I called them and they said they could take her and everything, but she had already passed away in the night. The Landscape Architecture Podcast. Larsen: This video went viral when Joey posted it back in 2019, but venomous snakes are not his typical beat. and the majority of the day, we're looking for this rare milkweed Asclepias prostrata. Oh, what's going on here? A moment later we see the coyote in the footwell of the mans truck, frozen in place: [Newest rescued sea otter pups make their fuzzy debuts at Shedd], I just seen a tick jump ship, which means that eeder theres some sorta problem with your blood flow or da tick itself thinks you dont stand a chance, but Im gonna see that you have a chance. 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. Santore: The way my mind works, I just obsessed on fix that on something I probably got fucking add or some sort of neurological disorder, you know, that at one point served our species of evolutionary benefit. 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 . 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 I would probably say the same thing to somebody cause theres a lot of jackaes out there, he says. So a lot of them just kind of look like shit, right. 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. Hes published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers. 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. 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. Cirrus Wood is a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley. And I have no context for anything outside of it. Larsen: He was kicked out of military school and got into graffiti and the punk scene. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. I'm Joey Santore: a Connecticut-born, Brooklyn-living, nonprofit-working, cooking-loving, playlist-making, lucid-dreaming, karate-coaching, twenty-something. Thats not true. It's this squat plant. 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'm Joey. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. But is now just kind of leftover. Will: It's the oldest psychedelic substance known to man. We don't get that here. His appeal is all about sounding nothing like the stereotypical botanist. 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. So it's like kind of a full circle moment, right? I bet a bunch of illegal tree planting. And despite his cynical-seeming exterior, Joey finds beauty in all of this, too. 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. He hadn't cooled off by Monday. Will: Uh, he has one that says plant milkweed or get fucked. Meanwhile, across the bay, Tony Santoros Guide to Illegal Tree-Planting debuted. (Photo by Jesse Will) I called Joey Santore just as he'd returned from a botanizing trip to South Africa. 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. Maybe all this explains why his YouTube channel, Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt, has more than a quarter-million subscribers. And even more specifically, conifers. You know, and I just dont want to get bitten. We don't know what would happen if it disappeared completely, but Joey says that he doesn't want to find out. And especially where we are now as a species with our understanding of science and the world and all this technology that we have. There's enough cat videos and cute videos with corny narratives. You gotta go to a rehab facility or sometin You need help, you know? 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. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. 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. I think it's kind of risky. Anyone who lives in Chicago knows that Tony Santoro is an actual person. 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. Take it easy, buddy. The next day I called around and the nearest wildlife rehab was like 2 hours away down south. Today. 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. 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. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. Shhh, what appened to yer fokes?. I have been driving freight trains for, I dunno, the past 15 years. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. The Outside Podcast is made possible by our Outside+ members. You got to get out of the road. It's the oldest psychedelic substance known to man. Looking back, she was really sick. He's shooting the shit. It starts in Chicago, where he was raised by a single mother who was an elementary school teacher. Most important is the Garfield Park Conservatory, which is free and features plants from all over the world. The soil type is different there, it's all really sandy. Im not going to fuck with you, he promises as he chases the pup, who eventually relents and sits in the grass. 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). Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall. Hes not afraid to mix the sacred, mundane, and lewd. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. 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. 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. A lot of people [who] find that YouTube page seem really upset to find out that Elwood Blues is not really a botanist. Theyre extremely opportunistic, theyre extremely intelligent animals, so they do whatever they need to do to seek resources. 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 it's his voice that's the real star of the show. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. It's just the way it is. 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. He undoubtedly spurred people who'd never heard about milkweed to give a damn about the plant. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. If you want to take a look at what I've been up to more seriously, check out my resume. But she was covered in fleas and ticks and mites and also had some nasal discharge. I have a friend that works at a wildlife rehab, and she told me it was good to keep it in a quiet, calm place, so I kept it in the basement. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. Its a way for me to throw a couple jabs at the elements of society that kind of irk me.. Real banger right there. Total Photos Contributed: 339 [View all photos] or [See a list of all photos] or [View most recent photos] Collection: Private 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. This is what happens when you dont have any regulations in place to protect the people on the bottom, he says. They just hide. Explore. 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." This shits connected., Theres a parallel between Santores efforts and the present plight of his city. Milkweed is a favorite of many botanists because of its critical importance to the endangered monarch butterfly. