THIS BRITFIELD SERIES IS TRANSFORMING CHILDRENS EDUCATION ACROSS THE PLANET

➡ Dave Hodges, host of the Common Sense Show, discusses his newsletter and its benefits, including daily updates and free access. He also talks about Noble Gold, a company that can help secure your retirement with gold and silver. The show features guest Chad Stewart, author of the Britfield series, which aims to counter the woke movement and educate kids on various topics like artificial intelligence, world events, and social credit scoring. The series, which has reached millions of people, is now going global with books being sold in multiple countries and translated into different languages.
➡ The speaker is discussing their book series, Britfield, which is aimed at educating the next generation with clean, edifying content. The books are already being taught in hundreds of schools and the goal is to have them in 90% of elementary and middle schools in the U.S. within the next 8-10 years. The books are layered with deeper meanings, but can also be enjoyed as a fun, fast-paced adventure. The main characters are 12 years old, making the books suitable for middle school students.
➡ The Britfield series, much like C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series, is written for adults but also appeals to younger readers, with its audience ranging from 7 to 93 years old. The series, which starts in an orphanage and moves into an adult world, features a diverse cast of characters of different ages. The author, a former investment banker with a background in British literature and European history, spent thousands of hours writing each book, emphasizing that quality cannot be rushed. He believes that everyone is born creative and that engaging in creative activities can help improve mental health.
➡ This text is about the impact of a book series called Britfield. Despite initial doubts, the series became a huge success, inspiring readers of all ages. The characters are relatable and the story takes readers on a global journey, sparking interest in geography and culture. The series has even motivated some fans to visit the locations mentioned in the books.
➡ The text discusses the importance of overcoming fears and learning from failures, as portrayed in a book series. The characters, Tom and Sarah, face their fears of claustrophobia and heights, respectively, to escape dangerous situations. The author emphasizes the importance of resilience, creativity, and critical thinking, which he believes are lacking in today’s youth due to societal pressures and the influence of social media. The text also touches on the decline in marriage and fertility rates, attributing it to fear of risk-taking in relationships.
➡ The text discusses the importance of taking risks and learning from failures to achieve success. It uses examples from famous personalities like Michael Jordan and Abraham Lincoln to illustrate that success often comes after many failures. It also warns against trying to achieve success too quickly or dishonestly, as this can lead to disaster. The text emphasizes that hard work, dedication, and time are essential for genuine success.
➡ The speaker discusses the importance of accountability and the hard work that goes into achieving success, using their own journey as an example. They also talk about their book series, which aims to ground readers in reality and educate them about different cultures. The speaker then discusses their upcoming movie, which will be a series of seven films. They emphasize the importance of staying true to the original book and share some details about the plot, which involves a thrilling escape from an orphanage.
➡ The movie “Britfield and the Lost Crown” is an exciting, action-packed film that also has tender moments. It tells the story of the Britfields, the real royal dynasty of the British Empire, who were caring and wanted to educate people. The film is in pre-production, with plans to shoot in England and release around Christmas 2026 or 2027. The creators hope it will be one of the highest-grossing films in history and plan a large marketing campaign and global tour.

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So how do you get a hold of them? Go to Dave Hodgesgold.com Dave Hodgesgoal.com Put in your email and I’ll send you a free information packet and the number for Noble Golds on that email that triggers to get our guest. Well, you know who he is, right? You’ve had, you’ve seen him on my show three times before. Chad Stewart and he wrote a series of books designed for kids to kind of counter the woke movement. That’s my interpretation here. It was a Britfield series and it was highly successful. Well, now they’re going to go to the movies.

Let me just read to you a little bit before we go to topics that will be covered in what he calls stealth education. I like the term. The dangers of artificial intelligence, quantum computers and data collection, AI manipulation of the stock market. One world digital currency push and boy that’s really getting close. The hidden group that dictates world events. Fake wars in the fiat money system. Bingo. We’ve covered that. Compromise governments and agencies, super soldiers and DNA splicing. We know those experiments are going on. How far they’ve gone, anyone’s guess. And then of course social credit scoring to force obedience.

All of the Chinese style. And it’s just absolutely amazing what’s going on. Chad has an MBA, Ms. and a PhD candidate right now. And Chad, do you have any estimate about how many people have come across your series for kids? I know you have it in schools and so forth. But anyway, welcome to the show and I’m just curious about what your reach has been. Yeah, that’s a great question too. And really we launched officially book one, Brickfield and Lost Crown in August 2019. And then we just launched book four, Britfield and the Eastern Empire in January 2025.

So four of the seven book series have been launched since August 2019. That six years has been a soft release. So I’ve been on, I’ve had the privilege of being on your show a few times and we’ve talked about the series and all of this has really been a been a rev up. It’s. I knew this was a game of attrition, if you will. I think it’s compared to a little bit like the Revolutionary War with Washington. You know, it was a long haul. We’re against the huge corporations, you know, the big publishers, the big media houses, but we wanted to build something, you know, very solid foundation.

We wanted to create a wonderful series, not just for children, but for adults. 55% of our reading audience are adults. And a series that. A couple of things. One takes place in current time, which is important. It’s not futuristic, it’s not post apocalyptic, doesn’t include any witchcraft, demigod superheroes, heightened fantasy, which is saturating the market and was really just based on family, friendship, loyalty, courage and hope. And we incorporate the four Cs creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration. And with that said, as children are reading, as adults are reading it, they’re learning about geography, art, history, culture from all these different countries.

Book one’s in England. Book two is in France. Book three is in Italy. Book four is in Eastern Europe and Russia and it includes 11 countries. I’m now writing book five, which takes place in Asia and I’ll stop there real quick and I’ll answer your question. And then interwoven through this series which we can dive into just those bullet points that you read out because the books are real, because they take place in current time and because it kind of has this royal mystery almost conspiracy with Tom and Sarah and the Britfields. All of this stuff puts, you know, ties in beautifully.

So it’s like I’m not trying to put it in there or force it in there, but I thread it through and as children are reading and adults are reading it, they’re not only reading a fast paced, high octane series that’s been compared to Dan Brown meets C.S. lewis. And one of my favorite comments was from a woman says it’s a lot like James Bond but with a bigger cast and a greater purpose. And so the reach has been probably millions, not tens of millions millions, but millions of people. We’ve, we’ve, we’re in the top 3% of all books sold within the same time frame and we’re now just going global.

We’ve shifted into our global, official global launch this year and I think really April has been that sort of pivoting point, tipping point for us. But we’re selling books in 13 or 15 different countries. 10 to 15% of all our sales are coming from abroad. I predict in the next five to six years it’ll be 80% of all our sales are from abroad. And we’ve got about 20 different countries interested in purchasing the international rights. We’re already selling thousands of books in Poland. All three books have been translated into Polish. We have a British distributor which we locked in last June up in Lancaster, Yorkshire.

