But I also try to keep [the videos] lighthearted. Grew these both from seed. You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. Magazines, Digital I don't know why you're taking that kind of stance with me. He has rather unexpectedly earned a bit of internet fame due to his passion for a far less adrenaline-inducing subject: plants. He undoubtedly spurred people who'd never heard about milkweed to give a damn about the plant. Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com. 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. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. Member Since November 2014. Larsen: Asclepias prostrata is just one species, native to one relatively small ecosystem. 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]. Trees are a side pursuit. 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? Larsen: But Joey doesn't see a weed. 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. Santore is a self-taught botanist and former freight train driver in Oakland, California who believes the natural world can be a balm for modern anxieties caused by climate change and Capitalism. 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 did you think when you saw that video went viral? There's enough cat videos and cute videos with corny narratives. And even more specifically, conifers. 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. 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. We don't get that here. 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. This is Plant Support. 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. Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. 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. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. I want to inspire people to look at the world differently, he says. According to the man behind the video Joey Santore, an Oakland-based, self-taught botanist who runs the YouTube channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't the pup died two nights after he. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Digital This episode was brought to you by Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor adventurers. I'm Joey Santore: a Connecticut-born, Brooklyn-living, nonprofit-working, cooking-loving, playlist-making, lucid-dreaming, karate-coaching, twenty-something. 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. From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. Jesse Will interviewed Joey Santore. Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall. 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. Hi, I'm Joey Santore, plant lover, botanist, and working class mook. This episode was written and produced by me, Maren Larsen:, and edited by Michael Roberts. 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.. Hes published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers. He started growing rare conifers from seed. I think it's kind of risky. That's just my personal take. The Tribune did confirm his identity in a public records search but agreed not to reveal it. 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. Its a way for me to throw a couple jabs at the elements of society that kind of irk me.. Larsen: Joey had always liked railroads. 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?. And maybe you have a better likelihood of accepting. But please dont bite me. 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. So I did that and I got her to eat a little bit, he says. 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. Joey Bosa. WARNING: This video includes foul language. 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. And Jesse's with me. Right now Im in Sonora, Arizona. You got those undulate leaf margins with the slightest hint of anthocyanin pigments produced in the red on a leaf margin right there. Well, he's not pilfered. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. Then theres his voice: a native Chicagoan, he can sound like hes on an SNL skit about Da Bears. A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. You can read Jesse's story on Outside Online. Pinterest. Santore: The biggest population of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader. One is that, at the department, we never recommend chasing or cornering or forcibly handling wildlife. [upbeat . 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.. 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). I'm not trying to harass you. Nothing major, but a shovel takes two arms. Listen to me. Look at that beautiful bastard, not flowering yet may not flower this year at all. Will: It's the oldest psychedelic substance known to man. Sounds like a cool dude. We're, we're keeping it civil. 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. You know, and I just dont want to get bitten. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. The first steps to learning more is realizing your own ignorance, and then being willing to work beyond that. 2018-21; 2010-17; 1999-2009; 1990-99; 1983-90; 1978-83; 1974-77; 1972-1973; Drawings. It's just the way it is. But also,[coyotes] are heavily persecuted. Santore: I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. 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. And I have no context for anything outside of it. 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. I'm not trying to harass you. 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 if [the video] gets people to smile a little bit, that's cool. 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. As with some content posted on Twitter, @eedrk did not create the video. Released on 03/11/2022. With Joey Santore. Plants, Redwing boots, dogs. Every academic botanist that I talked to was super stoked on his work. That's a Crotalus Organus NorPac. Botanist Joey Santore. I was just in Sonora, Mexico, looking at plants. 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. You got the damn opposite leaves looking at it. Check out our Patreon page for more info. 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. It makes sense. According to the man behind the video Joey Santore, an Oakland-based, self-taught botanist who runs the YouTube channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't the pup died two nights after he discovered it in the northern California countryside in June. (Joey Santore). But Ive had my rabies titer, if it makes you feel any better.. His videos may be popular with kids who are budding botanists. Everything I know (about nature and botany) I basically learned myself, he said. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night. And, uh, Joey Sentore is like mentioned, you know, in terms of this plant. 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. "I liked trees originally because they are so big. Might just be cooking up carbs, storing it in that tuber and then going dormant for a while. When I was a kid, a lot of my friends had dads like that. That's just the funny accent. 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. Joey Santore Oakland, California Favorite Activities 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. 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. He would print out papers to read during downtime on the trains. 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. Subscribe for free today! Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. Grew these both from seed. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. Things that were formerly bland to them become these organisms with their own evolutionary lineages. Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. Joey travels around the world and takes you on plant walks, with "colorful" commentary. A halfway decent knock-knock joke? He hasn't looked back ever since. I thought you was a gopher snake at first. Larsen: As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. 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? I would be a lot more angry of a person if I didn't have this. He undoubtedly spurred people who'd never heard about milkweed to give a damn about the plant. Joey was interested in science and growing things from an early age: he recalls trips to the Field Museum and propagating elm trees in his backyard. 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. 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. His appeal is all about sounding nothing like the stereotypical botanist. Maybe I should have just left her alone. My yard now looks a little different from the neighbors next thing you know, it's going to be all milkweed. So a lot of them just kind of look like shit, right. I think the video obviously it got a lot of hits I think it touched people in different ways. 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