Episode Transcript: #1691 - Yeonmi Park
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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Well, very nice to meet you, first of all.
So nice to meet you.
Thanks for coming here.
Is this your first time in Texas?
No, I've been here before.
You've been to Austin before?
Yes.
So for people who don't know your story, I'm just going to give them a primer, just a sort
of established, you know, a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit
of a visual experience of your history.
You were born in North Korea and you escaped North Korea when you were 13.
Is that how old you were?
I think we should start off with what it was like living in North Korea.
I saw your interview with Jordan Peterson and it was incredibly moving and it was incredibly
moving and eye-opening and it's hard to believe for people that don't know what life is like
in North Korea, the reality of you growing up in North Korea.
But just talking about how you essentially had no food and you would go looking for bugs
to eat, this was the reality of your existence as a child that there was no protein.