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May 9, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Acclaimed actor and filmmaker Nick Searcy joins Mike Adams...

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	Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
	And today we're joined by Nick Searcy, who is, of course, a well-known producer of amazingly educational and inspirational films.
	One of the most recent is called Capital Punishment, which is talking about the rigged prosecution of the peaceful J6 protesters.
	If it was left-wing people protesting, they never would have been arrested and prosecuted in the same way.
	But he's got some other projects coming out.
	A sequel to Capital Punishment is in the works, and it will be out in May, so just about a month away.
	So welcome, Mr.
	Searcy, to the interview today.
	I really enjoy your films.
	Thank you for all your contributions to our nation and to our world.
	Thanks for joining me today.
	Oh, thank you, Mike.
	It's an honor.
	Thank you.
	Well, the honor's all mine.
	Like I said, I've been a fan of your work for quite a long time.
	But for our audience here today, give us just a quick overview of some of the films that you have created over the years.
	Well, I've mostly worked as an actor.
	You know, the one everybody remembers is Justified, the TV series that I was on.
	And I was in a movie called Castaway.
	And a long time ago...
	Fried green tomatoes when I had hair and I was really skinny back then.
	Lately I've been doing, you know, I'm still acting here and there, and I've been producing documentaries in the last few years.
	I did a documentary called America, God Shed His Grace on Thee, about the Bible and the Constitution in 2020, and then that led to me making Capital Punishment, released in 2021, which was about the...
	About the January 6th events and how the media has lied about it.
	So I've kind of been on that tear ever since.
	We're about to release a sequel to Capital Punishment on May 17th called The War on Truth, which continues following the stories of the oppression of peaceful people who went to Washington on January 6th, 2021 and have had their lives destroyed.
	Now, this documentary, Capital Punishment, I believe, I just want to remind the audience that it's spelled, the word capital is spelled like the Capitol Building, right?
	Yeah.
	So that's the play on words there.
	Yeah, and that's what's happening to these people.
	They're being punished for going to the Capitol.
	Right, right, which is supposed to be the building of the people.
	And many of them were actually ushered in by Capitol Police.
	I mean, it was a trap.
	I mean, what's your conclusion?
	Would you agree that it was a trap that was set?
	I think it was a trap that was set.
	And, you know, in the war on truth, we talked to people on the other side of it.
	We talked to Tarek Johnson, who was a Capitol policeman that day, who claims that the police were set up.
	That there were forces behind what happened on that day that set up everybody there, that made sure the National Guard was not there.
	If the National Guard had been there, January 6th would never have happened.
	And the people that wanted January 6th to be a riot wanted it to be worse than it actually was.
	Because they, ever since then, have been using it as a weapon against their opposition.
	Not only against President Trump, but against anyone who dares to vote for President Trump.
	And they've tried to demonize everyone who went there.
	And that continues to this day.
	Absolutely.
	I recall hearing recently that one man had now spent four birthdays in jail in D.C. without a trial.
	Waiting for a Trump.
	Waiting for a Trump, right.
	And what's astonishing to me is right now we have the Biden administration lecturing other countries around the world on their human rights violations, saying, for example, the recent election of Putin in Russia was illegitimate because Putin jails his political enemies.
	And it's like, have you looked at America lately, what's happening to Trump and what's happening to all the J6 people?
	Yes, America has become a totalitarian state, and they are persecuting their political opponents in the same way that Cuba did, in the same way that the Soviet Union did.
	We're no different now.
	We're no different.
	We're no different.
	Here's your film, Capital Punishment, The Truth Is On The Line.
	It's available free right now on Rumble.
	You can go and watch it anytime you want on Rumble.
	Okay, we'll bring up that link then.
	That sounds great.
	Now, you're working on a sequel to this.
	It's sad that we even have to have...
	Frankly, a sequel, because this is outrageous that these people have been jailed, which is a form of cruel, unusual punishment, and also the way that they've been treated, some of them in isolation.
	Some of what has happened to them could be described as torture.
	And so where are the international human rights observers that the U.S. is always touting when they're talking about other countries, when they want to talk about China and China's human rights abuses?
	Where are those observers...
	Right now.
	Because they're not talking about the abuses in America.
	They don't mind the abuse as long as it happens to their political adversaries.
	That's the bottom line of it all.
	They don't mind abuse as long as it's not happening to their side.
	I mean, the reason I wound up making this film, I really didn't want to make a sequel to it.
	I was resisting it.
	The investors had asked us to make another one, and I was like, I don't think I'm the person to do it.
	But then right before Christmas in 2022, I walked into a butcher shop in Nashville, Tennessee.
	After telling people I don't want to make this film, I order a roast for our Christmas dinner.
	And that night I get a call from the lady that I ordered the roast from.
	Nice young lady.
	She sends me a text, Mr.
	Searcy, I need to speak to you.
