Hey folks, Brett here. Welcome to the first official episode of Brett Weinstein's Dark Horse Podcast.

I am sitting with Andy Know, who is a sub-editor at Kualaete Magazine, who has been documenting

protest in the streets of Portland since 2016. Andy became extraordinarily well-known in the

last two days as a result of an attack that took place on the streets of Portland as he was

reporting on Antifa. Andy, welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me on. So you've had quite an

extraordinary run over the last several days. Do you want to tell us roughly what happened?

Yes, probably not every day that a podcast guest comes in with a beat-up face-like mind.

What happened was on the 29th of June I was documenting a demonstration

organized by Antifa in Portland, Portland for your listeners who may not be aware of a progressive

monoculture and it has a very large movement of far less radicals who call themselves

antifascists and they organize under that name and they were there to oppose right wing groups.

So I came with my GoPro and steps away from the Norman County Justice Center, one of the

most important institutions of the rule of law in Portland because it houses court houses,

the sheriff's office, the central police precinct. When they were marching there chanting

no hate, no fear, the next thing that happened to me was I got hit on the back of the head,

really hard and I'm an extremely passive person, I've never been in fights so I don't even

until now didn't know what a punch felt like. So it took a few seconds for me to register what had

happened I was knocked forward. By the time I realized it and kind of regained my balance,

the punches and hits just kept coming and from every direction and when I thought it was over,

it wasn't. So let's back up a little bit. You and I are friends and I'm also a Twitter follower

of yours and you were quite concerned about what would happen to you at this protest and you and I

talked about whether I might join you ultimately I did not join you. I am pretty recognizable and

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