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Oct 12, 2026

Brayden CarlsonHOST
52:32
[laughs] We, we just have to find the most, like, uh, middle of nowhere, like, horrible golf course.
Brayden CarlsonHOST
52:43
Dude, the one out by Farr, California City.
Brayden CarlsonHOST
52:46
Oh my God, yeah, that could be a good contender.
Brayden CarlsonHOST
52:49
Um- Yeah ...
Anthony VictoriaCORRESPONDENT
0:51
The purchase is part of a larger pattern.
Anthony VictoriaCORRESPONDENT
0:53
Earlier this summer, DHS bought detention centers in Otay Mesa and California City from another private prison contractor, CoreCivic.
Anthony VictoriaCORRESPONDENT
1:00
Combined, the feds have spent more than two billion dollars on these facilities.
Anthony VictoriaCORRESPONDENT
1:05
DHS said in a statement that ICE has forty-five billion dollars to expand detention space under President Trump's budget bill.
Anthony VictoriaCORRESPONDENT
10:59
The purchase is part of a larger pattern.
Anthony VictoriaCORRESPONDENT
11:01
Earlier this summer, DHS bought detention centers in Otay Mesa and California City from another private prison contractor, CoreCivic.
Anthony VictoriaCORRESPONDENT
11:09
Combined, the feds have spent more than $2 billion on these facilities.
Anthony VictoriaCORRESPONDENT
11:13
DHS said in a statement that ICE has $45 billion to expand detention space under President Trump's budget bill.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
9:55
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.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
10:19
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.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
10:37
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.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
10:51
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.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
9:55
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.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
10:19
I met this sort of mystical woman who sees the Virgin Mary in the desert of California City every first Thursday of the month.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
10:29
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.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
10:37
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.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
34:41
knowing when the flooding season would happen and retreating up in the mountains and having a more natural approach to the cycles of life.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
34:50
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.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
35:02
And there's hundreds of people that gather in this middle of nowhere in the Virgin Mary.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
35:10
And, you know, she's a woman who walked from Mexico to the United States.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
9:55
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.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
10:19
I met this sort of mystical woman who sees the Virgin Mary in the desert of California City every first Thursday of the month.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
10:29
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.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
10:37
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.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
34:41
knowing when the flooding season would happen and retreating up in the mountains and having a more natural approach to the cycles of life.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
34:50
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.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
35:02
And there's hundreds of people that gather in this middle of nowhere in the Virgin Mary.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
35:10
And, you know, she's a woman who walked from Mexico to the United States.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
34:26
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.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
34:50
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.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
35:10
And, you know, she's a woman who walked from Mexico to the United States.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
35:16
She was illiterate.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
34:41
knowing when the flooding season would happen and retreating up in the mountains and having a more natural approach to the cycles of life.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
34:50
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.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
35:02
And there's hundreds of people that gather in this middle of nowhere in the Virgin Mary.
Chiara BarziniGUEST
35:10
And, you know, she's a woman who walked from Mexico to the United States.

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