It's doing pretty good. 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. But on Thursday, the Chicagoland native went viral when a profanity-laden clip of him comforting a sick coyote pup surfaced on Twitter, garnering upwards of 8 million views. [laughs] And I had a pang of regret. He is an ex-punk and a former freight train engineer who has been self-taught in his field. Might just be cooking up carbs, storing it in that tuber and then going dormant for a while. 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. 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. JASON HENRY 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. Not long after posting the video, the UK-based Caters News Agency contacted him about monetizing the video and he signed a licensing agreement, though said he hasnt been paid any money as of yet. Grew these both from seed.
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. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. Trees are a side pursuit. Will: Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. Larsen: Joey's video from South Texas has some 50,000 views and counting. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Digital Santore: Oh, what's going on here? Member Since November 2014. The mannerisms at least among the white people out there were super soft and delicate and kind of passive, with an NPR voice. 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. I would probably say the same thing to somebody cause theres a lot of jackaes out there, he says. One Atmosphere commissioned a 60-by-30-foot mural of climate activist Greta Thunberg for San Franciscos Union Square. So it's like kind of a full circle moment, right? Okay. I went out and bought some of these books that you recommended and I'm learning so much. That's what really makes it worth it gettingpeople excited about learning and the natural world, which is the antidote to all the ugliness and stress and anxiety of the human world. 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. It looks like a weed. 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. I mean, on some level it looks, it looks like a weed. [upbeat . And despite his cynical-seeming exterior, Joey finds beauty in all of this, too. You got to get out of the road. I don't want to hear that. Santore: I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. Allying with Nature to Regenerate our Living Planet, 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. Because what better way to understand the guy who created "Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't" than to join him on a hunt for a plant that's a schedule 1 controlled drug? Just enter the code pod25 at checkout. Then there are people who got sucked in because of one of those viral videos. Grew these both from seed. You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. Add to that the threat of invasive buffelgrass, which is fast outcompeting this important little weed. Santore has been throwing shade figuratively and literally in his adopted hometown since moving there in 2006. You know, maybe not being seen for, for God knows how long. But then the next day, it kind of messed me up a little bit more. Maybe I should have just left her alone. That was just the revelation then that God, I don't know shit. Theres unfortunately a sad ending to the story of a guy with a thick Chicago accent trying to rescue a struggling coyote pup. Learn more about all the benefits of membership at outsideonline.com/podplus. I don't know why. It plays into some of the more gross elements of human nature. "Mailing out stickers. 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. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. Theyre very unpredictableThis gentleman couldve easily been bit or scratched., She went on to say that he brought up some legitimate concerns in the video. 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. Explore. Specifically, trees. 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. The self-taught botanist sounds off on going viral, preserving the natural world, and the story behind that accent. 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? Joey Santore: I don't know why you're taking that kind of stance with me. 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. Los Angeles Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa wasn't happy with the officials on Saturday night. So maybe it'll be okay. 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. 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. 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. This modern Johnny Appleseed would have preferred to have been out planting when we met, but some corrective shoulder surgery has him temporarily sidelined. Larsen: As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. But regrettably, it had a very sad epilogue. You can read Jesse's story on Outside Online. What drew you to making videos about botany? First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. I just don't think what you're doing is safe behavior. 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. All right. He was kicked out of military school and got into graffiti and the punk scene. His priority is making habitats, not only leaves and pretty flowers. 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. I thought, "Oh, shit!" I love getting people excited about these things I've seen. I impersonate these Chicago characters as a joke to make the subject material more interesting, he says. Okay. Every time it feels like an apocalyptic story with this plant. It's just the way it is. Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. Will: It looks like a weed. It makes sense. you're seeing people that comment and say things like this, guys, the reason why I got interested in plants. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night.". After Staley picked it up and gave it back to him, Bosa threw it down again. Volo Bog near Crystal Lake is another great resource. 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. Obviously the accents canned, he said. And especially where we are now as a species with our understanding of science and the world and all this technology that we have. Santore was born in Chicago; his mother was an elementary school teacher and his father left on his first birthday. 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. You gotta go to a rehab facility or sometin You need help, you know? I want to share themand [talk about] what a tragedy it is that people don't know this stuff is here. A halfway decent knock-knock joke? Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. He's squatting in carpenter jeans and dusty black oxfords, scanning each. I think it's kind of risky. Okay. It's the oldest psychedelic substance known to man. 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. Santore is turned on to the outdoors because hes turned off by everything else. "I'm stuffing envelopes right now," he told me from his home in West Oakland. (Photo by Jesse Will) I called Joey Santore just as he'd returned from a botanizing trip to South Africa.
