through the eyes of its homeless survivor and sleuth dickie cornish professor chamber joins us now to discuss his new book. thank you, chris. always a pleasure. ray. thank you. so of course i got to start right out the gate. what was the inspiration for this new book that you, you know, what got you to sit down and say, you know what, i need to write this story about washington d.c. and this, and this homeless man living in it and the adventure that he embarks on it worths, i mean, i did my spiritual, creative godfather with george writing about it about the when the curtain on real need for, a long time and now he's going to show runner movie producer for h.b.o., you know, the wire, etc. and i wanted to do something in my also, you know, walking the streets to me to really united people like you were destroying every corner. and when you talk to them, they all have that story. and their stories are, you know, barry white, you know, it's not about failure and cruelty and a lack of character. wanted to do white to that. and that's, you know, best of the nutshell, basically because this