On the Hunt for Burma's Billion Dollar Meth Labs

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The biggest drug cartel in the world isn't Mexican, or Colombian. It's Asian. Buried deep in the Burmese jungle are networks of cutting edge meth labs, guarded by rebels and run by kingpins so powerful they make El Chapo look like a corner boy. In 2019, Underworld cohost Sean Williams went looking for one of the billion dollar meth labs spending months on the Mekong, in lawless casinos and hunting a drug industry bigger than any other on earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Underworld Podcast, where we talk about global transnational organized crime and fun things like that.
0:13.8	I am one of your hosts Danny Gold and I am here
0:16.9	with Sean Williams.
0:18.0	So I think it's his birthday today, yeah?
0:20.3	Yeah, yeah, crazy birthday in lockdown. It's a fun time.
0:25.0	Sean is in Berlin, like the craziest party city on earth, taking time on his Friday night to do a podcast for everyone.
0:33.7	If that doesn't send you to Patreon.com slash the Unworld Podcast, I honest, I don't know what will.
0:38.3	I would be doing jigsaw puzzles, I would be watching TV, I would be doodling I could be doing
0:44.5	anything right now but I'm right here with you guys I mean you're not going to go
0:48.1	out for another seven hour until like two o'clock in the morning anyway so no I'll be in
0:52.1	bed by nine.
0:53.0	Anyway, today we have, I mean a fantastic story.
0:57.6	This is something that Sean has gone and done.
0:59.8	He wrote an article for it, I think for GQ magazine.
1:02.3	It's actually, Sean I have never met but after
1:04.3	I read this article I was like that's the guy I want to do the podcast with and I hit
1:09.2	him up in Berlin and I was like let's do this because Sean went hunting for a billion dollar meth lab in the jungles of Myanmar and I'm just gonna I'm gonna let you start right now because I mean that's a that's a selling point right there.
1:23.0	Yeah it sounds like a good idea right? Yeah I'm so that like there's this giant
1:28.4	casino right and it's actually kind of a city all its own and it's carved out of the jungle at the point where
1:34.4	Thailand and Lao meet around the Mekong River but it's not really in Thailand or Lao at all.
1:39.2	And it's decked out in all these giant fate marble columns and golden crowns there's statues of Zeus and
1:45.1	Confucius and armies of Lopay Burmese man and baccarat tables and food stalls and
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