May 19, 2025 • 45 mins
On this episode of Two Mikes, Dr. Michael Scheuer and Col. Mike speak with Chad Stewart, author of the Britfield series—a bold, America First alternative to the indoctrination plaguing children's media. Stewart discusses the fourth book, Britfield in the Eastern Empire, which tackles real-world issues like economic collapse and AI threats through the eyes of young protagonists. He also announces a $50 million feature film now in pre-production, aiming to reclaim youth culture from woke propaganda and satanic symbolism with truth, values, and powerful storytelling.
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Speaker 1 (01:14):
By four three, two to one, Hey, welcome back to
two Mike's Wrong with Doctor Michael Shorty and Colonel Mike.
And before we go to today's guests, which we're going
to get an update, we're really excited to have him
back on. As you know, he's been on our show
a couple of times. We're always happy to have him on.
Always good to talk about positive things. What's great for
people and literature, especially kids. And with all the bad
(01:36):
things going on, we want to make sure kids see
the good things and listen to them. Don't forget to
go to our website. Two Mikes, two Mikes dot Us,
Two Mikes dot Us, Welcome back, Chad. It's good to
have you back on the two mics. Haven't been on
for a while. I guess is this the first time
this year?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
It is? Yeah, I can't go year without being on
your show.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Boy, were already in to May I apologize you're not
on sooner? Well, anyway, let's talk a little bit about Britfield.
So it's one of the most awarded series. The Britfield
novels are transforming literature education while bringing entertainment and inspiration
to children families worldwide. With the first of the seven
movies in pre production, Hey, let me get some clapping here. Wow,
(02:20):
tell us a little bit about that. Shed what's going
on with that?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, so it's been a great year. It's interesting too,
as we've spoken before. You know, we officially launched book one,
Britfield Lost Crown, in August twenty nineteen, and then book
two in July of twenty twenty one, and then book three,
Britfield in Return of the Prince in October twenty twenty two.
We just launched Brittfield in the Eastern Empire book four
(02:44):
in January of this year. But really the last six
years has been a soft release and a lot, you know,
a lot similar to many great you know companies and
big projects, you know what I mean. It takes a
while to get things moving and the team in place,
and you know, we do a lot of beta tests
and we're building the brand and stuff, and so we're excited.
(03:04):
Like as of really April last month, we've gone global
now with the series. A kind of a slow start
this year, if you will, it felt more like last
year January.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
How many languages are you in now?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
We're actually only translated into Polish. We've got all three
series in Poland and Polish, but we've got eighteen to
twenty countries that are ready to buy the international rights.
We were at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, and
we were at the London Book Fair in March. Had
a phenomenal booth there with our British distributor, Gazelle. It
(03:39):
was like two hundred square feet, which was you know,
pretty big and great location. They love my agent Lori,
you know, which is cool. They put others like in
different places, but we get like the best premium spot.
So it looks like we might be picking up China
of all things. So we're kind of waiting to hear
on that that I did not expect a major publisher
in India. We have South Korea, Japan, where I think
(04:00):
will be huge. We've got Indonesia, and then we've got Russia,
which is kind of on hold right now, but hopefully
we can swing back to that. I think we do
very well in Russia. We actually have some of the
Eastern European countries Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Lithuania, Denmark,
(04:25):
Czech Republic. So just to yeah, it's really kind of cool.
And again, this has just taken a long long time.
It doesn't matter how good a book is or the
feedback or how much kids love it or adults love it.
It just takes time. It takes time to sort of
you know, creep along. And again, you know, we're competing
against all the major publishers. We're competing against thousands and
thousands of best selling authors. So but we're excited. I think.
(04:45):
I think really our goal with the Britfield series is
global phenomenon that's been from day one, over twelve years ago,
and we're looking to outsell the Harry Potter series probably
within eight to ten years. We're on the trajectory and
I can say with confidence that we'll do that, whereas
we're the complete opposite of the Harry Potter series, you know,
based in reality, based in current time. And I gotta
(05:07):
be honest, I was thinking about it this morning because
I'm working on book five now, having a lot of fun.
But it takes a while, you know what I mean.
You procrastinate, procrastinate, you know, for months, you know, like
all right, because once you're in, you're in, once you
start writing, you know, it's not like I'm pecking away.
I got to get into it. But these books are really,
I mean, they really are transformational. Like you said, I mean,
we're trying to elevate really the world of literature. And
(05:31):
if you think about the stuff that's sort of been
pouring out, you know, in the last few decades, if
not longer, you know, at the witchcraft and the magic
and gods and the superheroes and just really negative agendas
and nonsense, and all this does is disconnect kids from
reality and make them feel less than they are. And
you got the Spritfield series that is literally inspiring this
(05:51):
generation of children. So that's exciting the fact that the
books are traveling all over the world, you know, England, France, Italy,
and then in book book four, we actually tackle eleven
different countries, starting in Austria, ending in Moscow, Russia. And
now at book five Britfield and Lost Treasure, I'll be
(06:13):
hitting twelve countries, starting in Siberia and ending in Australia,
moving all the way through China and Japan and all
through that area. So what you have is you have
this great, great, you know, worldwide tour if you will,
coming into every country, learning a little bit about the country,
the culture, the people, what makes it unique, the climate,
(06:34):
you know, the landscapes, the history, the architecture, the art.
We do that, we incorporate all of that into these
fast paced, high octane James Bond meets Narnia book series,
but they're anchored in current time. Children are relating to them,
you know, teenagers are relating to adults are relating to
them because you're not discussed so.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I saw some of the people that were on the
website who gave you some kudos, you know, young teenagers.
It really were enamored by this book. It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, and we're seeing it like globally. And I'll answer
you a question about the film and where we're at.
I just wanted to sort of lay the landscape, you know,
for your audience and those that are.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well, please do, please do. Yeah, we get good feedback
from the people that bought them.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Oh, I appreciate that, but yeah, I mean, it's just
I don't especially with Book four. Book four was kind
of key for us Brittfield and Eastern Empire. It was
our I like to call it our keystone in the
seven book series. It was kind of like right there
in the middle. And it's a transition now with now
including you know, more than just one country. In book four,
it's eleven countries and trying to keep them right around
(07:37):
four hundred and fifty pages. Book four came in at
four hundred and thirty seven pages. Again, I still don't
know how I did that. And yet you have this
high level, fast paced, multi leveled, you know, exciting story,
and you've got multiple characters, you have the character arcs.
You've got this sort of conspiracy that's happening in the background.
(07:58):
You have a countdown usually seven days to try to
stop the world from having some crisis, if you will.
And and yet it's all kind of about family, friendship, loyalty, courage,
and hope. And that is really what it's it's providing.
It's feed the feedback from the from the children, for
the teenagers, even the adults. It's like their characters I
can relate to. I feel like I'm there, I feel
(08:20):
like I'm with them, I feel like I am them.
I feel like I'm watching a movie. And that's some
of the feedback that we're getting, not just throughout the
United States, and I mean all over and everything from
Hawaii to Alaska to North Dakota to Boston, but countries
you know, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, obviously, England, South Africa, Brazil,
(08:42):
you know, just all over Italy and Japan. We're selling
books there right now. So it's it is it is
very cool, and it's you know, and and again this
is all very very strategic. You know, I'm I'm a
strategist by nature, you know, global, global, strategist, global marketer,
and so I'm seeing things on multiple levels. I'm seeing
them long term and different phases. You know, most people
like kind of launch their their book or their campaign
(09:05):
or their product or their company, and it's like they
hammer it for three months and then it's like that's
just the warm up stage, you know what I mean.
Like we're actually in phase I think fourteen now of
our marketing strategy starting back in twenty nineteen, you know,
and it's just you know, it's always, it's always, and
you're always telling a story and so it's kind of
exciting and fun. But I think what's interesting too in
(09:26):
the books, you know, as children are reading, as adults
are reading them, you know, we cover a lot of
the current topics because they're based in current time, because
they're they're real, and we're incorporating the history and the
geography and culture. You know. We include things such as
the dangers of artificial intelligence, quantum computers and data collection, AI,
manipulation of the stock market, push for one world, digital currency,
(09:49):
the hidden group that dictate world events, fake wars and
FIAT money systems, compromise governments and agencies, super soldiers, and
DNN spliced DNA, splicing social credit scoring to force obedience
and cct TV cameras like now you.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Go to do in China with social credit score?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, well that's so, you know, it's like I'm setting
it up. And it's funny too because I am coming
into it. There's there's currently I think it's eight hundred
million cct C see TV cameras in China. Yeah, it's
basically it's basically came by a.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Head of lettuce or or a bottle of coke or
pepsi without the camera.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, and so we we are addressing that again too.
I don't go deep into these subjects. You know, I
plant seeds. It's kind of an undercurrent, like to call
it stealth education, but it's real. It's true, and and uh,
you know, so to not talk about it or not
cover it within the story, as long as it fits,
it's very relevant.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
And I'm curious, Chad, you said you you were going
to go to Indonesia. Did you get anybody to pick
you up from Thailand? Because they were big when I
was in Thailand, when Harry Potter was out, I couldn't
believe the amount of people reading that thing.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, I'm I'm hoping. So we've got a wonderful potential.
I got a wonderful literary agent. Then we got but
we've got a broker if you will, in Asia that
loves the series and he's basically waiting for our next
big news on the film, and then a lot of
triggers will be pulled, if you will, it loves the series.
(11:21):
You know, the numbers are great, but just again, you know,
has to cover himself, if you will, And so we
we're hoping within four to six weeks we've had we
have some real big news. It could be the director,
it could be one of the major actors.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And we'll talk.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, we'll get into the film, because that's really eighty
percent of my focus now is the film, and is
the movie along with writing book five. But because you
kind of have to, it's like you've got to continue
the series.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Well, you know you're talking to miss the author. He's
on the line with us. He's kind of silent, Mike.
You know what it's like with the book series.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
But I know what it's like with China because I
wrote a book about Imperial Huber and it's called Imperial Hubers.
Oh wow, the Chinese Chinese publisher wont it to publish it.
Then we got news that when they read it, they
found out I was uh talking about their slaughter of
(12:16):
the Wigers, the Muslim Wigers and Jinjiang. That figured into
the uh thinking of Osama Bin Laden and within I
think probably that the check wasn't even dry yet and
we got a new recall on it. So careful what
you say.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
No surprises there. No, I know what you're saying too.
