honestly the entire video was biased his campaign of no nonsense with north korea got him a meeting with kim jon ung and honestly de-escalated the entire thing
Hey I'm trying to have a little bit of escapism by being reminded of short while ago when the president nearly brought us to armageddon, I don't need you bringing up our pandemic too! :(
Fun Fact: that monster eating the sword is supposed to represent Communism in Korea and by the end of the film he basically turns evil and is just as bad as the force he defeated. It's believed it was the kidnapped directors basically flipping off their kidnappers, kudos to them
"If your interviewer asks you where you see yourself in 5 years, it is now perfectly acceptable just to scream in terror into their face." That joke has aged like fine wine.
Juliani was at the twin towers on 9-11 and he was told to move out of the way before they demolished the buildings and yes the buildings were pulled as soon as he was out of the way. Juliani was also the one mayor that could not allow demolishing the twin towers after numerous lobby to ignore the asbestos but he didn't want to be a sued for allowing demolition of the twin towers while having full knowledge that the buildings were loaded with asbestos (cancer causing) and eas told the only way he would not be sued would be either destroyed by act of god (storm or earthquake) or terrorism. The architect who designed the buildings, made them both earthquake-proof resistant against multiple hits by full size passenger planes, as the architect defended himself after 9-11 that there would be no way the building would have collapsed, because of the way it was designed to sway and bend, which it did in windy situations, but immediately a gag order was placed on him unofficially, in the same way the Underwriters Laboratory (UL) was ordered not to publicly defend themselves and not say anything about the fact the steel used in the buildings were rated to withstand well over twice the heat the airplane fuel could have ever produced. In spite of all knowledge that the buildings were due for demolition or a very expensive billion dollar asbestos clean-up, one of the chosen people, Larry Silverstein (Juliani's buddy), leased the buildings for ninety-nine years, knowing well he could not nake money on the deal, unless he was in on it with the Feds (israeli demolition team) where he would insure the buildings against terrorism by plane crashing into the buildings, knew in advance he would make money on the deal, some of which probably donated to Israel as Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg do with their excess money, was well prepared to make billions of dollars with confidence by Juliani from the deal by ensuring the buildings against terrorism by plane crash, and in return Silverstein would sign on the dotted lines everytime he was to do a favor for Pentagon. The 9-11 commission ruled in favor of Larry Silverstein and the insurance companies could not use "inside-job" as probable cause by the fear from Pentagon, they had to pay and they paid double, as court ruled in favor of Silverstein that two separate attacks and not just one single attack, Larry cashed in billions of dollars on a 90 million dollar investment. This is not ever talked about in the media, just as the 4000 Jews who didn't show up to work on that day, not a single Jew called up a TV station report an upcoming emergency at the twin towers, to let everyone know it isn't safe to go to the twin towers. And that's not to ignore the 5 Israeli men who danced ad they witnessed the first plane hit the tower as they had obviously prepared with a telescopic lens camera. This celebration dance was reported to the Police, they were arrested, bomb related paraphernalia was found, spent no more than 48 hours before they cordially were sent back Israel. That is all part of what Juliani was involved in, is what no body in US Government has the guts to discuss. When Bill Clinton was asked by an average citizen in a TV broadcast forum, if he thought the 9-11 was an inside-job, ge strongly denied it by saying, "Shame on You," with that southern accent. One other time Bill Clinton said those words, was to Jerry Brown at the end of their debate, when Jerry said to Bill, "you're just one of them," which then Bill Clinton got angry and said, "Shame on You!" With the emphasis on the pronunciation of YOU with that deep-Southern accent which apparently comes out when he feels caught hos tail in a trap. That's how corruption is so prevalent. If Biden can do anything substantial with all these corrupt parasites around him, it would be a miracle. Coming soon, "Trump TV, sponsored by FOX and Disney, probably.
It's actually cool to like "Weird Al" Yankovic these days. It definitely was not when I was in high school. It's about time the world caught up to his genius.
The funniest part about Pulgasari is that the monster is a very clear metaphor for revolution. He is created to take back the land from tyrants, which he does by eating iron (which includes swords) to get bigger, but once the land is cleansed of tyrants the movie *continues.* The monster basically becomes a tyrant himself, demanding the farmers feed him their tools in tribute or he'll start wrecking shit. It takes some real balls to make a movie condemning North Korea, for North Korea, while having been kidnapped by North Korea.
You know... when this came out, I was like, "I hope there isn't a war, because I am in Seoul, South Korea and I don't want to die." Now, I am more like, "If North Korea shoot Seoul with artillery, will the price of housing go down?"
Probably not, because that would probably just make any of the houses still standing _even more_ expensive, but _God, I wish it worked like that._ - Sincerely, An American from Ohio who knows jack shit about economics.
Coincidentally I recently had a similar conversation, we decided it depends how many people flee the city, but probably, as long as you don't mind major structure damage
That can be easily done. There's a great charity called Flashdrives for Freedom which smuggles Flash Drives into North Korea containing Video of everyday American life and Media (including popular American TV shows). Most North Koreans have access to a device with a USB port and as explained by a past North Korean defector, North Koreans need to receive an accurate picture of the West instead of the propaganda pushed by their government. You can help by donating your old used flashdrive to Flashdrives for Freedom and they'll make sure it gets to North Korea.
"I think I just hit Trump Bingo, and the prize that I want is to go drown in a river" is so specific but also the single most relatable thing I've heard all year.
And a year later turns out all those liberal North Korean experts were totally wrong and Trump achieved more than the rest of the last 4 presidents combined... Cry more hypster?
There are people in North Korea who are openly critical of Kim Jong-un and he's widely mocked outside of Pyongyang, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was already circulating around the villages of the DPRK
And then you get that out of your head finally, and then it's the end of the video and you now have to try desperately to not sing the words "Please don't nuke us, North Korea"
Did anyone else notice the "Destruction of New York" clip is from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3? The North Koreans actually posted it to TH-cam for all of us American B*****ds to see; the thing was, Activision got it flagged and had it taken down.
My favorite missed detail here (or at least not mentioned), that "North Korean Godzilla" movie features the monster growing up... as a small monster helping overthrow the existing tyrannical government that hurts people... who grows into a monster who oppresses and basically enslaves the people around him for more and more metal.
Weird Al Yankovic just comes to the studio and does a litle comedy bit. I love how he still makes time for little things like this. He always stayed so humble... :)
Notice how the band is reading the music? In an interview Al said that he was at his home in Maui with his wife and daughter when Oliver called. They asked him to fly to NY to sing the song they were going to write. They couldn't do it, so he wrote this and all of the parts for the band and then flew 11 hours and filmed this after one rehearsal. Love this guy.
@@chickadee677 Weird Al is a man of supreme talent, and a national treasure! To be fair, nearly all Polka music is... shall we say, "similar"... but still, writing it all out personally is no easy feat.
I think I have watched at least 75 shows or maybe more if you count the ones I have watched 2 or 3 times I think I have watched his show about 120 times. It's hard to stop watching him by a is like a drug that shows you the truth about our world.
I was in the audience for this episode and had a great time. To John and the LWT crew, I don't think you'll read this comment, but if you do, I was the guy in the Barcelona jersey and you made fun of me at the end of taping...
“The temperament of a wet cat” My cat once flew over my head, claws every where, while three of us bathed her. She weighs over 30 lbs. I can honestly say that was a good analogy.
bimmjim Is this is reference or something? Because if so it flew way over my head. And technically it's called a Trema; an Umlaut is also a Trema, of course, but a Trema doesn't have to be an Umlaut. It depends on how it is used, as different languages use it in different ways. So calling all dots above letters Umlauts is a bit of a misnomer. The more you know 🎶🌈
bimmjim Don't get why you won't write in English when we're all discussing in English here, but sure, the name was pretty German sounding, but more countries than Germany have people with German names, both first and last names. And in countries where we have the letter "ö" for example, its not necessarilly called an umlaut. Educate yourself before speaking; I'd suggest you start by learning to write in English when the conversation calls for it.
