September 30, 2024 • 34 mins
Today, The Two Mikes welcomed back Chad Stewart, the author of the Britfield series of novels -- and soon movies -- for middle-schoolers.
Mr. Stewart reported that the fourth book in his series -- titled Britfield and the Eastern Empire -- will be published in 2025, just as the lead characters -- Tom and Sarah -- reach age 15 and are learning the pros and cons of modernity as they are found in such things as AI and digital currencies.
The first installment of seven Britfield movies also is scheduled to go into pre-production in November, 2026. Mr. Stewart noted that the movie will be set in the Christmas season. Mr. Stewart also said that the first three books in the series continue to do very well, and began to be published in Britain in June 2024.
The books also are being translated and published in Polish; the first volume is already in book shops. Other foreign publishers are planning to publish the books in additional languages. Mr. Stewart said that the first three volumes of the series continue to sell well and are being used by teachers in an increasing number of schools -- now numbering in the thousands -- in the United States. Just as important, Mr. Stewart said that he continues to receive letters from parents explaining how much their middle-schoolers enjoy the books and how much they learn from them.
Often, the parents also say how much they enjoyed the books. Mr. Stewart noted that he and his crew love hearing this kind of thing because the Britfield series is meant to provide a positive experience for children and families to help counteract many of the current books for youngsters which often feature negativity, poor conduct, and leave the child disconnected from reality, feeling less than what he or she is because of a lack of superpowers or some other non-existent attribute, and often poison young minds with cultism or other deranged ideas.
The websites for Mr. Stewart's Britfield projects are: https://www.britfield.com/ and https://www.britfieldinstitute.org/
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Mr. Stewart reported that the fourth book in his series -- titled Britfield and the Eastern Empire -- will be published in 2025, just as the lead characters -- Tom and Sarah -- reach age 15 and are learning the pros and cons of modernity as they are found in such things as AI and digital currencies.
The first installment of seven Britfield movies also is scheduled to go into pre-production in November, 2026. Mr. Stewart noted that the movie will be set in the Christmas season. Mr. Stewart also said that the first three books in the series continue to do very well, and began to be published in Britain in June 2024.
The books also are being translated and published in Polish; the first volume is already in book shops. Other foreign publishers are planning to publish the books in additional languages. Mr. Stewart said that the first three volumes of the series continue to sell well and are being used by teachers in an increasing number of schools -- now numbering in the thousands -- in the United States. Just as important, Mr. Stewart said that he continues to receive letters from parents explaining how much their middle-schoolers enjoy the books and how much they learn from them.
Often, the parents also say how much they enjoyed the books. Mr. Stewart noted that he and his crew love hearing this kind of thing because the Britfield series is meant to provide a positive experience for children and families to help counteract many of the current books for youngsters which often feature negativity, poor conduct, and leave the child disconnected from reality, feeling less than what he or she is because of a lack of superpowers or some other non-existent attribute, and often poison young minds with cultism or other deranged ideas.
The websites for Mr. Stewart's Britfield projects are: https://www.britfield.com/ and https://www.britfieldinstitute.org/
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he's doing, and some of our guests as well. Already,
(01:40):
so let's go right to it. Welcome back Chad Stewart
the Britfield series.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Here he is on the screen. Welcome back Chad.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Nice to see you again.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Nice to see you and we'll hear you and thanks
again for having me back. Always a pleasure.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
All right, let's let's let's hit it off. Now you're
talking about stuff in the modern times. This is like
a a non fiction series coming up. Also, you do
in the movie, so we want to touch that on
this interview. Want to touch on the movie.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So started off ahead.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, we're getting ready to launch Brittfield in the Eastern Empire.
This is book four of the seven book Brittfield series.
And excited. It's amazing. This one has really really taken
quite a bit of time and effort, more so than
I think the other books did. Yet ironically it's coming
in at four hundred and thirty seven pages, which is
a remarkable. Book three, which I launched in September twenty
(02:31):
twenty two. It was five hundred and seventy five pages.
But it's kind of our new model for the next
four books, and it's two things that have changed. I'm
trying to shoot for four hundred and fifty pages just
to keep it tighter, and I'm also including a lot
of countries. And so it's fun about Book four Britfield
in the Eastern Empires that it starts in Vienna, moves
its way to Broadislava, comes into Prague, beautiful scene at
(02:53):
Prague and the castle there, and lots of action and adventure,
and then it goes on to crack Cow, Warsaw, Berlin,
the Baltic Ocean or Baltic Sea, Lithuania, Estonia, parts of Budapest,
and then the last third of the book is in Russia,
starts in Saint Petersburg and ends in Moscow. And so
in book four we actually include eleven different countries, which
(03:16):
is part of a new model. It's difficult every time
you come into a country, you have to sort of like,
you know, have a little bit of an introduction and
description of it. And all these books are really just
to highlight the beauty of the country and countries and
the world and people and architecture and history and art
and all that wonderment and culture. And then in book
(03:37):
four we really deal with There's always It always takes
place over about seven days and sort of starting on
the action, ending on the action. And what we've done
with every book too, is the main characters, Thomas Sarah,
are always growing by one year. So now in book
four they're coming into fifteen years old, and it takes
place in April, spring of current time, if you will.
(03:59):
And some of the themes that we're bringing in is
quantum computers, quantum encryption, the dangers of AI, the idea
of introducing a one world digital currency, and a lot
of other issues and topics. We talk about the Fiat
currency system in the banking industry. We talk about CCT
(04:19):
cameras and how countries, some countries have you know, two
cameras for every person, and they're not just about digital images.
They can pick up, you know, fifteen or twenty different markers,
which is part of the reason for social media, because
that's what they've done, been collecting all this information, your voice,
your eyes, the way you move, the way you talk.
So I could be wearing a mask and a big
(04:41):
jacket walking down the street and they could just buy
my sheer movements and other things. They could actually find
out that it's me. So these are kind of some
of the things that we sort of blend into the
book series. It's not heavy, you know, it's a little description,
but it's nice because it's real, it's really happening behind
the scenes. It's important to know and it fits the
narrative of the.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
How many languages do you have it in? Now?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
We really have it in Polish, but we're looking at
eighteen other countries. That's a great question. So we just
Book one, two and three has now been translated into
Polish by a major publisher out of Poland. Book one
that had record sales when it was launched last year.
I think they've just launched book two and they're getting
ready to launch book three now. We just picked up
(05:24):
potentially India. Can you imagine that India for the Midfield series,
And we're supposed to be locking that in at the
Frankfurt Book Fair in October. We're about to lock in
South Korea and Japan. That'll be huge and South Korea
will be our beachhead for Asia, just as Poland is
our beachhead for Eastern Europe and all that will tie
into our global tours, which we can talk about. We'll
(05:47):
officially be launching those next year.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I drew very well in Thailand because Harry Potter went
through the roof in Thailand big time.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah, I think you're asking, Yeah, we've done you know,
I'm a strategist by nature searcher and and so you
know we've I've been this. I mean, this is a
global series. It's never sort of been just sort of
a fun, you know, local series or national series. This
is a global, timeless, classic series that resonates with people,
demographics and audiences worldwide. And so you know, we've done
(06:17):
our research, everything as a plan really for the last
five and a half years. So last time I was
on the show, it's really been a soft release, and
as of July of this year, we went global and
so now we're really rolling out the series. So we've
spent about almost six six years building the brand, getting
things ready, testing the market. But I agree, I think
(06:38):
I think we'll go through the rook in Japan. I
think it'll be a huge best seller in Japan just
based on sort of the demographics, the nature, the culture.
I just think this thing is going to catch like wildfire.
