He's on your level. 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. 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. I associate them with a place to like get away from people and, kind of open air playground. [Terrier survives coyote attack caught on camera in Northfield]. Anyone who lives in Chicago knows that Tony Santoro is an actual person. 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. Santore: 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? Magazines, Or create a free account to access more articles, 'It Just Kind of Struck Me.' 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. Total Photos Contributed: 339 [View all photos] or [See a list of all photos] or [View most recent photos] Collection: Private 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. So we shouldn't start trying to, we shouldn't, we shouldn't burn down the library before we understand what's in it, you know. That's just the funny accent. His priority is making habitats, not only leaves and pretty flowers. And this is a problem. Larsen: Jesse's assignment was to cover Joey's search for a local plant called lophophora williamsii: otherwise known as peyote. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. About that Chicago accent: He lays it on thick for the camera. Los Angeles Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa wasn't happy with the officials on Saturday night. And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. Theres unfortunately a sad ending to the story of a guy with a thick Chicago accent trying to rescue a struggling coyote pup. [upbeat . He has rather unexpectedly earned a bit of internet fame due to his passion for a far less adrenaline-inducing subject: plants. Personal Quotes (3) I just want people to take a closer look at the nonhuman world and ask more questions. We don't know what would happen if it disappeared completely, but Joey says that he doesn't want to find out. Learn more about all the benefits of membership at outsideonline.com/podplus. So a lot of them just kind of look like shit, right. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. I didn't realize botany could be so cool. A few years ago I wrote about the Chicago accent and its near total disappearance from TV and film, though you can still reliably hear it on the radio: WXRTs Marty Lennartz has been doing his Going to the Show with a Regular Guy movie reviews since 1984; like Santore, he has a Chicago accent but its not nearly as thick as the one he uses in character. And I have no context for anything outside of it. The first steps to learning more is realizingyour own ignorance, and then beingwillingto work beyond that. Joey sees an integral and resilient piece of an ecosystem. Cirrus Wood is a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley. It makes the nausea a little bit easier to deal with. What did you think when you saw that video went viral? We don't get that here. And then, uh, of course these are a couple of mine as well. His life as a guerrilla forester began when he noticed some of the public spaces the city was ignoring. 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. 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." 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.. His appeal is all about sounding nothing like the stereotypical botanist. it's still there. During an AFC wild-card . Milkweed is a favorite of many botanists because of its critical importance to the endangered monarch butterfly. Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. A good read? Today I'm here to answer your plant questions via Twitter. (Photo by Jesse Will) I called Joey Santore just as he'd returned from a botanizing trip to South Africa. Although he doesnt have a degree in botany, Santore tells TIME that nature is his true passion. Every time it feels like an apocalyptic story with this plant. The Tribune did confirm his identity in a public records search but agreed not to reveal it. Joey's presentation to the Houston Native Prairie Association will be a series of . 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. Larsen: In a move akin to an art thief becoming a museum security guard, train-hopping Joey Santore applied for a job with Union Pacific and was hired on as a brakeman. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night." And, and when I talked to him on the phone, he's he's like, yeah, I know where some populations of that are, you know, I'm going to go look for some new ones. I mix tragedy with comedy to make it more digestible and less futile-seeming. We're, we're keeping it civil. Releasing a coyote pup or a juvenile coyote after rehab as a single animal is not going to achieve a successful outcome.. 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? You got to get out of the road. What is plant systematics? It was grossly underweight.. Some of his trees are now over 30 feet tall! 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. Larsen: And they did find some. (Joey Santore). But on Thursday, the Chicagoland native went viral when a profanity-laden clip of him comforting a sick coyote pup surfaced on Twitter, garnering upwards of 8 million views. Larsen: Milkweed is a favorite of many botanists because of its critical importance to the endangered monarch butterfly. Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com. It starts in Chicago, where he was raised by a single mother who was an elementary school teacher. But he also had this aside at the time, that was like, I get it, yeah of course you had to pitch the psychedelic angle. It makes sense. I am trying to find this guy to invite him to Santa Barbara. 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. Yesterday. Come along. It's a giant a part of how I make my cash." Santore has a whole bunch [] This video went viral when Joey posted it back in 2019, but venomous snakes are not his typical beat. I got like 120 Facebook friend requests from middle-aged white ladies in Iowa. Will: Well, hopefully people will hear this and, you know, chase down this stuff. But it's his voice that's the real star of the show. He tried going to college, but while he enjoyed learning, it seemed like a waste of time and money since he didn't yet know what he wanted to do. 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. We don't know what would happen if it disappeared completely, but Joey says that he doesn't want to find out. 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. When it comes to wildlife rehabilitation for coyotes, its extremely challenging for coyote pups, she says. "I'm stuffing envelopes proper now," he advised me from his house in West Oakland. This modern Johnny Appleseed would have preferred to have been out planting when we met, but some corrective shoulder surgery has him temporarily sidelined. 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. and he says that accent as a joke, like it just makes him laugh. Santore, who also goes by Joe Blowe and Tony Santoro online (none are his real name, for privacy reasons), grew up in La Grange and lived there until he went to college in California. 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. Kind of a bummer! Larsen: He was kicked out of military school and got into graffiti and the punk scene. Okay. Uh, where you get summer rain. And despite his cynical-seeming exterior, Joey finds beauty in all of this, too. You got the damn opposite leaves looking at it. He's gonna, I'm sure he'll return it once he's done. One was that this gentleman was so singleminded in his approach to try and achieve a compassionate outcome for this young animal, she says. In his videos, he crosses citizen science with vigilante environmentalism. He exposes the secrets of these botanical misfits to us in his own gleefully peculiar style, and we simply cannot get enough! I guess it's for the better. Theres so many different wildlife disease concerns that have significant overlap with human health impact.. In addition we have many gardens here that are maintaining endangered plant species, especially Lotusland. It's totally fascinating stuff, man. Monroe says she hopes the popularity of the video helps spread an important message about human contact with wildlife especially with the recent increase in human-coyote interactions in California. Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher who first studied with Plato and then became a disciple A botanist is just someone who studies plants, which is what I doI do it solely because I want to learn.. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. It was like a blank canvas, he says, very much like graffitiing except less likely to piss people off., Santore goes for species that are fast-growing and resilient, preferably native. Thats not true. It's just the way it is. Subscribe for free today! But Ive had my rabies titer, if it makes you feel any better.. Return it once he 's done to access more articles, 'It just kind of air! 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