What Next - The Jan. 6 Rioter Whose Son Turned Him In
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🗓️ 1 August 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Like many families during the Trump years, the Reffitts fought about politics. But not many families had a son calling the FBI on his father. Now Guy Reffitt is facing a 15-year sentence for domestic terrorism for his actions on Jan. 6 while his loved ones pick up the pieces.
Guest: Ilya Marritz, senior reporter at WNYC, co-host of the Wondery podcast “Will be Wild”.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time. |
| 0:10.0 | Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit |
| 0:15.0 | because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top |
| 0:20.0 | and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch. |
| 0:25.0 | Join in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. |
| 0:32.0 | Hey everyone, quick heads up. There's some unbleaped language ahead. |
| 0:42.0 | Of all the evidence that's come out during the legal proceedings against hundreds of rioters who showed up at the Capitol in January 6th |
| 0:49.0 | there's this one piece of video. I just can't shake. |
| 0:56.0 | This was shot by a rioter himself. He'd stuck a camera onto the helmet he was wearing. |
| 1:06.0 | You can listen in as he explains to a little crowd gathered around him exactly what he wants to do. |
| 1:12.0 | He says he wants to get inside the Capitol and take it over. |
| 1:19.0 | What if they start shooting someone asks the guy with the helmet cam laughs. |
| 1:25.0 | He says everyone of my guys are here and they came in hot and so did I. |
| 1:30.0 | You're probably standing around more than a million and a half guns right now. |
| 1:36.0 | Then he adds, I just want to hear Nancy Pelosi's head hit every effing stare on the way out. |
| 1:48.0 | This rioter's name is Guy Reffit. Later today he's going to be sentenced for what he did. |
| 1:58.0 | If I asked you to describe Guy Reffit in just a few words, I'm wondering what you'd say. |
| 2:06.0 | I think the words I would pick would be arrogant, boastful, family man, upwardly mobile, blue collar, oil worker. |
| 2:18.0 | William Erickson is going to tell you Guy Reffit's story. |
| 2:22.0 | That's all that he was for a large part of his adult life until around 2015 when Donald Trump announced his run for president. |
| 2:32.0 | Guy Reffit got really, really excited about everything that Trump was doing. |
| 2:39.0 | Back in the spring, a jury took a look at evidence like that helmet cam video. |
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