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Coming to you from the Hagman

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in the Keystone State birthplace of

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a mighty nation it's

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your host Doug Hagman and

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welcome ladies and gentlemen to this edition of

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the Hagman Report it's Wednesday that's right

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Wednesday hump day March 20th 2024 can you

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believe how quickly

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time is going it

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is going rather quickly and that's something

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that I'll tell you

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why we've talked about that we talked about that a

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little bit with Stan yesterday time

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and some other esoteric things

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if you didn't catch that

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show definitely listen to that

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he we took all the

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show notes everything and just threw them aside I have

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a great show lined up for you today now

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on the basis of all of

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the news look yesterday you

1:02

know folks our

1:04

friend Peter Navarro member

1:06

of the Trump team now

1:10

part of his inner cabinet was turned

1:13

himself in to serve

1:15

his four-month sentence for

1:17

the for defying a January

1:19

6 subpoena right it's

1:23

ridiculous never happened before it's

1:26

unprecedented in history the

1:28

committee what a

1:30

bunch of crud so

1:34

this man of course and

1:36

I do believe his appeal

1:39

will reach the Supreme Court

1:41

the battles that were fighting out there are

1:44

many of course today we're gonna

1:46

get working to see the clown show today

1:48

of the

1:50

Biden impeachment inquiry is it gonna

1:52

bear fruit yeah it's gonna be

1:54

it's it's must-see TV beyond that

1:56

I don't think anything is gonna

1:59

happen So there are so many.

2:01

Different levels of news. So

2:04

many news items out there.

2:06

I'm. We had Eric

2:08

and I had spoken. Together.

2:11

And we had said you know,

2:13

where are we As moods cash

2:15

from, Where are we winning? Where

2:17

are we winning Any place. And.

2:21

He reminded me of are so we did.

2:24

And that this was animals

2:26

a few months ago. With

2:30

a zone by the name of said

2:32

stewart. And his

2:34

area of expertise and and is

2:36

is an author. his an author

2:39

of Brookfield in The Last Promise

2:41

of the series but. It's.

2:43

Bigger than that, it's

2:46

insane. Zing the educational

2:48

system. Know. This.

2:52

Is one area that we're

2:54

absolutely positively winning then when

2:56

I'm beginning in the that's

2:58

This Show because We need

3:00

this. The. Good news

3:02

along with the crappy news,

3:04

right? Because. We can have all

3:06

the other produce all the time. So

3:09

when you listen, the Mr. Stewart. It

3:12

in the victories that we

3:14

are making. As. Christian

3:17

Conservatives. And thus

3:19

human eye. For. The most

3:21

part I believe this audience. You're

3:24

going to be! I'm impressed. amazed.

3:27

And. Year he. Is

3:30

one states has been there before. You

3:32

get the Mr. Stewart and when the

3:34

say couple of things make sure you

3:36

get your tickets for Wisconsin person is

3:38

absolutely positively good. Coach save lives are

3:40

com. And a meet

3:43

me up at the Ah in

3:45

know wasa Wisconsin in April. I.

3:47

Think toss and thirteen. Earth. A.

3:50

guy keegan the dates consists of

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because attacks april fifteenth april thirteenth

3:54

wisconsin person is a conference we

3:56

move back down and is right

3:58

there thank you for that we

4:00

won't back down a ray

4:02

of speakers take me out of the out

4:04

of the line up there and What a

4:07

great-looking bunch of speakers including coach Dave himself

4:10

Mike Spaulding and others who will

4:12

be talking my presentation is going

4:14

to be on the That

4:17

actually I'm gonna be bringing as I said as

4:20

I've been saying I'm gonna

4:22

be bringing actual crime scene

4:24

evidence for display

4:27

and talking about

4:29

the abuse of children

4:31

as it relates to the southern border what

4:34

the government is doing and what other NGOs

4:36

are doing with

4:38

respect to the absolute

4:41

satanic aspect of the ritual abuse

4:44

of our children of The

4:46

children from other countries and

4:49

and how this is all playing out. So don't miss that

4:52

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4:55

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right. Now, again, if you

8:25

know the name Chad Stewart, you know

8:28

that this gentleman has really

8:30

changed, I believe the

8:33

trajectory of the

8:35

educational system. If

8:37

there was anything that the so-called

8:40

pandemic, the pandemic,

8:44

if that did anything at all,

8:47

it awakened perhaps one of

8:49

the most, I believe one of the most,

8:54

not dangerous, but very effective

8:56

groups of people in this

8:58

country, the mama bears

9:01

and the papa bears. Now,

9:03

in preparation for today's show, I was looking for

9:05

a clip I could play like a minute or

9:07

two of somebody at school board reading

9:09

some text from a book that's in the library.

9:12

And I couldn't find anything suitable to

9:14

play that we wouldn't have to edit

9:16

out every other

9:19

word because we are on a couple

9:22

of terrestrial stations now. Okay, so I'm

9:27

not going to do that. We're going

9:29

to focus on what really has

9:31

happened. And Mr. Stewart,

9:34

Chad Stewart, his

9:36

website folks write this down. It'll be in

9:38

the program description box at the hagemreport.com as

9:40

well as on Rumble and Bridey on in

9:43

all of our platforms

9:46

is britfield.com. That's the

9:48

website. His

9:51

book series was launched in 2019 and

9:53

very quickly, I just want

9:55

to tell you this. As

9:57

his national tour clicked on,

10:00

that kicked off in twenty nineteen

10:02

august twenty nineteen i mean

10:04

this gentleman drove some nine

10:07

drove drove drove didn't fly

10:09

first-class drove some nine thousand

10:11

miles visited twenty three states

10:13

over two hundred schools over

10:15

forty thousand students and

10:18

presented his uh... uh...

10:21

his really what i would call

10:23

this educational series and i have

10:25

a reason for saying that uh... but

10:28

when you get into the material uh...

10:31

that these providing he

10:34

was in memphis when everything kinda shut

10:36

down again

10:40

in addition to being uh... a

10:42

problem ended up being an

10:45

awakening and if there is

10:47

anything that we can talk about being a

10:50

victory in in the in

10:53

the context of everything that's taking place right

10:55

now between the biden open

10:57

hearings with nothing being done

11:00

and the uh... uh... the fact

11:02

that hey you know we could be looking at

11:04

blacks one events or whatever if there's any area

11:06

that were winning i believe

11:09

it is because of chad

11:11

stewart and people like chad

11:14

is because of the parents of this

11:18

uh... we were awakened to this

11:20

this nightmare uh... many

11:22

parents began paying attention during the

11:25

uh... close that the closing of schools are locked

11:27

on schools of what was

11:29

being taught in the schools and

11:32

that's a good thing and because of

11:34

that we have mister stewart

11:36

out there on the front lines and

11:39

uh... helping you the parent the

11:42

grandparent is a everyone listening to this

11:44

is i'm sure majority anyway

11:47

or you're either parents or grandparents uh...

11:50

and if you fill that role you're gonna want

11:52

to pay attention to this uh... with that i

11:54

want to bring chad stewart on britfield.com mister stewart

11:56

good to see you again Great

12:00

to be back on. Thank you. Hey, sorry. I

12:02

droned on there for a while But I just

12:04

got so much on my mind and you've made

12:06

such a difference with your book by the

12:08

way his book series Britt

12:10

filled in the lost crown I've got

12:12

my copy and This

12:15

is suitable for anyone that can begin to

12:17

read to my age, which is 29.