One single rock can tie a person back to the event in which that rock was created, whether it was a volcanic eruption 20 million years ago or the gradual deposition ofsediments in an ocean 400 million years ago. I bet a bunch of illegal tree planting. Some of his tree babies meet an untimely end, felled by pollution, city maintenance, or swerving vehicles. Specifically, trees. Sounds like a cool dude. It's totally fascinating stuff, man. 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. Joey is extremely interested in natural evolutionary adaptation, observing how plants evolved into different forms and determining how and why each one got to be exactly where they are. We don't know what would happen if it disappeared completely, but Joey says that he doesn't want to find out. 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. Jesse Will interviewed Joey Santore. Well, first off, I'm not really trying to create YouTube fluff. 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. 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. Milkweed is a favorite of many botanists because of its critical importance to the endangered monarch butterfly.
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.. 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. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night." To find enough real estate to survive, these prostrata often end up finding their home in the middle of the road. interface language. He adds that if he had known how sick the coyote was, he wouldve tried to get it to a wildlife rehabilitation center sooner. And around that time I hired out with the railroad, where I got a locomotive license. 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. The Field Museum is great too. 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. 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.. 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. 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. I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and askmore questions. When Joey Santore went searching for a biological "origin story" of sorts, he stumbled into the world of botany. And this is a problem. The next day I called around and the nearest wildlife rehab was like 2 hours away down south. Possibilities opened up. 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). All right. Special interests: Conifers of California, Conifers of Cupressaceae, California Native Cypresses, Arctostaphylos. And, uh, Joey Sentore is like mentioned, you know, in terms of this plant. 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. 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.. I'm Joey. 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. Can anyone help? Joey is a botanist & producer of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't YouTube channel. A shantytown of homeless people has sprung up adjacent to the neighborhood where hes been doing much of his planting. I don't want to hear that. Larsen: Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. Did some redneck shoot your parents whats going on? In the video we see a gentleman who I believe sincerely was coming from a place of compassion, Monroe told TIME. But is now just kind of leftover. Larsen: Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. I obviously don't talk like that in real life I got an accent, but I don't talk like that. 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. You're ob-, obviously a NorPac. You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. Will: But it ends up just being a very minor part of the day, hunting down this peyote. What do you hope viewers take away from your channel? Meanwhile, across the bay, Tony Santoros Guide to Illegal Tree-Planting debuted. It starts in Chicago, where he was raised by a single mother who was an elementary school teacher. 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. 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. Some of his trees are now over 30 feet tall! According to Jesse Will, Joey's subscribers don't fit any kind of mold. It's totally fascinating stuff, man. But many thrive, and some of his earliest plantings are now impressive specimens. I don't know why. He undoubtedly spurred people who'd never heard about milkweed to give a damn about the plant. His appeal is all about sounding nothing like the stereotypical botanist. I'm a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley, California. I like the ambiance of railroads. That's a Crotalus Organus NorPac. Join Outside+ to get Outside magazine, access to exclusive content, 1,000s of training plans, and more. Learn to spot shallow conformity in social circles and don't waste your time on them, study plants and geology instead. The attention is somewhat unwanted. 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Here's Joey pointing out a colony of the quarter-sized gray-green buttons in the video he made about the day. That's one of mine. Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com. I was like, I feel like an ignoramus. I got like 120 Facebook friend requests from middle-aged white ladies in Iowa. 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. There's a wealth of stuff in the Chicago area that people should check out. It's everyone from dope growers to amateur science geeks to viewers who just stumbled onto his YouTube. He has rather unexpectedly earned a bit of internet fame due to his passion for a far less adrenaline-inducing subject: plants. Listen to me. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. 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. This episode is brought to you by Visit Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor lovers. 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.. This is ground zero for a lot of environmental action because of the oil spill here in 1969. 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?. May 26, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. 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.