And so they’re rolling out the book series all through England. England is our beachhead for Europe. Poland is our beachhead for Eastern Europe. We’re about to lock in South Korea and Japan. And within the next two weeks, we’re signing a contract with a national book distributor for the us so it’s kind of a funny way to come back full circle. You’d almost think you’d immediately try to get in to a US distributor, but it’s all about timing. It’s about having everything, you know, all your ducks in a row, if you will. For me, the trilogy was a big, a big point.

You know what I mean? It’s like you can only do so much with one book and then, okay, you got two. The trilogy was a great pivoting point, but now with fourth, the timing is right and it’s just taken a long time to get here. And let’s be honest, last year was brutal. Everyone I’ve talked to, I mean, like the last four years have been horrific, but last year was like the final nails in the coffin for the economy. You know, death by a thousand cuts. I mean, it was just awful. And so, you know, everyone’s kind of coming out of this spell, this stupor and I’m excited, I’m excited.

So we have reached millions of people I know that just, I’ve done over almost 400 interviews if you can imagine, podcasts, radio interviews, television. And so we’ve reached millions through that. We’ve got a database of 1.4 million emails. And so we periodically blast updates or things like that. So I’ll stop there. Have you been on Paul Preston show? I have. I remember doing his show is at the Marriott in Newport beach and I, I did his show. Well, he’s a former principal and superintendent. Yeah. In basketball. Isn’t he part of the whole California move? Yeah. New California movement to create a 51st state that has Trump’s unqualified support.

Nice. Yeah, it’s going to happen. It’s. It’s going to happen. Yeah. And then you said you’ve been on Sarah Westall show. I have, yeah. I liked her. Yeah, they had, they’re, they’re popular guests on my show because they have so much to add. So you’ve been around. You. You’ve kind of hit the big time. Yeah. I was just talking to someone yesterday to interrupt you, but we’re looking at, we’re now looking at like Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingram and some others. And it’s all good. It just takes time to get there and, but that’s where we’re headed.

But I love the Hagman Report. I love Doug Hagman. He is phenomenal. Yeah. Three years. And I know like, you guys are like, well, you, I was watching you like 10 years ago. You, Hagman, Quail. I would go to Steve Quail’s site. I’ve never met Quail, but, but, but really respect him and, and he’s been in the game like for 40 years and stuff. Yeah, exactly. So, but there was like, you know, there’s only like five or six of you, if you will, and, and that really get it and are grounded and it’s. And you probably have seen like the whole alternative just, I mean, like, it’s crazy now.

I mean, there was really, let’s be honest, about 30, 40, 50 podcasts that were worth their salt five years ago, maybe seven years ago. And it’s like now it’s like, I mean, it’s just everywhere. It is interesting. So podcast is the area where it’s easiest to climb because unless you’re just outlandish, you don’t hit the censorship that you hit in social media. Like, our podcast is in the top point five percent. Yeah, it is. Yeah. But we’re not interfered with on other platforms. You know, we get, we experience pretty clear shadow banning and it just is what it is.

People have the right to do it. I guess we’ll See what the government says when they start looking into it because I understand they’re turning their attention to social media this summer. But back, back to your distribution. I wanted to ask you before we really get into more content. Yeah. If I remember correctly, you were talking before about how you were trying to negotiate with school districts to have your book be part of a literature curriculum. Yeah, that’s that. Our beachhead from day one has been elementary, middle school. And our focus with the Britfield series is the next generation of children.

So while people like yourself and others are really focused on on the here and now, although you are focused on the future, but you’re, you know, pointing out what’s happening now and politics and sort of on an adult level, we’re focused on educating the next generation of children with clean content, edifying content, content that they can connect with and learn from. Instead of witchcraft and magic and vampires and zombies and superheroes and those do three things and the enemy knows it. Number one, it disconnects kids from reality. Makes. Number two, it makes them feel less than they are.

Right. In a very sort of sublime way or almost a stealth way. You know, if I just, if I just had magic, if I could just say a spell, if I just had superpowers. I think every child is amazing. I think every child is a gift of God. Born with creativity, born with talent and born with a purpose to be here. And that’s what we’re trying to inspire and instill with the books. But go ahead. I kind of lost train of thought there. Well, we’re talking about the implementation into school curriculum. Oh yeah. So we’re already in thousands of schools right now.

We’re being taught in hundreds of schools. And my goal, there’s about 120,000 elementary middle schools in the United States. My goal is to be in most of them, let’s say 90% in the next eight to 10 years. And that’s a long term strategy and plan. That’s one of many that we have. And we’ll probably start. And it’s going to start happening this year and then heavily next year. And we’ll start with districts. We’ll start with probably Florida, low hanging fruit. We’ll start with charter schools and then we’ll kind of shift towards other demographics and then, and then California.

That’ll be a tough one. But there’s a lot of good here. In fact, we got two of the largest charter systems in the nation. Here in California we’ve got two of the largest charter systems interested already interested in adapting Britfield trilogy into their reading curriculum. And then Texas would be another one. Ohio, Pennsylvania, we’ve got like five or seven key states that will fit the profile and then eventually roll out to the rest of it. But you go really, instead of being all over the place, you go after one state, one district, you know, and you start to get it into the system and it’s like there’s, you know, there’s nothing offensive in the Britfield books.

And so it can even fly under the radar, if you will, from the psychopathic. I would just monic Liberals. Yeah, I was just thinking that exact same thing because, you know, when I went through your books that you were kind enough to send to me, I thought, I don’t see how anyone would be offended by this. It’s just a story and yeah, yeah. And it’s an adventure and kids are in it and you could take it any way you want. You could relate it to current events today or not. Sure. And I thought that was good.

But you answered my question about the type of school and the area that would take on your book. Because this will appeal, I think to conservatives. But I’m going to be honest with you, I really think it has wide appeal to all political backgrounds. Sure. Because it’s about kids learning and having fun and meeting challenges and, and yeah, there’s a few political messages there, but you don’t even have to dwell on that to enjoy the book. That’s what I really was impressed by. It can be neutral if you want it to be neutral or you can take it as deep as you want it.

That’s. It’s in the eye of the beholder is what I saw. I think that’s great. It’s because it is layered and on the first read through, even like Britfield and Lost Crown, it’s like it’s just a fun, fast paced adventure starting up in Yorkshire and then Oxford and Windsor Castle and spending. Can you imagine two orphans spending the night at Windsor Castle because the royals are gone? You know what I mean? And it’s just like, how cool is that? And it’s just, it’s like fun. It’s that wonderment of childhood. But if you go deeper into it, as it’s designed to potentially do and be taught in the classroom or homeschool groups, you can just look at Yorkshire.

Why did I pick Yorkshire to start at? Why is the orphanage called Weatherley Orphanage? Why do they call it the factory where they have to build and manufacture things all day? Why is all the money that’s given to them by the state, stolen by the. By the people that operate it. You know what I mean? I mean, it’s just. There’s so many layers in it that you can go deep. There’s a reason for all of it. There’s a reason for the industrialization of Yorkshire, the Oxford, the epitome of academia, although what does that mean? What does education really mean? Right.

