Brain Farts | Myanmar Podcast

May Zaw from the Immigrant Interview episode came back and we had a catch up. We became friends after recording the first episode and this conversation was recorded last month in November, a few weeks after my Thailand trip. Exciting ventures ahead. Listen to the first episode with May Zaw here - https://open.spotify.com/episode/4lXB2AzdsJXg5lWjAvJ38U?si=5107bc9fefea4fb8

I'll post more often

sorry, it's been ages. I will come back again at some point but if you guys want to keep in touch @min.sett.hein is my Instagram 

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Just a quick update to tell you guys how my life has been in the last couple of months. As mentioned in the podcast, if you ever want to reach out just to say hello or take part in this podcast, please find me on Instagram @min_min_min_m1n

This episode is part 3 of 3 from Manchester recordings. I talked with Min Thu Reign, one of the first Burmese friends I made when I arrived to the UK. We talked about his 10+ years of experience living in the UK and then some random topics.

I’m so so so sorry about the audio being so crap. First time recording using a field recorder and I fucked up big time. :( This episode is with my old friend Ye Mun who was in a coma for 2 months last year due to Covid. He’s also a musician. We talked about his near-death experience mostly. This is part 1 of 3 from Manchester recordings. I spent Christmas and New Year Eve with bunch of Burmese folks in 2021 and talked with them.

I got covid guys lol 

Here is the one-off episode that we did, mostly in English. Apologies to the listeners who might find it difficult to understand. In this episode, we have Htet (untd.io/htet) , a Burmese-born - New York-raised Musician with us today and we talked about so much shit. Shout out to Steph for joining the call briefly and blessing us with your presence. We talked about many things (its a 2 hours + episode) including.. -Going to high school in New York -Racism is everywhere -Super rich are detached from reality -Were people happier decades ago? -If you’re listening to this, please don’t kill yourself -How different people deal with mental health issues -people definitely want different things in life -Do you need to buy a house? -You gotta like the work you do -The vicious cycle of ‘trying to do what you want to do’ -Do you consider yourself lucky or unlucky -Have you seen sex education -Being Half-way immigrants -Are you being yourself right now? -How much of Myanmar history is lie? -Can you separate a person from their action? -Do you consider yourself an artist? -What can you consider art? -Expression vs technicality -Money/fame ruins everything -It’s good to feel appreciated for what you do And many other random topics. Check out her music on Spotify and other streaming platforms. P.S Next episodes will be in Burmese :)

It is frustrating for the people in Myanmar to encounter the global pandemic followed by the military coup. This is the third episode with Le Cat aka Crown Prince Shwebomin Of Burma; one of the Myanmar internet legends. Today Le Cat and Min will talk about the political crisis in Myanmar; military government legalizing constitution, stratocracy or (violent) coup against NLD, geopolitics, how they would handle ethnic armed organisations , China and Russia’s influence on Myanmar, the drug trades, the history of Myanmar politics in brief and about its alliance, Israel, the situation after the coup by Ne Win back in 1960s, and the current activities of NUG. And share their opinions about the migrated asians in Western countries, their struggles, early life experiences and the impact of parental trauma on the child/ children. If you have thought about digging into current affairs of Myanmar, this episode is for you.

For this episode of Brain Farts, we got Le Cat aka Crown Prince Shwebomin Of Burma aka Ye Yint Ti Kyi (and some more alias that we are not including). He is one of the Myanmar internet legend and if you have spent some times in Burmese meme groups growing up, I can assure you have been somewhat influenced by him. We talked so much so the conversation is split into 3 episodes. On part 1 we talked a lot about childhood. Part 2 and 3 is going to be a lot more political. Content Warning (Sex Abuse, Childhood trauma, parents neglect etc).

မနေ့က Live သောက်တလွဲတွေဖြစ်တာ စိတ်မရှိကြပါနဲ့ဗျာ။ ဖေ့ဘွတ်က ဘာလို့မှန်းမသိ လွှင့်လိုက်တိုင်း လာလာပြီး ဖြုတ်ချလိုက်လို့ပါ။ မနေ့က ၄ခေါက်လောက်လွှင့်ဖို့ကြိုးစားပြီးတဲ့အခါ မရတဲ့အဆုံးထားလိုက်တော့ အသံပဲဖမ်းထားလိုက်မယ်ဆိုပြီးပဲ လုပ်လိုက်ရတယ်။ အဲတော့ အခုဟာက Live...

Today we got a legit Popstar on our show. He also has a clothing brand called Karrot by Bunny Phyoe. Yes, you've guessed it. It's Bunny Phyoe! Part 2 will be released the week after so stay tuned