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Monday Mini: Misinformation and Trafficking · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Okay, this is Anny and Samantha and welcome to Steph.
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  Speaker 2: I never told your production of iHeartRadio, and.
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  Speaker 1: We are back with another Monday Mini in which I
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  Speaker 1: complain about things you ready any day jk sort of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as a lot of stuff is happening on
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  Speaker 1: the interwebs and all of my TikTok has been amazing content,
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  Speaker 1: including the Montgomery brawl, things that are happening with Eminem
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  Speaker 1: apparently he just released a track and sound of Freedom,
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  Speaker 1: the movie. If you don't know what I'm talking about,
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk a little about it has been
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  Speaker 1: popping up. And then obviously the algorithm I have is
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  Speaker 1: people contesting this movie and talking about how this movies
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  Speaker 1: not what you think, as well as the people behind
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  Speaker 1: it are not great, as in fact they may be
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  Speaker 1: telling on themselves. But we're not getting into those conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: theories necessarily. Yeah, so before we jump into this, we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about trafficking essentially. So if you're like, we're not
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  Speaker 1: really going into too much detail or any specific incidents,
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  Speaker 1: but we want to talk about why, why this doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter that we should be talking about. So if this
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  Speaker 1: is like a wait for a little while, I understand it,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah know that know that it's not the happiest
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  Speaker 1: of topics. I just want to take a minute to
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  Speaker 1: remind everybody what sex trafficking actually is, and also just
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  Speaker 1: trafficking in general, and just kind of have a reminder.
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  Speaker 1: I know most of our listeners already know, and they're
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  Speaker 1: very well aware, but for those who are sneaking in
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  Speaker 1: or are trying to find new episodes of a short
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  Speaker 1: episode they got this title, They're like, Oh, this is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be good. Maybe we can get some education. As
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  Speaker 1: everyone who listens to the show knows, I am a
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  Speaker 1: social worker. I was in the field since I graduated
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  Speaker 1: for technically, I guess for twenty years. That made me panic.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, And the latter part of my
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  Speaker 1: career was working with at risk teens with the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Juvenal Justice, and I worked with a chunk of
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  Speaker 1: young women and young men who were involved in ce
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  Speaker 1: SEC or what is also known as commercially sexually exploited
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  Speaker 1: children and their specialized group of at risk teens that
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  Speaker 1: we talk about and work for. So when I talk
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  Speaker 1: about these issues, I'm not necessarily an expert, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: definitely not a novice to it. I know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about. I do have personal experience and professional experience
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  Speaker 1: and working in this field. So what made me even
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  Speaker 1: come into this any and I've already complained to you
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  Speaker 1: about this, is while checking in on my family, I
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  Speaker 1: was just because if we had a really severe storm,
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  Speaker 1: y'all we had limbs falling, I'm having to pay thousands
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  Speaker 1: of dollars for tree work. I'm very unhappy and sad,
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  Speaker 1: but at the same time, I got a good deal,
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  Speaker 1: so cheers to that. But I was taking it on
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  Speaker 1: my family and their activity. They were talking about how
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  Speaker 1: they had gone to see Sound of Freedom at theaters,
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  Speaker 1: very proud of that fact, by the way, and I
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  Speaker 1: think they thought that I would approve of this, and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't ask me my opinion. I try to quickly
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  Speaker 1: turn the subject because, as you know, as much as
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  Speaker 1: I love my family, our opinions differ greatly, and not
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  Speaker 1: that it would be bad, but these topics are hit
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  Speaker 1: and miss, and sometimes we can have a rational conversation
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes we get in outright fights, maybe publicly at
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  Speaker 1: restaurants where we end up crying. Anyway, so I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about it, but you know, the comment
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  Speaker 1: was it's so sad watched this movie, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: people need to know about it? Was this comment, and
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  Speaker 1: I just kind of just I don't say much. I
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  Speaker 1: move on, and people are probably like, you should say
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  Speaker 1: something again. This is about the fact that I've done
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  Speaker 1: this with my family for years and years and years,
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  Speaker 1: and there's only so much you can do, as well
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  Speaker 1: as the fact that keeping the peace sometimes just means
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  Speaker 1: being quiet and choosing that battle. I think people know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, however, So one of the things
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  Speaker 1: about some do you know much about the movie.
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  Speaker 3: Adie, No, I have a general vibe, but right.
