Mike Smith – The [DS] Dark World Is Being Brought Out Of The Shadows Into The Light
Summary
➡ Mike Smith, a well-known Hollywood stunt double, and creator of ‘Out of Shadows’ and ‘Into the Light’ films, discusses his journey from a career-ending injury to faith-driven filmmaking. He was motivated to create these movies due to his new perspective gained after he was paralyzed and the recovery period transformed him into a person dedicated to serving God and his country. He shares that he saw questionable things in Hollywood, but it was only when he retrospectively viewed them did he understand their implications.
➡ The text talks about how media agencies and entities control narratives in films, promote certain types of content, and subtly influence viewer’s mindset through these. This control mechanism, believed to be orchestrated by policy makers and large holding companies, aims to guide public thought. It’s suggested that this manipulation has been happening for a significant duration, with the goal being a move towards a one-world government and control over the population via controlling their access to information. AI and modern technologies have further enabled these entities to manipulate content and viewers.
➡ The speaker criticizes the loss of storytelling in movies due to the overemphasis on messaging, expressing their dissatisfaction and attributing it to declining movie ticket sales. They also discuss the increase in cyberattacks, prompting them to prepare with Nightwatch Pro night vision binoculars for potential catastrophic events and power outages. The speaker then concerns themselves with the future influence of AI and how it could tailor movie experiences while reducing the need for actors and musicians. They further reflect on their past addictive behaviours and the manipulation everyone faces. The speaker finally broaches the topic of alleged pedophilia in Hollywood, asserting their belief in its existence despite their lack of personal encounters with it.
➡ The text reveals the interviewee’s belief that multifaceted psychological operations are being orchestrated by major corporations and powers, intended to redirect societal norms and control resources, in order to achieve a worldwide governance and controlled ecosystem. However, these operations seem to fail in light of rising public awareness and skepticism, likely fueled by factors such as open borders and economic instability. This has inspired the likes of the interviewee to help counter these narratives and encourage people to question what they’ve been led to believe.
➡ The speaker discusses the dissatisfaction with fame in Hollywood, the lack of passion in modern movies in comparison to classic story-driven films, the influence of media on culture and political ideologies, the ongoing battle with censorship, and the firm belief in the strength and resilience of the country founded on Christian principles. He also promotes his movies ‘Out Of Shadows’ and ‘Into The Light’ which aim to shine a light on these issues.
Transcript
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com that’s Lightbug. com. Hi, and welcome to the X 22 Report Spotlight. Today we have a new guest, Mike Smith. Mike is one of Hollywood’s hottest stunt doubles, making Mel Gibson, Ethan Hawke, Christian Bale, and many other leading men look damn good. Mike has always had an overwhelming passion for storytelling. He’s the creator of out of Shadows and his newest movie, into the Light. And I am very happy and honored to have Mike on the X 22 Report Spotlight.
Mike. Welcome to the spotlight. Thank you for having me, Dave. Secretly, this is one of my I’m kind of fangirling over here, or boying, whatever you want to say. You’re one of my favorite. I listen to your show probably more than I don’t. So I’m very honored to be here, and I’m really excited about being on with you today. Now the honor is all mine, and thank you for everything that you’re doing, putting these two films out out of the shadows and into the light.
Let me just start from the beginning. Why did you just decide to make out of the shadows and then make into the light? What drove you to do this? Honestly, it was God. Because the old me, before my accident, before I went through I don’t know if you saw out of Shadows, you know, I was hurt really bad. I got paralyzed from the waist down, and I went through a two and a half, three year recovery.
And that was kind of the walk that God put me on. And it brought me to salvation over a period of those years. And by me going on that journey. My life changed when you go from being and anybody that knew me or knows me, I was probably what you would call arrogant or cocky, like, pretty bad, but that was just who I was. And then when you get paralyzed and you’re used to being an athlete and you’re used to being able to do almost anything you want, and that’s taken from you, you have to look in the mirror and say, well, who am I going to be now? And if I’m answering that question, I want to be a man that is serving God and to serve this country and to do what’s right and try to leave behind this world a little better than I found it.