And uh again I don't.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
I don't know the big market too.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Boy. Oh yeah it is and and and and can
be and I think it's a coulda be a solid
market for us.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
But oh, I know, I just I think they'll be
smuggling that book and are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Well, that's why I was kind of surprised. Like when
she got back in May, you know, and three weeks
later we were talking and she's like, yeah, I've got
a major published in China, and China, you know, China's
on my list, but not really, if you will, it's
not you know, it's not where we're aimed for right now.
It's kind of a third tier. It's a big country,
you know. It's just the way that you know, their politics,
the way they do things. I figured that they'd end
(13:13):
up just sort of getting it and reprinting it. So
so we'll see. But I'm very excited. But I don't
hold back. But I don't. I'm not I'm not a conspiracist,
per se. That's not what my books are for. I'm
just I'm really just repeating truth and history. You know
what I mean. I mean facts, that's it, you know
what I mean. The CC gammas exist.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
So's it's a great book, it's a great series. Mean,
we're happy for you, and we can't wait till you
start talking. I know it's what September you're going to
be talking about pre production and so on.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Oh yeah, we're in it now. We can shift into
the into the movie because that's our main, our main,
our main focus now and it's been It's interesting because
it's been about three years in in development and you know,
a lot of people kind of say that but it doesn't
mean anything, but for us, I mean, it's been three
solid years of development. I mean I was talking to
my producer every week, and you know, there's just so
(14:03):
many aspects. I mean, really, what you're doing is you're
a movie is building a in our In our case,
the movie's building a fifty million dollar company, and so
you don't throw that together in three months and stuff,
you know, or we're building a fifty million dollar mansion,
you know what I mean. And it's like the architectural
plans that the script, you know, the details, the foundation,
the structure, all of that, and that's our script. And
(14:24):
we kicked that off, you know, two years ago. It
went through. It's it's seventh final draft, I think in February,
and uh, and you know, so that was nine ten
days and it's I mean, you're getting to a point
where I get it from like one forty five to
one forty three one hundred and forty three pages. And
it's not so much that I'm trying to get at
any tighter. I mean, I'm trying to get it tighter,
(14:45):
but it's not like I'm trying to get you know,
a less page count. I can remove stuff, but it's
it's solid, and it's uh, it's it's amazing. The last
time I read the script, I don't think i'd mentioned
to you guys, but I mean it's like, and I
can I can be my worst. I have to be
the worst Devil's advocate. You know, when I'm I'm writing
or reading my own stuff, you know, does that make sense?
Or I'm always like thinking of what others would say,
(15:05):
you know, like well, hold on, that doesn't make any sense,
or how did they get there? Or you know, and
and so I'm you know, in a sense, you're like
talking to yourself all the way through it. And so
I'm you know, I cleaning up and correcting. But I'm
telling you, the script from start to finish is absolutely
stunning and amazing. It's it's it really is. And I've
studied script writing for probably twenty five thirty years and
(15:26):
written tons of them, so I'm not a novice. And
we did hire a professional script writer for the first
two drafts from from the industry, you know, been working
in it for thirty years. But again, just needed to
get it tighter, needed to get it, needed to parallel
the book. There's no reason it doesn't parallel the book,
you know, because it's like the story's great. Everyone loves
Brittfield lost crown. It's like, you don't need to invent scenes,
(15:47):
you know what I mean. You got to figure out
how you're going to you know what, how are you
going to get everything in or what needs to be cut,
if you will, but even referenced, so it's still in
there and a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Of the cinematography is going to be awesome. I could
just imagine the cinematography and the costumes. Are you guys
looking a cast already? Are you in that stage yet?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
We are? Yeah, we are. It's funny, you said cinematographer.
I was literally thinking about the cinematographer this morning. Some
things I do when I start to write my next books,
I'll be inspired and I'll watch like I'll watch all
the James Bond movies, like with Daniel Craig, I'll watch
all the Born Identity movies. And I'm just getting done
with the last Mission Impossible movie because it's just it's
(16:29):
fun and I'm just watching it. But it kind of,
if you will, sublimely, you know, we're subconsciously sort of
inspires me. And I was just I mean, and they
and they are amazing stories, and I'm thinking, like the
beauty of it is Brittfield, Lost Crown will parallel the
Mission Impossible movies, I think better. But I'm just saying,
you know, that's those are two hundred to three hundred
(16:50):
million dollar movies. Those are the best. Yes, as far
as scriptwriting, you know, professionalism, acting, I mean, you name it.
I mean those are and yet they still seem to
be a family friendly focus. I've just watched them all,
you know. I mean, they don't deviate, they don't have
the profanity words, they don't bring in any kind of
sex or nudity. They're not pushing an agenda. He's smart,
you know. And and and that's why they're reaching such
(17:13):
a massive audience. They're they're watchable, and they're fun and
you can rewatch them. But I was thinking about their cinematographer. Now,
we wouldn't get their director because that director is more
for adult action. You know. You want someone that's done
done really well with them. Book a best selling adaptations
from sort of your you know, children to teenage young
(17:34):
adult series. Some of that's good that that's working with kids,
you know, especially two main kids child actors. You know,
you're not going to get the director from James Bond
or Mission Possible.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Well, I stopped watching some of those Born Bond movies
because I tried the tricks running through the casinos and
going down the fire escapes at one hundred miles an
hour and bagging my shoulder and I broke it.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, yeah, and then and sometimes when you get shot,
you don't just shake it off. You have to go
to the hospital and you're laid up for three months. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I saw one of these guys hitting concrete walls going
down flight to stair as I said, oh yeah, this
is really a Bond movie.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Oh yeah, I know exactly what scene you're talking about too,
And I tell you too. I just watched the first
one again too, which was fun. You know, I have it.
They're all part of the collection and they're all part
of the library. But poor that that was extremely well done.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
The relat about music? What about music? Who are you
getting for the soundtrack?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, it's interesting. We're working with a woman by the
name of Olympia and she's through another co producer that
we're working with now. I met her at Beverly Hills
Hotel in March.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I'm a big guy on music. I can tell you
by the music, how the how the show is going
to go.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Let's get all these winners. I pick all these winners,
chat all the time.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
This is her, This is her background. She was one
of the youngest at Juilliard, classically trained, worked with John
Lennon for seven years just to throw that in, worked
with John Williams, the Great John Williams. Yes, over one
hundred movie and really just has a very eclectic group
that she works with, meaning hers is classical, you know,
(19:07):
think of Beethoven, Chikowsky, and then and then someone else
it's a little more pop in someone else that's modern.
And that's her group. And to bring the absolute best music.
I mean really almost every not just minute, but almost
every second of the movie. And so they'll not only
be involved with the music but the sound effects, which
(19:28):
is kind of an interesting parallel. And I gave him
some of my favorite songs that I was looking at
and uh, just as examples of you know, like I'll
listen to that song me driving and I'll and I
see my whole trailer and so but I know, so
we are progressing on that right now. They're actually she's
actually working on a few things, a few trailers just
(19:49):
for some teasers. You know, we're we're obviously not even
into production yet, but we do plan. I plan an
eighteen month worldwide tour nice and I do plan on
an eight month marketing campaign for the film, and I
would say, unlike anything you've seen in cinematic history. I
think I'll go back to the script real quick, but
(20:10):
I mean you get right into it. You know, within
the first minute, within two minutes, Tom has said, you know,
I've been here for six years. This is the year
I escape. So you know it's a movie. You know,
it's not about being in an orphanage's about getting out
of the orphanage. Called into the main office in five
minutes of the movie, threatened by mister Greeves. This, you know,
(20:30):
charlatan that's been stealing all the orphanage's money and they
have a beautiful Victorian house, threatens Tom. And when everybody
turned in, I know you guys are doing things behind
our back. You've got two days. Meets with his best friend, Sarah,
twelve year old Scottish girl came from the fluent family.
They meet up on the place called the View, which
is a sixth story and the roof, and they only
meet there because it's only place to say to meet.
(20:50):
And she gets caught. She's thrown into solitude and within
ten minutes of the movie and a day to have
to turn everybody in. Patrick, the oldest one, comes in
and he's like, he's like, I know what you're thinking.
You want to escape? And he's like yeah, and he goes,
let's let's get the boys together and we'll plan tonight.
And so like they're planning the great escape and twelve
minutes of this movie, but you've already come into this
(21:11):
whole world of the orphanage, So I'm not wasting thirty
minutes with all the background and all that stuff. You're
seeing it, you're getting it, you're understanding it. And then
from for fifteen minutes of straight action starting at the
fifteen minute mark to thirty minute mark ending Act one,
plot point one is just pure action of their plan.
And it's like the perfect plan. It's a perfect plan,
(21:31):
and yet everything goes goes awry, Like like Patrick's up
on the roof with the rope, you know what I mean,
because he's gonna throw it over to help Tom climb up,
and he slips and the rope starts to fall down
and hits like a wire and starts screeching, and you know,
and then you know, just everything that goes wrong, and
then like one of them is supposed to open up
the bulkhead door in the basement, but it's too dark
and he trips on the stairs and he is knocked unconscious,
(21:53):
you know. I mean, it's like all this stuff is happening.
And then finally, you know, they escape, They get out
of the wall. This massive dog called wind think of
the Hound of Basketvills. It's chasing them, you know, and
they just slipped through the small opening and it's like,
you know, the fangs and just growling. And then you know,
missus Grievous like yelling, goes. You know, we'll find you.
You'll never get away. We'll find you. And that's like
(22:13):
at the thirty minute mark, and I'm like, I just
delivered more than most movies deliver in a lifetime. And
buckle your seat belts because we're just getting started with
Britfield Loans. This movie is just getting revved up, you know.
