Dennis Rodman is good friends with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, who may or may not be dead.
On Rodman's recent stop on Mike Tyson's Hotboxin’ podcast, he explained what it's like to party with the 36-year-old dictator, who took an immediate shine to Rodman because he's a huge basketball and Chicago Bulls fan.
"When I first met him (Kim Jong Un), I playing was with the Harlem Globetrotters and I wasn’t playing so some the dignatures come down and ask me to come with them. I think I’m going to jail, right. I said: ‘What the f*** did I do in America?'”
SoI walked up to the stands and sit in front a desk. There are all these high chairs, these king-style chairs, like 20 them. Next thing I know, 22,000 North Koreans all stand up and start clapping. Loud clapping and they’re cheering and I’m thinking they were doing it for me. So I wave and someone tells me: ‘No, that’s for him’and points at Kim Jong Un. I asked ‘Who is that guy?’and they said ‘that’s our leader’, so I asked… ‘leader what?’
He walks over to me and sits down. He said we asked Michael Jordan to come and he wouldn't, so we asked you. We sat there talking about basketball the whole time. The game finishes and then he says ‘We’d love you to come back, we enjoy your company. Let’s have dinner tonight, a little karaoke and have some vodka, some hotties’ and stuff like this.’
‘Next thing w know, we are having dinner and we are drunk as s***, he starts singing karaoke and I have no clue what the f*** he’s talking about. Everyone starts clapping and then he has this 18-piece girl band and these girls are hot but they just played one song. Just one f****** song. It was the theme from Dallas."
Apparently that was the only song they knew. So Rodman told Un to get his band to learn songs from Pearl Jam, Van Halen and The Rolling Stones. The ladies did, and played the songs the next time Rodman went to North Korea.