One Atmosphere commissioned a 60-by-30-foot mural of climate activist Greta Thunberg for San Franciscos Union Square. He hasn't looked back ever since. Hes not afraid to mix the sacred, mundane, and lewd. However, the downtime has allowed him to post more videos about botanizing the Bay Area. I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. I don't know why you're taking that kind of stance with me. Looking for Tony Santoro online? And then, uh, of course these are a couple of mine as well. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. 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. Among Santores fans are plant geeks, outdoor enthusiasts, and cannabis growers who were worm-holed into Santores channel while looking up plant propagation. I like the ambiance of railroads. The soil type is different there, it's all really sandy. I found it hard to swallow. Santore: 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. 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. And when its fur was wet, I realized how skinny this thing was. And they did find some. But Ive had my rabies titer, if it makes you feel any better.. 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. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. Painted on the side of an eight-story building, the fiery teenager looks determined and unbowed, gazing down at pedestrians and traffic with eyes the size of windscreens. 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. 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. Let's see. A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. All right. Larsen: Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. He played college football at Ohio State and was selected third overall by the (then San Diego) Chargers in the 2016 NFL Draft, where he was named NFL Defensive Rookie . You knows what Im gonna do, Im gonna take you to a nice rehab facility. Larsen: Joey's video from South Texas has some 50,000 views and counting. Larsen: Allow me to introduce you to Joey Santore. And it clearly has a special place in Joey's heart, based on a t-shirt he sells. Larsen: Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. 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. Oh, what's going on here? If you like what we do here, please support our work on an ongoing basis. 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. 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. Okay. I saw it (the coyote) running across the road, it looked grossly malnourished. Joey Santore is a photographer, presenter, botanist, known for Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't (2019). 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. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. 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. 2018-21; 2010-17; 1999-2009; 1990-99; 1983-90; 1978-83; 1974-77; 1972-1973; Drawings. As with some content posted on Twitter, @eedrk did not create the video. Refreshingly Funny Ice Cream Man's Prank Video Is a Delicious Summer Treat. 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. He's just borrowing. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. It's totally fascinating stuff, man. I asked what he thought about the video going viral. He's shooting the shit. Of course. And then the YouTube account blew up, which is cool. And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. Larsen: Asclepias prostrata is just one species, native to one relatively small ecosystem. interface language. Total Photos Contributed: 339 [View all photos] or [See a list of all photos] or [View most recent photos] Collection: Private 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. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night.". 3 min read. His life as a guerrilla forester began when he noticed some of the public spaces the city was ignoring. Well, first off, I'm not really trying to create YouTube fluff. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. I think the video obviously it got a lot of hits I think it touched people in different ways. Plants, Redwing boots, dogs. He would print out papers to read during downtime on the trains. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. It's everyone from dope growers to amateur science geeks to viewers who just stumbled onto his YouTube. I try to always encourage people to download Wikipedia andiNaturalistonto their phones as a resource. A botanist is just someone who studies plants, which is what I doI do it solely because I want to learn.. Not in a bad way. According to Jesse Will, Joey's subscribers don't fit any kind of mold. 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 don't know why. Special interests: Conifers of California, Conifers of Cupressaceae, California Native Cypresses, Arctostaphylos. 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. 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 many thrive, and some of his earliest plantings are now impressive specimens. Most of the prairies have been destroyed, but there's still these little islands left that people can go check out. You got those undulate leaf margins with the slightest hint of anthocyanin pigments produced in the red on a leaf margin right there. 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. Okay. Grew these both from seed. Joey Santore, amateur botanist "Crime pays but Botany Doesn't" Podcast "It's all gonna be okay. I guess I view all those videos as kind of a long-running piece of sketch comedy. Add to that the threat of invasive buffelgrass, which is fast outcompeting this important little weed. This plant has adapted to lie dormant in its underground rhizome for years until conditions are right. 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. It starts in Chicago, where he was raised by a single mother who was an elementary school teacher. Let's see. Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher who first studied with Plato and then became a disciple 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. I don't know, six or seven years give or take. But, about that voice. Joey was born in Chicago and yet --. I bet a bunch of illegal tree planting. 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. There's another one just coming up right in the middle of the road, it's a goddamned big prostrata. 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. I guess why I talk like that is, one, I want to make the science communication more funny. But you also get the feeling that botany gave him a way to make sense of the world, and of humans' place within it. 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. It's doing pretty good. Paintings. I think it's kind of risky. In the video we see a gentleman who I believe sincerely was coming from a place of compassion, Monroe told TIME. you're seeing people that comment and say things like this, guys, the reason why I got interested in plants. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. 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?. I did a couple videos where I talked in my normal voice, but it just didnt feel right, says Santore. During an AFC wild-card . He now works as a freight train driver in Oakland, where he frequently makes trips into the wilderness in search of native plants. 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. countries. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. 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. He would print out papers to read during downtime on the trains. That was just the revelation then that God, I don't know shit. 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. Here's Joey pointing out a colony of the quarter-sized gray-green buttons in the video he made about the day. He adds that if he had known how sick the coyote was, he wouldve tried to get it to a wildlife rehabilitation center sooner. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. Uh, he has one that says plant milkweed or get fucked. 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 . And even more specifically, conifers. Of course. Come along. 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. 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. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. 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. Hi, I'm Joey Santore, plant lover, botanist, and working class mook. 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. 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. His priority is making habitats, not only leaves and pretty flowers. You're ob-, obviously a NorPac. 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. Who discovered botany? I called them and they said they could take her and everything, but she had already passed away in the night. I wasnt going to be able to make it there that day, so I figured I would take it Monday. 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. And then I realized, I didn't know anything about the country I lived in and it was a big ass country, so why not travel? I think it's kind of risky. 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. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. You got a fuzzy stem, you got a fuzzy stem. Transcript. Bosa removed and slammed his helmet on the ground while still on the field. Pinterest. 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. Nothing major, but a shovel takes two arms. It's botany 101, mashed up with expletive-laced tirades about consumerist, car-based American culture. Joey Santore, based in Oakland, California, specializing in Cupressaceae, currently studying native California Cypresses. 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 admits to being borderline contemptuous of maples and rosebushes. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Digital Might just be cooking up carbs, storing it in that tuber and then going dormant for a while. [laughs] And I had a pang of regret. Joey travels around the world and takes you on plant walks, with colorful commentary. All right. His appeal is all about sounding nothing like the stereotypical botanist. Learn more about all the adventures to be had across Mississippi at visitmississippi.org. 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. Hes published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers. He's squatting in carpenter jeans and dusty black oxfords, scanning each. 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. I was like, I feel like an ignoramus. Kind of a bummer! Santore is an amateur, self-taught botanist who posts videos nearly every day to his YouTube channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt,which he describes as alow-brow, crass approach to plant ecology as muttered by a misanthropic Chicago Italian.. The animal appears sickly and unwell and the man tries to determine if he can catch it and bring it to a rescue center. Joey Bosa. 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