It makes sense. According to Jesse Will, Joey's subscribers don't fit any kind of mold. 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. Maybe I should have just left her alone. Joey's video from South Texas has some 50,000 views and counting. 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. 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. Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. My work has appeared in newsprint, magazines, websites, and the missed connections section of Craigslist, where I write personalized notes to drivers who cut me off in traffic. 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. 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. I think it's kind of risky. And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. Right now Im in Sonora, Arizona. And I have no context for anything outside of it. And then theyll release you back to the wild and you can go eat some feral cats and squirrels and stuff like that, ya know?. 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. 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. Santore: Look at that beautiful bastard, not flowering yet may not flower this year at all. You're ob-, obviously a NorPac. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. Santore: I thought you was a gopher snake at first. His videos may be popular with kids who are budding botanists. 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. Larsen: But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. It's this squat plant. I'm a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley, California. But on Thursday, the Chicagoland native went viral when a profanity-laden clip of him comforting a sick coyote. "I'm stuffing envelopes proper now," he advised me from his house in West Oakland. Nowadays he films the trips he takes in search of some of the rarest plants on the planet. Right. So a lot of them just kind of look like shit, right. 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. I ended up bringing it to the house I was staying at about 15 miles away and called around for wildlife rescue and the nearest one was about a 2 hour drive south. That's just my personal take. 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. 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. I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and askmore questions. I wasnt going to be able to make it there that day, so I figured I would take it Monday. I've been breaking relatively unimpactful laws my whole life. But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. 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 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. Joey had always liked railroads. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. But it's his voice that's the real star of the show. But when you hear him talk about what drew him to the science, you get the sense that Joey turned to plants because he was sick of humans. He's on your level. Santore: I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. Okay. His appeal is all about sounding nothing like the stereotypical botanist. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night." All right. Im not going to fuck with you, he promises as he chases the pup, who eventually relents and sits in the grass. Hes published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. I mean, on some level it looks, it looks like a weed. 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. 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. 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. Joey was born in Chicago and yet --. 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. 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. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. I obviously don't talk like that in real life I got an accent, but I don't talk like that. Just enter the code pod25 at checkout. I want to learn how this stuff works. And then the YouTube account blew up, which is cool. We don't get that here. 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. 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? countries. It's doing pretty good. But Joey doesn't see a weed. And they did find some. All English Franais. 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 see what grows around you and then just start learning plants by family and genus, which is how they're all grouped together. After hearing Joey talk about milkweed, I'm personally in the mood to go plant a whole shit ton of it maybe even in places where I'm not supposed to. Santore: So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. Phone service was spotty so he sent a voice memo back "This is going to be a lot easier than typing with my thumbs on a smartphone, which is really a seventh layer of hell for me (we later connected by phone) answering my questions about the video and the fate of the coyote. Sorry. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. I was out in the country and the nearest rehab center was, like, two hours away, and they weren't open the day I got it. It's botany 101, mashed up with expletive-laced tirades about consumerist, car-based American culture. One was that this gentleman was so singleminded in his approach to try and achieve a compassionate outcome for this young animal, she says. You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. 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. The Tribune did confirm his identity in a public records search but agreed not to reveal it. 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. Every time it feels like an apocalyptic story with this plant. Joey Santore, amateur botanist "Crime pays but Botany Doesn't" Podcast "It's all gonna be okay. I guess why I talk like that is, one, I want to make the science communication more funny. Santore: I've been breaking relatively unimpactful laws my whole life. Transcript. 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. 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. Take it easy, buddy. Every academic botanist that I talked to was super stoked on his work. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. I want to inspire people to look at the world differently, he says. Some of his trees are now over 30 feet tall! Well, first off, I'm not really trying to create YouTube fluff. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. 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. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. I would be a lot more angry of a person if I didn't have this. And, uh, Joey Sentore is like mentioned, you know, in terms of this plant. Theres unfortunately a sad ending to the story of a guy with a thick Chicago accent trying to rescue a struggling coyote pup. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. It makes sense. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. The attention is somewhat unwanted. But I also try to keep [the videos] lighthearted. 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. Soon, he was in deep. I have been driving freight trains for, I dunno, the past 15 years. You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. I don't know why. 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. At certain times of year, especially this time of year, they are often active during the day. Paintings. Larsen: Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. Consider this your heads-up that there are going to be quite a few curse words in this episode. And even more specifically, conifers. 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. Did some redneck shoot your parents whats going on? Sorry. You know, and I just dont want to get bitten. 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. But is now just kind of leftover. Today. And his science is good., The promised land of Southern Utah where the rednecks dance on cancerous housing developments, the cows (poo) chocolate and Pediocactus sileri grows on nearly barren gypsum hills. Come along. And despite his cynical-seeming exterior, Joey finds beauty in all of this, too. But, about that voice. Milkweed is a favorite of many botanists because of its critical importance to the endangered monarch butterfly. 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. But it's his voice that's the real star of the show. A lot of folks think that coyotes in particular are purely nocturnal or even crepuscular, which is like dawn, dusk, night. 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. 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. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. As with some content posted on Twitter, @eedrk did not create the video. All right, not that quietly. Journalist - SF Bay Area. Hes not afraid to mix the sacred, mundane, and lewd. Kind of a bummer! 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. 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. Whether its oaks or Oaklanders, theres a lack of suitable habitat for many. 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! Well, he's not pilfered. Looking back, she was really sick. He now works as a freight train driver in Oakland, where he frequently makes trips into the wilderness in search of native plants. 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. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. email me. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. 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. