Like I just got really excited when I would read about this stuff. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. A low-brow, crass approach to plant ecology as muttered by a misanthropic Chicago Italian. Theres unfortunately a sad ending to the story of a guy with a thick Chicago accent trying to rescue a struggling coyote pup. 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. And I have no context for anything outside of it. The Thick Chicago Accent Guy Addresses the Sad Fate of the Coyote Pup From the Video. Okay. All Rights Reserved. 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. 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? It was nothing personal, but I rejected them all unless we had mutual friends. 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. When he ran out of room in his California backyard, he began planting them without permission in public places, including Mandela Median Parkway in Oakland. So maybe it'll be okay. Well, first off, I'm not really trying to create YouTube fluff. But Joey doesn't see a weed. 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. Asclepias prostrata is just one species, native to one relatively small ecosystem. Maren Larsen (host): From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. Larsen: Joey's video from South Texas has some 50,000 views and counting. But regrettably, it had a very sad epilogue. 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. 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. Santore: I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. But as he told Jesse Will while they traveled around South Texas, once he hit his teen years he tended to get into trouble. 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. Sorry. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. 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. That's a Crotalus Organus NorPac. I want to get more people excited about it, because theres a lot of dark (crud) coming our way. 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. 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.. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. Some of his trees are now over 30 feet tall! It makes the nausea a little bit easier to deal with. He's just borrowing. There's enough cat videos and cute videos with corny narratives. 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. countries. Okay. You can read Jesse's story on Outside Online. It makes the nausea a little bit easier to deal with. 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. So its mostly a joke, because most science communication is dry and boring. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. I obviously don't talk like that in real life I got an accent, but I don't talk like that. 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. Absolutely. Sorry. By Monday morning, the clip had 8 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. Oh, what's going on here? You have to reach almost a critical mass, like a minimum number of coyote pups of similar age in a rehab situation to rear so that way theyre positioned for success when you release. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. I thought, "Oh, shit!" And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. It starts in Chicago, where he was raised by a single mother who was an elementary school teacher. A halfway decent knock-knock joke? 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. 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. Pinterest. 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. And then a few years later I went back and took some classes, a geology class, an oceanography class and a biology class. Santore: So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. This shits connected., Theres a parallel between Santores efforts and the present plight of his city. 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. He's published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers One Atmosphere commissioned a 60-by-30-foot mural of climate activist Greta Thunberg for San Franciscos Union Square. Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. Is there anything you miss about living in Chicago? By Cirrus Wood Apr 27, 2020 West Oakland resident Joey Santore is often on the lookout for neglected medians or public spaces where he might secretly plant a tree. Anyone who lives in Chicago knows that Tony Santoro is an actual person. Braidwood Dunes is another really good one. So it's like kind of a full circle moment, right? I want to learn how this stuff works. I am trying to find this guy to invite him to Santa Barbara. It's, it's like this, recently born into consciousness, species of primate is now able to figure out the world, dissect the world around it and figure out how it fits in. 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. 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. Learn more about all the adventures to be had across Mississippi at visitmississippi.org. 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. I asked what he thought about the video going viral. it's still there. 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 would probably say the same thing to somebody cause theres a lot of jackaes out there, he says. Apr 29, 2020 - Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. He didnt grow up in a traditional way and has not had the traditional jobs that bring you into this field. I don't know, six or seven years give or take. I think it's kind of risky. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. He's squatting in carpenter jeans and dusty black oxfords, scanning each. This is what happens when you dont have any regulations in place to protect the people on the bottom, he says. I was like, I feel like an ignoramus. Learn more about all the benefits of membership at outsideonline.com/podplus. Last fall, two very different approaches to addressing climate change unfolded in the Bay Area. I didn't realize botany could be so cool. About that Chicago accent: He lays it on thick for the camera. We're, we're keeping it civil. 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. 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. The video, he said, is from late June when he was in small Siskiyou County, California, in the northern part of the state. Larsen: Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. JASON HENRY Member Since November 2014. So I did that and I got her to eat a little bit, he says. Larsen: This is journalist Jesse Will, who profiled Joey for Outside Online. Cmere, hey, youre OK, shhh, a mans voice can be heard as he runs after a small, skittish coyote through the tall grass. That's one of mine. After Staley picked it up and gave it back to him, Bosa threw it down again. This is ground zero for a lot of environmental action because of the oil spill here in 1969. 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. I have a friend that works at a wildlife rehab, and she told me it was good to keep it in a quiet, calm place, so I kept it in the basement. And then, uh, of course these are a couple of mine as well. A lot of folks think that coyotes in particular are purely nocturnal or even crepuscular, which is like dawn, dusk, night. Santore: I like the ambiance of railroads. Larsen: Joey had always liked railroads. But is now just kind of leftover. Got a tip? However, the downtime has allowed him to post more videos about botanizing the Bay Area. Add to that the threat of invasive buffelgrass, which is fast outcompeting this important little weed. The first steps to learning more is realizing your own ignorance, and then being willing to work beyond that. He went on to say that his friend who works at a wildlife rehab facility told him to keep the coyote in a cool, dark and quiet place and try to give it some food and water. A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. It plays into some of the more gross elements of human nature. Santore: So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. 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. You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. Larsen: Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. Maybe I should have just left her alone. 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. He now works as a freight train driver in Oakland, where he frequently makes trips into the wilderness in search of native plants. I guess I view all those videos as kind of a long-running piece of sketch comedy. What kind of attention have you been getting in the past week? 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.. 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. But Ive had my rabies titer, if it makes you feel any better.. (Joey Santore). We're going to turn it to shit. 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. And they did find some. The Tribune did confirm his identity in a public records search but agreed not to reveal it. Even if it gets really ugly, it's still gonna be okay. As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. Bosa removed and slammed his helmet on the ground while still on the field. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. I try to always encourage people to download Wikipedia andiNaturalistonto their phones as a resource. Subscribe for free today! He has lots of tattoos and no college degree and is known for illegal tree-planting projects. 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