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Introducing Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto

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Pod Save America

News, Politics

4.587.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Chapter 1: Bug’s Plan. It’s 2014. Adelanto is a bankrupt city in the California desert known for its massive detention centers and not much else. Then, a stranger comes to town with a wild idea to make Adelanto great again: Become the first city in Southern California to legalize commercial weed cultivation. Subscribe to Dreamtown to hear episode two right now, wherever you get your podcasts.

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Hey everyone, we're so excited to introduce Krikas' newest limited series, Dream Town,

0:04.8

the story of Adelanto.

0:06.6

Dream Town is the zany true story of a down on its lektown in California's high desert,

0:11.6

and the scrappy, sometimes morally dubious cast of characters determined to reinvent it.

0:16.6

In 2014, the city of Adelanto was so broke, there was talk of dissolving it completely.

0:21.3

Then, a stranger came to town with a wild idea to make Adelanto great again.

0:25.9

Weed.

0:26.9

And it worked for a while until spectacularly, it didn't.

0:31.1

This is great.

0:32.1

It's hosted by David Weinberg, very talented journalist, hosted the award-winning pod,

0:35.3

the superhero complex.

0:36.8

It's an official Tribeca selection, and it's another great limited series from Krikit,

0:41.7

if you loved Mother Country Radical, you'll love this one.

0:44.7

It's fantastic.

0:46.0

And we just wanted to share this first episode of Dream Town with you here in the Paziv

0:50.9

America feed.

0:51.9

If you like it, you can subscribe to Dream Town right now to hear episode two and new episodes

0:56.3

each week wherever you get your podcasts.

0:58.3

In the beginning, all this was underwater.

1:09.9

Then, about a hundred million years ago, the water receded, and these 56 square miles of

1:17.8

desert land appeared.

1:22.1

Many humans appeared to a Native American tribe called the Vanu.

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