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Episode: "Curiosity" - Brent Giannotta
Description: Brent is a Los Angeles native who, inspired by 9/11, got fluent in Arabic, earned a grad degree in Egypt, and then worked as a CIA counterterrorism analyst from 2010 to 2015. His work included tracking ISIS external operators and extremist psychology. He also recently published an LA Times op-ed comparing radicalization trends between ISIS foreign fighters and US political conspiracy theorists. This all made for a really interesting backdrop for our conversation. Brent is someone who has seen the ugliest aspects of human nature first hand, he has extensively studied the psychology behind this ugliness, and he has thought a lot...