	And I call her back thinking there's some problem with the meat.
	And she says, I thought your name was familiar, but then when I was talking to my husband, he said, don't you know who that is?
	That's the man who made capital punishment.
	And I said to her, well, that's amazing.
	He's one of the few people that saw it.
	How did he like it?
	And she said, well, he didn't like it so much as that he lived it.
	I said, what do you mean?
	And she said, he's in the gulag and he's been there for over two years.
	Oh my.
	And it was like at that moment I thought to myself, This is God telling me that he wants me to make this movie.
	You know, he put this family in my life.
	And that was Sarah Maccabee.
	And that sent us on the journey to make Capital Punishment.
	Capital Punishment 2 is what I call it.
	It's now called the War on Truth.
	And it follows these families as they have continued to have their lives destroyed, being called domestic terrorists.
	When they were there unarmed, they did nothing wrong.
	Most of them never even went in the building.
	And they're being treated like serial killers and drug dealers by the Biden administration and the deep state.
	I mean, it's not just...
	The sad thing, it's not just the Biden administration.
	Some Republicans are ignoring what's going on.
	You know, this is...
	This is the ruling class versus the rest of us, is how it's really playing out.
	Absolutely.
	And it seems like they're trying to throw everybody in jail who might be active in trying to get Trump re-elected, for example.
	But one of the most shocking things is that I think one of the people who has been persecuted was an American flag-waving grandmother.
	Just an innocent-looking older woman waving American flag.
	Apparently that's an act of insurrection.
	But then we have House members on the floor of the House, the U.S. Congress, waving Ukrainian flags, giving away 60-plus billion dollars of U.S. taxpayer money to Ukraine, waving the Ukrainian flags, which is against the law.
	On the floor of the House, by the way, that's not called an insurrection at all.
	So when we actually have an insurrection in the House where most of the House voted to betray the American people and to fund our way into World War III, that's called patriotism, but waving an American flag is called an insurrection.
	Unbelievable.
	It is unbelievable, and it's sad to say that, you know, I don't think our elected officials represent us anymore.
	I think so many of them have been compromised that they are literally being blackmailed, I believe, by the deep state, by the CIA and the FBI. They come to these people and they say, you know, you're going to vote the way we want, or, you know, people are going to find out what you did.
	And I don't have any facts about that, but I don't see...
	Any other explanation for the way that they vote, because they're definitely not voting the way you would think they would vote if they wanted to be re-elected.
	So there's something else going on.
	But, you know, clearly, I think you've nailed it there, and this has to do with the FISA warrants, not even warrants, warrantless spying on the American people.
	Look, there's no doubt in my mind that the NSA routinely...
	Records the microphones of all the iPhones and Google Android phones of every member of the Supreme Court, every member of Congress, every member of the Senate, and then when they want to lean on somebody like Speaker Mike Johnson, they just pull them into a meeting and say, look, okay, here's what we have, right?
	We've been recording your phone conversation for six years, and your wife, and your daughter, and your family members, and guess what?
	We have all this dirt.
	This is all going to go public unless you play ball.
	That's what they do.
	Yeah, I'm convinced of it.
	And I don't know what the way out is, Mike.
	I mean, that's the real scary part.
	I went into this when I first made capital punishment.
	I was like, we're going to strike a blow.
	We're going to reveal the truth.
	We're going to show what's really going on behind the scenes.
	Well, it's been revealed.
	They don't care.
	They don't.
	They have no shame.
	They don't care.
	They have no conscience.
	And they're not afraid of anything.
	They know they're going to be protected.
	Well, then the question is, not only was your film also, I believe, pretty heavily censored as well, and a lot of places refused to talk about it or to host it, like YouTube, for example, but everything that you do that tells the truth is going to be similarly censored.
	I mean, how does that make you feel as a filmmaker?
	It didn't used to be this way.
	No, it didn't.
	I mean, it makes you feel a little bit helpless.
	What am I wasting my time doing here?
	If they're not going to let this be seen, if they're not going to allow this work to be seen, then what good is it going to do?
	And the sad thing is, it's not just censored by the government or censored by YouTube.
	It's a lot of people self-censoring.
	I mean, they're protecting themselves from seeing it.
	I remember at the time I made the film, I had an agent at that time, and I asked him, you know, have you seen the film that I made yet?
	And he said, I'm not going to watch that.
	And I said, what?
	He said, I don't want to watch that.
	That's just propaganda.
	That day was an insurrection, and I don't want to hear what you have to say about it.
	And I said, well...
	You know, it's kind of your job.
	Right.
	It's kind of your responsibility to watch what I do.
	And so I fired him.
	I mean, it's like it was ridiculous.
	But there's so many people like that out there on the Democrat side that just refuse to even take in any information that might contradict the narrative that they've been sold.
	That's right.
	Absolutely.
	They're so interested in that that they don't want anything, they can't risk having their worldview destroyed.