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. The mannerisms at least among the white people out there were super soft and delicate and kind of passive, with an NPR voice. Larsen: Allow me to introduce you to Joey Santore. As with some content posted on Twitter, @eedrk did not create the video. 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. Santore: I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. 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. The way my mind works, I just obsessed on fix that on something I probably got fucking add or some sort of neurological disorder, you know, that at one point served our species of evolutionary benefit. A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. Makes the turd of, uh, uh, life in modern society easier through a swallow, helps it go down easier. Joey Santore Oakland, California Favorite Activities The penalty, which came . But on Thursday, the Chicagoland native went viral when a profanity-laden clip of him comforting a sick coyote. 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? Obviously the accents canned, he said. Larsen: But Joey doesn't see a weed. His life as a guerrilla forester began when he noticed some of the public spaces the city was ignoring. 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. I've had everyone from teenagers to suburban dads tell me, Hey, I saw your page. So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. I'm a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley, California. 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! 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. 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. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. 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. 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. From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. Joey had always liked railroads. I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and askmore questions. Looking for Tony Santoro online? Santore is a self-taught botanist and former freight train driver in Oakland, California who believes the natural world can be a balm for modern anxieties caused by climate change and Capitalism. It's botany 101, mashed up with expletive-laced tirades about consumerist, car-based American culture. Hi, I'm Joey Santore, plant lover, botanist, and working class mook. Joey is a botanist & producer of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't YouTube channel. Anyway guys, here we are once again. 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. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. 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. 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. It's everyone from dope growers to amateur science geeks to viewers who just stumbled onto his YouTube. So a lot of them just kind of look like shit, right. 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. The Field Museum is great too. You know, maybe not being seen for, for God knows how long. Santore: The biggest population of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader. Apr 29, 2020 - Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. And it's it's, uh, that kind of grated me. So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. During an AFC wild-card . We dont value plants, we dont value habitat, often we dont value each other. I've been breaking relatively unimpactful laws my whole life. Will: When you speak to them in person that accent gets dialed way back down. I just don't think what you're doing is safe behavior. Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. I thought you was a gopher snake at first. All right. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. Well, he's not pilfered. Add to that the threat of invasive buffelgrass, which is fast outcompeting this important little weed. 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? 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. 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. Larsen: Joey had always liked railroads. 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. Im in absolute awe of the sheer depth of his accent, Twitter user @kevinefarrell commented. Riding the rails, he got an up-close tour of the geologic time scale exposed by railroad cuts: layers of rock dating back millennia. Grew these both from seed. By Monday morning, the clip had 8 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. 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. Then, in 2012, he officially appropriated space in the park for rare trees, including Baker, Tecate, Santa Cruz, and Guadalupe cypresses, along with lodgepole pines, coast (aka California) evergreen live oaks, and incense cedars. you're seeing people that comment and say things like this, guys, the reason why I got interested in plants. One was rabies transmission and one was mange. All English Franais. 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. Larsen: Oh, yeah, there we go. "I dont know, the whole thing kind of messes me up thinking about it because it was pretty sad she died that morning when I was due to bring her south to the wildlife rehab that was on my way back to Oakland., "It looked grossly malnourished. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. 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. He's shooting the shit. Nother payote right there, doing that thing they do, just blendin' in with the gravels that have been deposited over the last, I don't know, 300,000 years by the, uh, meandering channel of the Rio Grand-ee. Larsen: This is journalist Jesse Will, who profiled Joey for Outside Online. It makes the nausea a little bit easier to deal with. Transcript. But is now just kind of leftover. 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. When Joey Santore went searching for a biological "origin story" of sorts, he stumbled into the world of botany. 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. 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. And maybe you have a better likelihood of accepting. Larsen: As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. Paintings. Maybe I should have just left her alone. countries. Who is the man behind an accent more commonly associated with a Chicago firehouse than an open expanse of mountains and grassland? Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. He admits to being borderline contemptuous of maples and rosebushes. 