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You're Wrong About

Human Trafficking

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.623K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Mike tells Sarah how NGOs, activists and George W. Bush resurrected the 'stranger danger' panic for the modern era. Digressions include Reply All, muffins and Yelp for massage parlors. Mike's vocal fry is even worse than usual.

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0:00.0

It's so easy to traffic people on these coasts. I mean, like, I have to go to New Jersey for a Michael Bolton concert.

0:15.0

Welcome to You're Wrong About, the podcast where we teach you how to succinctly counter your relatives Thanksgiving Day arguments.

0:26.0

That's good. Thank you. The succinctly is a little ambitious considering how long the episode's gone.

0:31.0

Okay, here's how I think this works. We've probably done like a hundred hours of research for this.

0:36.0

We're going to talk for three to five hours for an episode that's going to be an hour long.

0:42.0

And the people who hear this episode can boil that one hour down to, you know, five minutes of impassioned whisper shouting over stuffing.

0:50.0

Yeah, I like that we've turned our listeners just as insufferable as we are.

0:54.0

Yeah, I think they were already insufferable. They just like were wanting tools to become even more insufferable.

1:00.0

And that's what we're offering them. I am Michael Hobbs. I am a reporter for the Havignon Post.

1:05.0

I'm Sarah Marshall and I am allegedly working on a book about the satanic panic, although my front burner is all okay.

1:14.0

And if you want to support the show, we're on Patreon at patreon.com slash you're wrong about. And we have a merch store.

1:20.0

Yeah, there's a link in the description. Can we call it something other than merch?

1:23.0

We should just say chaach gays. I feel like merch is what comes out of a Paul brother when they sneeze.

1:29.0

And today we're talking about human trafficking.

1:33.0

Yeah. So can you tell me what is your understanding of the term human trafficking?

1:39.0

So I want to try and connect this to a recent news item.

1:42.0

Ooh. And this is going to be something that I vaguely remember and you can help me fill in the holes.

1:46.0

But basically there was some female conservative politician.

1:52.0

Oh, yeah. Who was it?

1:54.0

Uh, if you're going where I think you're going, it was Cindy McCain.

1:57.0

It was Cindy McCain. Okay. So it wasn't a politician, but she's obviously part of a political family.

2:02.0

She was on a morning talk show and she told a story about seeing in an airport or something like that,

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