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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of I Heart Radio. Yo,

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Dutton, what you doing girl, Zarin Burnett, I got

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Speaker 1: a question for you. Yes, you know what's ridiculous? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I do. Actually come on now all right listen. You

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Speaker 1: like football, right, like you're a football guy, producer, Dave's

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Speaker 1: a football guy. Yeah. Um, you like how when they

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Speaker 1: but the football and your tummy cheese, well yeah, all

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Speaker 1: the snacks. Right, so you've got like, um, nachos like

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Speaker 1: you know where I'm going. Where are you going? Okay,

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Speaker 1: So there's this thing that pairs well, as they said,

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Speaker 1: got a lot of messages about this from so many

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Speaker 1: brew dudes and all working against me. Go on, Okay,

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Speaker 1: So there's this thing and it's called Hormel Chili Chili

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Speaker 1: Cheese Brew. It's beer, Hormel Chili Cheese Brew. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: Can I read you the press release? It's amazing, arriving

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Speaker 1: I what's that? Hormel today launched a first ever Hormel

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Speaker 1: Limited edition American Logger features features Minnesota pills and er barley,

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Speaker 1: missed it. Then, four packs are available to purchase Hormel

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Speaker 1: Hormels Chili Cheese Dip by combining Hormel chili no beans

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Speaker 1: with a one pound package of pasteurized cheese cut into

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Speaker 1: served with corn chips if desired. Why would they do that?

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Speaker 1: I win the ridiculousness, dude, that is more than ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: It's not that bad. It's not as bad as you think.

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Speaker 1: If you got a second. You're familiar with the leader

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Speaker 1: This is Ridiculous Crime a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers,

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Speaker 1: heights and cons. It's always murder free and one ridiculous Elizabeth.

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Speaker 1: I would like to talk with you today about your

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Speaker 1: So Godzilla my dog, not yours. Born of the sea whale, exactly,

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Speaker 1: Godzilla is the spirit of our times. Elizabeth, you know

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Speaker 1: like what could go wrong, and he immediately thinks north Korea.

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00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 1: It's got to be North Korea. And he's fearing, by

420
00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:52,119
Speaker 1: the way, for both his wife and himself because if

421
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 1: they grabbed his wife, he's like, oh, I could be next, right,

422
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,679
Speaker 1: So he traveled to Hong Kong to go find his

423
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 1: missing wife, and while he's there he asked the police.

424
00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, I'm gonna need protection because my wife

425
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 1: got grabbed. They're like, oh, of course, of course. He's like,

426
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 1: I don't want to get snatched off the street like

427
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 1: my wife, Like of course, what we got you? Like

428
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,400
Speaker 1: this is under British protectorate at the time. So there's

429
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 1: British investigators trying to figure this all out, and like

430
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 1: we were going to take care of the foreign nationals

431
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,400
Speaker 1: and so it's like a whole thing. Right now, Shin

432
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 1: has little to go on to find his wife, right

433
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 1: and he's like, he's got little help other than the

434
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,959
Speaker 1: British authorities. But he does have one colleague in the city,

435
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 1: an old friend and a former business partner, and this

436
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 1: man offers him help to go find you and he

437
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 1: and he's like, oh cool. But then come to find

438
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,640
Speaker 1: out his old friend and business partner was a North

439
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 1: Korean spy. Chin never sees coming. So here's how Shin

440
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 1: tells the story. There was a secret agent in Hong Kong.

441
00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:45,919
Speaker 1: He was my colleague, so there was no reason to

442
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,159
Speaker 1: be suspicious, and he took me to Repulse Bay on

443
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,400
Speaker 1: Hong Kong Island. The car stopped and three or four

444
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,359
Speaker 1: people got in. Okay, wait, I have to pause the

445
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 1: story for a second. I like them, both of these stories.

446
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,159
Speaker 1: It's always three or four people, Like they're just like hey,

447
00:23:58,200 --> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 1: for both of them, they're just like, you know, sm

448
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,199
Speaker 1: it's good for supremely low numbers. It like like it

449
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: was three ye stopped counting after three. I don't know

450
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,639
Speaker 1: what are one person? What does it matter? We are,

451
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 1: we are we setting a table here. Why do I

452
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 1: have to know how many people are in the car?

453
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 1: But you know, he's like, look, you know me people

454
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 1: was enough people exactly, So every time he goes, he's

455
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 1: like three or four people. Anyway. He also reminds me

456
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: of the David Sedaris story of like the sixty eight

457
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 1: black Men. Yeah, you know this story. So he's like,

458
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 1: just for anyone who doesn't. David Sai Darris is driving

459
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 1: around Europe and he's talking to people, trying to get

460
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 1: to know the areas, and it's a big thing to do.

461
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,679
Speaker 1: Was always asking him what's the local Christmas traditions? And

462
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 1: in the Netherlands, he gets there and they start telling

463
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 1: him that St. Nick shows up, and every time he

464
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,360
Speaker 1: shows up, it's always a six eight black men. And

465
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 1: he keeps asking people and he can never get an

466
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 1: exact number. At one point, I have a code here

467
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 1: from him, he says, I asked several touch people to

468
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 1: narrow it down, but none of them could give me

469
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:00,360
Speaker 1: an exact number. It was always six to eight, which

470
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 1: seems strange. Things they've had hundreds of years to get

471
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 1: a decent count. So anyway, that's what I kept picturing

472
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 1: when I'm reading, three to four people get in the car.

