Slab City - Welcome to the Lawless Californian Town

Things I Learned Last Night

Space Tim Media

Comedy, Education, History

4.6 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What do Salvation Mountain, East Jesus, and West Satan have in common? If you guessed they're locations in a video game then you're only half right. These eclectic phrases are names of subdivisions in the infamous Californian town known as Slab City. Home to mostly squatters and vagabonds, Slab City has been hailed as the last free city in the world. Residents enjoy no modern amenities like running water or electricity. However, they relish their off-grid lifestyle in one of the strangest places left on earth. Not only is the town itself incredibly unique, but the geographic location tells a story of its own. This is the unbelievable Slab City, California.Is it the last free place on earth? Not really, but it is probably the closest city on earth to it. Slab City is an eclectic place where people who can't fit into modern society thrive. The residents love their homes and are thankful for the community that they have built there. The city may not be the prettiest in the world and it may lack much of what people in the U.S. have become accustomed to, however it offers its residents the life they've always dreamed of. For that, the locals love it.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5714661/advertisement Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey man. What's up, buddy?
0:02.5	Uh, pal. Have you ever heard of slab city?
0:06.6	Slab city. Yeah, it's a barbecue place downtown.
0:09.8	Right. Yeah, yeah, you can get big old slabs or ribs from slab city.
0:17.0	Big old slabs. I mean, that would be a
0:19.1	down to slabs to get you still some big old slabs of ribs.
0:21.8	Okay, well, that's cultural appropriation of you.
0:23.8	Because you came from Colorado.
0:25.3	That's my culture.
0:26.4	Oh, my God.
0:26.8	That's where I live here.
0:28.3	We have ribs in Colorado.
0:30.8	Yeah, but you don't talk like that.
0:33.1	We talk like that.
0:34.5	Some people and no, you don't. We say that around here. Okay.
0:37.9	Okay.
0:43.7	And so you can't just come in here and start talking like you grew up in Missouri.
0:47.5	In Missouri.
0:49.8	I was waiting for you.
0:55.0	Like you grew up going to a school where they got bring your horse to school day.
0:55.7	Oh my gosh. Like you grew up where, uh, like you grew up where you had to ask your mama if that girl was your cousin before you declared you had a crush.
1:06.8	Okay.
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