12:19

So I'm

12:22

telling you it's fantastic But

12:25

welcome back. Where do you want to start? Oh,

12:28

thank you so much. It's great to be back on so Where

12:31

would you like to start because there's so many

12:33

places we can start but I

12:36

think people know Know of you

12:38

you were once an investment banker. I mean

12:40

my good. Yes, but Okay,

12:44

but but you're you're I

12:46

think you're you're you're famous now for

12:48

your literary product for a

12:51

field in the lost crown the series Which

12:54

by the way folks his this

12:56

book I Where

12:58

do I have it here? It was like top

13:01

1% of all literary books and

13:03

it's one of the most awarded books in

13:05

children's fiction I gotta put it over here

13:08

and Of

13:10

all books actually so I mean this

13:13

is classic writing And

13:15

I thank you for that. But but thank

13:17

you. You'd like yeah I'll just

13:20

do a quick overview and then from there Let's dive

13:22

dive into wherever you want to go and and it's

13:25

interesting two things come to my mind and one is them our

13:28

phrase or our quote that we started this whole

13:30

thing back in 2019 by with

13:32

Victor Hugo's quote that says No standing army

13:35

can defeat an idea whose time has come

13:38

and that's always been our theme for Brit

13:40

fields and I really think it's America's theme

13:42

now that our time has come and this

13:44

idea of real freedom and and the

13:47

end of this tyranny and destruction

13:50

of our Beautiful, you

13:52

know country has come to an end the

13:54

beginning of the end and

13:56

there's still probably some hard years ahead of us But

13:58

I do think This is a time

14:00

to be excited and to rejoice. But I'm

14:03

originally from Newport Beach, California. I was

14:05

back east in Wellesley, Massachusetts

14:07

and did my undergraduate in British

14:09

literature, European history. I went

14:11

on to grad school and then got my MBA and

14:14

then got into investment banking and was doing that

14:17

for a couple of years. And it was when

14:19

I was sent down to this boring seminar

14:21

in Providence, Rhode Island, I think it was a weekend

14:24

and I think it was insurance that

14:26

I was sitting in the front row. I was

14:28

trying to pay attention and I just started to

14:30

drift and I started to doodle and I did

14:32

a doodle to circle three lines, a basket, a

14:34

boy and a girl and I wrote the boy

14:37

in the balloon. And that was 12 years ago.

14:39

And that's how this whole thing started, right? An

14:41

idea. Went home that weekend and on one page

14:43

of paper just started to outline the story,

14:45

you know, that eventually became Britain

14:49

Lost Crown and it starts in England present day up

14:51

at Yorkshire and it's about Tom and Sarah, two

14:53

orphans, 12 years old. Tom's been an orphan his

14:55

whole life and he's been at Wellesley for six

14:58

years and this is the year he's going to

15:00

escape but not without his best friend Sarah. And

15:02

somewhere along the lines they come and do a

15:04

hot air balloon and start flying all through England

15:06

to Oxford, to Windsor, to London, down to Canterbury.

15:09

Sat down, started writing, took me four years, 2500

15:12

hours just to produce book one, 384

15:14

pages. And really when I was writing it, I wasn't

15:17

thinking a series. I was just thinking about

15:19

doing something fun. I think we're all born

15:21

creative and I think we're really in our

15:23

zone and at peace when we're doing something

15:26

that we were told to do, tapping one

15:28

of our talents, tapping

15:30

our creativity, whether it's writing or you

15:32

know playing a musical instrument or painting

15:34

or inventing or building a company. And

15:37

so it's been really exciting. It's been a heck

15:39

of a journey and so from concept to launch,

15:42

it took 10 years and officially

15:44

as you said we launched in August 2019. We started our 9,000

15:46

mile tour. It's incredible.

15:49

I went all the way up to Seattle, all the way

15:51

over to Chicago, all the way down to New

15:53

Orleans and then I made it all

15:55

the way up to Memphis, Tennessee and that was

15:57

March 2020 when all the schools started to show up. I

16:00

was like, oh, because that's where

16:02

I wanted to get. I couldn't wait to

16:04

get to sort of the heart of America.

16:07

I couldn't wait to get up to the rest

16:09

of Tennessee. I wanted to get into Kentucky, Ohio,

16:12

Indiana, back to New England, down to

16:14

the South. So I had to turn around and drive all the way

16:16

back. But like so

16:19

many of us, we adapted and adjusted

16:21

and ended up turning the sort

16:23

of negative into a positive. We started to

16:26

do virtual author visits, which wasn't

16:28

ideal but was incredible because I could reach

16:30

the rest of the states, all the way down

16:32

to Florida and Georgia. We did

16:35

like Australia and we've got schools lined up

16:37

in England. So that was pretty cool. So

16:40

eventually it became a seven book series. We

16:43

launched book two, Brightfield and Rise of the

16:45

Lion, which takes place in France. We launched

16:47

that in 2021. And

16:50

that's 474 pages. It now

16:52

takes place in France. Thomas are 13 years old. And

16:55

that's my empire strikes back. That's like a lot more

16:57

intense because a lot more is at stake. Two

17:01

years ago, September 2022, we launched

17:03

Brightfield and Return to Prince. And

17:05

that takes place in Italy. And

17:07

that's 575 pages. Now

17:10

Thomas are 14 years old. And

17:13

that's just a fun and exciting book. That's my

17:15

trilogy of the seven book series. So it was

17:17

a great as an author, it was a great

17:19

point to be at to get that trilogy. And

17:22

now I'm finishing up, gosh, I'm probably three weeks

17:24

away from book four, which is Brightfield and the

17:26

Eastern Empire. And it starts

17:28

in Vienna, Austria, works its way through Eastern

17:30

Europe. We include now eight to

17:32

10 countries and we end up in Russia. And

17:34

then book five will be Asia. And

17:37

then book six will be South America, book seven, I'll come

17:39

back to the United States. And then by then Tom and

17:41

Sarah are going to be 18 years old. So

17:44

I think what's great about the series, and then we

17:46

can move forward with some questions, but what's great about

17:48

the series is many things. Number one, I think it's

17:50

what's great is that it's based in current time in

17:52

real time. And I think that is so important. I

17:55

think I'm there because so many of these books out

17:57

there, most of the books right now, saturating

18:00

the market or you know,

18:02

it's demigods, it's post-apocalyptic, it's

18:04

witchcraft, it's superheroes,

18:06

it's vampires, it's space

18:10

age, it's anything but here now. It's

18:12

anything that's present and what that does

18:14

is it disconnects kids from

18:16

reality, number one and number two. It makes them feel

18:18

less than they are and I think it's so important

18:21

because I think every child is amazing. I

18:23

think every child is born with

18:25

gifts, is born with a

18:27

purpose and is amazingly individual as

18:30

they are and they have incredible talent so

18:32

that's a fact and I think everyone is

18:34

born creative and so to sort of instill

18:36

that with the Brittfield series into kids and

18:38

adults of your ability.

