Thats not true. 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 saw it (the coyote) running across the road, it looked grossly malnourished. It was nothing personal, but I rejected them all unless we had mutual friends. 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. Then there are people who got sucked in because of one of those viral videos. In the video we see a gentleman who I believe sincerely was coming from a place of compassion, Monroe told TIME. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. you're seeing people that comment and say things like this, guys, the reason why I got interested in plants. You're ob-, obviously a NorPac. I got like 120 Facebook friend requests from middle-aged white ladies in Iowa. 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 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. 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. He didnt grow up in a traditional way and has not had the traditional jobs that bring you into this field. 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. 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. If it gets people to hate coyotes a little less and not demonize them, I'm down with it. 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. Santore is turned on to the outdoors because hes turned off by everything else. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. Kind of a bummer! I like the ambiance of railroads. 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. Yesterday. But it's his voice that's the real star of the show. email me. But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. Plants, Redwing boots, dogs. And I have no context for anything outside of it. To see this whole thing being paraded around as a cute clickbait video kind of bummed me out. Larsen: But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. His appeal is all about sounding nothing like the stereotypical botanist. 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. This episode was brought to you by Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor adventurers. Riding the rails, he got an up-close tour of the geologic time scale exposed by railroad cuts: layers of rock dating back millennia. 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. He's just borrowing. 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. Joeys a breath of fresh air. But Joey doesn't see a weed. Asclepius prostrata, the prostrate milkweed. Joey Santore holds his cell phone, widescreen-style, in his fingers, one of which is tattooed with a ruler's hash marks. That's one of mine. He started growing rare conifers from seed. Nothing major, but a shovel takes two arms. This shits connected., Theres a parallel between Santores efforts and the present plight of his city. I grew up hearin people talk like dat. 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. 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? What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall. I love getting people excited about these things I've seen. He's published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers I thought you was a gopher snake at first. Special interests: Conifers of California, Conifers of Cupressaceae, California Native Cypresses, Arctostaphylos. 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. The Tribune did confirm his identity in a public records search but agreed not to reveal it. Grew these both from seed. 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. 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. It's everyone from dope growers to amateur science geeks to viewers who just stumbled onto his YouTube. Of course. I just don't think what you're doing is safe behavior. Santore: The biggest population of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader. Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. Los Angeles Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa wasn't happy with the officials on Saturday night. Will: But it ends up just being a very minor part of the day, hunting down this peyote. Every academic botanist that I talked to was super stoked on his work. 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. From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. 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 knows what Im gonna do, Im gonna take you to a nice rehab facility. He has rather unexpectedly earned a bit of internet fame due to his passion for a far less adrenaline-inducing subject: plants. Most important is the Garfield Park Conservatory, which is free and features plants from all over the world. 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. No, it's not like that. 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. 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. 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. 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. [Outside the city], there's Wolf Road Prairie, [plus] a couple prairies down in Markham. Santore: I thought you was a gopher snake at first. You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. 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. 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. 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. 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. And, uh, Joey Sentore is like mentioned, you know, in terms of this plant. Anyway guys, here we are once again. Joey Santore is a photographer, presenter, botanist, known for Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't (2019). Total Photos Contributed: 339 [View all photos] or [See a list of all photos] or [View most recent photos] Collection: Private That's just the funny accent. 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.. Joey had always liked railroads. 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. 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. May 26, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. I thought, "Oh, shit!" At certain times of year, especially this time of year, they are often active during the day. Santore: Anyway guys, here we are once again. Here's Joey pointing out a colony of the quarter-sized gray-green buttons in the video he made about the day. 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. There's a wealth of stuff in the Chicago area that people should check out. 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. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. 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. Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com. We're going to turn it to shit. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. If you want to take a look at what I've been up to more seriously, check out my resume. So I did that and I got her to eat a little bit, he says. 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. This is ground zero for a lot of environmental action because of the oil spill here in 1969. 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. Today I'm here to answer your plant questions via Twitter. 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. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night." I don't want to hear that. Santore: Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. 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. Larsen: But Joey doesn't see a weed. A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. 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. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. It looks like a weed. There's enough cat videos and cute videos with corny narratives. I guess it's for the better. Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. There's another one just coming up right in the middle of the road, it's a goddamned big prostrata. Larsen: As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. 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. 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. You got the damn opposite leaves looking at it. Looking for Tony Santoro online? But also,[coyotes] are heavily persecuted. Maybe I should have just left her alone. That's near Kankakee. And it clearly has a special place in Joey's heart, based on a t-shirt he sells. Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. 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. He was kicked out of military school and got into graffiti and the punk scene. 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. 2018-21; 2010-17; 1999-2009; 1990-99; 1983-90; 1978-83; 1974-77; 1972-1973; Drawings. it's still there. Will: Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. It's just the way it is. 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. A Low-Brow, Crass Approach to Plant Ecology & Evolution as muttered by a Misanthropic Chicago Italian. 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. Things that were formerly bland to them become these organisms with their own evolutionary lineages. Journalist - SF Bay Area. My work has appeared in newsprint, magazines, websites, and the missed connections section of Craigslist, where I write personalized notes to drivers who cut me off in traffic. And when its fur was wet, I realized how skinny this thing was. We dont value plants, we dont value habitat, often we dont value each other. One Atmosphere commissioned a 60-by-30-foot mural of climate activist Greta Thunberg for San Franciscos Union Square. He has lots of tattoos and no college degree and is known for illegal tree-planting projects. 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. I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. But also, I grew up knowing guys like that, you know? He admits to being borderline contemptuous of maples and rosebushes. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. I mean, on some level it looks, it looks like a weed. Joey was born in Chicago and yet --. Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall. 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. And despite his cynical-seeming exterior, Joey finds beauty in all of this, too. It's this squat plant. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. Real banger right there. Come along. But is now just kind of leftover. 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. Also, we're offering new members a 25% discount. 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. Okay. So a lot of them just kind of look like shit, right. I'm Joey Santore: a Connecticut-born, Brooklyn-living, nonprofit-working, cooking-loving, playlist-making, lucid-dreaming, karate-coaching, twenty-something. 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. I don't know, six or seven years give or take. 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. Joey Santore: I don't know why you're taking that kind of stance with me. What did you think when you saw that video went viral? Refreshingly Funny Ice Cream Man's Prank Video Is a Delicious Summer Treat. Allow me to introduce you to Joey Santore. I was like, I feel like an ignoramus. I associate them with a place to like get away from people and, kind of open air playground. What is plant systematics? All Rights Reserved. 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. Joey Bosa. 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. So maybe it'll be okay. I associate them with a place to like get away from people and, kind of open air playground. 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. It makes the nausea a little bit easier to deal with. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. 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. 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.. Larsen: This video went viral when Joey posted it back in 2019, but venomous snakes are not his typical beat. 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. 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're ob-, obviously a NorPac. Can anyone help? 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. Learn more about all the adventures to be had across Mississippi at visitmississippi.org. 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