“Er, supreme leader? About that propaganda video...” “Yes?” “This American company called Activision is suing us now. They say that we used footage from their video game.”
"This is a disaster! If we pay them off, everyone will know that we're starving our people intentionally and if we don't, they'll own us for sure. Quick, get China on the line. They'll know what to do."
Funnily enough, they also have ANOTHER propaganda video where they play the Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion theme over pictures of Barack Obama and other American troops LITERALLY ON FIRE!! 😂
They made it sound like China is unwilling to cooperate because the Sanctions are useless. *No, China is unwilling to cooperate because they are funding all the missile tests, providing strategic resources like oil directly to them through a pipeline...* And few people know, it takes 2 years of saving up to buy a shoddy rusty bicycle in North Korea, so the only people using oil for any motor vehicles are the military. China is NOT helping the North Korean people, in fact, they take in hordes of escapees and put them on secret slave labor, and if their output is too meager, sell them back to North Korea. Any time *China feigns being economically hurt at all by sanctions is done on the hope that dumb Americans would actually believe* North Korea actually trades with China on any meaningful scale, when North Korean economy is smaller than... *Birmingham, Alabama.* Yes, a single small American city with less population than 1% of the entire population of North Korea.
Don't know if anyone noticed but the footage of New York burning in the North Korea propaganda film is literally ripped straight from the 1st campaign mission in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 where the Russian military attacks New York which is hilarious.
@@raghavpareek2546 While I'm not a conspiracy nut, at all, I'm not naive enough to think the government, our government (all governments) don't do things we don't know about. Just because Kim Jung vocally bans everything from the west, doesn't mean he won't make use of any or all of it to better implement his personal views.
Here's another one. I was at the car dealership, Tom Hanks came on the waiting room tv. I spoke to the mechanic about weird AL on John Oliver's show, and his face split into a grin. "I saw that one, too". We started signing "Please don't nuke us" as we walked thru the repair shop.
Did it now? www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/02/05/north-korea-threatens-missile-attack-on-us-using-modern-warfare-3-footage/#29a257543a18 MW3 Release Date: November 8, 2011 Propaganda Released: February 2013, or at least that's when people started reporting on it.
Man, I really love the idea of an entire country thinking that Weird Al Yankovich was just an average American citizen, and that he is the basis of what makes up the entire average American populous, that would be awesome.
We are, for the most part, goofy, clever, kind-hearted and friendly people. It's just that goofy, clever, kind-hearted and friendly stuff doesn't make the lead on the evening news.
Now it's murder hornets spreading Covid-19 trough 5G with Bill Gates cackling as he plans to inject us with a "vaccine" that contains a tracking device and AIDS! s/
@Randomdude 27 an invasion would work but it would kill millions if North Korea didn’t have nukes I would recommend an invasion but if we invade North Korea is just going to launch nukes
@MrHistory808 They could potentially launch nukes but I find it unlikely they currently have icbms capable of reaching the United States and the U.S. is a very capable military force I believe we could easily take out a vast majority of North Korea’s military and nuclear power quickly putting a swift end to conflict.
Fun fact: the actor who played Pulgasari also played Godzilla in the Heisei Era. He was also the Showa Era Gigan and Hedorah. He was actually abducted by Kim Jong-il and forced to star in it.
2017: Where Weird Al is better at clearly communicating a diplomatic statement to North Korea than the President of the United States. What a time to be alive.
Koolken & J-Rizzi why would i? If i wanted any information, i would search for it myself. i have no need for your videos, and i will assume you are self-promoting through comments.
The North Korean propaganda in 14:26 the footage is actually Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. Where you are in a helicopter leaving New York after destroying a Entire Russian fleet. Seems legit
Fun fact: the actor in the Pulgasari monster suit, Kenpachiro Satsuma, actually played several Kaiju in the original 1970s Godzilla series, including Hedorah and Gigan, and would later go on to play Godzilla himself in the 90s film series.
"If an employer asks you where you see yourself in five years, it's now perfectly acceptable to scream at his face in terror" well if the current evolution of 2020 is anything to go by, that would be the only correct answer
The U.S. has around 6,800 nuclear warheads. Let’s consider one scenario in which, oh, say just for the sake of speculation, the U.S. launches 100 or so missiles at North Korea. We might not launch nearly that many nukes if we actually decided to do this and different strategic targets would need to be hit with different types of missiles and warheads, and they’re likely going to be hit with multiple warheads to make sure they’re damaged beyond all repair. Plus, the president has full autonomy over the nuclear football and in theory, could order as many strikes as he feels necessary. But 100 missiles is a large, round number and is a common enough refrain to consider. They’ll take about 35 to 45 minutes to hit all their targets and it’s extremely likely that every one will go off exactly as expected since American nukes are precisely engineered and thoroughly reliable. After a hundred mushroom clouds will dissipate, some really, really bad things will start to happen at a fairly rapid pace. North Korea will be in ruins, and while it won’t glow with radiation, its territory will be lethal to any living thing. A smaller strike will leave patches of relatively safe territory in the mountainous terrain, but as North Korea occupies almost exactly the same land area as Pennsylvania, there’s not much room to hide, so a stiff breeze can cover survivors under a fallout cloud very quickly. After the initial burst of gamma rays created by the blasts, the heavy elements from the fission primary, the uranium spark plug, casing, and tamper, will mix with the air currents generated by the heat of the nuclear fireballs and come down as a black, sticky rain after about 40 minutes to an hour. This is exactly what happened in Hiroshima, but that was one explosion. The combined soot and heat from 100 blasts would be like a massive volcanic eruption, except it would also be far, far deadlier. Depending on the weather conditions, it’s not out of the question to see black rainstorms across the entire region. And herein lays the problem. The affected region would include our frenemy China, our rival Russia, and our allies Japan and South Korea. Radioactive particles will spread across the Northern Hemisphere, ending up in Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, and the Canadian Pacific Coast. The fish many nations around the Pacific Rim rely on for food would be killed or contaminated. Tens of millions will be poisoned or sickened, and even several generations down the line, there will be numerous birth defects and cases of aggressive cancers as lower intensity fallout takes its toll. Even worse, about 100 W88 detonations, or bombs like this, are more than enough to start nuclear winter. Yes, that’s right, things are about to get worse. As the radioactive soot travels across the world, carried by currents high in the atmosphere, it begins to blot out the sun, cooling the planet. While this could temporarily stop global warming, it will also collapse countless food chains, and guarantee failure of harvests blighted with the unstable isotopes raining from the sky, then denied sunlight, even after replanting and disposing of the contaminated soil to start rebuilding. Our enemies may be dead and dying, but we and our allies will also have to deal with the fallout, the nuclear winter’s decade or so of hungry years, and the long term residual effects of being irradiated. Over 371.8 million people live in the region in question, and a tens of millions more could also feel the effects of the fallout and food shortages. It’s hard to estimate how many will succumb because that depends on numerous factors like the wind, weather, and the timing and precise location of the explosions, but it will certainly be in the low eight figures at the very least. A smaller strike would stave off nuclear winter and lessen the possible long term casualties from the disruption of the food supplies. However, given the population density of the region, the death toll would still be in the tens of millions and spread to our allies. There could still be regional climactic and weather disruptions, and even though they would disappear within years rather than decades, they could still cause enough collateral damage to be extremely troublesome for recovery efforts. We’d be in uncharted territory and all we’d have to go by would be theoretical models. What we can say for sure is that our allies in the region will be the hardest hit while nations with which we don’t have the best relations will suffer the side-effects of the bombing and be very unhappy about. Northeast China, which borders North Korea, is home to almost 165 million people. South Korea has over 52 million people in its territory and its capital will feel the direct brunt of the black rain and gamma rays from Pyongyang’s destruction. Japan’s will be hit with the dangerous soot from the blasts as well. It’s very likely that Seoul will not be looking at Washington as an ally for the next few generations, and neither will Tokyo. Beijing and Moscow would be seething over their citizens being irradiated and threatening to launch their missiles at America’s West Coast’s citizens, who would now be very likely to suffer a number of long term effects from the debris that will travel across the ocean on a much larger scale than it did from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So, to borrow the most popular saying of 2017, it will be a shit show, with a decent chance of World War 3 erupting in the aftermath. Keep that in mind next time a certain cable news addicted senior citizen with an unhealthy interest in why we can’t just use nuclear weapons to make our problems go away gets in a Twitter beef with someone who actually has nukes and very little to lose if attacked. In 1945, when the United States still had a monopoly on nuclear devices which were limited to about 20 kilotons, and there was an all out war between two nations, using the bombs made sense. However, we live in an age when we can set the world ablaze with the push of a button, typical warheads are 20 to 50 times more powerful, and not just the United States has them, so there are now consequences for their use. And that’s probably what the people who think that it would be a great idea to preemptively nuke another nation refuse to grasp. The world has changed and so has the political calculus of using these weapons. We are not untouchable, we will be inviting another global war if we strike first, and even if we could avoid retaliation by a combination of missile defense and extreme diplomacy, the fallout from a massive nuclear volley will come back to haunt us over the medium and long term. So unless you have a luxury space habitat, or another world you can jump to after you press that button, nukes are the last resort of a nation with its back against the wall, not a weapon of choice, which is why this is the doctrine of just about every member of the Nuclear club.
