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Aug. 19, 2023 - Stew Peters Show
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JESUS. GUNS. AND BABIES. w/ Dr. Kandiss Taylor ft. C. R. Stewart
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Hey everybody, welcome to Jesus, Skins, and Babies.
I'm your host, Dr.
Candice Taylor.
We have an amazing show today.
We have one of my favorite type of people, an author, and it's going to be a great show.
We're going to start with Proverbs 3.1.
It's one of my favorite verses.
It is, let not mercy and truth forsake you.
Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Mercy and truth.
So I want you to welcome to the show my new friend and fellow writer, Chad Stewart.
Welcome to Jesus Guns and Babies.
Thank you.
Glad to be on.
He's also an educator, so we have that in common as well.
So this is going to be an awesome show, Chad.
Before we get started into your books and everything you have going on, if you can just kind of give my viewers a little bit of background about who you are as a man, and just kind of, you know, what your heart is for the country and for freedom, and let's go back a little bit before we get into why you became a writer.
I like that, yeah.
I'm originally from Newport Beach, California, and grew up in just a really nice Nice family, conservative values.
And then I left Newport Beach, California, and went back east for 16 years.
I lived in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and I did my undergraduate in British literature and European history.
Of all places, Brown University, which is extremely liberal.
But at the time, at least that I was there, it was very cool, and I had some great professors.
It means you're smart.
It means you're smart.
I don't know.
And then went on to graduate work and then got into banking.
And it was funny because I was an investment banker, I guess, over 12 years ago.
And it wasn't really for me.
And I think so many people are in that position.
They take a position or they end up in a job and they're kind of stuck or it's not really what they want to do.
It's not their gift.
It's not what they're called to do.
And so I can tell you a little background on how this started and we can go more into my background, but it was over 12 years ago and I was sent down to this really boring webinar or seminar in Providence, Rhode Island.
I think it was for insurance or something.
And I had promised myself too when I got into graduate school and everything that I would always sit in the front row and I would take a page of notes and I would no longer doodle because I had a habit of doodling, you know, just drifting and doodling, that creative side.
And yet I drifted and I doodled.
And I doodled a simple circle, three lines, a basket, a boy and a girl.
And I wrote The Boy in the Balloon.
And at that moment, that was kind of one of my moments.
And I just saw this whole story come to my mind about these two orphans, Tom and Sarah.
Takes place in England, present time, up at Yorkshire, Northern England, at this horrible orphanage.
And Tom's been an orphan his whole life.
He's been at Weatherly for six years, and this is the year he's going to escape.
And that's kind of how the whole thing started.
And I remember that weekend I went home and on one page of paper, I just started to outline the story.
Just one piece of paper, bullet points, starts up in Yorkshire, they commandeer a hot air balloon, they fly over England, crash land at Oxford, Windsor, London, and then finally down to Canterbury.
And lo and behold, four years later in 2500 hours, I produced Britfield and the Lost Crown, book one.
Of what became or is going to become a seven-book series.
Now, at the time that I was writing it, I wasn't thinking anything.
I was just saying, I'm dying to do something creative.
You know, because I'm doing anything analytical.
I was a published author.
I was writing non-fiction books, but I was just dying to do something creative.
And so I just sat down and started writing, and it just started to flow from me.
And when I started writing it, I was only thinking one book.
By the time I finished, I thought, gosh, I got at least three, five books here, and then eventually it became seven books.
And so we officially launched Britfield and Lost Crown in August 2019.
Since then, it's become a bestseller.
It's become one of the most awarded books in fiction, if you can imagine.
Mom's Choice Gold Medal, Parents' Choice Gold Medal, Literary Classic.
Just incredible book awards.
You'll appreciate this.
In 2019, we started a national school tour, and I drove 9,000 miles.
I visited 23 states, over 200 schools, and presented in front of more than 40,000 students.
And it was everything that you can imagine, you know, public, private, Christian, Catholic.
Homeschool, charter, usually anywhere from two, three hundred students.
I was kind of blown away because I had this wonderful team that, you know, like four people that were working behind the scenes, you know, booking all of this because we were like on the road.
And so they'd be trying to like, they try to stay a couple of weeks ahead and say, look, you know, You either get them this week, you know what I mean?
Or you don't get them at all.
And I was just blown away by the fact that these schools, if you will, dropped everything for who?
For nobody.
They don't know who I am.
And brought all these kids, 4th through 8th, into the auditoriums and stuff.
And it was an unbelievable, extraordinary, and amazing time.
I would keep the students, the children, really just captivated the whole time.
I mean, there was no fidgeting because A couple of reasons.
One is, you know, I was there as a bestselling author at the time, and I talked a little bit about Britfield, but I was really there because I really wanted to encourage them and inspire them with creativity and the importance of creativity and storytelling and the importance of individuality.
And that they're all born gifted, even if they don't feel like it.
And the importance of having an idea and believing in your ideas.
And that your ideas may take 3, 5, 10, even 20 years to fulfill.
So it wasn't kind of a flash over substance.
You can do whatever you want.
And that's how my story.
You know how I started with this idea and it took me over 10 years with this idea for Britfield.
10 years of writing it, putting together the business plan, putting together the team, rejection, failure, disappointment.
I mean, everything.
Until we finally launched in August 19.
And I think They connected with me, and especially at that age, children can be very authentic, as you know, and very honest.
And I wasn't there trying to sell them something.
I was there to try to encourage them.
And so that's kind of how this whole thing started, and it was amazing.
And we would do book signings, and you'd have a line of like 80 kids.
It was just amazing.
I was just talking to them and seeing what they thought of it, and what's their favorite book, and how often do they read, and everything.
And so that's what kind of launched this whole thing.
And it's a seven-book series.
It's going to be seven movies.
We're working on the first movie right now.
We're in development.
We're going to be shifting into pre-production.
I just received the second draft of the movie script last week, and I'm going to read it tomorrow, which is pretty cool.
That's on my docket.
And I just finished up the business plan for the marketing component.
I was talking with my producer the other day.
So we can talk about that whole thing if you wanted to.
And that's going to be the first of seven movies.
And then we launched book two, Britt Field and the Return of I'm sorry, The Rise of the Line, that's book two, that takes place in France, and then we launched that two years ago, and then we launched Britfield and the Return of the Prince, 575 pages, if you can imagine, which takes place in Italy.
And so really what happens is the book series travels the entire world.
I'm working on book four.
I was actually working on it 30 minutes before I got on.
Book four takes place in Eastern Europe and Russia.
Book five will take place in Asia.
Book six will take place in South America.
And then book seven will take place in the United States.
And when I started this, I had no idea how big this was going to become and that I was really going to be spending the next quarter of a century of my life on this.
But I think what's great about the books is, number one, they're based on family values.
Friendship, loyalty, courage, faith.
I think number two, they're extremely educational.
And we like to call it stealth education because, you know, if you told a child that it was an educational book, they're like, I don't want to read it.
