The speaker makes a comparison between their interest in the Silk Road and their unwillingness to participate in illicit activities, highlighting how our fascination with certain topics is not necessarily an indication of our willingness to engage in related actions.
The speaker discusses how show business, like any other business, can be extremely predatory and highlights the importance of close collaborations to build something.
The US has charged a couple of Chinese chaps with offering exactly this kind of service.
Lindsay and Marshall discuss the illusion of living in a free market capitalist system and how news coverage often gets it wrong. They point out that the system is not truly free and market forces are at play in unexpected ways.
The hosts discuss a dystopian business idea where pedophiles are lured into robbing banks in exchange for not being exposed, leading them to choose between going to jail for pedophilia or bank robbery.
Sex trafficking is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world, rivaling the numbers for drug trafficking. The renewable product of selling humans for sex makes it a lucrative business.