The Joe Rogan

Experience Train by Day Joe Rogan

by night all day!

Well, very nice to meet you first of all.

Thanks for coming here.

Is this your first time in Texas?

No, I've been here before.

You been to Austin before?

Yes. So for people who don't know your story, I'm just going to give them a primer. Just to sort of establish your history. You were born in North Korea and you escaped North Korea when you were 13.

Is that how old you were? I think we should start off with what it was like living in North Korea.

I saw your interview with Jordan Peterson and it was incredibly moving and it was incredibly disturbing and

eye-opening and it's hard to believe for people that don't know what life is like in North Korea the reality of you growing up in

North Korea but just talking about how you essentially had no food and you would

go looking for bugs to eat. This was the reality of your existence as a

child that there was no protein. What, when you, now that you live here in America and you can kind of eat whatever you want,

when you look back on that, what does it seem like to you does it seem like reality does it

seem like a dream what does your childhood seem like?

Sometimes this feels like dream this feels like a dream.

This feels like a dream.

Yeah, so I pinched myself a lot in the beginning.

Because they say if it's not dream, it hurts, right?

When you pinch yourself. So a lot of times I pinch myself because sometimes I'm really horrified

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