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 . 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. He didnt grow up in a traditional way and has not had the traditional jobs that bring you into this field. Personal Quotes (3) I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and ask more questions. Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher who first studied with Plato and then became a disciple But also, I grew up knowing guys like that, you know? Add to that the threat of invasive buffelgrass, which is fast outcompeting this important little weed. I'm not trying to harass you. Get access to more than 30 brands, premium video, exclusive content, events, mapping, and more. They tried to turn it into a golf course in the 1960s; luckily, that plan failed. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. Im in absolute awe of the sheer depth of his accent, Twitter user @kevinefarrell commented. 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). Joey had always liked railroads. 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. He undoubtedly spurred people who'd never heard about milkweed to give a damn about the plant. I mean, I want to get more people excited about it cuz there's a lot of dark shit coming our way and you know, we're going to need this kind of awareness of ourselves and of the world to be able to deal with it. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. 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.". And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. 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. 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. You got your coryphantha, you know, and it all just coming up in the dappled light, the understory of, of the thorn scrub, which of course is getting cleared away at an increasing rate to make room for the fucking Panda express uh, tumor of modern society. Okay. Well, he's not pilfered. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. And despite his cynical-seeming exterior, Joey finds beauty in all of this, too. it's still there. 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. and the majority of the day, we're looking for this rare milkweed Asclepias prostrata. She also warns that rehabilitating a lone coyote pup is a particularly complicated venture. So I said, fuck it, I'm just gonna be who I am. I want to learn how this stuff works. Member Since November 2014. 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. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. 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.. A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. Drawings 2019 - 2021; 2010-18; 2005-09; 1995-2004; 1990-94; 1983-88 . Paintings. 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. There's another one just coming up right in the middle of the road, it's a goddamned big prostrata. Not in a bad way. Soon, he was in deep. 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. Possibilities opened up. 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. 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. Oh, yeah, there we go. Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. Joey Santore holds his cell phone, widescreen-style, in his fingers, one of which is tattooed with a ruler's hash marks. But also,[coyotes] are heavily persecuted. His appeal is all about sounding nothing like the stereotypical botanist. Might just be cooking up carbs, storing it in that tuber and then going dormant for a while. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. 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. This episode was written and produced by me, Maren Larsen:, and edited by Michael Roberts. It's everyone from dope growers to amateur science geeks to viewers who just stumbled onto his YouTube. 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.. Today I'm here to answer your plant questions via Twitter. In real life, his lilt isnt nearly so exaggerated. You can read Jesse's story on Outside Online. (Picture by Jesse Will) I known as Joey Santore simply as he'd returned from a botanizing journey to South Africa. 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. 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. I try to always encourage people to download Wikipedia andiNaturalistonto their phones as a resource. Will: Every academic botanist that I talked to was super stoked on his work. But as he told Jesse Will while they traveled around South Texas, once he hit his teen years he tended to get into trouble. 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. If someone spots a wild animal that theyre concerned about, Monroe recommends that they contact the Department of Fish and Wildlife directly to assess the situation. Special interests: Conifers of California, Conifers of Cupressaceae, California Native Cypresses, Arctostaphylos. The next day I called around and the nearest wildlife rehab was like 2 hours away down south. He is an ex-punk and a former freight train engineer who has been self-taught in his field. 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. It was funny, going out to California when I moved out there. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night.". A low-brow, crass approach to plant ecology as muttered by a misanthropic Chicago Italian. 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. 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. I believe you; I believe youre so tough., Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. Some of his trees are now over 30 feet tall! 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. The video, he said, is from late June when he was in small Siskiyou County, California, in the northern part of the state. Santore: 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? Joey Bosa. Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. 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. 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. It's botany 101, mashed up with expletive-laced tirades about consumerist, car-based American culture. "I liked trees originally because they are so big. 