I bet a bunch of illegal tree planting. 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. But if it gives me a chance to get more people excited about botany and plants and viewing the world outside of this depressing human infrastructure in society that I think is killing so many of us slowly, then I guess its good then I guess the clickbait coyote video served a purpose and its all part of my grandiose plan to get more people interested in science and ecology and I guess, this sounds corny, the natural world in general.. All right. Take it easy, buddy. And despite his cynical-seeming exterior, Joey finds beauty in all of this, too. by Joey Santore, a self-taught botanist and producer of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't YouTube channel, which he describes as "a low-brow, crass approach to plant ecology as muttered by a misanthropic Chicago Italian.". 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. If there's one thing philosophically learning about natural sciences has done for me, it's to tell me that it's all going to be okay." Joey Santore it's still there. But I also try to keep [the videos] lighthearted. The first steps to learning more is realizingyour own ignorance, and then beingwillingto work beyond that. 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. Then there are people who got sucked in because of one of those viral videos. 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. Last fall, two very different approaches to addressing climate change unfolded in the Bay Area. He's shooting the shit. A few years ago I wrote about the Chicago accent and its near total disappearance from TV and film, though you can still reliably hear it on the radio: WXRTs Marty Lennartz has been doing his Going to the Show with a Regular Guy movie reviews since 1984; like Santore, he has a Chicago accent but its not nearly as thick as the one he uses in character. I don't want to hear that. And despite his cynical-seeming exterior, Joey finds beauty in all of this, too. It's totally fascinating stuff, man. 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. A botanist is just someone who studies plants, which is what I doI do it solely because I want to learn.. No, it's not like that. Right. 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. I believe you; I believe youre so tough., Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. What do you hope viewers take away from your channel? 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. 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. 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. another adaptation to that, uh, aridity that, that dry climate. The Thick Chicago Accent Guy Addresses the Sad Fate of the Coyote Pup From the Video. His videos may be popular with kids who are budding botanists. You're ob-, obviously a NorPac. 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. Learn more about all the adventures to be had across Mississippi at visitmississippi.org. Larsen: Joey had always liked railroads. Santore: Look at that beautiful bastard, not flowering yet may not flower this year at all. 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. 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! I wasnt able to make it there that day so I decided I would bring it there the next morning. Maybe I should have just left her alone. It's everyone from dope growers to amateur science geeks to viewers who just stumbled onto his YouTube. It's everyone from dope growers to amateur science geeks to viewers who just stumbled onto his YouTube. 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. Plants, Redwing boots, dogs. 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. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. That's just the funny accent. Today I'm here to answer your plant questions via Twitter. 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. 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. When Joey Santore went searching for a biological "origin story" of sorts, he stumbled into the world of botany. But then the next day, it kind of messed me up a little bit more. 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. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. About that Chicago accent: He lays it on thick for the camera. 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. One is that, at the department, we never recommend chasing or cornering or forcibly handling wildlife. Here's Joey pointing out a colony of the quarter-sized gray-green buttons in the video he made about the day. 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. They just hide. I just don't think what you're doing is safe behavior. Joey is a botanist & producer of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't YouTube channel. The animal appears sickly and unwell and the man tries to determine if he can catch it and bring it to a rescue center. This video went viral when Joey posted it back in 2019, but venomous snakes are not his typical beat. 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. Larsen: And they did find some. 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. Joey's presentation to the Houston Native Prairie Association will be a series of . Check out our Patreon page for more info. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. And then, uh, of course these are a couple of mine as well. Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't: Created by Joey Santore. We're going to turn it to shit. interface language. Sorry. Santore: I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. It's this squat plant. He didnt grow up in a traditional way and has not had the traditional jobs that bring you into this field. One Atmosphere commissioned a 60-by-30-foot mural of climate activist Greta Thunberg for San Franciscos Union Square. 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.. Yesterday. 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. Nowadays he films the trips he takes in search of some of the rarest plants on the planet. Earlier this month, WTTW Channel 11 profiled him (using the name Joey Santore) and though he does have a noticeable Chicago accent, its not nearly as heavy as what you hear in his nature videos (or his voice memo to me). 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.. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. 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. Larsen: Asclepias prostrata is just one species, native to one relatively small ecosystem. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. Real banger right there. It's this squat plant. I think the video obviously it got a lot of hits I think it touched people in different ways. Every time it feels like an apocalyptic story with this plant. My aim is to give people a context in which to place [the nature] they see around them. Santore: Anyway guys, here we are once again. 