Matt Parker

And then on the other side of the planet, we have perpetrators who are forced to do it, who've been trafficked.

And if they don't meet their quotas through extorting money out of children or adults, then they're beaten.

And we have rescued several.

of those victims who have been trapped in those compounds.

And we've worked with Interpol and Homeland Security on those cases.

It's an overwhelming problem that we're dealing with.

But you might just think, oh, I just got the wrong text from someone.

But it really all, I think, boils into this concept that

Our culture and society, we long for intimacy.

We want friendships, we want to be loved.

Unfortunately, a lot of our relationships, maybe fortunately or unfortunately, they're digital relationships.

And so we're not really looking at each other eye to eye in a bar to get to know each other.

It's all digital, which creates this opportunity for deception to vulnerable people.

And we're all vulnerable in that regard.

We all want relationship, right?

And we tend to turn online because it's easier.

Right.

Yeah, absolutely.

I did, yeah.

That was kind of my genesis story of coming face-to-face with the problem of human trafficking, which, to be honest, I didn't know much about at the time.