And you have this Professor Haynesworth that’s basically tells the. Tells the school to pound salt after 40 years of being promised a sabbatical and helps the kids try to get to London, you know, and then you have, you have Windsor Castle Royalty. And what does that mean? And then you have the City, Banking, Finance, and then Canterbury Cathedral, religion. And so it is very. A very specific book. Very, very key pillars. But on, on a. On a kind of a surface read. It’s just like Star Wars. It’s fun, you know, without going too deep. So you can go as deep as you want to.

Definitely. In book Two, Briefield and the Rise of the lion, we pull the curtain. That’s My Empire Strikes Back. We talk about a group called the Committee, based on the committee of 300. We talk about secret societies and we talk about a lot of different things. But again, it’s not the main subject. It’s threaded through. It fits the narrative because it’s real and it’s history and you can take it or leave it. You know, it’s a fictional book. You could sit there and say, well, the Committee doesn’t really exist, or what’s he talking about? And stuff.

It can be totally fictitious. But I’m going to take you back in time. It’s a much more sophisticated version and better literary art than what I’m going to reference. But it reminded me a little bit of when I was reading Tom Swift when I was in about the third grade, fourth grade. My parents used to buy me a Tom Swift book about every month. And I forget how long it took me to complete. It was over a year. And it was basically the experiences they had politically, technologically, space travel. It was really cool stuff. Now I’m dating myself because this was eight years old, but I enjoyed all the different places they went.

Yeah, that’s what your books put me in the mind of, is just this adventuresome. Although the literary quality is on a much higher level than Tom Swift was. It was written for kids over 8 years old. So that’s my next question. Is there a general grade level of agreement for what level your books are written at? Yeah, and we are specific with it. Meaning book one is 384 pages. So it’s a good solid, you know, page count. The main characters are Tom and Sarah. They’re 12 years old. And so that’s naturally going to fit within that middle school market.

You know, you might catch a 13 or 14 year old, but they don’t like to read down. But you’ll definitely catch all the way from seven all the way up to 12 as sort of a, as a beachhead for book one. But with that said, you know, our youngest reader, seven, our oldest readers, 93 and 55% of our reading audience are adults. And much like Lewis, when C.S. lewis created the Narnia series, he did that for adults. He didn’t do it for children, but it became one of the best selling children books of all time. So Lewis was trying to create this fun wonderment, you know, for adults to come back to that childhood and remember what it’s like to be a kid and the adventures and kind of come back to that world of creativity.

And that’s what we’ve done with the Britfield series. It’s like, yes, it’s geared towards, you know, teenagers, young adults, but it really is, it’s a wonderful read for adults. That’s really interesting, you know. Yeah. I mean, let me say one more thing real quick and then I’ll stop, but book two is in France. It’s 474 pages. The main characters are now 13. And as we know, at that, at that age range, 12 to 13 is like a decade. And then there’s books three, which is Britfield and Return to the Prince takes place in Italy. 575 pages.

The main characters are 14. Now we’re into young adult. And then book four is they’re 15. But with that said, I’ve got all, I got a very diverse cast of characters. I’ve got Oliver, who’s a UN Oxford University student, sophomore in book one, he’s 20, 21 years old. We introduced this character Kate, who’s a computer geek that’s kind of behind the scenes, you know, podcasting and blasting and blogging all this stuff, corruption that’s going on in society. She’s like hiding out, she’s been threatened, you know, her systems have been shut down. She’s kind of 24, 23, 24 year old and just a really neat character.

And then we introduce Inspector Fontaine, early 30s, naturally beautiful, smart, articulate Professor Gowerstone, who’s 40. So I say that to say that we have this really great, diverse character. So it starts in this orphanage with a lot of the young kids. But once Tom and Sarah out. Out of the. Out of the orphanage, and that’s within 20% of the book, the rest of it’s sort of an adult world. So. Yeah, tell the audience what your background is. Yeah, so I was a British literature European history major at Brown University, and so that I was in New England for 16 years and it was actually pre law, thank goodness I didn’t go down that route.

But. And I lived in England off and on for two years. And I’m always asked, why start book one in England? And one thing you learn about writing is you write about what you know and you write about what you love. And I know British literature very well. I know England very well. I like it and I enjoy it. And I do have a background in script writing since I was 17, 18 years old, writing, you know, professional movie scripts. And so that technology we talk about if you want, but that, that foundation was critical in writing this novel because, you know, 90% of the feedback we get is that it reads.

Know the feedback we get is it reads like it’s a movie. I feel like I’m there. I feel like I’m one of the characters. And a lot of that was from my ability as a script writer to start on the action, end on the action, follow the. The plot structure, plot points, midpoint, three act structure, all of that. Very, very, very key. So professionally, have you always been a writer? No, it’s an investment banker. See, I knew the answer. That’s what you’re trying to get at. I wanted you to tell the audience. So did you just kind of return to your love of academia and that particular subject area? What drove you? I did, yeah.

And it’s. It’s great because I was. I worked for three Fortune 100 companies and started at Bank America, which at the time was Fleet, but became bank of America, and then got my investment licenses at Morgan Stanley and then was at Merrill Lynch. And I’ll be honest, just wasn’t. Wasn’t a fit for me. I don’t think it’s a fit for most people. We’re all born creative. And I know most people don’t feel that they’re creative or that creativity has been squeezed out of them, but we are all born creative. And it’s when we’re in our creative zone, our zone of talent and fun and excitement that, you know, we feel alive, we feel.

We feel good. It helps, you know, fire endorphins in our mind, fires all the synapses, helps with depression, you know, just all this stuff when you’re doing something fun, creative in that world. And I was dying to do it. And that’s when I had the idea. Over 12 years ago, I was at a boring insurance seminar at Providence, Rhode Island. I was sitting up in front, trying so hard to pay attention, you know, and be the dutiful student and taking notes. And I just drifted and I. And I drew a circle, three lines, a basket, a boy and a girl.

And I wrote the boy in the balloon. And that’s how this whole thing started moving. And I went home on. And one piece of paper just started to outline that. That first book, just bullet points, you know, Yorkshire, Oxford, Windsor, London and Canterbury. Some of the kind of what would be fun, you know, fun places to go. Like, you can’t go to every town in England. You can’t go to every place. So what are the key places that would be fun? And then took me four years and 2500 hours to write book one, and five years and 3000 hours to write book two.

And that really tells about, you know, you can’t cheat quality and that, you know, the difference between a hobby and a profession is eight to 10,000 hours. And every overnight success takes between one to two decades. That’s very accurate, very true. And we could even go deep into this in quantum. Quantum mechanics. But there is sort of this almost system in place that you cannot cheat it. You know what I mean? I don’t care how hard you work or how talented you are, you have to sort of put in the time, you have to put in the experience.

And so all these young successes that you see out there, number one, have probably been in the game for at least 10 years. So if you see some actress out there or actor, although all in the top 50 or 100 of them, they’re all part of a bloodline in that industry, and they’re pretty much all been part of MK Ultra. But I’m saying just in general, if you see someone that’s successful, you can. I can guarantee you can go back 10 to 10 to 15 years when they got into the industry at 5 or 6 and went out on 50 or 100 auditions for commercial.