You know you are one of the very few people who understand the consequences of a nuclear fallout because its not the explosion that causes most death but the aftermath I.e radiation, radioactive soot, posioned water, food. Single nuclear strike will have effect on south korea,Japan and China. Also all other neighboring countries which might lead to nuclear war
You're perhaps overestimating the effect of nuclear fallout specifically. The kind of nuclear bombs used in ww2 were uranium fission bombs that used up only a small fraction of their fuel mass, leading to a lot of nasty dust getting released and sticking around for years. Modern bombs use fairly tiny fission charges to initiate the fusion of a container full of pure deuterium or the like and are very clean, generating little radioactive byproducts. 100 minuteman missiles would certainly not produce anywhere near enough radioactive dust enough to kill off any significant amount of ocean life or render even small areas of land uninhabitable for more than a year or two at most. Might give 100,000 people cancer a decade down the line though. Anyone near enough to the bombs when they detonate to get radiation poisoning from gamma and/or neutron radiation would easily be incinerated by the heat and/or killed by the actual blast. Also something like nuclear winter is not a localized phenomenon caused by radiation or anything like that. Quite the opposite. Its dust from the ground being vaporized and getting stuck high up the atmosphere, reducing light/radiation transmission to the ground from space/the sun. So in fact, the sky across the entire planet would darken with dust from a large nuclear strike, affecting far more than just the area being hit and reducing vegetation and crop growth everywhere.
No, you are definitely overestimating the amount of fallout and debits which would be created. If what you are saying was true then above ground nuclear tests, of which there have been hundreds, would have had a death toll ranking in the millions. Not the tens of thousands that it actually caused. Nuclear winter is also highly improbable. The prediction relied of an assumption that firestorms would be widespread and intense enough to create massive amounts of ash, soot, etc. The problem with this is that there is far less to burn than there was during WW2 where neither the massive firebombing campaigns nor the nuclear strikes caused anything close to what would be needed to actually create nuclear winter, a nuclear autumn at most. You also need to factor in when the strikes occur, what season it is, and use of air burst warheads which would produce vastly less radiation and firestorm than a ground level detonation would. I would also restate Acb Thr's point regarding the increased efficiency of modern warheads as that undermines the credibility of any fallout predictions which relies on Little Boy and/or Fat Man as precedents.
I've been watching your shows, all night, kinda got addicted, putting that aside, let me say, you're one of the bestpresenters I've seen / heard in quite awhile. To me it's always about subject, attitude, mannerism, oratory andcan all this hold a person's attention in your case YES, YES, YES, keep it up. Kudos....
"It's all your Mum's friends... and the people of North Korea!" And me John - I live in a country where our TV is all drama and no action AKA *Australia*
Your news are so dramatic there could be a nuclear war breaking out and some Aussie would report on your local Perth store being robbed by an elderly lady.
@@iRaps1 No, but it was highly centred on the problems of the world, for sure. One morning show decided that they were going to stop scaring people and tell them about the good in the world too. Our equivalent of Florida Men are also most certainly not elderly women: it's Queenslanders
i am chinese, and i used to play the accordion for eight years as a kid, only because we couldn't either afford a piano or find space in our tiny apartment to put a piano. there, that's the reason why communists play the accordion.
To this day, the fact that the video North Korea 'made' of them firing missiles at the US is just an opening cut scene of Modern Warfare 3 is absolutely hilarious
well...Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land , as madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin.... we certainly know on which side the coin for Donald Targaryen landed
Imagine being asked to write and perform a song to - if seen - convince a country of people propagandized to despise your country that we’re not worth murdering. God bless Weird Al
No one is going to read this, but those students playing "Take On Me" on accordions were not doing that in N. Korea. They were on a "good will" tour in Europe at the time and the the European guy who recorded it, taught them the song. Frankly, they probably didn't even know what they were playing. The real question is what happened to those kids after they got back home only to find out that the evil Western pop music is frowned upon?
John Oliver is awesome! Hope this show has a very long run on cable television and youtube! Weird Al Yankovic is one of the best entertainers/characters of the 1980s and pop culture of the past 30+ years in the USA and world!
Yeah man, they never chose this life. It's really shameful how so many people confuse a country's government with a country's PEOPLE, who quite often do NOT agree with their government at all. We don't get a choice in where we happen to be born...
North Koreans are fine, they just need to have less embargo so their economy can get better (it's already above average still) and get less threats of invasion and nuclear war all the time so they can spend less money in the military and time in military service. So stop the threats of invasion, like the mock joint invasion the US/SK army does every year as a ritual on the North/South border. Stop the economic sanctions that everyone should know target the people directly. Pay reparations for the invasion in the 50s and compensate for the loss of 3 000 000 people and the utter destruction of entire cities. Finally, end the occupation of South Korea, leave not one military base standing and stop the sabotage of their peace talk attempts with the South and allow the country to be reunited finally after 60+ years of US occupation.
Is he not gonna mention the fact that the North Korean video where they destroyed NYC was copyright claimed by Activision because it contained scenes from COD?
In hindsight, it was perfectly acceptable to scream in terror when asked where you see yourself in 5 years on 2017.
Underrated comment!
honestly the entire video was biased
his campaign of no nonsense with north korea got him a meeting with kim jon ung and honestly de-escalated the entire thing
Hey I'm trying to have a little bit of escapism by being reminded of short while ago when the president nearly brought us to armageddon, I don't need you bringing up our pandemic too! :(
LOL
The translation of the "north korean" television voiceover was priceless! President stuck on a golf course...🤣🤣
Fun Fact: that monster eating the sword is supposed to represent Communism in Korea and by the end of the film he basically turns evil and is just as bad as the force he defeated. It's believed it was the kidnapped directors basically flipping off their kidnappers, kudos to them
Now that’s a gigabrain move
sounds like a korean animal farm.
Not to self don’t ever let a 200 IQ man direct your propaganda
Balls of steel
Holy shit the balls on those directors. I respect the hell out of them
"If your interviewer asks you where you see yourself in 5 years, it is now perfectly acceptable just to scream in terror into their face." That joke has aged like fine wine.
How about now lol
Nowadays, I lie on the floor and shout ‘IM DEAD!’
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Somehow it's now starting to turn to cheese
You are right.
“9/11’s Bill Cosby”, we already have that, he’s named Rudy Giuliani
This is by far the best and most true comment in this entire section
Holy shit you're right
LMAO this gave me a chuckle, thanks!
