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BLM 2.0, the summer of riots in 2020, Kenosha and Kyle Ridenhouse defending himself with lethal force against a mob of maniacs.

January 6th and all of the mayhem and the police, pepper spraying,

and people getting attacked and all kinds of stuff.

It's not every day you talk to somebody who has been at all of these things.

And yet here we are with our friend Richie McGuinness to talk about that.

His new book is Here's Riot Diet, One Man's Radical Ride Through America in Chaos,

Richie McGinnis.

And Richie's an independent journalist.

He's known by a lot of people on the right for his fearlessness. I mean,

let's just start, let's start with this question, shall we? What was in your mind just the most

surreal crazy thing in the summer of 2020 when those BLM riots were just roiling the country?

I mean, was Kenosha the craziest night of that whole thing for you? What was the craziest

single night when the country seemed to have been gripped by this madness?

I'd say Kenosha was definitely the craziest as far as the level of destruction, just

the amount of buildings that were burning, the amount of personal property that was getting lit on fire. Probably the most surreal, though, was Portland.

And that was like 100 consecutive nights of rioting. And that was basically the same story

of all these other protest zones. You had to take me into this. Like what, when did the rioting

start? What were they complaining about? I mean, one thing I saw was is fascinating if I remember during the BLM riots in Portland, you have all these like Antifa white guys freaking out about George Floyd, right? I mean, what, well, take us, take us back into this. Yeah. So I go through that in the book as well. It's, you know, like 3% 4% black city that was historically racist.

They had laws all the way through the 70s that banned black people from living within the city

limits. And after George Floyd was killed, there were protests that every single night followed

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