Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the culture war. I'm Tim Poole. We've got a pretty serious issue for today's show, talking about hunting child predators. But I'd like to throw it to Shane Cashman, who did some excellent reporting on this, to introduce the idea and explain what this is all about and then we'll introduce the

gentleman involved yeah I came across the uh predator poachers on Twitter a few months ago and

it was a video that really shocked me it was they they caught a man who was attempting to meet a young

a young girl and for not good reasons for terrible evil reasons and I remember seeing them make

the man call his wife and admit to what he was doing wow yeah and it was actually hard to watch

I couldn't uh I actually couldn't get through it it It made me sick. I couldn't, first of all,

because of what he was going to do. And then seeing the, the wife here, what he was doing,

it was like shocking. So these are, these are guys who are going online and, and sending explicit

messages to children for the purpose of trying to lure them out. 11 year olds, 12 year olds,

uh, mostly.

So you did a story, and I wrote a lot about it,

but let's throw it to the gentleman in question, actually.

Alex, would you like to start and introduce yourself?

Your microphone?

Yes, well, thanks for having me on.

First off, we have a group.

You want to grab your mic and pull it?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Okay. Thanks for having me on.

First off, we have a group called Predator Poachers where we, you know, like Shane said,

travel to country catching online child predators.

And yeah, we often pose minors online and do other ways too in order to, you know,

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