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. 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. You have reached your limit of 4 free articles. The whole thing is kind of sad. (Face-to-face, the 37-year-old Santore softens his accent to about 8.) Well, he's not pilfered. Im not going to fuck with you, he promises as he chases the pup, who eventually relents and sits in the grass. I guess it's for the better. I'm Joey Santore: a Connecticut-born, Brooklyn-living, nonprofit-working, cooking-loving, playlist-making, lucid-dreaming, karate-coaching, twenty-something. Santore: So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and askmore questions. You got the damn opposite leaves looking at it. You can hit the Explore button [iniNaturalist] and see what grows around you and then just start learning plants by family and genus, which is how they're all grouped together. I got like 120 Facebook friend requests from middle-aged white ladies in Iowa. 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? 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. You can read Jesse's story on Outside Online. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. Santore: I like the ambiance of railroads. 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. Specifically, trees. Some of his trees are now over 30 feet tall! So maybe it'll be okay. "I'm stuffing envelopes right now," he told me from his home in West Oakland. 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 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. Add to that the threat of invasive buffelgrass, which is fast outcompeting this important little weed. 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. Shh, its ok. Im not gonna f with you. Grew these both from seed. She also warns that rehabilitating a lone coyote pup is a particularly complicated venture. 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. It was grossly underweight.. He says that working as a freight train operator rather than spending his time in school has allowed him to pursue that passion. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. WARNING: This video includes foul language. Maren Larsen (host): From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. I have been driving freight trains for, I dunno, the past 15 years. Released on 03/11/2022. Anyway guys, here we are once again. The penalty, which came . And this is a problem. 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. Santore: Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. iNaturalist joeysantore Joey Santore Curator Joined: Nov 17, 2016 Last Active: Jan 14, 2023 iNaturalist I look at plants & rocks with an emphasis on edaphic endemism, biogeography, speciation and cool evolutionary histories (long lonely branches or broad radiations). It's just the way it is. So I did that and I got her to eat a little bit, he says. I went to college and studied sociology and communication but dropped out to travel. Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. The video, he said, is from late June when he was in small Siskiyou County, California, in the northern part of the state. All right. He's going to take that opportunity to, uh, go drive the vroom vroom around and what the shit, you know, let's keep going. 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. 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. Joeys a breath of fresh air. I think it's kind of risky. He hadn't cooled off by Monday. I want to get more people excited about it, because theres a lot of dark (crud) coming our way. As with some content posted on Twitter, @eedrk did not create the video. But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. I'm not trying to harass you. Santore: I've been breaking relatively unimpactful laws my whole life. And I have no context for anything outside of it. However, the downtime has allowed him to post more videos about botanizing the Bay Area. This episode was written and produced by me, Maren Larsen:, and edited by Michael Roberts. Joey Santore is a photographer, presenter, botanist, known for Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't (2019). 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). A shantytown of homeless people has sprung up adjacent to the neighborhood where hes been doing much of his planting. Nothing major, but a shovel takes two arms. And it's it's, uh, that kind of grated me. When I was a kid, a lot of my friends had dads like that. He has rather unexpectedly earned a bit of internet fame due to his passion for a far less adrenaline-inducing subject: plants. I didn't realize botany could be so cool. Santore, who also goes by Joe Blowe and Tony Santoro online (none are his real name, for privacy reasons), grew up in La Grange and lived there until he went to college in California. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. Botanist Joey Santore. 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. 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. And especially where we are now as a species with our understanding of science and the world and all this technology that we have. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. It's botany 101, mashed up with expletive-laced tirades about consumerist, car-based American culture. 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. From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. Will: It looks like a weed. 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. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. 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?. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. But, about that voice. I did a couple videos where I talked in my normal voice, but it just didnt feel right, says Santore. 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. Larsen: This is journalist Jesse Will, who profiled Joey for Outside Online. You got to get out of the road. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. This shits connected., Theres a parallel between Santores efforts and the present plight of his city. It makes the nausea a little bit easier to deal with. 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. 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. It was nothing personal, but I rejected them all unless we had mutual friends. 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. 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. I called them and they said they could take her and everything, but she had already passed away in the night. Okay. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Digital Also, we're offering new members a 25% discount. They tried to turn it into a golf course in the 1960s; luckily, that plan failed. 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