	Right, and they get all their information from New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR, and so they're living in an artificial bubble reality, and they don't want to burst that bubble at all.
	And so then they lean on censorship in order to silence all contradictory narratives while telling themselves that they have a monopoly on the truth.
	It's quite Orwellian.
	The government gives them the language to do it.
	They go, oh, well, that's disinformation.
	Right.
	So I'm not going to watch that because it's disinformation.
	Well, no, it's just information that contradicts what you think.
	Right, right, exactly.
	And I'm glad you pointed out how the government uses words or weaponizes words to run psyops on the American people.
	For example, I've noticed since January 6th, when the Biden regime talks about defending democracy, They don't mean democracy in the way that you and I understand it.
	What they mean is the institutions of government control and power.
	To them, that's democracy.
	It's having a strong centralized federal government, not decentralization of power in local elections, power to the people.
	Not at all.
	Yeah, and well, in some senses, too.
	I mean, democracy is actually, you know, the tyranny of the majority.
	Right.
	It's what pure democracy is, and that's why America is designed as a representative republic.
	But when your representatives are compromised in a republic, when you send representatives to Washington and then they are approached by a secret government organization that says, we have all this dirt on you, so vote the way we say, then you're not represented.
	It's no longer a representative republic.
	And so it does become the tyranny of the majority.
	Absolutely.
	Let me shift gears here a little bit and ask you about the film industry.
	As you mentioned, you're quite an accomplished actor, in addition to a filmmaker.
	I think a lot of people hearing you speak here today, if they're not familiar with your work...
	Oh, and I should give out your Twitter account, which is YesNickSearcy, correct?
	Right.
	YesNickSearcy.
	YesNickSearcy.
	No spaces, no dots, no underscores, anything.
	All jammed up.
	YesNickSearcy.
	And Searcy is spelled S-E-A-R-C-Y. Exactly.
	But a lot of people would be surprised hearing you, if they're not familiar with your work, thinking that, okay, most of Hollywood is woke.
	Most of Hollywood is radical leftist and pro-transgenderism, anti-America, anti-human, anti-Trump, whatever.
	So how do you explain that contrast that people are observing?
	Well, I mean, I've been working in Hollywood for 30 years, a little bit over 30 years.
	I kind of came along at a time.
	I think the story I like to tell is that I didn't know I was supposed to keep my mouth shut about being a conservative until it was too late and everybody already knew, so I might as well go with it.
	So I have been...
	Able to continue to work.
	I've even got a show coming out later this year on Netflix called The Perfect Couple that I'm acting in with Nicole Kidman.
	There's a movie coming out later this year called Reagan.
	Dennis Quaid plays Reagan.
	But I've been fortunate.
	I've been able to work in Hollywood for all these years and it's funny.
	I mean, I meet so many people in Hollywood and Both behind the camera and in front of it.
	And actors that you would know by sight, if not by name, who always say to me, you know, I agree with you, but I have to keep my mouth shut or else I'd never work again.
	Right.
	Well, exactly.
	But that's the question, is how are you able to work, given that everybody else with your views has been blacklisted, it seems?
	I can't explain it.
	I don't know why.
	I mean, I'm sure that there have been...
	Instances where I have been prevented from doing roles that I otherwise might have gotten, but I've continued to make a living at it, and I can't explain why.
	Maybe I'm not famous enough for them to worry about it.
	Maybe they just don't know.
	Maybe...
	Maybe since I'm not, you know, I'm a character actor, I'm not generally the lead person in the show, so I don't get interviewed by People Magazine a lot, so maybe they don't mind me being in the show since they know I'm not going to use it as a platform or people aren't going to interview me about it.
	I don't know.
	I can't explain it, but...
	I thank God every day I've been able to make a living doing what I love and now I'm able to continue producing and making these films without fear because I've kind of had my career and now I want to spend my time doing things that actually matter to me and that I think are important.
	Well, there's also, if you don't mind me saying, you're very convincing in the characters that you play and there's a certain kind of quality about your voice and your enunciation of words that I think is something that...
	My guess is that film directors like that because, you know, the worst thing is to have an actor who kind of muddles through words.
	That's the worst.
	But you're the opposite of that.
	Your words are very, you know, super enunciated and you have a kind of a tonal quality to your voice that is kind of unusual.
	That it brings character.
	Just when you speak, there's character in it.
	You know what I mean?
	Well, I appreciate you saying that.
	I mean, as I said, I've been very fortunate.
	You know, and I got started a long time ago.
	I made friends, you know, back in the early 90s and all through up into, you know, the 2000s, the early 2000s, that relationships in the business that continue to this day that supersede politics.
	I mean, I have...
	You know, friends, directors, writers that are liberals, and they know what I think, and they know who I am.
	And yet, you know, we still kind of get along.
	And, you know, it's mostly the liberals that haven't met me personally that can't stand me.
