Let's see. Right now Im in Sonora, Arizona. Santore: I like the ambiance of railroads. Especially young, sick or injured wildlife. Joey Santore | major gifts fundraising at charity: water Hi there. It's this squat plant. 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 Field Museum is great too. Santore: Look at that beautiful bastard, not flowering yet may not flower this year at all. Even if it gets really ugly, it's still gonna be okay. Also, we're offering new members a 25% discount. There's another one just coming up right in the middle of the road, it's a goddamned big prostrata. I went to college and studied sociology and communication but dropped out to travel. Editors Note: Transcriptions of episodes of the Outside Podcast are created with a mix of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain some grammatical errors or slight deviations from the audio. Then there are people who got sucked in because of one of those viral videos. Most of the prairies have been destroyed, but there's still these little islands left that people can go check out. When it comes to wildlife rehabilitation for coyotes, its extremely challenging for coyote pups, she says. Im in absolute awe of the sheer depth of his accent, Twitter user @kevinefarrell commented. We dont value plants, we dont value habitat, often we dont value each other. 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 . He's going to take that opportunity to, uh, go drive the vroom vroom around and what the shit, you know, let's keep going. I don't want to hear that. I don't know, six or seven years give or take. I'm Joey. Add to that the threat of invasive buffelgrass, which is fast outcompeting this important little weed. 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. I was just in Sonora, Mexico, looking at plants. And then the YouTube account blew up, which is cool. 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. But please dont bite me. 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. So I did that and I got her to eat a little bit, he says. 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. I'm not trying to harass you. With Joey Santore. Apr 29, 2020 - Guerrilla gardener Joey Santore has planted more than 300 trees, encouraging a new appreciation of our habitatand one another. The biggest population of it keeps repeatedly getting cleared by a well-intended, albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader. 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. Santore: I've been breaking relatively unimpactful laws my whole life. [upbeat . Luckily, it seems like most of the comments have been from these middle-aged women in the middle of the country who just love seeing this cute pupgetting a bath. Beyond the tenderheartedness, what really made the video was Santore's thick, Bill Swerski-esque Chicago accent. The tragedy here is we're destroying a lot of this as our population grows, so I guess that's where my misanthropy comes up. 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. Plants, Redwing boots, dogs. "I'm stuffing envelopes right now," he told me from his home in West Oakland. Oh, yeah, there we go. Santore: So I found this astronomy textbook and then was reading it on a train once. Theyre normally crepuscular or theyre out at night. 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. And I have no context for anything outside of it. Did some redneck shoot your parents whats going on? You got a Tecate Cyprus, a Santa Cruz Cyprus, and a Guadalupe Cyprus. It's just the way it is. Riding the rails, he got an up-close tour of the geologic time scale exposed by railroad cuts: layers of rock dating back millennia. Warning: The video above contains graphic language. Absolutely. 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." I don't know, six or seven years give or take. (He also produces a podcast of the same name.) And especially where we are now as a species with our understanding of science and the world and all this technology that we have. Grew these both from seed. He says that working as a freight train operator rather than spending his time in school has allowed him to pursue that passion. I bet a bunch of illegal tree planting. This video went viral when Joey posted it back in 2019, but venomous snakes are not his typical beat. It's just, there's something so inherently beautiful about that. All right. Listen to me. Larsen: Joey Santore's path to becoming an unlikely YouTube star really is one of the most winding journeys you could imagine. We have since expanded our show and now offer a range of story formats, including interviews with the biggest figures in sports, adventure, and politics, as well as reports from our correspondents in the field. Maybe all this explains why his YouTube channel, Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt, has more than a quarter-million subscribers. This plant has adapted to lie dormant in its underground rhizome for years until conditions are right. Sounds like a cool dude. 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.. In the video we see a gentleman who I believe sincerely was coming from a place of compassion, Monroe told TIME. It makes sense. I think it's kind of risky. Just imagining the possibilities of like planting something that would get bigger or, you know, dwarf your lifetime and your physical size. I would be a lot more angry of a person if I didn't have this. Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. (Joey Santore). 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! He played college football at Ohio State and was selected third overall by the (then San Diego) Chargers in the 2016 NFL Draft, where he was named NFL Defensive Rookie . But also,[coyotes] are heavily persecuted. 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. 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. 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. Along his routes, he would stop at libraries and gain free access to academic papers with the help of pirate websites. We're, we're keeping it civil. and the majority of the day, we're looking for this rare milkweed Asclepias prostrata. It was about 2 p.m. and hot out and coyotes, I rarely see them out during the day. We join Santore on a peyote hunt in the South Texas scrublands to try to understand how hes getting so many different kinds of people to geek out on plants. Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com. A halfway decent knock-knock joke? 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. And I, my friend's pilfered scooter. No, it's not like that. 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. "I liked trees originally because they are so big. He hadn't cooled off by Monday. 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). Join Outside+ to get Outside magazine, access to exclusive content, 1,000s of training plans, and more. Santore: You got your coryphantha, you know, and it all just coming up in the dappled light, the understory of, of the thorn scrub, which of course is getting cleared away at an increasing rate to make room for the fucking Panda express uh, tumor of modern society. During an AFC wild-card . "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. The self-taught botanist sounds off on going viral, preserving the natural world, and the story behind that accent. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. 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. Paintings. 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. 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. 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. 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 . He started growing rare conifers from seed. If it gets people to hate coyotes a little less and not demonize them, I'm down with it. One Atmosphere commissioned a 60-by-30-foot mural of climate activist Greta Thunberg for San Franciscos Union Square. , albeit somewhat oblivious, road grader so I found this astronomy textbook and then the YouTube blew... 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