18:40

So I think number one that takes place in present

18:42

time, number two, we incorporate geography,

18:45

history, art, architecture and culture into every

18:47

single book. So you're reading this and

18:49

we like to call it stealth education

18:51

because we're giving a really wonderful little

18:54

education, background in history, different locations and

18:57

I spent a lot of time on the

18:59

authenticity. I'm doing research almost every morning, even

19:01

this morning I'm pulling up. They're

19:04

flying out of St. Petersburg at night

19:06

in a storm in a private jet so

19:08

I'm pulling up descriptions of jets and certain

19:11

instruments just to give it that

19:13

authenticity and it's really

19:15

based on family, friendship, loyalty, courage, hope

19:17

and faith and if you're saying what's

19:19

the main theme in these books, it's

19:21

all about family. It's about the importance

19:23

of family and what family means and not necessarily

19:25

just by birth or blood but by the people

19:28

that come into your life and

19:30

are willing to do anything, willing to

19:32

sacrifice anything for you. That type of

19:35

friendship that's forged by

19:37

solid cord, by solid rope. And

19:41

number three, we tap on creativity,

19:43

critical thinking, communication and collaboration. So

19:46

all of that is in every single book

19:48

that I've written and so although they're fast

19:52

paced adventure series with this royal

19:54

mystery and they move really quick

19:57

and it's like we've had 12 year olds that

19:59

have read book one. one in like five, six

20:01

hours. We've had so many adults that have literally

20:03

read it in one sitting. And it's not because

20:05

it's dumbed down or it's simplistic. We

20:08

have a huge vocabulary usage. We've

20:10

got a lot of different sentence structures. I mean,

20:12

I'm really, I feel like, kind

20:14

of what C.S. Lewis was doing. I'm writing

20:16

adult fiction for kids. You know what I

20:18

mean? Because that's really what the Narnia series

20:21

was. He wanted to actually write a fun

20:23

series for adults that became one of the

20:25

best selling children's series. And

20:27

so it's just fast paced. It's fun, it's

20:29

exciting. And we're in the

20:31

process now. We're moving into pre-production of the

20:33

first of seven major motion pictures. This is

20:35

our finished third draft movie script, which is

20:38

very exciting. That's a huge, that's

20:40

about a quarter of a million dollars there,

20:42

by the way. Wow, okay. And

20:45

we just did our first script readings. Two

20:48

and a half weeks ago, it was really cool. We got together 14 different

20:51

actors, adults and kids. We were in this big board

20:53

room. And they all had the script for a couple

20:55

of weeks. And it was just a read through. My

20:58

producer and I were there kind

21:00

of sitting in the very back and just kind of

21:02

following along. And we'd take breaks at certain sections and

21:04

then get feedback and stuff. But it was just amazing

21:06

to literally see the script being read

21:09

out loud and acted somewhat.

21:11

And it was just incredibly helpful. And

21:14

again, just went through it and made a bunch of tweaks,

21:16

maybe 30 or 50 little tweaks here and there, sentences that

21:19

just didn't quite work and stuff. But

21:21

now we're revving up to the movie so we

21:23

can talk more about that. And then we launched

21:25

the theatrical play. We turned Britt Field and Lost

21:27

Crown into a theatrical

21:29

play specifically for elementary middle schools.

21:32

It's a 90 minute to act,

21:34

87 page theatrical play. And

21:37

it's streamlined. It's all like the teachers can

21:39

download it and start putting it on this

21:41

semester. And we piloted it a couple

21:43

of years ago over four nights to great success. It's

21:46

got acting roles and speaking roles for

21:48

over 30 children or students.

21:51

And we have 28 sound effects,

21:53

54 digital slides to project on

21:55

a back screen. If

21:57

you want to, with all these beautiful sceneries

21:59

of England. incorporate the entire theater, not just

22:01

the main stage, but the aisles and everything

22:03

else, so it's that you feel that you're

22:05

literally in England in all these different locations

22:07

and and so we're excited about that. So

22:09

this is some of the things that are

22:12

happening and then we have some

22:14

great updates. We were just at the London Book Fair and

22:16

that was March 12th through the 14th and we're

22:19

just about to sell the international

22:22

global rights to the entire series

22:24

for audio. So we did

22:26

translate the first book by an award-winning British

22:28

voice talent Ian Russell, which is incredible. I

22:30

think it's like 11 hours and everybody loves

22:32

it. But now we're looking

22:34

to sell the global rights that's

22:36

worldwide to the entire Britfield series

22:39

for all the audio versions. So that's big. We've

22:42

got 18 countries that are

22:44

ready to purchase the trilogy. We only have

22:46

three books right now and so we start

22:49

being published in all these different countries. Poland

22:51

was actually our first. All three books are

22:53

in Polish and we've had record sales

22:55

and we're just about to pick up South Korea. We've

22:58

been kind of working on them for two years

23:00

and now they're ready to pull the trigger and

23:03

purchase the international or the rights

23:06

to the trilogy and it will be translated

23:08

into Korean. And that's big for us because

23:10

we have a global plan over the next

23:12

25 years and

23:14

Poland is great because Poland is our beachhead

23:16

for Eastern Europe. South Korea

23:18

is perfect because that's our beachhead for Asia and

23:20

from South Korea we'll pick up six

23:23

or seven other countries. We've got

23:25

Brazil interested and so Brazil will be our

23:27

beachhead for South America and

23:29

so on. And then January mid-January

23:32

of this year we signed a

23:34

contract with a British distributor. So

23:37

all three Britfield books that

23:40

are now with the publisher not a

23:42

publisher but a printer in Cornwall, England.

23:45

TJ Books big shout out to you guys. We're

23:48

running our first round of Britfield books and they're

23:50

gonna be shipped up to Gazelle up

23:52

in Lancaster and they're our distributor and

23:55

they're gonna start rolling out in April

23:57

all through England to all the schools

23:59

and retail. and libraries.

24:01

And so that's really big and

24:03

huge for us because it's England.

24:06

And here's this American writing

24:08

this British book series, and I feel so

24:11

humbled. I stand

24:13

on the shoulders of greats, to say the

24:15

least, like Dickens and Lewis and Austin and

24:17

all these others. And that's our first major

24:19

distributor. And so we're really excited about that.

24:23

You know, my

24:25

measure of the success

24:30

in my mind, okay, this is just me. For

24:33

Christmas, now my wife's

24:36

sister, well, my nephew, who's

24:38

12 years old, is being

24:40

homeschooled. And this by

24:43

far is his favorite book.

24:46

Okay, and I have to say that to

24:48

everyone out there. He

24:51

had, we had given the book

24:54

for Christmas. And anyway, he had said,

24:56

you know, I learned a lot, you

25:02

know, out of the mouths of young people. I

25:05

learned a lot, and it was really,

25:07

it was a fun, it was a great

25:09

book. Okay, those were not exact

25:11

words, but that was

25:13

the sentiment. And, you know, compared

25:16

to the garbage that's out there,

25:18

when you can actually have a

25:21

12-year-old boy or girl, or

25:23

in that age group, who can

25:25

actually learn from your writing, and

25:28

you talk about sentence structure, too. That

25:30

was another thing that was in

25:33

my mind, never entered my mind, but

25:35

that was brought up during the

25:37

lessons that were being taught as

25:40

well. And again,

25:44

Britt Field and Lost Crown, folks,

25:47

if you have any homeschoolers, or

25:50

even if you don't, if they go to school, this

25:53

is a magnificent, I'm

25:56

gonna call it a work of

25:58

art, but it's absolutely great. teaching

26:00

tool for young

26:02

people as well as

26:04

older people. Like you said, adult fiction in

26:08

a sense written for for

26:11

really anybody. So the

26:13

feedback I've gotten from the intended

26:15

audience has been a hundred percent

26:18

positive and it's more than that

26:20

just more than one nephew but

26:23

I want to thank you for that.

