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North Korea bans everyday things most of us never think twice about — the global internet, smiling on certain days, foreign TV, driving, leaving the country, skinny jeans, international calls, choosing your own job, haircut styles, and even criticizing the government. In this episode we break down all 10 and debate which restriction would hit the hardest.
We go through the list one by one, react to how extreme some of these rules really are, and talk about the human cost. Live chat even jumped in with extra details while we recorded.
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0:022 secondswelcome to the worst of the best podcast you wanted the best well they didn't freaking make
0:1010 secondsit so here's what you get from Canada Ryan and Jason
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0:3737 secondsall right welcome to another episode of the worst the best podcast I'm your host Ryan and with me today is my brother
0:4444 secondsJason as almost always Jason how you doing I'm doing good brother how excited are you uh to talk about North
0:5252 secondsKorea I'm always excited to talk about North Korea for the record uh this is going out over um like Des scr
1:001 minuteinternet I've got what do you call those things a VPN so when this goes out the North Korean government won't
1:081 minute, 8 secondscome after our Channel we should have changed like our identities and voices just to be careful well I changed my background they're going looking for me
1:151 minute, 15 secondsin a like a Brick Warehouse somewhere but little do they know I'm I'm not that well yeah well look at you like my new grand piano that I bought what do you
1:241 minute, 24 secondsthink of that it's a pretty nice uh home actually yeah oh yeah thank you yeah it's good to be your so obviously the podcast is going well for you yeah
1:331 minute, 33 secondsactually did you hear all that because I actually have my M microphone muted let me just make sure I have the right microphone set up one sec I I can hear you oh it's the wrong mic let me there
1:401 minute, 40 secondswe go how's that mic is that better oh yeah okay all right I had the web camic so all right anyway so my apologies
1:481 minute, 48 secondsthere folks this is the proper mic this is the worst of the best podcast I your host Ryan and with me today is my brother Jason yes we are very excited to
1:571 minute, 57 secondstalk about North Korea and some of the uh things they can't do in North Korea now I admit I'm very naive or not
2:042 minutes, 4 secondsknowledgeable in everything regarding North Korea it's just amazing to me that this place exists I think it's it's almost like the anti- Disneyland of the
2:122 minutes, 12 secondsworld yeah I mean it's such a throwback way of thinking it almost doesn't seem like it's real this is actually how it
2:212 minutes, 21 secondsit is it's a real place unfortunately what we're going to do today folks is we're going to talk about things that I would I would imagine the majority of
2:282 minutes, 28 secondsthe people listening to this podcast have these things in their life so we're going to go through a list of 10 things that are completely normal in
2:352 minutes, 35 secondsyour listeners and ours everyday life like things that we take for granted things that we just have that North Korea doesn't have some of these things
2:442 minutes, 44 secondsI didn't even consider there were such basic rights that you and I enjoy it didn't even occur to me that there's people in the world who don't have these
2:522 minutes, 52 secondsthings things that we just take for granted and and kind of breaks your heart a little bit for these humans these are actual you know fellow humans that live here it's it's basically a
3:003 minutescountry that's a prison so as you know Jason North Korea is the most closed off and secretive country in the world but
3:083 minutes, 8 secondswe do know a little bit about it so we're going to share some of those things today it's obviously a different country than the rest of the world the
3:153 minutes, 15 secondscitizens obey peculiar laws we're going to talk about some of those laws that they have to obey and let's just say the
3:233 minutes, 23 secondsDisobedience of said laws is pretty extreme my question is is do they know that they are following peculiar laws
3:333 minutes, 33 secondshow aware is the average citizen going oh I can't do this but the rest of the world typically can part of
3:423 minutes, 42 secondsthese laws are designed to keep them in the dark literally but do they know that oh they the government thinks that I'm
3:503 minutes, 50 secondsin the dark about this wasn't there a movie room movie called room where the
3:573 minutes, 57 secondschild was born into like a room I seen it Bri Bri lson so it's a movie I'd like
4:054 minutes, 5 secondsto see I just haven't had a chance to see it yet but that would be North Korea in the sense that they're in this room or in this country and you don't know
