What's Going On with Child Trafficking and Why Doesn't It Get News Coverage?

Human trafficking. That's another thing that we don't talk about. Yes. That is another thing that just goes in and out of the news. We were talking about on the podcast the 39 or 35 kids that were rescued in Georgia. And it was a blip in the news. Like how, and, but meanwhile, I saw a thousand articles on how mean Ellen is. Ellen's mean. She's so mean. Meanwhile, there's like, people are out there risking their life to stop human trafficking. They're rescuing children from human trafficking. Yes. What is this? U.S. marshal. Wow. 72 million missing children. Excuse me. 72, did I say a million? 72 missing children across Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, and Georgia in the past several weeks. In the past several weeks. So what is, what is, this is where these, so when you read an article like that, U.S. officials rescued 72 missing children. This is where like all the Q and on people get crazy because they think that Donald Trump is secretly working behind the scenes to stop child trafficking and that there's like some secret cabal and the government that wants to enable this shit. And then Facebook bans Q and on and they think everyone's going crazy now. Like this, this child trafficking thing is real. It has always existed. Did you know that Houston is actually one of the hubs for child trafficking in the U.S.? Really? Yes, it is. Now, how do they, how do they find out about child trafficking? Like what, what do they, how do they infiltrate? So usually it's local law enforcement that recognizes some abnormalities in the behavior of some of the children. Usually it's certain areas, certain shops, certain businesses that are kind of harboring these people. A lot of them just get stopped because I mean, it's kind of really odd if you're in a van or an 18-wheeler and then there's like 20 kids in it. It's weird. And we as a culture have got to work with local law enforcement to start to curb this thing because that's where the rubber meets the road. I don't know if you saw the story, I don't know if you could pull it up, sir, but if you saw the story about the flight attendant that helped out. Yes, the girl. And they recognized the abnormality of a girl on a flight by herself and saved her life. Yes. And they had the authorities on the ground when the plane landed. Waiting. Yeah. Waiting. Yeah. We have got to see more of that. And so this is, this is how we're talking about the army. You got to police your own troops. We got to police our own. If we are just acutely aware of the abnormalities and the behavior of young children who clearly are under duress, we cannot turn a blind eye to it. Why is this not a bigger story in mainstream news? This is one of the things that concerns me. I don't understand why you're not seeing this on CNN. This is not- Every day. Why are we seeing this every day on CNN? That story right there should be leading- Everything. On prime time news. Everything. That should be leading. 72 missing children rescued. Yes. So how are they, they can't, it can't be just that they're randomly discovering what these kids in a truck or they see a kid on a plane acting weird and that's how they catch everybody. How are they infiltrating? Like how, because there's also a bunch of guys that are former spec ops guys that are working to fight child trafficking. How are they doing this? So the solution to this in my opinion, I'll get your answer in a second. The solution is in my opinion is actually, and I will be in huge favor of this, of literally starting a separate task force to address this in known hotspots. The other way we're finding out is, to answer your question, the other way that we're finding out as to how they're infiltrating is really if you go to hubs of the world like Houston, you go to coastal cities where people are actually bringing people into the country, that's exactly where you're going to find a lot of it. So if you just kind of hang out around these areas, then you'll see a lot more of it. You'll discover a lot more of it. And so Houston has become kind of one of those hubs because of its geographic locations. It's actually near a port city and obviously people are coming through port cities at a higher rate, cargo's coming through at a higher rate. And so we're actually able to track that at a better rate if you just kind of hang around the hoop. You'll find it. So how are these people communicating? This seems like if the government can use programs like Edward Snowden revealed, like how are they organizing these things and where are they getting these kids from? They get these kids from actually all over the world. A lot of them are coming from impoverished communities. A lot of them are coming from impoverished countries and they're shipping them in. A lot of them come from Asian countries actually. And a lot of them come from right here in the US. And this is something that dawned on me particularly with having two girls now and that is it's also my job to continue to protect them and all of these young people and it's actually young boys as well. It's not just young ladies. It's actually coming upon them to keep them safe. If we can't keep them safe then what are we doing here? Literally. Like that's our role now. You know as fathers and as responsible human beings is keeping our young people safe. And the biggest thing is this. There clearly is an appetite and there clearly is a culture for it. What I want to do is how do we place extreme punishment on those who behave in this and partake in this behavior? I tell you what. It could be happening right next door to you to somebody that seems to be a normal human being but we have got to stop them. We have to stop the predator from feasting on our children. And it's got to be demonized. Let's demonize that. