If you've ever wanted to see us live while we're heading back to London. That's right. Again,

we will be performing June 22nd at the Big Fat Festival at the Big Belly Comedy Club in London.

So get your tickets now. They'll be in the show notes. You can come see us like 20 other acts,

including friends of the show that we have worked with before.

Get your tickets now, and we hope to see you there.

All of this while, you know, this second secret war erupted down the DMZ, the commander

of the UN troops, the awesomely named General Charles Bone Steel the third.

Oh, hell yeah.

He knew the forces there were badly unprepared for any real action.

So he pitched the novel idea of building a physical barrier over the American sector of the DMZ to stop fighting and infiltration.

Which I know when we picture the DMZ in our heads today, we all know what it looks like.

But back then, it looked exactly what

it was, which is like a frozen front line of an ongoing war rather than a hardened border. And his

idea was approved. The government refused to give him funding for that barrier though,

because all of the funding was going to Vietnam. So he personally begged LBJ for money. And he also asked

for like captains who were leaving Vietnam after their tour to be sent to South Korea rather

than back to the US to create like, you know, give us someone who knows what they're doing. So he got

his money and the Americans are building the barrier. Dozens of US andS. and Korean soldiers are still being killed and fighting across the DMZ.

And North Korea is still playing the raid over the border.

North Korea has problems of their own, of course.

But their intelligence apparatus reached far enough into South Korea, they knew of the

struggles of the American garrison.

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