4:124 minutes, 12 secondswhat you're in until you're told that you're in it right that you're in a fishbowl until you're told that you're in fishable what's that Jim car The Truman Show almost in a certain way like
4:204 minutes, 20 secondsyour whole life is manipulated you don't know it's manipulated until you find out that your life is manipulated but I'm not sure if you could even understand if
4:304 minutes, 30 secondsthat was uncovered to you that oh the rest of the world has access to this how would you even understand what that
4:384 minutes, 38 secondswould be well some of the things that we're going to go over will discuss a little bit of that of course as you know people obviously discovered that they are in The Truman Show or they are in a
4:464 minutes, 46 secondsroom so to speak and right Escape attempts have been made so there is some sort of knowledge and there's underground I would assume there's underground detractors of course and
4:554 minutes, 55 secondsfacilitators to get out of the country so information is getting to the people it's just like if you're in a jail you might be stuck in a jail cell but you're aware that there is a world
5:035 minutes, 3 secondsoutside the jail cell that these unfortunate citizens of North Korea though they're born into the prison that's the problem is they've never experienced the world they're already
5:115 minutes, 11 secondssentenced to prison the day they're born hey Paul welcome to the show happy Saturday as to you as well okay so Jason you've got the first one why don't you
5:205 minutes, 20 secondsgo over this one well when I was looking at the list I actually did a double take on some of these I'm like is this really
5:275 minutes, 27 secondspart of the list or is this an ad you know how they have all the ads I was like what so the first one is using the
5:365 minutes, 36 secondsinternet is this the beginning of the list I mean I guess I kind of knew that they might have lack of access or their
5:435 minutes, 43 secondsaccess would be limited yeah could you imagine right now living in a world where you don't have access to the
5:515 minutes, 51 secondsinternet well there was a time that you and I lived that world and it's almost hard to remember what it was like I even had my son the other day asked or say to
5:585 minutes, 58 secondsme my oldest son goes how did you do anything without the internet and it's like we did like the world did but it is weird to think there was a time that you
6:056 minutes, 5 secondsknow from Airlines to travel business communication is it was all done on paper and phone calls at some point hey
6:136 minutes, 13 secondsuh let's learn about uh the country New Zealand okay grab out the 10-year-old encyclopedia that's completely
6:226 minutes, 22 secondsbranica yeah completely outdated but that's the best we got so that's that information is accurate basically Google
6:306 minutes, 30 secondsused to be a book about five or six or 10 years behind it was yeah it was always behind because it was extremely expensive as you can imagine to buy
6:386 minutes, 38 secondsthese yearly encyclopedia britanicas so would basically would update the world via a book yeah it's against the law to use
6:476 minutes, 47 secondsthe global so this is maybe a slight difference the global internet so the internet that they would have North Korea is uh run by the government put on
6:576 minutes, 57 secondsgovernment protocols and restrictions government will be using the internet to relay information that the government
7:047 minutes, 4 secondswants you to know and everything else is completely uh restricted some information here live from Paul who's
7:117 minutes, 11 secondswatching us on YouTube thanks Paul he says that internet proxy filters and trackers a North oh actually I forgot yeah this is a new feature we have so
7:197 minutes, 19 secondswelcome everyone who's on our live stream this I bought re uh What's this called again streamyard so Jason and I are trying this out it's it's a fun little new way of showing our show so
7:287 minutes, 28 secondshere you go Jay you can see the see the comments cool yeah so internet proxy filters and trackers on in North Korea
7:367 minutes, 36 secondscontrols what can be searched and you get reported for searching banned subjects like such as how do I get out of North
7:437 minutes, 43 secondsKorea oh man that's great information thanks Paul so basically they they do have quote unquote they would have instant messaging or emails like of
7:527 minutes, 52 secondscourse the government in in North Korea would have the internet like ways of communicating and ways of sharing and even maybe I don't know if social media
8:018 minutes, 1 secondis a thing there but the idea is they can communicate via internet technology but nobody from North Korea for example is watching our show legally anyway they
8:108 minutes, 10 secondseven have restrictions on their phones even their phones that I suspect cellphones are restricted it'd be
