Especially young, sick or injured wildlife. 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. Most important is the Garfield Park Conservatory, which is free and features plants from all over the world. Im in absolute awe of the sheer depth of his accent, Twitter user @kevinefarrell commented. But it ends up just being a very minor part of the day, hunting down this peyote. I, of course, would let my common sense and care for an animal in need override their recommendation if it happened again, but I understand why they have to say that.. Some of his trees are now over 30 feet tall! 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. The animal appears sickly and unwell and the man tries to determine if he can catch it and bring it to a rescue center. 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. Every academic botanist that I talked to was super stoked on his work. 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 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. Will: When you speak to them in person that accent gets dialed way back down. I don't want to hear that. According to Jesse Will, Joey's subscribers don't fit any kind of mold. Specifically, trees. FILE - Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Joey Bosa (97) looks on before an NFL football game against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sept. 25, 2022, in Inglewood, Calif. Bosa took part in 15 snaps . Who discovered botany? and the majority of the day, we're looking for this rare milkweed Asclepias prostrata. 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. He undoubtedly spurred people who'd never heard about milkweed to give a damn about the plant. 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. I mean, she almost certainly would have died she was underweight and she had mucus in her nose and eyes but maybe she would have been food for something else. 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. Releasing a coyote pup or a juvenile coyote after rehab as a single animal is not going to achieve a successful outcome.. Personal Quotes (3) I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and ask more questions. Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. Hes published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers. There's little nuances of social mannerisms that I miss about Chicago, like that voice I channel on the YouTube page. 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. He's shooting the shit. Joey is extremely interested in natural evolutionary adaptation, observing how plants evolved into different forms and determining how and why each one got to be exactly where they are. Gypsum-endemic plants of Southern Utah quell the pain of life in this culturally bleak wasteland., Instead of this myopia, where we view everything through the lens of our own life, botany lets you zoom out and see how the world works and observe these relationships that different organisms have with each other. So he decided that he'd see the U.S. by hopping freight trains. In real life, his lilt isnt nearly so exaggerated. 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. She had nasal discharge and eye discharge and was just covered in parasites. Theres so many different wildlife disease concerns that have significant overlap with human health impact.. They just hide. You'll see guys posting photos of dead coyotes they shot over the weekend. You need help! I don't know why you're taking that kind of stance with me. Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie is another excellent one, down by Joliet. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. I'm Joey. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. The Thick Chicago Accent Guy Addresses the Sad Fate of the Coyote Pup From the Video. 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. I was just in Sonora, Mexico, looking at plants. Looking for Tony Santoro online? But it's his voice that's the real star of the show. 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. Riding the rails, he got an up-close tour of the geologic time scale exposed by railroad cuts: layers of rock dating back millennia. His life as a guerrilla forester began when he noticed some of the public spaces the city was ignoring. All Rights Reserved. However, the downtime has allowed him to post more videos about botanizing the Bay Area. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. Trees that can hack it without pruning and summer watering. Jesse Will interviewed Joey Santore. Okay. Most of the prairies have been destroyed, but there's still these little islands left that people can go check out. 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's just the way it is. Right. Okay. Can anyone help? You can hit the Explore button [iniNaturalist] and see what grows around you and then just start learning plants by family and genus, which is how they're all grouped together. If you like what we do here, please support our work on an ongoing basis. The Field Museum is great too. That's just the funny accent. And so I realized that might happen, but it didnt really mess with me until the day after, he says. When you speak to them in person that accent gets dialed way back down. World United States United Kingdom Canada Australia South Africa Israel India France Belgium Switzerland. He's on your level. This is journalist Jesse Will, who profiled Joey for Outside Online. You get, for instance, a cactus that's native to the Chicago area. About that Chicago accent: He lays it on thick for the camera. He adds that if he had known how sick the coyote was, he wouldve tried to get it to a wildlife rehabilitation center sooner. Things that were formerly bland to them become these organisms with their own evolutionary lineages. Joseph Anthony Bosa ( / bos /; born July 11, 1995) is an American football outside linebacker for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He's on your level. Member Since November 2014. I got like 120 Facebook friend requests from middle-aged white ladies in Iowa. Special interests: Conifers of California, Conifers of Cupressaceae, California Native Cypresses, Arctostaphylos. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. Allying with Nature to Regenerate our Living Planet, 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. But many thrive, and some of his earliest plantings are now impressive specimens. Anyone who lives in Chicago knows that Tony Santoro is an actual person. and he says that accent as a joke, like it just makes him laugh. It's kind of funny. Something about that old school Chicago accent conjuring the late, great Dennis Farina combined with his attempt to help an ailing animal seems to be key to the videos popularity. 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. Uh, where you get summer rain. He's just borrowing. 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. 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. Right. Joey: You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. But also,[coyotes] are heavily persecuted. You know, and I just dont want to get bitten. it's still there. I want to share themand [talk about] what a tragedy it is that people don't know this stuff is here. 