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  Speaker 1: That's essentially my thing too. I had a general vibe
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  Speaker 1: of it, and I'm like, I already know this is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be bad because the main actor who has been
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  Speaker 1: spewing QAnon think conspiracies on the press tour for this movie,
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  Speaker 1: including once again talking about harvesting of children for some
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  Speaker 1: kind of drug for the leftists. So yes, yes, that's
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  Speaker 1: apparently what I've seen. I don't know. I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 1: things I'm missing about this whatever whatnot, but it's base
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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say this with big quotes very loosely
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  Speaker 1: on a real life person named Tima Ballard, who supposedly
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  Speaker 1: has gone to different places in the country and has
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  Speaker 1: stopped sex trafficking rings. As he says, he has been
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  Speaker 1: brought in front of politicians to talk about this situation
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  Speaker 1: and issues. No surprise, one of those times was in
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. I think we know who was in office
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  Speaker 1: at that point in time. All these things, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to rag on the fact that he was
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  Speaker 1: thinking he did good works. Part of this conversation was
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  Speaker 1: that he was a missionary and this was a part
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  Speaker 1: of the thing. And y'all, I'm not gonna lie. Part
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  Speaker 1: of the thing I wanted to do as a missionary
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  Speaker 1: was this type of work as well, thinking that I
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  Speaker 1: was going to save children. Also, I wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: in the medical field as well and trying to do things.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, when you really believe or doing something,
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  Speaker 1: you really want to be in the right. So there's
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  Speaker 1: so many things. He also apparently is a part of
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  Speaker 1: the Church of the Latter day Saints and he's still,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, as a member of that church. Apparently he
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  Speaker 1: got onto Jordan Peterson's podcasts and bragg that he broke
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  Speaker 1: up a ring in South Africa that was harvesting children
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  Speaker 1: for organs. None of that has been validated from what
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  Speaker 1: I gather, But this is the man that this movie
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  Speaker 1: is based on. And it is said by the team,
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  Speaker 1: the production team and directors that it was very heavily
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  Speaker 1: dramatized and they took a lot of liberties quote unquote
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  Speaker 1: with the story narratives. So we know that that's for
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  Speaker 1: anything and everything anything that's like based on a true story.
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  Speaker 1: It probably was like they got his name in the
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  Speaker 1: location and then they did what they want. We know this.
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  Speaker 1: It is for all the shows. I'm saying this for
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  Speaker 1: like any in all movies. Be very careful of what
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  Speaker 1: you see when you say it's based on a true story,
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  Speaker 1: because technically, like we know that the Conjuring is based on.
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  Speaker 3: True stories.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna We're.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna leave it at that. I just wanted to kind
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  Speaker 1: of remind the statistics and I'm gonna go to Polaris.
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  Speaker 1: Polaris is one of the biggest and the most accurate
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  Speaker 1: factual statistics when it comes to sex trafficking in this
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  Speaker 1: country and then around the world. They have worked for
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  Speaker 1: years and they are a mandated organization that has been
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  Speaker 1: around so it's trusted. I think both left and right
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  Speaker 1: would agree that they are a trusted research site. I
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  Speaker 1: say this now, and then I'm going to if one
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  Speaker 1: day we do get outed by in cells or extremists,
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  Speaker 1: we may have a lot of arguments to be said,
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  Speaker 1: but whatever. But just as a reminder that the recruiters
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  Speaker 1: are not typically strangers. And when I say recruiters, those
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  Speaker 1: who exploit children, those who come and kidnap the children,
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  Speaker 1: that type of level that we see in TikTok about
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  Speaker 1: how they're putting. They're marketing your cars with bolgoney sandwich meat,
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  Speaker 1: and you think you're going to be trafficked, that is
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  Speaker 1: typically untrue. As in fact, it says that family members
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  Speaker 1: and caregivers make up thirty three percent of those who recruit,
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  Speaker 1: and partners make twenty eight percent, and employers make twenty
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  Speaker 1: two percent. And to give this example, I literally have
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  Speaker 1: had mothers who have pimped out their own children. And
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  Speaker 1: when I say pimp out, they send them on dates,
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  Speaker 1: whatever whatnot, and or use them as labor. And when
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about trafficking, Polaris is talking about all types
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  Speaker 1: of trafficking. But we know most of the time the
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  Speaker 1: biggest one. I guess the most type is sex trafficking,
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  Speaker 1: but they do talk about labor trafficking as well, and