8:198 minutes, 19 secondsinteresting to see does um iPhone or Samsung sell their phones to North Korea and then allow their phones to be
8:288 minutes, 28 secondscompletely dummied down in order to make the sales in a country that's completely authoritarian in this way like do they have iPhones or does
8:368 minutes, 36 secondsNorth Korea make their own phones like I I don't know how that would work good question yeah does North Korea have the iPhone they probably the iPhone 4 they have
8:448 minutes, 44 secondsiPods Yeah so basically controlled internet no I mean it's yeah absolute control yeah and that and that would be
8:518 minutes, 51 secondsthe biggest one oh if you're new to our show we just want to say welcome to the worst of best podcast what we do is we curate a list of things that are the best of and these are the the best
8:598 minutes, 59 secondsthings that North Korea is banned from using at the end of the episode Jason and I independent of each other will pick what we think is the worst thing to be without so we would say what is the
9:089 minutes, 8 secondsworst thing that we would hate to not have so these are the best things they're deprived of we're going to pick the worst okay you can imagine they
9:169 minutes, 16 secondswould have to control the internet because just like you said if they didn't control the internet this list would almost be obsolete because the whole country would know everything that we know Paul says Jason that that you're
9:259 minutes, 25 secondsspoton anything sold in North Korea would be blocked and filtered so there you go but what I want to understand about that though is is it's interesting
9:329 minutes, 32 secondsthat companies will still sell their products to a country that will throttle
9:399 minutes, 39 secondsthe product money's King right yeah if North Koreans watch our our telecast want to give us like super chats or you
9:479 minutes, 47 secondsknow money via Paypal I won't stop them you know I feel bad for them but I won't stop them okay Jason this one kills me
9:559 minutes, 55 secondssmiling everyone loves to smile but what if Jason there were laws where you couldn't do it believe it or not it's against the law for North Koreans to
10:0310 minutes, 3 secondssmile on July the 8th this is the anniversary of Kim ill soon's death they can't smile on July 8th they also don't
10:1110 minutes, 11 secondssmile July 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12 this is probably the easiest law they can keep in North Korea I I can just imagine
10:1910 minutes, 19 secondseverybody like in their houses smiling feeling like they're like completely rebellious well that's just it I guarantee you that's exactly what
10:2710 minutes, 27 secondshappens because of course the Great dictator Kim ilung died July 8th they're not allowed to smile on that day so that's probably the one day they all
10:3610 minutes, 36 secondssmile the most when they can you know it's like when you're not supposed to laugh in a certain situation and you have the giggles and then the giggles are worse because it's kind of taboo
10:4310 minutes, 43 secondsthat you're not supposed to laugh right or it's just their way of giving the North Korean government the middle finger right it be inter to see who
10:5210 minutes, 52 secondsfollows that rule feeling that it's important to do or who can I'm sure there's some that are what do you call it see through the BS and go yeah so
11:0211 minutes, 2 secondsthis is what happens if you break it you could be sent in concentration camp or you can be killed the same goes for being loud drinking or having a birthday
11:1111 minutes, 11 secondsparty so whatever you do just don't smile on July 8th don't be born on July 8th or anywhere in that week I guess
11:1811 minutes, 18 secondsit's a week of mour the current leader of course Kim Jean also initiated an 11-day morning period for his late father on the 10th
11:2711 minutes, 27 secondsanniversary of his death This was done so during this time North Koreans were banned from laughing drinking and shopping or other leisure activities 11 days of morning I know I feel sad on
11:3511 minutes, 35 secondsJuly 8th I'm going to you know what in memory of Kim Il I'm going to not smile on July 8 let's make a note of that Jay can you write that down somewhere to
11:4311 minutes, 43 secondshonor our North Korean Brethren and sister that we're not going to uh smile on July 8th all right so no smiling on July 8th Jason what do you got next
11:5211 minutes, 52 secondsyou're not allowed to watch TV so watching a football game with friends curling up for a chill night watching
11:5911 minutes, 59 secondsFlix so yeah North Korea are not allowed to watch foreign television or even listening to outside radio so basically
12:0612 minutes, 6 secondsanything that would connect them to the real world outside of Korea entertainment wise is forbidden I can
12:1412 minutes, 14 secondsjust imagine how amazing the North Korean film industry is those there's like been some North Korean propaganda
