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hello freak [ __ ] I'm working on my second photo book my first one came out and uh the second one's going to be pretty cool cuz it's all my North Korea shots that'll be crazy oh wow you went to North Korea yeah it took three years to get that Visa a few years ago it was just sad was it when Kim Jong ill was still alive uh it was uh Kim Jong-il yeah the last days of Kim Jong-il before Kim Jong-un yeah yeah and it was just uh you know like when I was in Iran just like they they point you at what you're supposed to look at don't look over here it's a propaganda TR how much time did you spend in North Korea about a week I was in pongyang and the areas around pongyang and then I went there via Beijing and then from there up to Mongolia then over to Bhutan what was North Korea like just sad you know this poor people who are scared of their government and uh my tour guides since I went there alone they were very suspicious of me so they they put two tour spies on me the nice one who talked to me and the mean one who just scalled and took notes and every day the guy would ask me basically the same questions like when a detective is trying to peel the layers of onion skin off so you said you're a businessman I'm like yeah like so what do you do like you know I edit books which is true mine and they really what are the books about I said well you know uh often they're not that good I was just swinging it and so I'm you're all put in one hotel uh you and the Dutch tourists and the the Australians everyone's in the one hotel across the bridge that's with men with rifles you're not going anywhere and so every day they go on their buses and I get in the car and the Australians recognize me the Brits recognize me and they all want photos and I we're walking to the um uh whatever that that room is the um the room where the North and South meet uh where they they come in through the the northern door and the southern do it's that Blue Room the dsj uh I'll up the The Joint the JSA The Joint security area something like that I pulled one of the Australians to the side I said can you please like call your friends off me because my tour spy is starting to ask me really weird questions about why people want their photo with me and if I'm caught being in movies writing books rock and roll I'm
going downtown for a meeting that I might not get out of and so he cooled out all his Australian friends but then there's this one British guy who just kept getting in my face with the camera cuz you're all getting taken to the same places and I'll never forget this my tour guide who for the previous 3 days was like his English was from school like uh Henry uh he went from that to how does this guy know you and all of a sudden his English was as good as mine I'm like oh no and I'm not good at lying so I said I met him in the breakfast room I don't know maybe he's hot for me I have no I just trying to explain it away and I just had to kind of go I don't know and I had to try and avoid this guy and and and I I was getting I was really nervous the last day I was there when they finally took me back to the airport in Beijing I'm like damn man am I really getting on this plane and when the plane took off man I just like okay I did that but why wouldn't you just say I'm a musician I'm uh let you I went on a tourist visa and if you claim any of that you're going to get tons of scrutiny and they're not going to let you in they won't let you in if you're an artist absolutely absolutely not uh cuz they just they fear it they fear what you'll go back to the mainland with same thing in so because you're a public person they don't want but how the [ __ ] do they let uh the basketball player what the [ __ ] name yeah how they he told the party line and just told Obama you know just just call your pal Kim sure that'll work out great and same thing when I was in uh I was I went to ton uh via Dubai and the guy who met me at the airport after the airport people got done grilling me uh he said look I got your Visa I know who you are I'm not your tour guide he's a government guy don't tell him what you do for for a living will never get you out of here so the last day Jesus Christ yeah the last day I'm in that country I'm eating dinner with this guy and his amazing wife they're both like rocket scientists and they you know they get by with a website that gets visas done so his cousin her cousin anua the woman her cousin calls her and says your friend Henry's on TV and uh ammed dropped his fork and said we've got to go we had to get you to your your hotel tell you got a pack
up right now we just go to the airport check in check your luggage find a corner put your face in it and wait for the flight and I got to the I got to the airport like four hours early cuz he said you just you got to go whoa and so I just sat there in the airport with my face down and then eventually got on like you know the the 3:00 a.m. to Dubai and I was out of there holy [ __ ] yeah what would have happened if you got caught questions which leads to more questions and you just don't know it turns into like well he's been interrogated for the last three months and we don't know and since I'm not a hotl looking girl uh President Clinton's not coming to rescue me and and so those are the two countries I've been to where don't tell them what you do with what I was instructed before I left wow yeah [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]