And we were talking before the show, and one of the things that I realized was, if I work in this business at the levels that I worked at, and I could not see the deception or see what was really going on, I felt like, if I can’t see this, how is the public ever going to see it? And fortunately, God gave me a lot of abilities to be able to tell stories.
And so it started out in that movie out of Shadows. It changed a lot over the two years that we spent making it, and then it’s been out now I think we put it out in April of 2020. So it’s been about three and a half years since that movie came out. I give all that back to God. Yes, I made the movies. Yes, we all helped make these movies.
There’s Liz Croken, and there was a lot of people involved, kevin and Brad. And when they came forward and were willing to have the courage to stand up and to speak know courage is contagious, and I know that’s cliche, but it’s mean because once you have the courage to stand up and you see others stand up around you, it’s motivating. That’s really the reason I went on this journey.
And I don’t really know how it all goes, but I’m just walking each day in faith and trying to serve God and do the best I can. So when you were in Hollywood, did you see what was going on behind the scenes? I mean, did you realize there was something wrong? I think when you’re in it at the level that I was in it, it just becomes kind of normal life.
Like meaning. Did I did I I think I saw things, but didn’t understand what I was seeing. I see because I think a lot of times it’s not very clear. It’s like, unless you’re paying attention to the right wording or the right messages, I guess, that they’re giving out. I don’t think you see it. And a lot of think because, like I’ve told people, there’s a lot of great people in Hollywood.
Not everybody in Hollywood is evil, because that’s not true. But again, I’ve said this. It’s the people that you don’t really meet day to day when you’re in a production or you’re working on a project, all those people that you’re working with, they’re just mostly just like you are. They’re trying to do the best job they can in their department, like the best production designers or the best cinematographers or the best wardrobe and hair people, or special effects or stunts, those departments.
You’re competing, and you’re trying to be as creative and as passionate about your career as you can be. So it’s kind of like you’re on a hamster wheel and you don’t get to jump off and take a look from a 30,000 foot view. And when I got paralyzed, I was forced to take that view. I was forced to like, I couldn’t walk. My whole life was changed in a flash by being able to sit back.
And I finally started reading the Bible. I finally started studying things that I never studied. There was a lot of things I always said to my life, one day I’m going to do this, or One day I’m going to do that. And that one day never came. And then when I got paralyzed, it forced me to look at things, and it forced me to kind of come to terms and ask questions that I wasn’t really had the time to ask or cared, because, like I said, in Al Shadows, I was just doing my job.
I’d go to work. I’d do whatever they were asking me to do, and I’d go home. And that was my life. And then my life was radically changed. And I think that happens to a lot of people in different ways. I mean, some people hit rock bottom with drugs or alcohol, and some people have problems in their lives that take them to the bottom, and then you got no place to go when you’re at the bottom but up.
That was the beginning of my walk. And to answer the question is, yeah, I saw it, but I didn’t know what I was seeing. So when you started to look back in time, I guess you had, like a 6th Sense moment when you the movie, when you look back in time, you start to see everything. So what did you see? What did you recognize? Well, it’s just like a lot of it was I mean, I know this is going to sound weird, but there’s people that have different things in their houses and different kinds of artwork and different conversations.
It was mainly the conversations and just things that weird comments that normal people wouldn’t make. And is it normal to have a human skull in your house? Is it normal to have Satanic spell books in your house? Is it normal to have daggers and blades and all that kind of weird stuff? I don’t know. I mean, to me, those were just people in Hollywood, and they were just weird, and they were into collecting weird stuff.
So I never thought of it past that. I was like, oh, he’s just a Hollywood guy and he’s weird. I never thought of it as what I realized it was. You tell us that there’s individuals know they’re just doing their job and maybe they’re not involved with any of this, because I can’t believe everyone is involved with it. But who controls it? And who brings people into a certain area? How do they get you to that area where they can control you? I think it’s a long process.
