As with some content posted on Twitter, @eedrk did not create the video. You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. My aim is to give people a context in which to place [the nature] they see around them. You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. And conditions are tough here, and getting tougher: high heat, poor soil, little rain. don't you dare rattle that fucking thing at me. Maren Larsen (host): From Outside magazine, this is the Outside podcast. Larsen: He was kicked out of military school and got into graffiti and the punk scene. Absolutely. And maybe you have a better likelihood of accepting. Listen to me. 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. Larsen: Asclepias prostrata is just one species, native to one relatively small ecosystem. Thats basically all I do is I look at rare plants, I photograph them, I make notes and then share that information with the general public and make silly botany videos too., "It looked grossly malnourished. Transcript. Phone service was spotty so he sent a voice memo back "This is going to be a lot easier than typing with my thumbs on a smartphone, which is really a seventh layer of hell for me (we later connected by phone) answering my questions about the video and the fate of the coyote. I mix tragedy with comedy to make it more digestible and less futile-seeming. I impersonate these Chicago characters as a joke to make the subject material more interesting, he says. The mannerisms at least among the white people out there were super soft and delicate and kind of passive, with an NPR voice. Larsen: Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. Cirrus Wood is a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley. With Joey Santore. I mean, on some level it looks, it looks like a weed. Joey: You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. Okay. Is there anything you miss about living in Chicago? According to Jesse Will, Joey's subscribers don't fit any kind of mold. During an AFC wild-card . 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. 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. Right now Im in Sonora, Arizona. 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. And then the YouTube account blew up, which is cool. Add to that the threat of invasive buffelgrass, which is fast outcompeting this important little weed. 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. A knowledge of the relationships between living things and how we have all evolved to survive over time is a coping mechanism and a glimmer of hope in the age of increasingly dire predictions about the progress and effects of climate change. Santore: Being, uh, important members of the natural ecosystem, you know, you don't want to see them, uh, get, get smacked. Obviously the accents canned, he said. 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. Well, he's not pilfered. I grew up hearin people talk like dat. "Mailing out stickers. And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. Santore is turned on to the outdoors because hes turned off by everything else. I mean, on some level it looks, it looks like a weed. Larsen: Allow me to introduce you to Joey Santore. In real life, his lilt isnt nearly so exaggerated. 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 on Thursday, the Chicagoland native went viral when a profanity-laden clip of him comforting a sick coyote. 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. I think the video obviously it got a lot of hits I think it touched people in different ways. Larsen: Using a stick that does not seem nearly long enough to me, Joey herds the snake out of harm's way as it flicks its tongue ominously, seeming to tolerate -- just barely -- this loud, swearing man trying to save it. I would probably say the same thing to somebody cause theres a lot of jackaes out there, he says. and see what grows around you and then just start learning plants by family and genus, which is how they're all grouped together. Soon, he was in deep. And Jesse's with me. Maybe I should have just left her alone. He started growing rare conifers from seed. 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. Of course. He undoubtedly spurred people who'd never heard about milkweed to give a damn about the plant. Come along. Well, first off, I'm not really trying to create YouTube fluff. Did some redneck shoot your parents whats going on? The biggest population of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader. This is Plant Support. 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. Okay. Today. Sounds like a cool dude. Especially young, sick or injured wildlife. 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. Theres unfortunately a sad ending to the story of a guy with a thick Chicago accent trying to rescue a struggling coyote pup. Okay. I don't know, six or seven years give or take. I obviously don't talk like that in real life I got an accent, but I don't talk like that. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. You see it get wiped out, you know, but then of course, you know, they're just hiding. Nothing major, but a shovel takes two arms. The video, he said, is from late June when he was in small Siskiyou County, California, in the northern part of the state. 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. Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. 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. Listen to me. You're ob-, obviously a NorPac. He hasn't looked back ever since. 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. countries. At the time, I was like, "Whatever, shit happens, animals die." 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. However, the downtime has allowed him to post more videos about botanizing the Bay Area. Journalist - SF Bay Area. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. All English Franais. Some of his trees are now over 30 feet tall! That's one of mine. 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: But you also get the feeling that botany gave him a way to make sense of the world, and of humans' place within it. We dont value plants, we dont value habitat, often we dont value each other. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. But as he told Jesse Will while they traveled around South Texas, once he hit his teen years he tended to get into trouble. So 30 hours after I found this thing, I woke up and was going to take it to this rehab center on my way back down south. I did a couple videos where I talked in my normal voice, but it just didnt feel right, says Santore. It's just the way it is. And so I realized that might happen, but it didnt really mess with me until the day after, he says. Last fall, two very different approaches to addressing climate change unfolded in the Bay Area. Okay. You can hit the Explore button [in. ] There's enough cat videos and cute videos with corny narratives. Every time it feels like an apocalyptic story with this plant. No, it's not like that. I saw it (the coyote) running across the road, it looked grossly malnourished. World United States United Kingdom Canada Australia South Africa Israel India France Belgium Switzerland. As a child, Santore took an interest in science early, visiting Chicagos Field Museum with his mother and propagating elm trees from seeds in their yard. And then, uh, of course these are a couple of mine as well. 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. There's little nuances of social mannerisms that I miss about Chicago, like that voice I channel on the YouTube page. Come on, hey. Santore: Anyway guys, here we are once again. Okay. Nowadays he films the trips he takes in search of some of the rarest plants on the planet. 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. Learn more about all the fun to be had across the state at visitmississippi.org. Will: But it ends up just being a very minor part of the day, hunting down this peyote. A low-brow, crass approach to plant ecology as muttered by a misanthropic Chicago Italian. Because what better way to understand the guy who created "Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't" than to join him on a hunt for a plant that's a schedule 1 controlled drug? And even more specifically, conifers. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. Braidwood Dunes is another really good one. Larsen: Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. 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. He's just borrowing. 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. Hes published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers. This plant has adapted to lie dormant in its underground rhizome for years until conditions are right. Larsen: In other words, as the ecosystems around us erode under humanity's touch, understanding the ways they fit together is more crucial than ever. I want to learn how this stuff works. You know, and I kind of like seeing trees. Pinterest. You got those undulate leaf margins with the slightest hint of anthocyanin pigments produced in the red on a leaf margin right there. What he's talking about, if he's speaking directly to you. "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. 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. 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. Allow me to introduce you to Joey Santore. Just enter the code pod25 at checkout. 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. You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. 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. Thats not true. Theyre extremely opportunistic, theyre extremely intelligent animals, so they do whatever they need to do to seek resources. Joey was born in Chicago and yet --. Special interests: Conifers of California, Conifers of Cupressaceae, California Native Cypresses, Arctostaphylos. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. and he says that accent as a joke, like it just makes him laugh. One single rock can tie a person back to the event in which that rock was created, whether it was a volcanic eruption 20 million years ago or the gradual deposition ofsediments in an ocean 400 million years ago. 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. (Photo by Jesse Will) I called Joey Santore just as he'd returned from a botanizing trip to South Africa. But I also try to keep [the videos] lighthearted. I believe you; I believe youre so tough., Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. He's on your level. Its a way for me to throw a couple jabs at the elements of society that kind of irk me.. 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