The most underrated comment of all time 😂
Juliani was at the twin towers on 9-11 and he was told to move out of the way before they demolished the buildings and yes the buildings were pulled as soon as he was out of the way. Juliani was also the one mayor that could not allow demolishing the twin towers after numerous lobby to ignore the asbestos but he didn't want to be a sued for allowing demolition of the twin towers while having full knowledge that the buildings were loaded with asbestos (cancer causing) and eas told the only way he would not be sued would be either destroyed by act of god (storm or earthquake) or terrorism. The architect who designed the buildings, made them both earthquake-proof resistant against multiple hits by full size passenger planes, as the architect defended himself after 9-11 that there would be no way the building would have collapsed, because of the way it was designed to sway and bend, which it did in windy situations, but immediately a gag order was placed on him unofficially, in the same way the Underwriters Laboratory (UL) was ordered not to publicly defend themselves and not say anything about the fact the steel used in the buildings were rated to withstand well over twice the heat the airplane fuel could have ever produced. In spite of all knowledge that the buildings were due for demolition or a very expensive billion dollar asbestos clean-up, one of the chosen people, Larry Silverstein (Juliani's buddy), leased the buildings for ninety-nine years, knowing well he could not nake money on the deal, unless he was in on it with the Feds (israeli demolition team) where he would insure the buildings against terrorism by plane crashing into the buildings, knew in advance he would make money on the deal, some of which probably donated to Israel as Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg do with their excess money,
was well prepared to make billions of dollars with confidence by Juliani from the deal by ensuring the buildings against terrorism by plane crash, and in return Silverstein would sign on the dotted lines everytime he was to do a favor for Pentagon. The 9-11 commission ruled in favor of Larry Silverstein and the insurance companies could not use "inside-job" as probable cause by the fear from Pentagon, they had to pay and they paid double, as court ruled in favor of Silverstein that two separate attacks and not just one single attack, Larry cashed in billions of dollars on a 90 million dollar investment. This is not ever talked about in the media, just as the 4000 Jews who didn't show up to work on that day, not a single Jew called up a TV station report an upcoming emergency at the twin towers, to let everyone know it isn't safe to go to the twin towers. And that's not to ignore the 5 Israeli men who danced ad they witnessed the first plane hit the tower as they had obviously prepared with a telescopic lens camera. This celebration dance was reported to the Police, they were arrested, bomb related paraphernalia was found, spent no more than 48 hours before they cordially were sent back Israel. That is all part of what Juliani was involved in, is what no body in US Government has the guts to discuss. When Bill Clinton was asked by an average citizen in a TV broadcast forum, if he thought the 9-11 was an inside-job, ge strongly denied it by saying, "Shame on You," with that southern accent. One other time Bill Clinton said those words, was to Jerry Brown at the end of their debate, when Jerry said to Bill, "you're just one of them," which then Bill Clinton got angry and said, "Shame on You!" With the emphasis on the pronunciation of YOU with that deep-Southern accent which apparently comes out when he feels caught hos tail in a trap. That's how corruption is so prevalent. If Biden can do anything substantial with all these corrupt parasites around him, it would be a miracle. Coming soon, "Trump TV, sponsored by FOX and Disney, probably.
Can we all agree that Weird Al Yankovich at the end was absolutely awesome?
Andrew Miller absolutely!
It would've been more awesome if John Oliver could've got Tom Hanks to walk on the stage to sing a duet with Weird Al!
Most unlikely sentence of all time,"that backstabbing bastard, Tom Hanks."
Dillon Ohlemiller - Yankovic (capitalize the Y) you're welcome.
Andrew Miller DEFINITELY
It's actually cool to like "Weird Al" Yankovic these days. It definitely was not when I was in high school. It's about time the world caught up to his genius.
Samuel Lasky Weird Al has always been relevant.
This is kind of Weird al's fault... He dared us to be stupid and here we are.
crb2061
Actually lol's for that.
**applauds**
Still one of my many favourites of his.
Did you see that high kick at the end. Impressive!
Ever seen "UHF" ... Best damn Movie ever made. Weird Al to the max
The funniest part about Pulgasari is that the monster is a very clear metaphor for revolution. He is created to take back the land from tyrants, which he does by eating iron (which includes swords) to get bigger, but once the land is cleansed of tyrants the movie *continues.* The monster basically becomes a tyrant himself, demanding the farmers feed him their tools in tribute or he'll start wrecking shit.
It takes some real balls to make a movie condemning North Korea, for North Korea, while having been kidnapped by North Korea.
Hopefully MST3K will do that film at some point... it seems like it could be difficult to watch otherwise.
ANeM hu
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Pretty sure they probably don’t know that considering how they are
And clever those people who made it were brave as heck.
You know... when this came out, I was like, "I hope there isn't a war, because I am in Seoul, South Korea and I don't want to die."
Now, I am more like, "If North Korea shoot Seoul with artillery, will the price of housing go down?"
I mean, probably?
Probably not, because that would probably just make any of the houses still standing _even more_ expensive, but _God, I wish it worked like that._
- Sincerely,
An American from Ohio who knows jack shit about economics.
I mean, we fire gun shots in our neighborhood just to cap prices
Coincidentally I recently had a similar conversation, we decided it depends how many people flee the city, but probably, as long as you don't mind major structure damage
@@justin__roderick Now that is a gigabrain play
"9/11's Bill Cosby"
Oh you mean Rudy Giuliani?
Shieldwarden 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ZING
Boom Shaka-laka
Omg that is perfect
Depressed breakfast even just two months ago I look at my past self and I have no idea wtf I was talking about. Who says boom shakalaka? lol
This needs to be translated and smuggled into North Korea.
I bet you're on some list now for saying that...
Some jokes are impossible to translate
Griever and three generations of his family.... because that's how North Korea does crime and punishment
That can be easily done. There's a great charity called Flashdrives for Freedom which smuggles Flash Drives into North Korea containing Video of everyday American life and Media (including popular American TV shows). Most North Koreans have access to a device with a USB port and as explained by a past North Korean defector, North Koreans need to
receive an accurate picture of the West instead of the propaganda pushed by their government. You can help by donating your old used flashdrive to Flashdrives for Freedom and they'll make sure it gets to North Korea.
why smuggle when you can just use birds to transmit it into the korean brains
As an Indian, i love how woke John Oliver is about British atrocities against Indians
hehe, you have 0 artifacts. I win in math
Same bruh
Honestly, does anyone deny it? It's like Americans denying the atrocities towards the Natives.
@@napalmblaziken they don't deny. They actively try to forget it lol
@@ishanisasdev3000 Well. That's fucked up. They should remember, so nothing like it ever happens again.
It's always a treat to watch Weird Al Yankovic in action
If they don't play "Take On Me" with their accordians at Kim Jong-un's funeral, I will be absolutely outraged. 🙄
@@insulam821 lol
No, totally "Tramp The Dirt Down" by Elvis Costello.
There's no funeral for Kim Jong Un, our great leader will live forever!!!!!1!1!
q
*never gonna give you up accordions play”
Hats off to the guy who saw the chance to demonstrate his stand up bass spinning on international television, and took it with GUSTO
Weird Al's still got it.
and he's still going, to this day; even
So, basically, Kim Jong-Un is to accordions what Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov is to horses.
Well that implies that kim jong-un fucks accordions, so yes absolutely
To my knowledge he has yet to write sonnets about them
@@Rissa_1322 Touche.
Or Fidel Castro was to dairy cows
It's a Guam threat, not a bomb threat
"I think I just hit Trump Bingo, and the prize that I want is to go drown in a river" is so specific but also the single most relatable thing I've heard all year.
Space Dragon I
And a year later turns out all those liberal North Korean experts were totally wrong and Trump achieved more than the rest of the last 4 presidents combined... Cry more hypster?
@@eduardgherasim2896 what the fuck did he do except endanger basically everyone
@@eduardgherasim2896 What did he achieve exactly?
@@eduardgherasim2896 what
I just realized that the north korea video of the destruction of new york 14:00 is ripped straight out of mw3's battle of new york mission
this just made it perfect
So I wasn't the only one who noticed lol
That’s the reason I’m here lmao
Metal 0-1 saves New York, again
So even when attacking the US they have to outsource their labor to Russia
I wonder if anyone actually did smuggle this into the country?
