Name: Chris Hansen | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #156
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Chris Hansen | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #156

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get that hitter today's episode is uh a very unique guest this man has ran
across uh more of the dark
arts than maybe anyone he's come face to face with them he's he's sat them down
um you know him from
to catch a predator you know him from his years of investigative journalism um
he is something unique
let's get to know him right now ladies and gentlemen it is mr chris hansen
thank you for joining us today my pleasure thanks for having me yeah um and
have you
do you get out to hollywood a lot i do because some of the production companies
with which i work
are based out here and so when i was doing the crime watch daily show for
instance that's warner
brothers they're you know right there in the burbank area right and so i get
out here frequently
do you do uh crime is so people are obsessed with crime they really are i mean
you look at the
show for instance killer instinct that uh is on investigation discovery the id
network
and that network literally has either the first or second number of female
viewers from that coveted
demographic yeah not just of cable but in all of broadcast right and people
watch because when and
because females are those are the ones most likely to be like shopping and
spending money with
advertising right well i think taking care of homes i think that's part of it
we also get a very healthy
you know male viewership on on you know the various crime shows that i do i
think what draws people in
is this attitude that i try to bring to every show where you know i take the
viewer along on a journey
of discovery where they get to see things they wouldn't normally see hear
things they wouldn't
normally hear yeah you know i get to go places that most people don't get to go
i get to talk to
people uh most people don't get to talk to you and so that's fascinating for
the average viewer yeah it's
kind of almost i wonder if you seem to me like as because i've i would consider
myself a i guess
basically like this i would consider myself probably a female viewer i mean i've
watched so much of
those types of programming i mean not really but i mean it's almost like yeah i
guess i'm almost in
in that demographic but you are you're almost like a lia you're like i can't
tell sometimes if i'm like
you're you seem like an edgar allen poe of sorts you know or like a um like a
concierge to like uh
the dark arts or something a little bit i mean i know you're reporting and you're
sure you're the
you're kind of the the sherpa but um well that's valid you look at some of the
different investigations
we've done over the years and you know i do you know occupy a unique space in
television and journalism
and it's been crime and i've been at it literally for some 36 years yeah i
started very young in the
in the business i was six no but uh but you know so so it's true you know i was
at a um a uh news
conference in in um uh la one time for kicking off a show and and uh one of the
print writers who covers
broadcast for ganette who's covered me for many many years said do you ever go
to therapy or get
counseling for all the dark stuff you you do and see i said no it's all kept
down there nice and safe
where i like it you know i'm good do you do you ever think that those types of
things like that
subconsciously though that interacting with you know such a dark you know a voldemorty
cauldron of
the universe kind of that that can impact you like on a level that you're not
able to yeah i think so i
mean you look at people sometimes uh like what's that guy up to over there what's
he doing over
there or you think through scenarios where something bad happens and you have
to react not just as a
journalist and covering it but you're in the middle of it right and it's been
interesting because uh
my two sons are in the business so one is a assistant cameraman and a
production assistant on my shows and
many many others and the others are um a reporter in traverse city michigan he
just got a job in
oklahoma city oh nice so you know they've grown up in this yeah and and you see
it affect them a
little bit you know we finished a season of killer instinct and uh my oldest
son looks up me he goes man
i am just murdered out i gotta go do some food shows for a little while
yeah i need to focus on a flea market flip or something yeah yeah dude i need i
need i need
some really fast dad i gotta go see mr ramsey um when you go back to going back
to talking about
how women watch a lot of those types of shows do you feel like there's
something secretive in women
or something that like i've always had this weird idea that some women like
want to be murdered in a
weird way and i know that's kind of a drastic statement but like there's
something about it
what is that well you know that's that's a great question and i think it's it's
a lot of things i think
that you know women empathize with victims i mean men do too right i get a lot
of you know grizzled
male cops who watch these shows all the time and wall street guys and business
