North Korea: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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  • @enriquejasso4557
    @enriquejasso4557 3 роки тому +3485

    In hindsight, it was perfectly acceptable to scream in terror when asked where you see yourself in 5 years on 2017.

    • @cuteincolour4289
      @cuteincolour4289 3 роки тому +54

      Underrated comment!

    • @deeznutz862
      @deeznutz862 3 роки тому +12

      honestly the entire video was biased
      his campaign of no nonsense with north korea got him a meeting with kim jon ung and honestly de-escalated the entire thing

    • @xanosghoul
      @xanosghoul 3 роки тому +49

      Hey I'm trying to have a little bit of escapism by being reminded of short while ago when the president nearly brought us to armageddon, I don't need you bringing up our pandemic too! :(

    • @stealthattack2209
      @stealthattack2209 3 роки тому +4

      LOL

    • @cryingbroken8824
      @cryingbroken8824 3 роки тому +11

      The translation of the "north korean" television voiceover was priceless! President stuck on a golf course...🤣🤣

  • @charlieputzel7735
    @charlieputzel7735 3 роки тому +1397

    "If your interviewer asks you where you see yourself in 5 years, it is now perfectly acceptable just to scream in terror into their face." That joke has aged like fine wine.

  • @D3LTAMAST3R
    @D3LTAMAST3R 4 роки тому +895

    Fun Fact: that monster eating the sword is supposed to represent Communism in Korea and by the end of the film he basically turns evil and is just as bad as the force he defeated. It's believed it was the kidnapped directors basically flipping off their kidnappers, kudos to them

    • @matthew_natividad
      @matthew_natividad 2 роки тому +45

      Now that’s a gigabrain move

    • @bboliver725
      @bboliver725 2 роки тому +28

      sounds like a korean animal farm.

    • @dorreyeet1529
      @dorreyeet1529 Рік тому +1

      Not to self don’t ever let a 200 IQ man direct your propaganda

    • @thepromiseland8577
      @thepromiseland8577 6 місяців тому +1

      Balls of steel

    • @geekgirl_luv4262
      @geekgirl_luv4262 5 місяців тому +2

      Holy shit the balls on those directors. I respect the hell out of them

  • @cirilladykes1282
    @cirilladykes1282 4 роки тому +2688

    “9/11’s Bill Cosby”, we already have that, he’s named Rudy Giuliani

    • @cartercollins923
      @cartercollins923 4 роки тому +118

      This is by far the best and most true comment in this entire section

    • @ChickpeaBlues
      @ChickpeaBlues 4 роки тому +58

      Holy shit you're right

    • @yasdiaz2118
      @yasdiaz2118 4 роки тому +32

      LMAO this gave me a chuckle, thanks!

    • @abdessamad6814
      @abdessamad6814 3 роки тому +22

      The most underrated comment of all time 😂

    • @stanleymeyer9936
      @stanleymeyer9936 3 роки тому +3

      Juliani was at the twin towers on 9-11 and he was told to move out of the way before they demolished the buildings and yes the buildings were pulled as soon as he was out of the way. Juliani was also the one mayor that could not allow demolishing the twin towers after numerous lobby to ignore the asbestos but he didn't want to be a sued for allowing demolition of the twin towers while having full knowledge that the buildings were loaded with asbestos (cancer causing) and eas told the only way he would not be sued would be either destroyed by act of god (storm or earthquake) or terrorism. The architect who designed the buildings, made them both earthquake-proof resistant against multiple hits by full size passenger planes, as the architect defended himself after 9-11 that there would be no way the building would have collapsed, because of the way it was designed to sway and bend, which it did in windy situations, but immediately a gag order was placed on him unofficially, in the same way the Underwriters Laboratory (UL) was ordered not to publicly defend themselves and not say anything about the fact the steel used in the buildings were rated to withstand well over twice the heat the airplane fuel could have ever produced. In spite of all knowledge that the buildings were due for demolition or a very expensive billion dollar asbestos clean-up, one of the chosen people, Larry Silverstein (Juliani's buddy), leased the buildings for ninety-nine years, knowing well he could not nake money on the deal, unless he was in on it with the Feds (israeli demolition team) where he would insure the buildings against terrorism by plane crashing into the buildings, knew in advance he would make money on the deal, some of which probably donated to Israel as Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg do with their excess money,
      was well prepared to make billions of dollars with confidence by Juliani from the deal by ensuring the buildings against terrorism by plane crash, and in return Silverstein would sign on the dotted lines everytime he was to do a favor for Pentagon. The 9-11 commission ruled in favor of Larry Silverstein and the insurance companies could not use "inside-job" as probable cause by the fear from Pentagon, they had to pay and they paid double, as court ruled in favor of Silverstein that two separate attacks and not just one single attack, Larry cashed in billions of dollars on a 90 million dollar investment. This is not ever talked about in the media, just as the 4000 Jews who didn't show up to work on that day, not a single Jew called up a TV station report an upcoming emergency at the twin towers, to let everyone know it isn't safe to go to the twin towers. And that's not to ignore the 5 Israeli men who danced ad they witnessed the first plane hit the tower as they had obviously prepared with a telescopic lens camera. This celebration dance was reported to the Police, they were arrested, bomb related paraphernalia was found, spent no more than 48 hours before they cordially were sent back Israel. That is all part of what Juliani was involved in, is what no body in US Government has the guts to discuss. When Bill Clinton was asked by an average citizen in a TV broadcast forum, if he thought the 9-11 was an inside-job, ge strongly denied it by saying, "Shame on You," with that southern accent. One other time Bill Clinton said those words, was to Jerry Brown at the end of their debate, when Jerry said to Bill, "you're just one of them," which then Bill Clinton got angry and said, "Shame on You!" With the emphasis on the pronunciation of YOU with that deep-Southern accent which apparently comes out when he feels caught hos tail in a trap. That's how corruption is so prevalent. If Biden can do anything substantial with all these corrupt parasites around him, it would be a miracle. Coming soon, "Trump TV, sponsored by FOX and Disney, probably.

  • @ANeMzero
    @ANeMzero 7 років тому +849

    The funniest part about Pulgasari is that the monster is a very clear metaphor for revolution. He is created to take back the land from tyrants, which he does by eating iron (which includes swords) to get bigger, but once the land is cleansed of tyrants the movie *continues.* The monster basically becomes a tyrant himself, demanding the farmers feed him their tools in tribute or he'll start wrecking shit.
    It takes some real balls to make a movie condemning North Korea, for North Korea, while having been kidnapped by North Korea.

    • @fredex8
      @fredex8 7 років тому +8

      Hopefully MST3K will do that film at some point... it seems like it could be difficult to watch otherwise.

    • @sebastianziomek1789
      @sebastianziomek1789 7 років тому

      ANeM hu

    • @TheQueerLeaf
      @TheQueerLeaf 3 роки тому +1

      wow

    • @jesseincognito.
      @jesseincognito. 2 роки тому +1

      Pretty sure they probably don’t know that considering how they are

    • @Jarod-te2bi
      @Jarod-te2bi 2 роки тому +3

      And clever those people who made it were brave as heck.

  • @trainspotter360
    @trainspotter360 7 років тому +1793

    It's actually cool to like "Weird Al" Yankovic these days. It definitely was not when I was in high school. It's about time the world caught up to his genius.

    • @JillXJill
      @JillXJill 7 років тому +67

      Samuel Lasky Weird Al has always been relevant.

    • @crb2061
      @crb2061 7 років тому +90

      This is kind of Weird al's fault... He dared us to be stupid and here we are.

    • @josephinethornton3823
      @josephinethornton3823 7 років тому +20

      crb2061
      Actually lol's for that.
      **applauds**
      Still one of my many favourites of his.

    • @tylermunden6642
      @tylermunden6642 7 років тому +33

      Did you see that high kick at the end. Impressive!

    • @coryredding84
      @coryredding84 7 років тому +24

      Ever seen "UHF" ... Best damn Movie ever made. Weird Al to the max

  • @KinreeveNaku
    @KinreeveNaku 7 років тому +5511

    Can we all agree that Weird Al Yankovich at the end was absolutely awesome?

    • @Jonathanest90s
      @Jonathanest90s 7 років тому +38

      Andrew Miller absolutely!

