Santore: I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. 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. 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. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. You got the damn opposite leaves looking at it. Braidwood Dunes is another really good one. (Joey Santore). I don't know, six or seven years give or take. He adds that if he had known how sick the coyote was, he wouldve tried to get it to a wildlife rehabilitation center sooner. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. 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. Apr 29, 2020 - Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. That's just my personal take. In his videos, Santore offers observations and advice on how to cultivate habitats in neglected urban areas, his narration veering from erudition (Over here you got some coast live oaks, Quercus agrifolia) to irreverence (Grew these bastards from seed). 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. When I was a kid, a lot of my friends had dads like that. 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). Magazines, Digital He now works as a freight train driver in Oakland, where he frequently makes trips into the wilderness in search of native plants. Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher who first studied with Plato and then became a disciple Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. I got like 120 Facebook friend requests from middle-aged white ladies in Iowa. 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. 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. 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. The video captivated peoples hearts and went massively viral, with people applauding Santore for his commitment to trying to help the coyote and loving the thicker than normal Chicago accent that he puts on for his videos. We don't know what would happen if it disappeared completely, but Joey says that he doesn't want to find out. Even if it gets really ugly, it's still gonna be okay. Absolutely. And even more specifically, conifers. It was crossing a road on like a 90-degree day at 2 p.m, he says. 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. And around that time I hired out with the railroad, where I got a locomotive license. It makes sense. So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. Take it easy, buddy. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. Everything I know (about nature and botany) I basically learned myself, he said. I obviously don't talk like that in real life I got an accent, but I don't talk like that. Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall. I asked what he thought about the video going viral. 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. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. 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. But many thrive, and some of his earliest plantings are now impressive specimens. 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. You know, maybe not being seen for, for God knows how long. Sorry. 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. 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. We're going to turn it to shit. I wasnt going to be able to make it there that day, so I figured I would take it Monday. I didn't realize botany could be so cool. This is journalist Jesse Will, who profiled Joey for Outside Online. It starts in Chicago, where he was raised by a single mother who was an elementary school teacher. This is Plant Support. 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'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. 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. He didnt grow up in a traditional way and has not had the traditional jobs that bring you into this field. Learn more about all the fun to be had across the state at visitmississippi.org. Larsen: But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. I don't know why. He's shooting the shit. Right. 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. It's totally fascinating stuff, man. I want to get more people excited about it, because theres a lot of dark (crud) coming our way. 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. It's just the way it is. I want to share themand [talk about] what a tragedy it is that people don't know this stuff is here. Also, we're offering new members a 25% discount. But also, I grew up knowing guys like that, you know? Santore has been throwing shade figuratively and literally in his adopted hometown since moving there in 2006. 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. He undoubtedly spurred people who'd never heard about milkweed to give a damn about the plant. His priority is making habitats, not only leaves and pretty flowers. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. But if [the video] gets people to smile a little bit, that's cool. I mean, on some level it looks, it looks like a weed. Looking back, she was really sick. 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. But is now just kind of leftover. Add to that the threat of invasive buffelgrass, which is fast outcompeting this important little weed. it's still there. 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. Check out our Patreon page for more info. I think the video obviously it got a lot of hits I think it touched people in different ways. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. What do you hope viewers take away from your channel? It's doing pretty good. You get, for instance, a cactus that's native to the Chicago area. But it's his voice that's the real star of the show. I was just in Sonora, Mexico, looking at plants. with a website! We don't get that here. I saw it (the coyote) running across the road, it looked grossly malnourished. I don't know why. His life as a guerrilla forester began when he noticed some of the public spaces the city was ignoring. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. It was grossly underweight.. You got a fuzzy stem, you got a fuzzy stem. There's another one just coming up right in the middle of the road, it's a goddamned big prostrata. Do you have any favorite hikes or excursions you recommend in the Chicago area? I'm not trying to harass you. Plants, Redwing boots, dogs. 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. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. 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.. 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. 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? 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 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. Some of his trees are now over 30 feet tall! You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. And then the YouTube account blew up, which is cool. 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. Joeys a breath of fresh air. So a lot of them just kind of look like shit, right. I bet a bunch of illegal tree planting. 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. I guess it's for the better. interface language. Maren Larsen (host): From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. 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. Add to that the threat of invasive buffelgrass, which is fast outcompeting this important little weed. 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 was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. That's a Crotalus Organus NorPac. 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. We don't get that here. I love getting people excited about these things I've seen. 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. 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. Kind of a bummer! It's everyone from dope growers to amateur science geeks to viewers who just stumbled onto his YouTube. He's squatting in carpenter jeans and dusty black oxfords, scanning each. 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. According to Jesse Will, Joey's subscribers don't fit any kind of mold. A Low-Brow, Crass Approach to Plant Ecology & Evolution as muttered by a Misanthropic Chicago Italian. A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. Just enter the code pod25 at checkout. We're going to turn it to shit. I impersonate these Chicago characters as a joke to make the subject material more interesting, he says. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. 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. But you also get the feeling that botany gave him a way to make sense of the world, and of humans' place within it. All right. I'm Joey. 