Marlin Mulata forgot to mention that the North invaded the South with the approval of Stalin and the financial and military support of the USSR.
On it.
There are people in North Korea who are openly critical of Kim Jong-un and he's widely mocked outside of Pyongyang, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was already circulating around the villages of the DPRK
The amount of damage it can be done to NK is not that relevant to this topic. We all already know that USA can destroy entire NK less than 12 hours.
Hopefully they translated it correctly.
As many times as I've watched this, I just now spotted the back-up singers lowering their trilbies in honor of Tom Hanks. Wonderful episode!
As soon as I get "Man Like Putin" out of my head, it's immediately replaced with "Take On Me." Great.
And then you get that out of your head finally, and then it's the end of the video and you now have to try desperately to not sing the words "Please don't nuke us, North Korea"
u forgot the china-song? kommunist kars 4 kids?^^
I still have "Eat Shit Bob" in my head
@@SentientPotatoXIII it was the best
Sentient Potato it will always be in our heads.
Weird Al Yankovic should be officially classified as a National Treasure.
I could be wrong, but isn't he Canadian?
@@CherryBomb_Games Canada doesn’t exist
@@jaydengil3569 neither does Australia #woke
@@CherryBomb_Games TRU
Is he not?
Did anyone else notice the "Destruction of New York" clip is from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3? The North Koreans actually posted it to TH-cam for all of us American B*****ds to see; the thing was, Activision got it flagged and had it taken down.
Daniel Hyson Wow that was true? This show just didn't edit it?
Daniel Hyson time stamp?
RushTheirSpawn 14:26
you can swear on the internet. actually, i dont think its even a swear, but here! 'Bastards'
The most scummy capitalist company takes out a communist regime with private property rights.
Beautiful
My favorite missed detail here (or at least not mentioned), that "North Korean Godzilla" movie features the monster growing up... as a small monster helping overthrow the existing tyrannical government that hurts people... who grows into a monster who oppresses and basically enslaves the people around him for more and more metal.
Oh! It’s North Korean, animal farm!
Weird Al Yankovic just comes to the studio and does a litle comedy bit. I love how he still makes time for little things like this. He always stayed so humble... :)
Notice how the band is reading the music?
In an interview Al said that he was at his home in Maui with his wife and daughter when Oliver called. They asked him to fly to NY to sing the song they were going to write. They couldn't do it, so he wrote this and all of the parts for the band and then flew 11 hours and filmed this after one rehearsal.
Love this guy.
@@chickadee677 Weird Al is a man of supreme talent, and a national treasure! To be fair, nearly all Polka music is... shall we say, "similar"... but still, writing it all out personally is no easy feat.
Before he was announced I was like: "OH BOY OH BOY PLEASE LET IT BE WEIRD AL".
thank you john!
Devran Uenal sameee
I just knew it was gonna be him!
Same lol
Weird Al is excellent
Verde the Star Warrior Yoda yo yo yoda
Why'd he have to go and make me so constipated?
Hamilton poka
was there an original to that song?
Verde the Star Warrior Agreed.
Anyone else binge watching John Oliver during corona lockdown?
Yep
Mhmm
Yes but also. Why are we doing this to our selves?
count me in.
I think I have watched at least 75 shows or maybe more if you count the ones I have watched 2 or 3 times I think I have watched his show about 120 times. It's hard to stop watching him by a is like a drug that shows you the truth about our world.
I was in the audience for this episode and had a great time. To John and the LWT crew, I don't think you'll read this comment, but if you do, I was the guy in the Barcelona jersey and you made fun of me at the end of taping...
TheSheiban cool
haha, that's awesome
thats awesome!!!! and i adore FC Barcelona!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yay , more barcelona fans ! :D
MCFC for loife 😛
Never realized until this moment how perfectly John Oliver and Weird Al go together.
“The temperament of a wet cat”
My cat once flew over my head, claws every where, while three of us bathed her. She weighs over 30 lbs. I can honestly say that was a good analogy.
ForeverMe543 Jesus Christ, 30 pounds!? That is a really big cat!
Yeah, I remember seeing that press conference too. Helluva show!
You feminist bitch
Mayank pandey What in the hell are you talking about?
fluff cat g.
“Weird Al” Yankovic: *sings a song so N. Korea won’t nuke them*
N. Korea: “Understandable. Have a great day.”
Props to John for pronouncing the Ö properly.
You can take your *umlauts* and go fuck yourself. .
Now, I would like to tell you how much I hate Ducks.
bimmjim Is this is reference or something? Because if so it flew way over my head.
And technically it's called a Trema; an Umlaut is also a Trema, of course, but a Trema doesn't have to be an Umlaut. It depends on how it is used, as different languages use it in different ways. So calling all dots above letters Umlauts is a bit of a misnomer. The more you know 🎶🌈
The reason why you haven't done that is China.
CrossfacePanda - . Du verlierst. Der Name war definitiv deutsch, deshalb war es ein Umlaut.
bimmjim Don't get why you won't write in English when we're all discussing in English here, but sure, the name was pretty German sounding, but more countries than Germany have people with German names, both first and last names. And in countries where we have the letter "ö" for example, its not necessarilly called an umlaut.
Educate yourself before speaking; I'd suggest you start by learning to write in English when the conversation calls for it.
“Er, supreme leader? About that propaganda video...”
“Yes?”
“This American company called Activision is suing us now. They say that we used footage from their video game.”
Allen Lim *saprem rheader
"This is a disaster! If we pay them off, everyone will know that we're starving our people intentionally and if we don't, they'll own us for sure. Quick, get China on the line. They'll know what to do."
Allen Lim Whoa...Activision has some major balls to do that
@@spookyrosev6467 joke, my friend
Funnily enough, they also have ANOTHER propaganda video where they play the Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion theme over pictures of Barack Obama and other American troops LITERALLY ON FIRE!! 😂
It has been years since I've listened to Weird Al, this brought a tear to my eye.
Hats off you you Al, you are fantastic.
Have you seen him in a great film he made in the 80's called UHF?
RomaraAhallow that Weird Al moment was epic!!!
The fact John Oliver knows what a furry is brings a smile to my face.
he once wanted to fuck a plate that was painted with a 'sexy ass wolf', so i think John Oliver furry confirmed
The man's been on the internet quite a bit
nice
@@baileescott401 hol up
Well I do have mixed feelings with the stereotype of “furry”
Weird Al and his accordion will bring World Peace
We will be fucking dead the moment Weird Al dies. Hard to believe I could even say such a statement before this year, though...
Or bob Ross will rise and through the power of the joy of painting turn everyone into happy little trees
Sad that we couldn't hear the actual accordion sound because all of these trumpets and stuff. NKs will not be impressed
Weird Al and Kenny G power duo
The ending made me weirdly happy
Just send Weird Al to North Korea with his accordion, that will sort everything out!
They made it sound like China is unwilling to cooperate because the Sanctions are useless.
*No, China is unwilling to cooperate because they are funding all the missile tests, providing strategic resources like oil directly to them through a pipeline...* And few people know, it takes 2 years of saving up to buy a shoddy rusty bicycle in North Korea, so the only people using oil for any motor vehicles are the military. China is NOT helping the North Korean people, in fact, they take in hordes of escapees and put them on secret slave labor, and if their output is too meager, sell them back to North Korea.
Any time *China feigns being economically hurt at all by sanctions is done on the hope that dumb Americans would actually believe* North Korea actually trades with China on any meaningful scale, when North Korean economy is smaller than... *Birmingham, Alabama.* Yes, a single small American city with less population than 1% of the entire population of North Korea.
You alright? He was talking about Weird Al?
Lets not send weird al
They have the habit of keeping people they like
Didt you people already sent dennis rodman?
and with this a peace ACCORDion was struck.
th-cam.com/video/gpaOy8b8X6A/w-d-xo.html
Its five years later and I can confirm screaming incoherently is perfectly acceptable.
