230: Part 1: Tyler Schwab – Hunting human traffickers worldwide

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🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This episode dives deep into the alarming scope of human trafficking, from Latin America to the United States, and why Medellín became a strategic base for operations. Tyler shares heart-wrenching survivor journeys, miraculous interventions, and tragic reminders of just how high the stakes truly are. You’ll hear firsthand about the cost of doing good, the dangers NGOs face, and the resilience of survivors who refuse to be defined by their trauma.

This episode is difficult—but necessary. Child exploitation thrives in silence. Awareness saves lives.

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0:00.0	It's just, you know, no one ever tells you the cost of doing good. You know, it's really fun to what it was. We're messing with a criminal enterprise. We're dealing with very bad people. And there's one thing I learned about bad people is that they very rarely, if ever, take responsibility for what they do. And they will always justify their behavior. I'm sure you, you know, you know, and anybody dealing with the people that you've dealt with, the reasons that people justify
0:23.4	their behavior. And so, you know, it's just, I guess, long story short, it's just safer for me
0:27.9	because of the work that I do to be not in Columbia at the current time.
0:49.5	Yeah. Welcome back to this week's edition of Game of Crimes with Murph in the morning.
0:52.0	Thank you so much for coming back every week.
0:54.8	I appreciate you folks continuing to support the show here.
1:01.5	Just having a blast. I hope you all had a great Christmas and you're going to have a prosperous 2026.
1:07.0	And when I say prosperous, I'm talking like, I don't know, Powerball Prosperous. That'd be cool, wouldn't it?
1:15.3	Can you imagine have won $1.6 billion? You know, I think if I'd won that,
1:20.0	I'm not sure I'd be here talking to you, but I'd like to think that I would. But anyway,
1:25.8	we all have dreams, right? But truly, welcome back. Thank you for continuing to support us here.
1:31.6	And if you folks remember last year we talked about this, January is the National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
1:33.5	And it's actually international, but for whatever reason we call it the national month here
1:37.9	in the United States.
1:39.8	And last year, one of my guests was a gentleman named Tyler Schwab.
1:45.4	Well, guess what?
1:46.8	Tyler is, I guess, here again on Game of Crimes this week.
1:50.9	This is his fourth appearance here on the Game of Crimes.
1:55.3	And that's how important is this topic is to me and the other people that support me here on Game of Crimes,
2:01.0	that we're going to continue to try and bring awareness to this problem
2:04.9	because it's just monumental and it's not getting any better.
2:08.8	And I was so impressed with Tyler when I first met him,
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