And they finally got one commercial, and the next year they got a couple bit parts on a sitcom and then. And you’ll just see the experience and the longevity. So these overnight successes are fake. These. Most of these billionaires aren’t billionaires. It’s not their money. They’re actors. And I know you cover that kind of stuff. And so, and this is that kind of Matrix world that we live in. You know, it’s flashover substance. You, we were talking about that offline, you know, about some of these judges and lawyers that aren’t judges and lawyers. And again, that didn’t surprise me.

They’re just actors. Yeah. Long, long live Mike Ross. Right? Yeah. Yeah. That was a fun. I mean it was an interesting enough series, but that was a pretty cool concept. Yeah, yeah. They’ve actually rebooted that series. I haven’t seen it, but I may look into it. I, I enjoyed that series. You know, I had an experience in seventh grade and I can see your work going down this road. So at seventh grade and we spent a couple of weeks going through the book Great Expectations. Oh, I love that. Okay. And then we, we took our test and the reward, we got two hours off of school to go to the auditorium to watch the movie.

Oh, that’s cool. Here you have this series. Okay. This multi part book series. And now you’re doing a movie. I can see schools doing that. And I tell. I loved it. I still remember the lessons of, of, of the. In from 12 years old. I still remember that. We’re so impressionable that age and that’s why we’re focused on it, you know, that sort of 10 to 12 year years age range. I know myself. You know, I remember when Star wars came out, 1977. I saw it 13 times. I’ve never been more transformed by a film. And I, and I, and I’m not a sci fi guy, but that movie had it all.

And I’ve done a lot of like presentations and workshops, you know, writing workshops. And I’ll use Star wars as an example. Number one, you know, it’s 50 years later and it’s a $74 billion franchise. Okay. Something, someone did something, right. Number two, rejected by every single studio. Everybody thought it was a silly, silly story and would never do successful at the box office. In fact, my producer, my producer, I have a producer team. His father Andy, who’s part of our team, went to the actual premiere in LA because he was part of the industry for 40 years.

And it was funny. Real quick as a side note, he goes, was walking in. Everyone’s kind of cocky and just like, oh, this is going to be the dumbest movie we’ve ever seen. And oh, Lucas will never work again in the industry. And he said when they came out of there, everyone just had this sort of look on their face. Right. I mean it was like shock. It was like they were Just part of history, a transition, paradigm shift in film quality. George Lucas, I mean, and then John Williams and his soundtrack. And there was a recent comment from a friend, he said when Lucas saw it, once John Williams got the music in there, he actually teared up and started crying because he’s like, that’s it.

There’s the movie. And yeah, so fantastic. And. And I got to tell you what that movie did for me. And then I want to hear experiences your work, but that movie did for me. It awakened me to the possibility of, you know, you were all over the timelines with this series. And I thought, gee, is there such a thing as pre Adamic societies? And I started to research Atlantis and Le Maria and that stuff. And. And it was kind of my, like Aesop’s Fables. And I don’t know how real it is, but it was fun and it inspired me.

And so what, what do you hear from people are exposed to your book series. What does this inspire in. In the kids and adults that read it? I love that. Let me say one thing real quick too. Great Expectations is my favorite book of Dickens. And I just was asked that like two days ago on an interview. So that was interesting timing. And I’ve. I’ve now re restarted on reading the Tale of Two Cities. Like, literally, like was reading it last night. Like, I’m back into it because I’ve kind of come back into classic literature just for fun, you know, at night and stuff.

But. Because I was reading a lot of biographies and I got off it. But no, the impact of Britfield has been. Has been honestly spectacular. A lot of it unplanned by myself. The God. The God thing. Right. You know what I mean? Because I have no idea. But number one, we’re having a huge impact on literacy. So reluctant kids that don’t like reading books or into sort of other stuff will get a Britfield book. And it’s like the first novel they’ve ever read in their life within two to three days. And they’ll come back and say, can I get book Two? I’m getting that from librarians and moms.

I’m hearing about kids getting book one and like reading it in one sitting or a day and a half. I’ve heard kids getting in trouble at night saying, okay, it’s lights off at 10 and the mom will peek back in at 11 and. And they’re like under their bed with their flashlight or. One funny comment was from a kid. He was reading by his. He had a. Whatever the fish aquarium. And he said, Well, I didn’t have the light off, you know, so I love that because I’ve created this, the story that. That just draws them in and connects with them.

I think this is another most important factor of it. Characters. I mean, children, students are connecting with the characters because they can relate to Tom because he’s not a magician, right. And they can relate to Sarah because she doesn’t have demi demigod blood in her. They’re just real people, you know, that have strengths and weaknesses. You know, Tom’s not very well educated, but he’s got a great heart. He’s got a thing I like to call gumption. Right. We don’t use that word much anymore. And he’s got great character and he’s willing to learn and he’s willing to try and he’s willing to fail and he’s willing to learn from his failures and move on.

Sarah is very well educated and. And she’s actually my favorite, one of my favorite characters because. But she’s got a real short temper, you know, Scottish temper. She didn’t like to put up with things. I like that. And so it’s got all these diverse characters that all work off of each one another. No one’s an island in the series. And so the feedback I get, I get. I get letters all the time from mostly homeschool kids, boys and girls. In fact, there’s a homeschool group here in San Diego, and it’s like. It’s just taken off like crazy there.

They’ve started their own Britfield club. They read, they read. They’ll read the whole book. Like, with each one doing different characters. They’ve started their own book club. And I just got a letter from her. She’s now. Oh, she’s almost 15 now. And she goes, I just read book four. She goes, it was fantastic. Best one yet, and it was really cute. She goes, I love all the places that you go in the book. She goes, if I’m right, by the time you finish the series, book seven, I’ll be 21, the golden 21. And I’ll. I’m going to take a world tour and go to all the places Britfield has.

Has. Has traveled. Another. Another fan had emailed me. I think it was from Florida or something. And she goes, would it be possible for you to send me all the different places that. That the Britfield series goes? Like all the towns and cities? Because. She goes, I wanted to do a T shirt, you know, like a concert, you know, when you have a band and it’s like, all the cities. And so I did. I went through the whole thing and I like, I. There’s like 50 different places. So it’s that kind of thing. It’s that they’re.

That they’ travel, they’re interested in geography. I had another homeschool girl that literally, her parents took her to France and Italy and they visited some of the places in the Britfield books. And she actually, I met them for a surprised birthday lunch. You know, showed up at this restaurant. She’s like, wow. You know, gave her T shirt and all that stuff, a little hat and stuff. And she was showing me, like, the pictures and she’s like, this is. This is in Chambord in the Loire River Valley. This is where, you know, Henry threw the smoke bomb under the bed, like the actual room in the castle.

Because my. My details and accuracy is that much. And so what I’ve created is I’ve created a real world that people can go and visit and experience and shown them that there’s more to life than just California or Colorado, you know, or the little Truman bubble that you live in. Most people don’t even know where. Where Colorado is or Rhode Island. Right. And I’m, I’m. I’m. I’m introducing them to England and a map in England. I’m introducing them to France and the Eiffel Tower and a little bit of history about that and the museum and some of the works of art and bringing in architecture and culture and a map of France and then Italy, you know, Florence, Rome, Venice.