But as they're reading it, they're learning about history, geography, art, architecture, culture, all these lost things that are out of the schools now.
And we anchor it on the four C's, which would be creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration.
And so We created this as realistic as possible, because again, it takes place in present time.
There's no fantasy.
There's obviously no witchcraft.
There's no demigods.
There's no mysticism.
Even with C.S. Lewis and his wardrobe, we don't have any of that.
And so it's as authentic as it can be.
And I think that's what grips children, is that they can actually relate to the characters.
They can relate to the circumstances, or at least some of them, and just draws them in.
And we're feeling really what I would say is an 80% gap in the market.
For these type of family-friendly, family-focused, edifying, educational types of books.
I don't know anything else out there like it.
I think it's a little combination between Between Charles Dickens and Tolkien, maybe, or C.S. Lewis.
But I don't know any books like that out there.
Well, Chad, I love you already.
Everything, going to the schools and talking to them and getting the kids engaged and hearing from them and just your heart and passion, I can tell, for this niche that you have.
And even five years ago, I really felt like the Lord wanted this type of literature out there.
And I even have a book that I'm writing that I've not even written on in probably three years, but I have several books I'm writing, but most of them right now are political.
But the one that I started was a fiction piece, and it was going to be a young girl that was going to college, and it was going to have some spiritual things in there.
So it was going to be like how the spirit realm touches the physical realm, because we don't see that.
I mean, kids, we miss that.
Not witchcraft, not all of that, but the good side of God and angels and what happens.
And so anyway, but I know that that's God's heart.
It's his heart for us to have books that are reality and hopeful and history and all the things that are missing.
100%, I believe this was I want to go back to you as a young boy and how you were brought up and where you got this in you for the country and for morality and for caring about society and the decline of society because that came from your parents or it came from From some experience.
It came from something.
That doesn't just happen for us to feel that passion.
Sure.
Yeah, and again, too, I'm very blessed because I did have a really great childhood, and I have so many friends that didn't and struggle with that and will struggle with it, you know, for the rest of their lives, and it's very unfortunate.
And so I'm very blessed in that sense.
I think I had a very unique background also.
I was always...
I was always sort of an entrepreneur.
And I just, I love the idea of just creating things.
I was very creative.
Everything from my building blocks to my fort next door.
You know, and it's like, started out as like this wooden, this little wooden fort, you know, the door that kind of slid open.
And then all of a sudden, it had four walls, you know, and a top, and then skylights.
And then we added another floor.
And it was just kind of fun.
We're, you know, taking pieces of wood from out, from around the neighborhood and stuff like that.
And that kind of set this whole idea.
Possibilities of things that could happen.
I also grew up towards the ocean, the water, and I think that had a big impact on me because, you know, it's funny because when I was in New England, especially Massachusetts, outside of Boston, everything's really flat.
And so it's kind of hard, if you will, that you really only can see about a mile ahead of you.
You never really have any hills.
You never kind of come up and be able to see.
And I think that just gave me that sense of a visionary.
And I always had that sort of gift of seeing possibilities.
And I think it all started really, I had a great elementary school just literally across the street.
I'd walk up the block and there I was.
And it's funny, too, because things have changed so much now.
But it's like, you know, after school, you know, you'd look, I'd look out my window and I'd see a couple of people over there in the field.
You know, I'm like, oh, cool, we're going to go get like a touch football game or a Frisbee football game.
Or we'd go down to the park and stuff like that.
And that had a huge impact on me and just that fun of being outdoors and playing.
But it was really in sixth grade, we had this extraordinary teacher And she was very creative, very gifted, very smart, and sort of let you do a lot of things, a lot of freedom in the classroom.
And we had an assignment, and I think it was like a third of our grade.
And I wasn't a writer in any sense of the word.
Not many kids are at sixth grade, but I was not really a reader.
I was not really a writer.
But we had to write a book.
And it's like, you know, you had to write a book.
And it had to be like maybe 20, 25 pages.
And, you know, it could be a paragraph, and you could draw a picture and things like that.
And so that's when I learned, what do you write about?
You write about what you know, and you write about what you love.
And I love James Bond movies.
And so my first, if you will, quote unquote, official book, Was James Bond, Eat Your Heart Out.
And I was a 12-year-old secret agent for the British government, you know, based in England, chasing this villain across Europe.
And because of her, because of that book, because of having that opportunity to find what's inside me and pull it out, You know, 40 years later, we write Britfield and Lost Crown, Book One.
And I really do attribute, because it's like so much of that book, as simple as it was, those aspects of it.
I mean, of all places, where does Book One take place?
England, you know?
And it has this royal mystery and everything through it.
So that had a huge impact on me.
I was doing an interview with someone yesterday, I think it was Conservative Network or something, and the gentleman was talking about how he hated school growing up.
And I think I was that same way.
Like in high school, I was so bored.
And so I went into an accelerated independent study program my junior and senior year, which I absolutely loved.
I just could not stand like sitting there.
That whole sort of format, that factory model, you know, five days a week.
And I had wonderful teachers and I'd take one subject at a time, like I'd do English and I'd do all of English, finish it, math, finish all of math.
And then I had all this free time.
And so I was working, you know, I was working as a busboy.
I was working at, I actually worked for three self-made millionaires by the time I was 19 years old.
And it was amazing.
And nothing more.
It's just a grunt.
You know, like I'd wash his car like every week and I'd show up and wash his car and everything.
I'd clean his office.
You know, I'll never forget one morning.
I get a call like 4 a.m.
It was raining and his roof was leaking.
And who could he call but me?
And so I get on my jacket.
I drive up because his real estate office was like at the, you know, Three blocks away.
I climb up on the rope.
I'm sweeping off water and stuff like that.
But it's that kind of responsibility that I learned, you know, that entrepreneurship, earning money at that age.
And Chad, can you say, can you speak to the viewers about that?
Like just being in with people that dream bigger.
Or maybe they've set bigger goals and they've achieved those goals.
That anointing, that residue, it revs off on us.
And even if you're not starting in the corporate world at the top and you're a grunt person, it doesn't matter because you're going to learn.
If we go at things to learn everything we can learn, we can absorb and soak up, then their ceiling can be your floor and you can move higher.
And I just see that and that's a missing art and people and they're thinking of let me put myself around people that I want to be like or I want to do something even greater than they've done.
If you want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire, don't hang around with poppers.
Even if you have to go work for them, go work for them.
Yeah, no, absolutely.
I mean, I was very blessed with it, and it resonated, like you said, and I just watched them, their style, the way they talk, their professionalism.
It wasn't like they pulled me aside and gave me lessons, per se, but I was there, and I would work for them for a couple of years, and I used them for references, and that sort of, in my mind, built who I was, that sense of entrepreneurship, that sense of responsibility.
I've always approached education from a very different way, and I remember, like, You know, I didn't just go off to college.
I started with junior college first.
And I just started taking class.
I wasn't taking the basic ones that you have to take.
I was taking classes that I wanted to, like advertising, marketing, you know, all these different ones.