I think it'll do very well in South Korea. I
agree with you on We also have another publisher in
Indonesia and in in Vietnam, of all places, so I
(07:02):
think we'll do very well in Asia. I think this
thing will be huge in India. I think we'll do
well in Eastern Europe, and we are supposed to be
locking in France. And it's funny too, because I think
we'll do okay in France and Book two takes place
in France. But I just you know, I'm being honest.
It's not like we'll do well everywhere, and I could
be wrong. I think we'll do exceptionally well in Germany.
(07:24):
I think we'll do okay in Italy, and yet Book
three takes place in Italy. We'll do okay in Spain,
and we have a Spanish publisher that's interested. We actually
have another one in Portugal that's interested, so it's interesting. Yeah,
and I think we'll do great in South America.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
So that's fantastic, Mike.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, and the movies on the way too.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Yes, Yes, very excited. We just transitioned or just just
moved into pre production. Here's a finished final draft Britfield's script.
This is what two hundred and fifty thousand dollars looks like.
That's like the going rate really and that's actually a good,
good price. That's really about a five hundred thousand dollars
movie script. So and that was that was fifteen months
(08:06):
of time. And we've been in development for the movie
for over two years, if you can imagine, and everyone
kind of talks about, oh, we're in development. No, I mean,
We've been working on it every single day. I've been
talking to my producer almost every week regarding the movie.
But this thing's huge, you know. And once we once
we lock in and get that sort of first Britfield
movie done, then it's just quick transition. We'll be launching
(08:28):
a new movie every two years period.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
How for the first movie, what do you think? What
are you looking at before the first movie?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
We're looking at realistically, we're looking at November twenty twenty six,
but I don't think I don't think it'll be pushed
beyond that marker. I'm hoping to be filming in spring
or summer at the latest in England next year for
the first movie, which gives us plenty of time and
even if we roll that into the fall, we still
have plenty of time for pre production and then rolling
(08:56):
it out in November of twenty twenty six. For many reasons,
is especially with book one, Brittfield and Lost Crown, it
takes place in December, seven days before Christmas, so, believe
it or not, it's a beautiful, wonderful holiday movie. Part
of that was by design because every year, guess what
you're gonna be pulling out and watching with elf and
it's a miracle, you know, or whatever. It's a James
(09:18):
Stewart movie. It's a wonderful life. Sorry, so you'd be
pulling out the Britfield movie because it fits that narrative,
and it's and it's during Christmas time and it really
is just this wonderful family adventures. So so we're excited.
We're going to be reaching out over the next eight
weeks to a couple of our selected directors names you
(09:38):
would know very well, very very successful directors that have
been involved in major box office films and are are
great with adaptations of books and are good with working
with kids. Without giving too many secrets away there, and
then we have our list of all our British actors
(09:59):
and so make about that. So we'll see, we'll see
who we can get. And often it's not that someone
isn't interested, they're just locked in for like, you know,
three years, and so you have to kind of move
on because we can't wait for them. So we'll see.
But the cast will be very key because most of
the main actors come back and so they'll be part
of this whole series. And so to me, it's very
attractive because it's not only does the series travel around
(10:22):
the world, the film series, because we'll be shooting in France,
and then we'll be shooting in Italy, right and and
then Eastern Europe, and it's like, how cool is that?
Real places, real time. Will actually start writing script number
two for Britfield and The Rise of the Lion next year,
probably in March or April. So the point is is
like we're already pulling that trigger and getting that thing ready. Stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
So I have been really well organized, really well organized.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
And it is that is a key word organized, Right,
That's a whole other subject really, because everyone's busy today, right,
but no one's productive, right, I mean, no one's no
one's no one's accomplishing anything. There's a there's a indifference,
a sliver of indifference out there. But anyway, yeah, but
it's it's exciting and it's funny because it's like for me,
the movie. It's always been about the movie, but I've
(11:10):
had to hold back because there's just nothing you can
do until that timing is right. And even from writing
Book one, it was always about the movie. Ninety percent
of the feedback that we receive, you know, globally, I
mean everything from across the nation to Germany, to South Africa,
to Brazil, to Australia to New Zealand. I mean, this
(11:31):
is kind of type of feedback we get. They say
it reads like a movie. You feel like you're in it.
You feel like you're there, which is a great compliment.
And part of that, you know, is my style and
by design. My background as a writer was in scriptwriting,
so gosh, you know, twenty or thirty years of script
writing and then you roll into you know, novel. It's
just it's a beautiful bit and classics. So and the.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Graphics are great. I mean, we're looking behind you. I
love these graphics. Your book covers are unbelievable, they really
really And then when you click on your website. You
have that little video of you know, the the hot
air balloon. I was going to ask you, if we
get a clip, we'll put it up when we put
the show. We could put it on our blog, you know,
if we get to it's beautiful, I mean the whole thing.
(12:16):
It's attractive for children, but it's also attractive for adults.
Don't you agree, Mike.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Oh, I think that you're going to have the same
kind of success and much more, being much more worthy
of it than that other big series of children's books.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
The botty goal is to really outsell them, and one
in particular that's not very good for children. But no,
thank you for the graphics. And that's Tiffany's my graphic designer.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Tell her she is just fab I love watching when
I see your stuff pop up, I'm like wow. By
the way, I also did email a friend of ours
who's a friend of Mike's in Poland, who's a good reporter,
and I said to contact you'll get on his podcast,
Mike's Pot. He's Mike also and h but he had
(13:07):
a little something go on in the family, so he
probably didn't contact you yet, but hopefully you get on
his show and he's in Poland, so it'd be great
for you, you know, to get in that audience.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
You know, he is a big Yeah, I would love
to do that. In fact, we we're coordinating a little
bit with a publicist through my literary agent to starting
to promote Poland and stuff. And it's all my intention
to do that. That's part of what the global trips
will be like. So in March of next year, I'll
be I'll be in Britain for about three to four weeks,
right around the London Book Fair. But it'll be a
(13:38):
lot of fun because we just oh yeah, so we
we have a wonderful distributor now in Britain, and so
we officially launched the trilogy in Britain in June, and
so it's rolling out across the country to all the
schools and retail and bookstores. Believe it or not, there's
twelve hundred independent bookstores just in Britain and I find
that fascinating because there's there's only sixteen in the US.
(14:01):
So it's like that's a lot of independent bookstore. It's
like every little town and village must have a bookstore,
which is cool and it's and they've always been known
as a as a reading public. They're they're like two
to one, so you know, for every hour we read here,
they read two hours and stuff. So uh. And then
there the books are being published or printed in Cornwall
in England, so we've got a great printer there and
(14:23):
we just got done with a publicity campaign for four
weeks and so we're kind of you know, it's kind
of pushing it out, kind of rolling it out, and
then really it's going to be sort of January we're
going to really hit it hard. And then I'll be
there in March, starting up in Yorkshire, which would be fun,
coming to some schools and bookstores and just just the
world of Britfield and get kids excited. And this will
(14:43):
kick off an eighteen month worldwide tour for Britfield, the
series and the movie.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
And it's nothing suitcase for eighteen months, huh.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
How could you coming back and forth and stuff of course.
But and then Eastern Europe will be in will be
in Eastern Europe for ideally in the fall of next year,
and we'll be in Eastern Europe for eight weeks and
see Poland will be our platform. I'll be in Poland
for three weeks just working it and then you know,
cruising and driving through the rest of the countries and
(15:14):
so again, you know, politics, things have all kind of
held everything off. But I feel everything is all this tension,
if you will, is going to be coming to a
conclusion in the next six weeks, if not sooner. So,
but we're excited. I mean, this is Bridfield, is this
generation's book series. And what we're trying to do is
we're really trying to elevate literature with really edifying stories,
(15:36):
a family focus, not all this nonsense of Demigod's superheroes, witchcraft, vampires,
everything and anything but reality. Right, And these things do
three things, and it's all by design. This isn't by accident,
and it's this isn't what the industry wants. It's just
when you have six corporations that own ninety six percent
of the industry, they choose what you're going to read
(15:58):
and watch. Technically, but it's not a popular, necessarily brand.
