Chicago Feral Paht & Tuck-Pointing Exposé
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video we take a couple guys and drive all around the city, exploring the rare Glyptostrobus pensilis that Joey Grew from seed and donated to Garfield Park Conservatory prior to being subject to a 7 year ban. We also inspect the Mysterious Train Yard C@nnabis plot to see if it has germinated yet. lastly, we discuss the return of Beavers to Chicago's lakefront.
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Thanks, GFY.
Come for the plants, stay for the insurance tips
And that's how they get you!
And the History of Brutalist Architecture 😂
Does anyone know what videos other videos feature both boys ??They are a great team :)
Love the tour of the City. And Al is a gem hidden in the rough, a philosopher of this millennium.
He could be the best envoy for the city, and offer guided tours.
Aww thanks for the love! Been putting some vids up over here...
The absolute most entertaining duo in Chicago, please give these guys a show on WGN
seconded. like siskel & ebert, but for plants.
😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍
Please start a write in campaign, we'd love to do that, hahaha
Hard no on that one. You really think they'd be as entertaining being neutered by old media? Bro nobody watches tv anymore. The internet is where this kind of art belongs.
@@overbythereprobably have better luck with channel 11, being as they used to produce Wild Chicago and some other weird stuff
When David Attenborough passes away (God forbid) I want Al to narrate nature docs from then on
Absolutely! But do you think he could follow a script, though, or would he make it up as he went along?
Well, Ze Frank is already on that, but for the animal sector.
@@jeffreylebowski3216 I'd work both!
This is beautiful.
Absolootly. He could be like a Chicagoan Tony Bourdain but for botany.
in your element?? One of your best videos in a long time. your most meaningful content is on urban ecology imo. people don't have the concepts or the language to understand what's happening, & you deliver
Only Joey can wear being banned from work at CBG as a badge of honor.
I'll never forget my move from the dorms in Evanston to a 1 bed walk-up in Rogers Park. Better education than the one I was paying for. I once saw a guy fall in the road under the Howard Street L, I raced to a phone to call EMS. Operator said "where, under the L? It's okay". Sure enough, I returned to find him woven between the bars along the sidewalk, bottle in a bag in hand. Interesting area back then.
Thanks for the entertaining education!
How does one get banned from a volunteer job? I feel like some additional explanation is needed.
@@brandonlee4175 extra curricular planting of certain vegetation?
Definitely we need some backstory. Taking propagation materials from the plants in their collection? Maybe better left in the past, I'm sure he's learned from it and it was a long time ago.
Yes, I went from Northfield, a very quiet suburb, to Rogers and Sheridan in a studio where everything the neighbors did was in your face. One was flipping out and screaming constantly, another often swore at her little kids loudly. Oh, they’d move out and some other drama would move in. Now, I’m in Northern Wisconsin and the winters are long and the summers are beautiful and short.
I’m gonna go to Longwood Gardens and start feeling up the plants for their spores and seeds
It’s a fancy place for rich people, wish me luck
Also, start a crowdfund for my bail
Chillin' with Al seems like a great time.
Probably the best channel on TH-cam. Loving the sidekick too you guys are hilarious, yet informative 🤔
The beavers returning to the lakefront in Chicago after so long is wonderful. Reminds me of how turkeys were completely wiped out here in New England - nowadays they're everywhere, even see them in the middle of Copley Square on occasion. Nature healing, etc.
You two are true to Chicago. When that reporter said that it feels "put on", obviously didn't see your vids, and that's okay! But the authenticity is great, to see your youth fire pit with Al's straight up wisdom, your not only doing good things botanically but philosophically as well. But being in tune with nature you already know they're all, and everything is connected! Rock on fellas!
Mysticism is the sneaking suspicion that everything is connected! Thanks for the love, we'll keep making stuff and doing our thing
Al's hat is pure authenticity.
This is, hands down, one of the best things on the Boob Tube.
I love it when Joey leans into his Chicago Italian accent and Al leans into his Wisconsin Swede accent (or whatever it is).
it's a kind of Chicago accent, just more on the Irish/German/Eastern Euro/Swedish-Norwegian side of things. there's many different Chicago accents, but they tend to share some come cadences and sentence structures.
@@overbythere It reminds me of that North Dakota accent in the movie 'Fargo.'
A couple, two, tree…I love our accent.
2 absolute legends riffing and exploring the wilds of Chicago. And I already thought Al was badass but name dropping Mies van der Rohe and breaking down the intricacies of brickwork absolutely makes me want to befriend this cool cat.
Hearing some of the comments near the beginning reminded me of a conclusion I've drawn regarding trees: go to an arboretum or botanical garden if you want to see artwork and wedding photographers, but go to a large cemetery if you want to see a collection of trees. There are excellent collections of trees in some of the cemeteries around the country, and in some of these the trees are labeled.
