John Rich is back for Season 2 of The Pursuit, airing on Fox Nation. The show is based on a premise that John lives by, in his personal and professional life, which is that pursuing happiness is the real journey, regardless of the outcome.
“The show is based on something I’ve said for a long time which is, ‘Our country doesn’t guarantee us happiness, it guarantees us the right to pursue happiness,'” John acknowledged to PopCulture.com. “We’re the only country in the history of the world that guarantees its citizens the right to pursue happiness, the right to chase your dream. Not necessarily the right that you’re gonna catch it. But in there lies the joy of life, pursuing great things and knowing you can do that.”
John previously had on celebrities like Gretchen Wilson, Wynonna Judd and more for the inaugural season. This season includes people like Shark Tank‘s Robert Herjavec, actor Michael Cudlitz and wrestler Jeff Jarrett and others –– an eclectic group joined together by their relationship with the Redneck Riviera owner.
“Most of the people on The Pursuit are either friends of mine or people that I have been around before or people I am a fan of personally,” John explained. “I don’t care what your politics are on this show, I care about you and I care about your story and I wanna hear what makes you tick and what have you been through, inspire me, tell me about how you did it.
“Really across the map of different backgrounds of Americans but all with this common thread of, they love our country and they have a very strong work ethic and they pursue happiness with everything they’ve got,” he added.
The celebrities might seem to be varied, but John says they all have one common thread between them.
“One thing I’ve learned doing this show is that there’s all the details are always different but there’s a real parallel between everybody that I’ve had on the show so far and that is they all run into some serious disappointments and some serious pushback against their dream,” the Big & Rich singer noted. “Making a dream a physical reality, that’s quite a process and you’re gonna run into a lot of things, everything from racism, sexism, people being told they didn’t have any talent, bad business deals, getting taken advantage of by industries.
“Pregnancies, all kinds of things that just come out of left field,” he continued. “You find out how they dealt with those, what decisions they made and where they ultimately wound up. It is extremely interesting to watch these stories unfold.”
John’s biggest wish for those watching The Pursuit is that it makes them dream bigger and reach for more than they ever thought possible.
“I hope they’re inspired, number one,” John said. “I hope that they think about their own life and what their American dream is, it could be anything. Whatever it is to them and they look at other people and maybe they identify with something they just heard like, ‘Wow that’s happening to me right now,’ ‘what he just talked about.’ Or, ‘I just went through that.’
“Or maybe they haven’t even really hit anything hard yet but when they do, they remember that story and go, ‘You know what, he got through it, she got through it, I can do it too,'” he concluded. “I hope they’re inspired and I hope it pushes them forward.”
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