473
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,199
Speaker 1: Three to four people were in the boat. Okay, so

474
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,399
Speaker 1: back to your abductions. Okay, So the director is in

475
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: the car with his former colleague when three or four

476
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,160
Speaker 1: people get in. They were wearing long wigs. He says,

477
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,920
Speaker 1: they put a bag over my head. And I gotta

478
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,359
Speaker 1: stop again because I'm sorry, but they're wearing wigs. They

479
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,879
Speaker 1: put a bag over his head. Does seem incongruous to me.

480
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: It's like, make up your minds. Do you want to

481
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 1: be disguised or you're gonna like just put a bag

482
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 1: over some of the wearing a bag, they put a

483
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: wing on him, just exactly like okay, like you're driving

484
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:39,439
Speaker 1: around Hong Kong with a man with a bag on

485
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 1: his head. What are the wigs for, like or the Beatles?

486
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 1: It's okay, I mean I can see they probably like

487
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: put the bag on his head and then shove them

488
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,879
Speaker 1: down into the footwell and then they're wearing wigs and

489
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: they're like, I don't know, these like three to four

490
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 1: guys with really beautiful long tresses flowing in the open

491
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 1: air windows. Yes, I don't know what it doesn't look

492
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: like me. You're probably right if exactly that. So at

493
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 1: this point, I'll pick back up the abduction. So he

494
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 1: since says they were wearing long wigs. They put a

495
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,880
Speaker 1: bag over my head and made me in halee chloroform.

496
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: So poom, he's out. Now he's captured too. Boom, Just

497
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: like that, the North Korean film industry just got a

498
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: whole lot more talents. So meanwhile, back in South Korea,

499
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: people start to assume terrible things. And I don't mean

500
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 1: terrible things like oh they're dead. I mean like terrible

501
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: things like I don't know about this abduction. First the

502
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 1: wife gets abducted, and now Shin gets abducted. I think

503
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,679
Speaker 1: they defected. I think they just faked their kidnappings. So

504
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 1: people still not looking for them or killing they're gone. Yes. Meanwhile,

505
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 1: Smash cut to Shin in a North Korean prison camp

506
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: because that's where he was taken by his abductors. So

507
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:49,919
Speaker 1: he's seriously sitting in a North Korean prison camp. His

508
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: wife you and he she's being treated well. She's in

509
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,879
Speaker 1: Kim Jong's palaces. She's cared for pamper being taken to

510
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: shows eating well, Shannon is also in North Korea, but

511
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:01,920
Speaker 1: she doesn't know that, right, so she's just like having

512
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: her little life totally unaware. Now being my kind of guy,

513
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: Shin was thinking the whole time he's in the prison camp.

514
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 1: W W S M D. You know what that stands for?

515
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 1: What would Steve McQueen do. That's a good thing all

516
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: the time? Well, I mean not all the time. He

517
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: was always there are some exceptions to exactly. So shin

518
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 1: ch handles Steve McQueen in The Great Escape and he

519
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: gets all inspired. He decides he's gonna bust out of

520
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: this North Korean prison camp. So he starts to write

521
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: and direct his own escape movie starring him. Oh my god,

522
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: that's so perfect. And I got a quote for you

523
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,719
Speaker 1: from Shin You ready, He says, when put in extreme situations,

524
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: people imitate what they see in movies. If I was

525
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 1: going to make a movie about this situation, how would

526
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: I film it? I thought, I'm gonna get out, even

527
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: if I have to dig a tunnel under the floor.

528
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 1: Then I tried scraping at the floorboards. Anyway, whatever it takes,

529
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: I have to get out of here. So that's his plan, right,

530
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: and we have a lot of cinematic This is not

531
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,439
Speaker 1: really his his part isn't a crime, but it's like

532
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: what's his name with heat? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah completely

533
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 1: And so my man Shin, he pulls it off. He

534
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: escapes the prison camp. He's able to run off, and

535
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 1: when he gets outside the fence, he finds a bike.

536
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 1: I loved this park. He finds a bike. He steals

537
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: a bike, and then he's like, you know what, each

538
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 1: according to their needs, comrade, and takes off and he's

539
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: gone right on his stolen bike. He's paddling away and

540
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: like Fiona Apple, he's going as fast as he can.

541
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,120
Speaker 1: Right now, Shin sees a train and maybe he can

542
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: catch this train get over the border to China. He's like,

543
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 1: I've gotta catch that train. So he ditches the stolen bike,

544
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: runs over the freight train, tries to hop like a

545
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: hobo his way onto the train. Makes it. But it

546
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: turns out that train just goes in one big circle.

547
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: It just loop. It doesn't go anywhere. It's such a

548
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: North Korean train. It's like I just go in the circle.

549
00:28:55,880 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: What I'm just supposed to run? So it is feeded.

