Zeke Faux
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126 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard May 2025
Zeke Faux’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes. And a small adjoining casino.
Yes. I decided, yeah, I wanted to see what was going on in this hotel. But I'm out of my depth. I don't speak Chinese. It's hard for me to know what anything means. Because I had gone in by myself. I didn't bring a translator or anything.
I like this music.
We saw no one anywhere. Like, the hotel's fully staffed, but, like, there are no guests. But also completely empty. Yes.
He showed me lots of different nice rooms, each of which had views of, like, the place where Dwee was held. People were being held against their will and beaten. Then in the lobby, there's, like, a grand marble staircase that leads upstairs. Yes. And when I walk up there, I see a massive restaurant like where you could host weddings. And there is like a small buffet set out.
The host seems pretty confused that I am there. And I might not be interpreting this right, but it seemed like they were so not used to having like a customer there that they didn't even really have any habit of like collecting payment. So he was just like, go ahead, eat at the buffet. And so there's only a few people in there. Everybody seems really at home.
Like there is a fridge with beer and you should just go take it.
Yes, like the workers are not allowed to leave. So my thinking was that these are like hires up who work at these compounds or connected to them somehow. And this is like their cafeteria. But again, I really have no idea what's going on. So one of the hostesses spoke English and so like came over to, you know, see if I needed anything. And I was like, what's with this place? Why is it so empty?
What's with these dirty buildings next door? And she said it only opened to the public a couple months ago, i.e. after the raids. And she said that before that... Only people who worked in the buildings had been allowed to come to the hotel. And I'm like, why is there all these armed guards? And she says, this is Chinatown, don't you know? And I'm like, no, I don't know.
And she's like, the people inside, they can't go outside.
And then I made like a horrible face, I think. And she tried to reassure me. And she's like, don't worry. The staff here, we have our freedom. And I was just like, oh, no. I just thought, like, this is horrible. And Daraa and our driver picked me up.
And we're driving out of Chinatown. And right by the police station on your way out of Chinatown, I see a closed currency exchange. And the signs have been taken down, but you can still sort of see the shadows of the letters that they had on the facade.
And it's USDT, and it's advertising that they'll trade Tether for cash.
Yes, but I will say in recent months, this has become like a bigger issue among government.
Most of the victims, both of the trafficking and the financial victims, are Chinese.
Definitely. I mean, the crypto guys are very good at making it seem like they have a lot of jargon. They make it seem like there's some sort of really complicated and important technology that we're talking about. And it makes you think in the back of your mind, if you don't know that much about this, or even if you do, you're like, it can't possibly be as dumb as it sounds, could it?
And the answer is yes.
So the original idea for Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, was that this would be a alternative to regular currencies like the dollar or the yen. And the big innovation was that instead of being tracked by a central counterparty like a bank, there would be this decentralized network of computers that would keep track of this new currency. Now, that was 15 years ago.
Bitcoin is as old as WhatsApp or Uber. And this idea of it becoming an alternative currency is largely dead. No one's really using it for that. But instead, there's been this proliferation of other cryptocurrencies. And at this point... Most of them are not meant to be like dollars. They represent all sorts of different things.
So some of them are kind of like stocks where if you buy a share of this, you buy a coin, you're almost like buying a share of some sort of company. Other times, it's like a new...
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