It's just the only thing out there. And so it
does three things. It disconnects kids from reality. Number two,
makes them feel less than they are. Can you imagine
that reading books and making it just making you feel
weaker and less because you know, if you just had superpowers,
if you just had a wand. And I think every
(16:18):
child is amazing. I think every child is extraordinary. I
think every child is born with amazing talents and creativity.
They just need to be fostered and nurtured. And number
three eight of these books sort of poison the mind
with really a cultic type of things that aren't really
healthy for children to be reading.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So well, Chad, That's why I'd never watched some of
these shows on TV where they have a you know,
like a cookie show or something, and you just go
there and they just humiliate the crap out of you,
you know, when your cookies and they're like well, and
I'm like, who are these people? You just did the
best job you could. Why did you eat the food
and taste it? You know what I mean? Like, why
would you go on a show just to be humiliated?
(16:57):
Whether it's singing, whether it's cookie. You know, I turned
to dollar. When I see something like that, I'm like, Okay,
thank you, goodbye.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yeah, and again too, most of those things are all
all orchestrated, if you will. Yeah, even like the you know,
the Pickers show and stuff, and oh my gosh, look
what I found. It's all set up, it's all orchestrated.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yees yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Are you going to try to do the same things
with schools in Britain and in Poland and in other places?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Oh yeah, I mean the schools have always been our
beachhead and so like in the United States, we're already
in thousands of schools across the nation. We're being taught
in hundreds of schools across the nation. We have a
eighty three page study guide based on academic standards that's
actually free for teachers and homeschoolers. If you go to
(17:51):
Britfield Institute dot org look under resource it's it's a
thirty dollars value. But it's our design to be in.
You know, there's one hundred and twenty elementary middle schools
in the United States. It's our goal to be in
at least ninety percent of them in the next ten years.
And really just you know, having Britfield as the staple,
as one of the staples, one of the key books
that they're teaching, because it's designed to be taught. It's
(18:13):
a beautiful story, it's based on family and friendship, but
it's very educational. We include maps in every book, and
so children can be learning about all these things like
history and art, architecture and culture. But it's interesting, it's
not boring, if you will, and it's not based in fantasy.
You're not learning anything from Harry Potter. You're not learning
anything from Twilight series or the Hunger Games? Are you
(18:34):
kidding me? Kids hunting kids and killing them for food.
I mean, it's just that's horrible. It's suspicable. There's nothing
cool about that.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, oh, Chad, I want to ask you a question.
What helped the Chad I'm bere Okay, I watched. I
want to ask you. You have something going on in Arizona.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you. It's out there.
In October tenth through the fourteenth, we have a bunch
of Britfield events. We're gonna be presenting to a women's
group at the oh A Foothills Country Club or something
I think on Thursday afternoon, which will be fun in
front of about I don't know, sixty to eighty women.
(19:20):
And then we have a huge Britfield event Friday night,
which if you're in Arizona and can attend, let us know,
and it'll be a lot of a lot of fun
and then we're reading with some sort of heavy hitters,
and a lot of this started kind of in the
end of May. I mean, Arizona is a whole nother story.
The corruption there, unfortunately is at a high time, and
(19:41):
the educational system, the schools are are some of the lowest.
I think they're ranked, you know, number forty eight in
the nation even lower. Yeah, it's pretty bad. And again
by design, none of the stuff's an accident. None of
this is mismanagement. They've managed it so it would be
that way. And so what we're trying to do really
is impact Arizona right now, just through some of our
(20:03):
contacts along with other states, but we're really focused there.
We're trying to get into some of the educational systems
and districts. We've already coordinated and talked to a lot
of key figures on the upper echelons that are conservative,
that don't want to be selling bunk to their kids
and bringing in this filth. And this will be an
interesting election because hopefully a lot of these parasites will
(20:26):
be removed from them.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, we agree with you, that's right. By the way,
these these these pictures behind you, are you selling posters
giving away. How does this work? I mean with these
graphics book covers.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Yeah, we we probably should sell the other ones. We
do sell Brittfield Lost Crown, that's the classic right behind me.
And it's always fun. I've got to I've got to
do one today and sign it and send it off
to And I did one for a children's kid's birthday.
Did They didn't even order it. They ordered like the
trilogy and I threw in the poster and can you
imagine being twelve years old and getting that, you know,
and hanging them. It's just it's so cool. So but no,
(21:04):
they're amazing. That's book four. That's Feel in the Eastern Empire.
That's Tomas Sarah and they're now fifteen years old. Out
the window that's the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and
around this table looking at these old architectural plans because
they've got to. They're planning to break into the Hermitage
and steal a Britfield artifact that was stolen from the
(21:26):
Britfields by the Romanovs, you know, centuries before. So really cool.
It's just really cool stuff, you know. But and it's
they're very distinct too, you know, Book one, I love,
I Love always the lightning and everything. Book one takes
place in December, Thomasarah twelve years old, so it's a
lot of kind of fun you could see with that.
Book two is that takes place in July and Thomas
(21:51):
Sarah thirteen takes place in France, and it's the Eiffel Tower,
which is really cool. They're kind of hanging off of
it because they were climbing out there. They're mean chased.
And then book where you can see off to the
other side. That's that's the the Saint Peter's Basilica in
uh in Rome, and it's like all three images are
by this big metal you know, fence looking at it,
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and I love it because it's it's very sort of
subtle yet powerful. And I love that one. And then
obviously now with number four, it's like they're a little
bit older now they're inside not outside. It's bright, it's cheerful,
if you will. It takes place in April. So all
the books are very very specific. They all take place
during different seasons. And and then the cover, if you will,
the spine, you know, Book one is dark blue, so
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that represents sort of winter, but it also represents the
royal blue of the British Empire. Book two, which is
really cool. Oh if I had it, it has that
it has that royal French yellow kind of under the
Napoleon era, and it also represents summer. And then and
then Book three is the burgundy it represents October, but
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also that sort of medici and then Book four is
the royal light blue of the Russian flag, which represents spring.
So anyway, yeah, now.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
You really to put a lot of work into this.
How long I mean you had this in your mind somewhere.
How long did it take to develop in your mind
to put the series together?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah? When I started it back in golly, let me see,
so I started it ten years prior to nineteen twenty nineteen,
so almost like twenty ten. It was when I had
the idea for it. Book one took me four years
twenty five hundred hours just to write. From concept to launching,
it was over ten years of building the team, raising
capital because this wasn't just selling books out of your garage,
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and this wasn't just sort of, you know, selling a
couple thousand books. This is this is the next quarter
of a century of my life and This is really
sort of a paradigm shift in literature and media, and
it's taking a stand and putting back quality content that
doesn't happen overnight. And we've got deep roots, we've built
great teams, we've got wonderful partnerships, and you don't need
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anyone's permission, you know, we don't need the industry's permission
that doesn't know anything about publishing or writing to begin with.
Stuff they put out there is just crap, you know,
and most of it's false. So in these New York
Times bestsellers, and you give me a break. So it's
a lot of work, and it's been a long run.
But when I was writing book one, I was only
thinking one book. When I finished it, I thought, hey,
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this will be fun three book series. I was thinking.