550
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 1: He is, but he's so tired and worn out he

551
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: cannot muster another like escape attempts, So he just goes

552
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: to sleep on top of the train car. Somebody sees

553
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: his foot dangling on the side. They called the police,

554
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: so the police call come, they arrest him. They take

555
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: him back to the prison camp, and he's like I was,

556
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 1: so he gots he gets up, but then he's taken

557
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: to prison number six. Now, Prison number six is the

558
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: hardcore prison reform camp where political prisoners are sent for

559
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: re education North Korean style re education. Again, yeah, exactly,

560
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: so it shouldn't put it anyway. It's a horrible place anyway.

561
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: This is from his memory. He's telling a story and

562
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: he goes anyway, it's a horrible place. So to survive

563
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 1: he has to subsist on rice, handfuls of grass and salt. Yeah,

564
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: that's that's his nutrient account. He said, I quote, I

565
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: experienced the limits of human beings. So yeah, he learns

566
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: the one all important lesson from his time in North

567
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: Korea's re education prison. He learns the idea that if

568
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: he wants to ever escape the country, he's going to

569
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: need an actual plan. He can't just run out. I'm

570
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: gonna catch a train or steal a bike. And so

571
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: the first step of his new path is he writes

572
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: a letter to the dear Leader Kim Jong Ill. He's like, hey,

573
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: dear leader, and he promises him, I will make you

574
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,479
Speaker 1: glorious films. I will make you great, beautiful films, movies

575
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: that will exalt North Korea on the world stage. This

576
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: is everything Kim Jong Ill has been waiting to hear.

577
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: So Kim Jong Ill is like, as my girl Renee

578
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: Zala Baker, Well, one day come to say you had

579
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: me at hello? So what Shin wins over Kim Jong Ill?

580
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: He has the baby dictator. Hey, what about my kidnapped wife?

581
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: She's still alive now. At this point, Shin has been

582
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: in North Korea for five years, five years, and he

583
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: hasn't seen it yet, hasn't seen it. She doesn't know

584
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: that he's been there for five years. And they had

585
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: two adopted children. They've they've been told by everybody they've defected,

586
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: so their children don't even they think they've been abandoned

587
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 1: by their parents. So he's just like going through it. Right.

588
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: So February three, Kim Jong Il's birthday. You know, Johnny

589
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: big hair, don't care is going to show out for

590
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: his birthday. So he does and you and he tells

591
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: the story. She's like, one day, out of the blue,

592
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 1: there was a car waiting to take me to Kim

593
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: Jong Iill's house. You have to understand she knows that

594
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: when a car is sent for her, it just means

595
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: something big is going to happen. You could mean, oh,

596
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna get murdered today, or it could being like, oh,

597
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: I want to show you this this ballerina from Swan

598
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,719
Speaker 1: Lake I abducted. You never know, right, So when she arrives,

599
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: Kim john Ill is in a good mood. He's like,

600
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: you know, like Rick James in a room full of cocaine.

601
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 1: He's like, he's like to give Drake, could go to

602
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: a Drake concert. He's just like and be in the

603
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: front row. He's just beaming. Right. So Kim john Ill

604
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,479
Speaker 1: sees her and he's like, miss Joy, it's my birthday party.

605
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: It's a family affair, right, And she's like, oh god right.

606
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: So one of the party guests guides her attention. He's like,

607
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: look over there, you and he she turns and she

608
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: sees her husband, Shin standing in the room, and she's like,

609
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: what the hell. They've dozens of film together, raised two children.

610
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: They have the storybook love affair. They are the ben Affleck.

611
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: He's the ben Affleck to her j Lo. You know, yeah,

612
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: but weren't they divorced? They broke up and then now

613
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: fate has brought them back together. Just in this case,

614
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: you know, Fate is you know, Kim jong Ill just

615
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: like a little less Dunkin Donuts and exactly less cold

616
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: coffee and less dunk now and you and he sees Shin.

617
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: She says, I froze on the spot. Was I dreaming?

618
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: This can't be real. I kept staring at him. All

619
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: I could say is what happened to you? Shin was quiet.

620
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: He just looked at me and smiled. Even then, I

621
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: was thinking if this was a film, there'd be a

622
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: lot of tears. But she's like filming herself. Yeah, they're

623
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: living this out and instead of being like how we

624
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: can get out of here? So Kim Jong Ill is like,

625
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: I think everybody forgot whose birthday party it is. So

626
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: he's like, comrades, let me introduce you. This is director

627
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: shan Are, no film advisor. This is miss Joy mother

628
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Speaker 1: of Korea. So he's like telling him, like, these are

629
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: my new people, right. He orders the reunited couple to

630
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: embrace because the thing you were worried about, he say,

631
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,959
Speaker 1: hug up, alright, So they do, and he tells him

632
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: like you're getting You're getting remarried. This is great and

633
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: they're like oh. And eventually the couple is remarried. And

634
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: while they're in North Korea. So at his birthday party,

635
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: Kim John guilt explains to Shin about, oh, by the way,

636
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: about tossing him in prison, that whole rigor morale. He's like, no, sorry,

637
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: it was a misunderstanding. He blames his people, like exactly,

638
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: he just got lost in the translations of paperwork. Sorry.

