After Staley picked it up and gave it back to him, Bosa threw it down again. I want to get more people excited about it, because theres a lot of dark (crud) coming our way. 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. Maybe all this explains why his YouTube channel, Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt, has more than a quarter-million subscribers. And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. I mean, on some level it looks, it looks like a weed. Makes the turd of, uh, uh, life in modern society easier through a swallow, helps it go down easier. Braidwood Dunes is another really good one. Larsen: As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. Pinterest. 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. What kind of attention have you been getting in the past week? 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. There's a wealth of stuff in the Chicago area that people should check out. Well, he's not pilfered. Come along. But it ends up just being a very minor part of the day, hunting down this peyote. He has lots of tattoos and no college degree and is known for illegal tree-planting projects. Then theres his voice: a native Chicagoan, he can sound like hes on an SNL skit about Da Bears. Joey had always liked railroads. First he delved into various sciences and then focused, increasingly, on botany. What do you hope viewers take away from your channel? This is journalist Jesse Will, who profiled Joey for Outside Online. It appears that he observed a potentially orphaned coyote pup in poor condition so he was trying to obtain this animal and then transfer it to a wildlife rehabilitator., But Monroe says that his approach presents some challenges. We don't know what would happen if it disappeared completely, but Joey says that he doesn't want to find out. 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. Santore is turned on to the outdoors because hes turned off by everything else. You'll see guys posting photos of dead coyotes they shot over the weekend. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. Soon, he was in deep. Okay. Okay. Not long after posting the video, the UK-based Caters News Agency contacted him about monetizing the video and he signed a licensing agreement, though said he hasnt been paid any money as of yet. Real banger right there. Possibilities opened up. 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. 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. It starts in Chicago, where he was raised by a single mother who was an elementary school teacher. Larsen: Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. 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. These are animals that dont let you get close to them, but it was so sick I was able to get up close to it and I could see it was kind of scraggly and it was totally malnourished and underweight., After realizing that the coyote was covered in parasites, including ticks and fleas, Santore says that he decided to give it a bath. Im in absolute awe of the sheer depth of his accent, Twitter user @kevinefarrell commented. 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). I believe Northern Pacific rattlesnake. He is an ex-punk and a former freight train engineer who has been self-taught in his field. You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. I believe you; I believe youre so tough., Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. Take it easy, buddy. Joey is a botanist & producer of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't YouTube channel. The video, he said, is from late June when he was in small Siskiyou County, California, in the northern part of the state. At certain times of year, especially this time of year, they are often active during the day. It plays into some of the more gross elements of human nature. 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? The Field Museum is great too. This shits connected., Theres a parallel between Santores efforts and the present plight of his city. Riding the rails, he got an up-close tour of the geologic time scale exposed by railroad cuts: layers of rock dating back millennia. So I said, fuck it, I'm just gonna be who I am. We spoke to Santore about his complicated feelings on his newfound fame, how the natural world can be abalm for modern anxieties, and why he plays up his Chicago accent for the camera. They just hide. It's botany 101, mashed up with expletive-laced tirades about consumerist, car-based American culture. Hes not afraid to mix the sacred, mundane, and lewd. 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. Anyway guys, here we are once again. Santore: So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. Santore: I like the ambiance of railroads. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. you're seeing people that comment and say things like this, guys, the reason why I got interested in plants. It was grossly underweight.. Things that were formerly bland to them become these organisms with their own evolutionary lineages. According to Jesse Will, Joey's subscribers don't fit any kind of mold. It's botany 101, mashed up with expletive-laced tirades about consumerist, car-based American culture. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. And then, uh, of course these are a couple of mine as well. 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. He adds that if he had known how sick the coyote was, he wouldve tried to get it to a wildlife rehabilitation center sooner. Here's Joey pointing out a colony of the quarter-sized gray-green buttons in the video he made about the day. It's everyone from dope growers to amateur science geeks to viewers who just stumbled onto his YouTube. You get, for instance, a cactus that's native to the Chicago area. Member Since November 2014. Explore. Will: It looks like a weed. Is there anything you miss about living in Chicago? 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 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. I found it hard to swallow. I bet a bunch of illegal tree planting. I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. and see what grows around you and then just start learning plants by family and genus, which is how they're all grouped together. It's doing pretty good. Uh, where you get summer rain. Theyre very unpredictableThis gentleman couldve easily been bit or scratched., She went on to say that he brought up some legitimate concerns in the video. Like I just got really excited when I would read about this stuff. A lot of folks think that coyotes in particular are purely nocturnal or even crepuscular, which is like dawn, dusk, night. Asclepias prostrata is just one species, native to one relatively small ecosystem. Although Santore was worried about this pup being out during the day, Monroe says thats not actually out of the ordinary. Everything I know (about nature and botany) I basically learned myself, he said. 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. Santore: I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. [Outside the city], there's Wolf Road Prairie, [plus] a couple prairies down in Markham. Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. 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. So it's like kind of a full circle moment, right? My yard now looks a little different from the neighbors next thing you know, it's going to be all milkweed. email me. Asclepius prostrata, the prostrate milkweed. 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. Maren Larsen (host): From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. At the time, I was like, "Whatever, shit happens, animals die." But as he told Jesse Will while they traveled around South Texas, once he hit his teen years he tended to get into trouble. From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. Its a way for me to throw a couple jabs at the elements of society that kind of irk me.. If you want to take a look at what I've been up to more seriously, check out my resume. He's squatting in carpenter jeans and dusty black oxfords, scanning each. Subscribe for free today! Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. Santore, who hails from West Oakland, is YouTube's botany- and profanity-loving phenom by Robert Langellier July 11, 2022 Share This: Botanist Joey Santore. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. I went to college and studied sociology and communication but dropped out to travel. Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall. 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: Milkweed is a favorite of many botanists because of its critical importance to the endangered monarch butterfly. His life as a guerrilla forester began when he noticed some of the public spaces the city was ignoring. She was really sick, I could tell. Outsides longstanding literary storytelling tradition comes to life inaudio with features that will both entertain and inform listeners. And when its fur was wet, I realized how skinny this thing was. 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