I was always thinking England, France, and Italy. Kind of
nice balance there. And then by the time I got
into two and three, I'm like, this is a seven
book series worldwide, and what's nice about it is book four,
I'm sorry. Book five will take place in Asia, starting
in South Korea, and then book six will take place
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in South America, probably starting in Brazil. And then I
bring back the series and end it with book seven
in the United States, and now Thomas therea eighteen years old,
so that's sort of seven books starting at twelve years
old and then ending up at eighteen. It's also beautiful
and this sort of global tour. I mean, his kids
are reading the series, whether they like it or not,
whether they know it or not. They're learning about history
and architecture and maps and geography and all this wonderful stuff.
(25:13):
And so I'm educating the next generation of kids with
a fact.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
You know, I took my son. I took my son
out of school when he was in elementary school to
travel in Asia when I was working in Asia, because
I couldn't, you know, I couldn't take care of him.
So you know, I just pulled him out of school
and I said, just give me his homework. I'll have
somebody do it with him. And the teachers during that
time would say, no, he doesn't have any homework, just
let him come back and tell us what he experienced,
(25:39):
because they said it was amazing Chad. They said most
children would never ever see what he's going to see
and listen, and you know, and when he came back,
you know, he had to do a stand in front
of a classroom and say what he did. He had
pictures and so on, but I was amazed they didn't
care about the math or anything. Is wonderful and he
had some fabulous stories. I mean, he was in the
(26:01):
royal Palace in Thailand, he met with the King of Thailand.
You know, he saw all these elephant adventures and traveled
and was like, wow, you really had a great trip.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I absolutely love that story. I will be very surprised
to see as you as your son grows, how that
influence impacted him, whether he gets into, you know, global politics,
whether he gets into Asian studies, whether he becomes a
historian in Asia. Yeah, I mean, it'll just be very
(26:34):
interesting because stuff is so so powerful to take your
kids on trips and on vacations and not everybody to
go to Asia, but I mean, just get him out
of the house on the weekends and do fun things
and drive up the coast if you're in California, go
to the Rocky Mountains and in the snowballs and check
out streams if you're in Colorado. There's just absolutely no
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excuse for parents not to do this with the kids
because it will impact them for the rest of their
lives that I can remember these these stale industrial institution,
communistic institutions called public school system for forty hours a week.
They're I can remember any of that stuff, and I
can remember the chalkboard, and I can remember the tests,
all that stuff nonsense. But they will remember those adventures,
(27:18):
those trips to the to the library, to the museum
to look at artwork and pick your favorite painting and
tell me why, and then go out and get a hamburger.
You know. I mean, they'll they'll be eighteen or twenty
two years old going.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I remember, like every month my mom and dad or
my dad or my mom would take me to the
museum and we just look at one or two rooms
and we've done I look at every painting and I'd
pick my favorite one and then I tell her why
and I and we talk about it and discuss it
and then gosh, we went out for the best burger
I've ever had. Those are the kind of stories you
need to create with them. Oh that's the kind of impact.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Yeah, well go ahead, go ahead, yeah, jad I you
mentioned the Ladies Club in I have the information, Mike,
I have it, no, but I mentioned I just wanted
to mention, are you are you trying to work with
ladies clubs?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Because we live in a county that's the poorest.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
In Virginia and there's a very strong Ladies club and
a network of them in Virginia that do an enormous
amount of good for schools, whether it's providing books, providing lecturers,
providing homeschoolers with information such as you mentioned with your books.
(28:26):
Is there a place on your website for people to
go and look at that?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
You could go through the Britfield Institute dot org. But
if you wanted to contact me directly with that information
or have them contact me, I'd be more than happy
to dedicate some sign Brittfield books to underprivileged children. That's really, that's, frankly,
what I'm all about. Oh, that's what. That's what Brittfield's
(28:51):
all about. I can't wait to get I can't wait
to get to the point where we're giving away thousands
of scholarships to underprivileged, dedicating tens of thous and if
not hundreds of thousands of books to schools. That's the
big picture, really, and we'll get there and we're close.
But with that said too, I could do some fun
things for homeschool groups or title on schools where I
(29:12):
could come in. We call it a virtual author visit
and we do a little mini workshop. So there's a
lot of things I could do and contribute and help
to inspire those kids. So just let me know. That's
where my heart is.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
So whoa excellent we'll get I'll give Mike the contact,
I'll get a little for you and you guys can connect.
I also have a library that I'm close to. It's
a portable library. You know. They do a lot of
Civil War series and things like that. Last week they
had a reenactment of Mark Twain on the West Coast
for about twenty six kids from elementary school, which really cool. Yeah. Really,
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he couldn't.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Like the cigar.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
He lit the match, but he couldn't like the cigar.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Oh really, Oh Jesus funny. He had a white suit.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
And oh the guy was totally he was in you know,
he was in the in the costume. He had the
wig and the mustache, and that he had the decanter
for the liquor, you know, the crystal decanta taking a drink.
You know, it was fabulous. I stood there and watched
it for forty minutes was tremendous.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Oh boy, that's that's really cool. That'd be a good biography.
I haven't read about Twain yet. I brought a time awesome,
he'd be a good one. Yeah. Yeah, he said so
much impact, so much influence. It's interesting too. As a
side note about Twain is that I read the biography
on Grant Ulysses Grant and yeah, great biography is like
(30:35):
eight nine hundred pages. To me, that's a biography I
like to dig in. And it was interesting too because
he did you know, he's a president for eight years
and very successful in many ways. A lot of a
lot of the things under the presidency were just undermining
by the usual suspects. But he was incredible. He was
an incredible person. He is a ragster richest story, but
then obviously had some bad investments and was almost bankrupt
(30:59):
and developed throat broke cancer because he smoked so many cigars.
And it was on his porch when one day a
gentleman dressed in a white suit walked up and said,
are you interested in doing a biography on yourself? And
that was Twain. And it was because of Mark Twain
and the biography of Grant that he was able to
(31:19):
leave his family with money and that they weren't poppers.
So interesting story.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yes, yeah, he's the only other one I did. The
only biography I did that was seven hundred plus pages
was Lee Kwan You Leekwanu of Singapore, which was a
tremendous man, not just for Asia, but what he did
with Singapore is just an I read that book in
three days, wow, which I could never do again.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Well, when it's good, it's good, and when it flows,
it flows. And I find the best nonfiction writers are
those that actually write fiction, because in writing fiction, you understand,
you really understand story, and you understand narrative, and moving
that narrative verse is just a sort of clunky nonfiction book,
if that makes sense. I'm just wrapping up a thousand
page biography on Churchill, so that's been big, almost too
(32:10):
much information, frankly, but anyway.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Mike wrapped it up you and also, go ahead, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
I agree this story with Twain and Grant. I think
Grant he kind of pushed the ailing Grant along or
guided him or just encouraged him. And I think Grant
died a day or two after he finished the memoirs.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
That's probably correct. Yeah, and at that time he was
very disillusioned. Grant was. Yeah, I mean, because it's like
he lost his money and and it's you know, he
got a lot of negative feedback from his presidency, and
obviously he was dying of throat cancer and and and
the big thing is, I mean he was a man's man,
and he really wanted to leave his wife and his kids,
you know, property and some money so they could live
(32:54):
on it. And so I mean he was feeling miserable.
And yeah, so it's a really cool story.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
It is, and it's the book is a although it's
about the Civil War, it's a story a great.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Oh it is. Yeah, it is. That's how every biography
should be, you know, I'll be honest, Like to this day.
One of the best nonfiction books I read was the
nineteen ninety five The Making of the Atomic Bomb by
Richard Rhodes, Pullet's Prize. I think it's pult surprize winning book.
