What if California got out of the US?

Life in the state of California is different than in the rest of the United States. At least, that’s what Marcus Ruiz-Evans thinks. The right to abortion has been demonstrated, with horror looked at the storming of the Capitol, and the fear of leasing more constitutional policy under Trump is growing. What starts when a wild idea of ​​one man soon becomes a shared wish of a group of activists: what if California would separate from the rest of the US? They started a movement: Cal Exit, with hundreds of thousands of followers soon. If the majority wants it, it must be a good idea, right? This podcast series goes along with their thought experiment: Stél, the state would become independent, what would that mean for the economy, for basic facilities, for policy? And does it increase the chance of a civil war?

The Last Resort is a narrative bird’s eye view through relevant American history; from the violent ‘discovery’ by European settlers to the in Chinatown Filmed origin of the water supply of Los Angeles. With exciting plot twists. Because: who had seen that the second man of Cal Exit may be sponsored by Russia?

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