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.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

Good evening.

Tonight the show begins in Ukraine.

Conversation with Colonel Jeff McCausen about the $61 billion package approved by Congress to go immediately to Ukraine.

Lots of fancy weapons in at long-range,

attackhams, High Mars.

However, it occurred to me, as Jeff and I were talking,

that this is that scene, Gregory Peck, Porkchap Hill, when it's a test of wills between the

negotiators at Pan-Munjan.

Will the U.S. reinforce?

Will the Chinese continue to attack in waves with the bugle blowing?

It comes down to what's left of a company inside a bunker

building the windows at the openings as best they can because the Chinese communist horde, the waves,

are using a flame throwerrower, and all is lost until, of course, riding to the rescue.

The Allies decide to reinforce. No longer a proving ground. Well that's what this last

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