	Good.
	Well, let me ask you this question about Hollywood.
	Why is it that leftists in Hollywood, they always want to make a movie to reinforce their twisted view of things, and they will completely abandon the facts of what happened and make a movie that fictionalizes in a really radical way their narrative.
	They love to do that, I notice, when it's about politics or it's about race or it's about any political issue, abortion, you name it.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know, I think there's a lot of factors to that.
	I mean, the truth is not on their side.
	So they have to continually reinforce the fiction that they live under.
	So that's part of it.
	They're continually trying to come up with these justifications for the things that they think, and they never work.
	They're not believable, and they don't work.
	And it's also a factor of how Hollywood works now.
	Hollywood is not so much anymore so beholden on the box office or on the ship.
	You know, it's not about selling tickets anymore because you have all these streaming services and that's how most people consume their entertainment these days.
	You pay a monthly fee to a streaming service and then you get all of them You're paying for all of it.
	You're not only paying for whatever nice films that you watch that may be conservative or Christian, but you're also paying for Bill Maher and the woke movies or whatever that you don't watch.
	You're still paying for those.
	They have found a way to spread out the way they are paid so that So that Hollywood now isn't making movies for the audience anymore.
	They're mostly making movies to impress each other with how politically correct they are.
	So that's why you get so much of this woke crap that nobody really wants to watch.
	They're just making it for the person in the cubicle next to them at Disney so they can say, look, I'm on the team.
	Can I make another one?
	Yeah.
	Well, there was an episode of South Park I watched recently that was pretty funny.
	It was a special.
	And I'll try to do the voice, but the lead character was talking about the woke-ism in the movies.
	And it was playing a woman who owns, I think, Disney in this case.
	And it was like, put a chick in it and make her gay.
	Put a chick in it and make her gay.
	Like every movie, just put a chick in it and make her gay.
	And it was like, yeah, that's exactly what they're doing.
	They take all the male roles out of all the movies, you know, Star Wars and everything else, because that's owned by Disney and Marvel, and they put a 110-pound little feminine small-waisted chick in it and make her gay, but she beats up all the 230-pound Navy SEAL guys.
	And it's so absurd.
	You know, it's ridiculous on its face.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I've talked to so many, you know, writers and they've told me that they, you know, they would write a story that's very personal.
	You know, this is about my family growing up.
	This is about the little village I grew up in, in New England or whatever.
	And they would...
	They would take it to the network, and the network would say, we really like this, but we're going to change the race of this character and that character.
	We're going to make this character woke, and you need a trans person here.
	And they just make it into...
	Something that doesn't make any sense.
	You've taken this nice little slice of life story that somebody sweated over and has tried to make as accurate as possible and then you just arbitrarily change these scenes to satisfy some quota and then it becomes meaningless and it's a throwaway piece of garbage.
	Yeah, like Ghostbusters, you know, the newer, or everything they redo.
	Well, I've been dying to ask you this question, and let me preface this by saying that my wife is Chinese.
	She's from Taiwan, so I am not opposed to, quote, interracial marriages, but I've noticed for the last few years that virtually every leading couple in every Hollywood production is a black and white couple.
	see two white people or two black people as a couple.
	It's always a black and white couple.
	And it's not even like white and Asian or black and Hispanic.
	It's always black and white.
	And you know somebody's telling these people to put a black and white couple in it.
	What?
	First of all, have you noticed that?
	And why do you think that's happening?
	Well, it's almost like that.
	You know, I don't know that they're necessarily telling them to do that.
	It's more like Hollywood sends out the symbol.
	It's like, you're more likely to get your project made if you satisfy these criteria.
	You know, having written scripts with a partner, I mean...
	We talk about it all the time, sometimes in a joking way.
	You go, well, we could change this character's gender and we'd probably sell this thing.
	Right.
	But I think that's kind of part of how people self-censor, they tailor their material to what they think Hollywood will support.
	Right.
	So the studios that make the decision of what to fund, they're the ones that are calling for it.
	You've got to have a trans character.
	You've got to have a black-white couple.
	You've got to have a gay couple.
	Two gay dudes kissing with beards, you know, whatever it is.
	Yeah.
	I know personally people who, like, develop these projects that networks really like, and then all of a sudden at the last minute they go, well, I'm sorry, but we're not going to make anything that has the lead character be a middle-aged white man.
	We're just not going to do anything like that.
	So again, it's like this material gets developed over years.
	It's people's passion projects.
	It's the thing that they can deliver, that they can bring to life more than anyone else.
	And then they get there and they just go, well, I'm sorry, you're the wrong color.
	So that's racism.
	Yeah, but this is from people in studios that call themselves tolerant.
	Right.
	And diverse, but they're not diverse.
	They have a very narrow definition of what they will accept, and it has to fit that pattern.