And then it's and then it's you know, hiking to
the train station and then suddenly Detective Gowerstone turning around
and seeing Tom and you know, nodding to the cops
(22:35):
that are coming in from different directions, knowing they would
be there, you know, and you have this sort of
Detective Gowerstone who's sort of crossed between James Bond and
Sherlock Holmes, you know. And then the chase through this
you know, open field, it's raining that get the hot
air balloon. I mean, it just goes on and on
and on to Oxford, to Windsor to London. There's this
royal mystery Britfield. Somehow Tom's connected to its parents might
(22:55):
be alive.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I mean, it just gives the whole thought away. You know,
this could be mini this could be a masterpiece for
yoga people, you know, a master to best theater, right,
one are my favorites?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Sure your mess to be theater.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And just by the way the composer I was thinking
of which she gets almost I always pick them with
her as Rachel Portman. She's out of England also she
does Yeah, she's big time soundtrack winner in a lot
of her movies. You can look her up on YouTube.
Very good stuff, very good stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Yeah. So we're we are definitely in that process though
and with the sound and stuff. But now we're I'm
just excited with the film and describing the script and
I mean it's just there, there's there's zero lag, there's
just there's just.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
So good for you. I'm so happy for you guys man,
you put a lot of work in it. I can't
wait for the breakouts, Like you're gonna have something going
down in Arizona this year, right September this year?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
What's that? Now?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Are you having anything in September this year in Arizona
or did you already have that?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
No? No, we had that last year in October.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Okay last year.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Okay, yeah, big event. But no, we're already We're already
working with the British Film Film Department and in fact,
our producers headed over there, I think next week for
about two or three weeks in London, are based out
of London and starting to work with them. You have
to establish, you know, obviously a base there. We want
to film in it. Yes, yes, that's our plan, so
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he'll be there. We're looking at a location scout. We've
already got a breakdown on the script. Financially, we're looking
at a fifty million dollar movie independent, which is about
one hundred and fifty by Hollywood standards, and you know,
so it's just great. I mean and again too, I
think you'll get it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You'll bring in over three hundred million on this one.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Oh, I actually think we'll we'll. I think it'll be
one of the highest grossing films in sad dustry. I
really do. Yeah, don't don't leave the budget like I
could say one hundred and fifty or two hundred million
dollar budget for it, but that'd be ridiculous. It's not needed.
Number one, it takes place in current time. Number two,
it's all about the story. It's not so much special effects, right,
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or stunts or even a list actors. We'll have some
great British actors. You'll you'll recognize them, you'll know them,
but we don't need a fifteen million dollar a list
actor carrying it. In fact, you wouldn't because they'd be
a distraction. You'll have the introduction of a lot of
newer British actors that have been in the game for five, seven,
ten years but just kind of behind the scenes and stuff.
And much like with Harry Potter, right, you didn't really
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have any kind of major actors, but you had a
lot of great character actors and some other good young
actors that have been you know, in the game, doing commercials,
doing sitcoms, doing whatever I saw. I saw. I've been
watching some fun British Classics lately and I saw David
Copperfield and the young David Copperfield was Daniel Radcliffe before
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he got the Harry Potter role, and I'm like, boy,
he was really good, you know, So you know, and then.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I'm telling you there's some really good stuff on Masterpiece
when you see the period the period pieces that they have,
you know, Jane Austin and all these other pieces.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
To just rewatched the eight episodes of Pride and Prejudice,
the original with Colin Firth. That was fun. Did Vanity Fair?
And then did Middle March? Go? Figure that that top
one hundred British novels of all time? They picked Middle
March by George Elliott as number one. I thought that.
But anyway, so no, so we're we're I mean, we're
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moving full throttle. So you yeah, we've got.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
It's interesting that what you're describing is I read an
article the other day that the President is trying to
get Hollywood to agree to begin making movies for human beings.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Yes, and.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Your boy, you're right in the in the in the
wheelhouse there for him.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
No, we are, And it's there's a parallel. I mean,
you guys know that you've been covering it. I mean,
and and and again, Like there's a major paradigm shift
worldwide right now, especially in the United States, and some
extraordinary things are going to have And the old Hollywood
is dead. They've been dead for years, They've been bankrupt
for years. They're still you know, fiddling along, pedaling their crap.
(27:08):
No one's buying it, No one cares. Disney's hanging on
by a thread with their nonsense. I mean, how did
it work out for snow White? We follow all this,
but what you're going to see is you are going
to actually see a massive resurgence of family friendly, conservative,
just great films. And that's we're in that renaissance now
in Britfield's going to be leading that way. And part
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of that reason of why the movie will be one
of the highest grossing films in cinematic history is number
one is just a great story, but number two, there's
an eighty five to ninety percent worldwide gap for just good, clean,
family friendly content. Everybody is absolutely exhausted from the nonsense
from the demons, from the demigods, from the superheroes. They're
(27:52):
just saturated, they're just dead. And you get something like
Britfield and I mean it's going to run for about
two hours and ten minutes. It won't. It'll feel like
thirty minutes. It'll finish with the music playing and the
boat leaving Dover with Tom and Sarah in the back
as they're headed towards Calais, France, and everyone will just
be sitting there. I don't they won't. They'll be clapping,
But then they'll be sitting there because they will not
(28:13):
be They cannot begin to believe what they just saw.
I won't just feed there. It won't feed their feelings
or emotions. It'll feed their soul. And we've just given
them one of the most solid, feel good, laugh, cry
and celebrate movies that they've ever seen. And I don't
know it's a comparison. We do it all the time,
trying to find I'm a film you know, buff expert.
(28:35):
I've been studying it, you know, for forty years, you know,
starting in the nineteen thirties, I wrote a merit scholarship
on you know, the screwball comedies of the nineteen thirties.
You know, I've been following the forties and fifties, you know,
all of it. I don't know anything like it I
don't know anything like Britfield Lost Crown.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
You know so well, doing all the work you did
all these years, you deserve it.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah, it's a school plus, it'll be interesting, it'll be fun.
I think I would always compare it to like Star
Wars the original nineteen seventy seven. I think it'll have
that kind of impact. Like you you you know it's
gonna be popular, but you don't see what's coming. And
it will be a paradigm shift in the industry where
(29:19):
it's like, we didn't compromise anything. We didn't need to use,
you know, too much. CGI. We'll probably use a little
bit for the balloon. You know, we're not going to
be doing those things with helicopters at night coming up here. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
No, really, you have a unique book, you have a
unique concept, you're a unique person. You're tapping into what's needed.
So what's better than what you're doing to be a success?
It's really good.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Yeah, And what's fun too, is like you know, when
I first wrote, I mean, I wrote book one, Britfield
Lost Crown, and it took four years, twenty five hundred hours.
So again, anything of quality, you know, takes time. People
don't most people don't realize that they want success now
or when this flashover substance society and they see all
these you know overnight, you know, successful people on whether
it's YouTube or you know reality shows. Number one of
(30:04):
those reality shows a terrible They're scripted. They're all scripted,
and most of those quote unquote off the you know,
picked out of an audienced actors are all part of
the system. You know, all that's fake, you know what
I mean? And you're billionaires out there, they're not billionaires.
They're just actors. You know, these guys that have built
these big empires, they didn't build anything. Let's you see
(30:26):
his Facebook as an example. You know, that's an actor
that was a five hundred million dollar per project that
we paid for, taxpayers paid for. And the day that
that had closed, then Facebook was launched.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I mean, people, Mike, what did I see the other
day on the show you know Chad? The other day
I was saying, how does a guy like Bezos become Amazon?
Here's the script. He drove a faded green painted Honda.
The guy was selling books out of the back seat
in the trunk. I mean, it's it's total script. It's
the agency, it's the agency saying we're going to pick you.
(30:58):
You're going to be rich to buy all the stock
we're going to set you up, and before you know,
you'll be going door to door with everything we could sell.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
You're on the right track with that. Again, that's an actor.
He's not some genius ceo. They've spent billions of dollars.
When I say they the usual suspects billions of dollars
to make it work. Part of it is to wipe
out the middle class and small businesses and et cetera. So,
you know, and it's interesting too. I was just thinking
(31:27):
about this the other day. But remember how things were
kind of this is what home Depot did. Home Depot
was like, oh my gosh, it's great, big warehouse. You
can go and get almost anything there, and it's actually
less expensive than going to the you know, local hardware. Yeah,
and then when they put them all out of business,
guess what, the prices came up and you were paying
more than you normally paid. And that's exactly what Amazon's
done now, right. I don't find discounts there anymore. And
(31:48):
then let's talk about the mailing service. Gee, yes, I
wonder how that worked, you know, what I mean, you
don't make money on that. I don't order, I don't
order chapstick, and I have it at my door two
hours later, and you're making a penny on it, you know.
But they have that kind of capital. They're utilizing the
postal service. I don't want to get into all this stuff,
but yeah, I understand it's yeah, and then and then
(32:11):
where I guess where's all that billions of dollars is coming.
It's coming from our government because they've got certain programs
or they're initiating this type of hiring thing and back
backroom deals. We just saw all that exposure of hundreds
of billions of dollars of our money that should be
going to veterans, veterans wives, teachers. I mean, our teachers
(32:33):
in the United States should be the highest paid teachers
once they're off this nonsense, you know, and that should
be a you know, they should have to take three
jobs and spend their own money to buy you know,
coloring crowns for the classroom. That's nonsense.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
We should be able to educate a child by the
sixth grade to do coding and anything else they do
in other parts of the world. You know.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Oh, I'm a huge component of that. I mean, we've
through our Britfield Institute. We've got we've got entrepreneurships that
we like to bring into middle schools and we have
four or five kids form their own company and start
building their own company nice and working with them. You
damn write it twelve years old.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I mean, send you a link on that, Please send
me an email on it.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Please think well, yeah, it's Bridfield Institute dot org. You
can see some of our programs. It's exciting. Our main
focus is Title I schools and stuff, and we're gonna
be doing a lot of that, probably probably towards the
end of this year into next year, but we've been
working on it for years. We do writing workshops with schools,
getting kids excited about creativity. We have creativity workshops, entrepreneurships,
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marketing workshops, how do you market a product, script writing classes.
I mean, we do all kinds of to get this
generation of kids number one, thinking for themselves, thinking critically,
communicating well and collaborating with others. And if you don't
invest in creativity, you're not investing in anything. Number one.