12:2212 minutes, 22 secondscommercials and stuff that have made its way out west that I've seen they're quite well produced and fascinating to see there was one where it was basically
12:3012 minutes, 30 secondsshowing you how great it is to be in North Korea things are awesome here there's like a lady going around look there's shopping we get to shop and all
12:3712 minutes, 37 secondsthis have you seen this video no but I it's fairly recent look at her shopping look at her this what was that comedy
12:4312 minutes, 43 secondsmovie with Seth Rogan and James Franco they went to North Korea oh right the interview I think it's called the
12:5112 minutes, 51 secondsinterview yeah the interview so I can Envision they had the fake grocery stores that made everything look amazing
12:5912 minutes, 59 secondsdo they really believe when they made this film to show the rest of the world that everything's hunky dory North Korea do they believe they're fooling us
13:0613 minutes, 6 secondsthat's what I find so almost naive on their part okay fine create this propaganda video to show that North Korea is amazing but is anyone watching
13:1513 minutes, 15 secondsthis in the west let's say going oh okay everything is fine do they really believe do they really believe yeah
13:2213 minutes, 22 secondscould you imagine making it like what did you do today at work honey well I completely made a fictitious commercial
13:3013 minutes, 30 secondsabout how amazing our country is cuz the people making this video are living in the very again it's like being in a prison cell and you're told by the
13:3713 minutes, 37 secondswarden to make a video about how awesome it is to be in jail and when the video's done you go back to your cell do this video or get killed essentially what
13:4513 minutes, 45 secondswhat happened having said that I would like to see some of see the natural wonders of North Korea there must be like beautiful locations and is there
13:5413 minutes, 54 secondslike archaeology sites it'd be inter to see if anybody can make a video about how awesome North Korea could be or
14:0414 minutes, 4 secondsshould be if the rest of the world was able to go and enjoy a trip there sure yeah it would yeah something interesting
14:1114 minutes, 11 secondsJ about the about the TV I don't know if you caught this but it's just illegal in general to own a television or radio that even has the ability to tune into
14:2014 minutes, 20 secondsanything other than official yeah so this is what I was saying about the cell phone does Sony make TVs I see that are
14:2714 minutes, 27 secondssold I don't think you know what but then they go yeah you can you can completely throttle it we just want to sell it to people that are they probably
14:3614 minutes, 36 secondsmake their own TVs and radios I would suspect it's probably just easier for them as a country to make the very things that prohibits you from doing for
14:4414 minutes, 44 secondsthem to purchase let's say a Sony product bring it to North Korea and then go inside of it and mangle it up but I'm
14:5314 minutes, 53 secondswondering does Sony throttle it for them so they can sell it two that's duplicitous when that'd be very yes that's why that's why I'm asking I'm
15:0115 minutes, 1 secondwondering like are these companies playing along to make the buck I I don't know yeah good question Paul let us
15:0815 minutes, 8 secondsno driving now this one is not really surprising however can you believe Jason that in North Korea only allows one in
15:1615 minutes, 16 seconds100 people to own a vehicle no I can't believe that it's great for traffic yeah I would say it's good for traffic so
15:2515 minutes, 25 secondsonly one of about 100 people can own a vehicle now if you're a woman do you think North Koreans treat their women equally if you're a woman and need to
15:3215 minutes, 32 secondsget somewhere you're out of luck unless you have a male escort women are prohibited from driving entirely but they can be traffic
15:4015 minutes, 40 secondsofficers they can actually be traffic officers but they're not allowed to drive the vehicles that they uh Patrol so they can go in traffic and you know I guess this way that way but they're not
15:4815 minutes, 48 secondsallowed to drive a vehicle themselves but they can manage traffic and there was a time even that women were banned from riding bicycles around town but this was lifted so there you go things
15:5715 minutes, 57 secondsare changing they're now very Progressive very Progressive for owns to do that if the country has such
16:0416 minutes, 4 secondslimited access to Vehicles could you imagine how everything has to be organized in order for you to get
16:1216 minutes, 12 secondsgroceries go to the doctor go to work your communities everything that you do has to be within such a small
16:2016 minutes, 20 secondsgeographical area unless they have major public transportation but even still that can be inconvenient for most people
16:2716 minutes, 27 secondsI got to say less traffic on the road wouldn't be bad I wouldn't mind a stricter driving rules in in Canada as