The work you've done and continue to do is invaluable, you are literally want I want to be when I grow up.
How will you get there?
@@allyson-- Books n' learnin'
Ha! In the opening shot, you guys were ten minutes from where my family lived, at Armitage and Cicero, when I was born, in 1950! 🎉
I have an aunt that's a prof at a well-known University in southern Ontario. She said they once had somebody from the hospital come into the Uni with a handful of berries looking for an identification. Turns out they had a lady who decided to make her family a pie out of Buckthorn berries. The latin on Buckthorn is Rhamnus cathartica.. as in catharsis.. intestinal catharsis. The lady's whole family was in intensive care with dehydration from shittin their brains out. Good times..
I'm in the process of starting a business in medicinal seeds, mainly European traditional medicine. I was in a spot where I get a bunch of wild lettuce seeds and saw these black berries that turned out to be buckthorn. Later on that night I started Googling and doing a lot of reading on it. When all was said and done, it's a ROUGH anti constipation aid with really NOTHING else worthwhile in it. So I decided against it.
In my dad's backyard I pulled out the buckthorn and garlic mustard and replaced it all with native vegetation. I even planted a ginko in his front yeard. My dad then ripped out all of those plants, and, replanted buckthorn and garlic mustard. SMFH... He has NPD and claims he knows everything.
You two are awesome! Pure Chicago nostalgia! ❤
running in the streets like a couple old pals!
0:35 I thought Al was dropping into a freestyle for a sec 😁
I really enjoyed your walk about and plant discussion. I live in Toronto, and when we bought our Arts and Crafts era home 30 years ago, tore out the lawns and planted a forest edge in the front yard with all native species. The side and back yards are planted with fruit trees, herbs, and edibles. The three plants I am at constant war with are Buckthorn, Japanese Knotweed, and Gout Weed.
Landscapers actually planted them in neighbouring yards. A number of neighbours have followed our lead, and put in gardens instead of lawns. I hope more and more people start supporting our native plants and pollinators. Thanks for a happy afternoon.🖤🇨🇦
"It looks rather Italianate!" LOOOL. god, i love him!
I try to have a good time with the architectural identification, hahaha
@@overbythere hi, Al! :D
Thank yous twos once again. That was educational on several levels.
"in fact my friend it was a jewel osco" 😂
it was
✨Seasonal Affective Disorder✨
Need more videos with both of you guys together. Keep making the great videos.
Goddamn, this makes me miss Chicago so much. One of my college professors was the director at the conservatory in the late 90’s. He took us on a guided tour. Loved it.
Wonder why Joey got banned...
Come on back for a visit!
You miss all the circus monkeys shooting eachother? What a shithole! You couldnt pay me to live there.
I cut the buckthorn to make a nice fence with, for growing vines and to keep the rabbits off my plants. Unchecked they'll fill your understories in well established forests, bullying out nice wild plums, making it hard for the next round of hickories and such to work their way up into the canopy for when the oldies start to expire. She'll stick your fingers good, right through the gloves. I heard somewhere you can grow oyster mushrooms on the bigger buckthorn specimens but have not tried it.
This was a really great episode with the two of you. I’m enjoying the Midwest plant knowledge a lot, since that’s where I live lol. Thanks, fellas
You guyz! This is botany for the people with a side of humor!
Cannabis sativa > rhamnus cathartica should be on your merch.
Been watchin for some years now, got the tip from my Kanuckistani uncle A.V.E.
It's good to see your channel blowing up, it was slept on for too long.
This right here is quality educational hilarious shit my guy. Hell yeah.
Wow. I Tuckpointed for years in Indiana. That’s what they mean when they say looks good from my house😂. I want more Midwest videos with your ornithologist/Mason.
People do some whacky stuff with brick walls, I only helped with a few masonry jobs but the old timer who hired me made a big effort to share his knowledge; the what, how, and why of masonry. I always appreciated that.
@@overbythere yeah, every time an skilled old timer passes on, we lose a library. I’m a baker and pastry chef, and the stuff I learned from old bosses is worth its weight in gold.
Love seeing anything other than the Loop being featured-- Chicago has its issues, but there's a lot of history, hidden gems, and just plain Interesting Stuff if you dig through the proverbial buckthorn of gentrification. The railroad track embankments are goldmines of critter finds as well as plants and fungi; my favourite encounter was a mating ball of five or six garter snakes just hangin out in a shrub a block down from the local station.
Thank you for dragging the yuppie borg boxes, too, they're the most laughably overpriced *junk* on the market. Had to live in one during college and the *brand new building* flooded within the first six months. Never again!
OMG. Jump scare. I was not ready for that. SHOW ME THE TRICHROMES!
Here in the Toronto Area those Cottonwoods are so amazing, buckthorn is a big issue here of course. I volunteer and help remove it and it takes a lot of physical labour to chip away at it!
