Okay, hey Kenny, how's it going?

Great, great, AJ.

Thanks for having me on your show.

I really appreciate it.

You know, your book is fascinating for me because I'm in it for a little bit and I was there when you did this whole experiment of living

semi-homeless or homeless while you were still working a professional job.

So I think the title says that all, a young homeless professional.

Why, you know, what made you decide or where did the idea come from to live as a homeless person but still having a professional job?

Okay, well when I did the experiment I was living in Georgia, but the idea actually came to me a couple years before that when I was living in working in California.

And originally I've been working in California as like a nature guide taking kids hiking and teach them about nature.

And then I got a job at a public school that was down in the city.

And so every day I was drive from my house up in the National Forest down to the city and work.

Then I would drive back home to the National Forest and I thought, why am I doing this drive so long and I'm just living up here. Why don't I just live in the woods? I don't really need to have a house. I can just kind of camp out permanently.

That's kind of how the idea happened, you know, doing that commute

because it was like a 45 minute commute from the National Forest and the mountains down into

the city out near Los Angeles and you know going from the national forest to the city was

like a transition from something I loved you know nature out to sort of a big smoggy

city and just the idea of camping out while I was working.

Why don't I just drive to the National Forest every night, camp out, get up in the morning,

drive to work.

So that's kind of how it evolved.

Nice, but you didn't actually do it at that time, right? It was just, you got the idea for it, right?

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