E559 Laila Mickelwait

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

Theo Von

Comedy

4.8 • 24K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Laila Mickelwait is the author of "Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking". She is the Co-Founder/CEO of the Justice Defense Fund and the Founder of the #Traffickinghub movement. Laila Mickelwait joins Theo to talk about why she's taking on the biggest porn websites in the world, the issues of sexual crime and sex trafficking online, and what can be done to make the internet safer. Laila Mickelwait: https://x.com/LailaMickelwait https://www.instagram.com/lailamickelwait/ Her book “Takedown: Insight the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub”: https://bit.ly/3Cw18b3 (100% of author proceeds are donated to the Justice Defense Fund) Trafficking Hub Petition: https://traffickinghubpetition.com/ ------------------------------------------------ Tour Dates! https://theovon.com/tour New Merch: https://www.theovonstore.com ------------------------------------------------- Sponsored By: Celsius: Go to the Celsius Amazon store to check out all of their flavors. #CELSIUSBrandPartner #CELSIUSLiveFit https://amzn.to/3HbAtPJ BetterHelp: This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp — go to https://betterhelp.com/theo to get 10% off your first month. Shopify: Go to https://shopify.com/theo to sign up for your $1-per-month trial period today. Rocket Money: Go to https://rocketmoney.com/theo to cancel your unwanted subscriptions with Rocket Money. Valor Recovery: To learn more about Valor Recovery please visit them at https://valorrecoverycoaching.com/ or email them at [email protected] ------------------------------------------------- Music: “Shine” by Bishop Gunn Bishop Gunn - Shine ------------------------------------------------ Submit your funny videos, TikToks, questions and topics you'd like to hear on the podcast to: [email protected] Hit the Hotline: 985-664-9503 Video Hotline for Theo Upload here: https://www.theovon.com/fan-upload Send mail to: This Past Weekend 1906 Glen Echo Rd PO Box #159359 Nashville, TN 37215 ------------------------------------------------ Find Theo: Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend Twitter: https://twitter.com/theovon YouTube: https://youtube.com/theovon Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheoVonClips Shorts Channel: https://bit.ly/3ClUj8z ------------------------------------------------ Producer: Zach https://www.instagram.com/zachdpowers Producer: Nick https://www.instagram.com/realnickdavis/ Producer: Cam https://www.instagram.com/cam__george/ Producer: Colin https://instagram.com/colin_reiner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Today's guest is the co-founder and CEO of the Justice Defense Fund.
0:34.7	She also founded the Trafficking Hub movement.
0:39.4	She's been fighting against human trafficking for almost 20 years, and she just wrote a new book called Take Down Inside the Fight to Shut Down
0:47.4	Porn Hub. We want to let you know as well that this episode can be somewhat sexually explicit at times. So I want to give
0:56.9	you that warning in advance. I'm very grateful for her time and her advocacy and her information.
1:04.7	Today's guest is Lila McAweight.
1:07.2	And I will find a song. I'll sing and I'm singing. Mickleweight.
1:25.5	So take down inside the fight to shut down porn hub for child abuse,
1:27.0	rape, and sex trafficking. This is your book. And I'm
1:29.7	sitting here with Lila Mickleweight. Nice to be here. Is that the way to say it? You almost got it.
1:36.7	Lila McElwate. Okay. So I didn't get it. Lila McElwate. How did your war against
1:42.8	porn hub start? Sure. I will tell you that story. Okay.
1:46.7	So in the context of years in the fight against sex trafficking, so I had been fighting sex trafficking. When this began, this began at the start of 2020. This is February 2020 when the fight to hold porn hub accountable for rape, sex trafficking, child
2:01.7	abuse began. And that was in the context of over a decade in the fight against trafficking
2:05.8	at that point. And I had been paying attention to the headlines, obviously, when sexual
2:10.8	abuse stories, trafficking stories came up, you know, was paying attention. And one of the stories that came up at late
2:19.3	2019 that really arrested my attention. It was a story of a 15-year-old girl, and she was
2:25.4	from Broward County, Florida. And she was missing for an entire year. And she was finally found
2:30.4	when her distraught mother was tipped off by a porn hub user that he recognized her daughter
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