Josh Baker
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 8 Feb
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I appreciate the compliment.
You can send me an invoice for that later.
Well, can I have you introduce yourself for those who may not be familiar with who you are and what you do?
So I'm an investigative journalist, filmmaker and podcaster.
And I've sort of reported on ISIS predominantly since the emergence of the group right through to present day.
I was even injured by the group in a suicide bombing back in 2016.
Josh, I know you have created these epic series about ISIS.
You've done a lot of reporting in the last decade or so when this group was at its height in Syria and Iraq.
And the reason I wanted to have you on our show today is because for the last several weeks, I have been getting these email notifications in my inbox from U.S.
Central Command talking about strikes on ISIS targets in Syria.
And I had this moment of, well, wait a second, you know, what's going on here?
Because President Trump during his first term in the White House had said that ISIS was defeated.
And I want to begin with a sort of broad, big picture question, which is why are we talking about ISIS again?
So I think the thing to think about ISIS is that they disappeared from the news cycle, right?
And everyone kind of forgot about them.
But on the ground, they were always still there.
Now, granted, that wasn't at the scale that they once was.
But they never really went away.
And I think, you know, I was just in Damascus actually very recently.
And on one of my last nights there, I was having this dinner with a group of Syrian friends.
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