    • @seraseely6570
      @seraseely6570 7 років тому +112

      It would've been more awesome if John Oliver could've got Tom Hanks to walk on the stage to sing a duet with Weird Al!

    • @bgriffininsd
      @bgriffininsd 7 років тому +36

      Most unlikely sentence of all time,"that backstabbing bastard, Tom Hanks."

    • @jymbreitbach967
      @jymbreitbach967 7 років тому +14

      Dillon Ohlemiller - Yankovic (capitalize the Y) you're welcome.

    • @neil6685
      @neil6685 7 років тому +9

      Andrew Miller DEFINITELY

  • @Do_not_ask_me.I_do_not_know
    @Do_not_ask_me.I_do_not_know 3 роки тому +560

    You know... when this came out, I was like, "I hope there isn't a war, because I am in Seoul, South Korea and I don't want to die."
    Now, I am more like, "If North Korea shoot Seoul with artillery, will the price of housing go down?"

    • @wyziksimon1346
      @wyziksimon1346 2 роки тому +13

      I mean, probably?

    • @fandomcringebucket
      @fandomcringebucket 2 роки тому +52

      Probably not, because that would probably just make any of the houses still standing _even more_ expensive, but _God, I wish it worked like that._
      - Sincerely,
      An American from Ohio who knows jack shit about economics.

    • @justin__roderick
      @justin__roderick 2 роки тому +19

      I mean, we fire gun shots in our neighborhood just to cap prices

    • @ngaire1004
      @ngaire1004 2 роки тому +12

      Coincidentally I recently had a similar conversation, we decided it depends how many people flee the city, but probably, as long as you don't mind major structure damage

    • @Pastrybfs
      @Pastrybfs 2 роки тому +2

      @@justin__roderick Now that is a gigabrain play

  • @ishanisasdev3000
    @ishanisasdev3000 4 роки тому +4779

    As an Indian, i love how woke John Oliver is about British atrocities against Indians

    • @handoverthestromboli6715
      @handoverthestromboli6715 4 роки тому +299

      hehe, you have 0 artifacts. I win in math

    • @AdityaSingh-mv7zp
      @AdityaSingh-mv7zp 4 роки тому +42

      Same bruh

    • @napalmblaziken
      @napalmblaziken 4 роки тому +334

      Honestly, does anyone deny it? It's like Americans denying the atrocities towards the Natives.

    • @ishanisasdev3000
      @ishanisasdev3000 4 роки тому +490

      @@napalmblaziken they don't deny. They actively try to forget it lol

    • @napalmblaziken
      @napalmblaziken 4 роки тому +211

      @@ishanisasdev3000 Well. That's fucked up. They should remember, so nothing like it ever happens again.

  • @spacedragon8929
    @spacedragon8929 6 років тому +2168

    "I think I just hit Trump Bingo, and the prize that I want is to go drown in a river" is so specific but also the single most relatable thing I've heard all year.

    • @karam4282
      @karam4282 5 років тому +2

      Space Dragon I

    • @eduardgherasim2896
      @eduardgherasim2896 5 років тому +3

      And a year later turns out all those liberal North Korean experts were totally wrong and Trump achieved more than the rest of the last 4 presidents combined... Cry more hypster?

    • @nekomancer4821
      @nekomancer4821 5 років тому +43

      @@eduardgherasim2896 what the fuck did he do except endanger basically everyone

    • @petererer3501
      @petererer3501 5 років тому +40

      @@eduardgherasim2896 What did he achieve exactly?

    • @April_a26
      @April_a26 5 років тому +10

      @@eduardgherasim2896 what

  • @shieldwarden2534
    @shieldwarden2534 6 років тому +1564

    "9/11's Bill Cosby"
    Oh you mean Rudy Giuliani?

    • @carolinegcooke
      @carolinegcooke 5 років тому +8

      Shieldwarden 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @WildFyreful
      @WildFyreful 5 років тому +13

      ZING

    • @realzachfluke1
      @realzachfluke1 5 років тому +9

      Boom Shaka-laka

    • @depressedbreakfast2614
      @depressedbreakfast2614 4 роки тому +9

      Omg that is perfect

    • @realzachfluke1
      @realzachfluke1 4 роки тому +18

      Depressed breakfast even just two months ago I look at my past self and I have no idea wtf I was talking about. Who says boom shakalaka? lol

  • @Sunprism
    @Sunprism 2 роки тому +89

    Hats off to the guy who saw the chance to demonstrate his stand up bass spinning on international television, and took it with GUSTO

  • @mach2223
    @mach2223 6 років тому +3000

    This needs to be translated and smuggled into North Korea.

    • @chestercopperbottom
      @chestercopperbottom 5 років тому +106

      I bet you're on some list now for saying that...

    • @botigamer9011
      @botigamer9011 5 років тому +56

      Some jokes are impossible to translate

    • @ashleyburbank3129
      @ashleyburbank3129 5 років тому +18

      Griever and three generations of his family.... because that's how North Korea does crime and punishment

    • @masonallen3961
      @masonallen3961 5 років тому +85

      That can be easily done. There's a great charity called Flashdrives for Freedom which smuggles Flash Drives into North Korea containing Video of everyday American life and Media (including popular American TV shows). Most North Koreans have access to a device with a USB port and as explained by a past North Korean defector, North Koreans need to
      receive an accurate picture of the West instead of the propaganda pushed by their government. You can help by donating your old used flashdrive to Flashdrives for Freedom and they'll make sure it gets to North Korea.

    • @L1K34PR0
      @L1K34PR0 5 років тому +12

      why smuggle when you can just use birds to transmit it into the korean brains

  • @TheSheiban
    @TheSheiban 7 років тому +661

    I was in the audience for this episode and had a great time. To John and the LWT crew, I don't think you'll read this comment, but if you do, I was the guy in the Barcelona jersey and you made fun of me at the end of taping...

  • @captainzero1
    @captainzero1 4 роки тому +3247

    Weird Al Yankovic should be officially classified as a National Treasure.

  • @zachhaywood1564
    @zachhaywood1564 3 роки тому +912

    So, basically, Kim Jong-Un is to accordions what Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov is to horses.

    • @freedomsavage2668
      @freedomsavage2668 3 роки тому +63

      Well that implies that kim jong-un fucks accordions, so yes absolutely

    • @Rissa_1322
      @Rissa_1322 3 роки тому +53

      To my knowledge he has yet to write sonnets about them

    • @zachhaywood1564
      @zachhaywood1564 3 роки тому +20

      @@Rissa_1322 Touche.

    • @britishnerd3919
      @britishnerd3919 2 роки тому

      Or Fidel Castro was to dairy cows

    • @lemonsanidiot
      @lemonsanidiot Рік тому +2

      It's a Guam threat, not a bomb threat

  • @ForeverMe543
    @ForeverMe543 6 років тому +784

    “The temperament of a wet cat”
    My cat once flew over my head, claws every where, while three of us bathed her. She weighs over 30 lbs. I can honestly say that was a good analogy.

  • @alexgreychuck7605
    @alexgreychuck7605 7 років тому +262

    Weird Al's still got it.

  • @singerg02
    @singerg02 4 роки тому +1778

    If they don't play "Take On Me" with their accordians at Kim Jong-un's funeral, I will be absolutely outraged. 🙄

    • @UZIKING
      @UZIKING 4 роки тому +1

      @@insulam821 lol

    • @mooniejohnson
      @mooniejohnson 4 роки тому +2

      No, totally "Tramp The Dirt Down" by Elvis Costello.

    • @jamesiyer4937
      @jamesiyer4937 4 роки тому +2

      There's no funeral for Kim Jong Un, our great leader will live forever!!!!!1!1!

    • @willgriff
      @willgriff 4 роки тому

      q

    • @andrew4363
      @andrew4363 4 роки тому +19

      *never gonna give you up accordions play”

  • @AL1F3243
    @AL1F3243 2 роки тому +79

    It's always a treat to watch Weird Al Yankovic in action

  • @Melissa0774
    @Melissa0774 7 років тому +2020

    I wonder if anyone actually did smuggle this into the country?

    • @jonnyswab12
      @jonnyswab12 7 років тому +135

      Marlin Mulata forgot to mention that the North invaded the South with the approval of Stalin and the financial and military support of the USSR.

    • @xxTheFlyingPigxx
      @xxTheFlyingPigxx 7 років тому +35

      On it.