And then eventually, you know, headed off to Brown University.
And it's interesting, too, that the two subjects that I picked to major in, British literature and European history, were actually my weakest majors.
Because I already had, if you will, by the time I was there, I already had this great background of business.
I started my first company when I was 18.
And so why major is something I'm already familiar with.
And so I wanted to challenge myself.
And it was a challenge.
It was hard.
I've never read so much.
I've never written so much.
It's actually funny too.
I read more books and wrote more papers as a double major, as a history major, than I did as an English major.
Wow.
But it's interesting.
So people go, what do you do with it?
And it's like, what do I do with an English major?
I build a media empire around Britfield and Lost Crown.
That's what I did with it.
Yeah, you know, my husband and I actually were having this conversation.
He went to SCAD, which is the Savannah School of Art and Design and has an arts degree.
And we were taking our oldest to college and he's starting college.
He wants to be an attorney.
But we were on there in the car with my 15-year-old, who's a type 1 diabetic and she wants to be going to medical school.
And so we're riding and he said, you know, you could go and go to art school.
I can help you get in and you could go to this prestigious art school and probably get a scholarship because he's teaching her art right now and she can paint and draw pretty well.
And she's like, I don't want to do that.
And I said, well, I mean, she's going to make more money in medical than she's going to make as an artist.
And he said, now that is not true.
Because if you're successful with a fine arts degree and you're successful in that, you're very successful.
Like an artist that's selling millions of dollars in their paintings or like you, an author that's written these books that are going to mark time forever and mark history forever and the amount of money you make.
And, you know, we don't think about it that way, but that's entertainment.
But it's also it changes society.
It changes culture.
It's very influential.
And so, you know, having an arts and a history and the literature and those degrees that you may not think about as being the medical or the attorney, it really has a potential to exponentially make more money and more of an impact on a larger scale.
Yeah it's interesting too and we can get into creativity and the importance of creativity because that's where you sort of shifted into but we've as a nation we've been in a creativity crisis for 20 years but creativity right now is the number one most important skill set in the world and this is all based on research and demographics and and articles and journals and I've seen it I've seen the gathering storm for over 10 years and I think what really turned me on to it was one of the best Ted Talks I've ever seen in my life.
In fact, my favorite by Sir Ken Robinson.
It's 2006 Ted Talk, Our Schools Killing Creativity.
And so for 18 minutes...
Writing it down.
Our Schools Killing Creativity.
Our Schools Killing Creativity.
It's a Ted Talk.
All right, y'all go watch.
I'm going to watch after we get done.
Oh, it'll blow your mind.
And the story at the end, if we have time, I'll share the story because it personifies everything that I am and everything I'm about.
And this gentleman, Sir Ken Robinson, you know, he's not necessarily charismatic.
He actually had a condition in his legs, so he kind of just walked out and sort of stood there.
And yet, that's the number one most watched, downloaded TED Talk out of all of them.
And they've had movie stars, J.J. Abrams, they've had Tony Robbins, they've had all these people.
And this guy you've never heard of knocks it out of the park with the best thing.
And that really stirred my heart and became a part of everything that we're doing.
And it's like I say with Britfield, it's more than a book, it's a movement.
And it's a movement in literacy, literature, creativity, creativity.
And we're really trying to impact education, film, and media.
And that's what we're doing with all of it.
But they say that the new MBA is the MFA. And it's so interesting that I'm seeing statistically that companies across the board, especially the tech companies, they're hiring people with a creative background, 5 to 1, 10 to 1, over the analytical, mathematical, economics.
Who cares about that stuff?
It's just nonsense.
No offense.
You know, math's important.
Not four or eight years of math.
You know, what are you going to do with it?
I mean, you know, I was an architect and I was in banking and investment and I needed nothing more than the basic math.
I sure could have used another creative class or creative writing class.
Storytelling is the second most important skill set in the world.
Isn't that interesting?
And storytelling, not necessarily writing, but it's like everything that you do is storytelling, right?
You know, your show is telling a story.
Today we're telling a story about my background and who I am.
You go on a job interview, you're telling a story and the difference Of how well you tell your stories is the difference between getting the job or not getting the job.
Your resume is a story and the way that you lay it out is the difference of getting a job or not getting a job.
And they find that people with musical backgrounds are actually preferred 10 to 1 in certain positions.
And it's because For whatever reason, people that have played music, and you don't have to be proficient, it's just like you play a musical instrument, piano, you can read some music, they know that you're going to be a better leader, you're going to be better under crisis, you're a better manager, you're a better critical thinker, and you handle and manage people better.
All these skills from a background in music.
And the thing is, if you're creative, you can learn anything.
If you're so defined in one position, when things shift, you don't know how to figure yourself out of it.
You're a problem solver.
My husband paints every instrument.
He's led worship.
There you go.
He actually has a degree in sound design from SCAD. I talked about school art design.
And now he's taught engineering and video.
Now he's teaching art.
And he's become this wonderful painter.
There's nothing he can't do.
He can problem solve anything.
He's brilliant.
He's the most brilliant person I've ever met besides being Carson.
Just a brilliant person, which you're brilliant too, Chad.
But, you know, I think it's the creativity.
It really is.
Yes.
He's a great creator.
And so he's in us and he influences us if we would lean into him.
And of course he creates.
And I was thinking about my grandfather.
He passed away several years ago, but he was the best storyteller I'd ever heard.
Just telling stories.
And his grandmother used to tell him that scary stories that were true before they'd go to bed at night.
Lovely.
He had 10 siblings and five boys, five girls.
She was trying to scare them to get them to go to sleep.
So the last lynching in our county, she'd tell that.
Or there's a Cersei Spook-like story that's like a ghost story that's in a neighboring town.
And she would tell them these stories.
And I would be just, you know...
Captured at his stories and it was the stories he's told me a hundred times, but he was such an amazing storyteller.
But you're right.
He didn't even graduate high school and brilliant.
He loved science.
He loved history.
He knew everything about science and history.
And we wish we had recorded him telling these stories as he's gone.
But, you know, storytelling is an art.
And I have found myself as I campaigned.
And I'm going to give him speeches.
I find people will say to me, you know, you're really good at speaking.
And I'm thinking I'm good at telling stories that because my papa taught me how to do that.
That's interesting you said that.
You won't remind, you probably won't remember the sermon or you won't remember the speech, but you will remember the story when it resonates and it hits.
And that's the importance of it that threads through.
And it's interesting, too, because you're talking about Your two children, one going potentially into law.
I was actually pre-law, and thank goodness I didn't go into that.
And medical.
And it's interesting, unfortunately, and I am not an AI component.
I think anyone that's pushing that or finds any kind of good in it, stop it, because it's just a complete disaster.
But what's going to happen in the next five to 10 years, statistically, 80% of all legal jobs will be obsolete because of AI. 40 to 50% of all medical jobs, including doctors, will be obsolete because of AI. And then 40 to 50% of pretty much all the other sort of jobs Accounting will be obsolete.
