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    Part One: Kim Jong Un and His Family of Dictators | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
    In Episode 70, Robert is joined by Eli Olsberg to discuss The Kims of North Korea.
    Original Air Date: July 2, 2019
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  • @whackedoutpoobrain
    @whackedoutpoobrain 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    Juche is pronounced JOO-che, not joosh, which is unfortunate because joosh is hilarious.

    • @rbarghouti
      @rbarghouti 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      This was driving me crazy. You can't suffix a syllable with the "sh" phoneme in Korean.

    • @delusionnnnn
      @delusionnnnn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Why we have silent letters in English, along with why the Great Vowel Shift happened, is fascinating research. And it's also why English-speakers pronounce so many foreign words incorrectly. With some notable exceptions such as French, it's usually safe to presume if there's a letter in a foreign word, it's there to be pronounced. Particularly if it's been given an English orthography recently. Korean had a widespread English transliterations from the early 40s, and was significantly revised with an update in 2000 for South Korea.

  • @jonwesick2844
    @jonwesick2844 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Correction. There is a North Korean movie from when Kim Jong-il kidnapped a director and actress. It's called Pulgasari and is a North Korean version of Godzilla. I watched it online. It's not bad.

    • @Saliferous
      @Saliferous หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You can read the book "a kim jung il production" about that incident. It's WILD

  • @TheDarthbinky
    @TheDarthbinky 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    North Korea actually has (or had) a film industry. We know this because there were a few Americans (usually disillusioned soldiers guarding the DMZ) who defected to the North in the years after the war... and some of these Americans became actors. One of the Americans fully embraced North Korean communism, and became rather famous for playing the ruthless, scheming American villain in these North Korean movies. But I think these Americans have all died by now (one of them famously came back to the US a few years back and was ceremonially dishonorably discharged from the US Army when he was in his 90s or something like that, I don't remember the details), so I don't know what the current status of their film industry is.
    Also, another issue with info coming out from the North is the defectors. There's a handful of defectors who've fallen in with rabidly anti-communist right-wing groups in South Korea/the US and tend to tell stories about North Korea that totally coincidentally align perfectly with these groups' narrative. That's not to excuse the abuses of the North Korean regime... but usually when you see a program/documentary discussing North Korea, it's the same 2-3 people whose stories are always pretty wild. Like that story about the Kims eating specially harvested rice... how would anyone know? Especially considering, as mentioned later in the podcast, that most North Koreans weren't even aware of the existence of the Kim family (aside from Jong Il). (EDIT - ok the second ep gets into this misinformation.)

  • @michaelrichter9427
    @michaelrichter9427 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    > Juche (English: /ˈdʒuːtʃeɪ/ (listen), JOO-chay; Korean: [tɕutɕʰe] (listen))
    It doesn't rhyme with douche. Though it should.

  • @addie1080
    @addie1080 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I sure do love Products and Services! ꈍᴗꈍ

  • @jacquirimown3886
    @jacquirimown3886 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Very interesting podcasts, looking forward to listening to more now that I have discovered your channel.

  • @JackRabbit9181996
    @JackRabbit9181996 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Absolutely love this podcast, it's criminally underrated. Its funny, interesting and chock full of information!
    Thanks for making such a great show!

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Kim Jong-Eun wearing JNCO's would be an exercise in ultimate stubbiness.

  • @fives.
    @fives. 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    11:20 the irony here is you can start from here and up until the Soviet speech-writers line, think they're talking about Jong-un from the jump

  • @mathewkelly9968
    @mathewkelly9968 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I confer i had guns at 7 years old ......... Air rifles calm down it was the 80s ........ But if youd given me a Generals uniform as well , things would have gone real south real fast

  • @T61APL89
    @T61APL89 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The book Evans mentioned is spelled
    The Great Successor by Anna Fifield

  • @aaronyoung542
    @aaronyoung542 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    You need to do an episode of sygmund rhee now, who's honestly just as bad in several ways

    • @fives.
      @fives. 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I co-sign this heavily, South Korea has had similar-yet-politically-inverse-issues with totalitarian leaders

  • @portmantologist
    @portmantologist 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    It always hurts to hear the way Robert pronounces things, but this episode especially hurts because I speak Korean and Chinese. The first time you said "Juche", I thought "what the fuck is joosh?" Eventually I realized you were referring to "joo-chay".