16:3516 minutes, 35 secondslong as you're not impacted no everybody else can be restricted no I can't I don't I don't Paul brought this up in our chat again thank you Paul he says he
16:4216 minutes, 42 secondssaw a show where where journalists were taking on tour buses with handlers they were taken to fake streets with food on display yeah journalists can't arrive in
16:5116 minutes, 51 secondsor move around North Korea without government handlers no free movement with the press that includes the internet not surprising so even when people journalists are coming to
17:0017 minutesinvestigate they're basically on a leash the whole time this is where you'll go this is what you'll see go away all right J what's next we will not be
17:0817 minutes, 8 secondssurprised by this limitation leaving the country what they don't let you leave they don't let you leave that's
17:1617 minutes, 16 secondsweird what's the threat North Korea why won't you allow me to leave you can't leave any travel that is outside of the
17:2317 minutes, 23 secondscountry is government approved of course there's been some people who have escaped somehow if you're caught trying
17:3017 minutes, 30 secondsto leave you will lose your life in that process and it's a smuggling someone's going to smuggle you out you're going to
17:3717 minutes, 37 secondsbe paying a lot of money for you and the Smugglers the risk is your life and what's crazy of course is that let's say you and I were North Korea and we were
17:4617 minutes, 46 secondslike Jason let's get out of here I can't do this right now and let's say we didn't have a wife and children so it was just us but they would go after our other brothers or our parents so if you
17:5417 minutes, 54 secondsand I decide to Escape right our family will be punished our family will be punished so that's insane just think about how much Freedom we have when you
18:0318 minutes, 3 secondslook at these poor people if I decide to go to the states in a couple weeks which I am I'm actually going to a concert in a couple weeks when I crossed the border
18:1018 minutes, 10 secondsor you just went to the states to visit our brother and see some s back of course there's border crossing you know for activ legal illegal activities you
18:1718 minutes, 17 secondsfor drugs and weapons and stuff which is fine keeps the country safe that's the whole idea but the point is you traveled he went from state to state and there's
18:2518 minutes, 25 secondsno like where's Jason where did he go is he going to come back and nobody's knock on my door this is insane if you escaped and we didn't know where you were I
18:3318 minutes, 33 secondscould be killed for it congratulations you got away but now your family's killed because of it who would do that that restriction alone will will stop 90
18:4218 minutes, 42 secondsto put your family at risk like that uh would stop any idea of trying to do that you got to hand it to them they thought of everything how can we stop people
18:5118 minutes, 51 secondsfrom leaving I know kill their family or put them in a concentration camp if you leave yeah good for them it breaks my heart so there some actually there are
18:5918 minutes, 59 secondsYouTube videos just Google icape North Korea ask me anything is one that's a big one on YouTube people have escaped
19:0619 minutes, 6 secondsand they've done like q&as with these people like and so it's very interesting to to watch those and these there are videos and there there is stuff and we
19:1419 minutes, 14 secondsonly know about these things from people who have left the country of course Jay how often do you wear jeans are you a jean wearer guy uh every day I'm wearing
19:2219 minutes, 22 secondsright now actually oh wow don't let Kim know no don't let Kim know that you're wearing jeans because fashion we are as individuals you know we wear the clothes
19:3019 minutes, 30 secondsthat we wear allows us to express ourselves we have the freedom is is the freedom I know we don't think it is because we just take it for granted we
19:3819 minutes, 38 secondsget to wear whatever we want some people I wish I could tell them not to wear certain things you know we have the freedom to wear whatever we want but the North Korean president has decided that
19:4719 minutes, 47 secondsskinny jeans are out so you can't wear skinny jeans North Korea because they resemble the form of Western civilization and they are thus banned because of that if you do break this
19:5519 minutes, 55 secondsrule Jason you're taken to court where you must confess your crimes in writing that is pretty bad punishment I'd rather just talk about it than write it out o
20:0420 minutes, 4 secondsso this one isn't so bad this one's like one you could kind of get away with you go to jail you write out what you did wrong in writing but you will be
20:1220 minutes, 12 secondsreleased when someone brings you something appropriate to wear if somebody brings you sweatpants I guess your employer will also be notified hey