26:25

So you said that there how fast

26:27

this is growing. Did you ever think

26:29

that was gonna happen? No,

26:32

no I didn't. I'll say this much that

26:35

going back to that weekend

26:37

you know down at the boring

26:39

insurance seminar and having that idea and I

26:41

went home that night and literally on one

26:43

piece of paper I just started to bullet

26:46

point the first book right starts up in

26:48

Yorkshire. Now I lived off and on in

26:50

England and I love England and British literature

26:52

and European history but

26:55

it was I was in a it was in

26:57

the kitchen with with my girlfriend at the time

26:59

where she's fixing dinner and I had this overwhelming

27:02

sense this is 12 years ago of actually

27:04

how big this would be but

27:07

it's very interesting because it's like based on

27:09

what you know what I mean I have

27:11

no desire to write children's books. I wasn't

27:13

a writer I was I had a background

27:15

in writing nonfiction and and I was trained

27:17

as a script writer but children's

27:19

fiction novels adventure

27:21

series absolutely not and

27:24

then fast forward 12 years and with

27:26

that said I mean it has been

27:28

hard and fighting tooth and nail and

27:30

huge moments of heartache and depression but

27:32

you just fight the good fight you

27:34

know what I mean and it's like

27:36

what what else are you going to

27:38

do right meaning it's like you either

27:40

give up or you keep going and

27:42

it's just like we just fighting

27:44

the good fight and getting up and doing everything we

27:46

can Every day, right? Sometimes

27:48

you're like, what about this and what about that

27:50

And this is like just take each day, you

27:52

know the main and and we're working on some

27:55

major things right now. And and so I'm reminding

27:57

myself yesterday: I'm like I'm not just a step

27:59

at a time step. The time researchers get that

28:01

chance and get the next thing down and

28:03

get the next thing done So to normal.

28:05

Now I didn't expect it like this stands

28:08

on. I know that to honor

28:10

on book one. When we finished I've finished

28:12

a third manuscript of it and it's like

28:14

what do I know? Snazzy. Do my research.

28:16

I would like Barnes and Noble and I

28:18

was looking all the different books that were

28:20

out there and I'm not married on have

28:22

kids. I didn't have anything to necessarily geezer.

28:24

it wasn't like I was reading young adult

28:26

section set the Time Spy started to Die

28:28

Then sue. You know the series that were

28:30

out there that were doing very, very successfully.

28:32

I obviously read the entire Harry Potter series

28:34

just to find out what's what's with all

28:36

the buzz about? Stand on by the I

28:38

know My. First reaction when I went to Barnes

28:40

and Noble to the shelf you know for for

28:42

even middle school and I was horrified. I am.

28:45

I'm like everything was just. Dark.

28:47

And demonic noise. You know I mean it wasn't

28:49

There wasn't like a balance to it like when

28:51

I was growing up as a kid. Get out

28:53

of it was just it was dark and none

28:55

that I just thought wow and that's a very

28:58

sense. As I said that's at fault that need

29:00

you To me like that the need of what

29:02

I was doing the reason the while the home

29:04

which you do and assume at least give children

29:06

it's choice rights and I think that's what we're

29:08

trying to do with the bits of series as

29:10

we're trying to raise the bar of miniature and

29:12

everyone can sit there and complain all day or

29:14

or you know, put your hand of a plow.

29:17

You know, and get into the fight

29:19

and do something about it. We've got

29:21

an eighty five percent world wide gap

29:23

for good family focused content that that

29:25

are you could if we see if

29:27

if. Thousands. To Solder

29:29

to try to fill it Right now, you

29:32

couldn't sell it. Put it that way, that's

29:34

the opportunity because I'm presenting of the something

29:36

about the Truth right like a double edged

29:38

sword and it and it goes deep to

29:40

the merits and good literature. Good content sticks

29:42

and As or trying to it but feel

29:44

the Last Kind and we're already seeing that

29:46

impact. Where you know kids that used to

29:49

like the Harry Potter series read Springfield Last

29:51

Crown and they're like. Harry

29:53

Potter looks kind of silly now. I.

29:55

Mean silly. Yeah. because it's like

29:57

tom didn't have a wand and certain have

30:00

magical cloak and when they got into

30:02

a problem or situation, they

30:04

couldn't say some kind of spell or walk through

30:06

a wall or fly out of there like some

30:08

superhero. They had to figure it out for themselves.