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.. 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? You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. I guess why I talk like that is, one, I want to make the science communication more funny. You're ob-, obviously a NorPac. Larsen: Joey had always liked railroads. 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. But, about that voice. A botanist is just someone who studies plants, which is what I doI do it solely because I want to learn.. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. Releasing a coyote pup or a juvenile coyote after rehab as a single animal is not going to achieve a successful outcome.. Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. 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. There's another one just coming up right in the middle of the road, it's a goddamned big prostrata. 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. And maybe you have a better likelihood of accepting. 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. Makes the turd of, uh, uh, life in modern society easier through a swallow, helps it go down easier. His appeal is all about sounding nothing like the stereotypical botanist. At the time, I was like, "Whatever, shit happens, animals die." Anyone who lives in Chicago knows that Tony Santoro is an actual person. Larsen: But Joey doesn't see a weed. Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall.
and he says that accent as a joke, like it just makes him laugh. What did you think when you saw that video went viral?
As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. Thats cute, you think youre tough. By Cirrus Wood Apr 27, 2020 West Oakland resident Joey Santore is often on the lookout for neglected medians or public spaces where he might secretly plant a tree. You need help! Larsen: And they did find some. As his online handle suggests, botany doesnt cover the bills. countries. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. 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. 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.
Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. We have constructed attractive Patreon tiers that allow you to be fully recognized for your regular contribution. Everything I know (about nature and botany) I basically learned myself, he said. We're going to turn it to shit. Whether its oaks or Oaklanders, theres a lack of suitable habitat for many. Outsides longstanding literary storytelling tradition comes to life inaudio with features that will both entertain and inform listeners. 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. 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. But please dont bite me. Last fall, two very different approaches to addressing climate change unfolded in the Bay Area. Most of the prairies have been destroyed, but there's still these little islands left that people can go check out. So I did that and I got her to eat a little bit, he says. 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. Because what better way to understand the guy who created "Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't" than to join him on a hunt for a plant that's a schedule 1 controlled drug? But Ive had my rabies titer, if it makes you feel any better..
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. He's shooting the shit. 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. They just hide. 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. Uh, where you get summer rain. By Monday morning, the clip had 8 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. Okay. You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. Absolutely. But then Monday when I woke up and was about to head back down south and take her to the wildlife rehab, she had already passed that night., Santore says that although the coyotes death wasnt entirely unexpected, it still hit him hard. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. Then there are people who got sucked in because of one of those viral videos.
Now based in Oakland, California, he was in Arizona on a botany trip when I reached him by email. That's just my personal take. The fish and wildlife service posted their proposal to put Asclepius prostrata, the plant that he was searching for the day that I shattered him on the endangered species list. You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. 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. 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.. 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. We're going to turn it to shit. email me. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. You have to reach almost a critical mass, like a minimum number of coyote pups of similar age in a rehab situation to rear so that way theyre positioned for success when you release. The biggest population of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader. And especially where we are now as a species with our understanding of science and the world and all this technology that we have. S1E10 - Doing What You Love Without Making It Your Job, with Joey Santore The Joy of Challenge 374 subscribers Subscribe 1.6K Share 31K views 1 year ago Joey Santore, from "Crime Pays but. All right, not that quietly. I mean, on some level it looks, it looks like a weed.
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