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. In addition we have many gardens here that are maintaining endangered plant species, especially Lotusland. 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. We have constructed attractive Patreon tiers that allow you to be fully recognized for your regular contribution. 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. I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. I impersonate these Chicago characters as a joke to make the subject material more interesting, he says. He keeps a stash of 40 to 50 saplings in his backyard and at a friends nursery, awaiting the next chance to sneak a tree onto a median or into another opportune location. But Ive had my rabies titer, if it makes you feel any better.. All right. (He also produces a podcast of the same name.) 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? content language. He hasn't looked back ever since. Everything I know (about nature and botany) I basically learned myself, he said. The video, he said, is from late June when he was in small Siskiyou County, California, in the northern part of the state. One was rabies transmission and one was mange. 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.. 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.". Larsen: This video went viral when Joey posted it back in 2019, but venomous snakes are not his typical beat. I don't know why they got to keep grading the road, but you know, you give a man a machine and you tell him, go do this, give him a mower, give him a road grader. It 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. But please dont bite me. Right now Im in Sonora, Arizona. Joey travels around the world and takes you on plant walks, with "colorful" commentary. 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. Sounds like a cool dude. 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.. 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. That's just the funny accent. 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. 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. From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. The animal appears sickly and unwell and the man tries to determine if he can catch it and bring it to a rescue center. Thats cute, you think youre tough. But if [the video] gets people to smile a little bit, that's cool. Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't: Created by Joey Santore. And so I realized that might happen, but it didnt really mess with me until the day after, he says. A low-brow, crass approach to plant ecology as muttered by a misanthropic Chicago Italian. Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com. Asclepias prostrata is just one species, native to one relatively small ecosystem. Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. 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. He has rather unexpectedly earned a bit of internet fame due to his passion for a far less adrenaline-inducing subject: plants. The Outside Podcast is made possible by our Outside+ members. What kind of attention have you been getting in the past week? And it clearly has a special place in Joey's heart, based on a t-shirt he sells. 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. It was crossing a road on like a 90-degree day at 2 p.m, he says. This episode is brought to you by Visit Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor lovers. Nowadays he films the trips he takes in search of some of the rarest plants on the planet. Released on 03/11/2022. "I'm stuffing envelopes proper now," he advised me from his house in West Oakland. I wasnt able to make it there that day so I decided I would bring it there the next morning. 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. Right. You get, for instance, a cactus that's native to the Chicago area. He started growing rare conifers from seed. Sorry. 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 shantytown of homeless people has sprung up adjacent to the neighborhood where hes been doing much of his planting. 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. 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 . It makes life a lot more interesting. I want to get more people excited about it, because theres a lot of dark (crud) coming our way. You knows what Im gonna do, Im gonna take you to a nice rehab facility. He hadn't cooled off by Monday. Transcript. You know, and I just dont want to get bitten. So maybe it'll be okay. I'm not trying to harass you. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. 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]. Whether its oaks or Oaklanders, theres a lack of suitable habitat for many. Its a way for me to throw a couple jabs at the elements of society that kind of irk me.. Asclepius prostrata, the prostrate milkweed. 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. So it's like kind of a full circle moment, right? I was like, I feel like an ignoramus. 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. You can plant this thing that would outlive you and maybe destroy the sidewalk," says Oakland resident Joey Santore, whose viral video " Tony Santoro's Guide to Illegal Tree-Planting " playfully documents his subversive efforts to reforest his neighborhood. 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. We don't know what would happen if it disappeared completely, but Joey says that he doesn't want to find out. Every time it feels like an apocalyptic story with this plant. Thats not true. I saw it (the coyote) running across the road, it looked grossly malnourished. Santore: The biggest population of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader. "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. Today. Warning: The video above contains graphic language. It was funny, going out to California when I moved out there. So a lot of them just kind of look like shit, right. But before I did that I decided to give it a flea bath, which was probably a stupid idea in retrospect, since I think it might have just been shocked by it. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. 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 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. If you want to take a look at what I've been up to more seriously, check out my resume. I guess it's for the better. 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. Santore has been throwing shade figuratively and literally in his adopted hometown since moving there in 2006. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. Im in absolute awe of the sheer depth of his accent, Twitter user @kevinefarrell commented. 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. It's totally fascinating stuff, man. 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. I love getting people excited about these things I've seen. I don't want to hear that. So I did that and I got her to eat a little bit, he says. Learn to spot shallow conformity in social circles and don't waste your time on them, study plants and geology instead. Cirrus Wood is a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley. 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. Most important is the Garfield Park Conservatory, which is free and features plants from all over the world. This is what happens when you dont have any regulations in place to protect the people on the bottom, he says. 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. The tragedy here is we're destroying a lot of this as our population grows, so I guess that's where my misanthropy comes up. 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. (Joey Santore). Larsen: Joey had always liked railroads. He would print out papers to read during downtime on the trains. At certain times of year, especially this time of year, they are often active during the day. And maybe you have a better likelihood of accepting. 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. email me. And then a few years later I went back and took some classes, a geology class, an oceanography class and a biology class. Okay. So its mostly a joke, because most science communication is dry and boring. Kind of a bummer! A good read? I got like 120 Facebook friend requests from middle-aged white ladies in Iowa. 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. Volo Bog near Crystal Lake is another great resource. Jesse Will interviewed Joey Santore. Who discovered botany? Trees are a side pursuit. Joey's video from South Texas has some 50,000 views and counting. 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. There's another one just coming up right in the middle of the road, it's a goddamned big prostrata. Now based in Oakland, California, he was in Arizona on a botany trip when I reached him by email. 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. 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? It's a giant a part of how I make my cash." Santore has a whole bunch [] 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. All right. Okay. 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. Of course. His priority is making habitats, not only leaves and pretty flowers. 