I asked what he thought about the video going viral. Joey Santore, amateur botanist "Crime pays but Botany Doesn't" Podcast "It's all gonna be okay. The first steps to learning more is realizingyour own ignorance, and then beingwillingto work beyond that. I don't know why. Listen to me. 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. What kind of attention have you been getting in the past week? I went out and bought some of these books that you recommended and I'm learning so much. That's what really makes it worth it gettingpeople excited about learning and the natural world, which is the antidote to all the ugliness and stress and anxiety of the human world. 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. And his science is good., The promised land of Southern Utah where the rednecks dance on cancerous housing developments, the cows (poo) chocolate and Pediocactus sileri grows on nearly barren gypsum hills. Joey had always liked railroads. She was really sick, I could tell. 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. Maren Larsen (host): From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. Riding the rails, he got an up-close tour of the geologic time scale exposed by railroad cuts: layers of rock dating back millennia. It's this squat plant. [laughs] And I had a pang of regret. Santore is turned on to the outdoors because hes turned off by everything else. Released on 03/11/2022. What drew you to making videos about botany? You got those undulate leaf margins with the slightest hint of anthocyanin pigments produced in the red on a leaf margin right there. 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. Real banger right there. 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. I got like 120 Facebook friend requests from middle-aged white ladies in Iowa. 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. It makes sense. 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. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night. The video, he said, is from late June when he was in small Siskiyou County, California, in the northern part of the state. You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. I believe Northern Pacific rattlesnake. So I said, fuck it, I'm just gonna be who I am. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. (Face-to-face, the 37-year-old Santore softens his accent to about 8.) They tried to turn it into a golf course in the 1960s; luckily, that plan failed. Refreshingly Funny Ice Cream Man's Prank Video Is a Delicious Summer Treat. I wasnt able to make it there that day so I decided I would bring it there the next morning. What is plant systematics? Every academic botanist that I talked to was super stoked on his work. It's totally fascinating stuff, man. 2018-21; 2010-17; 1999-2009; 1990-99; 1983-90; 1978-83; 1974-77; 1972-1973; Drawings. 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 I put all this narration through this voice of a 50-year-old Chicago mook from the West Side. Think Dan Aykroyd in The Blues Brothers dialed to 11. 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. The video captivated peoples hearts and went massively viral, with people applauding Santore for his commitment to trying to help the coyote and loving the thicker than normal Chicago accent that he puts on for his videos. 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 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. It's just the way it is. 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. This shits connected., Theres a parallel between Santores efforts and the present plight of his city. 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. So I did that and I got her to eat a little bit, he says. When it comes to wildlife rehabilitation for coyotes, its extremely challenging for coyote pups, she says. And it's it's, uh, that kind of grated me. Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. Most important is the Garfield Park Conservatory, which is free and features plants from all over the world. A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. One was that this gentleman was so singleminded in his approach to try and achieve a compassionate outcome for this young animal, she says. Right now Im in Sonora, Arizona. But also,[coyotes] are heavily persecuted. May 26, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. I'm Joey Santore: a Connecticut-born, Brooklyn-living, nonprofit-working, cooking-loving, playlist-making, lucid-dreaming, karate-coaching, twenty-something. Every time it feels like an apocalyptic story with this plant. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. We're going to turn it to shit. Special interests: Conifers of California, Conifers of Cupressaceae, California Native Cypresses, Arctostaphylos. Many of those unauthorized trees now are more than 30 feet tall. Joey Santore Oakland, California Favorite Activities Larsen: 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. 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. According to the man behind the video Joey Santore, an Oakland-based, self-taught botanist who runs the YouTube channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't the pup died two nights after he discovered it in the northern California countryside in June. At the time, I was like, "Whatever, shit happens, animals die." And this is a problem. To find enough real estate to survive, these prostrata often end up finding their home in the middle of the road. All right. Joeys a breath of fresh air. Although he doesnt have a degree in botany, Santore tells TIME that nature is his true passion. The next day I called around and the nearest wildlife rehab was like 2 hours away down south. It was nothing personal, but I rejected them all unless we had mutual friends. It's just the way it is. I love getting people excited about these things I've seen. And maybe you have a better likelihood of accepting. We dont value anything geologically or botanically unless it has a direct benefit for us., A Life Cleanse in the Waters of Desert Hot Springs. "I liked trees originally because they are so big. Magazines, Digital Take it easy, buddy. He's on your level. Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. I just don't think what you're doing is safe behavior. 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. Hes not afraid to mix the sacred, mundane, and lewd. If you like what we do here, please support our work on an ongoing basis. So today I'm going to show you a little project that I've been engaged in for about the past. 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. That's just my personal take. 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. Larsen: Oh, yeah, there we go. Oh, what's going on here? This episode was written and produced by me, Maren Larsen:, and edited by Michael Roberts. Theres so many different wildlife disease concerns that have significant overlap with human health impact.. Hi, I'm Joey Santore, plant lover, botanist, and working class mook. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. The attention is somewhat unwanted. Larsen: Asclepias prostrata is just one species, native to one relatively small ecosystem. 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's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. 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. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. And, uh, Joey Sentore is like mentioned, you know, in terms of this plant. She also warns that rehabilitating a lone coyote pup is a particularly complicated venture. 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. 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. We don't know what would happen if it disappeared completely, but Joey says that he doesn't want to find out. So maybe it'll be okay. Santore: I like the ambiance of railroads. Bosa removed and slammed his helmet on the ground while still on the field. 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