I think it’s a long process. And to answer the question immediately about who controls it, I believe it’s the people that set the policies. If you’ve ever worked with any of the agencies, they put out sheets each day of what they’re looking for to the producers and directors and writers that they are in contact with or they work with. So there is someone setting policy and narrative for content creation depending on, oh, we’re looking for a Latino crossover pop star to do X, Y and Z.
Do you have anything? Or, oh, we’re looking for a comedy that could be shown in these markets. These are real things that come out every day. And I’m not saying that every one of the people that work at that level are doing that, but that’s how easy it is to change and drive policy now that upper echelon are the people that really do control the studios, control the networks, and then you can look into who owns you’ve.
I’ve heard you talk about BlackRock Vanguard, all these big holding companies that hold and manage these media assets. Well, that’s who sets the policies and that’s who kind of drives the narratives that you see over time. And like, for an example, I’ll jump a little further. In the late ninety s, I was working a lot. I was fortunate enough to be like the right size and the right build to double a lot of big famous actors, right? And so during that time, the leading man was always one X on the call sheet, or one, and then one X is double, which was usually me.
And I watched over probably a six, seven, eight year period that change a lot to where the people that I was normally doubling were like, down on the call sheet, like two, three, four, and they were promoting different, like they were really pushing female action stars. And you don’t think about that as anything as a big deal, but if you think about what it’s doing, it was almost like over time, it’s changing the way that we think about and I always was thinking to myself, this is cool, but why are they doing this? Why are we changing this all the time now? Why has it got to be this way? And I don’t know if you saw what the standards that the Academy now has to be nominated in certain film categories.
I don’t know if you’ve seen that sheet, but what they’ve changed the nominations and requirements to, it’s ridiculous. I thought we were about making good films and good content. And I’ve been one of the biggest proponents for hiring minorities and promoting I think me and my budy, we’re the only ones that ever voted a female into Stunts Unlimited. I mean, we were always on the edge of trying to be ahead of the curve and trying to help push equality in the business.
And there’s a lot of injustice, but it’s across the board. It’s not just in one category or the other. And so what I’m saying is, the people that set the policy, the people that you call them the black tower at NBC Universal or whatever you want to call it, those are the people that are in those offices that green light the projects. And if you look right now, look at the movies that are being made right now, look at the agendas behind the movies, and you’re a smart guy.
I listen to you a lot and you ask questions. Why is it like, look at Barbie, look at some of the movies that are out right now. Why you could have the same impact and the same thing without having those messages put layered into the story. And it’s disappointing. It’s almost like it’s so obvious now to me that they’re doing this stuff. It’s like it’s ruined it for me.
I can barely watch anything because there’s always that agenda push at some level because it’s planting seeds in the subconscious minds of the audience. So do you think that’s their whole entire purpose is to actually control the message that’s getting out there 100%? Is this coming from the CIA? Is it coming from Soros? Is it coming from it could be NGOs. I don’t think you could put one label on this, because the one thing I’ve noticed is it’s lots of many things.
It’s not just one thing. It’s like into the light. We talk about it. Music, social media, movies, games, all these things that we touch in our lives, those are tools. Those are ways that you can layer messages of story together. Those are tools in a psychological warfare, in battle. And if you shape I try to tell people, you don’t have to believe that this is happening. You don’t have to believe that.
You say, oh, you guys are out of your mind. That’s not happening. This isn’t true. Well, let me tell you something. There’s enough people on their side pushing their agendas onto the public, and they believe in what they’re doing. And therefore, because there’s enough people believing what they’re doing, it’s affecting your reality. Well, therefore, in my book, it makes it real. So you have a choice. You can either allow them to continue to push their narratives upon us, or you can stand up and say, no, I’m not going to watch that, or no, I’m not going to listen to that.