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. Everything I know (about nature and botany) I basically learned myself, he said. Joey Santore, based in Oakland, California, specializing in Cupressaceae, currently studying native California Cypresses. This episode is brought to you by Visit Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor lovers. Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall. 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. 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. But is now just kind of leftover. Last fall, two very different approaches to addressing climate change unfolded in the Bay Area. Larsen: This is journalist Jesse Will, who profiled Joey for Outside Online. 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. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. 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). The Landscape Architecture Podcast. S1E10 - Doing What You Love Without Making It Your Job, with Joey Santore The Joy of Challenge 374 subscribers Subscribe 1.6K Share 31K views 1 year ago Joey Santore, from "Crime Pays but. 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." 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. Whether its oaks or Oaklanders, theres a lack of suitable habitat for many. 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. Joey Santore is a photographer, presenter, botanist, known for Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't (2019). A shantytown of homeless people has sprung up adjacent to the neighborhood where hes been doing much of his planting. Larsen: Milkweed is a favorite of many botanists because of its critical importance to the endangered monarch butterfly. And they did find some. You got to get out of the road. Its a way for me to throw a couple jabs at the elements of society that kind of irk me.. (He also produces a podcast of the same name.) No, it's not like that. 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. Who discovered botany? It's this squat plant. Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. Larsen: And so, an ex-punk, former-train-hopper-turned-engineer who doesn't have a college degree is getting hundreds of thousands of people excited about botany using just a camera and his voice. And when its fur was wet, I realized how skinny this thing was. I believe Northern Pacific rattlesnake. 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. 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.. "I'm stuffing envelopes right now," he told me from his home in West Oakland. Now based in Oakland, California, he was in Arizona on a botany trip when I reached him by email. 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. 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. It makes sense. We dont value plants, we dont value habitat, often we dont value each other. 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. I wasnt going to be able to make it there that day, so I figured I would take it Monday. We're going to turn it to shit. You have reached your limit of 4 free articles. Thats cute, you think youre tough. And it's it's, uh, that kind of grated me. Warning: The video above contains graphic language. It's botany 101, mashed up with expletive-laced tirades about consumerist, car-based American culture. And then, uh, of course these are a couple of mine as well. Come along. Joey travels around the world and takes you on plant walks, with colorful commentary. Will: It looks like a weed. You knows what Im gonna do, Im gonna take you to a nice rehab facility. Santore: The biggest population of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader. If you want to take a look at what I've been up to more seriously, check out my resume. All Rights Reserved. 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. 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. Will: But it ends up just being a very minor part of the day, hunting down this peyote. Santore: So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. 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. We have constructed attractive Patreon tiers that allow you to be fully recognized for your regular contribution. It's this squat plant. We don't know what would happen if it disappeared completely, but Joey says that he doesn't want to find out. She had nasal discharge and eye discharge and was just covered in parasites. It makes the nausea a little bit easier to deal with. One Atmosphere commissioned a 60-by-30-foot mural of climate activist Greta Thunberg for San Franciscos Union Square. Joey travels around the world and takes you on plant walks, with "colorful" commentary. Although Santore was worried about this pup being out during the day, Monroe says thats not actually out of the ordinary. JASON HENRY But, about that voice. Like I just got really excited when I would read about this stuff. But then the next day, it kind of messed me up a little bit more. Kind of a bummer! In the video we see a gentleman who I believe sincerely was coming from a place of compassion, Monroe told TIME. Released on 03/11/2022. I saw it (the coyote) running across the road, it looked grossly malnourished. I didn't realize botany could be so cool. It was grossly underweight.. 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. 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. Just enter the code pod25 at checkout. And I have no context for anything outside of it. Specifically, trees. A halfway decent knock-knock joke? By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. Larsen: Joey's video from South Texas has some 50,000 views and counting. It's a giant a part of how I make my cash." Santore has a whole bunch [] Hes published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers. He's squatting in carpenter jeans and dusty black oxfords, scanning each. countries. 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. 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. