
On the Fringe
Hosted by Dave and Gav and Gavin · Dave and Gavin
5.0from 4 ratings
- 191
- Episodes
- 49
- Transcribed
- 4
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About On the Fringe
The media glosses over AI usage and geopolitics. We dive into how both go hand-in-hand, speak with up-and-coming major players, and shed light on groundbreaking events in our wheelhouses: Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. onthefringepodcast.substack.com (https://onthefringepodcast.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast) Reach out to us with any questions, comments, or if you'd like to be a guest at onthefringe.podcast1@gmail.com
- Publisher
- Dave and Gavin
- Category
- news · society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 27 Aug 2024
- Latest episode
- 23 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
49 of 191 episodes have a transcript.

23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Scam Farms 101: Ponzi Schemes of Suffering (Feat. Erin West of Operation Shamrock)

13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bonus: World Maps in Chinese are Fascinating! (and great tools to learn a foreign language!)

11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Scam Farms 101: Ponzi Schemes of Suffering (Feat. Erin West of Operation Shamrock)
Published 23 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But what happened is when COVID hit there, there was less travel. Things were locked down and they had all of these massive structures that were sitting empty. And they thought, well, what do we do about this? And that's when they thought about Shazupan, their their term for pig butchering. And they started advertising to fill those towers with people who thought they were getting jobs. They thought they were getting legitimate live work jobs where they were going to be a computer operator or some sort of data scientist or they were going to essentially have a desk job and make enough money to send it home. […]
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- Erin West
- Joe Barnes
- Kevin Wong
- Chauncy Wadsworth
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- 5.0 / 5
- 4 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100
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- 96
- Social presence
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- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 32
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