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  Speaker 1: we don't talk about this enough, by the way, when
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  Speaker 1: we talk about like domestic work or domestic help or
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  Speaker 1: international and migrant workers and how a lot of them
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  Speaker 1: are trafficked in but we ignore that, we ignore that,
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  Speaker 1: and I find that very very telling. Also, one of
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  Speaker 1: the big things that you should know that the types
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  Speaker 1: of services that are trafficked for it is for massage, residential,
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  Speaker 1: commercial sex work, and pornography. This is specific to that
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  Speaker 1: type of sexual trafficking. So once again I think we
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  Speaker 1: have to have that conversation. And there have been articles
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  Speaker 1: with experts who have talked about this, and I want
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  Speaker 1: to take some quotes and remind people of that. And
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  Speaker 1: this article is from the USA Today and it was
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  Speaker 1: written by Kristin Abrams, who is a senior director of
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  Speaker 1: Combat and Human Trafficking at the McCain Institute. So this
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  Speaker 1: is her job, and this is what she had to
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  Speaker 1: say that this movie by highlighting false narratives and reinforcing
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  Speaker 1: inaccurate stereotypes, we condition ourselves to be on high alert
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  Speaker 1: for things like windowless vans, failing to notice actual signs
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  Speaker 1: of exploitation. In doing so, we may miss it. Economically
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  Speaker 1: and socially vulnerable young person lured into trafficking by others
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  Speaker 1: of meals, gifts, shelters, or simple companionship. And that is
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  Speaker 1: exactly what I saw in my work. I had many
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  Speaker 1: kids who ran away from a really bad situation or
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  Speaker 1: even a not great situation, not bad, just not great
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  Speaker 1: because they have been told by friends that they could
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  Speaker 1: come over and hang out with us, and we are young,
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  Speaker 1: we are cool, and then they get tricked into things.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, these young kids are often the
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  Speaker 1: kids that people don't want to deal with because they
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of issues, whether it's they have behavioral issues,
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  Speaker 1: whether they have attitudes or sometimes or whether they're just loaners.
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  Speaker 1: All of those things oftentimes lead to becoming this and
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  Speaker 1: trying to find their group. And when they feel like
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  Speaker 1: they found a group who lavishes you with gifts, then
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  Speaker 1: you're like, this is cool, and then you think you
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  Speaker 1: have freedom. And then on top of that, later on
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  Speaker 1: you're told, nope, you owe me money, which is the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing that I've seen kids thinking that they have
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  Speaker 1: to stay with somewhere because they owe them money. If not,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to get hurt. And then when they are
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote rescued, they're usually not happy. I will say
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  Speaker 1: I've had many kids who are happy for a split second,
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  Speaker 1: but then think that the other way is better and
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  Speaker 1: try to run away again. That happens a lot. That
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  Speaker 1: happens a lot. And these are the same people. These
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  Speaker 1: are the same kids that most of the people who
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  Speaker 1: are like crying about this child trafficking ring were like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want them to block them up, like I've
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  Speaker 1: seen that so many times. And these are the same reasons,
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  Speaker 1: like this type of line, these types of movies. This
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  Speaker 1: is why kids are charged with prostitution instead of being
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  Speaker 1: seen as victims. And that's a whole different conversation. I
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  Speaker 1: know we're slowly changing that, but that narrative really hasn't
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  Speaker 1: changed when it comes to being judged individually and who
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  Speaker 1: could be treatable. This article goes on. It says, in
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  Speaker 1: addition to problematic depictions of child trafficking, is also troubling
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  Speaker 1: how Sound of Freedom glorifies the rescue missions, disregarding decades
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  Speaker 1: of research and experience showing that international sting operations are dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: US sometimes illegal, often unethical, and fail to dismanage or
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  Speaker 1: discourage human trafficking. While rescues and rays make for an
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  Speaker 1: action packed movie, they are far from the preferred response
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  Speaker 1: to any kind of human trafficking. I feel like that
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  Speaker 1: should just be.
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  Speaker 3: On a billboard.
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  Speaker 1: For everyone to see, because again, the people who you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to help often are the ones that get hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Then what kind of mission was that to begin with? Right?
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  Speaker 1: And I've seen this once again, And also it's amazing
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  Speaker 1: who gets punished again, like we talked about it, maybe
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  Speaker 1: the children that sometimes get punished more so than the adults.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, the customers, they are rarely noticed unless they're
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  Speaker 1: doing a whole like sting operation with the FBI and GBI.
