A shantytown of homeless people has sprung up adjacent to the neighborhood where hes been doing much of his planting. (Photo by Jesse Will) I called Joey Santore just as he'd returned from a botanizing trip to South Africa. Refreshingly Funny Ice Cream Man's Prank Video Is a Delicious Summer Treat. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. Well, he's not pilfered. Larsen: As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. Explore. He now works as a freight train driver in Oakland, where he frequently makes trips into the wilderness in search of native plants. And it clearly has a special place in Joey's heart, based on a t-shirt he sells. It's totally fascinating stuff, man. The Field Museum is great too. To see this whole thing being paraded around as a cute clickbait video kind of bummed me out. I'm a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley, California. Sounds like a cool dude. But again, we always say that people should not pursue, chase, corner or attempt to capture wildlife because it places the person and the animal at risk.. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. 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." Thats not true. This episode was brought to you by Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor adventurers. Personal Quotes (3) I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and ask more questions. Of course. It plays into some of the more gross elements of human nature. You got a fuzzy stem, you got a fuzzy stem. Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't: Created by Joey Santore. I was like, I feel like an ignoramus. 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. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. 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. I don't know why. I want to learn how this stuff works. Santore: Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. Will: Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. 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. The next day I called around and the nearest wildlife rehab was like 2 hours away down south. Then there are people who got sucked in because of one of those viral videos. But, about that voice. I've had everyone from teenagers to suburban dads tell me, Hey, I saw your page. Grew these both from seed. A lot of people [who] find that YouTube page seem really upset to find out that Elwood Blues is not really a botanist. 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 want to inspire people to look at the world differently, he says. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. Larsen: Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. So we shouldn't start trying to, we shouldn't, we shouldn't burn down the library before we understand what's in it, you know. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. it's still there. 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. 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. Santore: 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. I associate them with a place to like get away from people and, kind of open air playground. Maybe I should have just left her alone. 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. Bosa removed and slammed his helmet on the ground while still on the field. Come along. It was like a blank canvas, he says, very much like graffitiing except less likely to piss people off., Santore goes for species that are fast-growing and resilient, preferably native. I'm not trying to harass you. He would print out papers to read during downtime on the trains. I saw it (the coyote) running across the road, it looked grossly malnourished. That's near Kankakee. Santore: I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. All Rights Reserved. Los Angeles Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa wasn't happy with the officials on Saturday night. But is now just kind of leftover. Joey travels around the world and takes you on plant walks, with colorful commentary. it's still there. When Joey Santore went searching for a biological "origin story" of sorts, he stumbled into the world of botany. Larsen: He was kicked out of military school and got into graffiti and the punk scene. 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. One is that, at the department, we never recommend chasing or cornering or forcibly handling wildlife. 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 good read? I have been driving freight trains for, I dunno, the past 15 years. 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. 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. Looking for Tony Santoro online? 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. Learn to spot shallow conformity in social circles and don't waste your time on them, study plants and geology instead. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. Magazines, Digital Something about that old school Chicago accent conjuring the late, great Dennis Farina combined with his attempt to help an ailing animal seems to be key to the videos popularity. I believe you; I believe youre so tough., Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. Theres so many different wildlife disease concerns that have significant overlap with human health impact.. The biggest population of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader. 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. There's a wealth of stuff in the Chicago area that people should check out. With Joey Santore. I want to help you but I dont want to get bitten, he tells the pup in his put-on accent. Yesterday. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. 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. What do you hope viewers take away from your channel? 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. 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. 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.. We spoke to Santore about his complicated feelings on his newfound fame, how the natural world can be abalm for modern anxieties, and why he plays up his Chicago accent for the camera. interface language. His videos may be popular with kids who are budding botanists. 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. This plant has adapted to lie dormant in its underground rhizome for years until conditions are right. He has lots of tattoos and no college degree and is known for illegal tree-planting projects. Every academic botanist that I talked to was super stoked on his work. 