	Now, I want to ask you about your upcoming book here in just a second, but I've got one more question.
	During COVID, it came out that the CDC was offered a billion dollars.
	Well, they were given a billion dollars to engage in propaganda.
	And through FOIA requests, it came out that the CDC was funding placements of pro-vaccine messages.
	Right.
	Into all kinds of films, TV shows, you know, night comedy shows.
	And then also now there's a climate group.
	What's that?
	Sesame Street.
	They were like getting promoted to tell the kids to go get vaccinated.
	Right, right.
	But I was going to say a climate group now is also funding, they're actually, as I understand it, they're paying Hollywood scriptwriters to make sure that there's a message included of the climate crisis and that has to have a strong emotional reaction of the characters in the film.
	How much of this kind of thing goes on in Hollywood, to your knowledge, where outside institutions are paying to put certain pro-vaccine or pro-climate messages into the films?
	Right.
	I think it's been going on for decades.
	I think it's been going on for a long time.
	For a long time, it was the government doing it.
	It was the government paying Hollywood, you know, rewarding Hollywood for putting messages in their films that they wanted.
	And I think private interest, you know, special interest groups have just sort of figured it all out lately.
	And they now see because it's such a powerful medium.
	And if they can, it's money well spent.
	If they can get their message into a drama that young people will watch or even a Marvel movie or whatever that they will watch, and this just gets embedded in them while they're watching something that they think is just fun...
	I mean, it's very sinister, and I think it's been going on for a long time, and it's getting worse.
	I know from my own experience in trying to sell screenplays that I've written and put together movie projects, you know, the influence of China.
	Hollywood gets rewarded because China is such a huge audience.
	If you can make a movie that the Chinese government Right.
	The sort of embedded message thing has been going on probably since film was invented, but I think the real sinister kind of private interest groups now have figured it out, and they're bombarding Hollywood with that kind of money, which is another reason why Hollywood is not beholden to the audience anymore.
	That's not the source of their income.
	Wow.
	Yeah, you make a really important point there about China's revenues from China for the film, so it has to have the stamp of approval from the Chinese government.
	Just a quick anecdote that it's kind of in my book that we were going to talk about, but a company was interested in this script that I'd written with a partner, and at the end of the meeting they said, do you have anything, could you think there's some elements in it that you could change that would make it more attractive to China?
	And I started laughing.
	I thought it was a joke.
	And they said, no, no, we're serious.
	And I said, well, what do you mean?
	They were like, well, for example, the Chinese really hate the Japanese.
	Is there a way that you could make the terrorist group in the movie Japanese?
	You're kidding me.
	I'm like, okay, what would a Japanese terrorist want?
	Let me think about that.
	What do they want?
	Tokyo Terror Part 2, you know.
	Right.
	Oh my goodness.
	Like sushi from Catapults, you know, anything.
	What, you know, more cameras?
	I don't know.
	I don't get it.
	What would they want?
	But you make a really important point, and we will get to your book here in just a second, but the power of the narrative of film is underappreciated, I think, by the public.
	And throughout history, every culture has erected the infrastructure of shared truth through narrative.
	Right?
	So, of course, before television and film, it was storytelling.
	And storytelling was how truth was passed out.
	And then there was radio, and then there was television, and now movies, and now streaming.
	But it's so powerful, and people underestimate it, they don't realize that while you've turned off your skepticism because you're watching a movie, you're like, okay, I'm in fun mode.
	This is entertainment mode.
	And then in comes in all these pro-transgenderism messages and climate cultism.
	And Your skeptical brain's turned off, so you just accept it.
	Like, oh, that's totally normal, because these characters are living that.
	That's what happens.
	Yeah, and that explains so much of what's happening among our young people these days.
	You look at our universities and the protests that are going on in Colombia, the anti-Israel, anti-Jewish protests and all those things.
	It's like these embedded messages have ruined the brains of a lot of our younger generation.
	They are, without knowing it, they have been programmed into what they're doing.
	Well, we know that the universities are no longer interested in really much of an education, that's for sure.
	But they're really good at churning out people who love to be victims.
	Right.
	And that's across the board of every ethnicity and every political variation.
	The universities, they destroy knowledge.
	But anyway, that's a whole different interview.
	Let's talk about your book.
	As you mentioned before, it's a biography.
	So tell us about the book, please.
	Well, it's called Justify This, A Career Without Compromise.
	And it's basically an autobiography.
	I had help with it.
	But it's about kind of...
	I jokingly call it how I rose to the middle of Hollywood.
	I came from a little town in North Carolina.
	I didn't know anybody who was an actor.
	I just sort of had to figure it out at a time when that was possible.
	That's really one of the most interesting things about the book.
	Back then, you could become Anything that you wanted to be.
	And that's what I did.
	I wanted to be an actor.
	My parents thought I was crazy, but they were not unsupportive, but they just thought, that's very unlikely.