And now with book four, 11 countries, you know, starts in Vienna, Austria. And that was tough for me because it’s like, I want to cover so much, but I only have so much time because Vienna is just stunning. But I’m talking about, you know, some of the cathedrals and some of the museums and the university there, as they’re kind of running or being chased, they go to Bratislava, Slovakia, they go to Prague. There’s a huge scene where they break into the castle there to steal a Britfield artifact back. Krakow and Warsaw, Poland. A beautiful scene in Berlin called Spy Games.

The Baltic Sea, Lithuania, Hungary. And then finally, the last third is in Russia. St. Petersburg, Russia, and Moscow, Russia. And it’s fun and it’s exciting. This is going to be a world tour book series. I think it’s fantastic. It kind of reminds me of Mission Impossible. It is, yeah. Where they’re all over the place. Sure. But I want to take you back to the character Pip, remember. Okay. Let me tell you the impression. It made on me. I did my dissertation on resilience and I think what motivated me indirectly, and I didn’t realize until many years later was his resilience and adaptability.

And it really inspired me to study this as a psychological trait because, you know, I’m a trained therapist. I haven’t done that for years, but. But that really inspired me in my personal interest. So I’m curious is to your series. Okay. Do you hear stories like that, like a character displaying a certain trait or quality that inspires kids? Yeah. And I’m very. Especially with like three, and then specifically with four, and then obviously now with five. I can only do so much with 12 year olds, you know what I mean? Like book one and stuff. And plus as a writer was kind of coming into the series, but I spent a lot of time on the, on the character development of each character and trying to make sure there’s a character arc for them and it’s overcoming potentially a fear.

I do that in book one. You know, Tom, Tom is claustrophobic. And we explain it later because when he was a child of two, he was in the backyard and someone threw this blanket over him and stole him. And that’s when he was stolen from the Britfield family. Right. The last heir of the Britfield bloodline, or so we thought. And so that explains why he’s claustrophobic, but it doesn’t matter at the beginning. And so in order to escape Weatherly, he’s got to go in, he’s got to crawl through this tunnel underneath Weatherly to get out. And so he has to overcome his fear in order to succeed and move forward.

My favorite is Sarah’s afraid of heights. And what happens when they’re being chased, you know, after they escape and they’re in this field and they see this hot air balloon, they got to go up this hot air balloon. And Sarah’s like, it out. You know, Tom’s like, oh my gosh, this is so cool. And she’s cuddled up in the corner, you know, terrified, because she’s afraid of heights. And she’s afraid of heights because when she was younger she fell out of a tree and broke her arm. And so now you know heights. And it represents broken arm.

I’m giving you sort of little examples, but they’re also backed up with it. But it’s the idea of overcoming fear. I think courage is such a key thread through all this series because it’s like, you know, they don’t just do something and then they succeed. They try something and it’s like, I love in book three, they’re trying to, like, break into this place and they set off the alarm and the chase by the cops and they’re like, well, that was a mistake. You know what I mean? Like, that failed and that failed badly. And they. But they learn from it and they naturally learn from.

It’s not like, well, we’ll never do that again and we’ll never try again. They’re like, well, what can we do now? And I love the correspondence, especially when I introduce the third character, Trevor, who’s two years older than. Not Trevor, I’m sorry, Hunter, who’s two years old, younger than Tom. And you have this kind of neat trilogy, you know, with these people and the conversations and the collaboration and they’re discussing, should we do this? Well, that won’t work. Well, what if we were to try this? Well, we tried that before and it’s really just exactly how we should all be thinking.

How kids should be thinking critically, thinking, asking questions, trying things. And that’s that sublime stealth thread that runs through the Britfield series. So kids are learning this and they don’t even realize that they’re learning. I’m making history interesting. I’m making geography fun. So. Yeah. And I’ve also heard. Now you answered my question in greater depth than I really had anticipated. Sorry. You’re modeling environmental causes of phobias, and you’re also talking about coping strategies. And then you’re also. You alluded to a couple of character traits, particularly with courage. And that’s something that’s really missing today in our society.

People and then kids in particular are afraid to take chances because they’re afraid to look bad if they fail. Oh, yeah. I mean, like asking a question you’re failing is the worst thing that could happen. Good. That’s back to my theme of resilience. Again, we don’t teach this. And, and we’re really, we’re suffering as a society because the kids today, we say that, oh, they have so many more challenges. I don’t think they really do have that many more. No, they lack coping skills that our parents taught us when we were younger and we were, we were allowed to fail.

Today you fail, it’s catastrophic. Everyone in social media will make fun of you. Oh, I mean, social media is so destructive. You know who really exposed the dad, the dangers of the media towards psychological upbringing, particularly with girls, it was Oprah. Now, I know she’s kind of gone down a different path now. Yeah. When she had her early days of the talk show I used to watch it because as a therapist and learning, I said, she’s on the money with this. The self esteem of our girls is being destroyed by composite pictures of girls that aren’t even real.

No. And, and, and, and we just crush these kids. And it sounds like what you’re really kind of emblematically standing for is overcoming adversity, dealing with challenges and like you said, learning from your mistakes. Yeah. And I, and I love what you just said. And it reminded me, I just recently watched a couple, couple weeks ago, it was the 40th anniversary of the Breakfast Club and it was all five actors in Chicago. Emilia Estevez too, finally is there. And it was really, I mean it was fascinating. I mean I love that show. Who doesn’t love that show? And the impact, impact of that show and, and John Hughes and his impact.

But it was interesting. They’re saying if you could, if you could, because that was like in the 80s. And they said if you could, if you could go back and change anything today, what would it be? And I think most of them were saying getting rid of these phones for the kids and having them look up instead of down and being engaged in the world around them. And I just really thought that was kind of cool and timely. But let me, let me just say a couple things real quick. I’ve said this on your show before, but we’ve been in a creativity crisis for, for decades and that’s all been designed and the schools have killed creativity.

They’ve taken creativity out of the schools. What we’re trying to do with the Britfield series is bring creativity back into the schools and back into the hearts and minds of children to that time of, of of imagination and that anything is possible. But I just wanted to read some stats. I’ve read them before, but since the 1990s, schools have killed curiosities and passions, narrowed visions, lowered expectations, stifled risk taking, destroyed collaboration, narrowed minds, killed deep thoughts and imagination, forced conformity, solidified hierarchy. As a result, children today are less emotionally expressive, less energetic, less humorous, less imaginative, less talkative, less verbal, verbally expressive, less lively and passionate, and less perspective perceptive.

Does that sound accurate? And again, this is a billion dollar by design. A lot of it’s being exposed now. But this is what we’re trying to return today’s youth back to. You know, and when’s the last time, you know, kids have gone out and played in the park or got a Frisbee and threw it around right for like you And I, like, wasn’t that cool? Like we play like touch, touch, touch football. Or you look across the park, a couple buddies were down there and it’s like, suddenly get into this game or you’re playing. I mean, I was a block from a park when I was growing up in Corona del Mar.