I think 70% of accounting will be obsolete, all replaced by AI. The one thing that AI will never replace and cannot replace is creativity.
And I know there's this debate, well, oh, look what it's doing, it's creating.
No, as far as I'm concerned, AI is straight from the devil.
And so the devil never, he cannot create, he destroys.
He can't copy it.
It's always a counterfeit.
And so what you're saying is like, well, look what it's writing.
It's not writing its own unique story.
It's plagiarizing based on other writers.
Look at the amazing artists created.
It's not creating art.
It's plagiarizing it off of other artists and what they've done and merging it together.
It does not create.
And so I say that to parents, to everyone that's listening, just the importance of just getting some form of creativity into your life, into your background.
And take types of classes, writing, painting, music.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't mean that you necessarily are going to be a musician or a painter.
But having that background and tapping that side of your mind, your brain, that creativity, will impact you, really, for the rest of your life.
And it's interesting, one of the most favorite things I love to do when I come into some of these classes.
We have the Britfield Institute.
Which is focused on putting creativity back in the classrooms and we focus on Title I schools and really try to inspire and just offer, you know, free resources.
We do writing workshops with them.
And I do this one fun little exercise, only for an hour, where I sit down with the students, you know, in the classroom might be 30 or 40.
And I say, you know, we just received, you know, 50 million dollars from the studio and we have to write a movie.
What are we going to write?
And I have the basic three-act format.
And I actually came from a writing background.
I was a scriptwriter before I became a novelist.
It was because of that expertise of knowing how to craft a story that I was able to have to craft my novels.
But we have so much fun.
And I'll break up the groups in like, you know, five or six, you know, three or four, four to five people.
I pick a team leader.
We have 15 minutes.
I say, brainstorm, let's come up with an idea.
And then I'll walk around the classroom and I'll kind of motivate them and say, oh, so what are you thinking about?
And what about, you know, and I'll go to the next group.
And then finally, you know, they stand up, they pitch the idea, we vote on it as a class, and then we start writing this movie.
And it's amazing.
Everyone's involved.
It's never failed.
Every kid's involved.
And I'm like, okay, so we're going to do this action adventure.
Where does it take place?
Okay, and what time of the season is it?
Okay, okay.
And then the main character, what are some of those strengths?
What are some of their flaws?
And what's their goal?
What's their objective?
And then what's the first plot point?
And what's the midpoint?
And we'll walk through this whole thing.
And what the kids are learning within this one, one hour exercise is creativity.
Communication, collaboration, and critical thinking.
And that one thing that they will never forget from that classroom at that semester is that exercise.
They might forget what they learned or the things that they had to memorize, you know, whatever it is, but instilling them.
It's like, you know, if I give you a fish, you're good for a day.
If I teach you how to fish, you're good for a lifetime.
And that's what I'm doing.
I'm teaching you how to think, how to think creatively, how to approach things from multiple angles.
Yeah, I don't know if you realize that, so kids to be identified as gifted in school systems.
I know in Georgia, I can speak to it, but there's four different areas.
And so it's, you know, achievement, which would be like an ITBS test, a norm reference test, and then you have an IQ test.
And then you have a creativity and then you have a motivation.
And so creativity, you may do well on your achievement or your aptitude, which is your IQ, but then the creativity component is always rare to get them to achieve.
And actually, we have something, a Torrance test we use in Georgia, a lot of students use And it goes through the University of Georgia, they actually rate the test and score it.
But kids, of all the years, I've worked 21 years, and I think probably in 21 years, I know of 10, maybe, between 7 and 10.
That have qualified with that test.
And you talk about testing thousands of kids because it's so difficult to qualify.
And that is a problem.
And what happens is it's easier to qualify into gifted when you're between kindergarten and second grade.
After second grade, they can't qualify.
And so you may already know this, but my viewers may not.
But the deal is, it's because we condition them and we create little machines in a desk to do what we want them to do and not to be independent thinkers.
We're creating an assembly line instead of creating critical thinkers.
And you know that because that's what you've been teaching around the country.
But people don't get it.
And so that's why I get so frustrated when people want to put children on medication and they're out of their seat or they're asking too many questions.
Or, you know, maybe they're really smart or maybe they whatever.
But we do not keep medicating children to make them conform to society and be in a cookie-cutter classroom because it's restriction in their brain.
And I know my brother, he's a drug addict today in jail because he was put on Ritalin at four years old.
What do you think is going to happen, right?
He was immature and he was a boy and he was a baby.
Exactly.
He was a kid growing up.
What do you think is going to happen?
You put him in a room for eight hours a day, five days a week, and his only qualification to be in that classroom is that he's 12 years old?
I mean, it's absolutely an audacity, and I'll tell you some good things that's come out of this pandemic, quote-unquote pandemic, which is a whole other story, but is that right now we're in an educational reformation, and I think that's exciting, much like Martin Luther, you know, 500 years ago.
Parents have had enough, and it's interesting.
I was on this school tour Traveling around the world.
And it's funny too, traveling around the nation.
It was funny too because I couldn't wait to get down to the South.
And I'm sorry I didn't get to Georgia.
And I wanted to get to Georgia.
I couldn't wait actually.
You can come now.
You can come on.
Come on.
I couldn't wait to get to the South.
And I was in Memphis, Tennessee.
And I'm so excited because so much of my trip was trying to get really to the Midwest, if you will.
Like, you know, I was in California, drove all the way up to Seattle, all the way across.
I got all the way down to New Orleans, if you can imagine.
We did like eight schools in Louisiana coming up, Mississippi, the whole bit.
And it was March 2020.
And I just had four schools and all of a sudden everything started shutting down.
I was just blown away.
And so I had to like drive all the way back to San Diego.
And when I was driving back, I was thinking to myself, because I knew research-wise, I said, it's going to be very interesting to see how many kids return to school when this whole nonsense is over.
And I asked my friends, you know, I'd say, how many do you think?
And they're like, what are you talking about?
I said, I'm basing it on three things right now.
Number one...
Parents for the first time are going to realize the absolute disgusting crap that their children are being taught or learned or exposed to in the classroom, especially third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, just Ridiculous.
And they didn't know, but they're going to find out now.
Number two, how far behind their kids are in certain subjects that they shouldn't be.
And number three, when given concentration and time to sit down and do your assignment, they're finished in two to three hours.
And I don't know what, have the rest of the day to play, to grow up, to do some cool things.
And suddenly I started seeing statistics that 20 to 30% of parents aren't sending their kids back to traditional public schools.
Meanwhile, I'm seeing a homeschool revolution.
We've gone from 5 million to over 15 million in the last two and a half years and growing.
And that is just explosive.
And I can tell you from all my research, the best, most educated, well-rounded students I've ever met are homeschool kids.
And that's just tripled based on national statistics.
But when you, like in Georgia, we're seeing, well, I've talked to the counselors in other counties, and we're seeing five and six and seven times more homeschooled than what we had before COVID. That's awesome.
