Tapes from the dark side contains descriptions of violence and sexuality.

Listener discretion is advised.

Before we jump into this episode, there's something I have to address, something rather major that I got

wrong. It appears that in my excitement of finding the video of Calvin's son on the fifth floor of the Yangakta

Hotel, I overlooked an important detail, which is that Otto Wormbeer never said he went to

the fifth floor.

In fact, he said he went to the second floor.

I asked my UK tour guide where they keep the important slogans in the Yango International

Hotel.

She said they're in staff-only areas.

That night, I alone walked around the second-floor lobby until I saw a staff-only areas. That night, I alone walked around the second floor lobby until I saw a

staff-only sign in English opposite the hotel shop. Now, in my defense, I'm not the only one who got

this wrong. The BBC and the Huffington Post both listed the floor that Otto visited as being the fifth floor. This doesn't really

change much about our story, but I figured anyone paying attention was probably confused, so

there it is. It was the second floor, not the fifth floor. On March 16, 2016,

Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.

After the details in the last episode, I think you can imagine what that means.

Now, I've read about Otto's case on countless blogs, websites, the news article comments, Facebook, and Reddit.

And it seems like many of you are just like me, perhaps less familiar with foreign policy,

and are wondering why America, one of the most powerful military countries in the world,

would allow one of our own citizens to spend a single day in a concentration camp.

And going even further than that, why do we tolerate North Korea and their fascist regime at all?

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