639
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: So you know, he's like, hey, you try running a

640
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: country without a reliable power grid, you know. So Shin

641
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: said about this time, he's like, I hated communism, but

642
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: I had to pretend to be devoted to it to

643
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: escape from this barren republic. It was lunacy. Now, speaking

644
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: of lunacy, I promised you a North Korean Godzilla, and oh,

645
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: you're ready for it, because we're gonna be getting into

646
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: it now, all right. So now we have our free director,

647
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,959
Speaker 1: and all the film ideas, the scripts, the casting whatever,

648
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: all that stuff has to run through Kim Jong Ill.

649
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: Now can you imagine being in the writer's room with

650
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: Kim Jong Illazing, terrifying and amazing. It's ten am. He's

651
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: already had two of your co writers sent to the gulag.

652
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: They weren't laughing at his jokes. Is that just a

653
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 1: funny pat? Why aren't you laughing? He's he's had like

654
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: a like a delivery person executed for bringing him cold black,

655
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: being the little that's doing this show with you exactly.

656
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: So one Shin is out of prison and Kim Jong

657
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: Il he's like, hey, I'm gonna give you free rein

658
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: And they're allowed. The couples are to go all around

659
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: the country and look for locations for all the movies

660
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:39,800
Speaker 1: he wants them to make, and they do. It's small

661
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 1: taste of freedom. They're stoked. They're even allowed to travel internationally.

662
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: One of the trips, the couple goes to Berlin for

663
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: location shoots, but this time it's East Berlin. It's still

664
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: part of the Eastern Block, right, so they're in a

665
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: communist country still, right, but they're outside North Korea. And

666
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: so while they're in East Berlin. Shin and you and

667
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: he are walking around. They see the US embassy and

668
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: you and he his Shin's arm of squeeze. He's like,

669
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: let's run for it, try to make it to the embassy,

670
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: and Shin was like against it. He tells his wife,

671
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: what's the matter with you. I will not make an

672
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,399
Speaker 1: attempt unless it is certain if they caught us, we'd

673
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 1: be dead right now. Plus shins about his make of

674
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: North Korean masterpiece Polga. Sorry, that's the name of North

675
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: Korean godzilla, Pulga. Sorry, Pulga. Sorry, So he wants to

676
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,479
Speaker 1: get into his masterpieces. Like, I ain't going anywhere now.

677
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,240
Speaker 1: After this little break, I will tell you all about Bulga.

678
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 1: Sorry alright, Elizabeth. While our couple, Shin and you and

679
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 1: he were being detained in North Korea, they were able

680
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: to shoot seventeen feature films. And they did this in

681
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: a span of two years three months. Yeah, they were

682
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: cranking them out. They said they were like barely sleeping

683
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: to three hours a night. Anyway, there was one unexpected

684
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 1: side effect they had encountered on, which is the couple

685
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:16,280
Speaker 1: became a walking, talking propaganda film because their lives became content,

686
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: and Kim Jong Hill was able to use it. He

687
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: took photos of them, he put them on North Korean papers,

688
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: those go over to South Korea's borders. Suddenly it looks

689
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: like they're having this great time in North Korea, which

690
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 1: plays into the story that they voluntarily defected. So and

691
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 1: they don't know this because they don't know that these

692
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: stories anyway, so it's a whole problem. Anyway, this is

693
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: far from the truth because you and he and Shin

694
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: they even though yes they were like the COMI, ben

695
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 1: affleckt In j Lo, the People's jay Z and Beyonce,

696
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 1: they were still in their minds South Korean artists, right.

697
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 1: So they're like, how do we get out of here?

698
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:51,839
Speaker 1: And Shin's like, Pulga sorry, So he gives Kim Jong

699
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: Hill what he wants his Godzilla Monster movie. Now. To

700
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: make this North Korean Godzilla truly epic, Shin decides they're

701
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: gonna need to hire the original team from Japan that

702
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 1: made the original Godzilla back in nineteen fifty four. So

703
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: Shin tells Kim Jong Il's planned and the Dictator to

704
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: be is like, that's so crazy. I freaking love it.

705
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 1: We got it through this, So this time Kim Jong Il.

706
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: He doesn't have the film crew kidnapped like them. Instead,

707
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 1: he has this Japanese VFX crew invited to go to

708
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: China to shoot a film. They get on a plane

709
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: and when the plane lands there in North Korea, surprise,

710
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: welcome the pe Yeah so boom. Now one of the

711
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,760
Speaker 1: the abductive members of this Japanese VFX crew, it's Elizabeth

712
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: is Ken Pachiro Satsuma. Now, if you don't know the

713
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 1: name Kim Paturo Satsuma, he's the man who was Godzilla.

714
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: He's the one inside the Rubber Monster. So really yeah, well,

715
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: technically he was the second man to ever wear the

716
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 1: Godzilla suit because it was a long stretch between fifty

717
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: four and he's he's tall, he's a big boy. He's

718
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:54,800
Speaker 1: I love that. I've I've introduced long Daddy andlexicon, a

719
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: lexicon of strange phrases, tall boys and long days. Well,

720
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: tall boys still reserve for bears, but cemented. So when

721
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: SMA gets to North Korea, he gets to be the

722
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,439
Speaker 1: first to wear the new Pulgasari suit. So he's got

723
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: his own record. Oh my god, So no Polka Sari

724
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: is a lot like Godzilla. I want you to be

725
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,240
Speaker 1: able to picture him. He has a giant lizard beast monster.

