240: Chris Hansen | Catching Predators
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Chris Hansen (@officialchrishansen) is a renowned American television journalist best known for his work on the weekly reality legal program "Dateline NBC," where he organized sting operations to entice prospective online sex predators in “To Catch a Predator”. In addition to hosting some of the spin-off programs, he also revived the "Hansen vs. Predator" section on his syndicated program, "Crime Watch Daily." He hosted "Killer Instinct," a show on Investigation Discovery that followed homicide cases, after his two-decade career with NBC came to an end. He presently hosts the "Have a Seat with Chris Hansen" YouTube series and his podcast Predators I’ve Caught.
Spearheaded by Chris Hansen, TruBlu is the home to some of the biggest personalities in crime and investigation. Chris examines scams, catches predators, and brings you a fresh supply of gripping crime programs and documentaries.
He is regarded as one of the top investigative journalists and has won numerous domestic and international accolades.
What Travis, Eric, and Chris Discussed:
- Predators I’ve Caught, a live event were Chris reveals the behind-the-scenes and insights of 19 years of catching predators, live at the South Point Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, February 3, 4, 5, 2023.
- Chris’s early interest in crime investigation and journalism when he was 14 and intrigued by Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance.
- How Chris’s interest in investigative crime stories led him to pursue online predators.
- The story behind the first episode of To Catch A Predator, and the struggles he faced to air the episode.
- How parents can help their kids avoid being in risky situations and away from dangerous people.
- Social responsibility, the new risks with social media platforms, dating apps, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:08.8 | You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. |
| 0:20.0 | The testimony shared on this podcast are told |
| 0:22.4 | from the personal experience and perspective of the survivors. Not all legal outcomes are known or final. |
| 0:29.4 | Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. Now, here's your host, |
| 0:36.0 | Eric Squarsinsky. |
| 0:39.7 | Welcome back to the Preach Boys podcast. |
| 0:42.8 | Today's guest is the one and only Chris Hansen. |
| 0:47.0 | Whether you know him from his show to catch a predator or you've seen clips on YouTube or you've checked out his podcast, you're familiar with what an absolute legend he is. |
| 0:51.6 | And I was so lucky that my friend Travis Chappell invited me to co-host an |
| 0:56.0 | episode with him on the Travis Makes Friends podcast. Stay tuned. This one is a great one. And be sure to |
| 1:02.7 | check out the Travis Makes Friends podcast to see more content from my buddy Travis. All right, |
| 1:09.4 | let's get into today's episode with Chris Hansen. |
| 1:14.0 | Chris, have a seat. Thank you, Travis. You took my line. I'll let you do it. On purpose. Yeah. Thank you. |
| 1:20.0 | So on this episode, for those of you watching and listening, you may be familiar with my producer Eric. |
| 1:23.8 | I asked Eric to sit in on this episode because Eric's podcast, Preacher Boys, talks a lot about abuse within the religious subsect that we both grew up in in the independent, fundamental Baptist world. |
| 1:34.5 | And so Eric has been looking forward to this conversation as well. So let's go ahead and dive right in. I know we're limited on time. You got a new show coming out, lots of stuff happening. So before we jump into some backstory and context, |
| 1:48.4 | let's throw a quick plug in at the very beginning so people know what you've got going on and why we're even here at South Point to be. Well, in Vegas here at the South Point Casino, |
| 1:52.1 | we're doing a live interactive multimedia show on February 3rd, 4th, and 5th called, |
| 1:57.9 | you know, Predators I've caught with Chris Hansen. So it's a tell |
| 2:00.8 | all taking people behind the scenes of 19 years of investigations. So people are going to see |
| 2:07.7 | things they haven't seen before, hear things they haven't seen before, and have a chance to |
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