I’m going to watch something different, or I’m going to listen to something different, or I’m going to spend my time doing something that has nothing to do with social media or media. I’m going to go hiking, or I’m going to go camping, or I’m going to learn how to plant a garden, things like that. Get back to the physical reality of this world. How long do you think this has been going on in Hollywood? I mean, did it just start ten years ago or was this going back a long time? No, I think it was all set up from the very beginning.
Think about it. Who set up all the movie studios, the military? I mean, if you go back and you look at the guys who founded ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR what are all those sound like to you? Three letter agencies. Yeah. So if you go look at operationally, how do they work? We’ll go look at the structure. It’s structured just like the agencies. I mean, it’s right there in front of you.
You don’t think about it because it’s just what it is. I mean, your messaging system, if you could control story, you can control the population. And I just think that right now, their timeline has been you’re seeing it now because they’re pushing harder. Before they weren’t pushing. Now that they’re pushing, you’re seeing it. Why do you think they’re pushing so hard now? Because I think they have an agenda that they’re trying to goals that they’re trying to reach.
This is my opinion. So people can say whatever you want to say, but my opinion is I believe they want to control the entire world and move us into a one world government, one world health care, one world economic, financial system. And basically they want to control the people. And the best way to control the people is control the stories and control what the people are told. And we touch on AI a lot in into the Light.
I mean, we can talk about that later, but the way that back in the messaging took time. It took time to influence a reality or a culture. Now with the way that social media and all of the AI that we’re dealing with, a lot of this stuff, people send me clips all the time about, is this real? And I’m like, Man, I don’t know. Because I know what we could do with film and what we could do.
I could manipulate almost anything. My whole career was basically making fights and killing people on film and making it look real, and it was all fake. So I understand how you can fool an audience because that’s what we can do or we don’t have to do. But most of the time, it’s like a fake movie punch. It’s two dimensional. So long as it crosses the face and turn, it looks like you get hit.
I mean, these are little things, but with the AI advancements and all the things that they can do now, it’s crazy what we’re seeing. So now is the time to sit back and have discernment. And I said this to you earlier, but that’s the whole point of into the Light. The whole point of that movie is until the audience understands how they get manipulated, why they are being manipulated and who’s manipulated them, I don’t think that you’re going to be able to ultimately find what is really the truth, because there’s so much disinformation and misinformation out there right now.
You have to have discernment and you have to have patience sometimes. And we see these horrible images come across our feeds and we want to react to them. Well, sometimes that’s the point. Sometimes they’re not real. I mean, you’ve pointed out on other shows that that article was from five years ago. Or we see someone, something that’s getting everybody all wound up and it turns out it’s not what it really was.
It was a psyop. Yeah, I agree with you. And also I agree with you with the movies now and the stories. I’ve noticed over the many, many years that there are no stories anymore. They really don’t tell stories. It’s more of a messaging type of story, and you can really see it now. Now most of the time when I watch something and I see that, I say, okay, this is awful.
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Or click the link in the description people don’t want to go to movies because it’s not artistic anymore. There’s no storytelling anymore. And I think people now, they have the ability to see the messaging, and they see that, all right, you’re trying to thrust this on me, and I don’t want this 100%. And let me tell you where this is going. Can you imagine, like with the AI, if I can take your picture right, I can take a side view and a back view, and I can record your voice for 30 seconds.
I can create a digital clone of you and have you say and do almost anything. Okay? That’s where this is going. So in the future, think about this. Because of your likes and your dislikes and your psychographics that you feed into all of the input data that you build. When you’re building your digital clone and they’re running the AI simulations off of your digital clone, you are telling them what you like, what you dislike.
And what you have to understand is those clones that are being built by them, being able to manipulate you so much. In the future, when you watch a film, the lead character that you see is going to be different than the lead character that I see because it’s going to be so tailor made to your preferences. The actors are going to be no longer necessary, and the musicians will be no longer necessary because it’ll all be done with AI.