726
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: He destroys everything. But he wasn't born from nuclear energy

727
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: from the West. You know that would be too much

728
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: of a flex for the West. So pulga sorry, he

729
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: was made by an elderly farmer and uh he was

730
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: created and shaped out of rice. And Pulgasari came to

731
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: life when a drop of the farmer's daughter's blood landed

732
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 1: on his rice mold body. I don't want to know

733
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: how that happen. So Kim Jong ill he think he

734
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: wants his film to be a powerful attack on Western

735
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 1: values and a love song to the people struggle against greed,

736
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 1: private wealth and oppression. Did Pulgasari have to wear like that,

737
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 1: like drab, gray North Korean utilitarian sheet clothes. That's the

738
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: other question I have just said. I'm sorry to side

739
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 1: track you, but I keep wondering in my mind when

740
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 1: you describe the couple like they're super fashionable and like

741
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: wearing all these designer duds. But did they have to

742
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 1: pick from like the approved haircuts you know about in

743
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: the Communism under Like most of these times, the party

744
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 1: leaders have all the best Western stuff but if they're

745
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: going to know, they don't. They are not supposed to

746
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,240
Speaker 1: be emblems of the revolution. The revolution has been from

747
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 1: like a handful of haircuts if you're like a person

748
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: like on the regular, Like, yeah, they don't touch streets,

749
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: so they do whatever they want. Did they cut her

750
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: hair to look like no, Kim John Ill you know

751
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 1: he has like the helmet hair he's got that. They

752
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 1: got the papadoor. Sorry, it's fine. So yeah, though they

753
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 1: had the best of everything. They're eating like, you know,

754
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: wild boar for dinner, running their fingers over pearl necklaces,

755
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: like running their fingers through just like hell, yes, I

756
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 1: sit here, I run my fingers over pearls and I

757
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: eat deep bore like anyway, they're living locks. Right. So

758
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 1: in the film Polga Sorry the Monster, there's this wicked

759
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: king because it takes place in the past, and the

760
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: wicked king is starving the people. So the monster attacks

761
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: the king. Right, Godzilla goes after Pulga. Sorry, he goes

762
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: after the king. Now, this plot line gets intercut with

763
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: folk dances of the people because it's a communist movie, Elizabeth,

764
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: and that's what they do in communist movies. In case

765
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 1: you didn't notice. Yeah, it's it's part of the whole deal.

766
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 1: It's like their version of a car chase. Instead of

767
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 1: like cut to the chase, it's cut to the harvest dancers.

768
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: So you know. Anyway, Eventually, our monster, Pulgasari, he squares

769
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: off with the king. King fires a missile at him.

770
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 1: Paulgasari eats the missile. He kills the king right. He's like,

771
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:35,439
Speaker 1: he eats him right, and the King's like oh. Then,

772
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: surprising everyone, Pulgasari starts attacking the people. They're like, no,

773
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: we didn't see this coming. Pulga sorry, and Paulga sorry

774
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: because he doesn't know any better. He's just, you know,

775
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: a rice mold monster who wants to eat iron. I

776
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: forgot to tell you that he eats iron. So he's

777
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: hungry for delicious, delicious iron. So he's always like eating like,

778
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: you know, gates or sections of fence, or like munching

779
00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:00,360
Speaker 1: on like a farmer's tools, nibbling on a shovel, whatever

780
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 1: you can get, right. So the farmer's daughter she goes

781
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 1: and she pleads with Paulga Sari, so leave the people alone, Paulkasari,

782
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: and Polkasari' is like oh and then like, you know,

783
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 1: I don't know why he explodes, right, he's just like her,

784
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 1: please are so strong? He explodes, and why would he explode?

785
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: For the people, Elizabeth, it's communism and he's communist Godzilla.

786
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: So he gives his body forth like Jesus and he's

787
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: like each of my Pulga Sari and this sounds beautiful. Anyway.

788
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: At the end of the movie, a baby Polga Sari

789
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 1: is seen walking out of the sea. Because you always

790
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: got to think of the sequel seeds. Now, surprisingly this

791
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: movie when he gets dropped in North Korean theaters, it's

792
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 1: a huge hit. People love it. Kim Joyo stoked. He's like,

793
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: it's a masterpiece. It's a work of pure cinema. I'm

794
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: telling you, it's amazing. Now in North Korea, he's a

795
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: really only critic that matters. So this is like if

796
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: Roger Ebert and Cisco and like every other film critic

797
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: you can name, Jean Shallot, there you go. They all

798
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: loved it, right, just all one big person. Now next

799
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,720
Speaker 1: up a voltron. Yeah, but film critics, I am getting

800
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 1: I am hitting you with some eighties references. You're cheaping

801
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: it on tame like thank you. Next step the North

802
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: Korean film industry. There he decided to take on the

803
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 1: bloody legacy of Genghis Khan, but not the historic Gengis Khan.