20:2120 minutes, 21 secondsRyan wore jeans and public skinny jeans the same goes for dyed hair and piercings they have Patrols in the city that get popular use spots to try and
20:3020 minutes, 30 secondscatch people red-handed in their crimes so that would tell me then Jason there are these Punk Rebel youth who do gather
20:3820 minutes, 38 secondslike we're saying Who Do privately gather and say F the government F this noise we're getting together they kind of makes me happy that there are people
20:4620 minutes, 46 secondsobviously that are wholly aware of their situation they gather together and that and their Rebellion is wearing skinny
20:5420 minutes, 54 secondsjeans with piercings and dying their hair and hanging out in these Ed spots so go get them used you showed them Youth Gone Wild you you got this guys you got this just don't use the internet
21:0321 minutes, 3 secondsto communicate where you're going to gather okay we kind of alluded this to earlier but you can't talk on the on the
21:1021 minutes, 10 secondsphone so how do these youth get together I mean do the do the old school flyers on like a teleph yeah neighborhoods just
21:1821 minutes, 18 secondsconversation passed along yeah making an international phone call could get you guess what killed oh that's weird
21:2621 minutes, 26 secondssurpris are we surprised a North Korean Factory Chief in South Province was executed by firing squad at a stadium in
21:3521 minutes, 35 secondsfront of 150,000 people sorry that's insane this guy got killed
21:4221 minutes, 42 secondsgathered at a stadium they were probably fored oh in October 2007 the crime was for making international phone calls he
21:5021 minutes, 50 secondshad 13 phones installed in the basement of his Factory in order to make international calls six people were killed 34 others were injured when a
21:5921 minutes, 59 secondsstampede occurred as crowds were leaving the stadium so Not only was that person shot and killed but people were killed
22:0722 minutes, 7 secondsLe stampeding out what a weird event how do they gather these people why they Stampede what was the uh maybe they were
22:1422 minutes, 14 secondstold it was some sort of Celebration or is is BTS is that the South Korean yeah guess it was a Korean boy band that was
22:2222 minutes, 22 secondsgoing to perform they told hey free tickets but they bring out this guy they shoot him on stage when they see see the atrocity they Stampede out of here maybe
22:3122 minutes, 31 secondsthey stampeded when the uh bathroom lineups got too long yeah crazy that is insane so no international phone calls
22:3922 minutes, 39 secondsthat's the big I think they again like the internet they have phones in North Korea but they can only call in house
22:4622 minutes, 46 secondsand you can imagine that those phone calls are all they're all monitors so even yeah so your neighbors with someone who hates North Korea I would recommend
22:5522 minutes, 55 secondsdon't talk on the phone how much you hate North Korea a fearful place to live okay now this one you wouldn't even think as a um as a freedom because again
23:0423 minutes, 4 secondsthe all these things we just take for granted we just take them for granted living in a free world that we do Jason you can't even choose your own professions look I admit we all don't
23:1123 minutes, 11 secondshave our dream job I don't have my dream job but at least we have the option to quit and start another career or whatever we have that option when
23:1923 minutes, 19 secondscitizens in North Korea finish high school they all have to join the military men stay for 10 years and women
23:2723 minutes, 27 secondsstay until they're 23 but then after the military they're then assigned their life's work and job assignments are not up for negotiation and they mostly
23:3523 minutes, 35 secondsconsist of farming and agriculture other jobs consist of street sweepers Factory workers traffic workers and teachers they get 48 hour work weeks they do have
23:4423 minutes, 44 secondsSundays off once in 2016 though the entire country aside from the elite Workforce had to work 70 straight days due to government order and efforts to
23:5223 minutes, 52 secondsboost the economy wow can I be part of the Elite Force workor please that's the job I want cuz I got you know yeah was
23:5923 minutes, 59 secondsgoing to ask how do they choose like who becomes the elite I don't know I don't know how that's done the elite Workforce
24:0724 minutes, 7 secondsprobably oh they might pick the strongest smartest whatever it is just like any other community or Society they handpick people that are bright and
24:1524 minutes, 15 secondssmart Beyond whatever to help them in science factories and you know Jason so what have we got for second to last one
24:2224 minutes, 22 secondsthis one uh this one killed me I will say I'm a little bit fearful reading this having no hair I don't know what
24:2924 minutes, 29 secondsare you allowed or not allowed to do that are B people executed that's a blessing in disguise I