Weird Al never fails to make me happy
I don't think I've ever met anyone who doesn't like him. Nor would I want to, to be honest.
I guess making you happy is the goal in place of a serious evaluation of our national security.
Don't know if anyone noticed but the footage of New York burning in the North Korea propaganda film is literally ripped straight from the 1st campaign mission in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 where the Russian military attacks New York which is hilarious.
Yep
Most probably from 14:34 to 14:43 OR 18:06 to 18:33 of this video th-cam.com/video/_zbT_20H-0g/w-d-xo.html
"Hunter Killer" campaign stage
@@PatrenPatren
The planes at 14:36 line up exactly with 18:29 in the video you linked. They did slow the footage down slightly.
i don't get it, how did they exactly smuggle the game inside the country to make a propaganda video with it??
@@raghavpareek2546
While I'm not a conspiracy nut, at all, I'm not naive enough to think the government, our government (all governments) don't do things we don't know about. Just because Kim Jung vocally bans everything from the west, doesn't mean he won't make use of any or all of it to better implement his personal views.
I thought it looked familiar..lol. thanks for the info. at least the upper rich of north korea have call of duty...lol
weird AL always makes a bad situation much more tolerable he is a true american hero
Wise words, my man.
Here's another one. I was at the car dealership, Tom Hanks came on the waiting room tv. I spoke to the mechanic about weird AL on John Oliver's show, and his face split into a grin. "I saw that one, too". We started signing "Please don't nuke us" as we walked thru the repair shop.
I still can't get over the fact that the New York destruction video used footage from the video game Modern Warfare 3.
Did it now?
www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/02/05/north-korea-threatens-missile-attack-on-us-using-modern-warfare-3-footage/#29a257543a18
MW3 Release Date: November 8, 2011
Propaganda Released: February 2013, or at least that's when people started reporting on it.
I bet half of north korea has never seen a movie or TV whatsoever so this pictures probably look convincing.
Nolan W. so I'm not the only one that noticed that
That's the first thing I thought of, I didn't know it really was from mw3 XD
Philip, they have televisions in North Korea. The satellite images of the country being dark is because they only have electricity during the day.
I think what's extra weird is how genuinely good the Take On Me cover is.
22:20 Shit. Even the North Koreans know Trump plays too much golf. Fox News doesn't even admit that. 😂😂
Wow do you seriously take nk seriously
how can you take Trump seriously?
+Tanvir Hasan (Pluviophile) he's a very serious man
"Bill Cosby's 9/11" sounds like it makes more sense, but "9/11's Bill Cosby" is objectively funnier.
9/11's Bill Cosby is Rudy Giuliani
@@botigamer9011 well played, sir.
I would totally watch Earlier Times But Now with Spance Mörgendörffer
That would be the best show ever!
if not for him to just pronounce the name of the show repeatedly
Is it me or has Weird Al not aged at all?
Weird Al is a celestial who has ascended to a godlike state. Why would have aged?
Rift Dancer im waiting for a vegan to comment and say because he is a vegan thats why he stays young. Even though that is not true.
^When you are so obsessed with vegans that you have to argue against an argument that was not even made.
Mariana Silva i wanted to make an irrelevant comment for once like many you tube comments lol. Wanted to see how it will go?
is it because everything you know is wrong? : ) ♪
Man, I really love the idea of an entire country thinking that Weird Al Yankovich was just an average American citizen, and that he is the basis of what makes up the entire average American populous, that would be awesome.
This.
Zeppelin ♫ we'd be better off that way tbh. Everyone would think all Americans are goofy, clever, kind-hearted and friendly people
Thomas Bailey Yes. Let us hope they don't see any Charlottesville footage.
We are, for the most part, goofy, clever, kind-hearted and friendly people. It's just that goofy, clever, kind-hearted and friendly stuff doesn't make the lead on the evening news.
It will probably not happen, but I guess it would be kinda fun, yes.
Gosh, this was like 7 “on the brink of war”s ago
As an accordionist, it is great seeing this beautiful instrument featured in a national TV.
Time to stash up the bottle caps
HighGeneral Blitz We gonna have a fallout...
Patrolling the Mojave slmost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
HighGeneral Blitz you need to hoard the juice
look me up in game ;)
im already with the minute men...
Writing from 2020, thinking "man, remember when all we worried about was being nuked by North Korea?"
Now it's murder hornets spreading Covid-19 trough 5G with Bill Gates cackling as he plans to inject us with a "vaccine" that contains a tracking device and AIDS!
s/
I’ve got some news for you, dude.
@@Alan-cp1sb Didn't Gates also fund that child trafficking pizza place where Obama and Hillary trained a crack team of 75 year old hippies for ANTIFA?
@@nicdegrave9310 Don't forget the libs putting 5g in the tap water vaccines
Yeah, fuck the people suffering in work camps, we’ve got our own problems now amirite?? 😒
Weird Al's high kick at the end is completely legendary and deserves so much more attention
'Stork's vagina' is not a term I expected to hear today. Neither was 'North Korean Godzilla'
AND I DID NOT FUCKING EXPECT WEIRD AL
We did all expect John Oliver to dance as white as possible.
We've all grown
but birds have a cloaca. It's an anus and a vagina
NIGGA HE JUST SAID "NORTH KOREAN ISIS" AND "9/11 BILL COSBY"
That background footage of new york on fire was clearly from Sledgehammers "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3"
please, what is the timestamp, I must know-
Not a Western Spy 14:56
@@TheAwesomeHyperon
thank you so much-
@@lylasaur6694 are you an eastern spy?
@@jayrajravat1612
I can neither confirm nor deny that statement
Did not expect Weird Al to show up XD
The moment he started talking about acordions at the end I started going "Please be Weird Al, Please be Weird Al, ..."
I knew as soon as he mentioned Weird Al... He always partially reveals his end surprise somewhere in the middle of the show.
The true war crime is that more than 3000 people who watched this video still disliked it despite Weird Al.
RIGHT?!
You think that was surprising? I don't think I've heard the name "Taylor Hicks" in years, and I fucking live in Alabama.
2017: this is very serious
2020: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Lmao
Why don’t I feel like laughing?
Maybe we should just invade North Korea. You know just put out the fire before it gets big.
@Randomdude 27 an invasion would work but it would kill millions if North Korea didn’t have nukes I would recommend an invasion but if we invade North Korea is just going to launch nukes
@MrHistory808 They could potentially launch nukes but I find it unlikely they currently have icbms capable of reaching the United States and the U.S. is a very capable military force I believe we could easily take out a vast majority of North Korea’s military and nuclear power quickly putting a swift end to conflict.
13:11 you can hear a woman in the crowd yell “WHAT?!” after the fake war story. Perfect
I heard it to
@@kyleshiflet9952 to what?
When your unsure if we we going into World War 3 or Civil War 2
#TEAMCAPTIANAMERICA
Go team Cap.
Well, for Civil War 2, #TEAMIRONMAN. I'm sorry Captain Marvel, but we watched Minority Report.
Frankie Fernandez lol
When you can't take the point the person made seriously because they don't know the correct usage of the word "your."
5 years in time has passed
When Weird Al is better at international relationships than the President.
Because the president suffers from both Lead Poisoning and Dementia
To be fair Weird Al is better at most things than other people.
so what i am hearing is... Weird Al for President.
Still a good thing in my opinion.
It’s a low bar
Fun fact: the actor who played Pulgasari also played Godzilla in the Heisei Era. He was also the Showa Era Gigan and Hedorah. He was actually abducted by Kim Jong-il and forced to star in it.
Alucard, More Awesome Than Chuck Norris! Damn I’m a huge g fan and I didn’t know that, you learn something new everyday
Cool
Well that’s dark
@@matthew_natividad The Kim-Jong family are bastards. I say we nuke their whole goddamn castle to the ground.
Did he at least escape?