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. 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. Meanwhile, across the bay, Tony Santoros Guide to Illegal Tree-Planting debuted. I like the ambiance of railroads. It makes sense. Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie is another excellent one, down by Joliet. Explore. Larsen: But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. Okay. What is plant systematics? [Outside the city], there's Wolf Road Prairie, [plus] a couple prairies down in Markham. Hard to mistake the voice-overs blue-collar, lunch-bucket bawl for Sir David Attenborough when the speaker declares that planting treesgivers of oxygen, creators of atmospheremakes the turd of lifeeasier to swallow.. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. Theres unfortunately a sad ending to the story of a guy with a thick Chicago accent trying to rescue a struggling coyote pup. 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. 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 The penalty, which came . At the time, I was like, "Whatever, shit happens, animals die." We're, we're keeping it civil. Santore: Look at that beautiful bastard, not flowering yet may not flower this year at all. Things that were formerly bland to them become these organisms with their own evolutionary lineages. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. He's published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers 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. "Mailing out stickers. It plays into some of the more gross elements of human nature. 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. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. and he says that accent as a joke, like it just makes him laugh. 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. If it gets people to hate coyotes a little less and not demonize them, I'm down with it. 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. 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. 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. Sorry. This episode was brought to you by Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor adventurers. 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. We don't get that here. He's just borrowing. Rainy winter is planting season, giving his seedlings months to take root. 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. He was kicked out of military school and got into graffiti and the punk scene. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. But on Thursday, the Chicagoland native went viral when a profanity-laden clip of him comforting a sick coyote. Editors Note: Transcriptions of episodes of the Outside Podcast are created with a mix of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain some grammatical errors or slight deviations from the audio. The Landscape Architecture Podcast. I thought, "Oh, shit!" And especially where we are now as a species with our understanding of science and the world and all this technology that we have. 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. Outsides longstanding literary storytelling tradition comes to life inaudio with features that will both entertain and inform listeners. I guess I view all those videos as kind of a long-running piece of sketch comedy. Larsen: Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. 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. 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. And Jesse's with me. 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? 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. Late in the afternoon Thursday, the twitter account @eedrk posted a two-minute video and captioned it: Guy with a thick Chicago accent helps coyote pup.. 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. So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. countries. They just hide. You got to get out of the road. 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. Shhh, what appened to yer fokes?. Consider this your heads-up that there are going to be quite a few curse words in this episode. I have been driving freight trains for, I dunno, the past 15 years. 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. He's shooting the shit. According to Jesse Will, Joey's subscribers don't fit any kind of mold. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Digital She was really sick, I could tell. I would probably say the same thing to somebody cause theres a lot of jackaes out there, he says. I mean, on some level it looks, it looks like a weed. You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. 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. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. Theres so many different wildlife disease concerns that have significant overlap with human health impact.. Will: It's the oldest psychedelic substance known to man. But you also get the feeling that botany gave him a way to make sense of the world, and of humans' place within it. When you speak to them in person that accent gets dialed way back down. 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. 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. To see this whole thing being paraded around as a cute clickbait video kind of bummed me out. What drew you to making videos about botany? And Jesse's with me. Among Santores fans are plant geeks, outdoor enthusiasts, and cannabis growers who were worm-holed into Santores channel while looking up plant propagation. 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. I just don't think what you're doing is safe behavior. Theyre extremely opportunistic, theyre extremely intelligent animals, so they do whatever they need to do to seek resources. I kind of joke humans have like the king might've shit touch, you know, everywhere we go, even if the intent is good, there's enough of us. I'm Joey Santore: a Connecticut-born, Brooklyn-living, nonprofit-working, cooking-loving, playlist-making, lucid-dreaming, karate-coaching, twenty-something. Okay. Special interests: Conifers of California, Conifers of Cupressaceae, California Native Cypresses, Arctostaphylos. We don't get that here. You need help! But Joey doesn't see a weed. 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. 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. Of course. I'm Joey. Obviously the accents canned, he said. 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. But also,[coyotes] are heavily persecuted. 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. One was that this gentleman was so singleminded in his approach to try and achieve a compassionate outcome for this young animal, she says. But I also try to keep [the videos] lighthearted. Refreshingly Funny Ice Cream Man's Prank Video Is a Delicious Summer Treat. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. May 26, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Looking back, she was really sick. But also, I grew up knowing guys like that, you know? 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. 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. That's near Kankakee. Perhaps because the accent (and its attendant colloquialisms) has become such a rarity, when it does turn up in a piece of media, people notice which could be one of the reasons why the coyote video has generated so much attention. 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. 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). Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. This is Plant Support. Larsen: Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. 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. There's another one just coming up right in the middle of the road, it's a goddamned big prostrata. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. Santore: I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. 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. 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. And around that time I hired out with the railroad, where I got a locomotive license. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. But, about that voice. It's everyone from dope growers to amateur science geeks to viewers who just stumbled onto his YouTube. He is diversity. I want to inspire people to look at the world differently, he says. And even more specifically, conifers. 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. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. You'll see guys posting photos of dead coyotes they shot over the weekend. No, it's not like that. 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. Oh, what's going on here? Beyond the tenderheartedness, what really made the video was Santore's thick, Bill Swerski-esque Chicago accent. Well, first off, I'm not really trying to create YouTube fluff. Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. Larsen: As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. You got a fuzzy stem, you got a fuzzy stem. 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