24:3824 minutes, 38 secondsthink if you're in North Korea like occasionally everyone loves a new look it's nice to change it up once in a while right but for North Koreans not so
24:4624 minutes, 46 secondsmuch they have exactly 20 haircuts to choose from 28 haircuts yes that's that
24:5424 minutes, 54 secondsa bad amount I guess I don't know I don't know if I could come up with 28 hairy like I play video games and a lot of the video games I play have character
25:0225 minutes, 2 secondscustomization screens like when we start your character and they don't even give me 28 options hey look you know what North Korea there you go giving us 2
25:0925 minutes, 9 secondsoptions yeah they're pretty open women have 14 choices and most of them are shorter since it's customary for married
25:1625 minutes, 16 secondswomen to have shorter hair men are not allowed hair longer than 2 in and spiky or dyet hair is a no no so this is a
25:2625 minutes, 26 secondsgood question here maybe anyone in our chat can answer this for Inus uh the question is hi what is the economical situation so is the economical situation
25:3425 minutes, 34 secondsthat regulated that some people are wealthy and others live on the street so that's a good I suspect well like even in our free countries like Canada US of
25:4225 minutes, 42 secondscourse the Free World unfortunately there's the rich and there's the poor there's homeless so if you're assigned a job to be AC a street sweeper and then
25:4925 minutes, 49 secondsyou're assigned to be a teacher do they make the same or is there an economic level amongst
25:5925 minutes, 59 secondsthe careers that you're forced to work yeah you're working yeah you're working in a factory versus working in a school
26:0626 minutes, 6 secondsversus working in the rice fields as a farmer do they all basically make the
26:1226 minutes, 12 secondssame or do they force an economical tier system that's an interesting question yeah I'm a hair stylist I I only know
26:2126 minutes, 21 secondshow to do 28 haircuts I mean forced to cut hair and then you're forced to cut hair a particular way your I don't know
26:2926 minutes, 29 secondsif your hair would be allowed I think as long as men are are not allowed hair longer than 2 Ines so oh you're good to
26:3526 minutes, 35 secondsgo I with the extra mile last one folks you're not allowed to criticize or critique the way the government does
26:4326 minutes, 43 secondsthings there without giving it another thought end of story so old North Koreans who live under Kim Jean un's rule must swear loyalty and obedience to
26:5126 minutes, 51 secondshim his family and the state those who threaten or even insult the supreme leader or his family will beis prison or
26:5926 minutes, 59 secondseven executed this goes for visitors as well so there's an American student named Otto warm who was arrested while
27:0727 minutes, 7 secondswaiting to leave North Korea as part of a guided tour group he was arrested for stealing a billboard from his hotel room
27:1427 minutes, 14 secondsoh it was a dumb move North Korea saw this as an insult and he was imprisoned and died after being released in a
27:2127 minutes, 21 secondsvegetative state in June 2017 oh boy wow North Korea is one of the most isolated and secretive Nation in the world the
27:2927 minutes, 29 secondsnext time Jason that you're annoyed at one might sarcastic call it first world problem just reread this list and be thankful we're not living in North Korea
27:3727 minutes, 37 secondsoh we got some information from Paul our resident North Korean expert thank you Paul for join joining the chat we should have had a Paul in the podcast Paul said
27:4627 minutes, 46 secondsthat the North Koreans make an average of 25 cents an hour pretty good they get about 6 $67 a month so what does that
27:5427 minutes, 54 secondseven that's nothing what does that even mean I don't even know what you do that how much is food there is it ratio like
28:0128 minutes, 1 second$100 here goes we know how far $100 will go oh I'm going to buy a house well if everybody's making about 607 like the
28:0828 minutes, 8 secondshouses can only really range in prices and so he's saying in North Korea that milk is 99 cents a gallon so to get one
28:1728 minutes, 17 secondsgallon of milk you have to work four hours wow so the count is pretty much malnourished except for their
28:2528 minutes, 25 secondsleader yeah somehow he how does he afford all that food supreme leader what a what a weird
28:3328 minutes, 33 secondsway want to be I think he's wholly aware of who he is he has access to but way he has access to everything they're not he
28:4128 minutes, 41 secondslooks on the internet he knows everything that we know he he's well aware and he's just a modern-day dictator there's been evil dictators
28:4828 minutes, 48 secondsbefore and he's just a modern day once he's also born and raised in an environment that yeah you're right is he brainwashed from his dad maybe there's