Colonel Lamar, Newport Beach, California. There’s a great park and used to go down there with my friends. We’d play and we’d chase each other and we’d build forts. And it’s just like, you know, I had a wonderful neighbor with a huge yard next to me. And when I was young, I started building a fort. It started with like, you know, two, two pieces of wood. You know, it’s like a teepee. And then I got more lumber and I built four walls, you know, and then it had like two skylights. And then I built a second floor.

And guess what? You know, fast forward to when I was 18 and I started working for a major construction company building, you know, million dollar residential homes in Laguna Nigel, you know, and then, and then guess what put me through my undergraduate school. Yeah, I had an architectural and development company and all that was from building a fort, you know what I mean? And it was, it’s what happens when you give. These kids are never will never know what they’re capable of doing until you give them an opportunity to do it. So. Well, you know, I have a theory and I think it’s more borne out than just being a theory.

But right now we’re looking at young people delaying marriage, fewer getting married, even fewer having children. And I think it comes from the unwillingness to put yourself out there and take a risk. Because being in a relationship, particularly very meaningful relationship, is risky. You can get hurt. And I think this is one of the factors among many that is responsible for our declining marriage and fertility rates. Yeah, it’s interesting too, because it’s, it comes back to what I was saying about experience and being willing to risk. You know, you’re never going to learn anything. What was it the great one, Wayne Gretzky said? He goes, was it about, about you’ll never.

It was about missing. It was about taking shots and missing it. I’m sorry, I’m trying to remember what it was, but it was like, you’ll never, you’ll never hit any shot that you didn’t take. You know what I mean? Like, you might miss like, you know, 50 of the shots, but you’ll miss 100% if you never take a shot. You know what I mean? It’s like if you never risk it, if you Never go for it. And there was a famous thing about the basketball player. I remember it was Michael Jordan or something. It was Michael Jordan.

Yeah. And it’s about success. And he goes, you know, like. He goes, I lost, you know, out of, like, you know, I don’t know, 5,000 shots I took. I only hit like 500 or something. You know what I mean? Out of, you know, during. During three, you know, final games, you know, like, I. I blew the final thing. He’s talking about all the failure. And I think that’s what it’s called. It’s called failure. But it’s like, unless you’re willing to risk, unless you’re willing to take that chance, you’re not gonna be able to learn. There’s a wonderful poem out there.

You can probably find it. Not poem, but it’s about Abraham Lincoln. And it’s just like. It goes through the whole thing. It says, you know, like, when he was 11 years old, you know, he’s. His. His mother died, and when he was, you know, 15 years old, he left school. When he was 18, he started the business with a. With a partner that failed. And he spent like five years, you know, paying up, paying off the debts. You know, when he was 24, whatever the number, the numbers aren’t right. He ran for, you know, this. This political position and.

And failed. You know, he ran for it again. And when he’s 28 and he failed, and it’s like, fail, fail, fail, fail, fail. But he kept going. He kept going, he kept going, he kept learning. And it comes back to what I was saying with that 8,10,000 hours. There’s an interesting relaunch of a series a couple years ago, you might remember, at the Billion Billionaire Boys Club. Yes. And I saw the first version with. With Judd Nelson, which I thought was kind of funny, but it just reminded me because I was watching it recently. And again, it’s this.

It’s this. They’re kind of these young 20, 20 something during the 80s, you know, the big stock market. Everyone’s an overnight success, and it’s not true. And they’re trying to. They built this huge company, but they’re promising things they could never return. They loved all the fame and all the excitement, and they were too eager to be too successful too quickly. And what happened? Murder happened, you know, and they ended up in jail and losing, you know, millions of dollars of people’s money. And. And it’s. And that’s very true. It happened with the tech bubble. Do you remember that? And what you had is you had these, you know, MBA, 22, 24.

Sorry, 24, 26 year olds. CEOs of this new technology company, they didn’t have the merit or the experience to be in that position. So when things went south, they didn’t know how to handle it. And you had an absolute collapse. I remember I had a friend that was working for a company and they were doing their third capital raise. They’d already raised like 25 million. And I’m like, what’s the product? And he goes, we don’t even have one yet. You know, and it was just, it was going to happen, it was a paper tiger. But I’m using that as an example too, that it’s just like you can’t cheat it.

You know, I’m not saying you can’t get lucky here and there or you can’t get a good job or you can’t be successful and stuff. Very few have a first best selling book. You know, Dan Brown, you know, the famous Da Vinci code, his first three books in total sold something like 12,000 books in total all together before the Da Vinci Code. And, and the publisher was just about, the guy was moving to like a new publishing house. He was just about to drop Dan Brown and said, you know, this guy’s, his books just aren’t selling.

And book four was the D.A. vinci Code. Same thing with Irwin. The World According to Garp, if you remember that. And then Cider House Rules, it was his fourth book. You know, his first three didn’t do anything. It’s his fourth book and it’s like every book takes about 2,000 hours, so that’s 8 to 10,000 hours by its fourth book. Again, it’s a system you can’t break, but just enjoy the journey. When you said something earlier, I want to go back to very early part of our conversation and you said it was quantum and, and it was along the lines of what you just talked about.

Can you explain that a little bit? Yeah, it’s, it’s, it’s interesting. I, I tend to have theories and stuff and, and tie things together sometimes, but it’s like there’s something in place. And again, it’s, it’s a God thing too that you just, you can’t cheat time. You can’t expedite things faster than, than they’re willing to be accomplished, if that makes sense. You just, you can’t get to it overnight, you can’t get to it in a week or a month. It’ll probably take a decade of hard work and dedication. And commitment doesn’t mean when you start out in soccer, you know, as a kid or something, at 8, you know, you’re doing well and you’re scoring goals, but you’re not playing professional, you know, and how many, how many great soccer players make it to the professional rounds of sports? Very few.

You know, and some of it’s, you know, genetics, some of it’s luck, and most of it is 80% sweat and hard work and practice. John Wooden, right? Famous basketball player, get these hot shots from high school. It’s like, coach, you know, what do you want me to do? Or I’m ready to start. He goes, I want you to go to that basketball court and, and throw fifth, you know, 500 free throws. You know what the first thing Wooden would have his guys do? He would teach them how to tie their shoes. I love it. I kid you not.

He started that basic. So I mean to go off your topic, but I’m just kind of. I’m kind of filling it in by saying it’s like, it’s just something I’ve noticed. It’s like you can’t force it, you can’t push it forward. Yeah. Now with the cabal or the usual suspects, they cheat, steal, murder, lie, anything and everything. They don’t earn it. I’ve said this so long ago. You’re not dealing with geniuses here. They’re psychopathic, clever people that will do anything to succeed, anything to win, sacrificed their souls. And they’re all part of the normal clubs, whether it’s the Masons, that’s the foundation of.