But it's like eight hundred and ninety pages or something
(33:24):
based on the making of the atomic bomb, which which
really in some ways could be very boring. I mean
it's like it sounds interesting, it's like, but it was
like it was so well written, and and you look
at half the books he writes, he writes fiction. And
that was at that time that I sort of made
that connection, if you will, of people that write really
well nonfiction are those that can also write fiction because
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it's a nice blend of story and movement. And like
you said, it's always a story, no matter what you're
doing as a story. That's why, like so many documentary
films fail because they kind of think it's like it's
a documentary and it's just the facts and roll the
camera and it's like, no, it's out at all. You're
telling a story. It's always a story. It's three acts structure,
it's fast paced. It doesn't need to drag on. It
doesn't matter if it's a drama it needs to be
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fast paced. Doesn't matter if it's a comedy, needs to
be fast paced. So few really understand the essence of story.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
So all right, there we go, Chad Stewart, welcome back,
and thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
You are a great story sir. Every time we hear
it from you, it's it's a pleasure to have you.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Well, thank you well, great to be on and and
a blessing and yeah, just to your audience. You know,
looking forward to connecting and you know the Brickfield series
is great for all ages. Our youngest readers seven or
oldest readers ninety three, and fifty five percent of our
reading audience are adults, so it's a great gift. It's
a wonderful book to read for your kids, for your grandkids,
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Speaker 3 (34:49):
Thank you, we will.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Ched, thank you for coming back.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
God bless
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Speaker 3 (01:17):
Hey, welcome back around with two Mikes, Doctor Michael, Showy
and Colonel Mike. Before we get to today's guests, which
we're happy to have back on more news. Oh, you're
gonna want to get more books for the kids, trust me,
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will update it with some of Michael's interviews and what
he's doing, and some of our guests as well. Already,
(01:40):
so let's go right to it. Welcome back Chad Stewart
the Britfield series.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Here he is on the screen. Welcome back Chad.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Nice to see you again.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Nice to see you and we'll hear you and thanks
again for having me back. Always a pleasure.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
All right, let's let's let's hit it off. Now you're
talking about stuff in the modern times. This is like
a a non fiction series coming up. Also, you do
in the movie, so we want to touch that on
this interview. Want to touch on the movie.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So started off ahead.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, we're getting ready to launch Brittfield in the Eastern Empire.
This is book four of the seven book Brittfield series.
And excited. It's amazing. This one has really really taken
quite a bit of time and effort, more so than
I think the other books did. Yet ironically it's coming
in at four hundred and thirty seven pages, which is
a remarkable. Book three, which I launched in September twenty
(02:31):
twenty two. It was five hundred and seventy five pages.
But it's kind of our new model for the next
four books, and it's two things that have changed. I'm
trying to shoot for four hundred and fifty pages just
to keep it tighter, and I'm also including a lot
of countries. And so it's fun about Book four Britfield
in the Eastern Empires that it starts in Vienna, moves
its way to Broadislava, comes into Prague, beautiful scene at
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Prague and the castle there, and lots of action and adventure,
and then it goes on to crack Cow, Warsaw, Berlin,
the Baltic Ocean or Baltic Sea, Lithuania, Estonia, parts of Budapest,
and then the last third of the book is in Russia,
starts in Saint Petersburg and ends in Moscow. And so
in book four we actually include eleven different countries, which
(03:16):
is part of a new model. It's difficult every time
you come into a country, you have to sort of like,
you know, have a little bit of an introduction and
description of it. And all these books are really just
to highlight the beauty of the country and countries and
the world and people and architecture and history and art
and all that wonderment and culture. And then in book
(03:37):
four we really deal with There's always It always takes
place over about seven days and sort of starting on
the action, ending on the action. And what we've done
with every book too, is the main characters, Thomas Sarah,
are always growing by one year. So now in book
four they're coming into fifteen years old, and it takes
place in April, spring of current time, if you will.
(03:59):
And some of the themes that we're bringing in is
quantum computers, quantum encryption, the dangers of AI, the idea
of introducing a one world digital currency, and a lot
of other issues and topics. We talk about the Fiat
currency system in the banking industry. We talk about CCT
(04:19):
cameras and how countries, some countries have you know, two
cameras for every person, and they're not just about digital images.
They can pick up, you know, fifteen or twenty different markers,
which is part of the reason for social media, because
that's what they've done, been collecting all this information, your voice,
your eyes, the way you move, the way you talk.
So I could be wearing a mask and a big
(04:41):
jacket walking down the street and they could just buy
my sheer movements and other things. They could actually find
out that it's me. So these are kind of some
of the things that we sort of blend into the
book series. It's not heavy, you know, it's a little description,
but it's nice because it's real, it's really happening behind
the scenes. It's important to know and it fits the
narrative of the.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
How many languages do you have it in? Now?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
We really have it in Polish, but we're looking at
eighteen other countries. That's a great question. So we just
Book one, two and three has now been translated into
Polish by a major publisher out of Poland. Book one
that had record sales when it was launched last year.
I think they've just launched book two and they're getting
ready to launch book three now. We just picked up
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potentially India. Can you imagine that India for the Midfield series,
And we're supposed to be locking that in at the
Frankfurt Book Fair in October. We're about to lock in
South Korea and Japan. That'll be huge and South Korea
will be our beachhead for Asia, just as Poland is
our beachhead for Eastern Europe and all that will tie
into our global tours, which we can talk about. We'll
(05:47):
officially be launching those next year.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I drew very well in Thailand because Harry Potter went
through the roof in Thailand big time.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah, I think you're asking, Yeah, we've done you know,
I'm a strategist by nature searcher and and so you
know we've I've been this. I mean, this is a
global series. It's never sort of been just sort of
a fun, you know, local series or national series. This
is a global, timeless, classic series that resonates with people,
demographics and audiences worldwide. And so you know, we've done
(06:17):
our research, everything as a plan really for the last
five and a half years. So last time I was
on the show, it's really been a soft release, and
as of July of this year, we went global and
so now we're really rolling out the series. So we've
spent about almost six six years building the brand, getting
things ready, testing the market. But I agree, I think
(06:38):
I think we'll go through the rook in Japan. I
think it'll be a huge best seller in Japan just
based on sort of the demographics, the nature, the culture.
I just think this thing is going to catch like wildfire.
I think it'll do very well in South Korea. I
agree with you on We also have another publisher in
Indonesia and in in Vietnam, of all places, so I
(07:02):
think we'll do very well in Asia. I think this
thing will be huge in India. I think we'll do
well in Eastern Europe, and we are supposed to be
locking in France. And it's funny too, because I think
we'll do okay in France and Book two takes place
in France. But I just you know, I'm being honest.
It's not like we'll do well everywhere, and I could
be wrong. I think we'll do exceptionally well in Germany.
(07:24):
I think we'll do okay in Italy, and yet Book
three takes place in Italy. We'll do okay in Spain,
and we have a Spanish publisher that's interested. We actually
have another one in Portugal that's interested, so it's interesting. Yeah,
and I think we'll do great in South America.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
So that's fantastic, Mike.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, and the movies on the way too.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Yes, Yes, very excited. We just transitioned or just just
moved into pre production. Here's a finished final draft Britfield's script.
This is what two hundred and fifty thousand dollars looks like.
That's like the going rate really and that's actually a good,
good price. That's really about a five hundred thousand dollars
movie script. So and that was that was fifteen months
(08:06):
of time. And we've been in development for the movie
for over two years, if you can imagine, and everyone
kind of talks about, oh, we're in development. No, I mean,
We've been working on it every single day. I've been
talking to my producer almost every week regarding the movie.