804
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,839
Speaker 1: You're thinking of Jenison Jengis Kon. No. No, they want

805
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: to do the one inspired by John Wayne's version The Conqueror.

806
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 1: That's the movie where John Wayne plays Genkison everyone got

807
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 1: cancer And if you're wondering, well, Zaron, did he do

808
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:36,439
Speaker 1: that in Yellow Face? You damn Yeah. So the movie

809
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: Racist Is All Hell was something that Kim Jong Ill

810
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: loved and he's like, I want to rebote it. We

811
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: gotta remote it. So they decided to reboot The Conqueror.

812
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: So Chen tells the dictator, I know the perfect person

813
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: for this. If we're doing historical epic, we gotta get

814
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: it on board. And he's like, oh okay, yeah, who

815
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: who you got mined? And he's like, oh, I'm gonna

816
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: go talk to him. He's an Austrian producer. I'll get

817
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: a co production deal going. He starts working on the

818
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 1: co production deal. The producer friend agrees to a co

819
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:05,879
Speaker 1: production deal with North Korea, which is pretty rare new

820
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: at the time. Things are looking up for the North

821
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 1: Korean film industry like maybe Polka. Sorry, he's finally giving

822
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 1: us a little bit of respect. But turns out that

823
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 1: the whole Austrian co production deal, that's what we in

824
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: the smoke blowing industry. It's like we call a lie.

825
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: So it was just a cover for Shinn and you

826
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: and he to finally escape smart yes, right, because Shin

827
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 1: wrote in his memoir to be in Korea living a

828
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 1: good life ourselves and enjoying movies while everyone else was

829
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: not free was not happiness but agony. So he's like,

830
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:39,879
Speaker 1: I gotta get out of this. So he ties he's

831
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: gonna end the agony. I'm flying to Vienna, so and

832
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 1: he hoped his bravery would catch up to him when

833
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:49,240
Speaker 1: he got there. So the date is March thirteenth, nineteen six.

834
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: The ultracool couple arrives in Vienna. They check into a

835
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: hotel there with their North Korean minders, the agents, intelligence agents,

836
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 1: Shinn and you and he. They're chilling in the hotel

837
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: room across the hall or other North Korea intelligent handlers.

838
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: They're smoking with the door open, playing cards, you know,

839
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: playing poker or whatever. She and you he They look

840
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 1: at each other decide this is our moment. So they

841
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: start packing their bags. They pack like one piece of

842
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: luggage each and they make a break for it. If

843
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: you rush out of the room, they sneak down the hallway.

844
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,280
Speaker 1: Each of them told you carrying a small piece of luggage.

845
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: Are trying to be super quiet. If they get caught,

846
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:23,800
Speaker 1: they'll lose everything, everything, their freedom, they're possibly their lives.

847
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: He'll be sent back to a re education camp, maybe worse.

848
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: So they're like, we cannot blow this. And remember she

849
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 1: said it has to be a guarantee. He's going for it.

850
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: His bravery is caught up to him. They make it.

851
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: They run for it down the hallway, they make it

852
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,240
Speaker 1: to the elevator, down to the lobby, and the elevator,

853
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,240
Speaker 1: they make it across the hotel lobby. Outside, they flag

854
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: down a taxi cab. They may get inside of the cab,

855
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: they shut the door. Elizabeth, at this point, I'd like

856
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: you to close your eyes, yes and picture it. You've

857
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: been driving a cab in Austria for about two weeks now.

858
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 1: You'd love to be able to get people where they

859
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: want to go. You love to see the city. Vienna

860
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: is a terribly beautiful city to walk through or to

861
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: drive through. You really take into your new job as

862
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: a Viennese cabby. You just love it. But there's one problem.

863
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:09,879
Speaker 1: You don't know your way around the city, like at all,

864
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: like just at all, not yet got you got a

865
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: lot of maps, but whatever. So you're always telling your

866
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: passengers to be patient with you. You're like, hey, I'm

867
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: new in town. And sometimes they laugh, sometimes they do

868
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:23,320
Speaker 1: not laugh. So the door to your cab swam shut

869
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,760
Speaker 1: and you spot the two fresh passengers you just climbed

870
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: to the back seat. It's a middle aged Korean couple,

871
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 1: both well dressed. They look like movie stars. You turn

872
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: on the meter and you ask in French, then in Austrian, German,

873
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 1: and finally in English, where are you headed? You're surprised

874
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: when you hear the answer. The woman you and he

875
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 1: she shouts at you just drive. You're like okay, Well,

876
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: you think okay. You put your Mercedes Sedan taxi in

877
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: to drive and you ease away from the curb. You

878
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 1: gently pull away from the hotel's front door, and the

879
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 1: man the back said, can you can you drive faster?

880
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: You're like, sure, buddy, once you were on the street,

881
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: you haven't noticed We're kind of in a driveway. Okay,

882
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: but you sit tight, Buttercup, don't you worry? And these

883
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,919
Speaker 1: ponies like to run. So at this point you check

884
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: both your side mirrors, your rear view mirror for some reason,

885
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 1: then your side of your mirrors again, just to be certain.