So basically Weird Al Yankovic and John Oliver are on the forefront of saving the world from nuclear armageddon. I can relate to that. :D
5 years after this video released , and we still scream in terror
2017: Where Weird Al is better at clearly communicating a diplomatic statement to North Korea than the President of the United States.
What a time to be alive.
Written To Insanity Weird Al 2020.
That footage of New York being destroyed was MW3 gameplay
mychickenburning imao, i was looking for that comment
Commenting On -Insert Topic- could that be the "hacking" from a fallout 3/nv/4 terminal?
Koolken & J-Rizzi why would i? If i wanted any information, i would search for it myself. i have no need for your videos, and i will assume you are self-promoting through comments.
mychickenburning Good game I dont care what people say.
I noticed as well. Its kinda sad that their citizens can't even create there own fake Digital 3D environments.
The North Korean propaganda in 14:26 the footage is actually Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. Where you are in a helicopter leaving New York after destroying a Entire Russian fleet. Seems legit
Baltic Gaming People, upvote this comment
Snowcold
Glad i wasnt the only one to notice! +1
Baltic Gaming they've also used music from the elder scrolls oblivion for another propaganda video
Seeing as their propaganda probably says the COD series was invented by Kim Jong-un, I don't think they had any qualms about that.
Ismael Lovera I didn't realize North Korea's government was such a fan of video games.
Fun fact: the actor in the Pulgasari monster suit, Kenpachiro Satsuma, actually played several Kaiju in the original 1970s Godzilla series, including Hedorah and Gigan, and would later go on to play Godzilla himself in the 90s film series.
"If an employer asks you where you see yourself in five years, it's now perfectly acceptable to scream at his face in terror"
well if the current evolution of 2020 is anything to go by, that would be the only correct answer
Am from future can confirm still the norm
As an Indian, i love how woke John Oliver is about British atrocities against Indians
Here from even farther in the future and this still applies to everyone.
For real, the pandemic destroyed the world beyond recovery 💔
Writing from Italy in 2023 - still valid to scream (but also cry because why not, after all?)
The U.S. has around 6,800 nuclear warheads. Let’s consider one scenario in which, oh, say just for the sake of speculation, the U.S. launches 100 or so missiles at North Korea. We might not launch nearly that many nukes if we actually decided to do this and different strategic targets would need to be hit with different types of missiles and warheads, and they’re likely going to be hit with multiple warheads to make sure they’re damaged beyond all repair. Plus, the president has full autonomy over the nuclear football and in theory, could order as many strikes as he feels necessary. But 100 missiles is a large, round number and is a common enough refrain to consider.
They’ll take about 35 to 45 minutes to hit all their targets and it’s extremely likely that every one will go off exactly as expected since American nukes are precisely engineered and thoroughly reliable. After a hundred mushroom clouds will dissipate, some really, really bad things will start to happen at a fairly rapid pace. North Korea will be in ruins, and while it won’t glow with radiation, its territory will be lethal to any living thing. A smaller strike will leave patches of relatively safe territory in the mountainous terrain, but as North Korea occupies almost exactly the same land area as Pennsylvania, there’s not much room to hide, so a stiff breeze can cover survivors under a fallout cloud very quickly.
After the initial burst of gamma rays created by the blasts, the heavy elements from the fission primary, the uranium spark plug, casing, and tamper, will mix with the air currents generated by the heat of the nuclear fireballs and come down as a black, sticky rain after about 40 minutes to an hour. This is exactly what happened in Hiroshima, but that was one explosion. The combined soot and heat from 100 blasts would be like a massive volcanic eruption, except it would also be far, far deadlier. Depending on the weather conditions, it’s not out of the question to see black rainstorms across the entire region.
And herein lays the problem. The affected region would include our frenemy China, our rival Russia, and our allies Japan and South Korea. Radioactive particles will spread across the Northern Hemisphere, ending up in Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, and the Canadian Pacific Coast. The fish many nations around the Pacific Rim rely on for food would be killed or contaminated. Tens of millions will be poisoned or sickened, and even several generations down the line, there will be numerous birth defects and cases of aggressive cancers as lower intensity fallout takes its toll.
Even worse, about 100 W88 detonations, or bombs like this, are more than enough to start nuclear winter. Yes, that’s right, things are about to get worse. As the radioactive soot travels across the world, carried by currents high in the atmosphere, it begins to blot out the sun, cooling the planet. While this could temporarily stop global warming, it will also collapse countless food chains, and guarantee failure of harvests blighted with the unstable isotopes raining from the sky, then denied sunlight, even after replanting and disposing of the contaminated soil to start rebuilding.
Our enemies may be dead and dying, but we and our allies will also have to deal with the fallout, the nuclear winter’s decade or so of hungry years, and the long term residual effects of being irradiated. Over 371.8 million people live in the region in question, and a tens of millions more could also feel the effects of the fallout and food shortages. It’s hard to estimate how many will succumb because that depends on numerous factors like the wind, weather, and the timing and precise location of the explosions, but it will certainly be in the low eight figures at the very least.
A smaller strike would stave off nuclear winter and lessen the possible long term casualties from the disruption of the food supplies. However, given the population density of the region, the death toll would still be in the tens of millions and spread to our allies. There could still be regional climactic and weather disruptions, and even though they would disappear within years rather than decades, they could still cause enough collateral damage to be extremely troublesome for recovery efforts. We’d be in uncharted territory and all we’d have to go by would be theoretical models.
What we can say for sure is that our allies in the region will be the hardest hit while nations with which we don’t have the best relations will suffer the side-effects of the bombing and be very unhappy about. Northeast China, which borders North Korea, is home to almost 165 million people. South Korea has over 52 million people in its territory and its capital will feel the direct brunt of the black rain and gamma rays from Pyongyang’s destruction. Japan’s will be hit with the dangerous soot from the blasts as well.
It’s very likely that Seoul will not be looking at Washington as an ally for the next few generations, and neither will Tokyo. Beijing and Moscow would be seething over their citizens being irradiated and threatening to launch their missiles at America’s West Coast’s citizens, who would now be very likely to suffer a number of long term effects from the debris that will travel across the ocean on a much larger scale than it did from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So, to borrow the most popular saying of 2017, it will be a shit show, with a decent chance of World War 3 erupting in the aftermath.
Keep that in mind next time a certain cable news addicted senior citizen with an unhealthy interest in why we can’t just use nuclear weapons to make our problems go away gets in a Twitter beef with someone who actually has nukes and very little to lose if attacked.
In 1945, when the United States still had a monopoly on nuclear devices which were limited to about 20 kilotons, and there was an all out war between two nations, using the bombs made sense. However, we live in an age when we can set the world ablaze with the push of a button, typical warheads are 20 to 50 times more powerful, and not just the United States has them, so there are now consequences for their use.
And that’s probably what the people who think that it would be a great idea to preemptively nuke another nation refuse to grasp. The world has changed and so has the political calculus of using these weapons. We are not untouchable, we will be inviting another global war if we strike first, and even if we could avoid retaliation by a combination of missile defense and extreme diplomacy, the fallout from a massive nuclear volley will come back to haunt us over the medium and long term. So unless you have a luxury space habitat, or another world you can jump to after you press that button, nukes are the last resort of a nation with its back against the wall, not a weapon of choice, which is why this is the doctrine of just about every member of the Nuclear club.
Well thought out and really long comment.
You know you are one of the very few people who understand the consequences of a nuclear fallout because its not the explosion that causes most death but the aftermath I.e radiation, radioactive soot, posioned water, food. Single nuclear strike will have effect on south korea,Japan and China. Also all other neighboring countries which might lead to nuclear war
You're perhaps overestimating the effect of nuclear fallout specifically. The kind of nuclear bombs used in ww2 were uranium fission bombs that used up only a small fraction of their fuel mass, leading to a lot of nasty dust getting released and sticking around for years. Modern bombs use fairly tiny fission charges to initiate the fusion of a container full of pure deuterium or the like and are very clean, generating little radioactive byproducts. 100 minuteman missiles would certainly not produce anywhere near enough radioactive dust enough to kill off any significant amount of ocean life or render even small areas of land uninhabitable for more than a year or two at most. Might give 100,000 people cancer a decade down the line though. Anyone near enough to the bombs when they detonate to get radiation poisoning from gamma and/or neutron radiation would easily be incinerated by the heat and/or killed by the actual blast.