30:11

And so what we're doing with the Britfield series is

30:13

we're literally connecting with tens of

30:16

thousands, hundreds of thousands of children

30:18

and students worldwide with the series. And

30:20

I think that's part of the reason

30:22

that it's successful is because it's real,

30:24

it's truthful. We're not trying

30:27

to spoo some race disgusting twisted

30:29

agenda like pretty much all the

30:31

other stuff out there and

30:34

we're just having huge, huge impact. And one

30:36

thing real quick, our youngest readers, seven

30:38

or oldest readers, 93, 55% of our reading audience

30:41

are adults. And I've said this comment before

30:43

but it came to me a couple of

30:45

days ago and it's a woman. She's in her

30:48

40s in the Netherlands and she's

30:50

bought all three books as they come out and

30:52

it's like $40 to ship it there and she's

30:54

willing to pay that. She goes, I love the

30:56

Britfield series. She goes, I can't wait until

30:58

you're distributed in our country. She goes, I've never

31:00

read anything like it. And I

31:02

thought, wow, like that's the comment I received

31:05

mostly is I have never read anything like

31:07

it. And I'm kind of thinking like,

31:09

how can you be original really? You know, like,

31:11

like I was hugely influenced by Dickens, you know,

31:13

Charlie the Chocolate Factory, James the Giant Peach. These

31:16

were some of those books that

31:18

I grew up with. Star Wars, the first Star

31:20

Wars movies. Oh my gosh, that captivated me. So

31:23

much of these things are in my stories,

31:25

you know, the essence of it. But to

31:27

have that type of comment that

31:29

doesn't remind them of anything that they've ever read

31:32

before is just hugely beneficial

31:34

and I'm grateful. And even the comment you said, that

31:36

is the proof, right? It's not only if they get

31:38

the book, 12 year old gets the book and sits

31:41

down and reads it but

31:43

they actually finish reading it, right? And

31:45

then, yeah, right. So yeah, yeah,

31:48

actually, there was other discussion

31:50

about well, what

31:52

about the other thing? Other books and I

31:55

mean, to experience it, it's

31:57

a little bit different than just simply

31:59

talking. about it. And I

32:01

see this as a

32:03

wholesome replacement for pretty

32:06

much everything else that's out

32:08

there. Okay, now obviously there

32:11

are some some good works and such

32:13

but this to me how

32:16

this was crafted, how you did this and I

32:18

don't know how you did this. I mean I

32:23

even hate to call myself an author

32:25

but I've written two books,

32:27

my third is coming out. It's

32:31

how you accomplish what you accomplished

32:33

in this to be able to

32:35

get the to grab the attention

32:38

of a young person as well as an older

32:40

person. And you know

32:43

having gone through and read some of this,

32:46

I learned some things. I mean whether

32:48

it's about geography or or

32:50

even yes I'll go

32:53

there proper sentence structure which you

32:55

mentioned. Why am I so big on

32:57

that? It's because of our

32:59

language skills have been under assault

33:02

for and have been

33:04

falling for for some time. But

33:06

you raised that bar, I love that, raising

33:08

the bar of

33:11

literature. I think that's perhaps one

33:14

of the best descriptive

33:16

phrases for this book and again

33:18

folks I'm talking about Bridfield and

33:21

the Lost Crown. bridfield.com is the

33:23

website. Chad Seward is my guest and

33:26

you know he's done a lot and

33:28

again you know if we can

33:30

count the wins which

33:33

appear to be few, this is

33:35

a definite win at least

33:38

in my book for the parents and

33:42

against them the Marxist

33:44

educators. So how

33:48

will continue wherever

33:50

your heart leads continue please. I'll say this

33:52

to you, I mean you've done extremely well

33:55

as an author and I think one of

33:57

your books or your second book sold over

33:59

50 thousand if I recall probably more

34:01

since then and just to put

34:03

things in one thousand. Okay, there you go. Just

34:06

to put things in perspective that

34:09

97 books out

34:11

of 100 published traditionally every year failed to make

34:13

a profit. Most

34:15

books sell anywhere from two to three

34:17

hundred to five hundred books within their

34:19

lifetime, five hundred books. If

34:21

they do between fifteen hundred and two thousand

34:24

books, it's considered a break even and it's

34:26

done well. And a best seller

34:28

would be defined around eight to ten thousand

34:30

books. That's the reality of the publishing industry.

34:32

During the life of the book? Yep.

34:35

Oh gosh. Oh yeah, no, no. Fifteen hundred to

34:37

two thousand books sold during the life of the

34:39

book. So we walk into a bookstore or Barnes

34:42

and Noble and you see all those books that

34:44

are out there in the mainstream like that. If

34:47

they sell fifteen hundred to two thousand within their lifetime,

34:49

that would be a miracle. Wow. Okay.

34:52

That's a fact. Yeah, and those are the statistics they

34:54

don't tell you. That's why you got these publishing conglomerates

34:56

that are just throwing everything at the wall. Most

35:00

of it's just crap, if

35:02

not all of it. But

35:04

anyway, so yeah, so I like

35:06

that idea of the redefining literature and raising

35:08

the bar in literature and

35:10

just being as and I

35:12

spent a ton of time, I mean, having so

35:15

much fun with book four and we'll be launching

35:17

that hopefully in September, be Brithfield in the Eastern

35:19

Empire. And it's just

35:21

it's fun as an author because

35:23

it challenges me to keep raising the bar. And

35:26

what's great about these books is like it's fast-paced.

35:28

I'm writing the type of books I would want

35:30

to read and I always based that on a

35:32

quote by Beverly Clearly. She wrote The Mouse and

35:34

the Motorcycle, Runaway Ralph. I grew up with this

35:36

like at ten years old and I still remember it

35:39

and still loved it. And she said if you ever

35:41

walk into a library or

35:44

a bookstore and you don't find the story you're looking

35:46

for, write it. And I love that. I think

35:48

that's what I try to do with Brithfield and I just try

35:50

to write the kind of fun wonderment of

35:52

being a child. You know, it's intense. You

35:54

know, there's a lot at stake. They're being

35:57

chased. There's bad guys and stuff.

36:00

And I think a couple devices that I use

36:02

is number one, I start on the

36:04

action and I end on the action. Number

36:07

two, Tom and Sarah never staying at the same

36:09

place twice, meaning if they're at this hotel for

36:11

one night or at this apartment for one night,

36:15

they have to leave the next morning. And

36:17

so it sort of keeps the reader, if you will,

36:19

or keeps the characters off balance. They never have that

36:21

sense of having to be able to return to

36:24

the next night or keep returning somewhere that

36:26

they're always on the run. There's always

36:29

movement to the story. And

36:31

I really like to try to incorporate the different countries

36:33

because they become one of the major characters. I mean,

36:35

if this whole series was based in England,

36:38

still be fine, but I think it'd get kind of

36:40

boring. But to Facebook too, in France, it's like, France

36:42

is a whole nother world, right? And then Italy, and

36:45

575 pages, that's why it

36:47

took me so long. It was like, because I can't

36:49

rush Florence, Rome or Venice, you

36:52

know what I mean? Exactly. Yeah. And

36:55

you know, there's an education about

36:58

each geographical location that I

37:01

found, at

37:03

least in your first book, that I found to be very

37:06

insightful. I

37:10

don't know what other word to use. And

37:14

again, with my wife's nephew, talking

37:20

about the area, just

37:23

where we were able to have a

37:26

discussion together about the book, it's

37:28

just fabulous. So, you know,

37:31

parents and grandparents, listen, there are

37:33

tools out there. And

37:37

would you consider this a tool for

37:39

parents and grandparents? Oh, absolutely. Okay, because

37:41

that's kind of the way I look

37:43

at it. It's

37:46

a tool that gives in many ways that

37:48

you would not expect. So,

37:51

you know, it's not only

37:53

fun and entertaining, but it's

37:55

educational, informational, and

37:57

it's helpful in other

37:59

areas. of one's life. So I just,

38:03

I can't speak out. Again, anytime I

38:05

find something that I get excited about, I'd

38:07

like to know others about it. And,

38:09

you know, that's this. Yeah,

38:13

we have an 83-page study guide based

38:16

on academic standards. And so, Brickfield was

38:18

designed to literally be taught at home,

38:20

like at home school or in the

38:22

classroom. We're already being taught in hundreds

38:24

of schools across the nation. We're

38:27

already in thousands of schools across the nation

38:29

in their libraries or being taught in the

38:31

classrooms. So it's very exciting. And it's just

38:33

for us, it's the beginning. And everything I've

38:36

talked about, especially at the beginning of your

38:38

show, was a

38:40

soft launch. So everything you've seen

38:42

since 2019 has been a soft launch.

38:44

We've been building the infrastructure. We've been building the

38:46

team. I had to

38:48

get to the trilogy standpoint. We

38:50

had two years in development for the first

38:53

seven major motion pictures. We actually

38:55

believe that the Brickfield movie

38:57

will be one of the highest-grossing films in

38:59

cinematic history and set box office records, which

39:02

I'll come back to in a second for a lot of reasons. And

39:05

so actually, this is our year. We're very excited. This year,

39:07

2024, is when we go global, when

39:09

we go big, and it's already happening and it's starting

39:11

to roll out. In fact, when we're done today, I

39:13

talked to my literary agent,

39:15

Lori, at 930 Pacific Time to find

39:18

out all about the London Book Fair

39:20

and some of the opportunities that we

39:22

have. So we're really excited about

39:24

that. But I did want to say that this is

39:26

a time, too, to be excited. There are a

39:28

lot of things that are happening, mostly behind

39:30

the scenes. And you do your research and

39:32

your audience do the research, and

39:34

they've got reliable sources and

39:37

alternative media to listen to to

39:39

know that there's a lot of movement out

39:42

there and things are happening. And you said

39:44

something when we were offline about

39:46

starting at the grassroots level, and

39:48

it had to, didn't it?

