Thats cute, you think youre tough. 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. But if [the video] gets people to smile a little bit, that's cool. He has lots of tattoos and no college degree and is. 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.. Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. Santore: 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. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. Joey Bosa. He started growing rare conifers from seed. I got [the coyote pup] Saturday and I was going to take it Monday on my way back down south to Oakland because I was in northern California, he told TIME. Most important is the Garfield Park Conservatory, which is free and features plants from all over the world. Nothing major, but a shovel takes two arms. You get, for instance, a cactus that's native to the Chicago area. 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 . I would be a lot more angry of a person if I didn't have this. That's just the funny accent. Santore: Anyway guys, here we are once again. We have constructed attractive Patreon tiers that allow you to be fully recognized for your regular contribution. 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've had everyone from teenagers to suburban dads tell me, Hey, I saw your page. 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. Larsen: Joey had always liked railroads. 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. His videos may be popular with kids who are budding botanists. Okay. 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. And even more specifically, conifers. 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. Will: Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. So maybe it'll be okay. It looks like a weed. That's near Kankakee. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. 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. Join Outside+ to get Outside magazine, access to exclusive content, 1,000s of training plans, and more. I wasnt going to be able to make it there that day, so I figured I would take it Monday. 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.. If it gets people to hate coyotes a little less and not demonize them, I'm down with it. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. In addition we have many gardens here that are maintaining endangered plant species, especially Lotusland. 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. Like I just got really excited when I would read about 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. Beyond the tenderheartedness, what really made the video was Santore's thick, Bill Swerski-esque Chicago accent. 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. Santore: I've been breaking relatively unimpactful laws my whole life. 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. 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. 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. I mean, she almost certainly would have died she was underweight and she had mucus in her nose and eyes but maybe she would have been food for something else. Rainy winter is planting season, giving his seedlings months to take root. 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. 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. I try to always encourage people to download Wikipedia andiNaturalistonto their phones as a resource. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. The Landscape Architecture Podcast. So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. 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). Special interests: Conifers of California, Conifers of Cupressaceae, California Native Cypresses, Arctostaphylos. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. "I dont know, the whole thing kind of messes me up thinking about it because it was pretty sad she died that morning when I was due to bring her south to the wildlife rehab that was on my way back to Oakland., "It looked grossly malnourished. with a website! Unfortunately, it seems this particular coyote pup may have already had something wrong with it when Santore stumbled upon it. 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. To find enough real estate to survive, these prostrata often end up finding their home in the middle of the road. I got like 120 Facebook friend requests from middle-aged white ladies in Iowa. Look at that beautiful bastard, not flowering yet may not flower this year at all. I have been driving freight trains for, I dunno, the past 15 years. You like the fuzzy stem. Come along. Will: But it ends up just being a very minor part of the day, hunting down this peyote. Right. All right, not that quietly. 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. Maybe all this explains why his YouTube channel, Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt, has more than a quarter-million subscribers. Okay. Take it easy, buddy. I guess it's for the better. 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. 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.. This episode is brought to you by Visit Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor lovers. Now based in Oakland, California, he was in Arizona on a botany trip when I reached him by email. Santore: Oh, what's going on here? She also warns that rehabilitating a lone coyote pup is a particularly complicated venture. She had nasal discharge and eye discharge and was just covered in parasites. 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. There's enough cat videos and cute videos with corny narratives. I don't want to hear that. This modern Johnny Appleseed would have preferred to have been out planting when we met, but some corrective shoulder surgery has him temporarily sidelined. Santore: I thought you was a gopher snake at first. 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. Will: Uh, he has one that says plant milkweed or get fucked. 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. 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 Whether its oaks or Oaklanders, theres a lack of suitable habitat for many. 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. Get access to more than 30 brands, premium video, exclusive content, events, mapping, and more. This shits connected., Theres a parallel between Santores efforts and the present plight of his city. 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." 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. He's shooting the shit. That's a Crotalus Organus NorPac. Okay. It's everyone from dope growers to amateur science geeks to viewers who just stumbled onto his YouTube. I obviously don't talk like that in real life I got an accent, but I don't talk like that. All right. Journalist - SF Bay Area. He adds that if he had known how sick the coyote was, he wouldve tried to get it to a wildlife rehabilitation center sooner. It makes the nausea a little bit easier to deal with. Things that were formerly bland to them become these organisms with their own evolutionary lineages. countries. 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. 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. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. 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. Real banger right there. For his part, Santore says that while he understands why the Department of Fish and Wildlife recommends avoiding direct contact with wild animals, he feels there can be extenuating circumstances. He's just borrowing. 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.. No, it's not like that. The whole thing is kind of sad. I saw it (the coyote) running across the road, it looked grossly malnourished. But also,[coyotes] are heavily persecuted. Grew these both from seed. They tried to turn it into a golf course in the 1960s; luckily, that plan failed. And in particular, that pup being in thinner body condition and being possibly hungry, that wouldnt be unexpected to see it at different times of day or night, she explains. Yesterday. 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. Looking for Tony Santoro online? He's squatting in carpenter jeans and dusty black oxfords, scanning each. He has lots of tattoos and no college degree and is known for illegal tree-planting projects. 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. 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