“It wasn’t the only alley I was going down, it was just the alley I couldn’t figure out how to get back to.” - Matt Parker

This summer, the world is watching the World Cup. Soon, we’ll be releasing a two-part series called The Cost of the Cup, examining two very different stories tied to the tournament: the trafficking myth you’ve heard a thousand times, and the human cost you’ve heard almost nothing about.

But first, we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes, originally released in July 2020.

Seven years before we recorded Pin Drop, co-founder Matt Parker was in a taxi speeding through Bangkok at midnight when he glimpsed an obscure back alley where young girls were being sold. By the time he understood what he’d seen, it was gone, and he couldn’t find his way back to it.

Seven years later, a chance encounter on another taxi ride brought him back. Listen to hear the full story, and the operation that was underway to free these trafficked victims.

The Cost of the Cup is coming soon.

In this special episode of Until All Are Free, host Preston Goff sits down with The Exodus Road’s co-founder and CEO, Laura Parker, for an exclusive "watch party" and behind-the-scenes breakdown of the major Newsmax documentary, Stolen Lives: America's Human Trafficking Crisis.

What started nearly 15 years ago as late-night conversations at a kitchen table has morphed into a global movement , recently reaching a nationwide stage with a viewership of over 16 million people. Together, Preston and Laura revisit key moments from the film, unpacking the complex, rapidly evolving landscape of human trafficking and highlighting the critical voices fighting on the front lines.

• Defining the Crisis: Breaking down the realities of human trafficking—which affects an estimated 50 million potential victims globally and roughly 1.1 million individuals in the United States alone—and dismantling the myth that it only happens in foreign countries.

• The Digital Battlefield: Exploring how over 70% of The Exodus Road's cases now involve an online or social media component. Laura and Preston discuss how modern traffickers have traded physical recruitment for smartphones, utilizing apps to target, groom, and blackmail vulnerable youth.

• A Parent's Nightmare: Listening to the heartbreaking and powerful testimony of South Carolina State Representative Brandon Guffey, a parental survivor who lost his son, Gavin, to an online sextortion scam. Brandon shares his journey of turning immense grief into legislative action to protect children in digital spaces.

• The Triple Threat of Investigation: A look into how The Exodus Road marries human intelligence, open-source intelligence, and advanced digital forensics. Co-founder Matt Parker shares his insights on leveraging AI and technology from partners like Cellebrite to mine crucial electronic data, build ironclad target packages for overwhelmed law enforcement, and successfully prosecute trafficking networks.

• Stories of Triumph: Hearing directly from Brandy, a Colorado-based survivor and advocate, who bravely shares her harrowing escape from a trafficker and discusses how she now extends a hand backward to help other women heal and thrive.

• The "Influenced" Program: An overview of The Exodus Road’s federally funded prevention education program designed to equip students, families, and schools with the digital resiliency skills needed to combat online predation.

  
  

Watch the Documentary: Stolen Lives: America's Human Trafficking Crisis is available for streaming on Newsmax+ (theexodusroad.com/stolenlives)

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What do human rights actually look like at street level? Not in a courtroom or a policy brief — but on a single block in one of America's most misunderstood neighborhoods?

In this episode of Until All Are Free, Preston Goff sits down with Edwin Desamour, Executive Director of The Lighthouse — a Kensington institution serving North Philadelphia youth and families since 1893.

Edwin grew up on these streets, survived the hardest version of them, and built his life's work around making sure the next generation gets a different story. We talk about what it means to defend the rights of kids the world has already written off, how a neighborhood becomes more than its headlines, and why the fight for safety, dignity, and childhood is won or lost block by block.

A raw, hopeful conversation about community, resilience, and the people who refuse to leave.