39:51

If it could come from top to bottom,

39:53

it would really never really affect down here

39:55

because we've become lethargic, if you will. And

39:58

2020 was a... wake-up

40:00

call to millions of Americans, not

40:02

just from the falsehood of the

40:04

whole thing, but from

40:06

an educational standpoint. And I mentioned this before,

40:09

but when I was in Memphis, Tennessee, March

40:11

2020, and I was like

40:13

just so defeated, because it's like, you

40:16

know, I just did four schools back to back and

40:18

all of a sudden all these schools were canceling. I'm

40:20

saying, okay, well, this is over. And I had to

40:22

drive all the way back to San Diego. But

40:24

I was thinking to myself, it'll be very interesting when this whole, and

40:26

I knew it was planned and

40:29

faked and nonsense. And it's stunning to think

40:31

about it, you know, from a global standpoint,

40:33

that they that's the kind of power they

40:35

had to get the entire globe involved

40:37

in it. But I was driving back thinking, it'll

40:40

be very interesting to see how many parents send

40:42

their kids back to traditional school when this thing

40:44

is over. And I remember talking

40:46

to, you know, some of my friends and stuff, they're like, what

40:48

are you talking about? I said, I'm basing it on three things.

40:50

I said, for the first time, parents are

40:52

going to be horrified by what their children

40:54

are learning in school or being exposed to

40:57

as young as four or five years old.

40:59

Are you kidding me? Number

41:01

two, how far behind they were in certain

41:03

subjects that they shouldn't be. And number three,

41:05

if they sat down and got all their,

41:07

you know, focused on their work that within

41:09

two to three hours, they were done with

41:11

everything that needed to be done for the

41:13

day. And they had the rest of their

41:15

time to grow up, to play, to do

41:17

something fun, to do something creative, which

41:20

is really how a child's life should

41:22

be and how traditionally it was not

41:24

these socialistic

41:26

institutions that

41:28

they run like factories for 40 hours a

41:30

week, you know, so we're

41:34

an educational reformation right now, much

41:36

like Martin Luther. And that's the

41:38

term I've used before. You're seeing

41:40

that the beginning of the end

41:42

of the traditional educational system, specifically

41:45

in America, but even globally right

41:47

now, and it's crumbling.

41:50

And it might take another five to seven years, but it's

41:52

over. We're looking at a homeschool

41:54

revolution going from five million homeschoolers in 2019,

41:56

2020 to almost 20

42:00

million nationwide and

42:02

that's huge. That's

42:04

a movement, that's a revolution.

42:06

And it was just so interesting

42:09

a couple of weeks ago and I don't read

42:11

it but a friend of mine was reading like

42:13

the San Diego Tribune and they're laying off hundreds

42:15

if not thousands of teachers from the public system

42:17

and I feel for the good teachers, I'm sorry.

42:20

But it's like there it is. It's like they're like,

42:22

oh my gosh, read this. And I'm like, well of

42:25

course. You don't take out 20 to 30 percent of

42:27

your income from your

42:29

corrupt, communistic, educational systems

42:31

and expect to survive.

42:34

And so one by one and little by

42:36

little they're crumbling. But I'll tell you something,

42:38

there's a huge opportunity for good, wholesome, solid

42:42

teachers out there in the homeschool movement. Homeschooling

42:46

isn't one kid, one parent staying home

42:48

to be with their kid all day,

42:50

Monday through Friday. There's

42:53

hybrid models all over. Instead of dropping them

42:55

off at an elementary school, you'll drop them

42:57

off at a homeschool group or a charter

42:59

school system or a

43:01

parent. One parent will stay home one

43:03

week and be responsible for five

43:06

to seven kids and teach art. Another

43:08

one could teach math on Tuesdays. There's so many different

43:10

ways to do it but I'm telling you something

43:12

as a parent, if you do one single thing,

43:15

the most important thing in your children's life is

43:18

their education and I'm not talking

43:20

about a prestigious private school. It

43:23

starts at home, it starts with you spending time

43:25

with them and it starts with you allowing

43:28

them to nurture their creative ability

43:30

and what they're good at. I

43:33

had the opportunity to have building blocks when I was

43:35

young and I would build

43:37

these huge skyscrapers and this is so

43:39

cool. And then all of a sudden

43:41

we had a neighbor next door and she had this big

43:44

yard and she let me build a fort there. My fort

43:46

just started with some salvaged wood and it was just two

43:48

things with a little door hinged

43:50

on one nail. And then all

43:52

of a sudden I started framing up walls

43:54

and then it had a second story and

43:57

it had skylights and guess what? Fast forward.

44:00

When I'm 18, 19 years old, I

44:02

started working for major construction companies and

44:04

then when I was in New England,

44:06

I had my own architectural and development

44:08

firm for eight years that put me

44:10

through all my private colleges and paid

44:12

for everything in my worldwide trips. From

44:16

building forts to building a development

44:18

company, very successful development company and

44:20

designing and building homes and

44:23

multimillion dollar

44:26

homes, that's the kind of impact

44:28

that kind of stuff has on kids. Absolutely.

44:31

I mean, you followed, in

44:33

a sense, you followed

44:35

your dreams. You did what you liked,

44:38

what you enjoyed and that, of course,

44:40

turned into a profession,

44:44

I guess is a good way

44:46

to describe it. Sure, sure. In

44:49

your case, yeah. And the

44:52

thing I'm most excited about with

44:55

respect to this conversation and

44:57

folks, please hear me, listen

44:59

to me, what

45:02

information goes into your

45:05

children or grandchildren, their minds

45:08

or nieces, nephews or even

45:10

your own mind. I

45:12

mean, it's so important

45:14

and again, I can't

45:17

remember if I said this or not, but I look at this,

45:20

reading this book and talking to

45:23

those I've given this book to

45:25

or who have purchased this book,

45:27

it's wholesome, it's educational, informational, it's

45:29

fun. So

45:31

all of this combined, it's

45:34

self, I'll tell you what,

45:36

to me, it's self-motivating for

45:39

the child or for the individual

45:41

reading this at whatever age, self-motivating

45:43

and I think that's so important.