	Actors are people who live in Hollywood and are on television.
	They're not kids from Western North Carolina.
	Alright, so the book is called Justify This.
	It's currently a pre-order.
	It comes out May, it says 28th here, but I think it actually comes out a little earlier.
	No, that's right.
	May 28th.
	You can order it right now and it'll be at your door, May 28th.
	Okay, that's cool.
	And I see here, I did not know that you guest hosted for Rush Limbaugh.
	That must have been exciting.
	It was.
	I go into some detail about it in the book, but what happened was Rush was a big fan of Justified, the show that I was on for six years.
	No kidding.
	Yeah, it was very gratifying.
	He would talk about the show, and I was just like, oh man, Rush likes my show, because I've listened to Rush for my whole life.
	Anyway, about the fourth season, I believe, He mentioned me by name.
	He came out and said, you know, one of my favorite characters on the show, played by Nick Searcy, was back on.
	It was great to see him again.
	I was like, my phone blew up.
	Everybody's calling me going, Russ just said your name!
	And so by that time, I was on Twitter.
	I was friends with David Limbaugh.
	And I sent him a tweet and said, boy, I'd like to talk to Russ.
	If he ever wants to talk to me, let me know.
	And then, like the next day, Bo Snurdly called me.
	And he said, would you like to come on and be interviewed?
	So Rush interviewed me on the show about Justified.
	And, you know, we just became kind of acquaintances and friends.
	We would email and I sort of jokingly said to Bo Snirdley one time, you know, you should let me guest host.
	And he said, let me work on that.
	It finally did happen.
	Well, that's one amazing experience, but also, it's tough to fill the shoes of Rush Limbaugh, right?
	It's an impossible task.
	It's impossible.
	I did it once, and I didn't really want to do it again.
	I mean, it was hard.
	It was very hard.
	Rush asked me, why did I want to go into radio?
	And I said, I don't really want to go into radio.
	I just wanted to see what it was like to be you one time and then...
	Oh my goodness.
	You have to watch the clock.
	Commercial break's coming up.
	You've got to bring it back in.
	There's music in the intro liner.
	Well, having Bo there, Bo and Mike Mamone and Rush's team was there kind of helping me through it all.
	And it was a great, great experience.
	I really, really did enjoy it.
	But it was...
	It was not easy.
	Well, that's, you know, that's interesting.
	I guest host for Alex Jones from time to time, and I never work harder than I do when I'm about to guest host for Alex Jones, because I actually do more prep for that than anything else, because it's live, and I don't want to disappoint anybody, you know?
	Yeah.
	Well, I kind of, what I did was I think I did too much prep, you know?
	Oh, really?
	And James Gold, that boasts nerdly, James, he says to me, you know, you can't just keep doing all these evergreen things.
	We're going to have to talk about current events.
	And I was like, oh, no, I haven't done anything.
	I haven't thought about anything, he said.
	And so we did one whole segment where I was just reacting to the news of the day like Rush does every day.
	Yeah.
	And it was terrifying.
	Let me go back to the stuff I prepared, you know.
	Right, and every word is being scrutinized like never before, and it's all in real time.
	You don't get edits.
	Like, when you're a filmmaker, you're like, ah, that sucked.
	Try it again, you know?
	But not on live radio.
	And that was what, I mean, it made me appreciate Rush all the more.
	I mean, for him to do that 15 hours a week, you know, 48 weeks a year, I mean, that is just incredible stuff.
	He was an incredible man.
	He is dearly missed.
	He was a real treasure to this nation.
	I miss him and his analysis as well.
	The book, again, is called Justify This, A Career Without Compromise.
	It comes out in May.
	You can pre-order it now on Amazon or Barnes& Noble or other booksellers.
	And, boy, this looks like a fascinating read to me.
	I can't wait to check it out myself.
	And you say here, your quote, I've played serial killers, rapists, racists, Klansmen, sexual harassers, thieves.
	I mean, let's face it, I've played a lot of Democrats.
	Yeah, that was a line from my little brief entree into stand-up comedy, which I did for about a year and a half.
	But yeah, that's the joke I like to tell.
	Wow.
	Well, that must be a fascinating experience.
	Well, so you have done a lot.
	You really, I think, a lot of people looking at you would say you're living the American dream in a way in the sense that you have control over what you want to do.
	You have your own projects, your own documentaries.
	But let me ask you this on a more personal note.
	Doesn't it feel like you and I, as people who love our country, doesn't it feel like, though, we're not getting traction?
	Like, the times are getting worse despite our best efforts.
	Would you agree with that?
	I think that's true.
	I'm, you know, constantly fighting, you know, being depressed about that because it's easy to get bogged down.
	I personally believe that the country is actually lost, that we really are...
	It's not really about restoring it.
	I think we have to think about what's going to replace it.
	Yeah, I agree with you, by the way.
	Yeah.