You know, creativity is the number one most important skill
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set in the world. Number two is communication. Number three,
guess what storytelling. It's not engineering, it's not AI, it's
not technology, it's not accounting. Which eighty percent of that
will be offshort or replaced by AI in the next
five to seven years. Half the medical field will be
wiped out because of technology. Fifty to sixty percent of
the media will be gone. But the one thing that
(34:16):
AI and technology will never replace is creativity. You can't
can't replace it. And so that to have the spirit
of entrepreneurship and children creativity and children thinking thinking.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Of well we had that non generations.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Mike, and I know, I'm not reinventing the I'm not
doing anything. Really, I'm coming back to the world I
grew up in. I had a great six grade class
that I still reflect on because she was really creative
and we did really cool things and you know, painting
and gardening outside with groups and we all Our assignment
was to write a book, which was my first book,
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called James Bonnet Your Heart Out. It was awesome. I
was a twelve year old secret agent working for the
British government living in Hampshire in a beautiful Tutor style house.
My guys will appreciate this my.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
What a creative mind that is.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yeah, I was ridden all that stuff. But my partner
was Jacqueline Smith if you remember from Charlie's.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Angel I remember Charlie's Angels.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
She's my partner and uh and and I had a
nice little, uh cherry red convertible Ferrari that was my
carne and uh, you know, and I had to chase
this so I was tapped, you know, by the government.
You know, who else are they going to get but
me to find this criminal throughout Europe. And then fast
forward forty years later to Brittfield Lost Crown. You know
those scenes nice, So what a great story you know too.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
You sit here or I sit here anyways listening to you,
and I realized how much of what I decided to
do with my life and and what I wanted to
read and what I wanted to study came from exactly
the kind of movies you're you're doing. Yes, you know,
people laugh at movies, you know. With I remember Errol
(35:58):
Flynn and a movie called The Seahawk, and it was
a very exciting movie, vetter better, very entertaining movie. But
also it drove me to read about British history and
to read about the you know, all kinds of things,
and there were hundreds of movies like that.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
There were There was.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Nothing really bloody about it. There was there was sword
fights in that kind of thing, but the story was
not the fighting but the diplomacy and the personal relationships.
And that's exactly sounds like what you're doing. And it's
a great thing to think about coming back for our
children or my grandchildren.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Now, yeah, exactly, yeah, it is. I mean, they're huge
influential vehicles. I mean, it was you're talking. I was
thinking about the first time I saw Wuthering Heights nineteen
thirty nine with Lord William Wilder's version, and I was like,
I was blown away. I loved nineteen forty the Philadelphia Story.
That's one of my favorite movie.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
We watched that a couple of times of years.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Oh, isn't that the best with Key James Stewart and
and Catherine Hepburn. I mean, it's it's a classic. I love.
I still think Casablanca stands the test of time.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Oh, that's one of my favorites too, Mike.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
It is. You don't want to think coming together what I.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Think about when I see Casa Blanca. It's the political
system today. Excuse me, I see gambling here? Thank you, yeah, exactly,
here's your earning sir, Thank you, yeah, classic.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Why are you closing me down gambling?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Oh, here's your winning sir. Oh, thank you classic.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I just that movie was so good. And then and
then fast forward one of my all time favorites, The
Sound of Music. I mean, it's still guest grossing film,
a cinematic history, phenomenal story, like that's what we're trying,
we're trying to kind of.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
That's when people took their children to the to the movies.
It was the big Sunday, Big Saturday, Big Sunday.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Remember, Oh my gosh, I'll never forget seeing it. I
was I'm from Newport Beach, California, so in Fashion Island
at Edward's Cinema, which is still there. I'll never forget
being taken to it. I think it was relaunched, you know,
it was. You know, they're showing it again because this
is kind of before the video age too, And I'll
never forget watching it. And literally my life was changed,
(38:11):
you know, from it. And it's I'm not a musical guy,
but it was the story. It was Austria, which is
now one of my countries. It was the beautiful landscape,
you know, you know all of it, and the story
and just everything about it. I've been to Salzburg twice.
I've been to both places where it was filmed and
and what's so beautiful about it. Last time was in
Salzburg was probably about ten years ago, but it was unchanged,
(38:34):
like nothing like the the If you remember that scene
where they're walking up she's walking up that long sort
of dirt path, you know with the trees towards the gate,
you know, the house Julie Andrews, and it's kind of
that mustard color wall, and she gets to the gate
that looks exactly the same as it does when they
filmed it. Amazing, nothing's changed.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Never have those memories leave your mind when you watch
movies like that.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
And then let's ask forard to Star Wars. You know,
I was like eight years old and I saw it
thirteen times. That movie changed my life. And again I don't,
I don't. I'm not a sci fi guy. I'm not.
I'm not into Star Trek. But you look at Star
Wars and it's just And I've taught writing workshops and said, Look,
whether you like Star Wars or not, you look at
(39:19):
something that's been around for over fifty years now, and
as a seventy four billion dollar franchise, you have to
ask yourself, why what can we learn from Star Wars?
And I'll do like nine things you can learn from
Star Wars. Number one, it's an original story. Number two,
it's based on the three act structure. Number three, it's
the classic hero's journey. Number four. It's got great characters.
(39:41):
Number five, it's a wonderful adventure. Number six. It's got comedy,
which is really important. Right. It doesn't get any more
intense than Darth Vader, right, attacking this small ship killing men.
And yet you have this you know scene where all
the lasers are going back and forth and like R two,
D TWU and C three per walking through, you know,
and they do it beautifully just as a just as
(40:03):
a moment to catch your breath, just as a light humor.
You know. It's and it's triumph over tragedy. It's good
versus evil.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
I didn't know that was a high. That's a very
high number the franchise to be that many and many billions.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
You know, seventy four billion dollars franchise. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
What I like about Newport is the Balboa Club. I
like it down there. I stayed there a couple of times.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Yeah, that's neat. Yeah, that was my stomping grounds right
down there. Yeah. I think I took sailing lessons right
around that area. And yeah, it was a great life
to grow up.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Nice yachts in the backyard there, huh.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Yeah, my friend had one and uh not him, but
his parents and we would go over to Catalina.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
That was cool, beautiful yachts in the day. Yeah, but
the Blue Angels. The Blue Angels was staying there one
time when I was there a couple of days, so
it was fun having them stay in there. Also very nice.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Yeah, I think I'm they're flying in Florida right now.
My friend was posting some stuff on her Facebook, and
it's like those guys are just awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
But anyway, say no, I just I enjoyed the talk
very much, and me too.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Out I like it all the.
Speaker 4 (41:11):
Time, and come back and tell us more when you
have it to see.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Yeah, definitely. And I think like in the next six
to eight weeks, we've got a major We've hired a
PR company, so we've got a major marketing campaign that's
going to be rolling out, which you guys will probably
start to see through press releases and some marketing things.
But I'm hoping by you know, the next six eight weeks,
we've got some major announcements. I mean, once the once
we hit the tipping point, then there's no going back.
(41:37):
And so whether it's the director or the actor or something,
but we're we're locked and loaded, we're ready. It's not
none of this as if it's it's win and it will.
The release date will not be later than November twenty
twenty seven. We're shooting for twenty twenty six, but okay,
it will not be later than November twenty twenty seven.
(41:57):
Then after that you'll have a new Britfield and Lost
Crown movie or Britfield The Rise of the Lion every
two years, if not eighteen years. Yeah, so it's not
going to be a long draw. I'm like, we'll start
the script for book two probably in the next let's
say two to three months, and already have that in
the works, and so in eighteen months we've got to
finish script and ready to go for book book two,
(42:19):
and so there'll be a break from the cast, break
from the filming. But you know, for like maybe two
or three months, but then boom, we're in France shooting,
and there's just something wonderful and then wonderment about being
in the country. I get that we can film in
eastern Europe and there might be some scenes that we
do there. But as long as the government works with us,
I love the authenticity of it. It's it's to their benefit.
(42:41):
I can guarantee you when the movie comes out that
their tourism will increase by five to seven percent, which
is probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars. So, I mean,
everybody in the world's going to want to go visit
Oxford and Windsor and London and Saint Paul's Cathedral and
Hyde Park and all the locations that this takes place
at in Canterbury, you know, and so you know, to
(43:04):
have real places, real authenticicity all British actors. The same
thing with the French, you know, filming Book Book two
in France and Book three in Italy, you know, so
we you know, real quick, yeah, really just you know,
and it's and it's a celebration of culture. It's a
celebration of Europe. It's a celebration of history and people.
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And that's what Britfield is all about. You know, it's
not criticizing people. You know, there's there's good and bad
and it's you know, like I don't criticize China. You
just have a very evil political system, you know what
I mean, and the usual suspects and criminals. But most
people are just great people, you know, caring, loving, you know,
just wanting to grow up and you know, get married
(43:48):
and have kids and want the best education for the
kids and the best life for the kids and have
a good job and and travel and just enjoy life.
That's that's people, you know. And so and you know
the couple is always trying to divide and conquer us
and put us against each other.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Exactly. We don't have we don't have Howard Johnson's anymore.
That was a great thing in a sixties. Remember Mike
traveling stopping at Howard Johnson's. How many flavors was the
ice cream? Eighteen or twenty? I forgot everyone flavors? Yeah? Great,
Well you you have an open invitation anytime, you know,
to come on and talk about love you all right?
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Well, great, hey, thank you so much. I always appreciate
your support and a great book series for you know,
your audience, for kids, for grandkids, a great graduation gift,
and fifty five percent of our reading audience or adults
youngest readers seven oldest readers ninety three.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
There you go, Mike and Meyer. Okay, we're getting closest
to the oldest reading are we might?
Speaker 3 (44:48):
I'll tell you real quick. I was doing a fun
presentation in Republican Women's group last week, which I don't
normally do anymore because I'm just so busy. But it
was a friend of a friend, and I'm like, okay,
and it was a great group of Nothing is more
exciting than being in a room of patriotic women. I
mean they were on fire and about eighty one hundred
of them. But I had an eighty three year old
(45:08):
woman come up afterwards. She goes, I just kind had
to tell you how much I love your Britfield series.
She goes, I just finished book two and she said
it was fantastic, And I thought, how cool is that?
You know what I mean? I just love that. I'm
and that's I'm doing a lot of what C. S.
