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. I want to inspire people to look at the world differently, he says. All right. It makes the nausea a little bit easier to deal with. And I have no context for anything outside of it. Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall. Sorry. Joey was born in Chicago and yet --. 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. Santore: I thought you was a gopher snake at first. It makes sense. 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. But then the next day, it kind of messed me up a little bit more. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. 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. Over the course of 13 years with Union Pacific, he worked his way up to an engineer, reading about the latest updates in the field of botany whenever he could. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. All Rights Reserved. Do you have any favorite hikes or excursions you recommend in the Chicago area? Join Outside+ to get Outside magazine, access to exclusive content, 1,000s of training plans, and more. 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. 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. As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. I just don't think what you're doing is safe behavior. And then the YouTube account blew up, which is cool. Take it easy, buddy. Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall. Cmere, hey, youre OK, shhh, a mans voice can be heard as he runs after a small, skittish coyote through the tall grass. 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. He started growing rare conifers from seed. 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. And maybe you have a better likelihood of accepting. 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 . So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. 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. Larsen: And they did find some. I want to help you but I dont want to get bitten, he tells the pup in his put-on accent. One was rabies transmission and one was mange. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night.". The Outside Podcast is made possible by our Outside+ members. We have constructed attractive Patreon tiers that allow you to be fully recognized for your regular contribution. [Outside the city], there's Wolf Road Prairie, [plus] a couple prairies down in Markham. And it clearly has a special place in Joey's heart, based on a t-shirt he sells. 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. Jesse Will interviewed Joey Santore. A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. Absolutely. Asclepias prostrata is just one species, native to one relatively small ecosystem. 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. And Jesse's with me. "I'm stuffing envelopes right now," he told me from his home in West Oakland. Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. 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. Also, we're offering new members a 25% discount. 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. Most important is the Garfield Park Conservatory, which is free and features plants from all over the world. One Atmosphere commissioned a 60-by-30-foot mural of climate activist Greta Thunberg for San Franciscos Union Square. To see this whole thing being paraded around as a cute clickbait video kind of bummed me out. 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.. (Face-to-face, the 37-year-old Santore softens his accent to about 8.) [laughs] And I had a pang of regret. Theres unfortunately a sad ending to the story of a guy with a thick Chicago accent trying to rescue a struggling coyote pup. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. It was funny, going out to California when I moved out there. And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. He's on your level. 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. Then, in 2012, he officially appropriated space in the park for rare trees, including Baker, Tecate, Santa Cruz, and Guadalupe cypresses, along with lodgepole pines, coast (aka California) evergreen live oaks, and incense cedars. All right, not that quietly. Okay. Larsen: This is journalist Jesse Will, who profiled Joey for Outside Online. 2018-21; 2010-17; 1999-2009; 1990-99; 1983-90; 1978-83; 1974-77; 1972-1973; Drawings. Okay. Personal Quotes (3) I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and ask more questions. Is there anything you miss about living in Chicago? Plants, Redwing boots, dogs. it's still there. It's kind of funny. Santore: I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. Joeys a breath of fresh air. I try to always encourage people to download Wikipedia andiNaturalistonto their phones as a resource. The video, he said, is from late June when he was in small Siskiyou County, California, in the northern part of the state. When I was a kid, a lot of my friends had dads like that. Obviously the accents canned, he said. As with some content posted on Twitter, @eedrk did not create the video. 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We don't get that here. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. It's doing pretty good. Sorry. He would print out papers to read during downtime on the trains. Every time it feels like an apocalyptic story with this plant. A lot of folks think that coyotes in particular are purely nocturnal or even crepuscular, which is like dawn, dusk, night. 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. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. 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. The One Subscription to Fuel All Your Adventures. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night." A botanist is just someone who studies plants, which is what I doI do it solely because I want to learn.. 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. Although Santore was worried about this pup being out during the day, Monroe says thats not actually out of the ordinary. WARNING: This video includes foul language. Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't: Created by Joey Santore. 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." By Monday morning, the clip had 8 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. 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? 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. The mannerisms at least among the white people out there were super soft and delicate and kind of passive, with an NPR voice. Kind of a bummer! So a lot of them just kind of look like shit, right. Released on 03/11/2022. One was that this gentleman was so singleminded in his approach to try and achieve a compassionate outcome for this young animal, she says. content language. So maybe it'll be okay. Larsen: 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. 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. 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. I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. Theyre extremely opportunistic, theyre extremely intelligent animals, so they do whatever they need to do to seek resources. Will: But it ends up just being a very minor part of the day, hunting down this peyote. 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. He hasn't looked back ever since. I was like, I feel like an ignoramus. This episode was brought to you by Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor adventurers. A low-brow, crass approach to plant ecology as muttered by a misanthropic Chicago Italian. 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.. Just enter the code pod25 at checkout. You have reached your limit of 4 free articles. Santore: Anyway guys, here we are once again. I think it's kind of risky. And so I realized that might happen, but it didnt really mess with me until the day after, he says. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. Makes the turd of, uh, uh, life in modern society easier through a swallow, helps it go down easier. 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. Beyond the tenderheartedness, what really made the video was Santore's thick, Bill Swerski-esque Chicago accent. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. In addition we have many gardens here that are maintaining endangered plant species, especially Lotusland. They just hide. But it's his voice that's the real star of the show. I don't know why you're taking that kind of stance with me. I just don't think what you're doing is safe behavior. 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. 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. 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. His videos may be popular with kids who are budding botanists. Today. I did a couple videos where I talked in my normal voice, but it just didnt feel right, says Santore. As his online handle suggests, botany doesnt cover the bills. Its a way for me to throw a couple jabs at the elements of society that kind of irk me.. Warning: The video above contains graphic language. I associate them with a place to like get away from people and, kind of open air playground. Sounds like a cool dude. 