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. Gypsum-endemic plants of Southern Utah quell the pain of life in this culturally bleak wasteland., Instead of this myopia, where we view everything through the lens of our own life, botany lets you zoom out and see how the world works and observe these relationships that different organisms have with each other. You get, for instance, a cactus that's native to the Chicago area. I would rather hear science communication spoken to me from someone like that, than from the super-vanilla, watered down NPR voice that you normally hear.. But I also try to keep [the videos] lighthearted. You can read Jesse's story on Outside Online. He has rather unexpectedly earned a bit of internet fame due to his passion for a far less adrenaline-inducing subject: plants. Kind of a bummer! I want to help you but I dont want to get bitten, he tells the pup in his put-on accent. Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. Join Outside+ to get Outside magazine, access to exclusive content, 1,000s of training plans, and more. 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. And it clearly has a special place in Joey's heart, based on a t-shirt he sells. Of course. 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? But also, I grew up knowing guys like that, you know? The video, he said, is from late June when he was in small Siskiyou County, California, in the northern part of the state. I was like, I feel like an ignoramus. So maybe it'll be okay. Santore: I've been breaking relatively unimpactful laws my whole life. She had nasal discharge and eye discharge and was just covered in parasites. I mean, on some level it looks, it looks like a weed. One was that this gentleman was so singleminded in his approach to try and achieve a compassionate outcome for this young animal, she says. 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. I love getting people excited about these things I've seen. Can anyone help? He's published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers It makes sense. Magazines, Or create a free account to access more articles, 'It Just Kind of Struck Me.' Santore: So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. 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. 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. Santore: So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. Write to Megan McCluskey at [email protected]. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. Sorry. And it clearly has a special place in Joey's heart, based on a t-shirt he sells. Soon, he was in deep. He is diversity. 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. These are just names Im channeling in the form of an ongoing science project to make the information more captivating because the typical dry and boring delivery you usually see has failed people., [Photos: Baby animals from around the world]. These are animals that dont let you get close to them, but it was so sick I was able to get up close to it and I could see it was kind of scraggly and it was totally malnourished and underweight., After realizing that the coyote was covered in parasites, including ticks and fleas, Santore says that he decided to give it a bath. Drawings 2019 - 2021; 2010-18; 2005-09; 1995-2004; 1990-94; 1983-88 . That's a Crotalus Organus NorPac. But regrettably, it had a very sad epilogue. And especially where we are now as a species with our understanding of science and the world and all this technology that we have. In other words, as the ecosystems around us erode under humanity's touch, understanding the ways they fit together is more crucial than ever. Santore: I thought you was a gopher snake at first. I found it hard to swallow. Larsen: Joey made "Guide to Illegal Tree Planting" when he was living in Oakland, California, where a project to enhance the extra-wide median of parkway left him a bit uninspired. 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 was just in Sonora, Mexico, looking at plants. And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. Journalist - SF Bay Area. You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. All right. I want to inspire people to look at the world differently, he says. The whole thing is kind of sad. As his online handle suggests, botany doesnt cover the bills. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. 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. This episode was brought to you by Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor adventurers. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. But you also get the feeling that botany gave him a way to make sense of the world, and of humans' place within it. Santore works a day job driving diesel locomotives. Let's see. Look at that beautiful bastard, not flowering yet may not flower this year at all. Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. She was really sick, I could tell. 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. I wasnt going to be able to make it there that day, so I figured I would take it Monday. Trees that can hack it without pruning and summer watering. Although he doesnt have a degree in botany, Santore tells TIME that nature is his true passion. And even more specifically, conifers. (Face-to-face, the 37-year-old Santore softens his accent to about 8.) Makes the turd of, uh, uh, life in modern society easier through a swallow, helps it go down easier. It's totally fascinating stuff, man. 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.. But it's his voice that's the real star of the show. 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. He's just borrowing. I guess I view all those videos as kind of a long-running piece of sketch comedy. 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. Santore was born in Chicago; his mother was an elementary school teacher and his father left on his first birthday. I realize maybe I shouldnt have done that because it probably stressed it out, but again this thing was covered in parasites, he says. Outsides longstanding literary storytelling tradition comes to life inaudio with features that will both entertain and inform listeners. Is there anything you miss about living in Chicago? No, it's not like that. Uh, where you get summer rain. I'm not trying to harass you. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. Plants, Redwing boots, dogs. Member Since November 2014. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. Okay. 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. [laughs] And I had a pang of regret. 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. I want to share themand [talk about] what a tragedy it is that people don't know this stuff is here. I think it's kind of risky. 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. Santore: Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. Beyond the tenderheartedness, what really made the video was Santore's thick, Bill Swerski-esque Chicago accent. 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