    • @crucified_to_the_world
      @crucified_to_the_world 7 років тому +116

      There are people in North Korea who are openly critical of Kim Jong-un and he's widely mocked outside of Pyongyang, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was already circulating around the villages of the DPRK

    • @jaejoonyang7994
      @jaejoonyang7994 7 років тому +17

      The amount of damage it can be done to NK is not that relevant to this topic. We all already know that USA can destroy entire NK less than 12 hours.

    • @Melissa0774
      @Melissa0774 7 років тому +78

      Hopefully they translated it correctly.

  • @Tabisch
    @Tabisch 5 років тому +834

    I just realized that the north korea video of the destruction of new york 14:00 is ripped straight out of mw3's battle of new york mission

  • @danielhyson6079
    @danielhyson6079 7 років тому +316

    Did anyone else notice the "Destruction of New York" clip is from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3? The North Koreans actually posted it to UA-cam for all of us American B*****ds to see; the thing was, Activision got it flagged and had it taken down.

    • @sunnyholey5670
      @sunnyholey5670 7 років тому +1

      Daniel Hyson Wow that was true? This show just didn't edit it?

    • @crazymonkey1613
      @crazymonkey1613 7 років тому

      Daniel Hyson time stamp?

    • @blueacego86
      @blueacego86 7 років тому +9

      RushTheirSpawn 14:26

    • @golfknut777
      @golfknut777 7 років тому +25

      you can swear on the internet. actually, i dont think its even a swear, but here! 'Bastards'

    • @lukesalter9600
      @lukesalter9600 3 роки тому +3

      The most scummy capitalist company takes out a communist regime with private property rights.
      Beautiful

  • @jamiecharlie_tuts
    @jamiecharlie_tuts 4 роки тому +522

    “Weird Al” Yankovic: *sings a song so N. Korea won’t nuke them*
    N. Korea: “Understandable. Have a great day.”

  • @theunundunly5368
    @theunundunly5368 7 років тому +1266

    Weird Al and his accordion will bring World Peace

    • @crazyluigi6664
      @crazyluigi6664 7 років тому +18

      We will be fucking dead the moment Weird Al dies. Hard to believe I could even say such a statement before this year, though...

    • @finndonnelly9062
      @finndonnelly9062 7 років тому +13

      Or bob Ross will rise and through the power of the joy of painting turn everyone into happy little trees

    • @MsCheshirskaya
      @MsCheshirskaya 7 років тому +16

      Sad that we couldn't hear the actual accordion sound because all of these trumpets and stuff. NKs will not be impressed

    • @LMAccount1
      @LMAccount1 7 років тому +3

      Weird Al and Kenny G power duo

    • @joebacich4955
      @joebacich4955 7 років тому +9

      The ending made me weirdly happy

  • @lisakukla459
    @lisakukla459 5 років тому +773

    As soon as I get "Man Like Putin" out of my head, it's immediately replaced with "Take On Me." Great.

    • @crocuslament9680
      @crocuslament9680 5 років тому +53

      And then you get that out of your head finally, and then it's the end of the video and you now have to try desperately to not sing the words "Please don't nuke us, North Korea"

    • @Dichtsau
      @Dichtsau 4 роки тому +17

      u forgot the china-song? kommunist kars 4 kids?^^

    • @SentientPotatoXIII
      @SentientPotatoXIII 4 роки тому +22

      I still have "Eat Shit Bob" in my head

    • @joshuaarbuckle6160
      @joshuaarbuckle6160 4 роки тому +7

      @@SentientPotatoXIII it was the best

    • @kangyroo4526
      @kangyroo4526 4 роки тому +6

      Sentient Potato it will always be in our heads.

  • @ramonwilts
    @ramonwilts 7 років тому +202

    Weird Al Yankovic just comes to the studio and does a litle comedy bit. I love how he still makes time for little things like this. He always stayed so humble... :)

    • @chickadee677
      @chickadee677 7 років тому +47

      Notice how the band is reading the music?
      In an interview Al said that he was at his home in Maui with his wife and daughter when Oliver called. They asked him to fly to NY to sing the song they were going to write. They couldn't do it, so he wrote this and all of the parts for the band and then flew 11 hours and filmed this after one rehearsal.
      Love this guy.

    • @SomeYouTubeTraveler
      @SomeYouTubeTraveler 5 років тому +3

      @@chickadee677 Weird Al is a man of supreme talent, and a national treasure! To be fair, nearly all Polka music is... shall we say, "similar"... but still, writing it all out personally is no easy feat.

  • @henrywesterman493
    @henrywesterman493 4 роки тому +56

    My favorite missed detail here (or at least not mentioned), that "North Korean Godzilla" movie features the monster growing up... as a small monster helping overthrow the existing tyrannical government that hurts people... who grows into a monster who oppresses and basically enslaves the people around him for more and more metal.

  • @verdethestarwarrior1088
    @verdethestarwarrior1088 7 років тому +2123

    Weird Al is excellent

  • @DevranUenal
    @DevranUenal 5 років тому +664

    Before he was announced I was like: "OH BOY OH BOY PLEASE LET IT BE WEIRD AL".
    thank you john!

  • @Bobzillaaaful
    @Bobzillaaaful 4 роки тому +2515

    2017: this is very serious
    2020: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

    • @MrHistory269
      @MrHistory269 4 роки тому +11

      Lmao

    • @Pete...NoNotThatOne
      @Pete...NoNotThatOne 4 роки тому +46

      Why don’t I feel like laughing?

    • @randomdude275
      @randomdude275 4 роки тому +24

      Maybe we should just invade North Korea. You know just put out the fire before it gets big.

    • @MrHistory269
      @MrHistory269 4 роки тому +43

      @Randomdude 27 an invasion would work but it would kill millions if North Korea didn’t have nukes I would recommend an invasion but if we invade North Korea is just going to launch nukes

    • @randomdude275
      @randomdude275 4 роки тому +1

      @MrHistory808 They could potentially launch nukes but I find it unlikely they currently have icbms capable of reaching the United States and the U.S. is a very capable military force I believe we could easily take out a vast majority of North Korea’s military and nuclear power quickly putting a swift end to conflict.

  • @ddgamble2199
    @ddgamble2199 2 роки тому +15

    As many times as I've watched this, I just now spotted the back-up singers lowering their trilbies in honor of Tom Hanks. Wonderful episode!

  • @CrossfacePanda
    @CrossfacePanda 7 років тому +1559

    Props to John for pronouncing the Ö properly.

    • @bimmjim
      @bimmjim 7 років тому +28

      You can take your *umlauts* and go fuck yourself. .
      Now, I would like to tell you how much I hate Ducks.

    • @CrossfacePanda
      @CrossfacePanda 7 років тому +35

      bimmjim Is this is reference or something? Because if so it flew way over my head.
      And technically it's called a Trema; an Umlaut is also a Trema, of course, but a Trema doesn't have to be an Umlaut. It depends on how it is used, as different languages use it in different ways. So calling all dots above letters Umlauts is a bit of a misnomer. The more you know 🎶🌈

    • @VoodooGMusic
      @VoodooGMusic 7 років тому +3

      The reason why you haven't done that is China.

    • @bimmjim
      @bimmjim 7 років тому +8

      CrossfacePanda - . Du verlierst. Der Name war definitiv deutsch, deshalb war es ein Umlaut.

    • @CrossfacePanda
      @CrossfacePanda 7 років тому +7

      bimmjim Don't get why you won't write in English when we're all discussing in English here, but sure, the name was pretty German sounding, but more countries than Germany have people with German names, both first and last names. And in countries where we have the letter "ö" for example, its not necessarilly called an umlaut.
      Educate yourself before speaking; I'd suggest you start by learning to write in English when the conversation calls for it.

  • @alin9727
    @alin9727 6 років тому +1847

    “Er, supreme leader? About that propaganda video...”
    “Yes?”
    “This American company called Activision is suing us now. They say that we used footage from their video game.”

    • @LogieT2K
      @LogieT2K 6 років тому +43

      Allen Lim *saprem rheader

    • @surgeland9084
      @surgeland9084 6 років тому +90

      "This is a disaster! If we pay them off, everyone will know that we're starving our people intentionally and if we don't, they'll own us for sure. Quick, get China on the line. They'll know what to do."

