If you like what we do here, please support our work on an ongoing basis. We don't know what would happen if it disappeared completely, but Joey says that he doesn't want to find out. One was that this gentleman was so singleminded in his approach to try and achieve a compassionate outcome for this young animal, she says. The biggest population of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader. Larsen: And so, an ex-punk, former-train-hopper-turned-engineer who doesn't have a college degree is getting hundreds of thousands of people excited about botany using just a camera and his voice. But it's his voice that's the real star of the show. Thats not true. However, the downtime has allowed him to post more videos about botanizing the Bay Area. Cmere, hey, youre OK, shhh, a mans voice can be heard as he runs after a small, skittish coyote through the tall grass. I would be a lot more angry of a person if I didn't have this. They just hide. Of course. If it gets people to hate coyotes a little less and not demonize them, I'm down with it. I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. Outsides longstanding literary storytelling tradition comes to life inaudio with features that will both entertain and inform listeners. Apr 29, 2020 - Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. The attention is somewhat unwanted. Then there are people who got sucked in because of one of those viral videos. I guess it's for the better. The Outside Podcast is made possible by our Outside+ members. Larsen: This video went viral when Joey posted it back in 2019, but venomous snakes are not his typical beat. What is plant systematics? That's a Crotalus Organus NorPac. 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. Will: Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. Hi, I'm Joey Santore, plant lover, botanist, and working class mook. Specifically, trees. Among Santores fans are plant geeks, outdoor enthusiasts, and cannabis growers who were worm-holed into Santores channel while looking up plant propagation. He undoubtedly spurred people who'd never heard about milkweed to give a damn about the plant. It's this squat plant. All right. Magazines, Digital Today. Obviously the accents canned, he said. 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. 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. The first steps to learning more is realizingyour own ignorance, and then beingwillingto work beyond that. All right. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. Santore: I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. 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. Some of his trees are now over 30 feet tall! Come along. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about 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. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night.". Here's Joey pointing out a colony of the quarter-sized gray-green buttons in the video he made about the day. I'm Joey. It was crossing a road on like a 90-degree day at 2 p.m, he says. Maybe I should have just left her alone. Might just be cooking up carbs, storing it in that tuber and then going dormant for a while. Right. you're seeing people that comment and say things like this, guys, the reason why I got interested in plants. I don't want to hear that. I went to college and studied sociology and communication but dropped out to travel. 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. No, it's not like that. I impersonate these Chicago characters as a joke to make the subject material more interesting, he says. 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. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. "I liked trees originally because they are so big. 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. 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. Here's Joey pointing out a colony of the quarter-sized gray-green buttons in the video he made about the day. 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. I want to learn how this stuff works. Pinterest. 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. Santore: Oh, what's going on here? 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.. 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. There's a wealth of stuff in the Chicago area that people should check out. A Low-Brow, Crass Approach to Plant Ecology & Evolution as muttered by a Misanthropic Chicago Italian. And it's it's, uh, that kind of grated me. 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.. We're, we're keeping it civil. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. The whole thing is kind of sad. 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. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. email me. This is journalist Jesse Will, who profiled Joey for Outside Online. May 26, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Earlier this month, WTTW Channel 11 profiled him (using the name Joey Santore) and though he does have a noticeable Chicago accent, it's not nearly as heavy as what you hear in his nature. Every academic botanist that I talked to was super stoked on his work. I'm not trying to harass you. And even more specifically, conifers. You're ob-, obviously a NorPac. Amidst mild profanity and general irreverence, we examine plant life (the base of Earth's food chain) and the nature of the rocks and soil they grow on, as well as the evolutionary adaptations that enable . At the time, I was like, "Whatever, shit happens, animals die." By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. 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. His life as a guerrilla forester began when he noticed some of the public spaces the city was ignoring. You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. Released on 03/11/2022. 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. 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. Drawings 2019 - 2021; 2010-18; 2005-09; 1995-2004; 1990-94; 1983-88 . Theres unfortunately a sad ending to the story of a guy with a thick Chicago accent trying to rescue a struggling coyote pup. Real banger right there. 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. 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? 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. Yesterday. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. Every time it feels like an apocalyptic story with this plant. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. He's shooting the shit. He's on your level. This episode was brought to you by Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor adventurers. Larsen: He was kicked out of military school and got into graffiti and the punk scene. 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. Hes not afraid to mix the sacred, mundane, and lewd. I believe you; I believe youre so tough., Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. You gotta go to a rehab facility or sometin You need help, you know? Uh, he has one that says plant milkweed or get fucked. But it's his voice that's the real star of the show. 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. 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. All right. Riding the rails, he got an up-close tour of the geologic time scale exposed by railroad cuts: layers of rock dating back millennia. Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher who first studied with Plato and then became a disciple Uh, where you get summer rain. It makes the nausea a little bit easier to deal with. It makes sense. You got a fuzzy stem, you got a fuzzy stem. 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. One was rabies transmission and one was mange. And even more specifically, conifers. Although Santore was worried about this pup being out during the day, Monroe says thats not actually out of the ordinary. Not in a bad way. 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. 2018-21; 2010-17; 1999-2009; 1990-99; 1983-90; 1978-83; 1974-77; 1972-1973; Drawings. You get, for instance, a cactus that's native to the Chicago area. 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.. Even if it gets really ugly, it's still gonna be okay. 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. Okay. 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. Do you have any favorite hikes or excursions you recommend in the Chicago area? What do you hope viewers take away from your channel? 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. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. Larsen: Joey's video from South Texas has some 50,000 views and counting. Okay. You can read Jesse's story on Outside Online. And especially where we are now as a species with our understanding of science and the world and all this technology that we have. Maren Larsen (host): From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. 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. Santore was born in Chicago; his mother was an elementary school teacher and his father left on his first birthday. When you speak to them in person that accent gets dialed way back down. 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. and the majority of the day, we're looking for this rare milkweed Asclepias prostrata. Now based in Oakland, California, he was in Arizona on a botany trip when I reached him by email. Shhh, what appened to yer fokes?. 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. Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com. With Joey Santore. 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. Some of his tree babies meet an untimely end, felled by pollution, city maintenance, or swerving vehicles. Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. I'm not trying to harass you. 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?. Looking back, she was really sick. 3 min read. But if [the video] gets people to smile a little bit, that's cool. Whether its oaks or Oaklanders, theres a lack of suitable habitat for many. 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. 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. The animal appears sickly and unwell and the man tries to determine if he can catch it and bring it to a rescue center. 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.. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. 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