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😱 [VIDEO] - 5 Days Alone Inside NORTH KOREA | Wally Green • #147

Julian Dorey Podcast

Julian Dorey

Comedy

4.6649 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 179 minutes

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Support Our Show on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey  Subscribe To Our Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChs-BsSX71a_leuqUk7vtDg  (***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Wally Green is a former gangster, world-renowned Table Tennis player, and former North Korea visitor. After a difficult childhood in Brooklyn, Green traveled the world as a pro ping pong player and eventually visited North Korea (against all advice) to promote peace through the sport. Wally is the Co-Owner of "Spin" –– the renowned chain of Ping Pong Bars around America. ***TIMESTAMPS*** 0:00 - Wally’s earliest exposure to gang life & his sociopathic stepfather 6:33 - The psychological abuse Wally endured as a child 10:53 - Wally’s stepbrother 12:39 - Wally gets sent to Africa by judge 17:19 - Boarding school & a rude-awakening in Nigeria 27:36 - Wally comes back to America & joins gangs again 28:55 - What Wally did for the gangs; A close call with a gun 39:32 - Wally is level-headed (against all odds) 42:35 - The day Wally became homeless (STORY) 48:34 - Wally’s odd dynamic with his mom 53:23 - Where was Wally’s real father? Why did his mom love stepfather? 59:27 - How an old man took Wally under his wing & showed him ping pong 1:03:42 - A gun falls out of Wally’s bag story 1:13:43 - Wally gets sent to Germany 1:22:40 - The Chinatown Tournament & Rockstar Games deal 1:27:46 - Wally decides to play for the Team USA prior to North Korea trip 1:33:56 - Wally’s early exposure to the rise of China in 2000s 1:44:30 - Why did Wally want to go to North Korea? 1:51:42 - Wally’s initial research on North Korea; Questions you get asked in North Korea 1:56:50 - How did Wally get into Kim Jong Un’s North Korea?; The Embassy in China story 2:03:47 - The plane ride on North Korean airline; Pins on the plane story 2:10:44 - Wally’s “Guide” in North Korea 2:16:26 - Practicing in North Korea prior to tournament; The English teacher 2:19:49 - Wally’s very risky move in North Korea 2:25:21 - Wally plays a table tennis match against a North Korean native 2:29:39 - The North Korean crowd & how Wally got them on his side 2:33:20 - The shocking thing Wally did post-match 2:39:45 - Kim Jong Un’s North Korea: The Truman Show 2:41:48 - Why Wally decided to leave; Wally’s close call with Labor Camp 2:49:18 - US reaction to Wally’s trip to North Korea 2:54:25 - North Korea’ people have no idea what freedom is ~ Get $150 Off The Eight Sleep Pod Pro Mattress / Mattress Cover (USING CODE: “JULIANDOREY”): https://eight-sleep.ioym.net/trendifier Julian's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey ~ Music via Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So I started a conversation with my guy, and the conversation started like this. I said, look at every major country in the world. They have influence from the world. She said, that's not true. Everything in our country was done by our great leader and this and this and that. And I said, yeah, but, you know, your great leader has Western influence. Now I'm going into the yellow. You said that. Oh, it gets better. It gets better. How'd she look at you when you said that?

0:23.9

She gave me his look. great leader has Western influence. Now I'm going into the yellow. You chef, man. It gets better.

0:21.6

It gets better.

0:22.6

How'd she look at you when you said that?

0:23.6

She gave me his look, she says. had two sides to me i had the gang life and then i had the sports right um the

0:52.1

how early were you exposed to the gang life uh gang life uh 12 12 12 yeah is that like when

0:58.3

you just became aware that existed or like they actually were trying to pull you oh no i always knew

1:03.0

i always knew it existed and the projects like you always knew it existed because you know what a lot

1:10.0

and the way you get exposed in different ways um but the way that

1:14.7

i first got exposed to gang life and i never talked about people never asked me this question um

1:20.1

is that uh someone wanting me to hold a gun for them hey guys the best way you can help this show

1:27.3

if you're on youtube is by hitting the subscribe button and smashing that like button on this video every single week when we put out an episode. And if you're over on Spotify, following the show and leaving a five-star reviewer the best things we can get. So thank you to all of you who have already done those things and thank you to all of you who are going to do them now. Also, we are going to have a Patreon episode coming out the day after this episode releases on YouTube and Spotify. So keep your eye out for that. And the Patreon link is in the description below. They got some stuff. And they would, I guess, police were chasing. was really young, so I don't remember, but they said, hold this.

2:03.6

I'll get it from you later.

2:05.6

And it was a gun.

2:06.6

Like I'm just coming up to you on the street.

2:08.6

Yeah.

2:09.6

Well, it's not really on the street, but in my projects.

2:11.6

Got it.

2:12.6

And of course, even you're young, you know, we're outside, right?

2:16.6

We're in front of the building all the time we know

2:19.7

who the people are young kids know what's going on they they they they know and so i just held it

2:26.3

and came back and got it later but um that was like the first kind of being exposed to it and um

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