Elle Reeve from Gymnast to Nazi Hunter
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Interview: Elle Reeve
Elle Reeve is an award-winning journalist renowned for her incisive reporting on pivotal moments in recent American history. She gained national acclaim for her Vice News coverage of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, delivering an unflinching look at the event that highlighted the rise of white nationalism. Her work, praised for its depth and courage, earned a Peabody Award. Reeve has continued to report on critical political and social issues, including the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Known for her immersive storytelling and empathetic approach, she has contributed significantly to public understanding of extremism and its impacts on democracy. Much of her reporting is chronicled in her new book, "Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics." In this interview Reeve explains how her years of gymnastics training help keep her safe while reporting from the violent frontlines of domestic extremism. She explains how her many hours of watching fluff pieces about gymnastics teams living and training under fascism sparked her interest in politics from a young age.
- Elle's gymnastics background helped her embed with neo-Nazis to cover the now infamous white nationalists, “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia where a white nationalist killed a counter protester.
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| 0:56.5 | So it's me and him across from each other on a park bench. It's like 95 degrees. I'm sweating. |
| 1:03.1 | And there's a whole semicircle of his fans around me heckling me saying like gross, sexist,ist nasty stuff. I have to like perform, you know. |
| 1:16.0 | And he's trying to intimidate me. At one point, he screams like that he's trying to make |
| 1:22.5 | himself more capable of violence. But that clip ends up played in several court cases, including a federal civil |
| 1:32.1 | trial for which he and several others were found liable for $36 million in damages for |
| 1:38.3 | Charlottesville. I mean, I almost got criticism at the time from my ability to, like, not react. |
| 1:46.4 | And that all came from gymnastics. |
| 1:49.6 | Remember, this show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 1:54.3 | Today, gymnast turned, as I like to call her, professional Nazi hunter. |
| 1:59.1 | Ellie Reeve is here. |
| 2:00.7 | Tanya Paulson switched countries and it has shaken up Swedish gymnastics. |
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