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  Speaker 1: Who does the internet stuff, the catcher predator stuff. I guess, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's when they get That's where they get caught, which
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  Speaker 1: does a work out well either, But still that's the
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  Speaker 1: only time I could think of them being actually prosecuted.
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  Speaker 1: And then it goes on. Instead of buying into false
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  Speaker 1: narratives of child trafficking or promoting outdated responses, Congress has
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  Speaker 1: this unique ability to help create a safer world for
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  Speaker 1: all kids. So this is the other part I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. I actually recently met up with my
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  Speaker 1: good friend Courtney, who's been on the show before, and
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about the woes and ins and out of
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  Speaker 1: the system, which is really set up so corruptly that
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't help anyone, but it's workers like her who
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  Speaker 1: tried their damnedest to work in the system that's set
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  Speaker 1: up to fail, essentially the children. And we have talked
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  Speaker 1: about what this looks like, and she actually specifically talked
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  Speaker 1: about Sea sec again that's actually exploited children, and about
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  Speaker 1: the fact that she can't find treatment for these kids
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  Speaker 1: because they don't get enough funding. Surprisingly, they're asking and
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  Speaker 1: some of them are asking up to like I think
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  Speaker 1: five million, but for an organization and four things that
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  Speaker 1: we pay for. And the movie, by the way, made
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  Speaker 1: millions of dollars, millions of dollars, and it's been on record.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to anyone, is going straight to the
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  Speaker 1: directors and the actors and to Tim Ballard for sharing
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  Speaker 1: his story. Like that's where it's going. It's not actually
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  Speaker 1: going to any organizations that could help open up five
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  Speaker 1: into what thirty at least thirty facilities that could open
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  Speaker 1: up and for sea sick children that have no place
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  Speaker 1: to go, and y'all as a person who sole responsibility
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  Speaker 1: was to try to find treatment places for these kids
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  Speaker 1: that actually helped and not just locked them up and
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  Speaker 1: had poor service so they wouldn't be homeless, It's hard.
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  Speaker 1: I think the entire time of all the kids that
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  Speaker 1: I had that were actually classified. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: to classify child as a sea sec the children have
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  Speaker 1: to admit that they were exploited, which do you know
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  Speaker 1: how many kids would say that. They'd be like, no,
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  Speaker 1: I was just hanging out with my boyfriend, or now
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  Speaker 1: I'm just hanging out with my friends, and no, I
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  Speaker 1: was hanging out with my mom. Do you know how often? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because part of that narrative was because is they don't
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  Speaker 1: want to believe that they are either because that's not
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  Speaker 1: what happened. They didn't get kidnapped by strangers, right, All
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  Speaker 1: the other things happened. That's horrible, do you think anger anger?
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  Speaker 1: But to have that to get them services, they have
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  Speaker 1: to admit it. In the State of Georgia, which was
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  Speaker 1: infuriating because it was very rare. This also comes into
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  Speaker 1: the lines of the idea. But the kid they they
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  Speaker 1: need to do theirselves. They have to get help themselves.
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  Speaker 1: They're kids. They wouldn't have to be the situation if
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  Speaker 1: people around them made good choices for them. Like, there's
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  Speaker 1: so many things to this, Like if there wasn't perpetrators
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  Speaker 1: like out there trying to get them, and there wasn't
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  Speaker 1: customers perpetrators also out there, who who call asp a
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  Speaker 1: demand of this, Like there's so many things our systems
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  Speaker 1: and so the one of the biggest things, like all
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  Speaker 1: of these facilities that may help do not exist, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them are mainly religious, and that in
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  Speaker 1: itself is a pushback just n fhy. So it's really
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  Speaker 1: funny because we have tons of churches in State of
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  Speaker 1: Georgia alone that get a lot of money, and yet
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  Speaker 1: these church funded organizations don't have enough to actually do service.