    • @spookyrosev6467
      @spookyrosev6467 6 років тому +23

      Allen Lim Whoa...Activision has some major balls to do that

    • @JenniNoMercy
      @JenniNoMercy 6 років тому +17

      @@spookyrosev6467 joke, my friend

    • @DoctorWhoKage
      @DoctorWhoKage 5 років тому +26

      Funnily enough, they also have ANOTHER propaganda video where they play the Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion theme over pictures of Barack Obama and other American troops LITERALLY ON FIRE!! 😂

  • @shoutmaster101
    @shoutmaster101 7 років тому +493

    I still can't get over the fact that the New York destruction video used footage from the video game Modern Warfare 3.

    • @shoutmaster101
      @shoutmaster101 7 років тому +13

      Did it now?
      www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/02/05/north-korea-threatens-missile-attack-on-us-using-modern-warfare-3-footage/#29a257543a18
      MW3 Release Date: November 8, 2011
      Propaganda Released: February 2013, or at least that's when people started reporting on it.

    • @philipjfry1383
      @philipjfry1383 7 років тому +1

      I bet half of north korea has never seen a movie or TV whatsoever so this pictures probably look convincing.

    • @derangedwaffle4627
      @derangedwaffle4627 7 років тому

      Nolan W. so I'm not the only one that noticed that

    • @lewisnorth1188
      @lewisnorth1188 7 років тому

      That's the first thing I thought of, I didn't know it really was from mw3 XD

    • @MP197742
      @MP197742 7 років тому

      Philip, they have televisions in North Korea. The satellite images of the country being dark is because they only have electricity during the day.

  • @SynGirl32
    @SynGirl32 3 роки тому +492

    The fact John Oliver knows what a furry is brings a smile to my face.

    • @baileescott401
      @baileescott401 3 роки тому +32

      he once wanted to fuck a plate that was painted with a 'sexy ass wolf', so i think John Oliver furry confirmed

    • @deadinside9745
      @deadinside9745 3 роки тому +49

      The man's been on the internet quite a bit

    • @CaptArgo24
      @CaptArgo24 3 роки тому

      nice

    • @ulamogtheinfinitegyre2021
      @ulamogtheinfinitegyre2021 3 роки тому +1

      @@baileescott401 hol up

    • @TheSilverCanine_R3D-H
      @TheSilverCanine_R3D-H 3 роки тому +4

      Well I do have mixed feelings with the stereotype of “furry”

  • @nicdegrave9310
    @nicdegrave9310 4 роки тому +1195

    Writing from 2020, thinking "man, remember when all we worried about was being nuked by North Korea?"

    • @Alan-cp1sb
      @Alan-cp1sb 4 роки тому +38

      Now it's murder hornets spreading Covid-19 trough 5G with Bill Gates cackling as he plans to inject us with a "vaccine" that contains a tracking device and AIDS!
      s/

    • @TGreerTGreer
      @TGreerTGreer 4 роки тому +3

      I’ve got some news for you, dude.

    • @nicdegrave9310
      @nicdegrave9310 4 роки тому +12

      @@Alan-cp1sb Didn't Gates also fund that child trafficking pizza place where Obama and Hillary trained a crack team of 75 year old hippies for ANTIFA?

    • @UlshaRS
      @UlshaRS 4 роки тому +12

      @@nicdegrave9310 Don't forget the libs putting 5g in the tap water vaccines

    • @aproxamillionwasps474
      @aproxamillionwasps474 4 роки тому

      Yeah, fuck the people suffering in work camps, we’ve got our own problems now amirite?? 😒

  • @robertmatthews5504
    @robertmatthews5504 7 років тому +106

    weird AL always makes a bad situation much more tolerable he is a true american hero

  • @TheBretDark
    @TheBretDark 7 років тому +312

    Man, I really love the idea of an entire country thinking that Weird Al Yankovich was just an average American citizen, and that he is the basis of what makes up the entire average American populous, that would be awesome.

    • @youliahadzhidimova5260
      @youliahadzhidimova5260 7 років тому +4

      This.

    • @Cryster99
      @Cryster99 7 років тому +14

      Zeppelin ♫ we'd be better off that way tbh. Everyone would think all Americans are goofy, clever, kind-hearted and friendly people

    • @mat.quantum2671
      @mat.quantum2671 7 років тому +6

      Thomas Bailey Yes. Let us hope they don't see any Charlottesville footage.

    • @ubermom
      @ubermom 7 років тому +4

      We are, for the most part, goofy, clever, kind-hearted and friendly people. It's just that goofy, clever, kind-hearted and friendly stuff doesn't make the lead on the evening news.

    • @explodingpineapple7471
      @explodingpineapple7471 7 років тому +1

      It will probably not happen, but I guess it would be kinda fun, yes.

  • @jaysonburke799
    @jaysonburke799 4 роки тому +378

    Anyone else binge watching John Oliver during corona lockdown?

    • @chrisheimer1606
      @chrisheimer1606 3 роки тому +5

      Yep

    • @former-smartguyy1275
      @former-smartguyy1275 3 роки тому +3

      Mhmm

    • @clintlaroux
      @clintlaroux 3 роки тому +2

      Yes but also. Why are we doing this to our selves?

    • @bangbangthatawefulsound
      @bangbangthatawefulsound 3 роки тому +1

      count me in.

    • @jeffdean1077
      @jeffdean1077 3 роки тому +2

      I think I have watched at least 75 shows or maybe more if you count the ones I have watched 2 or 3 times I think I have watched his show about 120 times. It's hard to stop watching him by a is like a drug that shows you the truth about our world.

  • @MatthewScammell
    @MatthewScammell 7 років тому +418

    Just send Weird Al to North Korea with his accordion, that will sort everything out!

    • @CrabTastingMan
      @CrabTastingMan 7 років тому +4

      They made it sound like China is unwilling to cooperate because the Sanctions are useless.
      *No, China is unwilling to cooperate because they are funding all the missile tests, providing strategic resources like oil directly to them through a pipeline...* And few people know, it takes 2 years of saving up to buy a shoddy rusty bicycle in North Korea, so the only people using oil for any motor vehicles are the military. China is NOT helping the North Korean people, in fact, they take in hordes of escapees and put them on secret slave labor, and if their output is too meager, sell them back to North Korea.
      Any time *China feigns being economically hurt at all by sanctions is done on the hope that dumb Americans would actually believe* North Korea actually trades with China on any meaningful scale, when North Korean economy is smaller than... *Birmingham, Alabama.* Yes, a single small American city with less population than 1% of the entire population of North Korea.

    • @elstormcaller
      @elstormcaller 7 років тому +12

      You alright? He was talking about Weird Al?

    • @basbuitenhuispop2212
      @basbuitenhuispop2212 6 років тому

      Lets not send weird al
      They have the habit of keeping people they like

    • @maxpaul7102
      @maxpaul7102 6 років тому

      Didt you people already sent dennis rodman?

  • @admerin6961
    @admerin6961 4 роки тому +81

    Never realized until this moment how perfectly John Oliver and Weird Al go together.

  • @tycurses
    @tycurses 6 років тому +4819

    When Weird Al is better at international relationships than the President.

    • @michaelfixedsys7463
      @michaelfixedsys7463 5 років тому +104

      Because the president suffers from both Lead Poisoning and Dementia

    • @bushbasher85
      @bushbasher85 5 років тому +162

      To be fair Weird Al is better at most things than other people.

    • @ye-average-artist3890
      @ye-average-artist3890 5 років тому +127

      so what i am hearing is... Weird Al for President.

    • @daelen.cclark
      @daelen.cclark 5 років тому +9

      Still a good thing in my opinion.

    • @Kragozen
      @Kragozen 5 років тому +18

      It’s a low bar

  • @ddgamble2199
    @ddgamble2199 Рік тому +12

    Here's another one. I was at the car dealership, Tom Hanks came on the waiting room tv. I spoke to the mechanic about weird AL on John Oliver's show, and his face split into a grin. "I saw that one, too". We started signing "Please don't nuke us" as we walked thru the repair shop.

  • @maxwilcox1823
    @maxwilcox1823 7 років тому +256

    and with this a peace ACCORDion was struck.

