reading about spectroscopy there and that was what really blew my mind was how you could take the light that's reflected off of a star or a planet and put it through a prism and then you'd get a spectral signature of whatever the atmosphere was composed of or whatever the star was composed of. [Terrier survives coyote attack caught on camera in Northfield]. Maren Larsen (host): From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. As a child, Santore took an interest in science early, visiting Chicagos Field Museum with his mother and propagating elm trees from seeds in their yard. 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? 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. He undoubtedly spurred people who'd never heard about milkweed to give a damn about the plant. 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. It's botany 101, mashed up with expletive-laced tirades about consumerist, car-based American culture. Come on, hey. Larsen: Joey's video from South Texas has some 50,000 views and counting. 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. 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. I would probably say the same thing to somebody cause theres a lot of jackaes out there, he says. Will: When you speak to them in person that accent gets dialed way back down. 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.. He has rather unexpectedly earned a bit of internet fame due to his passion for a far less adrenaline-inducing subject: plants. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. 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. Special interests: Conifers of California, Conifers of Cupressaceae, California Native Cypresses, Arctostaphylos. I did a couple videos where I talked in my normal voice, but it just didnt feel right, says Santore. Larsen: This blend of well-informed science, minor lawbreaking, and humorous rants about the ills of society is what draws people to Joey's YouTube channel, as well as his Instagram account, and his podcast. Trees that can hack it without pruning and summer watering. Okay. 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. Cmere, hey, youre OK, shhh, a mans voice can be heard as he runs after a small, skittish coyote through the tall grass. Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding.
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