45:46

Like you were talking about in building,

45:48

starting out with a building blocks

45:51

affords to

45:53

that profession. I mean, it's just

45:56

amazing and again, that's

45:58

what your series does. And

46:00

folks again talking with Chad Stewart the man

46:03

behind the author of And

46:05

soon to be the the

46:07

man behind the the movie Brittfield

46:13

The series but his website is Brittfield one

46:16

T by the way Brittfield that calm

46:18

and link will be in the program

46:20

description box I'm a PI calm Again

46:23

go ahead sir. I just want to make sure I got that in

46:25

there. Oh, I appreciate I was thinking about Yeah,

46:29

I know as you're talking. I was thinking about like book four and

46:31

right now we're in st Petersburg Russia

46:33

at the Hermitage and Tom

46:36

and Sarah and Hunter who's who's

46:38

I don't want anything away But

46:40

they they're they're searching for Brittfield artifacts

46:43

that were stolen from the Brittfields, you

46:45

know Year decades

46:47

or years before and that's kind

46:49

of part of this adventure you know starts in Vienna and

46:51

then they move to Bratislava

46:54

Slovakia and then they go to Prague

46:57

and then up to Krakow and in

46:59

Warsaw Poland and there's a big scene

47:01

in Berlin and then there's this freighter

47:04

along the Baltic Ocean and Then

47:07

there's a Stonya and and

47:09

just all these different countries that we incorporate now They're

47:12

there at the Hermitage and I've had so much fun

47:14

over the last three weeks Just

47:16

pulling up pictures of this I've been

47:18

there myself. It's just it's probably the

47:20

most beautiful museum I've ever seen

47:22

in the world and you know some of the big

47:24

ones out there is obviously the Louvre in Paris and

47:26

then the Prado and

47:29

Madrid and and

47:31

even the Met or the

47:33

London The museum in

47:35

London, but but the Hermitage It's like it's like

47:37

you know You'll go to a museum and there

47:39

and you might see like one or two Rembrandt's

47:41

on the wall and it's like wow That's really

47:43

cool. You go to the Hermitage and there's an

47:45

entire room of Rembrandt's. You know the main You

47:48

might go to another museum and see a couple really beautiful Remoirs

47:52

and you go to the Hermitage in

47:54

st. Petersburg and there's like a room

47:57

of that artist and it's just stunning

48:00

So I'm sitting here pulling up pictures,

48:02

I'm looking at maps, overhead

48:04

view, to try to

48:06

like, you know, put in the detail and

48:08

you as a reader, you know, get a

48:11

good feel and sense of the

48:13

museum and some of the beautiful works of art.

48:15

And so that's the kind of stuff that I

48:17

spend the time doing. I don't

48:19

drown it out, you know, it's not an art book, right?

48:21

It's not a history book. It's

48:23

not a travel book. And that was

48:25

something I had to remind myself early on

48:27

with book one, If You're Lost Ground. I

48:30

kind of have like this big paragraph about Shakespeare and I'm

48:32

like, that has nothing to do with the story. So

48:35

if they want more, they can just, you know, read

48:37

it on their own and stuff. So it is a

48:40

certain art form of how to do that, right? How

48:42

do you get all of that

48:44

incorporated but you don't compromise the story and

48:46

you just keep it moving forward and stuff.

48:48

And so it's just a, it's a lot

48:51

of fun for me. And I think that

48:53

enthusiasm, that excitement, that fun comes

48:55

out in the stories that you're reading. I mean, it's

48:58

so interesting too, because I've had so much

49:00

feedback, especially recently with kids literally all over

49:03

the world. Australia,

49:05

New Zealand, Italy, Spain, England, Canada,

49:11

and then reading the books and everyone kind of has

49:13

their own favorite, you know, book one or book two

49:15

or book three. I know

49:17

when book three came out a couple of years ago, my

49:19

favorite comment was from a 14 year old high

49:23

school student in Virginia. And she goes, I love

49:25

your series. She goes, I just finished book three.

49:27

She goes, you're now up there with Lord of

49:29

the Rings. And I thought,

49:31

wow, right? And I'm like, wow, that's

49:33

like, what a comment. And, but

49:36

what I like about it is it has nothing

49:38

to do with that Lord of the Rings. That's

49:40

pretty post-apocalyptic and dark, right? But

49:42

the, or even Harry Potter, I mean, so many kids

49:44

read Brits and Lost Crown and they love it, you

49:46

know, 10 times over Harry Potter, but

49:49

to be able to compete within that arena,

49:52

but be a higher quality book and

49:54

not compromise with that kind of witchcraft

49:56

or magic or demigods. And to

49:58

me, those are all just sort of device. You

50:00

know and it's hard to write real fiction,

50:02

right? I'd

50:05

be authentic, you know, you can't have moments where

50:07

you're reading and you're like, oh come on, you

50:09

know Or how did they how they how well hold on

50:11

they were there and then something they're there or how did

50:13

they get out of there? And I often write myself in

50:16

those corners because I'm trying to be as real but I'm

50:18

myself I'm sitting there saying Okay If I was in that

50:20

situation What would I do and I said well I can't

50:22

do that because it doesn't work and that doesn't make any

50:24

sense And I guess I guess they could do this You

50:27

know and so and then sometimes it's like it's not always them

50:29

thinking it out. Sometimes it's just a break You know what I

50:31

mean? It's someone that helps them out I

50:34

think book four is a lot I mean book three is a lot of

50:36

fun but field in the return of the Prince because Tom and Sarah now

50:38

14 years old And

50:41

they're a little bit more confident and they've

50:43

learned quite a bit of skills and so

50:45

they're out there But they kind of keep

50:47

getting themselves into into trouble Right and it's

50:49

perfect because like right when we're 14 years

50:51

old, we think we're you

50:53

know Undefeatable, you know, I

50:56

mean like just confidence galore and I don't need

50:58

the parents anymore and I know everything You know,

51:00

I mean and so that's

51:02

kind of threat I keep that authenticity with the

51:04

as they grow in the different ages but

51:07

they keep getting stuck and they keep getting needed to

51:09

be bailed out and And

51:11

helped out and it's and it's and it makes it kind

51:13

of funny too, but it makes it real. So oh Absolutely

51:17

and by the way, I'd love your character

51:21

development as well I

51:24

Found that I actually

51:27

learned a lot of about

51:29

writing from you But

51:35

I'll tell you what folks If

51:38

if you want a wholesome book

51:40

that for your child or even

51:42

for yourself That

51:44

will provide you enjoyment information

51:49

Just just a colorful way

51:51

that you present the different

51:53

geographical locations Your attention

51:55

to detail and the way

51:57

the manner in which you write man I

52:00

got to tell you, this

52:02

is the absolute best that I've

52:04

come across and that's the Brittfield

52:08

series, brittfield.com, 1T in

52:10

Brittfield folks. Now where

52:13

can people, where's the

52:15

best place for parents, for anyone

52:18

to get the book, get

52:21

the books, how to get them? I mean

52:24

where do people go? Yeah

52:27

we're on most of the major platforms

52:29

but right now if you

52:31

go to brittfield.com, if you go to our

52:33

award winning website, which is quite beautiful, I

52:35

think Eric the Tech was showing some cool

52:37

pictures before and we have over

52:39

400 pictures of England. We have tons

52:42

of interviews that we've done, we've got some

52:44

of our awards, more information, we have the

52:46

play on there and that's

52:48

the best place to go and buy the trilogy

52:51

or you know one book at a

52:53

time. It's a great gift you know

52:55

for parents, for friends, for

52:57

kids, for grandkids. Often

52:59

we get orders and it's always a repeat

53:01

person because I recognize the name and they're

53:03

sending it to someone else. I love that

53:05

and so cool as a gift, it's a

53:07

gift and because I'm signing them. I'm not

53:09

going to be doing that much

53:12

longer, maybe a little bit

53:14

longer because I'm getting really, really busy. Things are

53:16

going to start picking up with the movie and

53:18

we're going to start doing site locations in England.

