I'm not trying to harass you. Larsen: He was kicked out of military school and got into graffiti and the punk scene. And I have no context for anything outside of it. Some of his trees are now over 30 feet tall! As it happens, the particular species of milkweed that Joey wants to find here in South Texas is especially rare. [Terrier survives coyote attack caught on camera in Northfield]. I found it hard to swallow. I didn't realize botany could be so cool. I don't know, six or seven years give or take. In other words, as the ecosystems around us erode under humanity's touch, understanding the ways they fit together is more crucial than ever. 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. A few months ago, Outside dispatched Jesse Will to tag along with Joey on a field trip to the backroads of South Texas. 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? But I also try to keep [the videos] lighthearted. 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. The 23-minute videoreleased the week before the murals revealis the work of a tattooed, foulmouthed Chicago transplant who for the past few years has been quietly greening up Oakland. Well, he's not pilfered. You need help! This episode is brought to you by Visit Mississippi, a wonderland for outdoor lovers. I believe Northern Pacific rattlesnake. But you also get the feeling that botany gave him a way to make sense of the world, and of humans' place within it. It's botany 101, mashed up with expletive-laced tirades about consumerist, car-based American culture. Joey Santore, 36, never expected to get famous for posting videos about nature. He admits to being borderline contemptuous of maples and rosebushes. He hadn't cooled off by Monday. 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. I realize maybe I shouldnt have done that because it probably stressed it out, but again this thing was covered in parasites, he says. JASON HENRY You have to reach almost a critical mass, like a minimum number of coyote pups of similar age in a rehab situation to rear so that way theyre positioned for success when you release. But please dont bite me. Santore has been throwing shade figuratively and literally in his adopted hometown since moving there in 2006. I mean, on some level it looks, it looks like a weed. Joey is a botanist & producer of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't YouTube channel. But if it gives me a chance to get more people excited about botany and plants and viewing the world outside of this depressing human infrastructure in society that I think is killing so many of us slowly, then I guess its good then I guess the clickbait coyote video served a purpose and its all part of my grandiose plan to get more people interested in science and ecology and I guess, this sounds corny, the natural world in general.. At certain times of year, especially this time of year, they are often active during the day. Hard to mistake the voice-overs blue-collar, lunch-bucket bawl for Sir David Attenborough when the speaker declares that planting treesgivers of oxygen, creators of atmospheremakes the turd of lifeeasier to swallow.. He has lots of tattoos and no college degree and is known for illegal tree-planting projects. 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? 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. That's just the funny accent. Absolutely. The Landscape Architecture Podcast. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. It makes sense. Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. Okay. I bet a bunch of illegal tree planting. A botanist is just someone who studies plants, which is what I doI do it solely because I want to learn.. 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. The penalty, which came . He hasn't looked back ever since. He's shooting the shit. I'm getting welcome to Mexico texts, were so close to the border. Come along. By Saturday morning, the clip more than 6 million views and hundreds of thousands retweets and likes. Oh, what's going on here? Okay. We have constructed attractive Patreon tiers that allow you to be fully recognized for your regular contribution. To find enough real estate to survive, these prostrata often end up finding their home in the middle of the road. But is now just kind of leftover. But if [the video] gets people to smile a little bit, that's cool. I don't know why. and he says that accent as a joke, like it just makes him laugh. Well, he's not pilfered. It's the oldest psychedelic substance known to man. Then theres his voice: a native Chicagoan, he can sound like hes on an SNL skit about Da Bears. My work has appeared in newsprint, magazines, websites, and the missed connections section of Craigslist, where I write personalized notes to drivers who cut me off in traffic. As his online handle suggests, botany doesnt cover the bills. 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 ended up bringing it to the house I was staying at about 15 miles away and called around for wildlife rescue and the nearest one was about a 2 hour drive south. and the majority of the day, we're looking for this rare milkweed Asclepias prostrata. May 26, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Shhh, what appened to yer fokes?. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night. I mean, I want to get more people excited about it cuz there's a lot of dark shit coming our way and you know, we're going to need this kind of awareness of ourselves and of the world to be able to deal with it. Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl. Hes published 492 videos, and has over a quarter million subscribers. And that's why he's lovingly bullying it out of the road, just like he did that rattlesnake. Okay. Cirrus Wood is a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley. And even more specifically, conifers. You got to get out of the road. I wasnt able to make it there that day so I decided I would bring it there the next morning. 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 . But Joey's influence goes beyond just getting laypeople to care about the things growing in their neighborhoods. Who discovered botany? Over the course of 13 years with Union Pacific, he worked his way up to an engineer, reading about the latest updates in the field of botany whenever he could. Specifically, trees. Larsen: Which is to say: sometimes what it takes to get us to give a shit about the natural world is a foul-mouthed amateur scientist. The Chicago vernacular is kind of dyin out, especially as cities get more gentrified and you get more dog day care and coffee boutiques moving into these old Chicago neighborhoods. It makes life a lot more interesting. 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. Grew these both from seed. Okay. Will: Uh, he has one that says plant milkweed or get fucked. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. So maybe it'll be okay. A lot of folks think that coyotes in particular are purely nocturnal or even crepuscular, which is like dawn, dusk, night. Larsen: But Joey doesn't see a weed. You gotta, you gotta peyote, a peyote, a lophophora, whole shit tons of peyotes. Larsen: 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. 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. Join Outside+ to get Outside magazine, access to exclusive content, 1,000s of training plans, and more. That's just the funny accent. 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. and see what grows around you and then just start learning plants by family and genus, which is how they're all grouped together. 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. 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. Today I'm here to answer your plant questions via Twitter. Joey Bosa. That's just my personal take. 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. 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. 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. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. All right. Although he doesnt have a degree in botany, Santore tells TIME that nature is his true passion. WARNING: This video includes foul language. You have reached your limit of 4 free articles. I think it's kind of risky. Obviously the accents canned, he said. 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. Usually, we just see his hands, which are covered in tattoos. Whether its oaks or Oaklanders, theres a lack of suitable habitat for many. It's just the way it is. Consider this your heads-up that there are going to be quite a few curse words in this episode. So they kind of enter this wormhole that's talking about a whole universe, of natural life. Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com. I want to get more people excited about it, because theres a lot of dark (crud) coming our way. Santore: The biggest population of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader. Who is the man behind an accent more commonly associated with a Chicago firehouse than an open expanse of mountains and grassland? He is an ex-punk and a former freight train engineer who has been self-taught in his field. All English Franais. Even if it gets really ugly, it's still gonna be okay. 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. They just hide. Releasing a coyote pup or a juvenile coyote after rehab as a single animal is not going to achieve a successful outcome.. When it comes to wildlife rehabilitation for coyotes, its extremely challenging for coyote pups, she says. email me. Total Photos Contributed: 339 [View all photos] or [See a list of all photos] or [View most recent photos] Collection: Private You get, for instance, a cactus that's native to the Chicago area. His life as a guerrilla forester began when he noticed some of the public spaces the city was ignoring. Trees that can hack it without pruning and summer watering.
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