In other words, as the ecosystems around us erode under humanity's touch, understanding the ways they fit together is more crucial than ever. Among Santores fans are plant geeks, outdoor enthusiasts, and cannabis growers who were worm-holed into Santores channel while looking up plant propagation. He's shooting the shit. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Santore: I've been breaking relatively unimpactful laws my whole life. 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. Larsen: Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. Here's Joey pointing out a colony of the quarter-sized gray-green buttons in the video he made about the day. I believe Northern Pacific rattlesnake. A lot of people [who] find that YouTube page seem really upset to find out that Elwood Blues is not really a botanist. Aside from the hits, Santores long-form videos offer a panoramic botanical and geological breakdown of a location, explaining current topics like plant speciation and biogeography, alongside profane rants about climate change and the state of things in general. Jesse Will: 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. Joey's video from South Texas has some 50,000 views and counting. So maybe it'll be okay. He has lots of tattoos and no college degree and is. 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. 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. 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. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. Its a way for me to throw a couple jabs at the elements of society that kind of irk me.. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. 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. The Field Museum is great too. 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.. Although he doesnt have a degree in botany, Santore tells TIME that nature is his true passion. I like the ambiance of railroads. I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and askmore questions. 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. Soon, he was in deep. 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. Larsen: This blend of well-informed science, minor lawbreaking, and humorous rants about the ills of society is what draws people to Joey's YouTube channel, as well as his Instagram account, and his podcast. So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. You need help! And especially where we are now as a species with our understanding of science and the world and all this technology that we have. I asked what he thought about the video going viral. 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! You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. At certain times of year, especially this time of year, they are often active during the day. You got to get out of the road. Not in a bad way. When Joey Santore went searching for a biological "origin story" of sorts, he stumbled into the world of botany. Meanwhile, across the bay, Tony Santoros Guide to Illegal Tree-Planting debuted. 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?. A good read? Amidst mild profanity, general irreverence and a thick Chicago accent, Joey examines plant life and the nature of the rocks and soil they grow on, as . 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. and he says that accent as a joke, like it just makes him laugh. Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. I want to get more people excited about it, because theres a lot of dark (crud) coming our way. But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. He would print out papers to read during downtime on the trains. Okay. The self-taught botanist sounds off on going viral, preserving the natural world, and the story behind that accent. 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. He's on your level. Beyond the tenderheartedness, what really made the video was Santore's thick, Bill Swerski-esque Chicago accent. "I'm stuffing envelopes proper now," he advised me from his house in West Oakland. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night.". Refreshingly Funny Ice Cream Man's Prank Video Is a Delicious Summer Treat. But it's his voice that's the real star of the show. 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. I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. Come on, hey. 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.. Right. What drew you to making videos about botany? It's everyone from dope growers to amateur science geeks to viewers who just stumbled onto his YouTube. 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. [Terrier survives coyote attack caught on camera in Northfield]. Perhaps because the accent (and its attendant colloquialisms) has become such a rarity, when it does turn up in a piece of media, people notice which could be one of the reasons why the coyote video has generated so much attention. interface language. Larsen: Oh, yeah, there we go. 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 on Thursday, the Chicagoland native went viral when a profanity-laden clip of him comforting a sick coyote. 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. I guess I view all those videos as kind of a long-running piece of sketch comedy. What do you hope viewers take away from your channel? And they did find some. "Mailing out stickers. This shits connected., Theres a parallel between Santores efforts and the present plight of his city. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. The soil type is different there, it's all really sandy. Santore: Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. As his online handle suggests, botany doesnt cover the bills. The Tribune did confirm his identity in a public records search but agreed not to reveal it. It's everyone from dope growers to amateur science geeks to viewers who just stumbled onto his YouTube. Explore. 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. The animal appears sickly and unwell and the man tries to determine if he can catch it and bring it to a rescue center. 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. Sorry. Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. If you like what we do here, please support our work on an ongoing basis. Cmere, hey, youre OK, shhh, a mans voice can be heard as he runs after a small, skittish coyote through the tall grass. But please dont bite me. Volo Bog near Crystal Lake is another great resource. 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. Total Photos Contributed: 339 [View all photos] or [See a list of all photos] or [View most recent photos] Collection: Private He admits to being borderline contemptuous of maples and rosebushes. I was just in Sonora, Mexico, looking at plants. You got the damn opposite leaves looking at it. We're going to turn it to shit. 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. His appeal is all about sounding nothing like the stereotypical botanist. Then theres his voice: a native Chicagoan, he can sound like hes on an SNL skit about Da Bears. It's doing pretty good. I am trying to find this guy to invite him to Santa Barbara. Larsen: I first learned about Joey a few years ago, in a video titled "Guide to Illegal Tree Planting," which was sent my way by a friend familiar with my affinity for both botany and what's known as "guerilla gardening." And this is a problem. I impersonate these Chicago characters as a joke to make the subject material more interesting, he says. 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. And then the YouTube account blew up, which is cool. His appeal is all about sounding nothing like the stereotypical botanist. But you also get the feeling that botany gave him a way to make sense of the world, and of humans' place within it. Okay. The Thick Chicago Accent Guy Addresses the Sad Fate of the Coyote Pup From the Video. We don't know what would happen if it disappeared completely, but Joey says that he doesn't want to find out. 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. 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. It plays into some of the more gross elements of human nature. 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. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. it's still there. 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. What did you think when you saw that video went viral? 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. The first steps to learning more is realizingyour own ignorance, and then beingwillingto work beyond that. But when you hear him talk about what drew him to the science, you get the sense that Joey turned to plants because he was sick of humans. One was rabies transmission and one was mange. To find enough real estate to survive, these prostrata often end up finding their home in the middle of the road. So maybe it'll be okay. This is journalist Jesse Will, who profiled Joey for Outside Online. We don't know what would happen if it disappeared completely, but Joey says that he doesn't want to find out. Uh, he has one that says plant milkweed or get fucked. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. Larsen: Allow me to introduce you to Joey Santore. That's near Kankakee. I believe you; I believe youre so tough., Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. It's this squat plant. 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. In real life, his lilt isnt nearly so exaggerated. But then the next day, it kind of messed me up a little bit more. But as he told Jesse Will while they traveled around South Texas, once he hit his teen years he tended to get into trouble. They just hide. Sounds like a cool dude. Larsen: This is journalist Jesse Will, who profiled Joey for Outside Online. Okay. 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. Despite Santores good intentions, its never a good idea for humans to interact with a wild animal in this way regardless of the situation, Victoria Monroe, the California Department of Fish and Wildlifes Conflict Programs Coordinator says. Member Since November 2014. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. I'm not trying to harass you. 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. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. Also, we're offering new members a 25% discount. 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. And despite his cynical-seeming exterior, Joey finds beauty in all of this, too. 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. 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. According to Jesse Will, Joey's subscribers don't fit any kind of mold. 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 . That's a Crotalus Organus NorPac. Will: It looks like a weed. 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. Gypsum-endemic plants of Southern Utah quell the pain of life in this culturally bleak wasteland., Instead of this myopia, where we view everything through the lens of our own life, botany lets you zoom out and see how the world works and observe these relationships that different organisms have with each other. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. It's totally fascinating stuff, man. I have been driving freight trains for, I dunno, the past 15 years. Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. 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.. Joey Santore: I don't know why you're taking that kind of stance with me. And maybe you have a better likelihood of accepting. You got to get out of the road. It looks like a weed. 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. So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. Anyway guys, here we are once again. You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. 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. 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