So everything will be generated with AI. And I guess then they don’t have to depend on people. I guess that all just goes away, and they can just art is gone, and that’s what they’re trying to do. Look, I’ll admit I used to love to be a gamer. I love to play games until I realized how much time I was truly wasting in my life. My wife will tell you, she almost left me over that a couple of times because I would come home from working, doing movie stuff, and then I would go start playing video games and just want to check out for a while.
And I get that. But when it starts taking over your reality or your world, and you’re spending more time doing that, then I could have been spending more time with my kids or going places or doing things, and I’m guilty of that. So I’ve had to humble myself in a lot of ways, and I’ve had to say, hey, okay, look, I was wrong. And here’s the thing that into the Light, I think brings out for people.
We’ve all been deceived. There is no one that has not been deceived. I don’t care what side of the aisle you are on. Left, right, middle, center, it doesn’t matter. We’ve all believed things to be true that aren’t. And until we have a moment where we can just have a little grace and say, hey, I was wrong about these things. I was fooled. And it’s okay. I mean, Brian Gamble and I talk about this off the line a lot.
It’s like, man, I didn’t know what I was doing or I didn’t understand what I was doing or I didn’t see it at the time. Well, retrospect is key to that because when you have perspective, stepping back, you’re able to go, wow, okay, this is the manipulation. I do see what they’re doing. And as far as the stories, I’ve always asked myself, why do we have to make these crappy movies? To me, it was just a paycheck.
Like, oh, what are we doing today? Oh, you’re going to do this or you’re going to do that? Okay, but we could do this and it would be so much better. And they’re like, no, stick to what it says. Okay, that’s what we’re doing. I just turn my care meter down and be like, okay, what do you want to do? Where are we going to do this? Okay, let’s do that.
And creative input. Unless you’re at the studio level or you’re a very high level producer, director, writer, you don’t really get a lot of creative input. You get to do what is scripted. I mean, since you spent time in Hollywood and you saw everything, there’s a lot of theory out there that Hollywood has some type of pedophilia ring going on within Hollywood. Have you seen any of that? Do you know anything about that? Well, I firmly believe that’s true.
Okay, but did I see anybody do any of that stuff? No, but what I did see was enough evidence in my book, in my professional opinion, that it’s real. And I don’t think it’s just like one group. Like I said, there’s many different group. I think there’s people that are into the Luciferianism, the Satanism, the occult, the witchcraft stuff. I think there’s people that are into pedophilia and I think that’s very real.
And I think the public is going to find out a lot more and more and more. I mean, look at three years ago when we did out of Shadows, everyone thought that the human trafficking, the sex trafficking and all those things, that wasn’t real. Well, the stance I took in out of Shadows was, I don’t care what you think about these things, but Operation Mockingbird, that was a real operation.
Operation Paperclip, that was a real operation. Operation, MKUltra. That was real. Human trafficking, that’s real. Pedophilia, that’s real. And the Satanic ritual stuff is real. Now, what you think about that, that’s up to you to decide. But I would just try to put it out there and say, take a look at this and see what your gut tells you about it. And that was the position. I don’t want to tell people what to think.
I want people to come to their own conclusions based on what is a fact and what is not a fact. Now, there’s a lot of this stuff with the pedophilia stuff where it’s all kind of conjecture. But if you go look at some of these stars and some of their comments on Instagram or Twitter or whatever or X, whatever you want to call it, from their past, it’s kind of hard to they make some pretty weird comments.
I mean, things that don’t make a lot of sense to me. I’m on the side of I believe 100% that that stuff’s real. I mean, look at the child stars. Look at Liz Croken right now. Look at look at what’s coming out. I mean, look at how Liz is being mean. That girl stood up and took bullets when no one was taking mean. Like said, like, liz and I have become very good friends over the last five years, and she’s a warrior.
And we’re working on a project with America’s Future called Project Defend to protect children. And Lara Logan’s part of that. And there’s a whole team of attorneys, and Mary Flynn heads it up with Gerald Flynn. And it’s a fantastic organization. And we’ve got some brave whistleblowers that come forward. I believe 100% it’s real. Did I see it? No. Was I invited to those kind of parties? No. Because if you know me in real life, you know I would never go along with that kind of stuff.