Lewis was doing. C. S. Lewis created the Narnia series
for adults. People don't realize that it became one of
(45:30):
the best selling children's series, but he created it for
adults because he wanted adult step to be able to
read a fun, fast paced adventure series and almost kind
of returned to youth, remember what it was like growing
up and being a child in the wonderment of experiences,
and so that's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Well, Thank you, ch Chad Steward, thank you so much
for coming on Mikes and you're welcome back anytime.
Speaker 3 (45:53):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Thank you alrighty
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By four three, two to one, Hey, welcome back to
two Mike's Wrong with Doctor Michael Shorty and Colonel Mike.
And before we go to today's guests, which we're going
to get an update, we're really excited to have him
back on. As you know, he's been on our show
a couple of times. We're always happy to have him on.
Always good to talk about positive things. What's great for
people and literature, especially kids. And with all the bad
(01:36):
things going on, we want to make sure kids see
the good things and listen to them. Don't forget to
go to our website. Two Mikes, two Mikes dot Us,
Two Mikes dot Us, Welcome back, Chad. It's good to
have you back on the two mics. Haven't been on
for a while. I guess is this the first time
this year?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
It is? Yeah, I can't go year without being on
your show.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Boy, were already in to May I apologize you're not
on sooner? Well, anyway, let's talk a little bit about Britfield.
So it's one of the most awarded series. The Britfield
novels are transforming literature education while bringing entertainment and inspiration
to children families worldwide. With the first of the seven
movies in pre production, Hey, let me get some clapping here. Wow,
(02:20):
tell us a little bit about that. Shed what's going
on with that?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, so it's been a great year. It's interesting too,
as we've spoken before. You know, we officially launched book one,
Britfield Lost Crown, in August twenty nineteen, and then book
two in July of twenty twenty one, and then book three,
Britfield in Return of the Prince in October twenty twenty two.
We just launched Brittfield in the Eastern Empire book four
(02:44):
in January of this year. But really the last six
years has been a soft release and a lot, you know,
a lot similar to many great you know companies and
big projects, you know what I mean. It takes a
while to get things moving and the team in place,
and you know, we do a lot of beta tests
and we're building the brand and stuff, and so we're excited.
(03:04):
Like as of really April last month, we've gone global
now with the series. A kind of a slow start
this year, if you will, it felt more like last
year January.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
How many languages are you in now?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
We're actually only translated into Polish. We've got all three
series in Poland and Polish, but we've got eighteen to
twenty countries that are ready to buy the international rights.
We were at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, and
we were at the London Book Fair in March. Had
a phenomenal booth there with our British distributor, Gazelle. It
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was like two hundred square feet, which was you know,
pretty big and great location. They love my agent Lori,
you know, which is cool. They put others like in
different places, but we get like the best premium spot.
So it looks like we might be picking up China
of all things. So we're kind of waiting to hear
on that that I did not expect a major publisher
in India. We have South Korea, Japan, where I think
(04:00):
will be huge. We've got Indonesia, and then we've got Russia,
which is kind of on hold right now, but hopefully
we can swing back to that. I think we do
very well in Russia. We actually have some of the
Eastern European countries Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Lithuania, Denmark,
(04:25):
Czech Republic. So just to yeah, it's really kind of cool.
And again, this has just taken a long long time.
It doesn't matter how good a book is or the
feedback or how much kids love it or adults love it.
It just takes time. It takes time to sort of
you know, creep along. And again, you know, we're competing
against all the major publishers. We're competing against thousands and
thousands of best selling authors. So but we're excited. I think.
(04:45):
I think really our goal with the Britfield series is
global phenomenon that's been from day one, over twelve years ago,
and we're looking to outsell the Harry Potter series probably
within eight to ten years. We're on the trajectory and
I can say with confidence that we'll do that, whereas
we're the complete opposite of the Harry Potter series, you know,
based in reality, based in current time. And I gotta
(05:07):
be honest, I was thinking about it this morning because
I'm working on book five now, having a lot of fun.
But it takes a while, you know what I mean.
You procrastinate, procrastinate, you know, for months, you know, like
all right, because once you're in, you're in, once you
start writing, you know, it's not like I'm pecking away.
I got to get into it. But these books are really,
I mean, they really are transformational. Like you said, I mean,
we're trying to elevate really the world of literature. And
(05:31):
if you think about the stuff that's sort of been
pouring out, you know, in the last few decades, if
not longer, you know, at the witchcraft and the magic
and gods and the superheroes and just really negative agendas
and nonsense, and all this does is disconnect kids from
reality and make them feel less than they are. And
you got the Spritfield series that is literally inspiring this
(05:51):
generation of children. So that's exciting the fact that the
books are traveling all over the world, you know, England, France, Italy,
and then in book book four, we actually tackle eleven
different countries, starting in Austria, ending in Moscow, Russia. And
now at book five Britfield and Lost Treasure, I'll be
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hitting twelve countries, starting in Siberia and ending in Australia,
moving all the way through China and Japan and all
through that area. So what you have is you have
this great, great, you know, worldwide tour if you will,
coming into every country, learning a little bit about the country,
the culture, the people, what makes it unique, the climate,
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you know, the landscapes, the history, the architecture, the art.
We do that, we incorporate all of that into these
fast paced, high octane James Bond meets Narnia book series,
but they're anchored in current time. Children are relating to them,
you know, teenagers are relating to adults are relating to
them because you're not discussed so.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I saw some of the people that were on the
website who gave you some kudos, you know, young teenagers.
It really were enamored by this book. It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, and we're seeing it like globally. And I'll answer
you a question about the film and where we're at.
I just wanted to sort of lay the landscape, you know,
for your audience and those that are.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well, please do, please do. Yeah, we get good feedback
from the people that bought them.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Oh, I appreciate that, but yeah, I mean, it's just
I don't especially with Book four. Book four was kind
of key for us Brittfield and Eastern Empire. It was
our I like to call it our keystone in the
seven book series. It was kind of like right there
in the middle. And it's a transition now with now
including you know, more than just one country. In book four,
it's eleven countries and trying to keep them right around
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four hundred and fifty pages. Book four came in at
four hundred and thirty seven pages. Again, I still don't
know how I did that. And yet you have this
high level, fast paced, multi leveled, you know, exciting story,
and you've got multiple characters, you have the character arcs.
You've got this sort of conspiracy that's happening in the background.
(07:58):
You have a countdown usually seven days to try to
stop the world from having some crisis, if you will.
And and yet it's all kind of about family, friendship, loyalty, courage,
and hope. And that is really what it's it's providing.
It's feed the feedback from the from the children, for
the teenagers, even the adults. It's like their characters I
can relate to. I feel like I'm there, I feel
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like I'm with them, I feel like I am them.
I feel like I'm watching a movie. And that's some
of the feedback that we're getting, not just throughout the
United States, and I mean all over and everything from
Hawaii to Alaska to North Dakota to Boston, but countries
you know, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, obviously, England, South Africa, Brazil,
(08:42):
you know, just all over Italy and Japan. We're selling
books there right now. So it's it is it is
very cool, and it's you know, and and again this
is all very very strategic. You know, I'm I'm a
strategist by nature, you know, global, global, strategist, global marketer,
and so I'm seeing things on multiple levels. I'm seeing
them long term and different phases. You know, most people
like kind of launch their their book or their campaign
(09:05):
or their product or their company, and it's like they
hammer it for three months and then it's like that's
just the warm up stage, you know what I mean.
Like we're actually in phase I think fourteen now of
our marketing strategy starting back in twenty nineteen, you know,
and it's just you know, it's always, it's always, and
you're always telling a story and so it's kind of
exciting and fun. But I think what's interesting too in
(09:26):
the books, you know, as children are reading, as adults
are reading them, you know, we cover a lot of
the current topics because they're based in current time, because
they're they're real, and we're incorporating the history and the
geography and culture. You know. We include things such as
the dangers of artificial intelligence, quantum computers and data collection, AI,
manipulation of the stock market, push for one world, digital currency,
(09:49):
the hidden group that dictate world events, fake wars and
FIAT money systems, compromise governments and agencies, super soldiers, and
DNN spliced DNA, splicing social credit scoring to force obedience
and cct TV cameras like now you.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Go to do in China with social credit score?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, well that's so, you know, it's like I'm setting
it up. And it's funny too because I am coming
into it. There's there's currently I think it's eight hundred
million cct C see TV cameras in China. Yeah, it's
basically it's basically came by a.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Head of lettuce or or a bottle of coke or
pepsi without the camera.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, and so we we are addressing that again too.
I don't go deep into these subjects. You know, I
plant seeds. It's kind of an undercurrent, like to call
it stealth education, but it's real. It's true, and and uh,
you know, so to not talk about it or not
cover it within the story, as long as it fits,
it's very relevant.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
And I'm curious, Chad, you said you you were going
to go to Indonesia. Did you get anybody to pick
you up from Thailand? Because they were big when I
was in Thailand, when Harry Potter was out, I couldn't
believe the amount of people reading that thing.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, I'm I'm hoping. So we've got a wonderful potential.
I got a wonderful literary agent. Then we got but
we've got a broker if you will, in Asia that
loves the series and he's basically waiting for our next
big news on the film, and then a lot of
triggers will be pulled, if you will, it loves the series.
(11:21):
You know, the numbers are great, but just again, you know,
has to cover himself, if you will, And so we
we're hoping within four to six weeks we've had we
have some real big news. It could be the director,
it could be one of the major actors.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And we'll talk.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, we'll get into the film, because that's really eighty
percent of my focus now is the film, and is
the movie along with writing book five. But because you
kind of have to, it's like you've got to continue
the series.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Well, you know you're talking to miss the author. He's
on the line with us. He's kind of silent, Mike.
You know what it's like with the book series.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
But I know what it's like with China because I
wrote a book about Imperial Huber and it's called Imperial Hubers.
Oh wow, the Chinese Chinese publisher wont it to publish it.
Then we got news that when they read it, they
found out I was uh talking about their slaughter of
(12:16):
the Wigers, the Muslim Wigers and Jinjiang. That figured into
the uh thinking of Osama Bin Laden and within I
think probably that the check wasn't even dry yet and
we got a new recall on it. So careful what
you say.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
No surprises there. No, I know what you're saying too.