886
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:08,720
Speaker 1: Once you're satisfied it's safe, you ease your Mercedes Sedan

887
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:12,479
Speaker 1: taxicab out into traffic. Can you please drive faster now?

888
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: The woman in the back asked you, and you're like, yeah, yeah,

889
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:18,320
Speaker 1: he's like, please drive faster. Like you guys were so cute.

890
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,440
Speaker 1: You haven't even told me where we're going, but you're like, hey,

891
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 1: can we speed to get there? So like, maybe you

892
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 1: want to tell me where we're going. And you pull

893
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 1: up to a red light and then you stop and

894
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 1: you hum to yourself and you're looking in the rear

895
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 1: view waiting for them to tell you where you're going,

896
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: and you're like, well, do you guys have a radio

897
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,319
Speaker 1: station you want to hear do anything you like? They

898
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: don't answer. You've you noticed that they have spun around.

899
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 1: They're looking behind you and traffic to see if anyone's

900
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 1: following your car. You're like, I said, our favorite radio

901
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: stations you guys like you like the tunes, You're like

902
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 1: rock music. What do you want to hear? You're asking

903
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: and no answer. Again, You're these people are kind of

904
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: rude anyway, light changes, so you get back to driving

905
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 1: and your eaves dropping on your passengers there while they're

906
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 1: just focused on the traffic behind you, and you hear

907
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: the woman saying, there the cap, it's suspicious, right, you

908
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: see it? And the guys like, tchwe she's like the

909
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: black and white cap. There, it's them. They're following us.

910
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 1: They both spin back around and now you see that

911
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 1: they're holding hands and trembling like autumn leaves in a

912
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: stiff breeze. And you're like, oh my goodness. You ask

913
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: him again, Hey, you guys know where you side? Where

914
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: we're going? And the woman says, the US embassy, take

915
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: us to the U. S Embassy. You tell her with

916
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: a smile and your voice, oh, I'm only too happy

917
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 1: to help the US embassy. Great idea. Oh that's a

918
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: great choice. One thing, do you know where it is? Like?

919
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: Are you kidding with us? Is she kidding? What? What

920
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 1: do the guys that go left? And you're like, okay,

921
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's it, but the light's about

922
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: it change, so you're like, huh, but you remember you're

923
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 1: being followed. They probably want you to make the light.

924
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 1: So you hit the gas and you roar through the

925
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: intersection and you make it. You hug a tight right

926
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 1: turn and you make it, and the taxi game behind

927
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 1: you get stuck behind a bread truck, so they're stoked,

928
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: and you're like saying, don't you guys worry so American embassy.

929
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:53,319
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I can find this embassy. And you're

930
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: just bouncing along in your cap. You're like, but hey,

931
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: please be patient with me. I'm new here, I'm new

932
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,359
Speaker 1: in town. Doesn't get a laugh. Again, doesn't get a laugh.

933
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: You're like, whatever, shinnon you and he they're just holding hands,

934
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: shaking in the back seat, and you're like, I don't

935
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 1: I'm not that scary of a driver. I don't know

936
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,840
Speaker 1: why they're just so tight, but whatever. They keep checking

937
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: behind them, and you're like, no, US embassy. All that's right.

938
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:16,879
Speaker 1: All the nice hotels are by that big park. I'll

939
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: go over there. So you're just driving over towards this

940
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: one big park you know about where you think there's

941
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 1: nice hotels. You keep your eyes on the road because

942
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,800
Speaker 1: getting in an accident that sure wouldn't help Elizabeth. And

943
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: always safety first, the Elizabeth Dutton Guarantee. So when you

944
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: turn and you gently speed down a side road which

945
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 1: parallels the main major boulevard, and you're headed to where

946
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 1: you remember seeing a bunch of the big houses and

947
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 1: hotels and flags, and you're like, I bet that's Embassy Row.

948
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: So you're driving over there and you drive towards this

949
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: green expanse of oh Stod Park. You see this signs.

950
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, I know this is right. You drive

951
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 1: past the fancy hotels, You're like, I think this is it.

952
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: You're getting all excited. They're still super nervous. You're like, okay,

953
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 1: make a high speed right turn, and you imagine to

954
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:01,720
Speaker 1: sneak through a yellow light. Make it. Finally, your taxi

955
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: cab slides to us up fifty yards from the U. S. Embassy.

956
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 1: You turned your passengers and tell them U. S. Embassy

957
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: is the one with the American flags, I think, and

958
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 1: then they like, I am the worst just right over there. Hey,

959
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: by the way, this rides on me. Looks like you

960
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,439
Speaker 1: kids could use some black huh. So they're like, okay, thanks, sorry,

961
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:20,240
Speaker 1: and they hop out of the car. You and he smiles.