And it wouldn’t be good for you because you’re not going to hurt a kid in front of me, period. It’s not going to happen. Do you know anyone that actually went to the parties and reported back to you saying, holy crap, I just went to this crazy party and you’re never going to believe what I saw? Oh, yeah. Well, not that kind of stuff, but tranny parties and stuff like that.
Yeah, I’ve heard some crazy stories about that stuff, but it’s not probably for this show. But I have friends that are security guards and people that work in security, and they see things you got to remember behind the scenes. People think of actors as these big celebrities, but you got to remember they’re just people. And what do actors get paid to do? Lie to you? Yes. It’s like a politician.
Yeah, pretty much. I’m not saying lie to you, but they pretend to be somebody that they’re not, right? And we identify with that. So that’s when I say lie to you, that’s what I mean. It’s like they’re pretending to be someone they’re not. So when you get to know the person that they are and then the person that you see on TV, two different people. I mean, some of the toughest guys I know on TV are the wimpiest guys in real life you’ll ever meet and vice versa.
Some of the wimpiest guys on TV are actually some of the toughest. So the public doesn’t get to see these people the way that people like I got to see them. That’s very interesting. So what do you think their end game is? This is a whole psychological mean. You said know, if you really look at ABC, CBS’s, three letters, it looks like it’s part of the intelligence community.
What do you think at the end of the day, what is their end game with this entire psychological operation that they have going? Where they’re putting these messages out, making you think a certain way? What do they want? In the end, it’s a color revolution. They’re looking to shift culture. You look at how culture has been shifted. Look at the 60s, look at the 70s, look at the 80s, look at the 90s.
It’s a culture shift. And what they’re trying to do, their big goal was to get everybody in these 15 minutes smart cities, and they wanted to have the biggest thing to me is look at the corporate food net. I mean, the food industry, all they’re buying up all the sovereign lands, farmlands from all the individual farmers, and these megacorporations are owning all the farmland and basically driving and putting things in our food that probably aren’t as good for us as we would think they would be.
And I think they’re shifting our culture to their agenda. And their agenda is they want one world government and one world controlled ecosystem. And I think they failed. And I think there’s a lot of evidence that COVID is not what we thought it was. I’m not an expert on that. And you’ve got plenty of people that come on your show, and they can go way deeper than I can.
So I’ll stay in my lane with story. But the stories that you’re seeing being driven out about COVID and the ones when the factual reports do come out, you don’t see any of the mainstream media pushing that to the people. You don’t see them going, oh, hey, sorry, we made a mistake here. Let me show you what we’ve learned. Now, that’s not happening. So to me, they’re pushing the public in the direction they want them to go.
It’s just that when the public you push too far, you’re going to get a reaction. And that’s what they’re trying to do. And so I’m doing the best I can to counter that narrative by saying, look, slow down. Let’s just look at like like Boone says in the movie Boone Cutler, he wrote the book Fifth Generation Warfare with General Flyn. He’s in I mean, the information that the guys and Lara Logan cover in into the Light, you’re not going to find that anywhere else.
I mean, they’re the highest level people in psychological operations in the world, and they’re explaining it to the public. So how it works and why people are doing what they’re doing. Because like I said, until you understand how you’re being manipulated, you’re not going to understand how to fight. And this comes back to the art of war. You have to know your enemy. You have to know how to fight, or you’re never going to win.
So you said that their operation, their psychological operation is failing right now. Why do you think it’s failing? I think it’s failing because people are going, even people on the left, right, middle, everyone’s going, wait a minute, something is wrong. Our border is wide open. It’s wide open and we have groups of people who we know have come across the border who do not have good intentions for our nation.
And unfortunately, I’m no prophet, but I’m praying to God that that does not happen. But it’s just a matter of time till something bad will kick off and it’s going to force people to go, oh my God, how did this happen? Well, it happened because we let them in our country illegally and they’ve taken up their positions and they’re doing what they’re doing. And of course, I think it’s a solvable problem.