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  Speaker 1: Odd right, moving on, but yeah, they keep on saying
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  Speaker 1: this means leading a global coalition of governments that commit
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  Speaker 1: to sharing information and increasing funds for survivor protection, prevention
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  Speaker 1: and parpetary prosecution. And then they go to say, this
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  Speaker 1: also means adopting new protections for children in the child
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  Speaker 1: welfare system, partnering with those who have lived experiences the
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  Speaker 1: real life heroes of anti trafficking movement and policymaking and
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  Speaker 1: investing in technology to detect all forms of exploitation. That's
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  Speaker 1: the other part they don't want to talk about is
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  Speaker 1: that they are in the part of the welfare syce
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  Speaker 1: them which they want to shut down so badly. They
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  Speaker 1: sha'll want to shut this down so badly. But people
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  Speaker 1: who hate the system and say that they shouldn't exist
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  Speaker 1: and that they don't deserve more money are the same
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  Speaker 1: people going to pay for tickets to this movie that's
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  Speaker 1: doing nothing but spread more disinformation. I am so upset
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  Speaker 1: when things get onto like this because of my experiences
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  Speaker 1: with these young kids who do who There are finally
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  Speaker 1: some that really do want to get out, but there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing set up for them to help them. Because the
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  Speaker 1: places that I had to put them were not great
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  Speaker 1: and I wouldn't want to be there. I remember talking
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  Speaker 1: about that we would have to go back and forth,
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  Speaker 1: like I would never want to be here. You have
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  Speaker 1: to be in a room with three other kids. They
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  Speaker 1: may have bed bugs, which we had several facilities that
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  Speaker 1: had bed bugs that rarely get closed. They get an
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  Speaker 1: allowance kind of they have to wake up every day
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  Speaker 1: at eight am and then maybe or maybe not go
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  Speaker 1: to counseling that's not really suited for them, but that's
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  Speaker 1: all they have. And then also are our medications. I
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  Speaker 1: still don't get that. I'm like they were medicating them
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  Speaker 1: so harshly because they didn't want to truly treat these children,
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  Speaker 1: and then if the kids could play nice enough for
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  Speaker 1: a little while, we would release them back home and
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  Speaker 1: hope that was for the best. Removing a child from
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  Speaker 1: a home is never good. Trying to find a way
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  Speaker 1: to get them back home is almost impossible where they
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  Speaker 1: can thrive. Don't get me wrong, It's happened, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: some children really understand and take an effort to it.
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  Speaker 1: But if I was one of those kids going through
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  Speaker 1: those troubled times, I wouldn't want to do that either.
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  Speaker 1: And because we give so little funding and so little
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  Speaker 1: help that these places just become a shelter. They don't
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: treat children, and children who are truly traffic need of
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  Speaker 1: so much treatment, not just the counseling for the trauma
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  Speaker 1: that they went to went through, but their own behavioral
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  Speaker 1: Because there's so many things to this, so many layers
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  Speaker 1: to trafficking victims, traffic victims, whether it's poverty, whether it's
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: mental health, whether it's behavioral that they don't address that. Instead,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: we see this flight little movie about a white dude
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  Speaker 1: who went to save the people of color, and yeay Jesus, like,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: it's kind of how I feel like these things go
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  Speaker 1: no thank you right again. I have worked with some
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: amazing people. Unfortunately, some of these amazing people, their funding
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: gets cut so quickly, and it feels like the good
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: ones are the ones that leave first. I know, in
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  Speaker 1: the state of Georgia, we do have an organization called
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Cares. They get paid thirty five thousand a year
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: to be a master's level employee to handle a case
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: load that is probably five counties wide, that equals to
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: that point, and they have to travel every day and
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: they don't get reimbursed for all the things that they
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: have to do it. That's the problem with the trafficking system.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: That's an issue. That's where the money should be. That's
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the heroes that they have to go around and hear
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  Speaker 1: these horrible stories and have to deal with this, and
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: then the turnover rate is so exponential, y'all. Like, I
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: don't think I ever worked with a casework or twice
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  Speaker 1: in my seven years that I worked with DJJ. It's horrible.
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  Speaker 1: So just as a reminder, these movies are fabricated movies
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not even gonna talk about conspiracy theories that
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: they hold, but they are really doing some harm for
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: those who are actually doing this work.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, agreed.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I just had to remind everyone because it's never ending.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: It's true, It's true.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Monday, yay Tew.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: You introduced this topic to me, but I didn't know
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: what we were talking about. You're like this and I
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: was like, oh, but and it's a very important thing
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  Speaker 3: to talk about. It's something that comes up in our
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: conversations all the time, especially how conservative people use trafficking
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: to accomplish their goals or to opuskate or hide something.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: And always appreciate you sharing your expertise and everything that
• 21:26
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• 21:30
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