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. How are these people communicating though? Are they doing it through the dark web? Are they doing it through forums? Are they doing it through? Are they using code? Like how are they doing this? I've heard all the above. Yeah. I've also heard communicating through just open email inboxes. They don't hit send but they have the password for multiple emails and they'll just go in, hit the message and then never open their clothes so it's impossible basically to track. It's just like a draft. Oh, I see. And so other people have the login to the account and they check it out through the draft. Oh, that makes sense. You know, it's funny because this subject because of things like Pizzagate, the subject became so taboo that no one wants to talk about it because it sounds preposterous because Pizzagate was so preposterous. Guy shows up with a gun looking for kids that are tied up in the basement and everybody's like, oh my God. There's nobody here. Everyone's wacky. These child sex trafficking fanatics that are interested in this and that are trying to stop this. They're all crazy people. But that's not really the case. The problem with something like Pizzagate is it confuses everybody. And you start thinking that all this stuff is nonsense. But then these stories, they make it to these websites and you see that this is a real thing. These are real news stories but then they don't get talked about in mainstream. And then we lose track of who the real enemy is. Yeah. That's a real enemy. Not Ellen. That's dangerous. Ellen being mean to her assistant. Just fuck. Just what we care about is so bizarre. It's such a symptom of how sick we are as a culture and that our priorities are so skewed and that this is sort of accentuated by our addiction to social media and that people are concentrating so much on things that are trivial and nonsensical. What's up buddy? I found an article on Reuters that said that the mainstream media has been reporting on this. So I'm looking through pages to find out details on different reporting of this. All I'm finding this on is local news sites. So what does that mean though that it's not being reported? Well you don't see it on CNN. You're not seeing it as mainstream television news where it's a big subject that gets discussed that we have a giant problem like this in this country. That's what I'm saying. I'm digging through here and then the human trafficking angle according to what the US marshal's done here, it's one in four of these kids. So if it was 25 kids picked up, that's six or seven of them were human trafficking. The other 20 or so are like kids that ran away or kids that were being abused. They found them because they were missing. Some of them missing for two weeks, some up to two years. Not every kid is in a human trafficking situation. That's those 72. That's the one, the 35 though in Georgia. I think those were all the same thing. So they're collecting and then they're like reporting the numbers. So they're collecting these 35 kids over a period of time and then they're reporting we found 35. So it's a month later they found 35 kids. One from September which would have been reported five weeks ago says that they recovered 25 missing and endangered children over the last month. One in four was part of what they believe in alleged human trafficking situation. Obviously one is too many. Obviously. Obviously. So it seems like they're finding missing kids and a percentage of them happen to be a part of human trafficking. And now here's the question. How many of the kids that are being human trafficked actually get discovered? We're finding this five year, six year, these part of these groups. How many of them actually are there? Do we know? We don't, right? We don't. Just the fact that it's a real thing. It's spooky as fuck. It is. It's dangerous. It's terrifying. It's terrifying for fathers and mothers. It is. You know it's like the fact that, or brothers and sisters, the fact that it could be someone close to you. Yes. Episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience are now free on Spotify. That's right. They're free. From September 1st to December 1st they're going to be available everywhere but after December 1st they will only be available on Spotify but they will be free. That includes the video. The video will also be there. It'll also be free. That's all we're asking. Just go download Spotify. Much love. Bye bye. Me.