Yeah, there's some, and yeah, I'm a public school educator, and I think there'll always be a place for it, because there's some kids that, you know, they just, their parents can't teach them at home, and they can't go to private school.
And my kids have all came up through public school, Until my six-year-old.
You know, he's after COVID. So when he started pre-K, it was right after COVID. And we went to Christian school.
And he's now in first grade in a Christian school.
And he's doing things that would be done in second and third grade in public school.
And he's so super smart anyway.
And he's learned the Bible.
And he told me the other day he wanted to be a pastor.
And then he told me...
Like a week later, he wanted to be an actor.
And I said, okay, well, pastor and actor are different.
And he said, they're kind of the same thing.
Well, maybe some pastors are actors.
I don't know.
But in his mind, I guess when they're preaching, they're acting.
I don't know what he thinks.
One of my favorite quotes is, if you're called to the ministry, never stoop to be a king or queen.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
Love that.
That's good.
I wish it was if you're ever called to run and serve as a pilot servant in politics.
Don't ever think you're a king or queen.
Because you're not.
You're a servant.
Yeah.
They forget who they are.
I didn't mean to cut you off, but I was going to say something that's interesting, too, about the statistics that you mentioned.
And there's a gentleman called George Land.
And he did a massive research project decades ago, and he was working with NASA, and he was developing this entire creativity test.
Because on one side, you had these quote-unquote astronauts that were analytical, you know, engineering, smart mathematics, but they had to have a creativity component to be able to, you know, think for themselves and under crisis.
And so he created this whole test, and he decided to put it into the school system and start testing kids.
And at five years old, children at five were testing at 98%.
Basically geniuses, you know, 98 out of 100 were little geniuses.
Exactly what you said, five years old.
He tested them again at 10 years old, the score dropped down to 30%.
He tested them again at 15 and it dropped down to 12%.
So you went from 98% to 12% in 10 years, mostly and specifically based on the educational system.
What they've done is they taught creativity out of kids and out of students.
Sit and get.
You sit and you listen to what I say and you get your name on the board or you move your pen or whatever.
If you disrespect me or you disobey or you have your own opinion, don't ask questions.
You're getting on my nerves.
Listen to what I'm saying.
I'm teaching you a test so you can go and you can mark A, B, C, or D and have no other thought about that.
We have to get away from that.
That's why we've dumbed down education.
It's so dumbed down.
People are not reading at nearly the level that they were before Maybe in the early 1900s, it's crazy how we should be going glory to glory there, not going backwards.
And people don't understand.
When you use big words, they're like, oh, well, look at you using big words.
I'm thinking, this isn't even a big word.
This is just for me reading.
Because if I wasn't an avid reader, I wouldn't even know the terminology to speak right now because we surely don't use that in our daily language.
And not that I have this vast vocabulary because I really don't.
Nothing compared to what you'd have in the early 1900s.
Really, when I'm writing something, I'll try to do synonyms and try to find something that sounds a little better because it's like...
And it's sad because the English language is beautiful and it's so rich in verbiage.
We could have just endless words that's used and we don't.
We're just lazy.
Yeah, I try to do that with the Britfield books.
And what's interesting, too, is book one is specifically designed for, you know, middle school, Tom and Sarah 12.
It's 384 pages.
We've actually, my youngest reader is seven.
Our oldest reader is 93 years old.
She read it in five hours.
Half our reading audience are adults, which statistically 55% of young adult readers are adults.
But, um, and then, and then book two, it's 474 pages, Thomas, they're 13, and then book three, they're 14, which is really fun.
So they grow that one year, and you know, children at that age, I would say one year is like a decade, you know, from like 12 to 13, 13 to 14.
Those are like two decades.
But I myself, I am struggling to find good words.
And I literally am always on the thesaurus.
I've got a sheet next to me of all these different adverbs and vocabulary words and things to try to bring in that flavor and bring in this richness, like you said, to the stories.
And it's interesting.
We've had 12-year-olds that have read Britfield and Lost Crown in five hours.
I think our record is two hours and 43 minutes by some little genius 13-year-old.
And that's not my gift.
I'm not a speed reader.
But I love reading.
And we're talking about reading.
I was just thinking about that last week.
Thank God that I had an interest in reading.
And my mom was worried.
Like in fourth grade, I was kind of behind.
And part of it was, I just didn't find something I liked.
And I think the first book I loved was Beverly Clearly, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, and Runaway Ralph.
And those just captivated me.
And then from there, I got into Alvin Fernald, Boy Genius, which was a fun little series.
And then Charles Dickens, and then some of the classics.
And it's like, because of that love of reading, I mean, reading is so wonderful.
I mean, even today, I mean, I'm always reading.
For an hour, if not more at night, I've been kind of on a huge biography thing for about three years.
I love history.
So I don't read so much fiction anymore since I guess because I'm writing it.
But having that gift to read, you know, is so important.
And I think it's interesting that Ritfield is starting to have an impact on literacy and kids that don't like to read.
And I know this because we're getting feedback from librarians across the nation for schools we've been to or they got a hold of the book.
And they're giving it to a reluctant 14 or 15-year-old boy or girl, mostly the boys.
And they've never read a sort of novel, if you will.
They'll read the graphic books and they'll read the picture stuff.
And they'll give them a Britfield book.
And in two to three days, they'll come back and have finished it.
And it's the first novel they've ever read.
And so that's been a fun caveat, if you will, that we did not expect.
But I think part of it is...
Is it the way that I write?
You know, it's based on the three-act structure.
It moves very quickly.
The description is very concise.
I don't get lost in description.
I think too many authors spend too much time with the flowery words, and they lose the story.
And on my last edit, my goal is when I'm, you know, I'm in the manuscript phase, I try to get rid of one sentence every page, no matter what.
Like, it's already tight.
And so I'm like, what can I get rid of?
What have I repeated?
What's not needed?
And you tighten it up.
And so it's just everything that you need is there and it just moves fast.
And so that's been kind of exciting.
So let me ask you a question.
With the series, or I guess you don't have the whole thing done yet, but with the ones that you've already have released, have you had anyone that came to you and said, so I believe in God now, or I see Christianity different, or I know they're not Christian books, But there's something about truth.
And so you don't have all this sorcery stuff and occult stuff and magic and it's simple and it's truth and it's basic and it's real life.
And there's something about truth that pierces our hearts for the Lord.
And so I'm just wondering if you have any testimonies yet to share because I feel like you will if you don't already.
It's interesting, just so you know, we have an 83-page study guide based on national standards for book one, so it can be taught in the classroom or homeschool group.
We actually developed a 99-page biblical version of it.
Where there's so much, if you will, it's just like Lewis and the wardrobe, and you can sort of analyze that book.
And that's how they're designed.
It's not preaching to the choir, because my demographic is everyone.
And it's just based on...
But you're right.
You're absolutely right.
It's based on the truth.
And as you're talking, it reminds me of what we're trying to do right now is redefine literature in America and globally.
And set the bar higher again.
