0:00 [Music] you guys know that in korea everybody has to enlist for the military at some point before a certain age a lot a lot of asian countries have it loki's kind of fire off not japan japan's just doing j-pop ████ dude because you have to do that in taiwan too malaysia has that too i think israel is big on that apparently japan's got american military station there so they're like thank you i personally think it's a pretty cool thing i think so too what do you think would exempt somebody from that from having to do that at all health problems mental or physical disabilities two left feet two left feet are there are there they're missing they're missing one or two or more legs one or two or more oh there's a caretaking situation yeah cover all the basically like for example if i was the only child and then like my dad was passed away or something my mom was ill
0:51 and like she was young i was your caretaker iq but isn't it usually just training for the most part like training and then they might put them in like a job or something but not like necessarily see combat that's what i like about it yeah like a lot of them i think that's mandatory i think yeah a lot of them it's not like guaranteed going to war a lot of it is just training and i that's what i'm really like reserved it's like boot camp just in case they have to uh mobilize but then it's long though it's like a year or two somewhere a year boot camp no no no the service yeah oh so it's like you're like a reserve but you're doing different roles right like military police or like a wine chef like a year or two or three some of them so it's always kind of been a thing whenever anyone in korea gets really famous as a superstar internationally it's always a thing of like oh what's gonna happen when they have to serve uh for for b boys in korea
1:42 that get really popular they just have to stop breaking and they have to go do the thing and you just don't see them anymore uh like like like break dancers yeah what uh what age they have to go like 18 or so you have until 28 and i think it just got pushed to be at 30. so when you're a k-pop star it's like and you see like your career skyrocket when you're like 17 or something and then that's when they're like oh i don't know if i could take a break from my tour but which is why you go you you'll go when you're like 28. yeah that's why like i remembered a lot gotta get to choose the window a little bit yeah you can yeah that's kind of cool i remember growing up like when there were like uh when there was a huge boom in like korean dancers just like taking over the scene and they had such a limited amount of time to like get their to make their mark and then they would just be gone and it was like a crazy thing that like
2:32 and now in a way it was kind of motivating because you knew that like oh ████ only have this window time or some fled remember that and some did some came here and just like didn't go back to korea and now they can never go back because if they go back they're gonna have to you know that's kind of cool too though but um and it's been a known thing all obviously everyone's like what's going to happen to bts like what's going to happen to them what they're doing all this stuff and it's always been a known thing that they were going to try to get them exempt but south korea's culture minister has actually called for their exemption from military service so it's not going to happen huh has called for their exemption yeah so they don't have to go to military they're trying to figure out within that two-year service if they can just do a different thing that actually benefits korea within what they're already doing because i thought that the um the what do you call it like the tourism board or the basically yeah the government spends money on exporting
3:24 korean culture and they consider now like k-pop and all this stuff as one of those vehicles of you know getting people's you know but wasn't like taehyung who was huge k-pop as well instead what they did he also still had to go to the military um in training and stuff like that but he would just go around to all the military bases and perform like uso shows basically yeah so you're still doing your thing but you just have to do it within the confines of being with them yeah that's true because fulfill yourself let's say you're like gordon ramsay right young gordon ramsay right you cook and ████ you're useless behind a ████ gun yeah put them behind a kitchen like a ████ poodle behind a pan you know that's doing service think about all the morale he would boost you know how the delicious food is go to world war ii i don't know if he actually went to where i thought he was just i think he performed at war no i think you're thinking about captain america is propaganda oh my bad yeah i think i'm
4:15 thinking of elvis actually i i saw elvis in a uniform in hawaii right yeah he served he served in the army nineteen fifty eight okay that's right why would he be well that's after world war ii i don't know if he went he necessarily was deployed but yeah he but see that was a cool thing because that was a huge point of american pride that he still put his guitar down and was like i'm going yeah you know and jimmy stewart went in i don't know if that would get you the same props um today what do you think same props today i don't think we're as patriotic as we are before well what about pat telling the football player pat tillman yeah when pat tell me when everyone still talks about i think that that that era i think people are super patriotic i almost feel like in this day and age i don't know if it started in 2020 or whatever but the the consensus is like america sucks or it feels that way it feels like a lot of americans think america's according to american research yeah you're from other americans you're from
5:06 a military family are you the only one aside from your sister that didn't go yeah i'm the biggest ████ in the whole family you feel do you feel like like you're you're like i didn't follow in my military family footsteps 100 it's only funny because it's true yeah i think about it all the time actually about how what a ████ i am yeah because i just wanted to rub that in yeah no i appreciate it yeah i mean my grandpa was always like don't ████ do marines because it's way too hard you don't want to do marines wait so he's proud of the marines but he looked at you and said don't do it well that means he told my dad and like my uncles and stuff oh he told his old kids not to do it yeah it wasn't just you when my dad met him my dad was only like 17 18 years old so so then he's like chuck don't go in the ████ marines they'll kill you he's like go he's like go dude go to the chair force nobody gives a ████ about those guys anyway chair force and so yeah so that's that's what i did most marines when you ask them like if you were to redo your like career over
