#364 Nate Lewis - Keep Your Kids Off Social Media
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🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Zuby speaks with Nate Lewis, founder of The Innocent, an organisation dedicated to protecting children from exploitation and abuse. Nate shares how he began his journey and reveals the staggering scale of child sexual abuse in the United States, including shocking statistics on victim numbers. They discuss the dangerous role smartphones and social media play in facilitating these crimes, and the lackluster response from law enforcement. Nate discusses how predators operate, what motivates them, and what steps individuals and society must take to combat this abuse.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:02) How Nate began his career
(03:03) The scale of child exploitation in the US
(06:05) 46M in the US have experienced SA?
(10:43) Social media safeguards
(14:52) Smart phone & social media age restrictions
(17:31) Are these crimes related to smart phones & social media?
(21:03) Where are law enforcement?
(32:26) The Innocent/law enforcement work
(39:43) What drives humans to commit these crimes?
(47:46) Priorities of individuals & society to reduce SA
(58:08) Where to find The Innocent and support Nate’s work
(59:09) Outro
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| 0:00.0 | In the United States, on average, 1,000 children a day will be sexually abused. |
| 0:05.4 | 360,000 children a year. |
| 0:08.2 | That's about five football stadiums full of sexually abused children every single year. |
| 0:13.1 | We're looking at 46 million survivors of child sexual abuse living in the United States. |
| 0:22.4 | I am the man, sick with the slang, sick and I'm destined for fame. |
| 0:26.0 | Do for the fan, not for the grand, stouten you're destined for pain. |
| 0:29.4 | I do not for, I do not scam, put some respect on my name. |
| 0:32.7 | Sick like a pain, click and a bang. |
| 0:34.4 | Y'all going to remember the name. |
| 0:40.1 | What's up, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls around the world? I'd like to welcome you back to the Real Talk with Zubi podcast. |
| 0:43.0 | And on today's episode, we have got on Nate Lewis from The Innocent. |
| 0:46.9 | Welcome to the show, Nate. |
| 0:47.8 | How you doing? |
| 0:48.8 | I'm doing just right, man. |
| 0:50.1 | So good to see you. |
| 0:51.4 | It's a pleasure to see you. |
| 0:52.4 | Nate, introduce my audience to who you are and your work. |
| 0:56.5 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:57.2 | So I am the founder and CEO of an organization called The Innocent. |
| 1:01.2 | And we go around the United States and train law enforcement, how to be proactive in |
| 1:05.8 | investigations to protect and preserve the innocence of children, really from online predators, but sex trafficking, |
| 1:12.5 | exploitation, and just sexual assault. So that's a brief little introduction of what it is, |
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