This is an I Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. What? Me? No, I'm totally South Korean soul. Soul, great city. You should come visit me someday. It's one more thing. I like that noise. The classic Simpsons tugging at the collar noise. A couple of things first. This was a good click bait meat for for me the other day in the Wall Street Journal. The thing on modern cars that people hate the most is going away. Oh, did you see that? I have no idea, but I'm hoping that it's what I'm thinking. The automatic shutoff thing. Yes. Oh, my God. Where it stops running for like 30 seconds. Accomplishing freaking nothing. I don't care what anybody says. It can't add up to anything. They showed some studies. Some studies show. Yeah, studies from universities where they reward scientists. Who talk about climate change. You can't convince me it makes any difference to have your car stop running from idling for 30 seconds a couple of times a day. Dangerous. It can be definitely. I had that problem where I need to go and my car is dead. But people trying to make a left turn and you break enough that it cuts the engine. Then you go to go and it hesitates and yep. Next thing you know, you're getting rear-ended. Oh, I hate that feature. Luckily, my car, I can turn it off, but some cars you have to like order. You have to have a mechanic install some gizmo to defeat it. I can hit a button to turn it off in my car, but I have to do it every time I turn the car on. Yeah, just stupid, a stupid forced climate change bullshit. Accomplished nothing. So maddening. But anyway, I love it when it cuts off my engine while I'm in the diamond lane because I'm doing so much against climate change. Oh, you people. God, you have no grasp of reality. And guess what? It's going away. Trump, Trump administration said it's bullshit. It doesn't do anything. We're getting rid of it. Amazing. Yeah. And people hate it. So there you go. There's that one dimension. This before we get to the. I'm from North Korea, South Korea. The dumb list of the top party schools for college in America came out as it always does every year. And the older I get the dumb. I thought that list was dumb when I was young. I mean, for each individual human being, there's nothing stopping you from party and as hard as much as you want. I can attest to that. Well, everyone can attest to that. So, um, yeah. So well, I would have really partied a lot harder if I'd have been at this school instead of that school. Give me a break. Boy, I'm drunk and out of my mind on shrooms and listening to a great band. But I sure wish I was at a good party school. Right. Anyway, this year, the number one party school is Santa Barbara, UC Santa Barbara. And if you're going to UC Santa Barbara, you're partying, you're on the beach. You're like the nicest spot on planet Earth, practically, while you're in your pretending to go to college in many cases, learning nothing, doing nothing but partying. That's quite the lifestyle. Yeah, it's funny. My kid could have gotten into UC Santa Barbara and said, no, no, the program's not strong enough. And I'm like, wow, you're better than me. Yeah, I spent a couple of days in Santa Barbara a year before last with the kids. We're at a hotel. I don't remember where we're going. But anyway, I thought people go to college and live here. And it's just, it's stunning. OK. Yeah, there was, and it would be wonderful. On the other hand, there was absolutely zero to recommend where I went to school, like geographically. There's nothing, Champaign or Banner, Illinois, go there sometime. Trust me, there's no reason to be there, except that there's a university there. And we managed to have a hell of a time. Well, yeah, me the same. I mean, I went to college in a place where most people don't want to be. And it's all about people. I mean, you're hanging out with people you really, really like. You're having the time of your life. You could be you could be somewhere looking at the ocean. If you don't have a good friend you're hanging out with, you would. I mean, it's not like you're not going to make friends at that college. But that's the key is the people thing. Yeah, here, here. So speaking of college and careers and getting ahead and that sort of thing. This is amusing slash interesting. I brought this story at least once to the show that North Korea is profiting enormously by providing remote technical workers for US tech firms because they have so many, you know, computer geeks and all that work all over the world. But they're not allowed to hire North Koreans. And so the North Koreans go to a great deal of trouble to hide the fact that they're North Korean, sometimes they'll hire Americans or or other people around the world to do a video interview. Then they actually take over and do the work to bring revenue to the North Korean regime, which is desperate for hard currency. Also, they gather intelligence through that. But anyway, this is actual audio and video, which won't do you much good in this context of an Asian I.T. worker who has claimed to be South Korean and the interviewer wants to make sure. Yeah, I mean, I was I was in the process of saying like we get like a lot of imposter candidates, you know, particularly North Koreans, like posing as like people that they're not. So one of the tests that we do is trying to get them to say something like Kim Jong-un is a