28:5628 minutes, 56 secondsthat of course I think he's had family members tried to change the tide and they were killed for it he's aware enough that imagine if you just you're
29:0429 minutes, 4 secondsone of his uh quote unquote cohorts or people that were in his ear so to speak handlers and he said to him hey maybe we
29:1129 minutes, 11 secondsshould not torture people for wearing jeans or making phone calls you would be killed for suggesting that which would
29:1829 minutes, 18 secondsindicate why does he feel so strongly about these things I would like to ask why does he feel so strongly about these things like what would be the actual
29:2629 minutes, 26 secondsanswer my guess is I'm not a doctor of course or psychologist or therapist or anything like that but my guess is He's
29:3329 minutes, 33 secondsa Bully with power there are people who are sadus sadus who like to see people suffer he could just literally be one of
29:4129 minutes, 41 secondsthose people who like to see people suffer and he gets to be in control of a country where people are suffering under his regime he takes pleasure in their suffering it could be as simple as that
29:4929 minutes, 49 secondsyou and I can't fathom that doing that to a whole you know to one person let alone Millions but that's what he does and he he basically gives a big middle
29:5729 minutes, 57 secondsfinger to the world world and he wants to start wars and all the like yeah he's yeah all the nuclear war testing and
30:0530 minutes, 5 secondsmissile testing to scare everybody saber rattling all this stuff yeah okay well Jason this was again a very fun episode
30:1230 minutes, 12 secondsobviously there is a numerous things that make North Korea what it is Jason and I are not subject matter experts as
30:2030 minutes, 20 secondsPaul pointed out we appreciate everyone that watch us live but we'll go over the list really quickly and Jason and I will pick the thing that we think would be the worst thing to be without as a North
30:2830 minutes, 28 secondsKorean citizen so here we go the internet like outside of North Korea's internet smiling on July 8th watching TV
30:3830 minutes, 38 secondsoutside of North Korean of course control TV driving leaving the country wearing skinny jeans making
30:4530 minutes, 45 secondsinternational or outside of Korea phone calls choosing your own job limited haircut styles and talking smack about
30:5330 minutes, 53 secondsthe government fun Jason which one is the worst one which one would you say is the I think it's the number 10 the internet would have to be everything
31:0131 minutes, 1 secondkind of trickles down from that every other thing that a person would end up pushing the government back on the
31:0931 minutes, 9 secondsgovernment for start with the internet if they had open access to the the way Tri it's kind of that's an easy pick yeah the internet let's let's do a
31:1831 minutes, 18 secondssecond pick let's see let's see easy that wasn't on the list which one would be the hardest one to have without I mine is just the fact that I couldn't
31:2631 minutes, 26 secondsleave the country overall uh like I can't get away no matter what they do to me I can't get away without affecting my loved ones the only way I would ever try
31:3431 minutes, 34 secondsto escape even if I me my own life because if you get killed try to escape this place what whatever sweet release right and I bet you there's people that been executed Jason I wonder who are
31:4231 minutes, 42 secondskind of like oh I I would suspect the execution better than everything that
31:5031 minutes, 50 secondsled up to the execution yes spending 10 years in prison being beaten or going to a TR concentration camp and doing hard
31:5731 minutes, 57 secondslabor Mercy it is a mercy killing worst thing for me is the inability to even leave my situation without harming my loved ones but if I didn't have loved
32:0532 minutes, 5 secondsones then I would just try it anyways and who cares if you get caught yeah so well tough list I think I could live within the country if you had access to
32:1332 minutes, 13 secondsbe able to travel and explore the country that you live in boy I'm tossed between driving and jobs what about you
32:2132 minutes, 21 secondsPaul what's your pick or anyone anyone else just listening tell us your a pick out the nine remaining what you imagine being forced to do job that you you're
32:2932 minutes, 29 secondsnow a rice farmer the rest of your life no offense to any rice Farmers listening to our show of course but no I'm just saying that doesn't sound I'm
32:3632 minutes, 36 secondsenvisioning what not having the freedom to be able to move within your country so driving Andor work well there's a few
32:4432 minutes, 44 secondshere I it's hard for me to nail it down to one so Paul said travel restrictions that's the one he would hate the most
32:5132 minutes, 51 secondsyeah yeah well that was a fun episode thank you so much for everyone who joined us for the first time on our actual Facebook page because now this is
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