Hello everyone and welcome. Sadly, I am still on maternity leave, but don't worry, we are not going to leave you with nothing.

We're going to take a look back at some of our best Candace Show moments from seasons one and two.

And in this episode, we are revisiting my interview with Kyle Rittenhouse.

You guys will remember Kyle Rittenhouse. That was the trial that seized America, a young teenager really fighting for his life.

And there was a lot writing on this and he was at long last declared not guilty, being able to sit down with Kyle and to just allow him to speak and humanize himself despite all of the rhetoric being called the white supremacist despite the fact that he had only killed white people and it truly was in self defense, his experience with the media.

And what his life has been since the verdict, is he going to sue anybody? These were questions that were on everybody's minds and I got the answers. Take a listen.

The Kyle Rittenhouse trial completely gripped the nation in August of 2020, violent protests broke out in Kenosho, Wisconsin in a wake of the non-fatal police shooting of Jacob Blake.

Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time, joined a group of men to protect the community and local businesses from being destroyed.

Acting in self defense, Rittenhouse killed two people and wounded a third after being violently attacked.

Now of course, the mainstream media and even our own sitting president sneered his name calling him a white supremacist and a violent vigilante after one of the most highly publicized trials in our country's history, just as was served and Kyle was acquitted of all charges.

Today he is a free man and he is here to tell his story in person. Please help me welcome Kyle Rittenhouse.

So excited.

So excited to have you. Obviously your entire story gripped the nation.

So I think it's just like I was just like live watching this stuff and just so fired up. I think because something that I've noticed just tends to be a thing that happens in America is during election time, they kind of find one case, the media and they just kind of get their talents in it.

And they're never honest about that case and it's just kind of to make people very emotional about certain topics that seem to feed political narratives of the day.

Particularly rub me the wrong way because you were a minor. You're 17 years old before we get into the case, I want to talk about who you are as a person like who was Kyle Rittenhouse before he was the Kyle Rittenhouse of America.

Well, before this happened, who I was was I was just a normal 17 year old kid. I would go hang out with friends. I would go hang out at car meets. I'd go to the beach. I was just a goofy, regular kid who just like wanted to help people.

I was a lifeguard. I was a swim instructor and I was a firefighter EMT cadet and a police explorer. So I just wanted to help people before this. And I still want to help people.

And that's just who I was. That's who I was as a person. Right. And it must be just I have to imagine you have some PTSD because it's like you're just a normal kid living his life.

And you know, suddenly you're going to help people in a place that your father lives, you know, just making sure businesses aren't getting destroyed.

When for whatever reason people, the meeting narrative was you can loot and destroy any place you want in the wake of a Black Lives Matter protest. Tell me what it was like the moment after the night the night took place.

What what were your first instincts after you know, you realize that this was going to be a case that somebody was dead even running, you know, running for your life.

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