I grew up in rural Germany, amongst gorgeous cottonwood. Always thought Tolkien meant them when he talked about the silver trees the elves lived in.
@@ulalaFrugilega Its sad here in a lot of un managed and conserved area cottonwoods tower but are choked out by the European Buckthorn. Some other native species (minus any sort of old growth cut down along time ago, you may find the odd oak.) can compete well like Cornus sericea. The issue with buckthorn is the birds will eat the fruit which is essentially a laxative. So the bird spread tons of seeds in a small area while losing nutrients as the buckthorn chokes out native food sources like Prunus virginiana (Choke cherry). If Saruman could use all the buckthorn for his Orc army the battle for middle earth might have went a different way.
@@ulalaFrugilega love that thought
thanks for your help in the buckthorn effort! It's so aggressive!
Love the native tour with Joey and Al, you two have an entertainingly crude and informative dynamic together.
we have a good time nice
I grew up in West Pullman, lived in Posen, Mount Greenwood, Cicero and Berwyn. You remind me of so many of my friends that I talk back to the screen to you.
Berwyn!
we're just a couple neighborhood guys
I got ran out of Cicero in 1972 . Proud of it .
This was a trip through memory lane.
I treasure the experience of a Middle School kid running around the railroad tracks all over Chicago.
And the museums let unescorted 12 and 13 year old kids wander around and see every thing.
Late 50s early 60s.
Nothing beats running wild as city kid, it's so fun to run around making these videos in the same spirit, so glad it struck a chord
Ending in a coyote reclaiming the golf course, perfect
Love this tour! But as far as getting rid of buckthorn, it seems to now thrive on Roundup. I had a couple of plants that I cut back and painted it with Roundup, and it came back stronger. Like it's some kind of plant food! I ended up cutting it back and wrapping it in black plastic, and that seems to be slowing it down, if it's not killing it. It looks bad, but the Buckthorn in my garden does seem to be at least slowing down.
Seeing this episode reminds me that we have a beautiful botanical garden here in St. Louis MO. I could go there today or tomorrow.
What do you have to do to get banned here?
This video reminds me of my youth, walking a rural railroad track and checking out the flora. Mostly made up of boxelder, marsh marigold, trilliums, and in fall, goldenrod and milkweed. Now I'd be arrested for trespassing on railroad property.
Its nice to see you smile.
24:20 Al is so fucking funny man 😂😂😂😂 “ you want it to fluffy and covered in trichomes”
Hey, great episode. I got myself a Humility Dome last winter and definitely hit the bottle less because of it. Now I'm gonna try and grow some ferns in it, etc. Also, tuck pointing is kind of a hobby of mine, especially on old stone foundations of houses and barns here in Northeastern PA. I'm helping a friend of mine renovate an old farm and its turning out good. Those yuppie condos are doomed. With that veneer over cinder block, omg, they're gonna fall apart quick in the freeze/thaw cycle you have in Chicago. Beavers are great. They built a dam across a creek down from my house last year, but the guy who lived nearby had them trapped and moved. Or maybe he shot them. I hope not. We have coyotes here, too, I hear them in back of my house in the foothills of the Kittatinny Ridge just below the Appalachian Trail. To wrap this up, when I stepped out the back door this morning to plant the garden, a nice black bear was about 20 yards away looking at me. He was a young one, maybe 2 yrs old, weighed about 250. Real nice. Anyway, keep up the good work and GFY. Thanks for the video. Make more like this.
They're cutting alot of corners in masonry these days and it's such a bummer
their fern dungeons in chicago are magnificent, for some reason
"And that's how they get'cha!"
This is a hoot. Great presentation. Thanks
Really loved this, felt like a mix of the best of all your styles and was fun to go on the adventure with you guys, both of you are hilarious and clever as fuck, it's so entertaining and I genuinely feel better for watching. Cheers guys.
simply got to respect our neighbor here hanging on to a hat for that long ...
it's a well loved treasure
32:35 "major tweaker vibes...you look like you're going through a lot, pal!" lmao!
always loved your takes and walkthroughs of urban areas, this is a treat. thankyou
This video is pure gold. And I learned a few things.
Always a pleasure. Come to the Berkshires, MA.
God this episode saved my day! I am now headed back out to the field to pull more non native honeysuckle ❤!!!
you and joey make a great, funny, an informative duo
thank you! I really enjoy goofing around and sharing it with folks!
Amazing episode I love you two bouncing off each other with witty quips and the deep and meaningful convos and the bit of sillyness at the end
Keep up the good work homies
Never been so homesick❤
Thanks for this, from Denver🍀🌿
Rhamnus cathartica fruit gives most native birds diarrhea and doesnt provide much food value, while the wild paht at least makes quality birdseed. This vid is really bringing back memories, when i was younger I lived close to a railroad and a river and spent a lot of time hiking and exploring along them, as well as exploring many abandoned farm sites
turtle takeover??? as a yute- 🤣🤣🤣🤣 and the mere mention of running around on a golf course naked gives me flashbacks to high school...love yous guys!!!