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 as he told Jesse Will while they traveled around South Texas, once he hit his teen years he tended to get into trouble. 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. 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. I would probably say the same thing to somebody cause theres a lot of jackaes out there, he says. So I said, fuck it, I'm just gonna be who I am. He hadn't cooled off by Monday. Pinterest. 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? Hi, I'm Joey Santore, plant lover, botanist, and working class mook. That's one of mine. 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. Learn more about all the benefits of membership at outsideonline.com/podplus. 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. I believe Northern Pacific rattlesnake. There's another one just coming up right in the middle of the road, it's a goddamned big prostrata. It's this squat plant. "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. He's shooting the shit. Cirrus Wood is a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. Some of his tree babies meet an untimely end, felled by pollution, city maintenance, or swerving vehicles. Soon, he was in deep. Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie is another excellent one, down by Joliet. But she was covered in fleas and ticks and mites and also had some nasal discharge. 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. Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com. Come on, hey. I asked what he thought about the video going viral. 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. Okay. 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. He's on your level. 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. 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 it's like kind of a full circle moment, right? Every time it feels like an apocalyptic story with this plant. Larsen: This video went viral when Joey posted it back in 2019, but venomous snakes are not his typical beat. The Landscape Architecture Podcast. Of course. But he did link to Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt, the YouTube channel where the clip originated, among a collection of nature videos about plants narrated in that same recognizable Chicago accent. 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. He's just borrowing. "I liked trees originally because they are so big. But, about that voice. 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 We don't know what would happen if it disappeared completely, but Joey says that he doesn't want to find out. 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. Every academic botanist that I talked to was super stoked on his work. Most of the prairies have been destroyed, but there's still these little islands left that people can go check out. 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. It looks like a weed. 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. 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. Larsen: 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. Got a tip? JASON HENRY He didnt grow up in a traditional way and has not had the traditional jobs that bring you into this field. 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? He is an ex-punk and a former freight train engineer who has been self-taught in his field. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. That's just the funny accent. 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. (Photo by Jesse Will) I called Joey Santore just as he'd returned from a botanizing trip to South Africa. Per the sponsoring organization, a rendering of the Swedish teen as big as Washingtons face on Mount Rushmore is an effective way to honor and amplify a message of environmental stewardship for a warming planet. Well, first off, I'm not really trying to create YouTube fluff. I found it hard to swallow. Okay. 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. I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and askmore questions. I want to share themand [talk about] what a tragedy it is that people don't know this stuff is here. He has rather unexpectedly earned a bit of internet fame due to his passion for a far less adrenaline-inducing subject: plants. Will: Uh, he has one that says plant milkweed or get fucked. Releasing a coyote pup or a juvenile coyote after rehab as a single animal is not going to achieve a successful outcome.. But Joey doesn't see a 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. Larsen: Joey had always liked railroads. We dont value plants, we dont value habitat, often we dont value each other. You'll see guys posting photos of dead coyotes they shot over the weekend. 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. Okay. (He also produces a podcast of the same name.) countries. 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. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. This is ground zero for a lot of environmental action because of the oil spill here in 1969. I ended up bringing it to the house I was staying at about 15 miles away and called around for wildlife rescue and the nearest one was about a 2 hour drive south. 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. Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. Larsen: Allow me to introduce you to Joey Santore. And Jesse's with me. To find enough real estate to survive, these prostrata often end up finding their home in the middle of the road. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. 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). The whole thing is kind of sad. But also,[coyotes] are heavily persecuted. He is diversity. Real banger right there. 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. Will: When you speak to them in person that accent gets dialed way back down. 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. But is now just kind of leftover. 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. Hes published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers. (Picture by Jesse Will) I known as Joey Santore simply as he'd returned from a botanizing journey to South Africa. Santore: Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. 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. 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. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. 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. 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. This episode is brought to you by Visit Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor lovers. And it clearly has a special place in Joey's heart, based on a t-shirt he sells. Even if it gets really ugly, it's still gonna be okay. No, it's not like that. Then theres his voice: a native Chicagoan, he can sound like hes on an SNL skit about Da Bears. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. 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. Uh, where you get summer rain. And they did find some. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. It was nothing personal, but I rejected them all unless we had mutual friends. Will: 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. And despite his cynical-seeming exterior, Joey finds beauty in all of this, too. I wasnt going to be able to make it there that day, so I figured I would take it Monday. Paintings. Larsen: Oh, yeah, there we go. The next day I called around and the nearest wildlife rehab was like 2 hours away down south. You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. Although he doesnt have a degree in botany, Santore tells TIME that nature is his true passion. Can anyone help? As a child, Santore took an interest in science early, visiting Chicagos Field Museum with his mother and propagating elm trees from seeds in their yard. 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. 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. Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. 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. I don't want to hear that. You know, maybe not being seen for, for God knows how long. 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. Thats not true. Nothing major, but a shovel takes two arms. 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. But Ive had my rabies titer, if it makes you feel any better.. 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. I associate them with a place to like get away from people and, kind of open air playground. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. 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. All right. 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