53:20

We're hoping to be filming in a perfect world

53:23

by fall in England, if not in

53:25

fall but by spring of next year in England

53:28

and we'll start casting soon. We're looking

53:30

at some major directors and stuff, very

53:32

excited. I mean this will be the

53:34

year of the movie, the film. I

53:36

think last year was about the play,

53:38

every year is kind of its own

53:40

theme and we also have some worldwide

53:42

tours planned. We've got a six-week tour

53:44

throughout England and Scotland

53:46

and Ireland and then we've got a

53:48

two-month tour plan for Eastern Europe starting

53:50

in Poland and then we've got an

53:53

Asian tour and a South American tour.

53:56

So 18 months

53:58

back from the release official release release of

54:00

the first Brutefield movie, we're going to start on

54:02

a worldwide book and movie campaign,

54:04

unlike anything you've ever seen come out

54:07

of Hollywood. Wow.

54:10

I was going to ask if you had any time

54:12

available to sit down with me and teach me some

54:14

things, but I don't think so.

54:19

My goodness. So, you've got

54:21

a full plate ahead of you. But

54:24

that's a good thing because it is at

54:26

the beginning. You know, there's so much darkness

54:28

out there. So much. Right.

54:31

I could talk all day long about the

54:33

problems which we face, but again,

54:35

one of the things, one of the areas

54:37

that I think we are winning, I know

54:39

we're winning, and that's within the

54:41

educational system. And

54:43

the man, one of the men

54:45

I believe is that's changing,

54:49

helping us win is Chad Stewart

54:51

right there. And

54:54

your product is fantastic, products,

54:56

plural, are fantastic. So grateful.

54:58

I wanted to say one thing. I just did an

55:01

interview with, have you heard of Hannah Faulkner? Hannah?

55:04

She's that little 16-year-old, long

55:06

dark hair, and she's like this patriot. Oh, yeah. And

55:08

she's like, got her own show. I was just going

55:10

to say, I was on her show yesterday, and it's

55:12

like, Eric, if you guys could reach out to her

55:15

and get her on your show, she's exciting. I

55:17

mean, she's just on fire. She comes from

55:20

a pastor's, she was a pastor's daughter, and

55:22

she's just talking to talk and walking the

55:24

walk. And I'm like, man,

55:26

that's how our kids need to be, that

55:29

kind of grounded, natural,

55:32

real, solid, focused

55:35

kids. And she was home-schooled, so

55:37

no surprises there, right? No surprises

55:39

there. Yeah, I think somebody sent

55:41

me an email about her this

55:43

week, and I was

55:45

kind of surprised when I read it. No,

55:48

I know exactly what you were talking about. Yeah,

55:51

but definitely have her on, because we

55:54

need more young people like that.

55:56

We need more people that are

55:59

on point. We

56:01

only have, I can't believe how quickly time flies,

56:03

we only have about, I don't

56:06

know, maybe five minutes, four minutes

56:08

left. So you, again, go anywhere

56:11

you want to go the last

56:13

three, four minutes. It's all

56:15

yours, sir. Sure, and

56:17

feel free to ask me, you know, sort of any questions,

56:19

you know, that you want. But this year is kind of

56:21

big for us, like I said, I'm just working real hard.

56:24

But this morning before the interview, I was up at

56:26

about 5.30, so I was editing book

56:29

four, you know, trying to get an hour

56:31

in whenever you can and stuff. The Unstalled

56:33

Process, by the way. Yeah, I'm just now

56:35

leaving St. Petersburg, and so the last bit

56:37

of it will be in Moscow, Russia. And

56:39

so, like, I'm finally getting there. I've got

56:42

about 8% of the book left to

56:44

complete, and then the major editing process starts. But

56:46

I'm excited. We're going to be rolling that out this year. You'll

56:49

start to see some things come mainstream

56:53

for the movie. You know, a lot of that's kind

56:55

of under wraps and stuff. It's a lot of background,

56:57

a lot of development. It took over a year to

57:00

write this script. I think, I don't know if

57:02

I was on your show maybe in October. And

57:04

so what happened is, is we had the second draft of the movie

57:06

script. And at that

57:08

point, we hired a professional script writer. And at

57:10

that point, I had to take over because I

57:13

needed to kind of get back into, instead of

57:15

sending them like 30 pages of notes, I'm like,

57:17

I might as well just get it. Get

57:19

in there and do it myself. And so I

57:21

literally lost the month of November, four

57:23

weeks, and dove back in. I took it from 168 pages

57:25

to 148 pages, and then returned to it in January of this year. And

57:33

I was just going to do like a quick four-day polish,

57:35

and it ended up taking 10 days. So

57:37

there was a week I'll never get back. But

57:40

just getting it beautiful. And

57:43

it's so interesting, within that

57:45

10 days, it never deviated from

57:48

148 pages. I never added

57:50

or took away. Isn't that interesting? It is. Yeah.

57:53

So in November, I had it exactly structurally where I

57:55

wanted to. And then when I was going back through

57:57

it, and I'm adding, you know, if it, It's

58:00

so tight and I just want to promote the

58:02

movie that will soon be coming, if you will.

58:09

But I am so excited. You know, you have

58:11

those moments when you're in your zone or

58:13

you're writing it and I can see

58:15

the audience. I can see the kids getting

58:18

up out of their seats at

58:20

certain moments. You know what I mean? When's the

58:22

last time you've seen that at a theater but

58:24

they can't help it? I see the parents and

58:26

the grandparents just

58:28

like your soul's being filled and fed.

58:30

It's like you've been in this desert,

58:32

right, thirsting for something good and suddenly

58:34

like this Ritfield story comes out and the

58:37

movie, I think it's going to be where

58:39

like it's over after two hours and 15

58:41

minutes and everyone's just kind of sitting

58:44

there because number one, they can't believe it's over and

58:46

number two, they can't believe what they just saw. You

58:48

know, how it fed their soul

58:51

and how everything in it was

58:53

just about goodness and sacrifice and

58:55

family and friendship and

58:58

that's what's in it. And so we

59:00

are so excited about this

59:02

movie and setting box office

59:04

records. I think it's going to be a

59:07

Star Wars, the original Star Wars 1977. It's

59:09

going to be that type of, you're going

59:11

to be driving past theaters and seeing lines and you're

59:13

going, what's going on? And

59:16

again, it's like who am I? I'm nobody. You

59:18

know what I mean? I mean, really. And I'm

59:20

grateful to God for this journey. I'm

59:22

simply in the driver. I'm driver street. I'm simply

59:25

in the passenger seat. You know what I mean?

59:27

Like you said earlier in the conversation, did I

59:29

ever think and not really, I did have that

59:31

moment and I think he often does that. But

59:33

anyway, I'll tell you what, as

59:36

long as you hold a place for

59:38

Eric and I for cameos in the

59:40

movie, goes without saying, goes without saying,

59:43

that sounds great. But folks, do yourself

59:45

a favor, go to britfield.com and

59:48

order this for yourself or the ones

59:50

that you love, especially young people.

59:53

And Even older people, whoever you

59:55

are, britfield.com. Fantastic product. And I

59:57

Want to thank you for everything.

1:00:00

The you've done for the educational

1:00:02

system and are doing. Thank you.

1:00:04

For one, my heart sank. I'm

1:00:06

grateful to you Ungrateful Two, Your

1:00:08

show and I listen to it

1:00:10

for years and thank you for

1:00:12

this wonderful opportunity. I gotta go.

1:00:14

And. Perfect. Thanks.