And not just flash over substance, fiction.
You know what I mean?
Because at the end of the day, when you're in a binder problem, you cannot wave a wand to get yourself out of it.
And that's why these books are designed that way.
And it's alienating yourself from you.
I'm going to be a superhero, or if I could just be like Batman, or if I could just be like Spider-Man or Superman.
And it's all this disconnect from reality, which is what it's designed for.
And that's why there's this 80% gap for good Wholesome, authentic types of stories.
And so our plan was that basically what we're giving kids is a really good meal, right?
Right now, all they're doing is eating McDonald's, you know, and it smells good and it tastes good.
But when you're done reading it, it doesn't settle right, right?
It's not nourishing the soul.
It's not feeding you.
And so you read a Britfield book and it's like having a really good meal.
And when you set that standard, the next time you go out for McDonald's, it's not going to taste as good anymore.
I know it's kind of a funny analogy, but it's the best analogy I can make, you know what I mean?
Because what we're giving them, just like what you said, is we're giving them the truth.
We're giving them real facts, real history, real things that they can think and debate, real circumstances where Tom and Sarah are stuck and they're talking back and forth and they come up with an idea and sometimes the idea works and sometimes it's like, well, we won't do that again, you know?
And And then also it's just that sort of...
What's the word I'm trying to think?
People that they meet along the way that just sort of help out.
And there's a great scene where Tom and Sarah...
And it's funny too, because I lived in London for six months.
I lived in England for almost two years.
And I was in London, so it was a lot of fun.
And there's the...
The subways.
And mind the gap, if you've ever been there.
And so the most horrifying thing I can imagine, a 12-year-old Thomas here, like, they're trying to get over to Waterloo Station to take a train.
And they're getting on the subway.
And suddenly, like, you know, as the crowd comes in, you know, they get separated.
And Sarah's Sarah's on the subway, and Tom is out, and he watches her take off on the subway.
I mean, can you imagine a more horrifying moment?
And so he's just trying to freak out, and he said, you know, where's Waterloo Station?
And asking this guy, and he goes, well, just take a cab.
And Tom's like, oh, right, a cab.
And he had, like, one pound left, like one pound.
And he goes up to the cab driver and says, I need to get to Waterloo Station.
How much?
And it's like, I got a pound.
And the cab driver, like, kind of laughs at him and says, buddy, that wouldn't even cover my stop.
And then the cab driver says, you know what?
Get in.
It's one of those great kind of scenes of people giving.
It has that kind of thread all the way through these people that we all need.
God uses us.
Chad, he uses us, and you know, that's beautiful.
You make me cry.
That's beautiful.
That's something God's been dealing with me on.
He deals with me on different things, faith and different things.
Lately, he's been dealing with me on, we say, God's in control.
Well, he's not in control.
People get that so messed up.
He gave us authority and dominion over the earth.
But he does use people and he opens doors through us.
And if we're sensitive to his spirit and we're sensitive to his listening, he'll give you an option.
Just like the cab driver says, that wouldn't get you there.
All right, come on.
Because it's humanity.
And he created us to be givers and to be humble and to be kind.
Kindness is free.
And he put that in us and that desire.
And so if we are obedient to him and he lives in us and dwells in us, that's what's going to come out.
And you're right that that's how beautiful society is.
And having a book that shows that part of humanity where it's not all news sitting against hitting you in the face with racism and transgenderism and and how degenerates in society.
That's not reality.
It's just not reality.
Like you said, the majority of people, you know, we're good and we don't see those things because we don't recognize them.
We kind of just, you know, brush over them.
So having that ingrained and then the kids getting, you know, and raptured up in a book, you know, that takes them through reality has got to pierce truth in their heart.
Thank you.
Yeah, and it's interesting how I never try to force anything into the writing, but it's interesting like with book two.
I love book two.
Book two is my Empire Strikes Back.
You know, I was a big Star Wars fan, so I know that's a whole other story, right?
As a 12-year-old kid, right?
Oh my gosh, I saw Star Wars 13 times.
It's just like It was amazing.
And when I'm doing my writing workshops, we look at it and I say, what can we learn from Star Wars?
You know, why is it so successful?
I mean, why 50 years later?
Are we still talking about it?
Why is it a $63 billion franchise?
And we can pull a lot of things from successes like that.
But book two, which is Gritfield and the Rise of the Lion, takes place in France.
And France is very, you know, very different, right?
Very intense from England.
The shortest part, they're separated by 26 miles in the channel, but they could not be more different.
But there's a thread, if you will, of Tom and Sarah becoming aware that there's something out there that's got their back, if you will.
Someone that's watching out for them.
And it's really powerful.
And it's really cool because at the end of book two, I think there's a monk that they had met at the beginning.
And then they got separated.
He helped them escape and he got sent off to this horrible place in Nice or something like that.
And lo and behold, serendipity of coming back and they bump into him at the end.
We quote a part of Ephesians 6, that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood.
And it's just a beautiful biblical line that's in book two, but it fits.
It fits the scenario and stuff.
And then book three, too, we kind of build on that stuff.
So those ideas are threaded through there.
And I have received feedback mostly from adults that capture that.
They get it because they can read it and see it.
Not so much from the kids, but the feedback.
I get thousands of letters and emails and pictures from kids all over the, not only the nation, all over the world.
We got feedback from like Germany and And Australia, I'll tell you a really cool story.
I got an email a couple months ago from a Christian bookstore In New Zealand that knew of Britfield and Lost Crown.
She goes, love the books, want to order them.
And it's like, it's, you know, from us, it's hard because it's like New Zealand is really far.
There's no money to be made in shipping books to New Zealand.
But we did it, you know?
And she goes, and then like three weeks later, she goes, I just had an American couple that moved to our town.
They walked in the bookstore and said, do you have Britfield and Lost Crown?
She's a homeschooler.
And I thought, wow.
It's amazing.
And I'll tell you some interesting stories, too.
I had a friend that was called to a ministry in Israel, and this is like years ago, was starting a school, and he contacted me a couple years ago and said, hey, we're building our library.
And he goes, you know, could I get a couple of Britfield books?
And so we shipped him two cases of Britfield Lost Crown.
So this is in Israel right now.
But Field and Lost Crown is on death row in San Quentin prison because a friend of mine does a ministry there for 20 years and says that he gave one of the books to one gentleman there that's literally on death row and he loved it.
And he goes, would you sign it to him?
And so I not only signed it, but gave him 10 books.
So there's just like these amazing things that, if you will, The Lord can do.
You know what I mean?
And I can't help to think one of my favorite stories, one of my favorite biographies is D.L. Moody, if you're familiar with him.
And one of the most sort of uneducated, simple mans that created a mass awakening and brought probably millions of people in the United States and England to the Lord.
And he's one of my favorite stories.
Yeah.
Well, you know, you're planting seeds.
So even if the children don't say things that the adults are seeing because they're not cognizant of it yet, they're planting seeds.
And that's what grows in the trees.
And by the time you get through the series, they will be more mature readers and they will get it.
