The FBI Bomb Tech Who Chased Terrorists Worldwide | Steve Lazarus | Ep. 400
The Team House
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🗓️ 7 March 2026
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00:00 Start
03:45 Leaving the Air Force for the FBI
06:10 Inside the FBI Academy
09:45 First Assignment: Domestic Terrorism in Atlanta
11:15 Infiltrating Militias & Gun Show Intelligence
20:20 The Buford Dam Terror Plot
29:50 The Hunt for Olympic Bomber Eric Rudolph
38:50 Moving from Counterterrorism to FBI Narcotics
40:10 The Drug Dealer with 30 Fake Identities
47:55 Where He Was on 9/11 & FBI Changes After the Attacks
58:05 FBI Gang Squad, Biker Gangs & Organized Crime
1:00:50 Becoming an FBI Bomb Technician
1:02:15 Deploying to Afghanistan as an FBI Bomb Tech
1:33:30 Working the Boston Marathon Bombing Scene
1:39:10 The Watertown Manhunt & Bomb Tech Response
2:19:30 Politics, FBI Leadership & The Comey Controversy
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. I want to tell you about my new novel, The Most Dangerous Man, Out in June. |
| 0:06.0 | It is a novel about a regimental reconnaissance company soldier who gets kidnapped while he's on a mission to West Africa. |
| 0:14.0 | And when he wakes up, he finds that he is now being hunted for sport by a group of tech billionaires through the wilds of West Africa. |
| 0:22.6 | This book is based on stories that I heard over the years about safari guides taking |
| 0:28.0 | wealthy clients hunting for poachers on game reserves in Africa. I took that and I took a century |
| 0:34.9 | old short story, the most dangerous game, and modernized it. And the product |
| 0:39.0 | is this book, which I think will feel contemporary and resonate with audiences today. Thank you, |
| 0:45.9 | and please check it out. Special Operations |
| 1:04.1 | Covert Ops |
| 1:07.9 | Espionage |
| 1:09.9 | The Team House With your hosts and covert ops. Espionage. |
| 1:12.1 | The Team House. |
| 1:17.9 | With your hosts, Jack Murphy and David Park. |
| 1:22.7 | Hey, everyone. |
| 1:23.8 | Welcome to the Team House. |
| 1:30.2 | I'm Jack Murphy here with tonight's guest, Steve Lazarus. Steve is a retired FBI agent. |
| 1:36.6 | He served on a counter gang squad, narco, domestic terrorism cases, became a bomb technician, |
| 1:43.2 | spent some time in Afghanistan, Iraq, many other things that we'll talk about here. He's also an author now. He's the author of |
| 1:45.4 | detective fiction. The books are Call Me Sunny, Finding Sunny and the upcoming killing Sunny. |
| 1:52.8 | I read Call Me Sunny, the first one on the plane back from Tokyo the other day last week, |
| 1:58.8 | and I loved it. It's a great down on his luck, private eye. |
| 2:04.3 | It starts off with that kind of classic premise and then goes into a really in-depth |
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