	I completely agree.
	I think that it's too far gone.
	They have corrupted our institutions, almost every institution totally, from the medical field to universities to government to Hollywood, entertainment, news media.
	Everything has been totally corrupted by the left.
	The dollar, currency, banking, finance, all of it.
	Everything.
	And so I think that The collapse is coming, and I think it's deliberate.
	I think it is what the left wants.
	They are trying to collapse this country.
	And the question now is what will we do?
	What do you think the instigation of the collapse will be?
	You're saying that you think they intend to do it, so is there something that they're going to trigger?
	Or what do you think it's going to look like?
	I think that it, you know, the open borders, the inflation, incompetence doesn't explain it.
	I mean, you wouldn't be stupid enough to think that that's a good idea.
	So it has to be deliberate.
	So they are flooding this country with people, with unskilled labor, with literally some of them are criminals, right?
	They're not even checking to see who's coming across the border.
	I think there's going to be terrorist attacks.
	I think there's going to be financial ruin.
	I think a lot of this is coming down the pike and sooner rather than later.
	You know, Nick, I was covering this recently.
	Six or seven major insurance companies are completely pulling out of property insurance in California.
	And as you know, insurance companies are experts in risk assessment and what's coming.
	And if you're asking yourself, why would insurance companies, all these big companies like State Farm and Allstate and a lot of others, completely pull out of all property policies in California?
	And the answer is because they think something's going to destroy a lot of property in California.
	I mean, they know something's coming, like riots perhaps.
	Well, that's why I got out.
	For five years ago, I started telling my wife, we've got to get out here.
	It's going to get really bad.
	And then when the COVID thing hit, California was so shut down and everything was so stupid.
	Yeah.
	Everything's so ridiculous.
	That's when my wife kind of said, yep, we got to go.
	And I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday who's there.
	He said, yes, I think over the weekend, it was some sort of record in terms of crime in Los Angeles.
	A car is being stolen.
	Yeah.
	And even though I lived in Burbank, which is a relatively nice suburb of Los Angeles, The homeless people have finally overrun Burbank.
	I mean, it's really going under.
	And like I said, incompetence would not explain this level of mistake.
	You know, this is deliberate.
	They're deliberately destroying our society because they want to replace it with a totalitarian state.
	Yes.
	Well, that's clearly...
	They're pushing everything in that direction.
	But, you know, that totalitarianism...
	It looks like censorship, control of speech.
	You're not allowed to say these things.
	You mentioned the students recently, but also you're not allowed to criticize Israel on any matter whatsoever without being called a criminal right now.
	And that's just a sign.
	Of the fact that they're going to control every element of speech and criminalize anything that they don't like.
	It's not even about Israel.
	It's about the government trying to control what you're allowed to say.
	It's going to get way worse.
	It's going to affect every topic.
	Yeah, it's the Ukraine thing.
	If you're against sending billions of dollars to Ukraine, you love Putin or something.
	It's all that.
	They demonize everybody that disagrees with them, that won't line their pockets with taxpayer money, and they do it not only in censorship, but just by shaming, by putting out on every channel, on every network, This idea that if you don't support Ukraine, you're anti-democracy or you're anti-freedom or something.
	Right, right.
	Extraordinary.
	So where did you escape to when you left California?
	Well, a top secret, undisclosed location in the middle of the country.
	Oh, I get that.
	Yeah, totally.
	I respect that.
	We're mostly in Tennessee and Kentucky.
	My wife is originally from Kentucky, and so we moved back to be closer to our families.
	Well, an outstanding choice.
	Yeah, my family's in North Carolina, but Tennessee's kind of equidistant between the two, and so we...
	We can go see them.
	It's great to be here, too.
	We're having a lovely time.
	The people in Tennessee and Kentucky are generally pretty happy.
	It's much different than the miserable people in Los Angeles.
	I would imagine.
	Well, we love Tennessee here in Texas.
	We're in the great state of Texas, and we consider Tennessee to be a sister state because of the history of how Tennessee helped us out with troops and such.
	But I would say you and I live in real America.
	And then the place you left is an artificial, false, anti-America, really.
	It really is true.
	I mean, the one thing that I have noticed so much about being back in Kentucky and in North Carolina is just the willingness of people to help each other.
	Yes.
	Which is like, that's not something that happens very often in California.
	You know, it's like, there'll be...
	Somebody, the other day, I was like, I bought a zero-turn lawnmower for the first time in my life, you know, and I'm like, because I got all this land now, and I didn't know how to work it, and my wife was talking to one of our neighbors on the phone about some other project, and I was getting really frustrated, and she just says something to the neighbor, like, I got to go.
	Nick's having trouble with the mower.
	So I'm sitting out there trying to figure the thing out, Five minutes later, the guy she was talking to on the phone drives up with a beer in his hand.
	He goes, let me take a look at that thing.
