Inside the Dept of Homeland Security | Erik Rosenblatt | Ep. 346

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History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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As a former HSI and DHS agent, Erik was on the front lines of major operations targeting cartels, human traffickers, cybercriminals, and terrorists. He played a direct role in taking down El Chapo and has extensive experience in high-stakes investigations, from infiltrating organized crime networks to combating emerging threats in cybercrime and counterterrorism.
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0:00.0	Special Operations.
0:05.0	Covert Ops.
0:07.0	Espionage.
0:09.0	The Team House.
0:11.0	With your hosts, Jack Murphy and David Park.
0:26.4	Hey, everyone. This is episode 346 of the Teamhouse. I'm Jack Murphy here with Dave Park.
0:32.8	And our guest on today's show is Eric Rosenblatt. He is a former Department of Homeland Security agent.
0:37.9	He had a lot of experience in New York and D.C., but also international investigations,
0:44.3	working on everything from narco to counterhuman trafficking, lots of different stuff that we're going to get into in this episode. Eric, welcome to the show, man.
0:48.2	Great to be here. Thank you so much. Looking forward to this.
0:51.0	Yeah, thanks for coming on. So you told us before the show, you're from Long Island originally.
0:55.9	Tell us a little bit about growing up in Long Island and how that's sort of the pathway that you took to federal law enforcement.
1:04.2	Yeah, I mean, I lived up to every stereotype, Long Island stereotype, you know, gel in the hair, polyester shirt, you know, tanning.
1:13.6	We're the original, you know, Jim Tan Laundry folks. But I grew up in, you know, typical Long Island, you know, suburban life. I had great parents, great upbringing. I did okay in school. I did well. It bored me a lot of the times,
1:29.3	but I enjoyed some of it. I grew up in a neighborhood where it wasn't law enforcement, it oriented.
1:39.3	There wasn't a lot of people in civil service. It was a lot of accountants and other things.
1:43.3	And, you know, it was really
1:45.1	hard to resist that path. I did have a sense that I wanted to be a physician. I always wanted to be
1:51.3	an orthopedic surgeon. It seemed like a good path. I was certainly interested in it. I studied
1:56.5	in college. But then I was faced with certain organic chemistry and some other classes.
2:02.2	And I'll pretend to think that I could push through that and went to med school and been successful.
2:06.2	But I perhaps I like to think that I had a higher calling.
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