But this thing's huge, you know. And once we once
we lock in and get that sort of first Britfield
movie done, then it's just quick transition. We'll be launching
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a new movie every two years period.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
How for the first movie, what do you think? What
are you looking at before the first movie?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
We're looking at realistically, we're looking at November twenty twenty six,
but I don't think I don't think it'll be pushed
beyond that marker. I'm hoping to be filming in spring
or summer at the latest in England next year for
the first movie, which gives us plenty of time and
even if we roll that into the fall, we still
have plenty of time for pre production and then rolling
(08:56):
it out in November of twenty twenty six. For many reasons,
is especially with book one, Brittfield and Lost Crown, it
takes place in December, seven days before Christmas, so, believe
it or not, it's a beautiful, wonderful holiday movie. Part
of that was by design because every year, guess what
you're gonna be pulling out and watching with elf and
it's a miracle, you know, or whatever. It's a James
(09:18):
Stewart movie. It's a wonderful life. Sorry, so you'd be
pulling out the Britfield movie because it fits that narrative,
and it's and it's during Christmas time and it really
is just this wonderful family adventures. So so we're excited.
We're going to be reaching out over the next eight
weeks to a couple of our selected directors names you
(09:38):
would know very well, very very successful directors that have
been involved in major box office films and are are
great with adaptations of books and are good with working
with kids. Without giving too many secrets away there, and
then we have our list of all our British actors
(09:59):
and so make about that. So we'll see, we'll see
who we can get. And often it's not that someone
isn't interested, they're just locked in for like, you know,
three years, and so you have to kind of move
on because we can't wait for them. So we'll see.
But the cast will be very key because most of
the main actors come back and so they'll be part
of this whole series. And so to me, it's very
attractive because it's not only does the series travel around
(10:22):
the world, the film series, because we'll be shooting in France,
and then we'll be shooting in Italy, right and and
then Eastern Europe, and it's like, how cool is that?
Real places, real time. Will actually start writing script number
two for Britfield and The Rise of the Lion next year,
probably in March or April. So the point is is
like we're already pulling that trigger and getting that thing ready. Stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
So I have been really well organized, really well organized.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
And it is that is a key word organized, Right,
That's a whole other subject really, because everyone's busy today, right,
but no one's productive, right, I mean, no one's no
one's no one's accomplishing anything. There's a there's a indifference,
a sliver of indifference out there. But anyway, yeah, but
it's it's exciting and it's funny because it's like for me,
the movie. It's always been about the movie, but I've
(11:10):
had to hold back because there's just nothing you can
do until that timing is right. And even from writing
Book one, it was always about the movie. Ninety percent
of the feedback that we receive, you know, globally, I
mean everything from across the nation to Germany, to South Africa,
to Brazil, to Australia to New Zealand. I mean, this
(11:31):
is kind of type of feedback we get. They say
it reads like a movie. You feel like you're in it.
You feel like you're there, which is a great compliment.
And part of that, you know, is my style and
by design. My background as a writer was in scriptwriting,
so gosh, you know, twenty or thirty years of script
writing and then you roll into you know, novel. It's
just it's a beautiful bit and classics. So and the.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Graphics are great. I mean, we're looking behind you. I
love these graphics. Your book covers are unbelievable, they really
really And then when you click on your website. You
have that little video of you know, the the hot
air balloon. I was going to ask you, if we
get a clip, we'll put it up when we put
the show. We could put it on our blog, you know,
if we get to it's beautiful, I mean the whole thing.
(12:16):
It's attractive for children, but it's also attractive for adults.
Don't you agree, Mike.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Oh, I think that you're going to have the same
kind of success and much more, being much more worthy
of it than that other big series of children's books.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
The botty goal is to really outsell them, and one
in particular that's not very good for children. But no,
thank you for the graphics. And that's Tiffany's my graphic designer.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Tell her she is just fab I love watching when
I see your stuff pop up, I'm like wow. By
the way, I also did email a friend of ours
who's a friend of Mike's in Poland, who's a good reporter,
and I said to contact you'll get on his podcast,
Mike's Pot. He's Mike also and h but he had
(13:07):
a little something go on in the family, so he
probably didn't contact you yet, but hopefully you get on
his show and he's in Poland, so it'd be great
for you, you know, to get in that audience.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
You know, he is a big Yeah, I would love
to do that. In fact, we we're coordinating a little
bit with a publicist through my literary agent to starting
to promote Poland and stuff. And it's all my intention
to do that. That's part of what the global trips
will be like. So in March of next year, I'll
be I'll be in Britain for about three to four weeks,
right around the London Book Fair. But it'll be a
(13:38):
lot of fun because we just oh yeah, so we
we have a wonderful distributor now in Britain, and so
we officially launched the trilogy in Britain in June, and
so it's rolling out across the country to all the
schools and retail and bookstores. Believe it or not, there's
twelve hundred independent bookstores just in Britain and I find
that fascinating because there's there's only sixteen in the US.
(14:01):
So it's like that's a lot of independent bookstore. It's
like every little town and village must have a bookstore,
which is cool and it's and they've always been known
as a as a reading public. They're they're like two
to one, so you know, for every hour we read here,
they read two hours and stuff. So uh. And then
there the books are being published or printed in Cornwall
in England, so we've got a great printer there and
(14:23):
we just got done with a publicity campaign for four
weeks and so we're kind of you know, it's kind
of pushing it out, kind of rolling it out, and
then really it's going to be sort of January we're
going to really hit it hard. And then I'll be
there in March, starting up in Yorkshire, which would be fun,
coming to some schools and bookstores and just just the
world of Britfield and get kids excited. And this will
(14:43):
kick off an eighteen month worldwide tour for Britfield, the
series and the movie.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
And it's nothing suitcase for eighteen months, huh.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
How could you coming back and forth and stuff of course.
But and then Eastern Europe will be in will be
in Eastern Europe for ideally in the fall of next year,
and we'll be in Eastern Europe for eight weeks and
see Poland will be our platform. I'll be in Poland
for three weeks just working it and then you know,
cruising and driving through the rest of the countries and
(15:14):
so again, you know, politics, things have all kind of
held everything off. But I feel everything is all this tension,
if you will, is going to be coming to a
conclusion in the next six weeks, if not sooner. So,
but we're excited. I mean, this is Bridfield, is this
generation's book series. And what we're trying to do is
we're really trying to elevate literature with really edifying stories,
(15:36):
a family focus, not all this nonsense of Demigod's superheroes, witchcraft, vampires,
everything and anything but reality. Right, And these things do
three things, and it's all by design. This isn't by accident,
and it's this isn't what the industry wants. It's just
when you have six corporations that own ninety six percent
of the industry, they choose what you're going to read
(15:58):
and watch. Technically, but it's not a popular, necessarily brand.
It's just the only thing out there. And so it
does three things. It disconnects kids from reality. Number two,
makes them feel less than they are. Can you imagine
that reading books and making it just making you feel
weaker and less because you know, if you just had superpowers,
if you just had a wand. And I think every
(16:18):
child is amazing. I think every child is extraordinary. I
think every child is born with amazing talents and creativity.
They just need to be fostered and nurtured. And number
three eight of these books sort of poison the mind
with really a cultic type of things that aren't really
healthy for children to be reading.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So well, Chad, That's why I'd never watched some of
these shows on TV where they have a you know,
like a cookie show or something, and you just go
there and they just humiliate the crap out of you,
you know, when your cookies and they're like well, and
I'm like, who are these people? You just did the
best job you could. Why did you eat the food
and taste it? You know what I mean? Like, why
would you go on a show just to be humiliated?