And uh again I don't.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
I don't know the big market too.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Boy. Oh yeah it is and and and and can
be and I think it's a coulda be a solid
market for us.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
But oh, I know, I just I think they'll be
smuggling that book and are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Well, that's why I was kind of surprised. Like when
she got back in May, you know, and three weeks
later we were talking and she's like, yeah, I've got
a major published in China, and China, you know, China's
on my list, but not really, if you will, it's
not you know, it's not where we're aimed for right now.
It's kind of a third tier. It's a big country,
you know. It's just the way that you know, their politics,
the way they do things. I figured that they'd end
(13:13):
up just sort of getting it and reprinting it. So
so we'll see. But I'm very excited. But I don't
hold back. But I don't. I'm not I'm not a conspiracist,
per se. That's not what my books are for. I'm
just I'm really just repeating truth and history. You know
what I mean. I mean facts, that's it, you know
what I mean. The CC gammas exist.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
So's it's a great book, it's a great series. Mean,
we're happy for you, and we can't wait till you
start talking. I know it's what September you're going to
be talking about pre production and so on.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Oh yeah, we're in it now. We can shift into
the into the movie because that's our main, our main,
our main focus now and it's been It's interesting because
it's been about three years in in development and you know,
a lot of people kind of say that but it doesn't
mean anything, but for us, I mean, it's been three
solid years of development. I mean I was talking to
my producer every week, and you know, there's just so
(14:03):
many aspects. I mean, really, what you're doing is you're
a movie is building a in our In our case,
the movie's building a fifty million dollar company, and so
you don't throw that together in three months and stuff,
you know, or we're building a fifty million dollar mansion,
you know what I mean. And it's like the architectural
plans that the script, you know, the details, the foundation,
the structure, all of that, and that's our script. And
(14:24):
we kicked that off, you know, two years ago. It
went through. It's it's seventh final draft, I think in February,
and uh, and you know, so that was nine ten
days and it's I mean, you're getting to a point
where I get it from like one forty five to
one forty three one hundred and forty three pages. And
it's not so much that I'm trying to get at
any tighter. I mean, I'm trying to get it tighter,
(14:45):
but it's not like I'm trying to get you know,
a less page count. I can remove stuff, but it's
it's solid, and it's uh, it's it's amazing. The last
time I read the script, I don't think i'd mentioned
to you guys, but I mean it's like, and I
can I can be my worst. I have to be
the worst Devil's advocate. You know, when I'm I'm writing
or reading my own stuff, you know, does that make sense?
Or I'm always like thinking of what others would say,
(15:05):
you know, like well, hold on, that doesn't make any sense,
or how did they get there? Or you know, and
and so I'm you know, in a sense, you're like
talking to yourself all the way through it. And so
I'm you know, I cleaning up and correcting. But I'm
telling you, the script from start to finish is absolutely
stunning and amazing. It's it's it really is. And I've
studied script writing for probably twenty five thirty years and
(15:26):
written tons of them, so I'm not a novice. And
we did hire a professional script writer for the first
two drafts from from the industry, you know, been working
in it for thirty years. But again, just needed to
get it tighter, needed to get it, needed to parallel
the book. There's no reason it doesn't parallel the book,
you know, because it's like the story's great. Everyone loves
Brittfield lost crown. It's like, you don't need to invent scenes,
(15:47):
you know what I mean. You got to figure out
how you're going to you know what, how are you
going to get everything in or what needs to be cut,
if you will, but even referenced, so it's still in
there and a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Of the cinematography is going to be awesome. I could
just imagine the cinematography and the costumes. Are you guys
looking a cast already? Are you in that stage yet?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
We are? Yeah, we are. It's funny, you said cinematographer.
I was literally thinking about the cinematographer this morning. Some
things I do when I start to write my next books,
I'll be inspired and I'll watch like I'll watch all
the James Bond movies, like with Daniel Craig, I'll watch
all the Born Identity movies. And I'm just getting done
with the last Mission Impossible movie because it's just it's
(16:29):
fun and I'm just watching it. But it kind of,
if you will, sublimely, you know, we're subconsciously sort of
inspires me. And I was just I mean, and they
and they are amazing stories, and I'm thinking, like the
beauty of it is Brittfield, Lost Crown will parallel the
Mission Impossible movies, I think better. But I'm just saying,
you know, that's those are two hundred to three hundred
(16:50):
million dollar movies. Those are the best. Yes, as far
as scriptwriting, you know, professionalism, acting, I mean, you name it.
I mean those are and yet they still seem to
be a family friendly focus. I've just watched them all,
you know. I mean, they don't deviate, they don't have
the profanity words, they don't bring in any kind of
sex or nudity. They're not pushing an agenda. He's smart,
you know. And and and that's why they're reaching such
(17:13):
a massive audience. They're they're watchable, and they're fun and
you can rewatch them. But I was thinking about their cinematographer. Now,
we wouldn't get their director because that director is more
for adult action. You know. You want someone that's done
done really well with them. Book a best selling adaptations
from sort of your you know, children to teenage young
(17:34):
adult series. Some of that's good that that's working with kids,
you know, especially two main kids child actors. You know,
you're not going to get the director from James Bond
or Mission Possible.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Well, I stopped watching some of those Born Bond movies
because I tried the tricks running through the casinos and
going down the fire escapes at one hundred miles an
hour and bagging my shoulder and I broke it.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, yeah, and then and sometimes when you get shot,
you don't just shake it off. You have to go
to the hospital and you're laid up for three months. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I saw one of these guys hitting concrete walls going
down flight to stair as I said, oh yeah, this
is really a Bond movie.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Oh yeah, I know exactly what scene you're talking about too,
And I tell you too. I just watched the first
one again too, which was fun. You know, I have it.
They're all part of the collection and they're all part
of the library. But poor that that was extremely well done.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
The relat about music? What about music? Who are you
getting for the soundtrack?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, it's interesting. We're working with a woman by the
name of Olympia and she's through another co producer that
we're working with now. I met her at Beverly Hills
Hotel in March.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I'm a big guy on music. I can tell you
by the music, how the how the show is going
to go.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Let's get all these winners. I pick all these winners,
chat all the time.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
This is her, This is her background. She was one
of the youngest at Juilliard, classically trained, worked with John
Lennon for seven years just to throw that in, worked
with John Williams, the Great John Williams. Yes, over one
hundred movie and really just has a very eclectic group
that she works with, meaning hers is classical, you know,
(19:07):
think of Beethoven, Chikowsky, and then and then someone else
it's a little more pop in someone else that's modern.
And that's her group. And to bring the absolute best music.
I mean really almost every not just minute, but almost
every second of the movie. And so they'll not only
be involved with the music but the sound effects, which
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is kind of an interesting parallel. And I gave him
some of my favorite songs that I was looking at
and uh, just as examples of you know, like I'll
listen to that song me driving and I'll and I
see my whole trailer and so but I know, so
we are progressing on that right now. They're actually she's
actually working on a few things, a few trailers just
(19:49):
for some teasers. You know, we're we're obviously not even
into production yet, but we do plan. I plan an
eighteen month worldwide tour nice and I do plan on
an eight month marketing campaign for the film, and I
would say, unlike anything you've seen in cinematic history. I
think I'll go back to the script real quick, but
(20:10):
I mean you get right into it. You know, within
the first minute, within two minutes, Tom has said, you know,
I've been here for six years. This is the year
I escape. So you know it's a movie. You know,
it's not about being in an orphanage's about getting out
of the orphanage. Called into the main office in five
minutes of the movie, threatened by mister Greeves. This, you know,
(20:30):
charlatan that's been stealing all the orphanage's money and they
have a beautiful Victorian house, threatens Tom. And when everybody
turned in, I know you guys are doing things behind
our back. You've got two days. Meets with his best friend, Sarah,
twelve year old Scottish girl came from the fluent family.
They meet up on the place called the View, which
is a sixth story and the roof, and they only
meet there because it's only place to say to meet.
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And she gets caught. She's thrown into solitude and within
ten minutes of the movie and a day to have
to turn everybody in. Patrick, the oldest one, comes in
and he's like, he's like, I know what you're thinking.
You want to escape? And he's like yeah, and he goes,
let's let's get the boys together and we'll plan tonight.
And so like they're planning the great escape and twelve
minutes of this movie, but you've already come into this
(21:11):
whole world of the orphanage, So I'm not wasting thirty
minutes with all the background and all that stuff. You're
seeing it, you're getting it, you're understanding it. And then
from for fifteen minutes of straight action starting at the
fifteen minute mark to thirty minute mark ending Act one,
plot point one is just pure action of their plan.
And it's like the perfect plan. It's a perfect plan,
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and yet everything goes goes awry, Like like Patrick's up
on the roof with the rope, you know what I mean,
because he's gonna throw it over to help Tom climb up,
and he slips and the rope starts to fall down
and hits like a wire and starts screeching, and you know,
and then you know, just everything that goes wrong, and
then like one of them is supposed to open up
the bulkhead door in the basement, but it's too dark
and he trips on the stairs and he is knocked unconscious,
(21:53):
you know. I mean, it's like all this stuff is happening.
And then finally, you know, they escape, They get out
of the wall. This massive dog called wind think of
the Hound of Basketvills. It's chasing them, you know, and
they just slipped through the small opening and it's like,
you know, the fangs and just growling. And then you know,
missus Grievous like yelling, goes. You know, we'll find you.
You'll never get away. We'll find you. And that's like
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at the thirty minute mark, and I'm like, I just
delivered more than most movies deliver in a lifetime. And
buckle your seat belts because we're just getting started with
Britfield Loans. This movie is just getting revved up, you know.
And then it's and then it's you know, hiking to
the train station and then suddenly Detective Gowerstone turning around
and seeing Tom and you know, nodding to the cops
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that are coming in from different directions, knowing they would
be there, you know, and you have this sort of
Detective Gowerstone who's sort of crossed between James Bond and
Sherlock Holmes, you know. And then the chase through this
you know, open field, it's raining that get the hot
air balloon. I mean, it just goes on and on
and on to Oxford, to Windsor to London. There's this
royal mystery Britfield. Somehow Tom's connected to its parents might
(22:55):
be alive.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I mean, it just gives the whole thought away. You know,
this could be mini this could be a masterpiece for
yoga people, you know, a master to best theater, right,
one are my favorites?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Sure your mess to be theater.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And just by the way the composer I was thinking
of which she gets almost I always pick them with
her as Rachel Portman. She's out of England also she
does Yeah, she's big time soundtrack winner in a lot
of her movies. You can look her up on YouTube.