962
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 1: She's like, you drive better than Robert Mitchum and you're like,

963
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: oh thanks. The man just waves and nods and they

964
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:28,919
Speaker 1: both run after this sumps. They closed the doors. They're

965
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: running right, just fast as their feet hit pavement, and

966
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: they were like cartoon running right. You're like, oh man,

967
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 1: it's like they're running as fast as Feon Apple moves

968
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: again again. I'm I'm driving at home, baby. So they're

969
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: run as fast as they can and towards the front

970
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: gid of the U. S. Embassy. Forty yards left to go,

971
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: thirty yards left to go, twenty yards left to go,

972
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: ten yards left to go the goal line. There at

973
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 1: the goal I touched down. They make it. They make

974
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: it across the line, Elizabeth, And you watched them go,

975
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:58,879
Speaker 1: and you say to yourself, I remember when I first

976
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 1: ran to the U. S. Embassy. And then you drive

977
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:05,719
Speaker 1: away now being who they are, you and he and

978
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,400
Speaker 1: Shin they both compared their daring escape as you've noticed,

979
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 1: to what they know best. You and he said, even

980
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: though I ran fast like this, and she doesn't minds it.

981
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:17,720
Speaker 1: It felt like slow motion in a movie. Slow motion

982
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: was all I could think about. I love that she's

983
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: like in a good Dard New way of French film,

984
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 1: like making her escape. But you know this is all,

985
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: by the way, a huge embarrassment to Kim Jong Ill,

986
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: huge embarrassment. So what does he do? What does what

987
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 1: does the little dictator do? The only thing he can do.

988
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:37,319
Speaker 1: He kills Paul Gasary. He takes the film out of

989
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:40,840
Speaker 1: the theaters, destroys the movie, takes all of their films

990
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 1: out of any theater, doesn't allow their films never to

991
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 1: be shown again in North Korea. And this is his

992
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:51,400
Speaker 1: hope to erase their memory, right, but they're free. The

993
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:55,760
Speaker 1: movie Polo Sorry re emerges from the depths of cultural memory.

994
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: There's this Japanese film critic who remembers it. He launches

995
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: a one man campaign to kreem the film in Korea

996
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 1: and South Korea so that he gets a copy of

997
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:06,760
Speaker 1: the North Korean Godzilla film and he and he starts

998
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 1: showing it in South Korean theaters, multiple theaters, and the

999
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:15,479
Speaker 1: movie bombs at bombs a thousand, one thousand people paid

1000
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: actual money to see it. One thousand people has now

1001
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 1: in two thousand one. An American company they tried the

1002
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 1: same stunt, and they're like, hey, we need to bring

1003
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 1: that Pulgasari over to American shores, maybe to be a

1004
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 1: hit like Godzilla. No theatrical release this time instead, there

1005
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 1: just like, what's you gonna go straight to videos? So

1006
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,760
Speaker 1: then you go straight to video. There are VHS copies

1007
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: of this monster movie and ever since then, for the

1008
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: last twenty years or so, it occasionally pops up. You'll

1009
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 1: see North Korean Godzilla in the wild. It's just out

1010
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 1: there in America, wandering in the dark. Pops up like

1011
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 1: in New York at a theater, maybe in l A,

1012
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 1: maybe done in Austin. It's been shown in Canada, over

1013
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,320
Speaker 1: in Bristol in the UK. It pops up in places

1014
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 1: you would never expect. But if you're really curious, you

1015
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 1: can find it on YouTube. Just look up Paulgasari. Now,

1016
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 1: after making his Godzilla remake, John Ill went in a

1017
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: very different direction politics. He became the monster of North

1018
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:07,479
Speaker 1: Korea after his father died. But one of his last

1019
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 1: great acts, when he was still not quite the leader,

1020
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 1: he had this giant sign erected outside the Ministry of

1021
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: Culture that said make more cartoons. He decided movies were

1022
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 1: not it so killed his love of movies. So, Elizabeth,

1023
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: what is our ridiculous takeaway here? Oh? Man, I don't know.

1024
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: You know, something that I'm like still kind of hung

1025
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: up on is them escaping the hotel in Vienna and

1026
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 1: they packed bags. Why buy underpants? I assumed that it

1027
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:40,840
Speaker 1: was they had some tapes that they had recorded. So

1028
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 1: they have this bag of tapes that they need to

1029
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: get because they need to prove to people that they

1030
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 1: were abducted and they have secretly recorded him. They have records.

1031
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:52,880
Speaker 1: They also have other documents, and then they're they're artists,

1032
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:54,800
Speaker 1: so they have like mementos that they apparently wanted to

1033
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:56,879
Speaker 1: keep of their time making movies. I don't know, I'm

1034
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: just imagining like a little like weekend bag and they're

1035
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:01,800
Speaker 1: shoving swim trunks in there. I'm like, there's no time

1036
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:07,799
Speaker 1: from that. No. My takeaway, it's interesting how film has

1037
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: such a grasp on people that it's like such an

1038
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 1: incredible medium because you have the sound, you have the

1039
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 1: site and everything and all this emotion. It's like the

1040
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: most cathartic immediate thing aside from live theater. Right, But

1041
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 1: then but it pulls people in and completely see it

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Speaker 1: the right word. Because like a like a film junkie,

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Speaker 1: Kim Jong Il had to come back around to it,

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Speaker 1: remake of a classic Western movie, this time Titanic. He's like,

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Speaker 1: let's try one more time to see if we can

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Speaker 1: North three and Titanic, and I've watched some of it.

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Speaker 1: It is horrendous. So that's my ridiculous take away. Thank

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