991 - Occupation: Public Figure feat. Seth Harp (12/1/25)

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Author and journalist Seth Harp returns for an interview about the National Guard shooting in D.C. We analyze the accused shooter, his time in covert “Zero Units,” and we also speculate about the ramifications of Pete Hegseth’s double-tap order in the Caribbean. To close things out, Will and Felix talk about Bari Weiss’s plan to return America to the reasonable center and react to the viral Oklahoma University essay on why God made man and woman different. Buy Seth’s book here (and give it 5 stars on Amazon!): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730414/the-fort-bragg-cartel-by-seth-harp/ And follow him on X at @sethharpesq

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0:00.0	All I'm going to be able to be is a joke. Hello, everybody is it a jumpon.
0:34.2	Hello, everybody.
0:36.3	It's Monday, December 1st.
0:38.0	I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. We've got some chop for you. Let's Monday, December 1st. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.
0:50.7	We've got some chopper for you. Let's get right into it today because over the Thanksgiving break, these things on the home front and overseas continues to be quite grim.
0:55.6	And we thought we would have a journalist and author, Seth Harp, back to join us today to talk about the DC National Guard shooting, the shooter, and the sort of familiar pattern
1:02.0	of blowback and connections to the U.S. national security state. So Seth, welcome back to the show.
1:08.3	Hey, guys. Great to be back with y'all. All right. So, like I said, this was on Thanksgiving Eve.
1:14.3	This guy, he shot two National Guard soldiers, like a few blocks away from the White House, killed one of them.
1:21.4	He was brought over and given, he was, I don't know, was he settled in this country after we pulled out of Afghanistan.
1:27.5	What can you tell us about who this guy was and the circumstances of how he was, I don't know, was he, he was settled in this country after we pulled out of Afghanistan. What can you tell us about who this guy was and the circumstances of how he came to the United States?
1:33.1	There's not a lot of details about him personally, except for the bare bones, you know, how he got his special immigrant visa.
1:38.6	But it was after the fall of Kabul.
1:40.7	It was under the Biden administration initially and he was vetted under Trump.
1:45.0	Seems like he didn't speak very much English at all. They've been resettled in Washington and
1:50.8	Bellingham, Washington, a small town in Washington. Besides that, the details about him as an
1:56.1	individual pretty scarce. But of course, we know a lot about the zero units that he belonged to.
2:01.6	Well, yeah, I mean, like, that to me is the most compelling part about this story.
2:06.3	You know, well, what do we know of these so-called zero units that the suspect was, you know,
2:11.9	served in and then was granted a visa because of his involvement with?
2:16.0	Well, I would be remiss not to recommend that folks check out
2:18.7	the ProPublica article on the Zero Units by Lindsay Billing, really the most like authoritative
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