Very good stuff, very good stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Yeah. So we're we are definitely in that process though
and with the sound and stuff. But now we're I'm
just excited with the film and describing the script and
I mean it's just there, there's there's zero lag, there's
just there's just.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
So good for you. I'm so happy for you guys man,
you put a lot of work in it. I can't
wait for the breakouts, Like you're gonna have something going
down in Arizona this year, right September this year?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
What's that? Now?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Are you having anything in September this year in Arizona
or did you already have that?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
No? No, we had that last year in October.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Okay last year.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Okay, yeah, big event. But no, we're already We're already
working with the British Film Film Department and in fact,
our producers headed over there, I think next week for
about two or three weeks in London, are based out
of London and starting to work with them. You have
to establish, you know, obviously a base there. We want
to film in it. Yes, yes, that's our plan, so
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he'll be there. We're looking at a location scout. We've
already got a breakdown on the script. Financially, we're looking
at a fifty million dollar movie independent, which is about
one hundred and fifty by Hollywood standards, and you know,
so it's just great. I mean and again too, I
think you'll get it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You'll bring in over three hundred million on this one.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Oh, I actually think we'll we'll. I think it'll be
one of the highest grossing films in sad dustry. I
really do. Yeah, don't don't leave the budget like I
could say one hundred and fifty or two hundred million
dollar budget for it, but that'd be ridiculous. It's not needed.
Number one, it takes place in current time. Number two,
it's all about the story. It's not so much special effects, right,
(25:01):
or stunts or even a list actors. We'll have some
great British actors. You'll you'll recognize them, you'll know them,
but we don't need a fifteen million dollar a list
actor carrying it. In fact, you wouldn't because they'd be
a distraction. You'll have the introduction of a lot of
newer British actors that have been in the game for five, seven,
ten years but just kind of behind the scenes and stuff.
And much like with Harry Potter, right, you didn't really
(25:24):
have any kind of major actors, but you had a
lot of great character actors and some other good young
actors that have been you know, in the game, doing commercials,
doing sitcoms, doing whatever I saw. I saw. I've been
watching some fun British Classics lately and I saw David
Copperfield and the young David Copperfield was Daniel Radcliffe before
(25:46):
he got the Harry Potter role, and I'm like, boy,
he was really good, you know, So you know, and then.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I'm telling you there's some really good stuff on Masterpiece
when you see the period the period pieces that they have,
you know, Jane Austin and all these other pieces.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
To just rewatched the eight episodes of Pride and Prejudice,
the original with Colin Firth. That was fun. Did Vanity Fair?
And then did Middle March? Go? Figure that that top
one hundred British novels of all time? They picked Middle
March by George Elliott as number one. I thought that.
But anyway, so no, so we're we're I mean, we're
(26:23):
moving full throttle. So you yeah, we've got.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
It's interesting that what you're describing is I read an
article the other day that the President is trying to
get Hollywood to agree to begin making movies for human beings.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Yes, and.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Your boy, you're right in the in the in the
wheelhouse there for him.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
No, we are, And it's there's a parallel. I mean,
you guys know that you've been covering it. I mean,
and and and again, Like there's a major paradigm shift
worldwide right now, especially in the United States, and some
extraordinary things are going to have And the old Hollywood
is dead. They've been dead for years, They've been bankrupt
for years. They're still you know, fiddling along, pedaling their crap.
(27:08):
No one's buying it, No one cares. Disney's hanging on
by a thread with their nonsense. I mean, how did
it work out for snow White? We follow all this,
but what you're going to see is you are going
to actually see a massive resurgence of family friendly, conservative,
just great films. And that's we're in that renaissance now
in Britfield's going to be leading that way. And part
(27:29):
of that reason of why the movie will be one
of the highest grossing films in cinematic history is number
one is just a great story, but number two, there's
an eighty five to ninety percent worldwide gap for just good, clean,
family friendly content. Everybody is absolutely exhausted from the nonsense
from the demons, from the demigods, from the superheroes. They're
(27:52):
just saturated, they're just dead. And you get something like
Britfield and I mean it's going to run for about
two hours and ten minutes. It won't. It'll feel like
thirty minutes. It'll finish with the music playing and the
boat leaving Dover with Tom and Sarah in the back
as they're headed towards Calais, France, and everyone will just
be sitting there. I don't they won't. They'll be clapping,
But then they'll be sitting there because they will not
(28:13):
be They cannot begin to believe what they just saw.
I won't just feed there. It won't feed their feelings
or emotions. It'll feed their soul. And we've just given
them one of the most solid, feel good, laugh, cry
and celebrate movies that they've ever seen. And I don't
know it's a comparison. We do it all the time,
trying to find I'm a film you know, buff expert.
(28:35):
I've been studying it, you know, for forty years, you know,
starting in the nineteen thirties, I wrote a merit scholarship
on you know, the screwball comedies of the nineteen thirties.
You know, I've been following the forties and fifties, you know,
all of it. I don't know anything like it I
don't know anything like Britfield Lost Crown.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
You know so well, doing all the work you did
all these years, you deserve it.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah, it's a school plus, it'll be interesting, it'll be fun.
I think I would always compare it to like Star
Wars the original nineteen seventy seven. I think it'll have
that kind of impact. Like you you you know it's
gonna be popular, but you don't see what's coming. And
it will be a paradigm shift in the industry where
(29:19):
it's like, we didn't compromise anything. We didn't need to use,
you know, too much. CGI. We'll probably use a little
bit for the balloon. You know, we're not going to
be doing those things with helicopters at night coming up here. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
No, really, you have a unique book, you have a
unique concept, you're a unique person. You're tapping into what's needed.
So what's better than what you're doing to be a success?
It's really good.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Yeah, And what's fun too, is like you know, when
I first wrote, I mean, I wrote book one, Britfield
Lost Crown, and it took four years, twenty five hundred hours.
So again, anything of quality, you know, takes time. People
don't most people don't realize that they want success now
or when this flashover substance society and they see all
these you know overnight, you know, successful people on whether
it's YouTube or you know reality shows. Number one of
(30:04):
those reality shows a terrible They're scripted. They're all scripted,
and most of those quote unquote off the you know,
picked out of an audienced actors are all part of
the system. You know, all that's fake, you know what
I mean? And you're billionaires out there, they're not billionaires.
They're just actors. You know, these guys that have built
these big empires, they didn't build anything. Let's you see
(30:26):
his Facebook as an example. You know, that's an actor
that was a five hundred million dollar per project that
we paid for, taxpayers paid for. And the day that
that had closed, then Facebook was launched.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I mean, people, Mike, what did I see the other
day on the show you know Chad? The other day
I was saying, how does a guy like Bezos become Amazon?
Here's the script. He drove a faded green painted Honda.
The guy was selling books out of the back seat
in the trunk. I mean, it's it's total script. It's
the agency, it's the agency saying we're going to pick you.
(30:58):
You're going to be rich to buy all the stock
we're going to set you up, and before you know,
you'll be going door to door with everything we could sell.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
You're on the right track with that. Again, that's an actor.
He's not some genius ceo. They've spent billions of dollars.
When I say they the usual suspects billions of dollars
to make it work. Part of it is to wipe
out the middle class and small businesses and et cetera. So,
you know, and it's interesting too. I was just thinking
(31:27):
about this the other day. But remember how things were
kind of this is what home Depot did. Home Depot
was like, oh my gosh, it's great, big warehouse. You
can go and get almost anything there, and it's actually
less expensive than going to the you know, local hardware. Yeah,
and then when they put them all out of business,
guess what, the prices came up and you were paying
more than you normally paid. And that's exactly what Amazon's
done now, right. I don't find discounts there anymore. And
(31:48):
then let's talk about the mailing service. Gee, yes, I
wonder how that worked, you know, what I mean, you
don't make money on that. I don't order, I don't
order chapstick, and I have it at my door two
hours later, and you're making a penny on it, you know.
But they have that kind of capital. They're utilizing the
postal service. I don't want to get into all this stuff,
but yeah, I understand it's yeah, and then and then
(32:11):
where I guess where's all that billions of dollars is coming.
It's coming from our government because they've got certain programs
or they're initiating this type of hiring thing and back
backroom deals. We just saw all that exposure of hundreds
of billions of dollars of our money that should be
going to veterans, veterans wives, teachers. I mean, our teachers
(32:33):
in the United States should be the highest paid teachers
once they're off this nonsense, you know, and that should
be a you know, they should have to take three
jobs and spend their own money to buy you know,
coloring crowns for the classroom. That's nonsense.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
We should be able to educate a child by the
sixth grade to do coding and anything else they do
in other parts of the world. You know.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Oh, I'm a huge component of that. I mean, we've
through our Britfield Institute. We've got we've got entrepreneurships that
we like to bring into middle schools and we have
four or five kids form their own company and start
building their own company nice and working with them. You
damn write it twelve years old.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I mean, send you a link on that, Please send
me an email on it.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Please think well, yeah, it's Bridfield Institute dot org. You
can see some of our programs. It's exciting. Our main
focus is Title I schools and stuff, and we're gonna
be doing a lot of that, probably probably towards the
end of this year into next year, but we've been
working on it for years. We do writing workshops with schools,
getting kids excited about creativity. We have creativity workshops, entrepreneurships,
(33:33):
marketing workshops, how do you market a product, script writing classes.
I mean, we do all kinds of to get this
generation of kids number one, thinking for themselves, thinking critically,
communicating well and collaborating with others. And if you don't
invest in creativity, you're not investing in anything. Number one.
You know, creativity is the number one most important skill
(33:53):
set in the world. Number two is communication. Number three,
guess what storytelling. It's not engineering, it's not AI, it's
not technology, it's not accounting. Which eighty percent of that
will be offshort or replaced by AI in the next
five to seven years. Half the medical field will be
wiped out because of technology. Fifty to sixty percent of
the media will be gone. But the one thing that
(34:16):
AI and technology will never replace is creativity. You can't
can't replace it. And so that to have the spirit
of entrepreneurship and children creativity and children thinking thinking.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Of well we had that non generations.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Mike, and I know, I'm not reinventing the I'm not
doing anything. Really, I'm coming back to the world I
grew up in. I had a great six grade class
that I still reflect on because she was really creative
and we did really cool things and you know, painting
and gardening outside with groups and we all Our assignment
was to write a book, which was my first book,
(34:48):
called James Bonnet Your Heart Out. It was awesome. I
was a twelve year old secret agent working for the
British government living in Hampshire in a beautiful Tutor style house.