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. Joey Santore @JoeySantore Recently finished filming our 1st piece for a show encouraging people to kill their lawns & replace with low-maintenance native - or at least non-invasive - gardens. The main plus-side to any of this viral stuff is that maybe it'll encourage more people to look at the world like that. I try to always encourage people to download Wikipedia andiNaturalistonto their phones as a resource. Santore was born in Chicago; his mother was an elementary school teacher and his father left on his first birthday. His videos may be popular with kids who are budding botanists. 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. (Face-to-face, the 37-year-old Santore softens his accent to about 8.) In other words, as the ecosystems around us erode under humanity's touch, understanding the ways they fit together is more crucial than ever. But I also try to keep [the videos] lighthearted. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. 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. 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. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. 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. Learn more about all the adventures to be had across Mississippi at visitmississippi.org. 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. From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com. Off the clock, Joey began growing rare conifers from seed. I believe Northern Pacific rattlesnake. Santore is a self-taught botanist and former freight train driver in Oakland, California who believes the natural world can be a balm for modern anxieties caused by climate change and Capitalism. 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. I guess why I talk like that is, one, I want to make the science communication more funny. The biggest population of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader. The man behind the voice is a La Grange native and amateur botanist who for reasons of maintaining privacy has posted his videos in character under names such as Joey Santore and Tony Santoro and others. 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. The whole thing is kind of sad. 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. Will: It looks like a weed. And then a few years later I went back and took some classes, a geology class, an oceanography class and a biology class. Joey Santore | major gifts fundraising at charity: water Hi there. Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. Although he doesnt have a degree in botany, Santore tells TIME that nature is his true passion. Listen to me. We're going to turn it to shit. Beyond the tenderheartedness, what really made the video was Santore's thick, Bill Swerski-esque Chicago accent. A low-brow, crass approach to plant ecology as muttered by a misanthropic Chicago Italian. 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.. They just hide. Come along. and the majority of the day, we're looking for this rare milkweed Asclepias prostrata. Subscribe for free today! Los Angeles Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa wasn't happy with the officials on Saturday night. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. "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 saw it (the coyote) running across the road, it looked grossly malnourished. Might just be cooking up carbs, storing it in that tuber and then going dormant for a while. 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. Looking back, she was really sick. If you want to take a look at what I've been up to more seriously, check out my resume. [upbeat . He has rather unexpectedly earned a bit of internet fame due to his passion for a far less adrenaline-inducing subject: plants. iNaturalist joeysantore Joey Santore Curator Joined: Nov 17, 2016 Last Active: Jan 14, 2023 iNaturalist I look at plants & rocks with an emphasis on edaphic endemism, biogeography, speciation and cool evolutionary histories (long lonely branches or broad radiations). don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. I'm not trying to harass you. I don't know, six or seven years give or take. But you also get the feeling that botany gave him a way to make sense of the world, and of humans' place within it. 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? 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. Joey's presentation to the Houston Native Prairie Association will be a series of . 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. 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. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. But before I did that I decided to give it a flea bath, which was probably a stupid idea in retrospect, since I think it might have just been shocked by it. Although Santore was worried about this pup being out during the day, Monroe says thats not actually out of the ordinary. Larsen: As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. Grew these both from seed. It was funny, going out to California when I moved out there. A halfway decent knock-knock joke? Shh, its ok. Im not gonna f with you. 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. 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: 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. You got to get out of the road. 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. My aim is to give people a context in which to place [the nature] they see around them. He would print out papers to read during downtime on the trains. 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? We're, we're keeping it civil. We don't know what would happen if it disappeared completely, but Joey says that he doesn't want to find out. 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. 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. It's botany 101, mashed up with expletive-laced tirades about consumerist, car-based American culture. 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. Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher who first studied with Plato and then became a disciple and see what grows around you and then just start learning plants by family and genus, which is how they're all grouped together. That's near Kankakee. You know, maybe not being seen for, for God knows how long. I think it's kind of risky. 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. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. 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. It plays into some of the more gross elements of human nature. These are just names Im channeling in the form of an ongoing science project to make the information more captivating because the typical dry and boring delivery you usually see has failed people., [Photos: Baby animals from around the world]. 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. This is Plant Support. I obviously don't talk like that in real life I got an accent, but I don't talk like that. I asked what he thought about the video going viral. Also, we're offering new members a 25% discount. 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. I've had everyone from teenagers to suburban dads tell me, Hey, I saw your page. 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