Also something like nuclear winter is not a localized phenomenon caused by radiation or anything like that. Quite the opposite. Its dust from the ground being vaporized and getting stuck high up the atmosphere, reducing light/radiation transmission to the ground from space/the sun. So in fact, the sky across the entire planet would darken with dust from a large nuclear strike, affecting far more than just the area being hit and reducing vegetation and crop growth everywhere.
Perhaps you should read my comment again, only more carefully.
No, you are definitely overestimating the amount of fallout and debits which would be created. If what you are saying was true then above ground nuclear tests, of which there have been hundreds, would have had a death toll ranking in the millions. Not the tens of thousands that it actually caused. Nuclear winter is also highly improbable. The prediction relied of an assumption that firestorms would be widespread and intense enough to create massive amounts of ash, soot, etc. The problem with this is that there is far less to burn than there was during WW2 where neither the massive firebombing campaigns nor the nuclear strikes caused anything close to what would be needed to actually create nuclear winter, a nuclear autumn at most. You also need to factor in when the strikes occur, what season it is, and use of air burst warheads which would produce vastly less radiation and firestorm than a ground level detonation would. I would also restate Acb Thr's point regarding the increased efficiency of modern warheads as that undermines the credibility of any fallout predictions which relies on Little Boy and/or Fat Man as precedents.
I've been watching your shows, all night, kinda got addicted, putting that aside, let me say, you're one of the bestpresenters I've seen / heard in quite awhile. To me it's always about subject, attitude, mannerism, oratory andcan all this hold a person's attention in your case YES, YES, YES, keep it up. Kudos....
Love you weird al. Goddamn he’s an angel
"You've got us crapping our collective pants"
Lost it at that line.
"It's all your Mum's friends... and the people of North Korea!"
And me John - I live in a country where our TV is all drama and no action AKA *Australia*
Your news are so dramatic there could be a nuclear war breaking out and some Aussie would report on your local Perth store being robbed by an elderly lady.
Same here in indonesia
@@iRaps1 No, but it was highly centred on the problems of the world, for sure. One morning show decided that they were going to stop scaring people and tell them about the good in the world too.
Our equivalent of Florida Men are also most certainly not elderly women: it's Queenslanders
And as someone from Ireland where 47% of our TV is Australian dramas I see where you're coming from.
"...fire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen."
Well, to be fair, the world has seen it at least twice.
like at the end o/t Cretaceous
I'm pretty sure that qualifies as a good thing.
And the Koreans have seen it at least once
+Hypergalactica Challenge accepted.
Ryleigh S
We're doomed...
Nearly 5 years later, and I have to say
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
i am chinese, and i used to play the accordion for eight years as a kid, only because we couldn't either afford a piano or find space in our tiny apartment to put a piano. there, that's the reason why communists play the accordion.
Ann Lin do you still play it or have you moved on to a different instrument?
Ann Lin well north korea nor chinia are communist
Ann Lin with out China human civilization will sink .
Socialist -Covefefe-69
The DPRK is socialist lead by communists
Socialist -Covefefe-69 North Korea and china are both communist BUT China's becoming more and more of a free market place a little
"Who doesnt like tom hanks" is directed specifically at the coronavirus rn
...and this is yet another reason why I hate coronavirus.
Kate McCarthy 😷
olga kurleynko
hevin durant
8dris elba😢
Doesn't that mean the virus LIKES Tom Hanks?
Look at his Instagram comments
rewatching the videos with audience reactions hits very different given how it's been lately
To this day, the fact that the video North Korea 'made' of them firing missiles at the US is just an opening cut scene of Modern Warfare 3 is absolutely hilarious
It's official; Weird Al is immortal.
"Fire and fury"?
Looks like Donald Trump is both a Targaryen and Baratheon
well...Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land , as madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin.... we certainly know on which side the coin for Donald Targaryen landed
Retro Fury I was thinking the same lmao
LOL he is totally a mad targaryen
No he's just mad
I hope the Daenarys of this world is the Prime minister of Canada. "Come to reclaim the White House throne"
I trust Weird Al with my life
Who doesn't?
Spooky Stela Weird Al should be honored. U are so Scorching HOT!!
McMac Shalfilya creep
I trust him with my children.
Imagine being asked to write and perform a song to - if seen - convince a country of people propagandized to despise your country that we’re not worth murdering. God bless Weird Al
Remember when this was everyone's worst fear?
those were the days ..
Still possible if some ass releases a nasty fart.
I literally screamed in joy when WEIRD AL came on stage!!! Amazing! One of my favorite episodes just for this so happy omg love him
No one is going to read this, but those students playing "Take On Me" on accordions were not doing that in N. Korea. They were on a "good will" tour in Europe at the time and the the European guy who recorded it, taught them the song. Frankly, they probably didn't even know what they were playing. The real question is what happened to those kids after they got back home only to find out that the evil Western pop music is frowned upon?
Ascetic Walker I hope they liked it at least. It's a great song.
+Jenifer Joseph Definitely a great song and a great performance. Look for it on TH-cam. I saw it when it first appeared. Those kids are marvelous.
Ascetic Walker i read it
Never heard something so beautiful on the accordion. The band a-ha is actually Norwegian so I think they're ok.
Fheroah: yeah, cause Norway is Northern, not Western 🎅
Just realized the soundtrack on this pulgasari scene is accordion
John Oliver is awesome! Hope this show has a very long run on cable television and youtube!
Weird Al Yankovic is one of the best entertainers/characters of the 1980s and pop culture of the past 30+ years in the USA and world!
Dear Weird Al:
Actually, my ex-wife cannot stand Tom Hanks. Never could.
That should have been my first clue.
(Emphasis on the "EX")
She's a nobody.
“How many artifacts is Johnny about to have? All the artifacts.” *hahahahhaahhahahahahah* 😐😭
That one had me too
That Weird Al section was literally perfection
So sad for the people of North Korea.
Yeah man, they never chose this life. It's really shameful how so many people confuse a country's government with a country's PEOPLE, who quite often do NOT agree with their government at all. We don't get a choice in where we happen to be born...
They feel the same for you.
North Koreans are fine, they just need to have less embargo so their economy can get better (it's already above average still) and get less threats of invasion and nuclear war all the time so they can spend less money in the military and time in military service.
So stop the threats of invasion, like the mock joint invasion the US/SK army does every year as a ritual on the North/South border.
Stop the economic sanctions that everyone should know target the people directly.
Pay reparations for the invasion in the 50s and compensate for the loss of 3 000 000 people and the utter destruction of entire cities.
Finally, end the occupation of South Korea, leave not one military base standing and stop the sabotage of their peace talk attempts with the South and allow the country to be reunited finally after 60+ years of US occupation.
i guess you want to give them "Freedom & democracy" as you have for Iraq ...
@Marwane
Lol yes we all want more of that sweet sweet US democracy :D
how is this fucking possible, Al looks like he did 20 years ago. HOW
Nobody is that clever and amazing without having to make a Faustian bargain. Eternal youth was clearly part of it.
He was killed and replaced by a clone. Illuminati confirmed! :P
Maybe why that is why North Korea is obsessed with the accordion... it has magical rejuvenation powers.
He doesn't age.
william fine
He probably prayed to Jeff or something.
If anyone can negotiate International Relations, it'll be Weird Al.
1:42 The blast radius is bad and all
...but it's the _fallout_ that the real hell.
Is he not gonna mention the fact that the North Korean video where they destroyed NYC was copyright claimed by Activision because it contained scenes from COD?
Battery except North Korea gives zero fucks about DMCA.
I don't know why but I find that quite funny; even NK can't escape the DMCA plague.
I'm suspecting that they got the idea for the music from here : www.dailymotion.com/video/x2vcxjy