Hi there, my name is Oli and I'm the guy that's done the music for Real Narcos.

We here at Noiza Podcasts wanted to give you a heads up that Real Narcos will be returning

in a few weeks with the crazy story of the Colombian drug lord Griseldor Blanco.

In the meantime we are releasing a new show called Real Dictators, hosted by legendary British

actor Paul McGahn, who many of you will know for his leading roles in Doctor Who and with nail

and eye. In this first episode of Real Dictators we are kicking off the story of an

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. So if you enjoy this first installment of Real Dictators,

then please subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or go to RealDictators.com.

Thanks so much for listening and here is episode one of Real Dictators.

North Koreans didn't know that man had landed on the moon because the men had landed on the moon

were Americans so therefore they weren't tall. The level of the compartmentalization of information

is just phenomenal the things that they don't know that we take for granted. If they knew freedom

they would want it. North Korea could have become anything but helmed by Kim Jong Il.

It would turn towards paranoia, secrecy and terror. Because he never really left North Korea he

took what he saw in Hollywood films to beat realism. North Korea became very good at selling drugs

and making and selling counterfeit $100 bills, trafficking people and ivory and later nuclear

secrets and weapons, anything that a criminal empire would do and this was all backed up with

the state's might. My name is Paul McGinn and welcome to Real Dictators, the series that explores

the hidden lives of tyrants such as Adolf Hitler, Chairman Mao and Joseph Stalin.

You'll be right there in their meeting rooms and private quarters on the battlefields and in their

bunkers up close and personal with some of history's most evil leaders. We'll take you behind the

curtain beyond the propaganda and the myth making to hear the real stories of their totalitarian regimes.

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