(16:57):
Whether it's singing, whether it's cookie. You know, I turned
to dollar. When I see something like that, I'm like, Okay,
thank you, goodbye.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yeah, and again too, most of those things are all
all orchestrated, if you will. Yeah, even like the you know,
the Pickers show and stuff, and oh my gosh, look
what I found. It's all set up, it's all orchestrated.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yees yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Are you going to try to do the same things
with schools in Britain and in Poland and in other places?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Oh yeah, I mean the schools have always been our
beachhead and so like in the United States, we're already
in thousands of schools across the nation. We're being taught
in hundreds of schools across the nation. We have a
eighty three page study guide based on academic standards that's
actually free for teachers and homeschoolers. If you go to
(17:51):
Britfield Institute dot org look under resource it's it's a
thirty dollars value. But it's our design to be in.
You know, there's one hundred and twenty elementary middle schools
in the United States. It's our goal to be in
at least ninety percent of them in the next ten years.
And really just you know, having Britfield as the staple,
as one of the staples, one of the key books
that they're teaching, because it's designed to be taught. It's
(18:13):
a beautiful story, it's based on family and friendship, but
it's very educational. We include maps in every book, and
so children can be learning about all these things like
history and art, architecture and culture. But it's interesting, it's
not boring, if you will, and it's not based in fantasy.
You're not learning anything from Harry Potter. You're not learning
anything from Twilight series or the Hunger Games? Are you
(18:34):
kidding me? Kids hunting kids and killing them for food.
I mean, it's just that's horrible. It's suspicable. There's nothing
cool about that.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, oh, Chad, I want to ask you a question.
What helped the Chad I'm bere Okay, I watched. I
want to ask you. You have something going on in Arizona.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you. It's out there.
In October tenth through the fourteenth, we have a bunch
of Britfield events. We're gonna be presenting to a women's
group at the oh A Foothills Country Club or something
I think on Thursday afternoon, which will be fun in
front of about I don't know, sixty to eighty women.
(19:20):
And then we have a huge Britfield event Friday night,
which if you're in Arizona and can attend, let us know,
and it'll be a lot of a lot of fun
and then we're reading with some sort of heavy hitters,
and a lot of this started kind of in the
end of May. I mean, Arizona is a whole nother story.
The corruption there, unfortunately is at a high time, and
(19:41):
the educational system, the schools are are some of the lowest.
I think they're ranked, you know, number forty eight in
the nation even lower. Yeah, it's pretty bad. And again
by design, none of the stuff's an accident. None of
this is mismanagement. They've managed it so it would be
that way. And so what we're trying to do really
is impact Arizona right now, just through some of our
(20:03):
contacts along with other states, but we're really focused there.
We're trying to get into some of the educational systems
and districts. We've already coordinated and talked to a lot
of key figures on the upper echelons that are conservative,
that don't want to be selling bunk to their kids
and bringing in this filth. And this will be an
interesting election because hopefully a lot of these parasites will
(20:26):
be removed from them.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, we agree with you, that's right. By the way,
these these these pictures behind you, are you selling posters
giving away. How does this work? I mean with these
graphics book covers.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Yeah, we we probably should sell the other ones. We
do sell Brittfield Lost Crown, that's the classic right behind me.
And it's always fun. I've got to I've got to
do one today and sign it and send it off
to And I did one for a children's kid's birthday.
Did They didn't even order it. They ordered like the
trilogy and I threw in the poster and can you
imagine being twelve years old and getting that, you know,
and hanging them. It's just it's so cool. So but no,
(21:04):
they're amazing. That's book four. That's Feel in the Eastern Empire.
That's Tomas Sarah and they're now fifteen years old. Out
the window that's the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and
around this table looking at these old architectural plans because
they've got to. They're planning to break into the Hermitage
and steal a Britfield artifact that was stolen from the
(21:26):
Britfields by the Romanovs, you know, centuries before. So really cool.
It's just really cool stuff, you know. But and it's
they're very distinct too, you know, Book one, I love,
I Love always the lightning and everything. Book one takes
place in December, Thomasarah twelve years old, so it's a
lot of kind of fun you could see with that.
Book two is that takes place in July and Thomas
(21:51):
Sarah thirteen takes place in France, and it's the Eiffel Tower,
which is really cool. They're kind of hanging off of
it because they were climbing out there. They're mean chased.
And then book where you can see off to the
other side. That's that's the the Saint Peter's Basilica in
uh in Rome, and it's like all three images are
by this big metal you know, fence looking at it,
(22:13):
and I love it because it's it's very sort of
subtle yet powerful. And I love that one. And then
obviously now with number four, it's like they're a little
bit older now they're inside not outside. It's bright, it's cheerful,
if you will. It takes place in April. So all
the books are very very specific. They all take place
during different seasons. And and then the cover, if you will,
the spine, you know, Book one is dark blue, so
(22:35):
that represents sort of winter, but it also represents the
royal blue of the British Empire. Book two, which is
really cool. Oh if I had it, it has that
it has that royal French yellow kind of under the
Napoleon era, and it also represents summer. And then and
then Book three is the burgundy it represents October, but
(22:57):
also that sort of medici and then Book four is
the royal light blue of the Russian flag, which represents spring.
So anyway, yeah, now.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
You really to put a lot of work into this.
How long I mean you had this in your mind somewhere.
How long did it take to develop in your mind
to put the series together?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah? When I started it back in golly, let me see,
so I started it ten years prior to nineteen twenty nineteen,
so almost like twenty ten. It was when I had
the idea for it. Book one took me four years
twenty five hundred hours just to write. From concept to launching,
it was over ten years of building the team, raising
capital because this wasn't just selling books out of your garage,
(23:43):
and this wasn't just sort of, you know, selling a
couple thousand books. This is this is the next quarter
of a century of my life and This is really
sort of a paradigm shift in literature and media, and
it's taking a stand and putting back quality content that
doesn't happen overnight. And we've got deep roots, we've built
great teams, we've got wonderful partnerships, and you don't need
(24:04):
anyone's permission, you know, we don't need the industry's permission
that doesn't know anything about publishing or writing to begin with.
Stuff they put out there is just crap, you know,
and most of it's false. So in these New York
Times bestsellers, and you give me a break. So it's
a lot of work, and it's been a long run.
But when I was writing book one, I was only
thinking one book. When I finished it, I thought, hey,
(24:26):
this will be fun three book series. I was thinking.
I was always thinking England, France, and Italy. Kind of
nice balance there. And then by the time I got
into two and three, I'm like, this is a seven
book series worldwide, and what's nice about it is book four,
I'm sorry. Book five will take place in Asia, starting
in South Korea, and then book six will take place
(24:47):
in South America, probably starting in Brazil. And then I
bring back the series and end it with book seven
in the United States, and now Thomas therea eighteen years old,
so that's sort of seven books starting at twelve years
old and then ending up at eighteen. It's also beautiful
and this sort of global tour. I mean, his kids
are reading the series, whether they like it or not,
whether they know it or not. They're learning about history
and architecture and maps and geography and all this wonderful stuff.
(25:13):
And so I'm educating the next generation of kids with
a fact.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
You know, I took my son. I took my son
out of school when he was in elementary school to
travel in Asia when I was working in Asia, because
I couldn't, you know, I couldn't take care of him.
So you know, I just pulled him out of school
and I said, just give me his homework. I'll have
somebody do it with him. And the teachers during that
time would say, no, he doesn't have any homework, just
let him come back and tell us what he experienced,
(25:39):
because they said it was amazing Chad. They said most
children would never ever see what he's going to see
and listen, and you know, and when he came back,
you know, he had to do a stand in front
of a classroom and say what he did. He had
pictures and so on, but I was amazed they didn't
care about the math or anything. Is wonderful and he
had some fabulous stories. I mean, he was in the
(26:01):
royal Palace in Thailand, he met with the King of Thailand.