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. But Ive had my rabies titer, if it makes you feel any better.. He undoubtedly spurred people who'd never heard about milkweed to give a damn about the plant. That's a Crotalus Organus NorPac. He's squatting in carpenter jeans and dusty black oxfords, scanning each. Jesse Will: 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. Special interests: Conifers of California, Conifers of Cupressaceae, California Native Cypresses, Arctostaphylos. She also warns that rehabilitating a lone coyote pup is a particularly complicated venture. This plant has adapted to lie dormant in its underground rhizome for years until conditions are right. 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. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night.". another adaptation to that, uh, aridity that, that dry climate. In real life, his lilt isnt nearly so exaggerated. Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. It makes sense. Plants, Redwing boots, dogs. 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. You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. Who discovered botany? Santore: I've been breaking relatively unimpactful laws my whole life. 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. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Will: It looks like a weed. It's doing pretty good. Santore: And then I realized, I didn't know anything about the country I lived in and it was a big ass country, so why not travel? The Landscape Architecture Podcast. 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. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. I guess I view all those videos as kind of a long-running piece of sketch comedy. You get, for instance, a cactus that's native to the Chicago area. Joey Santore is a photographer, presenter, botanist, known for Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't (2019). 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. Cirrus Wood is a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley. 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. Allow me to introduce you to Joey Santore. I don't know, six or seven years give or take. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. 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. Might just be cooking up carbs, storing it in that tuber and then going dormant for a while. Every time it feels like an apocalyptic story with this plant. They just hide. He's shooting the shit. As his online handle suggests, botany doesnt cover the bills. It's everyone from dope growers to amateur science geeks to viewers who just stumbled onto his YouTube. 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. The Tribune did confirm his identity in a public records search but agreed not to reveal it. We don't get that here. World United States United Kingdom Canada Australia South Africa Israel India France Belgium Switzerland. Today I'm here to answer your plant questions via Twitter. Let's see. Specifically, trees. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night." 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. Milkweed is a favorite of many botanists because of its critical importance to the endangered monarch butterfly. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Digital I don't know why they got to keep grading the road, but you know, you give a man a machine and you tell him, go do this, give him a mower, give him a road grader. You got to get out of the road. It's kind of funny. countries. She was really sick, I could tell. I went to college and studied sociology and communication but dropped out to travel. Volo Bog near Crystal Lake is another great resource. But also,[coyotes] are heavily persecuted. I believe Northern Pacific rattlesnake. They just hide. Jesse Will interviewed Joey Santore. Thats basically all I do is I look at rare plants, I photograph them, I make notes and then share that information with the general public and make silly botany videos too., "It looked grossly malnourished. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. 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! 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. But on Thursday, the Chicagoland native went viral when a profanity-laden clip of him comforting a sick coyote. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. Okay. It was nothing personal, but I rejected them all unless we had mutual friends. 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. You know, maybe not being seen for, for God knows how long. 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]. 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. Santore: Look at that beautiful bastard, not flowering yet may not flower this year at all. Grew these both from seed. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. Santore: The biggest population of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader. According to Jesse Will, Joey's subscribers don't fit any kind of mold. I bet a bunch of illegal tree planting. All right. Specifically, trees. And then, uh, of course these are a couple of mine as well. I called them and they said they could take her and everything, but she had already passed away in the night. Much of his audience, no doubt, shares his worldview: in a landscape of American cultural decline, the study of natural sciences and ecological systems are all that make sense right now. But it ends up just being a very minor part of the day, hunting down this peyote. Released on 03/11/2022. Kind of a bummer! You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. He didnt grow up in a traditional way and has not had the traditional jobs that bring you into this field. Painted on the side of an eight-story building, the fiery teenager looks determined and unbowed, gazing down at pedestrians and traffic with eyes the size of windscreens. The video, he said, is from late June when he was in small Siskiyou County, California, in the northern part of the state. Come along. There's little nuances of social mannerisms that I miss about Chicago, like that voice I channel on the YouTube page. He is diversity. He says that working as a freight train operator rather than spending his time in school has allowed him to pursue that passion. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. 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. 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. Okay. I just don't think what you're doing is safe behavior. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. Right now Im in Sonora, Arizona. I think it's kind of risky. 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