    • @phoobar9640
      @phoobar9640 6 років тому +1

      ua-cam.com/video/gpaOy8b8X6A/v-deo.html

  • @RomaraAhallow
    @RomaraAhallow 7 років тому +343

    It has been years since I've listened to Weird Al, this brought a tear to my eye.
    Hats off you you Al, you are fantastic.

    • @GetToDaChoppa-k5r
      @GetToDaChoppa-k5r 7 років тому +3

      Have you seen him in a great film he made in the 80's called UHF?

    • @mechanizedeyes3867
      @mechanizedeyes3867 7 років тому +1

      RomaraAhallow that Weird Al moment was epic!!!

  • @Mistermies
    @Mistermies 4 роки тому +29

    As an accordionist, it is great seeing this beautiful instrument featured in a national TV.

  • @NyxesRealms
    @NyxesRealms 2 роки тому +17

    Its five years later and I can confirm screaming incoherently is perfectly acceptable.

  • @Blitzfire87
    @Blitzfire87 7 років тому +514

    Don't know if anyone noticed but the footage of New York burning in the North Korea propaganda film is literally ripped straight from the 1st campaign mission in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 where the Russian military attacks New York which is hilarious.

    • @PatrenPatren
      @PatrenPatren 6 років тому +9

      Yep
      Most probably from 14:34 to 14:43 OR 18:06 to 18:33 of this video ua-cam.com/video/_zbT_20H-0g/v-deo.html
      "Hunter Killer" campaign stage

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin 5 років тому +7

      @@PatrenPatren
      The planes at 14:36 line up exactly with 18:29 in the video you linked. They did slow the footage down slightly.

    • @raghavpareek2546
      @raghavpareek2546 5 років тому +1

      i don't get it, how did they exactly smuggle the game inside the country to make a propaganda video with it??

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin 5 років тому +16

      @@raghavpareek2546
      While I'm not a conspiracy nut, at all, I'm not naive enough to think the government, our government (all governments) don't do things we don't know about. Just because Kim Jung vocally bans everything from the west, doesn't mean he won't make use of any or all of it to better implement his personal views.

    • @erictroxell2298
      @erictroxell2298 5 років тому +2

      I thought it looked familiar..lol. thanks for the info. at least the upper rich of north korea have call of duty...lol

  • @riftdancer1349
    @riftdancer1349 7 років тому +1928

    Is it me or has Weird Al not aged at all?

    • @nefarious6815
      @nefarious6815 7 років тому +190

      Weird Al is a celestial who has ascended to a godlike state. Why would have aged?

    • @MSniazi87
      @MSniazi87 7 років тому +15

      Rift Dancer im waiting for a vegan to comment and say because he is a vegan thats why he stays young. Even though that is not true.

    • @MarianaSilva-kh4io
      @MarianaSilva-kh4io 7 років тому +112

      ^When you are so obsessed with vegans that you have to argue against an argument that was not even made.

    • @MSniazi87
      @MSniazi87 7 років тому +11

      Mariana Silva i wanted to make an irrelevant comment for once like many you tube comments lol. Wanted to see how it will go?

    • @YukoValis
      @YukoValis 7 років тому +18

      is it because everything you know is wrong? : ) ♪

  • @fluffyInChains
    @fluffyInChains 7 років тому +58

    2017: Where Weird Al is better at clearly communicating a diplomatic statement to North Korea than the President of the United States.
    What a time to be alive.

    • @Nova-uq9nw
      @Nova-uq9nw 7 років тому +2

      Written To Insanity Weird Al 2020.

  • @spuriouslathos2518
    @spuriouslathos2518 4 роки тому +66

    "Bill Cosby's 9/11" sounds like it makes more sense, but "9/11's Bill Cosby" is objectively funnier.

  • @AXEUROLder
    @AXEUROLder 7 років тому +173

    Weird Al never fails to make me happy

    • @oohdannyboy
      @oohdannyboy 7 років тому +1

      I don't think I've ever met anyone who doesn't like him. Nor would I want to, to be honest.

    • @DS-xp4jb
      @DS-xp4jb 7 років тому

      I guess making you happy is the goal in place of a serious evaluation of our national security.

  • @kabobawsome
    @kabobawsome 4 роки тому +100

    I think what's extra weird is how genuinely good the Take On Me cover is.

  • @aramisesquilin3187
    @aramisesquilin3187 7 років тому +168

    Did not expect Weird Al to show up XD

    • @keeneyedkeith
      @keeneyedkeith 7 років тому +49

      The moment he started talking about acordions at the end I started going "Please be Weird Al, Please be Weird Al, ..."

    • @johnnyrasputin4819
      @johnnyrasputin4819 7 років тому +4

      I knew as soon as he mentioned Weird Al... He always partially reveals his end surprise somewhere in the middle of the show.

    • @tiffyw92
      @tiffyw92 7 років тому +5

      The true war crime is that more than 3000 people who watched this video still disliked it despite Weird Al.

    • @CKing97
      @CKing97 7 років тому

      RIGHT?!

    • @MattCraftDotDerp
      @MattCraftDotDerp 7 років тому

      You think that was surprising? I don't think I've heard the name "Taylor Hicks" in years, and I fucking live in Alabama.

  • @berkaltuglu8140
    @berkaltuglu8140 Рік тому +6

    5 years in time has passed

  • @and2019
    @and2019 7 років тому +344

    i am chinese, and i used to play the accordion for eight years as a kid, only because we couldn't either afford a piano or find space in our tiny apartment to put a piano. there, that's the reason why communists play the accordion.

    • @lololllololololol
      @lololllololololol 7 років тому +3

      Ann Lin do you still play it or have you moved on to a different instrument?

    • @mikeoxsmal8022
      @mikeoxsmal8022 7 років тому +5

      Ann Lin well north korea nor chinia are communist

    • @powerkidO7
      @powerkidO7 7 років тому

      Ann Lin with out China human civilization will sink .

    • @sigfridKKP
      @sigfridKKP 7 років тому +2

      Socialist -Covefefe-69
      The DPRK is socialist lead by communists

    • @dylanjohnson2602
      @dylanjohnson2602 7 років тому +5

      Socialist -Covefefe-69 North Korea and china are both communist BUT China's becoming more and more of a free market place a little

  • @lisahogholt9713
    @lisahogholt9713 4 роки тому +474

    "If an employer asks you where you see yourself in five years, it's now perfectly acceptable to scream at his face in terror"
    well if the current evolution of 2020 is anything to go by, that would be the only correct answer

    • @alexottmer2728
      @alexottmer2728 4 роки тому +26

      Am from future can confirm still the norm

    • @ryanalbers5485
      @ryanalbers5485 4 роки тому +9

      As an Indian, i love how woke John Oliver is about British atrocities against Indians

    • @BalletomaneM
      @BalletomaneM 3 роки тому +7

      Here from even farther in the future and this still applies to everyone.

    • @moisemensah8233
      @moisemensah8233 3 роки тому +2

      For real, the pandemic destroyed the world beyond recovery 💔

    • @j.bat.8235
      @j.bat.8235 Рік тому +1

      Writing from Italy in 2023 - still valid to scream (but also cry because why not, after all?)

  • @daniel.deflax
    @daniel.deflax 5 років тому +258

    So basically Weird Al Yankovic and John Oliver are on the forefront of saving the world from nuclear armageddon. I can relate to that. :D

  • @malachichampion
    @malachichampion 7 місяців тому +1

    Weird Al's high kick at the end is completely legendary and deserves so much more attention

  • @frankiefernandez7129
    @frankiefernandez7129 7 років тому +3226

    When your unsure if we we going into World War 3 or Civil War 2

    • @oscarislas858
      @oscarislas858 7 років тому +112

      #TEAMCAPTIANAMERICA

    • @danielneverloses
      @danielneverloses 7 років тому +26

      Go team Cap.

    • @Tamaki742
      @Tamaki742 7 років тому +77

      Well, for Civil War 2, #TEAMIRONMAN. I'm sorry Captain Marvel, but we watched Minority Report.

    • @negative3610
      @negative3610 7 років тому +2

      Frankie Fernandez lol

    • @SmaMan
      @SmaMan 7 років тому +33

      When you can't take the point the person made seriously because they don't know the correct usage of the word "your."

  • @Corynth
    @Corynth 7 років тому +477

    "...fire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen."
    Well, to be fair, the world has seen it at least twice.