But I pray for our country right now because we’re in a very pivotal moment and I know we’re going to win because I don’t think they accomplished what they wanted to accomplish with COVID and some of the other things. And behind the scenes, I look at things and they’re very positive to me. But enough people have to wake up to go, no, we’re not doing this anymore. We’re not going to allow this anymore.
And I think that’s where we’re at. I think people are seeing it affect them. We basically watched them destroy our strategic oil reserve. Go look into that. I think you covered that on one of your shows. We’ve been depleting that over the last, what, two years? And we were energy independent under the last administration. And now why are they doing that? Well, it’s because this is all part of an agenda push.
And the main thing is messaging. The main thing to me, the most important thing is messaging. And that’s why I love your show. That’s why I love what you do every day. You’re consistent. You have something interesting to say, I tune in and I listen. I can’t listen every day, but I listen as much as I can and I feel blessed. It’s people like you that are making a difference.
It’s people that are actually standing up and saying, hey, I’m going to do my part to wake up as many people as I can, because that’s the only thing we have to reclaim. Let’s be honest. We’ve been horrible stewards. I’ve been a horrible steward. And it wasn’t into politics. I didn’t even vote. That doesn’t matter anyway. Well, yeah, it does matter, and I was wrong. And I’m here to try to fix that.
I’m here to try to do the best I can moving forward for the rest of my life. Well, I think that’s what’s very important about out of Shadows and into the Light. It makes people think. It makes people see things in a different way so they can say, hey, wait a minute. I didn’t realize this was going on. I didn’t know this was an operation. Now things are starting to make sense, and I think you’re right.
I think the American people, and not just you, but many of us, we were just asleep at the wheel, and we just allowed things to happen, and we didn’t do anything about it. And now I think we’re at this point where, with everything that’s happening with the borders, what’s happening out in Ukraine, with what’s happening out in Israel, what’s happening with the economy, I think this entire movement is waking a lot of people up.
Even the people that didn’t want to be woken up, I think it was impossible. And they had to wake up because certain things were affecting them. And I think everyone’s going to be affected in their own way as we move down this path. So some people might, oh, look, I don’t like the borders. I didn’t like what was happening. The person woke up, oh, I don’t like the economy falling apart, gas prices moving up, inflation moving up.
I’m going to wake up to that. So I think everyone’s going to wake up at their own time. And I think with you putting out these two documentaries, I think this just accelerates the process of people waking up and understanding what is actually really happening out in different areas of the world. And I think it’s very, very important with everything that you’re doing and everything that you’re showing the people.
Because, again, people just looked at Hollywood and looked at what was going on there, and they just looked at the stars going, oh, look, these are know, they’re like gods, know, we look up to them. And I think people now are starting to look at these individuals in a very different light. If you’d have seen them the way I saw them, you wouldn’t think of them as gods.
Trust me. And I will tell you straight up, without exception, probably 99% of them, 96, give them nice behind the scenes. When you get to know these people, they have all the money in the world. Not all the money in the world, but they have enough money. They go the best restaurants, stay in the nicest hotels, probably have a couple of houses. They have the dream. They’re famous.
They’re in the public light. That’s the thing that we’re like, oh, you want to move to Hollywood, become famous. It’s what we all want. Well, yeah, until you get it and you watch it, and then you see something behind the scenes, say, 96% of them, if you get to know them as people, just people, not the characters they play, most of them are not happy. They’re not happy.
Just as a human being, to me, it’s like, I would be the happiest thing. I’d be like, God, if I had all that, I would be totally happy. And I don’t understand why they’re not happy. Well, what would you have to give up to get what you got. And the one thing that I think that they reject the most is the one thing that could give them what they’re looking for, which is peace.
And when you have peace in your heart and you have peace with God, you walk a whole different way in life. And so I just look at them and I’m like, why do you reject that so much? It’s almost faux PA to know Jesus in people. There are Christians, but it’s very small. I would say that part of the group. There is a Christian community in Hollywood, but not like you would think.
