Laila Mickelwait
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585 appearances
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3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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Let me tell you, that scared the crap out of a lot of people very quickly. But you also need to shape the mindset of young kids of what's possible, right? My son right now is learning how to fight, and he's a very good fighter right now. It annoys me because he kicks me. So when I'm—he's 12 years old. He still thinks he can beat Daddy.
I would whoop his tail right now still, but I think he's got two more years before it's going to be dangerous for me to threaten him if we fight. But I had a talk with him last night. I said, listen, bro, just because I'm having you train with these UFC guys and you're getting very good, you mess around anything in school, you do something. There is not suspension.
You're getting kicked out of school. You can't be using this weapon that you're learning here. This is not a joke what you're learning. You can really hurt somebody. He said, no, I get it, Dad. I said, listen, you just got to realize, we'll make the investment, but make sure this is to prevent fights, not to have fights. So someone needs to coach these young men. Someone needs to...
It's preventative, right? It's as much preventative as it is, you know, because we have to be proactive. Like a lot of parents I talk to, I'm afraid to talk to my kids about sex. Well, you better do because somebody else will. I'm afraid to talk to my kids about drugs. You better talk to them before somebody else does. Well, I'm just worried about it. It's embarrassing. It's uncomfortable.
No, you got to do it. So I think it's both preventative. I think it's both proactive. And then at the same time, making sure the punishment for underage is so high that scares the crap out of companies.
If you're saying revenge porn and stuff like that, of course.
No, to me it's underage dad, but rape is rape across the board. It doesn't matter how old you are, young, old. Human trafficking is human trafficking. For anybody that's doing any of that, that to me is the highest level. underage when some of these guys are doing that to make the money.
Well, let me give this data. Let me give this data. Let me give this data because you just said that. I was going to wrap up, but I'll give you this data. So you ready? So as of 2023, global U.S. sex and trafficking statistics, approximately 49.6 million individuals are estimated to be in modern slavery worldwide, encompassing forced labor and sex trafficking, of which...
12 million are children, of which 54% of those are women, girls, in modern slavery. It's a $150 billion a year industry. And then it breaks down to, say, in America, the states, number one is California, number two is Texas, number three is Florida. Each state I've lived in a minimum of four years. But as you go a little bit deeper, you see it's also happening on adults.
The percentage of what's going on with adults, because typically you think about human trafficking, you think underage. There's a lot that's above 18 years old that this is happening to as well. This is a real issue. I would be very curious to know whether it's Pam Mundy, Trump, any of those guys. I think Musk is not one that's a fan of this at all. Neither is Vivek, neither is Trump.
It would be very interesting to see how the current administration attacks this issue That is an epidemic that very few people have the courage to talk about. And even when we do these types of podcasts, right, people say, they'll message me, Pat, get off this topic. It's painful to watch. You got to watch it. It's real. But go back to the business stuff and all this other stuff.
Look, I'm doing it because I want parents to be aware that this is out there and we have to get more educated.
No, for sure. Again, share this with everybody and folks. Click on the link below, go order the book, take down, and support Layla. Because, you know, Layla's got her own set of things that she has to deal with. Family, you talked about, you know, kids and all the things that you're doing. To dedicate your time to something like this,
and get to the bottom of it and having some powerful people that are coming after you and targeting you, it's not easy to do. So if you want to support her, please go order a book that just came out a few months ago, Support Takedown, Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking.
Leila, I'm glad I responded, and I'm glad you reached out for us to sit down and have this conversation. You're amazing. Keep at it.
Anytime. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye, bye-bye. You're going to think I'm crazy when I tell you this, but the last 13 and a half years, I've been working on my first fiction book to write ever. Fiction book to write.
And while I finished this book a year ago, I got the strangest phone call about one of the characters in a book where the guy wanted to meet with me and he read the book and afterwards was like, wait a minute, am I the villain in the book? This is a story about a character named Asher who is half Armenian, half Assyrian, whose father was involved
in the Iranian revolution linked to Savak working with the Shah that they escape and he gets recruited to a secret society. Well, when you go to the secret society, it's been around for a couple thousand years, they've developed some of the craziest leaders of all time and they test you. There's unique tests that they have at the society where they test to see your emotional mental toughness.
One of the tests that they have is very rigorous. It's purely mental. Of course, there's a physical one, but one is mental and emotional. If you're Armenian, if you're Syrian, if you're Persian, this is a book you're gonna be reading and saying, holy moly, this is the kind of stuff you talk about in here? Yes. If you're somebody that's fascinated by history, this is a book for you.
Characters, there's a technology that this society, secret society builds, where you go into a vault, I won't spoil it for you, when you go down, They have a technology where you get to sit down and watch and have a three, four hour conversation with Tupac. You can set up a debate between Karl Marx and Ayn Rand. Karl Marx is in the book who wrote Communist Manifesto.
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