PW E056 Fighting Human Trafficking with Skull Games and Jeff Tiegs

Passionately Wrong Podcast Episode E056

Interview - Jeff Tiegs, part 1 (Skull Games)

Key takeaway: What kind of person devotes their life first to the military and then founds a nonprofit to fight sex trafficking? Jeff takes us through his experiences and why he does what he does. This leads to a discussion of the book he wrote describing his faith and his military career, Where Have All The Heroes Gone?

Topics covered in this video: 

• What a Delta Force Lieutenant Colonel does
• Jeff’s calling to start working on combatting sex trafficking 
• How being a hunter of men suits him for the role, and the mind games involved
• How sex trafficking works, and how the bad guys operate: force, fraud, and coercion
• Why all pimps are traffickers
• Blaming the victims and why it’s hard to compare countries’ approaches
• The risks inherent in legalizing and normalizing vices
• How the internet has made the problem worse, but created an enforcement silver lining
• How Jeff and his team build cases by getting to the human story behind the victims

Resources in this video

Skull Games