I don’t think many of those individuals, conservative Christian individuals, I don’t think they’re getting the same work as the other people. They’re not taken at the highest level. You’ve seen the production quality for most of those films. Why? Yeah, I mean, Passion of the Christ, here’s a great example. Passion of the Christ was the largest grossing independent film in the history of film for many years. And because the production quality was outstanding, the acting was outstanding.
It was a great film. Right? If it was about making money, why haven’t we seen Passion of the Christ 23456? I mean, like, we’ve seen Fast and Furious. I think we’re up to ten now. You know what I mean? Yeah. So if it’s about money, okay, well, Fast and Furious, that’s cool. Guys driving cool cars, hanging out with hot chicks, blowing stuff up, and it’s just entertainment. But a good movie, a good value driven movie, they don’t do that anymore.
I mean, like our missed movies like Rudy and Hoosiers, things like, you know, that were actually stories. Right now, it’s just sequels and whatever Marvel stuff that’s probably not true. There are a lot of artistically made films out there, but it just doesn’t feel like they don’t have the passion or to me, I don’t know, I don’t feel the heart behind it like I used to. I don’t think the American people feel it either, because if they did, they’d be going out to the theater and they’d be watching all these things and they would do fantastically well, which, when they put out these movies, most of them, they’re terrible and they bomb in the theaters, but they keep making them, like you said.
Well, where’s the money coming from? Here’s my thing. I was looking back in like 90, I don’t know, nine or mid. Two thousand s, I guess. Now, look at when Netflix came on board and did away with the Blockbuster franchise. And then Netflix became the hottest thing in the world. And I point this out in delight, but do you know Edward Bernays? His nephew Randolph was one of the co founders of Netflix.
And so if you go back and you look at how you influence culture and change and shape culture, which change and shapes policy and drives economies and political candidates, or political ideologies. That’s all done. That’s why I’m 100% like they’ve always had control of story. It’s just that now you’re seeing their agendas being pushed on you, so you’re waking up. It’s kind of like the frog realizes he’s in hot water.
It’s too late. But it isn’t too late. I really do believe we’re going to win this. And I really do believe people are going to come together and we’re going to unify, and we’re going to get back to what our country was founded on, which is our founding fathers were smart. And in this country, whether people want to believe it or not, was founded on Christian principles. And that’s what gives you the right to have a First Amendment discussion or a Second Amendment.
Not discussion, but have the Second Amendment so that you can defend yourself. But the point I’m trying to make is I really do believe our country is we’re probably going to go through some tough times, but I feel like we’re going to win. I just feel like God did not bring us on this. He’s not going to abandon us. This is not going to happen. I agree with that.
Hey, Mike, thank you very much for being on the X 22 Report Spotlight. If people want to see Out Of Shadows and into the Light, where should they go? Well, we made it really easy. It’s into the light movie. So if you watch the movie, it’s into the Light movie, and we put out of Shadows on that website as well. I want to tell you, when you register to watch the film, you have to make an account.
We’re not selling your data. We’re not doing anything. The reason for that is we built this on our own code. It’s on our own servers. When you register, it’s for that purpose. So please register it. We also have a Pay it forward model. Like if you watch the film and you’d like to send it to a family member, a friend, a colleague, a coworker, you can purchase a code and you can pay it forward in the future.
As we continue to push this out, we’ve been heavily censored. They are really trying to suppress this film, which tells me we did good. I need you guys to help us out. It’s only 499 for a three day rental or 999 to own it. And then you can also purchase a code and pay it forward. But you go to Endothelight Movie and out of Shadows is on there as well, and it’s free to watch still, but the new one is there and available.
Great. I’ll put all the links at the bottom of the video, make it a lot easier for people to go right over. Mike, once again, thank you very much for being on the X 22 Report Spotlight. I really appreciate it. Thank you for coming on. Thank you, brother. I’m such a fan of yours. Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. Thank you. .