  • @Feedquad
    @Feedquad 5 років тому +270

    13:11 you can hear a woman in the crowd yell “WHAT?!” after the fake war story. Perfect

  • @shelbybumble4604
    @shelbybumble4604 3 роки тому +40

    Gosh, this was like 7 “on the brink of war”s ago

  • @highgeneralblitz2341
    @highgeneralblitz2341 7 років тому +2267

    Time to stash up the bottle caps

    • @user-we9pt4xg4j
      @user-we9pt4xg4j 7 років тому +30

      HighGeneral Blitz We gonna have a fallout...

    • @PootieWienerfish
      @PootieWienerfish 7 років тому +74

      Patrolling the Mojave slmost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

    • @skinflutey
      @skinflutey 7 років тому +2

      HighGeneral Blitz you need to hoard the juice

    • @mattjunior77
      @mattjunior77 7 років тому +4

      look me up in game ;)

    • @ricochetPR85
      @ricochetPR85 7 років тому +13

      im already with the minute men...

  • @StormysStuff
    @StormysStuff 7 років тому +194

    I would totally watch Earlier Times But Now with Spance Mörgendörffer

    • @ethanworner864
      @ethanworner864 7 років тому +13

      That would be the best show ever!

    • @Tallnerdyguy
      @Tallnerdyguy 5 років тому

      if not for him to just pronounce the name of the show repeatedly

  • @bromodragone8405
    @bromodragone8405 5 років тому +113

    Fun fact: the actor who played Pulgasari also played Godzilla in the Heisei Era. He was also the Showa Era Gigan and Hedorah. He was actually abducted by Kim Jong-il and forced to star in it.

    • @Kovacs-sf1hi
      @Kovacs-sf1hi 4 роки тому +3

      Alucard, More Awesome Than Chuck Norris! Damn I’m a huge g fan and I didn’t know that, you learn something new everyday

    • @frankbonini9128
      @frankbonini9128 3 роки тому

      Cool

    • @matthew_natividad
      @matthew_natividad 2 роки тому +2

      Well that’s dark

    • @bromodragone8405
      @bromodragone8405 2 роки тому

      @@matthew_natividad The Kim-Jong family are bastards. I say we nuke their whole goddamn castle to the ground.

    • @dorreyeet1529
      @dorreyeet1529 Рік тому +3

      Did he at least escape?

  • @mychickenburning5794
    @mychickenburning5794 7 років тому +814

    That footage of New York being destroyed was MW3 gameplay

    • @drunkpolack7612
      @drunkpolack7612 7 років тому +12

      mychickenburning imao, i was looking for that comment

    • @CharmingCactus
      @CharmingCactus 7 років тому +8

      Commenting On -Insert Topic- could that be the "hacking" from a fallout 3/nv/4 terminal?

    • @CharmingCactus
      @CharmingCactus 7 років тому +3

      Koolken & J-Rizzi why would i? If i wanted any information, i would search for it myself. i have no need for your videos, and i will assume you are self-promoting through comments.

    • @albanahotaj5219
      @albanahotaj5219 7 років тому

      mychickenburning Good game I dont care what people say.

    • @AnonymousHusky
      @AnonymousHusky 7 років тому +14

      I noticed as well. Its kinda sad that their citizens can't even create there own fake Digital 3D environments.

  • @bananawal8215
    @bananawal8215 7 років тому +3137

    'Stork's vagina' is not a term I expected to hear today. Neither was 'North Korean Godzilla'

    • @bananawal8215
      @bananawal8215 7 років тому +85

      AND I DID NOT FUCKING EXPECT WEIRD AL

    • @TheKension
      @TheKension 7 років тому +28

      We did all expect John Oliver to dance as white as possible.

    • @Plazthespaz3
      @Plazthespaz3 7 років тому +4

      We've all grown

    • @al145
      @al145 7 років тому +14

      but birds have a cloaca. It's an anus and a vagina

    • @97SuperGabri
      @97SuperGabri 7 років тому +22

      NIGGA HE JUST SAID "NORTH KOREAN ISIS" AND "9/11 BILL COSBY"

  • @ascetic3312
    @ascetic3312 7 років тому +404

    No one is going to read this, but those students playing "Take On Me" on accordions were not doing that in N. Korea. They were on a "good will" tour in Europe at the time and the the European guy who recorded it, taught them the song. Frankly, they probably didn't even know what they were playing. The real question is what happened to those kids after they got back home only to find out that the evil Western pop music is frowned upon?

    • @jeniferjoseph9200
      @jeniferjoseph9200 7 років тому +43

      Ascetic Walker I hope they liked it at least. It's a great song.

    • @ascetic3312
      @ascetic3312 7 років тому +8

      +Jenifer Joseph Definitely a great song and a great performance. Look for it on UA-cam. I saw it when it first appeared. Those kids are marvelous.

    • @samuelarminana
      @samuelarminana 7 років тому +13

      Ascetic Walker i read it

    • @bsamaniac305
      @bsamaniac305 7 років тому +1

      Never heard something so beautiful on the accordion. The band a-ha is actually Norwegian so I think they're ok.

    • @thomthom6268
      @thomthom6268 7 років тому

      Fheroah: yeah, cause Norway is Northern, not Western 🎅

  • @normalityrelief
    @normalityrelief Рік тому +6

    Imagine being asked to write and perform a song to - if seen - convince a country of people propagandized to despise your country that we’re not worth murdering. God bless Weird Al

  • @Nick930
    @Nick930 4 роки тому +2041

    That background footage of new york on fire was clearly from Sledgehammers "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3"

    • @lylasaur6694
      @lylasaur6694 4 роки тому +19

      please, what is the timestamp, I must know-

    • @TheAwesomeHyperon
      @TheAwesomeHyperon 4 роки тому +30

      Not a Western Spy 14:56

    • @lylasaur6694
      @lylasaur6694 4 роки тому +12

      @@TheAwesomeHyperon
      thank you so much-

    • @jayrajravat1612
      @jayrajravat1612 4 роки тому +17

      @@lylasaur6694 are you an eastern spy?