You know, he saw all these elephant adventures and traveled
and was like, wow, you really had a great trip.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I absolutely love that story. I will be very surprised
to see as you as your son grows, how that
influence impacted him, whether he gets into, you know, global politics,
whether he gets into Asian studies, whether he becomes a
historian in Asia. Yeah, I mean, it'll just be very
(26:34):
interesting because stuff is so so powerful to take your
kids on trips and on vacations and not everybody to
go to Asia, but I mean, just get him out
of the house on the weekends and do fun things
and drive up the coast if you're in California, go
to the Rocky Mountains and in the snowballs and check
out streams if you're in Colorado. There's just absolutely no
(26:56):
excuse for parents not to do this with the kids
because it will impact them for the rest of their
lives that I can remember these these stale industrial institution,
communistic institutions called public school system for forty hours a week.
They're I can remember any of that stuff, and I
can remember the chalkboard, and I can remember the tests,
all that stuff nonsense. But they will remember those adventures,
(27:18):
those trips to the to the library, to the museum
to look at artwork and pick your favorite painting and
tell me why, and then go out and get a hamburger.
You know. I mean, they'll they'll be eighteen or twenty
two years old going.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I remember, like every month my mom and dad or
my dad or my mom would take me to the
museum and we just look at one or two rooms
and we've done I look at every painting and I'd
pick my favorite one and then I tell her why
and I and we talk about it and discuss it
and then gosh, we went out for the best burger
I've ever had. Those are the kind of stories you
need to create with them. Oh that's the kind of impact.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Yeah, well go ahead, go ahead, yeah, jad I you
mentioned the Ladies Club in I have the information, Mike,
I have it, no, but I mentioned I just wanted
to mention, are you are you trying to work with
ladies clubs?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Because we live in a county that's the poorest.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
In Virginia and there's a very strong Ladies club and
a network of them in Virginia that do an enormous
amount of good for schools, whether it's providing books, providing lecturers,
providing homeschoolers with information such as you mentioned with your books.
(28:26):
Is there a place on your website for people to
go and look at that?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
You could go through the Britfield Institute dot org. But
if you wanted to contact me directly with that information
or have them contact me, I'd be more than happy
to dedicate some sign Brittfield books to underprivileged children. That's really, that's, frankly,
what I'm all about. Oh, that's what. That's what Brittfield's
(28:51):
all about. I can't wait to get I can't wait
to get to the point where we're giving away thousands
of scholarships to underprivileged, dedicating tens of thous and if
not hundreds of thousands of books to schools. That's the
big picture, really, and we'll get there and we're close.
But with that said too, I could do some fun
things for homeschool groups or title on schools where I
(29:12):
could come in. We call it a virtual author visit
and we do a little mini workshop. So there's a
lot of things I could do and contribute and help
to inspire those kids. So just let me know. That's
where my heart is.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
So whoa excellent we'll get I'll give Mike the contact,
I'll get a little for you and you guys can connect.
I also have a library that I'm close to. It's
a portable library. You know. They do a lot of
Civil War series and things like that. Last week they
had a reenactment of Mark Twain on the West Coast
for about twenty six kids from elementary school, which really cool. Yeah. Really,
(29:47):
he couldn't.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Like the cigar.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
He lit the match, but he couldn't like the cigar.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Oh really, Oh Jesus funny. He had a white suit.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
And oh the guy was totally he was in you know,
he was in the in the costume. He had the
wig and the mustache, and that he had the decanter
for the liquor, you know, the crystal decanta taking a drink.
You know, it was fabulous. I stood there and watched
it for forty minutes was tremendous.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Oh boy, that's that's really cool. That'd be a good biography.
I haven't read about Twain yet. I brought a time awesome,
he'd be a good one. Yeah. Yeah, he said so
much impact, so much influence. It's interesting too. As a
side note about Twain is that I read the biography
on Grant Ulysses Grant and yeah, great biography is like
(30:35):
eight nine hundred pages. To me, that's a biography I
like to dig in. And it was interesting too because
he did you know, he's a president for eight years
and very successful in many ways. A lot of a
lot of the things under the presidency were just undermining
by the usual suspects. But he was incredible. He was
an incredible person. He is a ragster richest story, but
then obviously had some bad investments and was almost bankrupt
(30:59):
and developed throat broke cancer because he smoked so many cigars.
And it was on his porch when one day a
gentleman dressed in a white suit walked up and said,
are you interested in doing a biography on yourself? And
that was Twain. And it was because of Mark Twain
and the biography of Grant that he was able to
(31:19):
leave his family with money and that they weren't poppers.
So interesting story.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yes, yeah, he's the only other one I did. The
only biography I did that was seven hundred plus pages
was Lee Kwan You Leekwanu of Singapore, which was a
tremendous man, not just for Asia, but what he did
with Singapore is just an I read that book in
three days, wow, which I could never do again.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Well, when it's good, it's good, and when it flows,
it flows. And I find the best nonfiction writers are
those that actually write fiction, because in writing fiction, you understand,
you really understand story, and you understand narrative, and moving
that narrative verse is just a sort of clunky nonfiction book,
if that makes sense. I'm just wrapping up a thousand
page biography on Churchill, so that's been big, almost too
(32:10):
much information, frankly, but anyway.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Mike wrapped it up you and also, go ahead, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
I agree this story with Twain and Grant. I think
Grant he kind of pushed the ailing Grant along or
guided him or just encouraged him. And I think Grant
died a day or two after he finished the memoirs.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
That's probably correct. Yeah, and at that time he was
very disillusioned. Grant was. Yeah, I mean, because it's like
he lost his money and and it's you know, he
got a lot of negative feedback from his presidency, and
obviously he was dying of throat cancer and and and
the big thing is, I mean he was a man's man,
and he really wanted to leave his wife and his kids,
you know, property and some money so they could live
(32:54):
on it. And so I mean he was feeling miserable.
And yeah, so it's a really cool story.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
It is, and it's the book is a although it's
about the Civil War, it's a story a great.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Oh it is. Yeah, it is. That's how every biography
should be, you know, I'll be honest, Like to this day.
One of the best nonfiction books I read was the
nineteen ninety five The Making of the Atomic Bomb by
Richard Rhodes, Pullet's Prize. I think it's pult surprize winning book.
But it's like eight hundred and ninety pages or something
(33:24):
based on the making of the atomic bomb, which which
really in some ways could be very boring. I mean
it's like it sounds interesting, it's like, but it was
like it was so well written, and and you look
at half the books he writes, he writes fiction. And
that was at that time that I sort of made
that connection, if you will, of people that write really
well nonfiction are those that can also write fiction because
(33:45):
it's a nice blend of story and movement. And like
you said, it's always a story, no matter what you're
doing as a story. That's why, like so many documentary
films fail because they kind of think it's like it's
a documentary and it's just the facts and roll the
camera and it's like, no, it's out at all. You're
telling a story. It's always a story. It's three acts structure,
it's fast paced. It doesn't need to drag on. It
doesn't matter if it's a drama it needs to be
(34:07):
fast paced. Doesn't matter if it's a comedy, needs to
be fast paced. So few really understand the essence of story.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
So all right, there we go, Chad Stewart, welcome back,
and thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
You are a great story sir. Every time we hear
it from you, it's it's a pleasure to have you.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Well, thank you well, great to be on and and
a blessing and yeah, just to your audience. You know,
looking forward to connecting and you know the Brickfield series
is great for all ages. Our youngest readers seven or
oldest readers ninety three, and fifty five percent of our
reading audience are adults, so it's a great gift. It's
a wonderful book to read for your kids, for your grandkids,
(34:46):
for your friends, for your family. So please support us.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Thank you, we will.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Ched, thank you for coming back.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
God bless
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