And, you know, there's no such thing as coincidences.
I don't believe in coincidences.
No, I don't either.
It might be the plan of the enemy.
It might be the plan of God.
It might be our own stupidity or our own, you know, hard work and success.
But anything worth having, it takes hard work.
And when you're talking about, you know, the end, the month coming back, I was thinking, you know, it's teaching children that things happen and it'll come back full circle and it's not a coincidence.
It's our feet and plans are ordered of the Lord.
And so things happen in certain ways because that's That's what's supposed to happen.
But we have to be in His will and on the right path because I don't believe it's in God's will for anybody to be molested or raped or be on drugs or be abducted and put in child sex trafficking.
But we make choices in life and sometimes we don't do anything wrong and bad things happen.
But we definitely can see humanity when it comes into play, and people are sensitive to the Holy Spirit, and they do the right thing, and then people are saved and set free.
Actually, it's a beautiful redemption kind of thing for them to see, and through the books, it's wonderful.
We don't have that.
We have a lot of books that are pushing a liberal agenda on children, and they're not ready for it, and it's still in their innocence.
Yeah, for us, it's easy to sell at Redfield because there's very little competition out there.
Like I said, there's a huge gap.
And Hollywood, what you have is, as you probably well know, is that 96% of all the media, and that includes literature, television, movies, all of it is owned by five corporations that are all interconnected, and it's all agenda-oriented.
And that's why Hollywood can never really put out a good movie.
And that's why we're really excited about the Britfield movie.
We think we're going to set box office records with the Britfield movie because it's like there's no competition.
There's nothing out there like that.
And people just want that.
Society is starving right now for good content.
Don't read the statistics because they're all lies, you know, that we're a divided nation.
We're not.
You know, it's just, I mean, that...
All these statistics are, you know, 30% of girls today think that, no, all lies, all lies, all lies.
I'll tell you how to get it sold and how to get it there is you get Christians behind you and you get the people behind you, people that care about freedom and care about this country, because you can see what happened to Bud Light and you can see what happened to Target and you can see what happened to all these companies.
And if they think that we're not the majority, and they're like, oh, well, this is silent majority, but we're not silent anymore.
We're very loud, and we're taking this country back to morality and to the people.
So I want two things.
I want to talk about the book a little bit.
I have a couple questions about it, and then I want to talk about the movie.
But as far as the book goes, can you talk about stats real quick?
Like how many books you've sold?
How many countries you're in?
Do you have any stats off the top of your head?
Yeah, some.
Some we share, some we don't, but we're in the top 1% of all books.
Within this time frame, we're in the top 1% of all books ever sold, which is amazing.
In fact, we've already outsold the first three James Bond or Ian Fleming books when they came out.
We passed that a long time ago.
We've passed where Roald Dahl's books, James the Giant Peach and Charlie the Chocolate Factory, were within the same time frame.
And we're on parallel, actually, with where Harry Potter was within the same timeframe, which is amazing.
And it's interesting.
And I read a biography on Roald Dahl, which is a fascinating story.
I mean, his background is just unbelievable.
And I was a big fan.
One of my favorite books when I was growing up was James and Giant Peach and then obviously Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
And I'll never forget, yeah, I think seeing that movie on Christmas, you know, we would come down from Newport Beach to San Diego and it was on television.
It was the first time I watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and it just mesmerized me.
And it's so funny if you remember the end scene where they're in the glass elevator and they smash through the ceiling and they're floating over those little red tile roofs.
Yeah, it freaked me out.
And here you are, you know, four years later, you know, with this balloon floating over the retail roofs in England.
You know, you just never know what's going to stick.
But no, so statistically, we're doing phenomenal.
What's interesting is everything we've done, and we launched officially in 2019 in August, so here we are four years later.
Everything we've done up until now really has been a soft launch, and we're just getting ready to go, if you will, global.
But we're being sold across the nation, of course.
We're being sold in Japan.
We're being sold in Italy, England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, all over.
Our first books to be published is in Poland.
Isn't that cool?
And I just received book two.
In Poland.
In Polish, I'm sorry.
And I just got that about last week.
And so it's funny, too, because we've got about 15 countries right now that are going to be buying the rights.
We have South Korea, which is fantastic.
South Korea for us is our beachhead for Asia.
We have a publisher in Japan.
We have one in Indonesia.
We have one in...
Anyway, in Russia.
But that's on hold.
We have one in Mexico.
We have Spain.
We have two in France.
We have two in England, potentially.
One in Sweden.
One in Brazil.
And so I got this wonderful literary agent.
She's been in the game for 30 years.
Her name's Lori.
And we were just at the London Book Fair in April.
We're going to be at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October.
And so we're at all these book fairs.
And it's really kind of cool because I think I'm going to try to be at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year.
And lo and behold, full circle, we were talking about, she knows everybody very well in the industry, especially like at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
So they always give her like a great booth.
And we are right across from Scholastic.
Wow.
And Scholastic is the publisher of Harry Potter.
Well, they're the United States publisher of Harry Potter.
And so I just thought, isn't that kind of cool that when they're looking across the way, they're going to see Britfield posters.
I just thought.
And they're going to think, we should have gotten then.
So tell me, who did publish your book?
We built our own publishing company.
Wow.
That's interesting.
That's interesting because my husband actually started a publishing company for his songs because he writes songs and is trying to get them pushed out.
He was like, I'm just going to start a publishing company because I can't get people to do publishing.
So I'm just going to publish on myself.
And so that's interesting.
Smart.
Yeah.
I mean, we've built it over four years.
I mean, it's an incredible in-depth...
Good.
You can publish my book.
Well, it's designed for that, eventually.
We want to do that, you know, with really great content.
And it's like, we have more pull and more in than most small publishing houses do out there.
I mean, we've got national, global connections, all retail.
We've got a database of over 1.4 million contacts.
I've got 60,000 media contacts throughout the United States, England and Australia.
We're one of the most awarded books in children's fiction.
I mean, all of this has come about and stuff.
And we're a maverick, and I love it.
We're outside the system.
In fact, we're redefining the system.
And so when people say to you, it's never done like that, say good.
Right?
Creative, right?
If we're creative, we do things a different way.
Because all rules are out the door now, and all systems are being challenged and stuff.
So we're excited.
Talk about the movie.
So tell me how that came about and where you're going to film it.
Yeah, it's interesting.
I come from a film background, and I was into script writing when I was like 17, 18, 19, and that was a bit of my background, and I loved it, and I learned, you know, like I said, crafting a story, and it's hard.
Writing a script is brutal.
So, like, if you have a 90-minute movie, technically you have about a 90-minute script, and it's very concise, and something happens on page 8, and something happens on page 28, and right, you know what I mean?
Plot points and shifts and character arcs, And so you don't have a lot of description.
If you're reading a movie, sometimes people are like, hey, here's my script.
It's like 200 pages.
And I'm like, is it a miniseries?
Or you want to do a two-hour movie, which would be 120 pages, maybe 130.