    • @lylasaur6694
      @lylasaur6694 4 роки тому +41

      @@jayrajravat1612
      I can neither confirm nor deny that statement

  • @TayDoesStuff
    @TayDoesStuff 7 років тому +1458

    The U.S. has around 6,800 nuclear warheads. Let’s consider one scenario in which, oh, say just for the sake of speculation, the U.S. launches 100 or so missiles at North Korea. We might not launch nearly that many nukes if we actually decided to do this and different strategic targets would need to be hit with different types of missiles and warheads, and they’re likely going to be hit with multiple warheads to make sure they’re damaged beyond all repair. Plus, the president has full autonomy over the nuclear football and in theory, could order as many strikes as he feels necessary. But 100 missiles is a large, round number and is a common enough refrain to consider.
    They’ll take about 35 to 45 minutes to hit all their targets and it’s extremely likely that every one will go off exactly as expected since American nukes are precisely engineered and thoroughly reliable. After a hundred mushroom clouds will dissipate, some really, really bad things will start to happen at a fairly rapid pace. North Korea will be in ruins, and while it won’t glow with radiation, its territory will be lethal to any living thing. A smaller strike will leave patches of relatively safe territory in the mountainous terrain, but as North Korea occupies almost exactly the same land area as Pennsylvania, there’s not much room to hide, so a stiff breeze can cover survivors under a fallout cloud very quickly.
    After the initial burst of gamma rays created by the blasts, the heavy elements from the fission primary, the uranium spark plug, casing, and tamper, will mix with the air currents generated by the heat of the nuclear fireballs and come down as a black, sticky rain after about 40 minutes to an hour. This is exactly what happened in Hiroshima, but that was one explosion. The combined soot and heat from 100 blasts would be like a massive volcanic eruption, except it would also be far, far deadlier. Depending on the weather conditions, it’s not out of the question to see black rainstorms across the entire region.
    And herein lays the problem. The affected region would include our frenemy China, our rival Russia, and our allies Japan and South Korea. Radioactive particles will spread across the Northern Hemisphere, ending up in Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, and the Canadian Pacific Coast. The fish many nations around the Pacific Rim rely on for food would be killed or contaminated. Tens of millions will be poisoned or sickened, and even several generations down the line, there will be numerous birth defects and cases of aggressive cancers as lower intensity fallout takes its toll.
    Even worse, about 100 W88 detonations, or bombs like this, are more than enough to start nuclear winter. Yes, that’s right, things are about to get worse. As the radioactive soot travels across the world, carried by currents high in the atmosphere, it begins to blot out the sun, cooling the planet. While this could temporarily stop global warming, it will also collapse countless food chains, and guarantee failure of harvests blighted with the unstable isotopes raining from the sky, then denied sunlight, even after replanting and disposing of the contaminated soil to start rebuilding.
    Our enemies may be dead and dying, but we and our allies will also have to deal with the fallout, the nuclear winter’s decade or so of hungry years, and the long term residual effects of being irradiated. Over 371.8 million people live in the region in question, and a tens of millions more could also feel the effects of the fallout and food shortages. It’s hard to estimate how many will succumb because that depends on numerous factors like the wind, weather, and the timing and precise location of the explosions, but it will certainly be in the low eight figures at the very least.
    A smaller strike would stave off nuclear winter and lessen the possible long term casualties from the disruption of the food supplies. However, given the population density of the region, the death toll would still be in the tens of millions and spread to our allies. There could still be regional climactic and weather disruptions, and even though they would disappear within years rather than decades, they could still cause enough collateral damage to be extremely troublesome for recovery efforts. We’d be in uncharted territory and all we’d have to go by would be theoretical models.
    What we can say for sure is that our allies in the region will be the hardest hit while nations with which we don’t have the best relations will suffer the side-effects of the bombing and be very unhappy about. Northeast China, which borders North Korea, is home to almost 165 million people. South Korea has over 52 million people in its territory and its capital will feel the direct brunt of the black rain and gamma rays from Pyongyang’s destruction. Japan’s will be hit with the dangerous soot from the blasts as well.
    It’s very likely that Seoul will not be looking at Washington as an ally for the next few generations, and neither will Tokyo. Beijing and Moscow would be seething over their citizens being irradiated and threatening to launch their missiles at America’s West Coast’s citizens, who would now be very likely to suffer a number of long term effects from the debris that will travel across the ocean on a much larger scale than it did from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So, to borrow the most popular saying of 2017, it will be a shit show, with a decent chance of World War 3 erupting in the aftermath.
    Keep that in mind next time a certain cable news addicted senior citizen with an unhealthy interest in why we can’t just use nuclear weapons to make our problems go away gets in a Twitter beef with someone who actually has nukes and very little to lose if attacked.
    In 1945, when the United States still had a monopoly on nuclear devices which were limited to about 20 kilotons, and there was an all out war between two nations, using the bombs made sense. However, we live in an age when we can set the world ablaze with the push of a button, typical warheads are 20 to 50 times more powerful, and not just the United States has them, so there are now consequences for their use.
    And that’s probably what the people who think that it would be a great idea to preemptively nuke another nation refuse to grasp. The world has changed and so has the political calculus of using these weapons. We are not untouchable, we will be inviting another global war if we strike first, and even if we could avoid retaliation by a combination of missile defense and extreme diplomacy, the fallout from a massive nuclear volley will come back to haunt us over the medium and long term. So unless you have a luxury space habitat, or another world you can jump to after you press that button, nukes are the last resort of a nation with its back against the wall, not a weapon of choice, which is why this is the doctrine of just about every member of the Nuclear club.

    • @t.w3280
      @t.w3280 7 років тому +192

      Well thought out and really long comment.

    • @HarjotSingh-sh2fz
      @HarjotSingh-sh2fz 7 років тому +184

      You know you are one of the very few people who understand the consequences of a nuclear fallout because its not the explosion that causes most death but the aftermath I.e radiation, radioactive soot, posioned water, food. Single nuclear strike will have effect on south korea,Japan and China. Also all other neighboring countries which might lead to nuclear war

    • @acbthr3840
      @acbthr3840 7 років тому +47

      You're perhaps overestimating the effect of nuclear fallout specifically. The kind of nuclear bombs used in ww2 were uranium fission bombs that used up only a small fraction of their fuel mass, leading to a lot of nasty dust getting released and sticking around for years. Modern bombs use fairly tiny fission charges to initiate the fusion of a container full of pure deuterium or the like and are very clean, generating little radioactive byproducts. 100 minuteman missiles would certainly not produce anywhere near enough radioactive dust enough to kill off any significant amount of ocean life or render even small areas of land uninhabitable for more than a year or two at most. Might give 100,000 people cancer a decade down the line though. Anyone near enough to the bombs when they detonate to get radiation poisoning from gamma and/or neutron radiation would easily be incinerated by the heat and/or killed by the actual blast.
      Also something like nuclear winter is not a localized phenomenon caused by radiation or anything like that. Quite the opposite. Its dust from the ground being vaporized and getting stuck high up the atmosphere, reducing light/radiation transmission to the ground from space/the sun. So in fact, the sky across the entire planet would darken with dust from a large nuclear strike, affecting far more than just the area being hit and reducing vegetation and crop growth everywhere.

    • @TayDoesStuff
      @TayDoesStuff 7 років тому +66

      Perhaps you should read my comment again, only more carefully.

    • @Betrix5060
      @Betrix5060 7 років тому +24

      No, you are definitely overestimating the amount of fallout and debits which would be created. If what you are saying was true then above ground nuclear tests, of which there have been hundreds, would have had a death toll ranking in the millions. Not the tens of thousands that it actually caused. Nuclear winter is also highly improbable. The prediction relied of an assumption that firestorms would be widespread and intense enough to create massive amounts of ash, soot, etc. The problem with this is that there is far less to burn than there was during WW2 where neither the massive firebombing campaigns nor the nuclear strikes caused anything close to what would be needed to actually create nuclear winter, a nuclear autumn at most. You also need to factor in when the strikes occur, what season it is, and use of air burst warheads which would produce vastly less radiation and firestorm than a ground level detonation would. I would also restate Acb Thr's point regarding the increased efficiency of modern warheads as that undermines the credibility of any fallout predictions which relies on Little Boy and/or Fat Man as precedents.

  • @herbert3565
    @herbert3565 7 років тому +656

    The North Korean propaganda in 14:26 the footage is actually Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. Where you are in a helicopter leaving New York after destroying a Entire Russian fleet. Seems legit

    • @snowcold5932
      @snowcold5932 7 років тому +33

      Baltic Gaming People, upvote this comment

    • @xdarkfuturex7922
      @xdarkfuturex7922 7 років тому +31

      Snowcold
      Glad i wasnt the only one to notice! +1

    • @ismaellovera4767
      @ismaellovera4767 7 років тому +30

      Baltic Gaming they've also used music from the elder scrolls oblivion for another propaganda video

    • @lordhighmarshal
      @lordhighmarshal 7 років тому +25

      Seeing as their propaganda probably says the COD series was invented by Kim Jong-un, I don't think they had any qualms about that.

    • @Toastrz
      @Toastrz 7 років тому +8

      Ismael Lovera I didn't realize North Korea's government was such a fan of video games.

  • @UriaLordOfSearingFlames
    @UriaLordOfSearingFlames 4 роки тому +8

    To this day, the fact that the video North Korea 'made' of them firing missiles at the US is just an opening cut scene of Modern Warfare 3 is absolutely hilarious

  • @higashikatajosuke3588
    @higashikatajosuke3588 7 років тому +415

    Is he not gonna mention the fact that the North Korean video where they destroyed NYC was copyright claimed by Activision because it contained scenes from COD?

    • @nicholass9841
      @nicholass9841 7 років тому +54

      Battery except North Korea gives zero fucks about DMCA.

    • @ryleighs9575
      @ryleighs9575 7 років тому +25

      I don't know why but I find that quite funny; even NK can't escape the DMCA plague.

    • @BlueTemplar15
      @BlueTemplar15 7 років тому

      I'm suspecting that they got the idea for the music from here : www.dailymotion.com/video/x2vcxjy

  • @emisthem6562
    @emisthem6562 6 років тому +246

    "It's all your Mum's friends... and the people of North Korea!"
    And me John - I live in a country where our TV is all drama and no action AKA *Australia*

    • @iRaps1
      @iRaps1 5 років тому +17

      Your news are so dramatic there could be a nuclear war breaking out and some Aussie would report on your local Perth store being robbed by an elderly lady.

