Episodi

  • The Hero Next Door Ep. 12 - Fired, Arrested, Unbroken: Dr. Simone Gold’s Fight
    Sep 29 2026

    Emergency physician and Stanford-educated attorney Dr. Simone Gold challenged the COVID medical establishment and paid the price: fired from two hospitals, targeted by Congress, and arrested by a SWAT team. She joins Nick Searcy and Dr. Darcy Leutzinger to reveal how she founded America's Frontline Doctors, built Gold Care as an alternative to corporate medicine, and why centralized healthcare may be the greatest threat to American freedom. A frontline report from the battle for medical autonomy.

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    1 ora e 11 min
  • The Hero Next Door Ep 11 - Bryan Anderson, Author and U.S. Army Sergeant (Ret.)
    Sep 15 2026

    Triple amputee and Purple Heart recipient Bryan Anderson left for Army basic training on September 11, 2001, served two years in Iraq, and lost both legs and his left hand in an October 2005 blast. After 13 months at Walter Reed, he went on to act in The Dark Knight and American Sniper and became an ambassador for the Gary Sinise Foundation and USA Cares. Hosts Nick Searcy and Dr. Darcy Leutzinger sit down with Anderson to discuss wheelchair rugby with the Oscar Mike Militia, his upcoming documentary Sum Function, and why your biggest limitation is never physical, it's mental.

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    53 min
  • The Hero Next Door Ep 10 - Bob Hamer, FBI Special Agent (Ret.)
    Aug 27 2026

    Bob Hamer spent 26 years as an FBI Special Agent, most of it undercover. He infiltrated the L.A. Mafia, posed as a contract killer, and embedded himself inside NAMBLA, the North American Man Boy Love Association, leading to the federal conviction of eight members of the organization's inner circle. In this episode, hosts Nick Searcy and Darcy Leutzinger sit down with Hamer as he details how he prepared for each role, the psychological toll of thinking like predators, and why a strong father figure remains the single greatest defense against child predators. He also discusses his book Promises Kept, honoring 22 combat-wounded service members who received homes from Homes for Our Troops.

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    59 min
  • The Hero Next Door Ep. 9 - Keith Billiot, DEA Supervisory Special Agent (Ret.)
    Jul 8 2026

    Keith Billiot spent nearly 31 years in law enforcement, including three decades with the DEA. He began buying drugs undercover at 23 with zero training, rose through the ranks to lead tactical teams and a Special Operations Division desk, and helped orchestrate the capture of Christopher "Dudus" Coke, a globally designated cartel kingpin in Jamaica. In this episode, Billiot details a deadly force encounter in Chicago, the four-year lawsuit that followed, and why Mexican cartels are now operating inside Native American reservations with almost no opposition.

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    1 ora e 18 min
  • The Hero Next Door Ep. 8 - Sonya LaBosco, Executive Director, Air Marshal National Council
    Jun 25 2026

    Former Daytona Beach mounted police officer turned Federal Air Marshal, Sonya LaBosco, joins Nick Searcy and Dr. Darcy Leutzinger to share her frontline journey from local law enforcement through the post-9/11 air marshal expansion. LaBosco details how she exposed the government's Quiet Skies program, which placed law-abiding Americans on domestic terrorist watch lists after January 6th. She reveals the moment she alerted Tulsi Gabbard to unlawful surveillance and calls for full accountability of federal officials who violated citizens' First Amendment rights.

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    53 min
  • The Hero Next Door Ep. 7: Tim Clemente, FBI Special Agent and SWAT Team Leader
    Jun 4 2026

    Tim Clemente knew he wanted to be a cop before he could spell the word. From the blood-soaked streets of St. Louis's Third District to the FBI's most classified counter-terrorism operations, his career reads like a national security briefing. In this episode, Tim sits down with Nick Searcy and Dr. Darcy Leutzinger to recount five homicides in a single shift, flipping a foreign head of state on day one at the Bureau, conducting espionage tradecraft by Friday, and responding to the Pentagon on September 11. This is what service looks like when the mission never stops.

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    1 ora e 11 min
  • The Hero Next Door Ep. 6: Brian Sizemore, Founder, The LUCAS Foundation
    Jun 4 2026

    Brian Sizemore lost his son, Lucas, a young Atlanta Police officer, to suicide on January 9, 2024. There were no warning signs. Lucas was an all-American kid from Michigan who graduated from the Atlanta Police Academy, earned marksman status, and served in one of the city's toughest zones. In this episode, Brian shares Lucas's journey from deer camp to badge, the phone call no parent should receive, and how he channeled unimaginable grief into the Lucas Foundation, fighting to end law enforcement suicide nationwide.

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    1 ora e 29 min
  • The Hero Next Door Ep. 5: Jim Etzin, Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services Coordinator at Oakland County Tactical Consortium
    Jun 4 2026

    Jim Etzin, Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services Coordinator at Oakland County Tactical Consortium, delivers a comprehensive operational briefing on active violence response in America. From the 1984 McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro to Columbine, Aurora, Pulse, and Uvalde, Etzin traces the paradigm shifts that changed how law enforcement answers these threats. He addresses solo officer entry, counter-ambush tactics, the concept of doomed captives, unified command, unconventional patient transport, and the four core priorities every responder must execute. Hosted by Darcy Leutzinger with co-host John Adams, exclusively on Proud American Studios.

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    1 ora e 4 min