Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

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Good evening. Tonight the show begins with smiling, laughter. Charlie

Chapter versus America. A new book by Scott Eamon. I enjoyed a great deal learning about Chaplin behind the scenes, a genius

performer, The Little Tramp, the Great dictator, a pinnacle of the 20th century cinematic art, because it combined

laughter, mockery, and the worst history of the 20th century, all in one film.

Today, viewing it, you see how they saw what was going to happen and they couldn't stop it. Is that a

lesson? I don't know. The great dictator, 1940. What happened after that is

even stranger. Charlie Chaplin was driven, tricked, isolated, rejected, blocked from returning

to America after a trip to Europe. Why? There is no good reason. Paranoia of the era

we call McCarthy, the Reds Under the Beds. A complete concoction of nonsense, identifying him as a security risk, total nonsense.

It's embarrassing now to see the gears of government work so badly under Truman, under Eisenhower, and continuing.

He went in exile in Switzerland and regretted profoundly. It's a wonderful story. Charlie Chaplin versus America. And then a

conversation about dogs because this book is a dogs world. It's a wonderful telling of what the planet would be like if the humans were gone.

What was especially important for me to do to put this book up is because of the

unacceptable story of a governor of the state of South Dakota talking about shooting a puppy.

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