    • @azzam451
      @azzam451 5 років тому +3

      Same here in indonesia

    • @emisthem6562
      @emisthem6562 4 роки тому +3

      @@iRaps1 No, but it was highly centred on the problems of the world, for sure. One morning show decided that they were going to stop scaring people and tell them about the good in the world too.
      Our equivalent of Florida Men are also most certainly not elderly women: it's Queenslanders

    • @ipodtouch495
      @ipodtouch495 4 роки тому +1

      And as someone from Ireland where 47% of our TV is Australian dramas I see where you're coming from.

  • @123sammyali
    @123sammyali 7 років тому +164

    22:20 Shit. Even the North Koreans know Trump plays too much golf. Fox News doesn't even admit that. 😂😂

    • @dylanjohnson2602
      @dylanjohnson2602 7 років тому

      Wow do you seriously take nk seriously

    • @dailyfind8706
      @dailyfind8706 7 років тому +37

      how can you take Trump seriously?

    • @bonjanglevash
      @bonjanglevash 7 років тому

      +Tanvir Hasan (Pluviophile) he's a very serious man

  • @cartoondog800
    @cartoondog800 3 роки тому +3

    Fun fact: the actor in the Pulgasari monster suit, Kenpachiro Satsuma, actually played several Kaiju in the original 1970s Godzilla series, including Hedorah and Gigan, and would later go on to play Godzilla himself in the 90s film series.

  • @km0.ccarthy
    @km0.ccarthy 4 роки тому +1892

    "Who doesnt like tom hanks" is directed specifically at the coronavirus rn

  • @bakarenibsheut12
    @bakarenibsheut12 5 років тому +42

    "You've got us crapping our collective pants"
    Lost it at that line.

  • @connerh492
    @connerh492 4 роки тому +360

    Remember when this was everyone's worst fear?

  • @xxindigoAphrodithexx
    @xxindigoAphrodithexx Рік тому +5

    5 years after this video released , and we still scream in terror

  • @rasnac
    @rasnac 7 років тому +33

    Weird Al can make any situation better... even nuclear war.

  • @8765Yumika
    @8765Yumika 7 років тому +95

    6:47 I know most of you don't really care, but that accordion thing is actually true, at least according to the book 'Nothing to envy - ordinary lives in North Korea' (a collection of stories from the lives of the people who have escaped from North Korea). A former North Korean kindergarden teacher told that before one can become a teacher, one must pass a final exam durring which one must play the accordion.

    • @suzannenixon8870
      @suzannenixon8870 7 років тому +6

      That book was fascinating, even with the flawed writing. Those poor people are unbelievable oppressed.

    • @QueenMegaera
      @QueenMegaera 7 років тому +2

      Yeah, I thought that was probably correct. It's also the least weird thing I've ever heard about North Korea. It wasn't that long since all teachers in my country were expected to be able to play an instrument and sing with the kids either.

  • @retrofury6365
    @retrofury6365 7 років тому +682

    "Fire and fury"?
    Looks like Donald Trump is both a Targaryen and Baratheon

    • @Ashmiere
      @Ashmiere 7 років тому +38

      well...Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land , as madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin.... we certainly know on which side the coin for Donald Targaryen landed

    • @magiv4205
      @magiv4205 7 років тому +3

      Retro Fury I was thinking the same lmao

    • @glauciamsq
      @glauciamsq 7 років тому +9

      LOL he is totally a mad targaryen

    • @SurvivingAnotherDay
      @SurvivingAnotherDay 7 років тому +4

      No he's just mad

    • @SurvivingAnotherDay
      @SurvivingAnotherDay 7 років тому +7

      I hope the Daenarys of this world is the Prime minister of Canada. "Come to reclaim the White House throne"

  • @leprechaunluck24
    @leprechaunluck24 4 роки тому +16

    Love you weird al. Goddamn he’s an angel

  • @CyclopsWasRight616
    @CyclopsWasRight616 4 роки тому +62

    how do we get Weird Al to sing a song directly to the Covid-19 virus ? Because this seems to have worked just fine with North Korea.

  • @GrahamTV
    @GrahamTV 6 років тому +165

    If anyone can negotiate International Relations, it'll be Weird Al.

  • @spookystela4661
    @spookystela4661 6 років тому +306

    I trust Weird Al with my life

    • @mariakelly5
      @mariakelly5 6 років тому +11

      Who doesn't?

    • @mcmacshalfilya
      @mcmacshalfilya 5 років тому +1

      Spooky Stela Weird Al should be honored. U are so Scorching HOT!!

    • @Fallman10
      @Fallman10 4 роки тому +5

      McMac Shalfilya creep

    • @fordalels
      @fordalels 4 роки тому +1

      I trust him with my children.

  • @RachelSQC
    @RachelSQC 3 роки тому +2

    Watching this now.
    "If someone asks 'Where do you see yourself in five years time', it is PERFECTLY acceptable to just scream incoherently into their face.
    It's nearly 5 years now... yup, totally nailed it .

  • @Adenlqy
    @Adenlqy 7 років тому +209

    that destruction of new york video from north korea (14:20), isn't that from Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3? like the E3 footage?

    • @ratzilla2739
      @ratzilla2739 7 років тому +8

      xMPx Halomaniac that what i thought

    • @xdarkfuturex7922
      @xdarkfuturex7922 7 років тому +13

      xMPx Halomaniac
      It's the ending to the mission Black Friday of mw3 yes

    • @blueberry1vom1t
      @blueberry1vom1t 7 років тому +44

      you guys honestly think if north korea couldn't come up with thier own music they would be able to make a clip of newyork in flames? No they just ripped it from a video game.

    • @Kekkai_
      @Kekkai_ 7 років тому +15

      Just looked it up. Its literally the ending of the 2nd mission"Hunter Killer"

    • @andrewstephenson9083
      @andrewstephenson9083 7 років тому +3

      If I was Kim Jong Un, I'd absolutely do the same thing. It's not like North Koreans were ever going to find out the scene was ripped from MW3. You can't get a PS3/360 there anyway, and if you could, no one that buys into that propaganda is going to be able to afford it.

  • @habanerojones2169
    @habanerojones2169 5 років тому +73

    It's official; Weird Al is immortal.

  • @cjdickson7591
    @cjdickson7591 5 років тому +117

    I've been watching your shows, all night, kinda got addicted, putting that aside, let me say, you're one of the bestpresenters I've seen / heard in quite awhile. To me it's always about subject, attitude, mannerism, oratory andcan all this hold a person's attention in your case YES, YES, YES, keep it up. Kudos....

  • @michael.471
    @michael.471 3 роки тому +2

    That Weird Al section was literally perfection

  • @ggram.
    @ggram. 7 років тому +38

    Why is no one talking about that incredible Weird Al performance?

  • @shinwhite7996
    @shinwhite7996 4 роки тому +89

    ‘Beat that! Everyone else that plays the accordion. By that I mean exactly 2 old French men and 1 Weird Al Yankovich’
    Me, a 24 year old female accordion player: 😢

    • @bigmarty11288
      @bigmarty11288 3 роки тому +4

      The perfect woman does exist

    • @sauliusb1953
      @sauliusb1953 3 роки тому +2

      Why sad, that makes you unique and gives identity. Use it

    • @malikthemadman
      @malikthemadman 3 роки тому +3

      So are you the one on the right or left?

    • @shinwhite7996
      @shinwhite7996 3 роки тому +3

      @@malikthemadman definitely the grumpy one on the right 👍

    • @farhab9184
      @farhab9184 3 роки тому +1

      @@shinwhite7996 Lol as a 21 years old french man, it’s even weird here in France, for young people to play that

  • @poundlandvodka
    @poundlandvodka 4 роки тому +36

    rewatching the videos with audience reactions hits very different given how it's been lately

  • @annieyoung3905
    @annieyoung3905 3 роки тому +4

    I love how this segment is EXACTLY twenty seven minutes long.

  • @milztempelrowski9281
    @milztempelrowski9281 5 років тому +36

    I'd say that accordeons have a quite modern, synthetic sound to them without using electricity. Meaning they could be played by anyone at anytime. It'd be natural for them to appear more often in NK.

    • @thundersoul6795
      @thundersoul6795 4 роки тому +3

      They're actually just common in socialist countries because they heavily promote science and art. Accordeon and theremin may as well be embodiments of both. One is complex and awesome, the other is at least 200 years ahead of its time in capitalist speed of progress.