Introducing: The Last Resort

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The Last Resort explores big, crazy, dangerous ideas – ideas that no one took seriously, but which may now be our best options. What would actually happen if we put these ideas into practice? In season one, we ask: what if California seceded from the United States? To do so, we follow the rise and messy fall of Yes! California, the state’s most prominent independence movement. The Last Resort is a timely exploration of political polarization in America, at a time when many Americans feel anxious about the future and don’t understand – at all – the people on the other side of the aisle. With the mid-term elections looming, and actual sitting members of Congress calling for a “national divorce,” we indulge the fantasy of escaping it all. Could we just wipe the slate clean and start over? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-last-resort/id1644754112 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What if it did what would happen? The last resort is a new documentary
0:07.8	podcast about the rise, fall and rebirth of Cal exit, The campaign for Californian independence.
0:14.3	Join our host Chutezka as the story unfolds about dreaming of a new progressive
0:19.2	West Coast utopia, fighting for America's future, and ending up in the middle of a still unfolding
0:24.8	global criminal conspiracy. Binge all episodes of the last resort available now
0:30.4	on Apple Podcasts Spotify Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your
0:35.2	podcast. The Cal Exit Movement was started by Marcus and another activist Louis
0:41.7	Marinelli back in 2014. Supporters believe that Cal exit is the only way
0:47.5	Californians can live according to their values.
0:50.9	That's great that Gavin Newsom wants to enshrine it in our Constitution. But just because you put something in our Constitution does not give you any additional legal protection against decisions by the Federal Supreme Court. So that's great, you're doing that, and that will absolutely not protect us from the Supreme Court at all.
1:08.0	We have to get connected as Californians and push for Cal exit before they take away another right.
1:14.3	Because this isn't going to stop.
1:17.3	Most Americans support abortion rights, but that didn't stop the Supreme Court
1:22.0	from taking them away.
1:23.2	Maybe that's one reason why, according to a recent poll,
1:27.6	a majority of voters believe our system of government doesn't work.
1:31.2	That's created an opening for people like Marcus Ruiz Evans to
1:34.8	argue that it's time for change. Still though, Cal Exit, this is crazy talk
1:40.5	right? No state has ever seriously tried to leave the Union since the Civil War, but
1:46.3	some experts believe that this moment we're in could be different.
1:50.0	Hi, my name's Barbara Walter. I'm the Roar Chair of International Affairs at the University of California, San Diego.
1:56.0	I've studied every single Civil War that's happened since the end of World War II and there's been over 200 of them.
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