So that's kind of been my background.
So it's so funny.
I didn't try to write Britfield as a movie, if you will.
But 90% of the people that have read Britfield and Lost Crown say it reads like a movie.
And so I think subconsciously, and praise God, I shifted.
I wrote it that way when I was designing it.
And it's so funny because midpoint, you know, in any kind of story is a key transition that You work your first half of your story to that midpoint and it pushes the second half.
And it's kind of a revelation.
And it's funny because right in midpoint is where they crash land at Windsor Castle, which is probably my favorite scene in the entire book.
And they find out a huge revelation and stuff.
So it's interesting.
So it's always been about the movie.
I had three potential producer offers and I went with a gentleman, Sam Howard and his father, Andy.
And Andy Howard's been involved in...
Hollywood for over 40 years, and he's done like 50 plus movies.
And he kind of came out of retirement, if you will.
And I sent him a book a couple of years ago.
And they get books all the time, right?
And it's like, oh, great, another one.
And he read it.
He goes, hey, it's pretty good.
He saw it.
He goes, oh, my gosh.
He's like, this is really great.
I mean, this has got this global appeal to it.
And so we started the process.
So we've been in development for almost two years.
It's interesting with August, but it was two years ago, August, that I signed.
Contract with Sam.
Just talked to Sam this week and stuff.
So we're transitioning now from development into pre-production.
This morning I was actually just finishing up the marketing plan for the film.
And if all goes well, we'll actually start filming in spring of 2024.
Awesome.
And the idea is that we'll film some in England and then the rest in Eastern Europe.
That's just kind of the way it's done.
But I want to film as much as I can in England.
And we have our roster of all the British actors that we're hoping to bring in.
And it's kind of a who's who in your dream list.
And it's funny, too, because I actually just finished that about a week ago.
I spent three weeks on it.
Sam had put together the list, and then what I did is I had to go through it, research, see if it was a fit, and look at their backgrounds and stuff.
And so we've got...
I wanted Colin Firth for Detective Gowerstone.
But he's finally aged out, and so I'm like, dang it.
But we have some pretty cool potential actors, and we're looking at some great uh directors too uh one that uh like stuff i can't talk about if you want but um we'll pray and my and my and my my followers i want y'all to pray that the right people are picked the right directors everything seamless the right actors the one actress is the one that people are going to fall in love with and it's going to resonate with them so y'all be praying for this we praying for the film We're good
easily done, effortless.
It's just seamless.
And so we'll just be praying for you.
And my followers will.
They'll pray.
I appreciate that.
That's the greatest thing they can do for me.
And so I'm always kind of like hesitant too, because it's like I have my list, but I know when it's all said and done, we'll get the right director for this film.
And And we'll get the right actors.
And it's not a lot of the type of A-list actors.
I mean, there's key roles.
There's Professor Hainsworth.
He's a professor kind of in his 70s that they meet at Oxford.
Tom and Sarah do.
And they're like desperate trying to get to London.
And he eventually helps them get there.
So he's kind of a key role.
He's a great figure.
Detective Gowerstone that's fanatically trying to capture them after they escape from Weatherly.
That's a key role.
So you have a couple of those key roles.
And then a lot of great character actors.
And then obviously Tom and Sarah that will be sort of up and coming British actors, you know, with a background and probably theater and a little bit of television.
So, you know, it doesn't need that because it's all about the story.
I do think it's a type of movie and movies that will attract a lot of...
And we've got to be careful with actors to begin with.
You know, not many of them have a great background or...
And so you gotta be careful with that.
But the point is, is I think it's going to attract a lot of really great A-list actors because it's Britfield.
It's the Britfield movie.
And it's like just to be, just to have a role to come on for like a day or three days.
You know what I mean?
I've always sensed that from it.
And so I'm excited.
Like literally, we just transitioned recently within the last month or two from that sort of background development, meeting with a lot of studios, building the team to where we are right now.
I have the movie script I just got sent the second draft of the movie script three days ago.
And so I'm reading it tomorrow.
So I'm very excited about that.
And this should be a lot more refined.
We've got a wonderful scriptwriter that we hired Christmas Eve of last year.
So I'd say within the next six weeks, things will start to come together really well.
And I think within the next couple of months, you'll start to actually start to see some press releases and a lot of buzz happening.
Chad Stewart, tell everybody how, where would you rather them order the books from?
Which vendor?
Yeah, Amazon's fine just because it's fast and easy and everything's on there.
But our website's great, Britfield.com.
So B-R-I-T-F-I-E-L-D, Britfield.com.
It's an award-winning website.
It has over 400 pictures of England.
So everywhere where Tom and Sarah go in the book, you can see it.
So I can talk about Yorkshire and the Moors, but you can go to the website and see the Moors.
I could talk about, you know, Oxford and High Street, but you can actually see it.
It's got interactive maps.
It's got all our products.
We actually have a Gritfield and Lost Crown audio version done by an award-winning British voice talent, Ian Russell.
He does it in 11 and a half hours.
He does all the characters.
And so we won a Parents' Choice Gold Medal Award for the audio.
And then obviously the e-book, hard book cover, soft cover.
So the website's good.
I think we're having a problem right now with the...
Uh, store that I found out yesterday cause I didn't, I did another interview and someone was getting emails and like, it's not working.
And I'm like, I didn't know.
So, uh, the website's there.
Hopefully that will work.
Give it, give it 24 hours and we'll be back up.
But if you, if you order on the website, you'll get signed copies.
I sign them myself.
The order comes directly to me.
I sign it.
I put a bookmarker in it and a little Brickfield sticker.
So that's pretty cool.
So go to the website instead of Amazon.
Do that.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If you're going to.
So absolutely.
That'd be great.
Well, thank you so much for coming on.
We are so delighted to have you and I hope everybody will go buy it.
I'm going to go order right now when I get off of here.
So everybody go order books and we will look so forward to the movie.
And maybe whenever the movie gets done, you can come back on and tell us how that happened.
Love to, yeah.
God's going to do miracles, Chad.
He's going to do miracles the whole time.
You need to be writing them down.
As things happen, it's like God had to do this.
This had to have been God.
You need to write it down.
So when you come back on these interviews, you can tell it.
We've had a lot of them.
We have a partnership with a huge retailer that's in 55,000 schools across the nation.
I think it was Easter, two years ago, that they got together as a group.
They've been around for 30 years, and they were voting on the books they wanted.
And they picked Britfield and Lost Crown as their number one middle school book.
And through that, and through their orders, we're in thousands of schools across the nation already.
And we're being taught in hundreds of schools every semester.
And when Brickfield comes in to be taught, guess what?
One of the other crap books get knocked out of there.
And I'm talking about the stuff with the agenda and all the other, you know, stuff.
Yes, amen, amen.
Well, thank you so much for coming on.
And we'll look forward to seeing y'all next week on the Jesus Guns and Babies on Steve Peters Network, 8 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time.
I love you.
God bless you and God bless America.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
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