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California City LAist Studios
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Deep in the Mojave Desert, there is a little town with a big name and a bizarre history: California City. For decades, real estate developers have sold a dream here: if you buy land now, you’ll be rich one day. Thousands of people bought this dream. Many were young couples and hard-working immigrants looking to build a better future. But much of the land they bought is nearly worthless. In this new podcast from LAist Studios, host Emily Guerin tells a story of money, power and deception.
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Imperfect Paradise presents The Forgotten Revolutionary Redux: Part 7
Part 7:
Adolfo learns about the dangers of Santa Barbara’s bluffs and gets a second opinion on Oscar’s death report.
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussions about fatal injuries and suicide.
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Imperfect Paradise presents The Forgotten Revolutionary Redux: Part 8
Part 8:
Adolfo finds new information about the night Oscar died, and has to have a difficult conversation about what really happened to Oscar.
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Imperfect Paradise presents The Forgotten Revolutionary Redux: Part 5
Part 5:
Was Oscar going to leave the Chicano student movement? Adolfo discovers new information about Oscar’s last months.
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Imperfect Paradise presents The Forgotten Revolutionary Redux: Part 6
Part 6:
Adolfo reckons with his own relationship to his past and the Chicano student movement. And he finds someone who may have clues about what happened the night Oscar died.
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Imperfect Paradise presents The Forgotten Revolutionary Redux: Part 3
Part 3:
Adolfo gets his first lead on a person possibly involved in Oscar’s death.
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Imperfect Paradise presents The Forgotten Revolutionary Redux: Part 4
Part 4:
Adolfo finds a briefcase with information that could lead to clues about Oscar’s death.
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Customer Reviews
Imperfect Paradise is Perfect
Each story from California City to the Nuri Martinez exposé is fascinating. Emily Garin is a thoughtful writer and storyteller keeping me anxiously waiting each week for the next episode to drop. Keep up the excellent work! And thanks!!
Fantastic!
California City has been a special interest of mine for a while, so when I heard about this podcast I was really hoping it would be good. It certainly was! I binged the entire thing while cleaning my house today haha.
I’m a bit suspicious of some of the low reviews. I can imagine some people in the Cal City area aren’t super happy about this series. Regardless, Im neither “liberal” nor “conservative” (those groups are super culty these days lol), Im a common sense type of person, a Christian, born and raised in Tennessee (and still live there, on my farm with my husband!). I would recommend that if you’re political sensibilities are so offended by the fairly vague comments of the journalist/host in this podcast, or if you are offended by the general idea that someone has different political views than you do: go touch some grass. Spend some time offline, and spend some time not talking about politics for a while. Seriously. You’re in a cult.
My home town
You have no idea the stories and things that go on in this town. Honestly. This place has always been something else and sure is not short of crazy stories and bad things. Not all bad… i guess. Its cool to hear these podcasts about the city i was raised in and still live in. Info i havent heard before. Honestly i didnt think anyone (outside of this town) even knew about cal city till the boys disappearing went national.