Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

There's all different ways to make money with side gigs, right?

And you've got Uber Eats, Uber.

Lots of Uber stuff, I guess.

But some people try to make a lot of money very quickly doing highly illegal and dangerous

things.

One of those things is being a drug smuggler, in particular, a drug courier or a drug mule.

Someone who carries illegal drugs, particularly through airports.

So today on the podcast, I want to talk about the methods that authorities use to identify

and find drug couriers and smugglers among us.

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I am your host, Catholic Answers, a polygist and speaker, Trent Horn.

On Monday and Wednesday, we talk about apologetics, theology, all things related to the Catholic

faith.

But on Friday, we talk about whatever I want to talk about.

And recently, my wife and I had been watching a show called Locked Up Abroad.

Well, to be more exact, we're watching the British equivalent of it banged up abroad.

But it's basically the same thing.

They cover people who have been locked up in jails overseas, usually, but not always,

but usually it's for drug smuggling.

Someone will come to a person who's down and out.

They really want to make some extra money.

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