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Have A Seat with Chris Hansen

Sean O’Brien | Have A Seat

Have A Seat with Chris Hansen

Chris Hansen

True Crime

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen talks with Sean O’Brien, General President of the Teamsters, the storied labor union that was founded in 1903. The two have a candid conversation about a recent crimes against children investigation they did together in Michigan, how the Teamsters can help combat human trafficking, the threat autonomous vehicles will have on the work force, unionizing Amazon drivers, and why unions are still extremely necessary in this country. They also reflect on O’Brien's infamous senate exchange with now HSI director Markwayne Mullin, and his thoughts on what really happened to Jimmy Hoffa.   This episode is sponsored by: OneSkin: Get 15% off OneSkin with the code HANSEN at https://www.oneskin.co/HANSEN #oneskinpod  Home Title Lock: Go to https://hometitlelock.com/chrishansen and use promo code HANSEN to get a FREE title history report and a FREE TRIAL of their Triple Lock Protection! For details visit https://hometitlelock.com/warranty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Just a week ago from the recording of this episode, I was on a sting, a takedown sting for my streaming

0:16.2

crime network, True Blue, in Genesee County, Michigan.

0:19.5

And as you know, we work with the ghost team, Sheriff Chris Swanson and his entire ghost

0:25.1

team there.

0:25.9

And we set up a sting.

0:27.2

But we did something different this time.

0:29.5

Instead of having a sting house, we actually went to a truck stop.

0:33.8

And we had a semi-truck that we wired with hidden cameras.

0:43.7

And we also had the cooperation of the Teamsters Union, which is something a little different for us.

0:53.9

But we wanted to show that, in fact, these locations, truck stops can be spots for human trafficking, for predatory activity.

0:54.1

And in fact, on the first night, we caught a guy who has tried to explode a teenage girl.

0:58.8

With me in that old truck, that old semi-truck cab, was the president of the Teamsters Union, Sean O'Brien.

1:08.8

And Sean is with me to have a seat and talk about so many different things.

1:12.2

Sean, thank you for being with me. And I have so many questions for you. But let's start with

1:16.2

the sting. What got you interested as president of the Teamsters, which represents 1.3 million

1:24.3

members. Obviously, a lot of those people are long-haul truckers, people who are in truck stops.

1:30.7

What means you want to be a part of a sting operation trying to catch predators in a truck

1:36.3

stop on I-75 near Flint, Michigan?

1:38.7

Well, thank you very much for having me on your show.

1:41.6

I've been watching you for 21 years.

1:44.0

And, you know, where I come from in the

1:45.7

city of Boston, you know, predators are, you know, they're evil. And, you know, we don't like them.

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