5:57 again what would you do all of them are like i'll probably join the army including dawn including these dogs so what what gets people to join the marines in the first i think what it's it's that like almost elitism the prestige it's like okay they're the few and the proud they're they get the toughest ████ it's the hardest ████ training but when you go through it and you start learning like best ways to learn you realize it doesn't need to be that hard for every single thing that you do yeah like in other like funnels like let's say the army or whatever uh or even air force because they have their own special ops too it's like boot camp is for general people let's make it generally hard if you go up to another school and it's a little bit more difficult make that a little bit harder so in the army by the time you get to green berets or rangers or uh in the air force their special ops is the pjs it's extremely hard and it's on on
6:48 the same level as navy seals like bud's week and hell week but it's built up that way marine corps boot camp is just ████ extremely hard right at the get-go so most people they join in like ████ a year later they're so burnt out they're like i'm so ████ burnt out but had i done the army or the army route i might have stayed in for 20 years hmm you know so that's what my brothers both did chair force like boot camp and they were they're both saying how that all they met was ████ idiots so anybody could do this ████ it was great and that's encouraging and my brother also hurt his back in there like in the air force he hurt his back but he was because of the chair he was sitting in the chair the whole time was his ████ point because he he was actually sitting in chair the whole time he slipped the disc and then when he went to the the city's
7:38 bad for you dude pt guys they had him doing these weight lifting things that ████ his back up even harder yeah now he gets disability and all he did was sit in the ████ chair in the air force this ability air forces uh you get a salary for like the rest of your life oh my god yo that's pretty dope wow i almost wish i fell off a cliff before i came back you're just like looking for clips the whole time on your last day out don't people hella do that though like try and injure themselves before they balance i don't know maybe i don't know so marine dudes they um they go through it and they see what it's really like and then they compare it to other like companies and then they'll be like oh man actually it probably would have been better if i went navy first or if i went like army first and then um but that's still the prestige of being a read it's still so high that people that don't know they still want to join
8:28 because it's almost like it's that personality type right so when you have like let's say someone that has gone through it and like let's say he's thinking about joining the military if he's like the marine personality type i'm like dude this s███'s so ████ hard you don't want to do it trust me he's like he's salivating at the mouth i gotta do it of course i have to do i'm not a ████ you know what i mean it's like because then that almost has that reverse effect where it makes people go oh you're telling us the hardest and i have to deal with it yeah you know art is the most bart is the most um marine marine i've met because well no because there are there are marines that that you meet where it's like they can't shut the ████ up about the marines and you know that's the real marine world well that's what i mean because you're an actual to me you're you're a real one because my grandpa didn't ████ talk about it either you know what i mean like he'll talk about it like if you ask him questions but he doesn't ████ talk those are marines there's a real marine yeah yeah yeah they're not going
9:18 super fun did you say who roger at the gym you guys have a discount for marines and up charge for navy yeah yeah yeah i charge them are you a poser marine or a real man yeah do you have a chair for chair force guys chair exercises have a seat sir welcome to the club thank you do you feel like if uh like the again i'm not from cruise or anything like that but it'd be like kind of a slippery slope to uh enable you know like bts for example no matter how popular they are i mean it's still a it's still a steep slope to catch up to what they're doing yeah do what bts does and you get examples what's next right like what's the next thing usually the second thing that gets exempt is usually already way easier than what the first people have to do if you get your own mcdonald's meal dude you could do it the ████ you want
10:08 [Laughter] because even like um again i'm not explicitly saying i don't know these are ████ rumors or whatever but i remember even when the hong kong i think hong kong was still doing the the uh marines uh military services is a star b boy that like changed the world of breaking yeah and he was uh he was a rebel bc one champion and he was the second b-boy in the world to be a two-time rebel bc1 champion and he did it at like a decade apart in the 10-year anniversary it was in korea for red bull bc one again um and they were doing all the old champions come together so he was the champion of champions but i heard that he was in military service during that time and he snuck out because he was still in korea and he competed for rebel bc one won it and then went back that's pretty good because still within the country but you know what i mean it's like if i i would assume that even for like such a high profile you know group like bts like if they're gonna exempt anything it
10:58 would still make sense for them to fulfill their duty as an example to the rest of korea even but then obviously there are exemptions within their time that they're doing they should be able to do both yeah if there's compromises like that that'd be really sick like there are people that uh like play in the olympics from the military and um or play a professional sport actually army navy football yeah like the election they'll get exempt for the game or maybe even a little window before and after but right when they're done they go right back to what their normal platoon is but then you'd still yeah the compromise is it's still like dang even bts still wins the army that would be so encouraging or inspiring if i was like a young person or people would want to go especially if you're trying to build patriotism yeah that's great yeah that's true or else this is this could be the start of unraveling that like extreme korean patriotism that we know about you guys think that they actually sat down and figured out what they wanted their bts meal to be yeah i think about that
11:49 too like seven dudes can agree on one ████ meal like their favorite their favorite ████ like there's no way they all were just like yeah it could have just been a seven piece mcnugget but it was pretty basic though wasn't it it was it was like a cheeseburger with some nuggets solid can't beat that bts comes in for the extreme collab we're changing from six piece to seven that'd be pretty tight right a seven piece mcnugget that's the only thing different if we had to pick a mcdonald's meal right now i think we would all have a difference of opinion it'd be a combo meal just like the bts guys after three everybody say the same exact same time yeah one two three big mac combo the chicken nugget did you say fish quarterback i said a fellow fish and quarter pounder and nuggets that's what i was getting in a soda wait a fella fish add a quarter pounder one meal and and nuggets and a soda and then i get caught up with mac sauce that way everyone's happy bro [Music]
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