Nowhere

In this episode we discuss recent events like the Bitcoin conference in Vegas attended by JD Vance, the SEC cases dropped on different crypto people and the open season of financial crime in the US, the United Arab Emirates welcoming Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto company and using it to pass 2 billion dollars through.

Also: the Big Busty Bill and how it redistributes wealth to the rich while furthering the authoritarian reach of the government and their ability to control detention centers within our borders. We end with clips from an interview with Peter Theil, co-founder of Palantir, the first and largest military tech company that uses AI and data harvesting as surveillance and has been aiding ICE as well as the IDF in Gaza. He speaks on this and Armageddon, while also not being sure if he even wants the human race to endure. We further this discussion and talk a bit about Theil’s other talks he has given on the Anti-Christ as well as the wider eschatological views of Silicon Valley and powerful religious politicians, including the “Armageddon Lobby” that has supported the state of Israel because it is needed for the final battle of Armageddon, and a cow ranch in Texas that is trying to create the perfect red heifer for a ritual to fulfill a biblical prophecy of the end times.

Peter Theil Interview

https://www.wired.com/story/as-trumps-family-crypto-business-gains-steam-ethical-concerns-mount/

Article by Emile P Torres: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-endgame-of-edgelord-eschatology/

New theme song is by me using an assortment of free sounds/music

Welcome to Season 2!

This episode starts off with a background on the ideologies of the far-right tech elite that have gained more and more power in our country, acting out decade’s long plans such as the “Network State.”

Joe Lonsdale co-founded Palantir, the Silicon Valley tech company that has countless contracts with the US military and recently used AI to help the IDF automate genocide in Gaza. Lonsdale’s Cicero Institute has affected legislation across America, including the Supreme Court Grant’s Pass decision that removed constitutional protections of homeless people under cruel and unusual punishment. They offer law-makers a cut-and-paste template that takes funding away from housing first initiatives that are shown to work. Cicero-backed laws passed in Kentucky make it easier to involuntarily commit people, as well as extending “Stand your Ground” laws of firearm self-defense to cover people living in homeless camps, which could allow citizens to shoot people experiencing homelessness. Lonsdale’s 8VC firm has investments in private prisons and his Cicero Institute has advocated legislation that allows new private prisons to be built and empowers governors to bypass elected Attorney Generals and appoint their own “Special Prosecutors” to fight “public lawlessness.”

First article talked about (not vox): Groups Confront Billionaire’s Institute Pushing Laws Criminalizing Homeless

2nd Article: Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless

In this episode I interview Nicole, who was in foster care and became homeless at a young age. She was homeless in my local city Springfield, as well as a period of time where she traveled to Memphis and eventually made it back to Illinois. She talks about her struggles with addiction and the services that helped her in Springfield as a young mother, and how she was able to get through nursing school while in transitional housing with her son. We also discussed the stigma of homelessness, camping bans, and how community-based action is needed to help address the issue at hand.

Nicole is co-host of the podcast Sunken Press, a podcast based in Alton that has had a focus on local issues including homelessness.

In this episode I speak with Colleen, who was Donny's fiance and lived with him on the street up to the night when he passed away from freezing temperatures. They were together for 12 years. We talk about how she is doing now, how rough it is trying to survive during the winter, and how she met Donny. We both discuss that there needs to be more done in the wintertime to ensure people have what they need to survive.

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Donny tragically passed away from hypothermia a couple days before receiving housing and getting off the street. This episode revisits some clips from his interviews, and I interview Pastor Steve from the Washington St. Mission, the religious non-profit through which Donny was connected with a case worker that linked him with housing. Pastor Steve performed a memorial service for him, as he does for many others in the community. We talk about other recent deaths and the difficulty of navigating those as part of his job, his interactions with Donny, and more. Listen to the episode titled "Donny" first for his full story from his point of view.

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In this episode I cover the surge of homeless sweeps since the Supreme Court Decision that removed constitutional protection from being criminalized for being homeless. I talk about several different investigations that cover the multimillion-dollar private industry around sweeps in CA and also the deplorable conditions of shelters as well as the aggressive sweeps that even jail people for being homeless. It ends with an interview with the editor of The Challenger Street Newspaper in Austin, TX, and we talk about the importance of building community.

Stop the Sweeps Flyer from itsgoingdown.org

https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2024/04/16/swept-homeless-sweeps/ Article covering millions in private contracts to carry out sweeps

Atlanta City council votes moratorium on sweeps after Cornelius Taylor is killed in a sweep

Studies on ineffectiveness of sweeps

Studies about sweeps causing more overdoses and death

https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/02/california-homeless-shelters-purgatory/ Investigation into California Homeless Shelters

https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/02/california-homeless-encampment-sweeps/ Investigation into Sweeps in CA

https://projects.propublica.org/homeless-encampment-sweeps-taken-belongings/ Propublica project "Swept Away" documents items lost

This episode is about me, my struggles with searching for "freedom," and becoming lost along the way in addiction and relationships. It's essentially a summary of the defining moments of my life leading up to the time I finally left home and society behind for Slab City. This kicked off a 3-year journey of homeless wandering via hitchhiking and living out of different vehicles that would take me all over America, through every state but Utah, and briefly into Canada and Mexico. It's about why I chose to leave behind a life of relative stability for the unknown. Why I chose to live Nowhere.

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In this episode I interview Pepper, who has traveled via freight-train, hitchhiking, vehicle, and bicycle off and on for the last 17 years. He was passing through my town, traveling by bicycle from Wisconsin down to St. Louis. He has struggled with heroin addiction since his early teens, and he shares with brutal honesty about his struggles in the past and recently. He also talks about the trauma that comes from living in and around hard drug use, and about a shooting he was witness to that killed two people and injured one and was reported on globally due to the political implications. He's been based out of Homer, Alaska over the past two years and has spent the past summer (and others) fishing on different vessels.

Music used is by Luke Otwell (Luke Henry on spotify).

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CW: Addiction, Suicide, Childhood Trauma

This episode consists of a series of interviews with Donny, a man from my local community who has been experiencing homelessness over the past six years. He was a union electrician foreman who was injured twice while working on laying fiber optic along a railroad right-of-way, his second injury put him out of work for good. This was the early 2000's, and his doctor prescribed him three 80mg oxycontin daily, the drug pushed by Purdue Pharma that is considered responsible for kicking off the opioid epidemic in the US. We talk about how the medication led to heroin, prison, and homelessness.

All music is by Luke Otwell (Luke Henry on spotify)

Theo is part of a traveling subculture whose way of life is traveling. Living and sleeping outside and traveling with little to no money. I talk to him about he got started traveling, and what the last 4 years of his life on the road has been like. He longboarded hundreds of miles around the US, as well as hopping freight trains. One of those freight train rides was almost his last.

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Music by Luke Otwell (Luke Henry on Spotify)