My guys will appreciate this my.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
What a creative mind that is.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yeah, I was ridden all that stuff. But my partner
was Jacqueline Smith if you remember from Charlie's.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Angel I remember Charlie's Angels.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
She's my partner and uh and and I had a
nice little, uh cherry red convertible Ferrari that was my
carne and uh, you know, and I had to chase
this so I was tapped, you know, by the government.
You know, who else are they going to get but
me to find this criminal throughout Europe. And then fast
forward forty years later to Brittfield Lost Crown. You know
those scenes nice, So what a great story you know too.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
You sit here or I sit here anyways listening to you,
and I realized how much of what I decided to
do with my life and and what I wanted to
read and what I wanted to study came from exactly
the kind of movies you're you're doing. Yes, you know,
people laugh at movies, you know. With I remember Errol
(35:58):
Flynn and a movie called The Seahawk, and it was
a very exciting movie, vetter better, very entertaining movie. But
also it drove me to read about British history and
to read about the you know, all kinds of things,
and there were hundreds of movies like that.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
There were There was.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Nothing really bloody about it. There was there was sword
fights in that kind of thing, but the story was
not the fighting but the diplomacy and the personal relationships.
And that's exactly sounds like what you're doing. And it's
a great thing to think about coming back for our
children or my grandchildren.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Now, yeah, exactly, yeah, it is. I mean, they're huge
influential vehicles. I mean, it was you're talking. I was
thinking about the first time I saw Wuthering Heights nineteen
thirty nine with Lord William Wilder's version, and I was like,
I was blown away. I loved nineteen forty the Philadelphia Story.
That's one of my favorite movie.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
We watched that a couple of times of years.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Oh, isn't that the best with Key James Stewart and
and Catherine Hepburn. I mean, it's it's a classic. I love.
I still think Casablanca stands the test of time.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Oh, that's one of my favorites too, Mike.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
It is. You don't want to think coming together what I.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Think about when I see Casa Blanca. It's the political
system today. Excuse me, I see gambling here? Thank you, yeah, exactly,
here's your earning sir, Thank you, yeah, classic.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Why are you closing me down gambling?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Oh, here's your winning sir. Oh, thank you classic.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I just that movie was so good. And then and
then fast forward one of my all time favorites, The
Sound of Music. I mean, it's still guest grossing film,
a cinematic history, phenomenal story, like that's what we're trying,
we're trying to kind of.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
That's when people took their children to the to the movies.
It was the big Sunday, Big Saturday, Big Sunday.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Remember, Oh my gosh, I'll never forget seeing it. I
was I'm from Newport Beach, California, so in Fashion Island
at Edward's Cinema, which is still there. I'll never forget
being taken to it. I think it was relaunched, you know,
it was. You know, they're showing it again because this
is kind of before the video age too, And I'll
never forget watching it. And literally my life was changed,
(38:11):
you know, from it. And it's I'm not a musical guy,
but it was the story. It was Austria, which is
now one of my countries. It was the beautiful landscape,
you know, you know all of it, and the story
and just everything about it. I've been to Salzburg twice.
I've been to both places where it was filmed and
and what's so beautiful about it. Last time was in
Salzburg was probably about ten years ago, but it was unchanged,
(38:34):
like nothing like the the If you remember that scene
where they're walking up she's walking up that long sort
of dirt path, you know with the trees towards the gate,
you know, the house Julie Andrews, and it's kind of
that mustard color wall, and she gets to the gate
that looks exactly the same as it does when they
filmed it. Amazing, nothing's changed.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Never have those memories leave your mind when you watch
movies like that.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
And then let's ask forard to Star Wars. You know,
I was like eight years old and I saw it
thirteen times. That movie changed my life. And again I don't,
I don't. I'm not a sci fi guy. I'm not.
I'm not into Star Trek. But you look at Star
Wars and it's just And I've taught writing workshops and said, Look,
whether you like Star Wars or not, you look at
(39:19):
something that's been around for over fifty years now, and
as a seventy four billion dollar franchise, you have to
ask yourself, why what can we learn from Star Wars?
And I'll do like nine things you can learn from
Star Wars. Number one, it's an original story. Number two,
it's based on the three act structure. Number three, it's
the classic hero's journey. Number four. It's got great characters.
(39:41):
Number five, it's a wonderful adventure. Number six. It's got comedy,
which is really important. Right. It doesn't get any more
intense than Darth Vader, right, attacking this small ship killing men.
And yet you have this you know scene where all
the lasers are going back and forth and like R two,
D TWU and C three per walking through, you know,
and they do it beautifully just as a just as
(40:03):
a moment to catch your breath, just as a light humor.
You know. It's and it's triumph over tragedy. It's good
versus evil.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
I didn't know that was a high. That's a very
high number the franchise to be that many and many billions.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
You know, seventy four billion dollars franchise. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
What I like about Newport is the Balboa Club. I
like it down there. I stayed there a couple of times.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Yeah, that's neat. Yeah, that was my stomping grounds right
down there. Yeah. I think I took sailing lessons right
around that area. And yeah, it was a great life
to grow up.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Nice yachts in the backyard there, huh.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Yeah, my friend had one and uh not him, but
his parents and we would go over to Catalina.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
That was cool, beautiful yachts in the day. Yeah, but
the Blue Angels. The Blue Angels was staying there one
time when I was there a couple of days, so
it was fun having them stay in there. Also very nice.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Yeah, I think I'm they're flying in Florida right now.
My friend was posting some stuff on her Facebook, and
it's like those guys are just awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
But anyway, say no, I just I enjoyed the talk
very much, and me too.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Out I like it all the.
Speaker 4 (41:11):
Time, and come back and tell us more when you
have it to see.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Yeah, definitely. And I think like in the next six
to eight weeks, we've got a major We've hired a
PR company, so we've got a major marketing campaign that's
going to be rolling out, which you guys will probably
start to see through press releases and some marketing things.
But I'm hoping by you know, the next six eight weeks,
we've got some major announcements. I mean, once the once
we hit the tipping point, then there's no going back.
(41:37):
And so whether it's the director or the actor or something,
but we're we're locked and loaded, we're ready. It's not
none of this as if it's it's win and it will.
The release date will not be later than November twenty
twenty seven. We're shooting for twenty twenty six, but okay,
it will not be later than November twenty twenty seven.
(41:57):
Then after that you'll have a new Britfield and Lost
Crown movie or Britfield The Rise of the Lion every
two years, if not eighteen years. Yeah, so it's not
going to be a long draw. I'm like, we'll start
the script for book two probably in the next let's
say two to three months, and already have that in
the works, and so in eighteen months we've got to
finish script and ready to go for book book two,
(42:19):
and so there'll be a break from the cast, break
from the filming. But you know, for like maybe two
or three months, but then boom, we're in France shooting,
and there's just something wonderful and then wonderment about being
in the country. I get that we can film in
eastern Europe and there might be some scenes that we
do there. But as long as the government works with us,
I love the authenticity of it. It's it's to their benefit.
(42:41):
I can guarantee you when the movie comes out that
their tourism will increase by five to seven percent, which
is probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars. So, I mean,
everybody in the world's going to want to go visit
Oxford and Windsor and London and Saint Paul's Cathedral and
Hyde Park and all the locations that this takes place
at in Canterbury, you know, and so you know, to
(43:04):
have real places, real authenticicity all British actors. The same
thing with the French, you know, filming Book Book two
in France and Book three in Italy, you know, so
we you know, real quick, yeah, really just you know,
and it's and it's a celebration of culture. It's a
celebration of Europe. It's a celebration of history and people.
(43:26):
And that's what Britfield is all about. You know, it's
not criticizing people. You know, there's there's good and bad
and it's you know, like I don't criticize China. You
just have a very evil political system, you know what
I mean, and the usual suspects and criminals. But most
people are just great people, you know, caring, loving, you know,
just wanting to grow up and you know, get married
(43:48):
and have kids and want the best education for the
kids and the best life for the kids and have
a good job and and travel and just enjoy life.
That's that's people, you know. And so and you know
the couple is always trying to divide and conquer us
and put us against each other.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Exactly. We don't have we don't have Howard Johnson's anymore.
That was a great thing in a sixties. Remember Mike
traveling stopping at Howard Johnson's. How many flavors was the
ice cream? Eighteen or twenty? I forgot everyone flavors? Yeah? Great,
Well you you have an open invitation anytime, you know,
to come on and talk about love you all right?
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Well, great, hey, thank you so much. I always appreciate
your support and a great book series for you know,
your audience, for kids, for grandkids, a great graduation gift,
and fifty five percent of our reading audience or adults
youngest readers seven oldest readers ninety three.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
There you go, Mike and Meyer. Okay, we're getting closest
to the oldest reading are we might?
Speaker 3 (44:48):
I'll tell you real quick. I was doing a fun
presentation in Republican Women's group last week, which I don't
normally do anymore because I'm just so busy. But it
was a friend of a friend, and I'm like, okay,
and it was a great group of Nothing is more
exciting than being in a room of patriotic women. I
mean they were on fire and about eighty one hundred
of them. But I had an eighty three year old
(45:08):
woman come up afterwards. She goes, I just kind had
to tell you how much I love your Britfield series.
She goes, I just finished book two and she said
it was fantastic, And I thought, how cool is that?
You know what I mean? I just love that. I'm
and that's I'm doing a lot of what C. S.
Lewis was doing. C. S. Lewis created the Narnia series
for adults. People don't realize that it became one of
(45:30):
the best selling children's series, but he created it for
adults because he wanted adult step to be able to
read a fun, fast paced adventure series and almost kind
of returned to youth, remember what it was like growing
up and being a child in the wonderment of experiences,
and so that's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Well, Thank you, ch Chad Steward, thank you so much
for coming on Mikes and you're welcome back anytime.
Speaker 3 (45:53):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Thank you alrighty
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