I know. I got it all the way up. Let me share this with you. This is not universal. It’s not necessarily cause and effect. All I think some of it is because that old saying, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Well, there’s been studies done on mental health, and one of the things they look at is what they call antisocial personality disorder. It’s a combination of the old sociopath and psychopath. And so they measure different professions, and two of the top professions that measure the highest, what they call sociopathy, CEOs and politicians. I’m not joking. That doesn’t mean all are.

I’m just saying there’s a. There’s a high correlation in those fields. I think it’s 9% of all CEOs are diagnosed that way. Sometimes it’s third party diagnosis, sometimes it’s firsthand. But yeah. And I think it goes back to people get power and they misuse it. Sure. And I’ve seen this. I’ve seen this theme in books too. Let me say this too. Go ahead. They cheat to get there. Right. The CEO, like, you know, wants to be CEO by 30 and so. But that’s, it’s impossible to do that realistically or honestly. And I think that’s part of the foundation.

That’s the sort of God framework. Right. You can cheat it, you can lie, you can steal, you can undermine you can, you can, you can like spread rumors about some of the people that are in your way and then they’re taken out. But that’s how most CEOs get there. It’s either through the old boys club fact. And you were mentioning that they get the billion dollar gigs. What was that? What was the. Some, some, some political family got contracts, I think it was Biden’s in Afghanistan for construction for like $150 million or whatever it was. And they don’t, they don’t have a construction company.

I think it was like 500 million or something. You know, I mean, like all the time. Look at usaid, we have dozens of examples of that. Yeah. And it’s not, it’s just not. Not famous politicians. It’s just middle of the road people. Oh, sure. You know, the thing is, is what I’ve learned is you have to have guardrails on behavior. You know, someone needs a boss and I just. You need guardrails. And when you take the guardrails off and people are left to their own device and they’re powerful, they often become corrupted pretty quickly. Yeah, it’s accountability and I think that’s part of the system that I’m talking about.

It’s like, I know, I know like where we’re headed, but I know how hard it’s going to be, how hard it’s been to get here. It’s like, you know, like I’m, I’m talking like some of our fun successes and the stuff we’ve done. I’m not telling the 10 or 15,000 hours, the millions of dollars that’s been spent, all the disappointments, all the failures, all, you know, all the hours of stillness. Right. I’m not going to go into that right now because I don’t focus on the negative. But it’s taken a heck of a long time to get here.

And we’re really almost at the very beginning of our trip for the Briefield series. You know, like, we could talk about the movie too, but it’s just like, yeah, I want to get to that. Yeah, I’m doing everything I can to get everything implemented. We’re in pre production now, but it’s like, I mean, I can only imagine what, what that task is going to be to get. And this is. There’s a cost to excellence that few Christians, let alone most people are willing to pay. Most want to cheat it. Most feel entitled. Most want to get there quickly.

And that’s what I’m talking about. Coming back to that eight to 10,000 hours. I’m sorry, it’s from a profession, from a hobby to a profession. I totally agree with you. I want to ask you an overriding question about your work though. If a parent came up to you and said, okay, when my kid finishes reading your entire series, what kind of influence will that have? What will they have observed from the characters? How would you summarize that? Number one, it’ll ground them in reality and they’ve been, they’ve been all sucked into this world of fantasy again, disconnecting them from reality and subconsciously making them feel less than they are.

Let’s be honest. You know, you can watch Iron man or Superman. Well, you don’t have super strengths. And if someone shoots a bullet at you, guess what? You know, it’s not going to bounce. And so it’s this weird fictional world that they’re in or the gaming world, right? That’s why you’re having kids, you know, at 12 or 13, you know, murdering people, you know what I mean? Because it’s disconnecting them from reality and it’s taking that sort of marker out of there. You read Ritfin Lost Crown Number one, grounded in reality. Number two, inspired and educated in a world that’s bigger than yourself and a world that we live in and, and culturally, you know what I mean? It’s just like Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia’s the bad guy and stuff.

And it’s like. Or China, you know, not the Chinese, it’s the government, right? And. But I, I love the Chinese. And I love, I mean they’re very family oriented. They’re, they’re very disciplined. They take a long time. They live together for a while. It’s not like an 18 years old, I want my own apartment. They respect their elders. I’m just saying all these different cultures, all these people are people no matter where you go, you know what I mean? They want to grow up. They hope to grow up, you know, and not die. They want to meet someone they like and eventually potentially marry.

They want a good job, you know, they want to have some fun. There’s certain places they want to go. Doesn’t matter what country in the world. You are. And so I think I’m bringing in all that, that we’re all connected, people are people at the very basis and there’s a good nature to them. You know, Tom and Sarah, the main characters are helped out multiple times by strangers that at a critical moment, it’s almost a God moment, they step in and we’ll help them, whether it’s giving them $10 or a ride or a meal or whatever, and just helps them along the way.

And so I think it’s just a good natured, clean, edifying content that’s actually educating them, expanding their mind, bringing creativity back into their soul. The difference is, this is the thing, Dave. What if I took a group of 10 kids, 10 children, 10 students, and for three months they ate McDonald’s and then another group of 10 and for three months they ate healthy meals, fruit, vegetables, meat, just purified water, just really solid good meals. What would be the difference of those three kids? That’s a great analogy that you’re making. I, I agree. And I’m not surprised that your book is a favorite with homeschooled for that reason, that reason right there that you’re alluding to.

I think you’re right on the money. Well, look, I’d be remiss if we didn’t talk about the movie. We’ve kind of laid a pretty good foundation and looked at your work in multiple ways. But tell us about the movie and what you’re trying to accomplish with the movie. Yeah, and it’s exciting. Yesterday I had my meeting with my, my film team that’s been expanding now and, and it’s really important to have core people that are, that are in it for the right reasons and share the vision because it’s not just one movie. It’s going to be seven films.

Seven movies. We now have a finished seventh draft script. And this is really important. This is our, actually our finished draft. This is six weeks ago. The final draft was finished and the movie’s coming in at about 2 hours and 10 minutes. And again, that might vary for Star wars was two hours. The first Harry Potter movie was at two and a half hours. So two, two hours, 10 minutes. Two hours and 15 minutes. When I was doing the final edit on and now I, I’d hired a professional script writer, you know, 30 years of experience and, and written over 30, 30 movie scripts for major studios, brought him in to do the transition of the book, 384 pages into a two hour movie.

And by the second draft I had to take over and bring it back into place. It was at 168. I got it down to 148. Now it’s right around 140 pages where it needs to be. And bring back into some of the key scenes because it needs to parallel the book. And it’s like, if it’s not broken, don’t fix it. I like that. You’re not going to let the typical break from the original work happen in your movie, are you? Doesn’t need to. Yeah. So it’s just like. Like there’s a scene in book one where it doesn’t matter.

I won’t go into it. But. So when I was doing the last edit on. And I’ll be honest, I can be my worst critic, and I’m always the devil’s advocate, but I. As I was working on the script, I was. I was. I could associate visually, I could see the audience of kids within two minutes. I mean, we start right on the action. Within, like, the first minute, Tom’s, like, grabbed, taken outside, and he sits there and says, you know, stand there for five hours. It’s December in Yorkshire. It’s freezing. Snow’s blowing. And he goes, I’ve been here for six years.

