In the video we see a gentleman who I believe sincerely was coming from a place of compassion, Monroe told TIME. I didn't realize botany could be so cool. You got those undulate leaf margins with the slightest hint of anthocyanin pigments produced in the red on a leaf margin right there. content language. 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. 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. Cmere, hey, youre OK, shhh, a mans voice can be heard as he runs after a small, skittish coyote through the tall grass. 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. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. And when its fur was wet, I realized how skinny this thing was. Today. Joey had always liked railroads. [Outside the city], there's Wolf Road Prairie, [plus] a couple prairies down in Markham. Then theres his voice: a native Chicagoan, he can sound like hes on an SNL skit about Da Bears. The soil type is different there, it's all really sandy. 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. Obviously the accents canned, he said. The One Subscription to Fuel All Your Adventures. A lot of people [who] find that YouTube page seem really upset to find out that Elwood Blues is not really a botanist. From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. Santore: I like the ambiance of railroads. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. Especially young, sick or injured wildlife. 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? So I said, fuck it, I'm just gonna be who I am. Shh, its ok. Im not gonna f with you. To see this whole thing being paraded around as a cute clickbait video kind of bummed me out. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. All right. Right. Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall. Volo Bog near Crystal Lake is another great resource. The whole thing is kind of sad. This episode was brought to you by Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor adventurers. It looks like a weed. and the majority of the day, we're looking for this rare milkweed Asclepias prostrata. Santore: Anyway guys, here we are once again. 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). Maybe all this explains why his YouTube channel, Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt, has more than a quarter-million subscribers. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. His priority is making habitats, not only leaves and pretty flowers. She had nasal discharge and eye discharge and was just covered in parasites. You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. Will: Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. 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. But many thrive, and some of his earliest plantings are now impressive specimens. another adaptation to that, uh, aridity that, that dry climate. All Rights Reserved. I thought, "Oh, shit!" Joey was born in Chicago and yet --. He undoubtedly spurred people who'd never heard about milkweed to give a damn about the plant. And then, uh, of course these are a couple of mine as well. But then the next day, it kind of messed me up a little bit more. I got like 120 Facebook friend requests from middle-aged white ladies in Iowa. Although he doesnt have a degree in botany, Santore tells TIME that nature is his true passion. I believe you; I believe youre so tough., Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. 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. Suddenly I'm able to zoom out and see how the world around me works and how I fit into it and, and observe these relationships that different organisms have with each other. 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. In other words, as the ecosystems around us erode under humanity's touch, understanding the ways they fit together is more crucial than ever. A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. The mannerisms at least among the white people out there were super soft and delicate and kind of passive, with an NPR voice. 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. 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. Get access to more than 30 brands, premium video, exclusive content, events, mapping, and more. Will: It looks like a weed. 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.. Released on 03/11/2022. (Joey Santore). And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. All right. And even more specifically, conifers. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. We join Santore on a peyote hunt in the South Texas scrublands to try to understand how hes getting so many different kinds of people to geek out on plants. I try to always encourage people to download Wikipedia andiNaturalistonto their phones as a resource. And then, uh, of course these are a couple of mine as well. I called them and they said they could take her and everything, but she had already passed away in the night. But he also had this aside at the time, that was like, I get it, yeah of course you had to pitch the psychedelic angle. But on the other hand, the sad part of the story is that the thing died before I was able to get it to a rehab center. 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. But is now just kind of leftover. Consider this your heads-up that there are going to be quite a few curse words in this episode. And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. 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). To find enough real estate to survive, these prostrata often end up finding their home in the middle of the road. Santore is turned on to the outdoors because hes turned off by everything else. But I also try to keep [the videos] lighthearted. The animal appears sickly and unwell and the man tries to determine if he can catch it and bring it to a rescue center. Right. Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. I went to college and studied sociology and communication but dropped out to travel. That's one of mine. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. He has rather unexpectedly earned a bit of internet fame due to his passion for a far less adrenaline-inducing subject: plants. World United States United Kingdom Canada Australia South Africa Israel India France Belgium Switzerland. The tragedy here is we're destroying a lot of this as our population grows, so I guess that's where my misanthropy comes up. 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. He started growing rare conifers from seed. And so, an ex-punk, former-train-hopper-turned-engineer who doesn't have a college degree is getting hundreds of thousands of people excited about botany using just a camera and his voice. Larsen: Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. There's little nuances of social mannerisms that I miss about Chicago, like that voice I channel on the YouTube page. I'm a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley, California. 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. It was like a blank canvas, he says, very much like graffitiing except less likely to piss people off., Santore goes for species that are fast-growing and resilient, preferably native. Might just be cooking up carbs, storing it in that tuber and then going dormant for a while. 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. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night. You get, for instance, a cactus that's native to the Chicago area. Although Santore was worried about this pup being out during the day, Monroe says thats not actually out of the ordinary. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. But regrettably, it had a very sad epilogue. Santore works a day job driving diesel locomotives. 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. Larsen: Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. I wasnt going to be able to make it there that day, so I figured I would take it Monday. 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 it clearly has a special place in Joey's heart, based on a t-shirt he sells. Learn to spot shallow conformity in social circles and don't waste your time on them, study plants and geology instead. 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? The Thick Chicago Accent Guy Addresses the Sad Fate of the Coyote Pup From the Video. The video, he said, is from late June when he was in small Siskiyou County, California, in the northern part of the state. Like I just got really excited when I would read about this stuff. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. You have reached your limit of 4 free articles. He's squatting in carpenter jeans and dusty black oxfords, scanning each. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. it's still there. This episode is brought to you by Visit Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor lovers. What kind of attention have you been getting in the past week? But, about that voice. Specifically, trees. 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. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. Do you have any favorite hikes or excursions you recommend in the Chicago area? Journalist - SF Bay Area. 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. You can hit the Explore button [in. ] This episode was written and produced by me, Maren Larsen:, and edited by Michael Roberts. And maybe you have a better likelihood of accepting. So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. Theres so many different wildlife disease concerns that have significant overlap with human health impact.. The Outside Podcast is made possible by our Outside+ members. 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. [laughs] And I had a pang of regret. Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. And despite his cynical-seeming exterior, Joey finds beauty in all of this, too. I obviously don't talk like that in real life I got an accent, but I don't talk like that. He would print out papers to read during downtime on the trains. 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. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. 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. Uh, he has one that says plant milkweed or get fucked. If it gets people to hate coyotes a little less and not demonize them, I'm down with 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. I would probably say the same thing to somebody cause theres a lot of jackaes out there, he says. This is journalist Jesse Will, who profiled Joey for Outside Online. As with some content posted on Twitter, @eedrk did not create the video. 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