Episode · The Jordan Harbinger Show · 2024-03-22
Books mentioned on China's Secret Opium Empire in Myanmar | Patrick Winn
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is a historical novel set in Nazi Germany, narrated by Death and centered on a young foster girl who steals books.
Discussed“So I read the book, and I was thinking, 'All right, this guy is going to some crazy place in the mountains. What's this all about?'”
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The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy is a classic self-help and psychological guide focused on harnessing mental conditioning and inner beliefs to shape reality.
Discussed“In fact, in your book you said, 'I flew to Burma,' but the guide asked you something, and you hesitated before saying Myanmar or Burma in a conversation with the guide because it was politically charged either way.”
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Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The Book Thief
“As I say in the book, it's easy to start denigrating from there. Right?”
Own book The Book Thief
“But as I say in the book, French revolutionaries also severed heads, and samurai did, and Scottish clans did, and they all had a reason. I mean it wasn't just that they were called savages.”
Own book My Ántonia
“So this is much of what my book is about. There was a clash within W State that got really hot in the '90s, where you had one figure with one leader trying to pull it in the opposite direction, saying, 'Hey, let's actually make friends with America and wind down the drug trade.”
Own book The Book Thief
“Yeah, the book goes into a lot of detail on that. How armed are these guys?”
Own book My Ántonia
“I mean, it's recognizable to Asian drug users as the Nike Swoosh, as I say in my book. I don't know exactly what the 'WY' is all about, but I do know this: Originally, in the middle of the last century, aetam tablets were sold here, and they were sold by Burroughs Welcome, a huge pharmaceutical company.”
Own book My Ántonia
“It's not going to work out, but it did work out, and that's kind of what I want to put across in my book. This is a serious nation-state; you might want to take it seriously.”
Own book The Book Thief
“In the book, you kind of talk about it briefly; you say it has everything Rangoon has, but what does that mean? That's kind of like saying, 'Oh, this place is everything Pyongyang has in North Korea.'”
Own book This Side of Paradise
“More the latter, so I mean I talked to many DEA agents, former DEA agents for this book, as well as a lot of Wa figures and a lot of anti-narcotics folks, and so I got the story from them.”
Own book The Book Thief
“I will just add that, um, you know, I'm pretty critical of the drug war in the book; however, I did meet some DEA agents along the way who I respected greatly, who I found to be, you know, moral driven people.”