fat, ugly pig. Could you could you say that for me? Soon down. Soon down. So no, Kim Jong-un, you know, the leader of North Korea. Yeah. I saw I just say I should say like that. Yeah. Yeah. If you could because it's one test so that I know that you're not not North Korean. Yeah. Can you say that? Damn, he really don't want to say it. He got up and left and we cut out some of the hesitation because it got a little long. Yeah. Wow. I don't know how. How guys looking wide eyed into the camera. I don't know how comfortable I am with that. Yeah. I mean, you don't want to put money in the pocket of the North Korean government, but maybe that guy gets to feed his family on something other than three kernels of corn if he does the job. And if he gets caught, he's going to be murdered and perhaps his old family. And the thing they do in North Korea, like the next two generations or whatever to make sure that they made their point. You're a compassionate man, Jack, but a sap. I will point out that these companies, they can't hire North Koreans. And that's a foolproof test. Yeah, I'd say that's a foolproof test. How awful is that to live in a country where you couldn't even come close to whispering that you don't approve of the current leader or you'll end up dead? Oh, my God, you couldn't even say, you know, there are moments I wonder whether the regime is making the right decisions. What do you mean? That would get you executed. Is a fat ugly pig. He's a fat ugly pig. Kim Jong-un is a fat ugly pig. He is. So somebody should play that audio for all of the people touting the big fat Trump wearing a diaper things that these no games saying no dictator. You want to see a dictator? Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, well said. Yeah. Jackasses. Wow. That's heavy. I mean, it's it's it was amusing on one level, but it's it's heavy. You don't think Kim Jong-un is he's big boned? You just think he's a no, I think he's big guy handsome. Hmm. Not a bad looking fella. If I swung that way, I'd, you know, was his dad. He can give you a hell of a lifestyle. Was his dad or granddad fat? I don't remember. Uh, yes, they're all rotund. They're all porky. Is that a flex? Like look at me. I got so much food. Food while you starve kind of a thing. I don't know if it's a flex or just a function of having that much food and booze. Probably not very flexible. Good one, sir. He probably has people to put his shoes on for him. And his daughter's just as evil as he is. Oh yeah. And she's going to be in charge. His is his 13 year old daughter. Oh yeah, they are there. They're the heir apparent. Yeah, she was they did some big weapons display the other day. And there's video of her driving around in a tank and she, I mean, she's going to she's going to be him with hormones. She's bad one. She's them though. Wow. Kind of a looker. Wow. She's a child. Great analysis there. Wow. Conch and conch. Oh, she's 13. Jesus, dude. Wow. Sounded like Trump back in the day. Okay. She was disturbing. Ah, yeah. So they they have her dressing like him. Yeah. They altered her haircut so it looks a little more like his girl version. And then are they feeding her cake all day long? And again, the weight, I don't think is that significant an aspect of this. But she's also now consistently pictured right next to him. Yeah. At official important state functions. And the one thing career watchers know is proximity at those events is everything. That is the pecking order. Got those 13 year old daughter. Those dictatorships. And I can't believe that they actually do this because I would think it would be counterproductive at some point. But I was listening to about when the Soviets tested their first atomic weapon to let the world know, hey, just the United States got an atomic weapon. We got one too. Stalin was there to see it. All the scientists knew they were going to be executed if it didn't work. Wow. They were told that. So if you're a nuclear scientist on the bomb, you were there hoping it went off because you were going to be executed. Yeah. And it went off and it went off. Okay. So they got an award. Hey, boss, seeing the nature of science is you fail and you learn from it. And then you do better next time. Yeah. Right. Do you want the cigarette or don't you? Or I can think of more clearly and my hands are a little more steady. If I don't think I'm going to be executed if I screw up. Yeah, I'm just surprised they think it's a productive way to do things. And there's like, there's like eight of me in the whole country that know how to do this, you're going to execute me if this one doesn't work. But that was the plan and they all knew it. Kidnap a German and make him do it. Wow. Yeah, crazy. So we're anti-detectorship then. Okay. Yes. Decided. Yep. Guess what? He don't want war. That's one thing he don't want. He said in the past that he would destroy the United States. People run the world. Run the world. You know, one of the weirdest things I saw on 60 Minutes One Time About North Korea is they have traffic guards that stand out on these empty roads directing traffic that doesn't exist. They just, they just wave track it, traffic through, tell them to stop. But it's just the guards standing out there doing that for hours a day. And Dennis Rodman, greatest rebounder of all time in the NBA, went to visit. Right. Strike a piece of cord for some reason. Well, I guess that's it.
