Nowhere

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 h...

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 a...

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...

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 hi...

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. Support this s...

Welcome to the podcast Nowhere, featuring interviews with people living on the fringes of society, on the road, and those currently homeless, living nowhere. I'm the host Keegan Otwell and I was homeless all over the USA, traveling for three years. You'll hear a little about that, but I'll also be exploring the fringes of the human condition, our spectrum of beliefs, and places where science greet...