people and and you know
all shady comedians shady comedians and uh but i but i do think that for
whatever reason uh again
our key demographic on a lot of these shows skews female do you think killers
seemed like tall dark
and handsome in a way to women like is there is there like on like a different
level do you feel
like there's some romantic thing because yeah for some reason in my head i'm
like women secretly all
want to have someone break into their home or something i don't buy that i
think it's it's more
of all right i'm gonna learn how this stuff happens so i don't become a victim
myself and that's kind
of the way i look at these shows these investigations is if we can hear the
voice of a victim or a victim's
family if we can get into the mind of a criminal whether it's a killer or a
predator or a you know sex
trafficker or human trafficker or somebody dealing heroin and in dayton ohio
you can better understand
how it all works and you can prevent other people from falling into that trap
of becoming a victim
themselves and that's a big part of what i do yeah do you feel like you know
after um like to catch a
predator and you know that um do you feel did you feel like a hero like at
certain points during that
show like did you feel how did you feel like as that show went on and you guys
were you know you guys
were catching um i guess i don't know if they're pedophiles or perverts at that
point or what the
term is predator i think okay predator is the right term i mean pedophile has a
very distinct definition
in psychiatric circles uh people use it all the time it was in the new york
post today on the flight
here yeah so you know people use that but it predator is the best way to put it
and and when we first
did the um those investigations the first one was in long island and i remember
driving out there thinking
jeez what if nobody shows up what if i've just wasted thousands and thousands
of dollars of the
network's money and within seconds of that thought my producer was on the cell
phone saying where the
heck are you we've got two guys coming in 45 minutes and all of a sudden 17
guys show up in the course of
three days including a new york city firefighter and several others and you can
imagine that first
investigation i mean we had security and we had precautions and we had the the
online decoys in the
house right we had it all set up but we didn't really know how this was going
to go down so i've
got transcripts all over a dining room table in the next room and i walk out to
confront the third guy
who comes in and i'm just trying to keep my heart in my chest at this point so
you are actually nervous
when you walk out there i was especially on the first one now you always are on
edge because you
don't know what you don't know right you don't know what is in his pocket i
mean we take precautions
we know the background we know if they've got a concealed weapons permit and
many other things that we
you have as much intel as you can but you research but you know i walk out
there and i confront this
third guy in the first investigation i said it says right here you want to do
this and the other
thing to a 13 year old girl named susan no that's not me excuse me go back get
the other uh what about
a 14 year old named beth no that's not me excuse me come back you know a uh a
12 year old named uh
betty yeah that's me okay good we can start you know and it was just it was
that oh wow there was that
much it was just you know obviously we refined it as we went along and the most
recent investigation but
literally you were like saying oh the oh sorry wrong transcript yeah i got the
wrong recipe i
need to go back and oh yeah and i got to get the one so you know we refined it
over over time and
you know we the most recent one we did we now call it hanson versus predator
and we're getting ready
to do another one uh very soon and um you know we have it down to a system but
there's always that
unexpected possibility you know again we have security the police are doing a
parallel investigation so i feel
very safe the crew is very safe but there are a lot of moving parts here and we
essentially set up
a television production studio in another part of the house because you know
most of what we get
in terms of video is with hidden cameras yeah so yeah i'm seeing that and i'm
seeing the lights kind
of hidden like i've worked with howie mandel on some hidden camera shows so
like even when i'm
able to watch some of you guys's work it's like you know i'm even able to see
some of the just the
same parallels you know because a lot of the production kind of stuff is the
same did you
when these guys like did you feel like as a viewer sometimes when i would watch
that show
sometimes i would feel like remorse i would feel like anger um you know i'd
feel sorry sometimes
for the person that was getting uh captured not that like in one part of me if
you asked me any day
of the week like what do you think about you know people that molest children
or something yes i would
say child for sex you know they'd be damned yeah you know like but but in that
moment and watching
it sometimes i felt bad for them what is that well sometimes i'm the prosecutor
the detective sometimes
i'm the psycholo