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Magazines, Digital Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. All Rights Reserved. You got to get out of the road. Pinterest. The penalty, which came . 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. The first steps to learning more is realizingyour own ignorance, and then beingwillingto work beyond that. 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. Larsen: In other words, as the ecosystems around us erode under humanity's touch, understanding the ways they fit together is more crucial than ever. But he did link to Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt, the YouTube channel where the clip originated, among a collection of nature videos about plants narrated in that same recognizable Chicago accent. 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. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com. Nothing major, but a shovel takes two arms. "I'm stuffing envelopes right now," he told me from his home in West Oakland. So its mostly a joke, because most science communication is dry and boring. This plant has adapted to lie dormant in its underground rhizome for years until conditions are right. Maybe all this explains why his YouTube channel, Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt, has more than a quarter-million subscribers. Makes the turd of, uh, uh, life in modern society easier through a swallow, helps it go down easier. For his part, Santore says that while he understands why the Department of Fish and Wildlife recommends avoiding direct contact with wild animals, he feels there can be extenuating circumstances. I bet a bunch of illegal tree planting. Looking for Tony Santoro online? Everything I know (about nature and botany) I basically learned myself, he said. I mix tragedy with comedy to make it more digestible and less futile-seeming. 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. Uh, he has one that says plant milkweed or get fucked. Joey Santore is a photographer, presenter, botanist, known for Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't (2019). 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. 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. 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). Joseph Anthony Bosa ( / bos /; born July 11, 1995) is an American football outside linebacker for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). Meanwhile, across the bay, Tony Santoros Guide to Illegal Tree-Planting debuted. Beyond the tenderheartedness, what really made the video was Santore's thick, Bill Swerski-esque Chicago accent. Will: Every academic botanist that I talked to was super stoked on his work. 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. Is there anything you miss about living in Chicago? 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. He hadn't cooled off by Monday. Come on, hey. He's published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers A good read? This is journalist Jesse Will, who profiled Joey for Outside Online. 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. 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. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. We're, we're keeping it civil. During an AFC wild-card . There's a wealth of stuff in the Chicago area that people should check out. Like I just got really excited when I would read about this stuff. There's something to be said for keeping something like this around, you know, it's, it's a part of this, this interwoven fabric that supports it, supports the life that's been here for millions of years and is part of the bigger picture. And it clearly has a special place in Joey's heart, based on a t-shirt he sells. And maybe you have a better likelihood of accepting. 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. No, it's not like that. Larsen: Allow me to introduce you to Joey Santore. 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. Hi, I'm Joey Santore, plant lover, botanist, and working class mook. Come along. Listen to me. interface language. I was like, I feel like an ignoramus. Larsen: Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. Oh, what's going on here? He was kicked out of military school and got into graffiti and the punk scene. Personal Quotes (3) I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and ask more questions. That's one of mine. We're going to turn it to shit. Larsen: 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. and he says that accent as a joke, like it just makes him laugh. 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. It appears that he observed a potentially orphaned coyote pup in poor condition so he was trying to obtain this animal and then transfer it to a wildlife rehabilitator., But Monroe says that his approach presents some challenges. 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. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. Oh, yeah, there we go. To find enough real estate to survive, these prostrata often end up finding their home in the middle of the road. 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. It looks like a weed. That's near Kankakee. Then there are people who got sucked in because of one of those viral videos. Warning: The video above contains graphic language. 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.. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. 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.. 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. I don't want to hear that. I believe Northern Pacific rattlesnake. I just don't think what you're doing is safe behavior. 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. A lot of people [who] find that YouTube page seem really upset to find out that Elwood Blues is not really a botanist. All right. What did you think when you saw that video went viral? It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. 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. 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. Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. Joey Santore, based in Oakland, California, specializing in Cupressaceae, currently studying native California Cypresses. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. The whole thing is kind of sad. But you also get the feeling that botany gave him a way to make sense of the world, and of humans' place within it. Most important is the Garfield Park Conservatory, which is free and features plants from all over the world. It makes life a lot more interesting. A halfway decent knock-knock joke? That's just the funny accent. I wasnt able to make it there that day so I decided I would bring it there the next morning. Thats cute, you think youre tough. According to Jesse Will, Joey's subscribers don't fit any kind of mold. 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. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night.". 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. 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. 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. 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. Plants, Redwing boots, dogs. Here's Joey pointing out a colony of the quarter-sized gray-green buttons in the video he made about the day. Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie is another excellent one, down by Joliet. 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. and he says that accent as a joke, like it just makes him laugh. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. 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. 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. 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. "I liked trees originally because they are so big. Joey is a botanist & producer of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't YouTube channel. 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. When you speak to them in person that accent gets dialed way back down. Larsen: Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. I want to share themand [talk about] what a tragedy it is that people don't know this stuff is here. All right. Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. It's totally fascinating stuff, man. As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. 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? When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Santore: The biggest population of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader. But Ive had my rabies titer, if it makes you feel any better.. 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. But many thrive, and some of his earliest plantings are now impressive specimens. That's a Crotalus Organus NorPac. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. Joey Santore holds his cell phone, widescreen-style, in his fingers, one of which is tattooed with a ruler's hash marks. In the video we see a gentleman who I believe sincerely was coming from a place of compassion, Monroe told TIME. I impersonate these Chicago characters as a joke to make the subject material more interesting, he says. 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. This episode was written and produced by me, Maren Larsen:, and edited by Michael Roberts. 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). Outside of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road.... 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