Welcome to Nowhere, where you'll hear from people who have lived on the boundaries of society, on the streets, on the road, past and present. I cover homelessness, community organizing, as well as the wider system of capitalism that has created these conditions. Nowhere is a lack of true home, as well as our address in this universe. I interview people from the perspective of my own lived experience of three years of homelessness around the US, as well as my own journey with addiction and recovery. This is a labor of love, and an effort to spread compassion and understanding for those who have survived or are currently surviving conditions of the utmost difficulty, as well as an attempt to give voice to those who have not survived. Thanks for listening, to support this podcast please subscribe, leave a review, and share with your friends and enemies.
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In this episode Austin is back, and we discuss the recent criminalization of homelessness across the nation, starting with the Grant’s Pass Supreme Court decision and the billionaire founded Cicero Institute that offered an amicus brief in the case and has introduced model legislation across the country to criminalize homelessness. We start off explaining the supreme court case and then getting into the Cicero Institute founded by Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of military tech company Palantir (with Peter Theil). We explore some of the manifestations of this criminalization around the country including the attempt to build an “accountability center” in Utah that would force labor on homeless people. We talk about local criminalization. We talk about the laws and executive order that have made it easier to commit people to institutions involuntarily. Moreover, we discuss the larger picture of why the ruling class has such a vested interest in criminalizing homelessness, also looking into the past to see how almost identical laws were introduced in the early 1700’s in New York City when it was run like a feudal kingdom. We talk more about the past and the similarities between then and now, and how capitalism continues to create the same conditions over and over. With all that we get a little off topic and philosophical towards the end, but I think it was all valuable conversation.
I’ve been incredibly busy, but I plan to keep doing more of these! I have another media project I’m working on so stay tuned for news about that.
POLICE ATTACK RESIDENTS OF HOOVERVILLE
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3 Feb 2026
Narratives of Homelessness - the good, the bad, and the ugly
Austin is back again for another episode, this time to discuss narratives around homelessness online. We get into some areas I wasn’t expecting as much but I think was good discussion, we talk some about the background of the interviews I did with Donny, what ethical storytelling might look like, as well as the narratives pushed by short-form videos online. We talk about the wider lens of it all, the idea that cities are dangerous, and how dangerous these narratives are (the federal gov using some as excuses to occupy entire cities).
It’s a wide spectrum, and we go through a few videos to break down what is there (and what isn’t). From non-consensual videos of feeding people on the street, to the inherent issues of Soft White Underbelly, to a content creator that just solicits women on the streets, it’s all bad! With a little (no pun) Joe Rogan thrown in on top. I talk about some of my experience of being gawked at and videotaped while in Slab City.
(episode picture from a YT video w 17 million views about “dangerous cities”)
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20 Jan 2026
Austin - Loss, Grief, and Remembrance
Austin was with me at the dirty kid memorial gathering in New Orleans, and he’s a friend from my days when I was still traveling. He’s a fellow ex-dirty kid, and he is currently working in the non-profit sector in Las Vegas, where he is from, and works on policy around homelessness.
Austin talked about his time in the occupy movement, grief for movements, the public grief of those slain by police, and his own personal grief for the recent loss of his father as well as friends who were fellow travelers. We talk about Grant, who Austin was also friends with, and how to remember him. We talk about the different ways we mourn people, how we come together to mourn others, especially those living on the street. We both talk about losing people close to you and not having the space or time or ability to mourn them, when survival of one form or another takes the main slot, and how addiction can play into that. We talk about processing death and needing to have humor, and the necessity of having hope for the future.
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