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Year of Polygamy Podcast

Episode 119: The Prophet’s Son- An Interview with Roy Jeffs, Part One

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, History, Education

4.8821 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Join Lindsay as she interviews one of the sons of Warren Jeffs, Roy Jeffs, as he tells his story growing up under the shame and abuse of his father. (TW: This episode contains multiple descriptions of sexual assault) Links mentioned […]

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, it's Lindsay from the Year of Polygamy podcast. Before listening today, I want to give you

0:05.6

some trigger warnings for this episode. We will be talking about sexual assault and sexual abuse

0:10.7

and go into some graphic descriptions of these things. So if you have children in the room,

0:15.7

you might want to turn it off. This is part one of part two, so make sure that you listen to both of them.

0:21.8

They'll both be hosted on Year of Polygamy.com.

0:24.5

Thanks for listening.

0:48.8

Okay. Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Year Pologna me podcast.

0:50.4

I'm your host, Lindsay.

0:56.9

Today I'm interviewing someone who knows about the subject up close and personal, probably better than many out there. We have interviewed a lot of interesting guests, but I think you're

1:02.8

going to find this guest particularly fascinating. As you know, we just interviewed Brealdecker,

1:08.1

who was one of the wives of Warren Jeffs, and she has a very

1:11.5

unique story, but also someone who knew Warren very closely and also had a life and identity

1:20.0

outside of Warren Jeffs is one of his sons, Roy Jeffs. Roy, can you say hello? Hi.

1:33.4

So, Roy, talking to you already, you know what kind of strikes me about you is I have a thicker Utah accent than you do.

1:34.9

How did you get away with speaking like a normal person?

1:37.5

How does that happen?

1:39.0

I don't know, because people always tell me I'm an Uber driver too.

1:43.0

So I meet a lot of people and they tell me that they think I'm from Texas or somewhere in the south.

1:49.8

Well, it does sound nice.

1:51.4

I just got back from the creek, so maybe that's why.

1:53.5

But when I go there, my accent gets real thick.

1:58.0

Yeah, it has an effect on people. I don't know. I can usually tell if somebody is from there,

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