I love just how fast you guys can come up with gold comedy, yet I still feel like I'm learning something! Also ramps are so tasty!!! I wish we got them here in CO!
a delicious and beguiling spring ephemeral!
Ah the treasures you walk into at the Garfield Park Conservatory! I’ve got a century plant that I got as a cutting in their shop years ago, and it keeps going.
LOVE this channel- my accent can get dat heavy if I let it. ❤
Loved how you guys went looking for cannabis on the railway. 23:55 I did notice what looked like some couple of day old seedlings when you did the close up, but some other plants can also look a bit similar.
it can be tricky with wee baby plants
It’s amazing how well the education mixes with the humor. Great channel.
I love these urban adventures. Thanks.
ask the Turtle if Creeping Charlie was introduced into North America from Europe by early settlers who thought it would be a good groundcover for shade. lol, I saw it next to the turtle, IN the GPC! lol
best chicago duo of the century
I still waiting for my Chonkasaurus hoodie to be delivered. Hurry up!
We got slammed with pre-orders! All the hoodies and t-shirts have now been printed and received. We are currently shipping orders out as quickly as possible. Thanks for your patience!
@@overbythere i received it - it rocks!! Thank you!
Al Scorch, legend of Chicago. Thanks for the inside scoop, pal.
came for the botany, stayed for the brick tips
I do like a good fern garden with some mosses, even if its just a little terrarium with a lid on the top.
Don't get the seasonal disorder down here in Fumblebuckistralia, you get hot and not hot, sometimes it rains every once in a while if you're lucky.
Always wanted to go to Garfield. Thank you!💖🌿☘🌲🌳
Always happy to see a Welwitchia even one so far from home.
Taking inspiration from you I gathered various tree seeds while visiting the Mayan ruins at Uxmal in Progreso MX. Interested to see what develops.
❤ Cottonwoods. My local native is the black cottonwood, which a beaver can take down and then it will resprout in like three new places. I even saw a fallen tree resprout from the branch armpits in two places where it touched the ground. And they atrract the coolest insects, like the American hornet moth. Apparently the bark has salicylates too which get bioaccumulated in beavers' musk gland tissue? And then people would like cut those out of the beaver to use as medicine in the fur trapping days, which is pretty effed up, like I don't even want to know how they figured that one out but apparently that was a thing. A literal ass potion if ever there was one.
finally some uncensored full fern action🥵
Thanks for helping open the graj door of de maind
This video is the most succinct study in dualism i've ever seen
I love this channel. I’m a plant enthusiast, I’ve lived in Chicago my whole life, and I also enjoy finding ditch weed growing in various places around the city. But, you don’t really want to smoke it. All you get is a little barely noticeable buzz followed by a much more noticeable headache.
He has videos on the Chicago ditchweed, this is special real deal Chicago PAHT
@@sagetmaster4 paaaaaahhhttt
Your voice makes me miss Chicago. 🌿
Nice to hear the trout lily mentioned. I'm out east and theres a small patch of them someone ropes off every year near a vernal pool for a few months to allow them to do their thing
Tony! Come to the Northeast US sometime to give us your notes!
27:06 Al tearing open poorly healed emotional scarring and forcing me to question my life choices.
Oh wow! hell yeah, R.I.Power King ORFN!! ❤️🔥🤘 Soooo many cuddy presto tags in SF. Among other legendary works 🙏 big respect
This is so good. You and Al have great chemistry
Really love your stuff man. Saw some of these a few years back when I first started getting into native plants and it all made sense. Great work.
ABsolutely thrilled with the content from the MIDSWEST region of the USA, so much more relatable and I love applying your knowledge thank you so much!
I appreciated the discussion of efflorescence. I spent a few days last year trying to figure out whether some efflorescence on a concrete wall was a fungal growth of some kind, only to figure out what it actually was. :)
lots of moisture transfer up here in the midwest, lots of varied climate conditions through out the year
the wild paht where i live (southern MN) comes up as soon as the soil thaws and we have a few days over 50f. they are quite freeze tolerant.
Thank you for doing these videos. Y'all are a glorious breath of fresh air.
making me proud to be a chicago native
civic pride is one of my constant aims
Thanks, Guys........that was beauty-full.
I'd love to see you on the "Well There's Your Problem" Podcast to talk some Botanical disasters. Feels like a good fit.
The Far red light that makes it through all that buckthorn canopy really puts a damper on germination as well.
I love you guys... don't stop.
couldnt if we tried!
Pluck it man! With "nature's comin' back" [to Chicago] you made me cry.
Getting (already got) old and sentimental.
Twicker vibez luv it 😂