This is the year going to escape. So there’s your inciting incident within two minutes. It’s like. It’s not. It’s not a story about an orphanage, about getting out of the orphanage. And what I. One of my favorite quotes is, Lincoln wasn’t great because he was born in a log cabin. He got out of a log cabin. I love that. But. And then within, like four or five minutes, he’s pulled into the main office. He’s threatened. I want you to. We know things are going on behind the scenes here. You’re hiding things. We want you to turn everybody in.

The next 48 hours or the next six years at Weatherly will be a nightmare. So he’s threatened. There’s a clock ticking. He meets Sarah on the roof that night, sneaks out, you know, to do. It’s called the View. It’s up six, six stories, and she’s afraid of heights. But she’s like, it’s the only place to meet. Someone comes, Tom takes off. She gets caught. She’s put into solitude for 30 days in an attic, which is insane. 30 days. And so now the clock’s ticking. Tomorrow. He’s got to turn everybody in or. Or, you know, it gets worse.

Now Sarah’s in solitude, and they hatch the plan for the Great Escape. And it’s wonderful. And that happens within 13 minutes of the movie at, at the 15 minute mark. It is 15 minutes of pure action of all these different things, this plan and some of the things not working out right. You have this perfect plan and then everything goes wrong and you know, and then getting into the tunnel and then being chased by this wild dog that has visions of the Hound of Baskervilles and they finally break out of Weatherly. 30 minutes, end of act one and you know, plot point one.

And I’ve just delivered more than most films have delivered in their entirety in 30 minutes. And it’s like this movie has just started, the action’s just started. And I can see kids getting up on their seats. I can see people clapping. I can see scenes of tenderness where you’re laughing, you’re crying, you’re excited. The high octane, it just builds, it builds, it builds, it builds, it builds, it builds, you know, and then they get to the train station and bump into Gowerstone and cops start chasing him into this field. And it’s raining and they’re drenched and they see this balloon out there because this guy has it because he’s headed down to the balloon carnival but it started to rain and he’s waiting for the rain to stop and then jump in the balloon, they take off, you know, and then they run out.

And then the next morning, helicopter comes, it’s Gowerstone, he’s chasing him. You’re wondering why this detective is so fanatical about getting these kids. They run out of propane, they crash into Oxford, you know, I mean it just goes on and on. And then there’s this royal mystery of Britfield and who are the Britfields? And you find out. The Britfields are the real royal dynasty of the British Empire going back to the 1200s and for centuries have been usurpered by others, you know, trying to get, you know, power. And the Britfields kind of had this godly sort of presence, you know what I mean? They, they cared for the country, they cared for the people.

They wanted to bring education to the people, not take it from them. They didn’t want to tax them, they wanted to make them independent, they wanted to give them land. You know, the Britfields represented everything that the Cabal is not, you know what I mean? And that’s why they were taken out and they were forgotten. And yet you find out that there might still be one left and the bloodline could continue all in this movie, you know, And I guarantee you when it’s finished. 2 hours, 15 minutes, the audience will just be sitting there and. And they won’t move.

They won’t believe what they just saw. Finally, finally, just a good, heartfelt, clean movie story that had no agenda and nothing compromised. It’s like Star wars meets the Sound of Music. You know what I mean? And. And like, you know, and then. And then they’ll get up and they’ll see it again. I think. I think we’ll have. I think it’ll be one of the highest grossing films in cinematic history. I think it’ll be a major pivoting point for the film industry paradigm shift. And we’re already in pre production now. We’re already working with the British film department.

We want to shoot in England. We’re hoping to be there in the spring of next year. Call it March or April next year. Boots on ground, filming in England, British actors, some great location shots, lots of interior shots at one of the major studios there with a release date. In a perfect world of November 2026, it’ll probably be November 2027. It’s got to be November because it’s a Christmas movie and it was designed as a Christmas movie. It starts seven days before Christmas and ends on Christmas. And so every year when you bring out Home Alone and Elf, you’ll bring out Britfield and the Lost Crown.

So we’re already reaching out to potential directors. We’ve already got the sort of actors cast that we want, so we’re moving forward in that direction. The director is going to be key captain of the ship. I definitely have my two top choices, and one specifically, I can’t say anything yet. And in the next three to four weeks, you’re going to start to see some major press releases come out regarding the film that will continue for 18 months. And you’ll see the largest marketing campaign in film history and a global tour. I’m hopefully starting in May on a worldwide tour for the Britfield series in the first movie.

So this interview could be categorized as pre global release. Okay, yeah, I got that. That’s. Thank you for. For listening. So I apologize if things go well. November of 2026. Okay. I just. Wow, that’s. I’m really looking forward to it. But the seven movies, that’s ambitious. And I’ll tell you, it reminds me a little bit about Star wars in terms of sequencing before. I mean, it’s. It’s fascinating stuff. It really is. Before we go tell people how they can get a copy of the Brickfield series. Yeah. And I’ll say one thing too, about the seven movies.

I Mean each. What’s so great about it is like Star wars was great with the trilogy and I saw a funny meme the other day where it was showing it was a still from the Return of the Jedi and he’s like. And it’s the father to his son. He’s like unfortunately that was the last Star wars movie made. I just thought that was great. Ouch. But with this, that’s interesting is that you know it doesn’t, it’s like with Harry Potter you’re always coming back to the, to the, to the school Hogwarts. But this is like book one’s in England, book two’s in France, book three’s in Italy.

And so it naturally has this beautiful storyline. As you’re traveling around the world the intensity keeps increasing. The characters naturally get older. That’s great. And, and so I’m just saying it’s like it’s not a forced seven trilogy. It’s like the books are there. I love it. Number five. Yeah. Chad, if I don’t do this we’re not going to get it in before us off tell people how they can get a copy of the books. Yeah. So check out the Britfield.com website. B R I T F I e l d Britfield.com website, award winning website. It’s a great place to buy the books.

They’re wonderful gifts for your kids, for your grandkids, even for adults. Graduation presents, you name it. We have a four a four book special and they’re all signed if you buy them through the website. I will not be doing that much longer because I’m just getting much, much too busy. I mean I spent four to six hours this weekend signing hundreds of books and so I’m like that’s four hours. I could have been writing book five. So I’m just, I’m kind of like getting to the point where I can’t sign them. Yeah, I hear you. The Britfield series, B R I T F I E L D.

Is that Britfield doc? Say the website again. Yeah. Britfield.comBR I T L-Britfield.com award winning website or you know, Amazon we’re on there. It’s an easy way to get it too. Well, this has been a fun interview. We’ve covered a lot of territory. You know I had some familiarity with your work and I think that really helped here. But I gotta tell you I’m excited for you. I’m looking forward to the movie and best of luck with everything. Well, I appreciate it. Always love to be on your show. It’s an honor to be on your show. And as I said before, I’ve been following you for over 10 years, so thanks a lot, Chad.

Talk to you soon. Bye.
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