Foreign Fool: A Conversation with Author Alan Platt [S8.E45] (Classic ReCast)

Foreign Fool: A Conversation with Author Alan Platt [S8.E45] (Classic ReCast)

From The Bangkok Podcast by Greg Jorgensen & Ed Knuth

May 26, 2026 · 33 min · Season 8 · Episode 45

About this episode

The episode features a conversation with author Alan Platt about his book 'Foreign Fool' and his adventures.

When it comes to characters, Bangkok has them in droves - people who have been places, eaten things, talked to people, and lived adventures that would make your mother put her hand to her mouth and proclaim, "Oh my" with a frightened little squeak. On this episode of the Bangkok Podcast we're happy to have one of these epic characters on the show with us - Mr Alan Platt, who, as it happens, has just released a book about his adventures entitled Foreign Fool . Now I know what you're thinking, and it's the same thing we think when we hear self-published book by a farang in Bangkok , and that is, "Oh, yes, another one for the dusty back section of Asia Books, along with all the stories about hard-boiled detectives, heart-of-gold prostitutes, and love gone bad." But no - that's not what this book is about at all. In fact, take it from me (Greg), who has read the book - this is one hell of a fun read, and is actually - get this - really well written . From Saigon to Bangkok to Panama to London to Honolulu, Foreign Fool tells of, as Alan puts it, the bumbling misadventures of a doofus. I'll just let the first two paragraphs of the first chapter say it themselves: In Saigon, many years…

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