California City
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Search complete. 33 mentions across 27 episodes found for "California City".
Oct 12, 2026
A New TV Show About Competition Rocketry? | Episode 162
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52:32Brayden CarlsonHOST
[laughs] We, we just have to find the most, like, uh, middle of nowhere, like, horrible golf course.
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52:43Brayden CarlsonHOST
Dude, the one out by Farr, California City.
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52:46Brayden CarlsonHOST
Oh my God, yeah, that could be a good contender.
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52:49Brayden CarlsonHOST
Um- Yeah ...
Fallen Servicemember Finally Laid to Rest in Central Valley Hometown
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0:51Anthony VictoriaCORRESPONDENT
The purchase is part of a larger pattern.
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0:53Anthony VictoriaCORRESPONDENT
Earlier this summer, DHS bought detention centers in Otay Mesa and California City from another private prison contractor, CoreCivic.
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1:00Anthony VictoriaCORRESPONDENT
Combined, the feds have spent more than two billion dollars on these facilities.
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1:05Anthony VictoriaCORRESPONDENT
DHS said in a statement that ICE has forty-five billion dollars to expand detention space under President Trump's budget bill.
Meet the Chefs Going All-Electric, and a Funeral for a Missing Airman
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10:59Anthony VictoriaCORRESPONDENT
The purchase is part of a larger pattern.
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11:01Anthony VictoriaCORRESPONDENT
Earlier this summer, DHS bought detention centers in Otay Mesa and California City from another private prison contractor, CoreCivic.
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11:09Anthony VictoriaCORRESPONDENT
Combined, the feds have spent more than $2 billion on these facilities.
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11:13Anthony VictoriaCORRESPONDENT
DHS said in a statement that ICE has $45 billion to expand detention space under President Trump's budget bill.
Los Angeles, Lost Dreams, Illusions & the End of Empire - A Road Trip w/ CHIARA BARZINI - Highlights
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9:55Chiara BarziniGUEST
And of course, the natives that lived, for example, on the shores of the ancient incarnation of the Salton Sea were really smart at taking advantage of what was happening in the lake in the seasons when the lake was accessible, knowing when the flooding season would happen and retreating up in the mountains, and having a more natural approach to the cycles of life.
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10:19Chiara BarziniGUEST
I met this sort of mystical woman who sees the Virgin Mary in the desert of California City every first Thursday of the month, and there's hundreds of people that gather in this middle of nowhere in the desert to listen to her conversations with the Virgin Mary.
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10:37Chiara BarziniGUEST
So I feel like in these strange desert places, people just have a way of being in touch with the scarier parts about the cycles, the brushing with death and feeling the whisper of death on your neck.
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10:51Chiara BarziniGUEST
But somehow the desert makes it more manageable, the desert or nature or whatever it is that's bringing you back to that sense of this is part of life.
Los Angeles, Lost Dreams, Illusions & the End of Empire - A Road Trip w/ CHIARA BARZINI - Highlights
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9:55Chiara BarziniGUEST
And of course, the natives that lived, for were really smart at taking advantage of what was happening in the lake in the seasons when the lake was accessible, knowing when the flooding season would happen and retreating up in the mountains and having a more natural approach to the cycles of life.
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10:19Chiara BarziniGUEST
I met this sort of mystical woman who sees the Virgin Mary in the desert of California City every first Thursday of the month.
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10:29Chiara BarziniGUEST
And there's hundreds of people that gather in this middle of nowhere in the desert to listen to her conversations with the Virgin Mary.
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10:37Chiara BarziniGUEST
So I feel like in these strange desert places, people just have a way of being in touch with the scarier parts about the cycles.
AQUA: A Story of Water & Lost Dreams w/ Author, Screenwriter CHIARA BARZINI
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34:41Chiara BarziniGUEST
knowing when the flooding season would happen and retreating up in the mountains and having a more natural approach to the cycles of life.
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34:50Chiara BarziniGUEST
And a lot of the people I met along this trip, I met this sort of mystical woman who sees the Virgin Mary in the desert of California City every first Thursday of the month.
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35:02Chiara BarziniGUEST
And there's hundreds of people that gather in this middle of nowhere in the Virgin Mary.
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35:10Chiara BarziniGUEST
And, you know, she's a woman who walked from Mexico to the United States.
Writing the Ruins: Los Angeles, Lost Dreams & the End of Empire - A Road Trip w/ CHIARA BARZINI

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9:55Chiara BarziniGUEST
And of course, the natives that lived, for were really smart at taking advantage of what was happening in the lake in the seasons when the lake was accessible, knowing when the flooding season would happen and retreating up in the mountains and having a more natural approach to the cycles of life.
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10:19Chiara BarziniGUEST
I met this sort of mystical woman who sees the Virgin Mary in the desert of California City every first Thursday of the month.
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10:29Chiara BarziniGUEST
And there's hundreds of people that gather in this middle of nowhere in the desert to listen to her conversations with the Virgin Mary.
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10:37Chiara BarziniGUEST
So I feel like in these strange desert places, people just have a way of being in touch with the scarier parts about the cycles.
AQUA: A Story of Water & Lost Dreams w/ Author, Screenwriter CHIARA BARZINI

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34:41Chiara BarziniGUEST
knowing when the flooding season would happen and retreating up in the mountains and having a more natural approach to the cycles of life.
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34:50Chiara BarziniGUEST
And a lot of the people I met along this trip, I met this sort of mystical woman who sees the Virgin Mary in the desert of California City every first Thursday of the month.
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35:02Chiara BarziniGUEST
And there's hundreds of people that gather in this middle of nowhere in the Virgin Mary.
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35:10Chiara BarziniGUEST
And, you know, she's a woman who walked from Mexico to the United States.
AQUA: A Story of Water & Lost Dreams w/ Author, Screenwriter CHIARA BARZINI
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34:26Chiara BarziniGUEST
And of course, the natives that lived, for example, on the shores of the ancient incarnation of the Salton Sea were really smart at taking advantage of what was happening in the lake in the seasons when the lake was accessible, knowing when the flooding season would happen, and retreating up in the mountains, and having a more natural approach to the cycles of life.
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34:50Chiara BarziniGUEST
And a lot of the people I met along this trip, I met this sort of mystical woman who sees the Virgin Mary in the desert of California City every first Thursday of the month, and there's hundreds of people that gather in this middle of nowhere in the desert to listen to her conversations with the Virgin Mary.
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35:10Chiara BarziniGUEST
And, you know, she's a woman who walked from Mexico to the United States.
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35:16Chiara BarziniGUEST
She was illiterate.
AQUA: A Story of Water & Lost Dreams w/ Author, Screenwriter CHIARA BARZINI
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34:41Chiara BarziniGUEST
knowing when the flooding season would happen and retreating up in the mountains and having a more natural approach to the cycles of life.
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34:50Chiara BarziniGUEST
And a lot of the people I met along this trip, I met this sort of mystical woman who sees the Virgin Mary in the desert of California City every first Thursday of the month.
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35:02Chiara BarziniGUEST
And there's hundreds of people that gather in this middle of nowhere in the Virgin Mary.
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35:10Chiara BarziniGUEST
And, you know, she's a woman who walked from Mexico to the United States.
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