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Jim Latrache

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
564 total appearances

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What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

But in the end, I could do, I don't know, I think around 20 and between 50 and 100 push-ups because I did so many mistakes.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

So mistakes came in handy in my physical things.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

What I never learned was my coordinations are not that well.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

They're so bad that I was not allowed to throw a hand grenade.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

No, no, no, no.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And another thing is that in the Legion, you have tradition of singing because like back in the days when they walked through the desert, they sang a lot of different songs and

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

No, I never learned to sing.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

I never learned it.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

I mean, imagine you have a company, 50 soldiers, more than 50% from Eastern Europe, speaking French with a heavily dialect.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

Even there, you're the only one that asked to shut the fuck up.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And you have to understand, I was not there to become a pro-soldier.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

I was there to work with my fear.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

The French Foreign Legion is stooped in history.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

Yeah, of course.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

Why not?

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And you first had a three-week course...

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

where you learn because the parachute you use is round.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And that means you hit the ground quite heavily, quite hard.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And so you have to like make a roll when you hit the ground.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

Yeah.