	I mean, that's just the way people are here.
	It's just like, do you need some help?
	I'll be over in a minute.
	Well, that's how you know you've really made it in rural America is when you have a zero-turn diesel mower, by the way.
	That's the mark of it right there.
	Well, I don't have a diesel yet, but that's my best friend now.
	It's the best thing I've ever owned.
	Okay, you haven't yet reached the top then, Nick.
	The diesel is the gold star right there.
	You've got to get the diesel.
	I'll trade up.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Trade up and get the one where you can mount an AR-15 on the roll bar in the back so you can mow your ranch with your guns ready.
	And protect your family at the same time.
	Exactly.
	That's the way we do it here in Texas.
	All right.
	So, Nick, is there anything else you want to add before we wrap this up?
	This has been a really fascinating interview.
	You're an intriguing person.
	It's such a blessing to this country.
	But what do you want to add here?
	Oh, you know, Mike, I don't want to come off as too pessimistic.
	I do love this country, and I do think we're in trouble.
	But I know from being in the middle of the country, there's so many good people out here, so many people.
	And one thing to remember, too, is that a totalitarian state is never put in place by a majority of the people.
	It's always a minority that takes power.
	And that's what we have to remember.
	We have the numbers.
	You know, they have managed to take over a few government institutions and that sort of thing, but we outnumber them immensely.
	The decent people of this country at some point are going to have to rise up and try to take it back from the minority that has now installed themselves in the government and is trying to ruin this country.
	Well, I mean, thank you for that explanation.
	I would just add that I think, you know, you and I both agree there's going to be a collapse.
	And maybe instead of an uprising, it's going to be more of how do we rebuild?
	You know, how do we restructure a society after the collapse of this system?
	Because I think actually, and this is just my take, but I think they have vastly overestimated the strength of the dollar.
	And I think that when the dollar collapses...
	It's going to gut the establishment in ways that they could not anticipate.
	The rise of the BRICS nations, the global de-dollarization is taking them by surprise.
	And when they can't just print money to fund everything they want to fund, like Ukraine, then what are they going to do at that point?
	When the dollar is worthless, they can't keep funding all their programs.
	No.
	Like a friend of mine says all the time, it's like, do they think they're going to be immune from Ukraine?
	From destroying the society?
	Right.
	That they're not going to be affected when they bring everything crashing down?
	They will be.
	Yeah.
	Oh yeah.
	It's like driving across a bridge that you're also setting on fire.
	Yeah.
	That's what they're doing.
	And it's like they think, I guess they think they're not going to live long enough to pay those consequences, or I don't know exactly how they think, but they are certainly behaving like it's not going to affect them.
	And it will.
	They're going to have their, you know, security combat humanoid robots guarding their mansions against the people.
	While they disarm us.
	Right, while they disarm...
	The meatspace people.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Okay, well, this could get into a whole sci-fi script right here.
	But in any case, Nick, this has been fascinating.
	I want to just plug your book again.
	It's called Justify This, A Career Without Compromise.
	And there it is coming out May 28th.
	And tell us the name of the sequel to Capital Punishment that's coming out again.
	The War on Truth.
	The War on Truth.
	And it's going to be out on Salem Now and a lot of other websites simultaneously on May 17th.
	Okay, and Salem Now, is it SalemNow.com or how do people get there?
	Yes, SalemNow.com.
	You can subscribe to Salem Now and get all their content or you can buy individual pictures and we're going to be on that website starting May 17th.
	Okay, let me bring that up.
	SalemNow.com.
	And here we go.
	Okay, so here's a film called Flynn.
	Oh, okay.
	A lot of different films.
	Cool.
	All right.
	We will share that with the audience.
	You can show my screen there.
	There it is.
	Salem Now.
	Police State is another film that I was in.
	That's me on the picture there.
	Right here?
	Yeah, that's me.
	Is it?
	Wow.
	Yeah, I play the bad guy in police state.
	Dinesh had some kind of dramatic reenactments in it, and I'm the bad guy shot caller for the FBI. Oh, wow.
	Wow.
	Well, that's great.
	You have done a lot of really fascinating things.
	Thank you for taking the time to join us today.
	This has been a lot of fun, very informative as well.
	Wish you well on all your projects.
	I enjoyed it, Mike.
	Thank you for having me.
	Thank you too, Nick.
	Have a great day and God bless you.
	All right.
	You too.
	All right.
	Take care.
	Alright folks, that's Nick Searcy.
	Wow, what an amazing American right there.
	And be sure to check out his films and his upcoming book and support people like Nick Searcy and his projects because you get more of what you support.
	So instead of giving money to Netflix to make occult, demonic films for your children to watch, you could instead support Salem Now and get films that are pro-America, pro-human, pro-Christian messages.
	So please be careful.
	Have discernment in what you choose to support.
	And thank you for supporting us here today at Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, and God bless you all.
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