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      He mangles the hell out of all sorts of words, and I mean of all languages including and especially English, which he's a native speaker of. If that's any comfort.

    • @TheDarthbinky
      @TheDarthbinky 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Oh yeah, the way he massacres German pronunciation (and thanks to Nazism, there's a TON of eps involving Germans), I pretty much have come to the conclusion that it's a running gag.

    • @standardnerd2046
      @standardnerd2046 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      He does, but he also apologises in advance. He covers bastards from all areas so I don't begrudge him any pronunciations, he can hardly be expected to know the nuances of all regions and dialects ( although I cringed every time he mentioned an Irish person or place in the catholic church series :D ). He's an equal opportunities word mangler

    • @shmehfleh3115
      @shmehfleh3115 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'm a dumb white guy, and it hurt me to hear. He mispronounces a lot of stuff, even what I thought are pretty common names and words.

    • @whym6438
      @whym6438 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As an American who tried to learn Korean and gave up, the spelling of Korean names in English letters is very inconsistent and tough to work out, which is weird, given how easy and simple hanggeul is. Like, which English asshole decided that the last name 박 needed to be spelled "Park", and why did they hate the Scottish, Irish, and Americans so much? (Edit: It should be spelled "Bak" or "Pak", because the r is NOT pronounced, is what I'm getting at.)
      "Joosh" is still inexcusable, though.

  • @SesshyLover777
    @SesshyLover777 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Btw everyone, Busan is a great city if you ever have the chance to go! So is Daegu ^^ (near Busan) also, the way they copied Japan's emperor myth homework but changed it is too funny considering

  • @jonsnowver4183
    @jonsnowver4183 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The way you pronounce "Juche" (joo-CHay) kills me

  • @mx338
    @mx338 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I feel like the format of this podcast doesn't serve trying to explain history that well, in South Korea the dictatorship built the economy up in a centralised fashion by giving enormous resources to a few specific families, it is only later that democratic reforms are made.

  • @peaceking7526
    @peaceking7526 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    the climate change part was super grim but its true sadly

  • @SeekSeekLest
    @SeekSeekLest 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That first segway might be the worst ad read in I have ever seen.

  • @MrJohndoakes
    @MrJohndoakes หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    29:30 It isn't just Juche (self-reliance), there is also "Songgun" or "military first" and the phrase "Songgun Juche" is constantly mentioned. It's their version of Maoism, mixed with this Albanian-style military paranoia (except they don't build endless bunkers) about South Korea and Japan.

  • @bobar57
    @bobar57 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The plural of lego is lego

  • @Don_Ricardo
    @Don_Ricardo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    1:09:30 what are Jenkos? Jinkos?

    • @johnwaller7033
      @johnwaller7033 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      JNCOs were the pants in the 90s with the super huge legs. Like, you could have 36 pants with 44 inch legs.. each leg.

  • @twalt
    @twalt ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i am very sure you are pronouncing juche wrong. pretty sure its two syllables

    • @MrJohndoakes
      @MrJohndoakes หลายเดือนก่อน

      ""Joo-che" not "joosh" or "jooch".

  • @NeighborhoodOfBlue
    @NeighborhoodOfBlue 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I will never understand the appeal of Ariana Grande.

  • @adamgroszkiewicz814
    @adamgroszkiewicz814 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Joo-chay....not joosh. At least look at a pronunciation before doing a 1 hour+ podcast on a subject.

    • @MrJohndoakes
      @MrJohndoakes หลายเดือนก่อน

      Robert Evans has never been able to pronounce foreign words.

  • @briangarvey6895
    @briangarvey6895 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Your summary of the Korean War was so bad it made me side with the North Koreans.

  • @johnl5350
    @johnl5350 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Opening up with "indisputable" and uncorroborated conclusions. No doubt! 30 years! Come on now.

    • @mathewkelly9968
      @mathewkelly9968 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      The only uncorroborated part is your claim the climate isn't fucked