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. Cmere, hey, youre OK, shhh, a mans voice can be heard as he runs after a small, skittish coyote through the tall grass. Joey is a botanist & producer of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't YouTube channel. 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. Cirrus Wood is a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley. Possibilities opened up. He says that working as a freight train operator rather than spending his time in school has allowed him to pursue that passion. Joey Santore | major gifts fundraising at charity: water Hi there. You're ob-, obviously a NorPac. No, it's not like that. You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. Oh, what's going on here? Okay. Specifically, trees. I don't know why you're taking that kind of stance with me. You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. If you want to take a look at what I've been up to more seriously, check out my resume. 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. Its a way for me to throw a couple jabs at the elements of society that kind of irk me.. But I also try to keep [the videos] lighthearted. Makes the turd of, uh, uh, life in modern society easier through a swallow, helps it go down easier. But also,[coyotes] are heavily persecuted. 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. Although he doesnt have a degree in botany, Santore tells TIME that nature is his true passion. The penalty, which came . So maybe it'll be okay. Hes published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers. Joey travels around the world and takes you on plant walks, with "colorful" commentary. There's a wealth of stuff in the Chicago area that people should check out. and he says that accent as a joke, like it just makes him laugh. email me. 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." 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. If it gets people to hate coyotes a little less and not demonize them, I'm down with it. Santore: Look at that beautiful bastard, not flowering yet may not flower this year at all. Larsen: Allow me to introduce you to Joey Santore. 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. But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. Will: When you speak to them in person that accent gets dialed way back down. So I said, fuck it, I'm just gonna be who I am. 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. Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. 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.. 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. 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. Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall. Uh, he has one that says plant milkweed or get fucked. Kind of a bummer! His videos may be popular with kids who are budding botanists. He started growing rare conifers from seed. 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. That's one of mine. Larsen: He was kicked out of military school and got into graffiti and the punk scene. 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. To find enough real estate to survive, these prostrata often end up finding their home in the middle of the road. I just don't think what you're doing is safe behavior. She was really sick, I could tell. Joey's presentation to the Houston Native Prairie Association will be a series of . Warning: The video above contains graphic language. The Landscape Architecture Podcast. The Field Museum is great too. Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. Not in a bad way. 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. Right. After Staley picked it up and gave it back to him, Bosa threw it down again. Consider this your heads-up that there are going to be quite a few curse words in this episode. He tried going to college, but while he enjoyed learning, it seemed like a waste of time and money since he didn't yet know what he wanted to do. 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. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night.". The video, he said, is from late June when he was in small Siskiyou County, California, in the northern part of the state. Larsen: This video went viral when Joey posted it back in 2019, but venomous snakes are not his typical beat. Who discovered botany? While some scientists bristle at Joey's swearing or his abrasive politics, most professional plant lovers recognize that his approach is having an important impact. You got to get out of the road. 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. [upbeat . Well, he's not pilfered. 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. His appeal is all about sounding nothing like the stereotypical botanist. A lot of folks think that coyotes in particular are purely nocturnal or even crepuscular, which is like dawn, dusk, night. You gotta go to a rehab facility or sometin You need help, you know? He's on your level. Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't: Created by Joey Santore. 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 Outside Podcast is made possible by our Outside+ members. 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 the oldest psychedelic substance known to man. Now based in Oakland, California, he was in Arizona on a botany trip when I reached him by email. Pinterest. Shhh, what appened to yer fokes?. The whole thing is kind of sad. 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. I thought you was a gopher snake at first. You'll see guys posting photos of dead coyotes they shot over the weekend. Every time it feels like an apocalyptic story with this plant. You can hit the Explore button [in. ] There's little nuances of social mannerisms that I miss about Chicago, like that voice I channel on the YouTube page. He's published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers He's just borrowing. (Photo by Jesse Will) I called Joey Santore just as he'd returned from a botanizing trip to South Africa. Santore: I thought you was a gopher snake at first. To see this whole thing being paraded around as a cute clickbait video kind of bummed me out. You knows what Im gonna do, Im gonna take you to a nice rehab facility. Did some redneck shoot your parents whats going on? Yesterday. And even more specifically, conifers. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. Every academic botanist that I talked to was super stoked on his work. 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 is turned on to the outdoors because hes turned off by everything else. 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. Larsen: Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. 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.. Larsen: 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. One was rabies transmission and one was mange. You have reached your limit of 4 free articles. Well, he's not pilfered. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. 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: 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. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. I thought, "Oh, shit!" So it's like kind of a full circle moment, right? Transcript. What drew you to making videos about botany? But on Thursday, the Chicagoland native went viral when a profanity-laden clip of him comforting a sick coyote. This episode was brought to you by Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor adventurers. He was kicked out of military school and got into graffiti and the punk scene. Larsen: Asclepias prostrata is just one species, native to one relatively small ecosystem. A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. 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. 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. And it clearly has a special place in Joey's heart, based on a t-shirt he sells. But, about that voice. So maybe it'll be okay. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. The first steps to learning more is realizing your own ignorance, and then being willing to work beyond that. But it ends up just being a very minor part of the day, hunting down this peyote. Larsen: Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. And maybe you have a better likelihood of accepting. And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. 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? I bet a bunch of illegal tree planting. And then, uh, of course these are a couple of mine as well. 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. He has rather unexpectedly earned a bit of internet fame due to his passion for a far less adrenaline-inducing subject: plants. I want to inspire people to look at the world differently, he says. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. Sorry. 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. 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