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. And Jesse's with me. But regrettably, it had a very sad epilogue. And this is a problem. The penalty, which came . You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. She was really sick, I could tell. With Joey Santore. I want to get more people excited about it, because theres a lot of dark (crud) coming our way. and he says that accent as a joke, like it just makes him laugh. Especially young, sick or injured wildlife. 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. Total Photos Contributed: 339 [View all photos] or [See a list of all photos] or [View most recent photos] Collection: Private I like the ambiance of railroads. Oh, what's going on here? Check out our Patreon page for more info. 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. 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. Although he doesnt have a degree in botany, Santore tells TIME that nature is his true passion. I realize maybe I shouldnt have done that because it probably stressed it out, but again this thing was covered in parasites, he says. It looks like a weed. So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. Botanist Joey Santore. I'm Joey Santore: a Connecticut-born, Brooklyn-living, nonprofit-working, cooking-loving, playlist-making, lucid-dreaming, karate-coaching, twenty-something. Braidwood Dunes is another really good one. Right. Bosa removed and slammed his helmet on the ground while still on the field. Anyone who lives in Chicago knows that Tony Santoro is an actual person. I thought you was a gopher snake at first. Asclepias prostrata is just one species, native to one relatively small ecosystem. Is there anything you miss about living in Chicago? Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. 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. Santore: It's an idea of the bigger picture, you know, instead of this human myopia, where I'm just I'm just concerned about, I view everything through the lens of my own life. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. That was just the revelation then that God, I don't know shit. Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie is another excellent one, down by Joliet. I don't know why you're taking that kind of stance with me. I guess why I talk like that is, one, I want to make the science communication more funny. Nowadays he films the trips he takes in search of some of the rarest plants on the planet. That's one of mine. Joey Santore | major gifts fundraising at charity: water Hi there. (Face-to-face, the 37-year-old Santore softens his accent to about 8.) As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. Larsen: Asclepias prostrata is just one species, native to one relatively small ecosystem. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. 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. What drew you to making videos about botany? All right. Maybe I should have just left her alone. 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. Okay. Makes the turd of, uh, uh, life in modern society easier through a swallow, helps it go down easier. Then there are people who got sucked in because of one of those viral videos. Cmere, hey, youre OK, shhh, a mans voice can be heard as he runs after a small, skittish coyote through the tall grass. Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. Trees that can hack it without pruning and summer watering. This video went viral when Joey posted it back in 2019, but venomous snakes are not his typical beat. So a lot of them just kind of look like shit, right. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Digital The Outside Podcast is made possible by our Outside+ members. I was like, I feel like an ignoramus. No, it's not like that. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. Even if it gets really ugly, it's still gonna be okay. We dont value anything geologically or botanically unless it has a direct benefit for us., A Life Cleanse in the Waters of Desert Hot Springs. After Staley picked it up and gave it back to him, Bosa threw it down again. Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't: Created by Joey Santore. It makes life a lot more interesting. The Thick Chicago Accent Guy Addresses the Sad Fate of the Coyote Pup From the Video. So maybe it'll be okay. As for the thick Chicago accent which wasnt nearly as pronounced when TIME spoke to him on the phone Santore says that he uses it to try to get people invested in his nature videos. Take it easy, buddy. He's just borrowing. It's totally fascinating stuff, man. 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. This is Plant Support. This is ground zero for a lot of environmental action because of the oil spill here in 1969. He would print out papers to read during downtime on the trains. "Mailing out stickers. Allying with Nature to Regenerate our Living Planet, 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. Look at that beautiful bastard, not flowering yet may not flower this year at all. 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. 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. The soil type is different there, it's all really sandy. 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. I want to inspire people to look at the world differently, he says. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. It's everyone from dope growers to amateur science geeks to viewers who just stumbled onto his YouTube. 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. 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. 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? Join Outside+ to get Outside magazine, access to exclusive content, 1,000s of training plans, and more. I think it's kind of risky. Plants, Redwing boots, dogs. You know, maybe not being seen for, for God knows how long. 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 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.
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