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July 20, 2024 - 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 Guns and Babies.
	I'm your host, Dr.
	Candice Taylor, and I have a returning guest.
	He's actually the first person I've had on three times.
	So it's great.
	It's going to be awesome.
	You're going to love it.
	I'm going to start with 2 Corinthians 5.17, King James Version.
	Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
	All things have passed away.
	Behold, all things are become new.
	So if you are in Christ, you shouldn't like you did before.
	In fact, if you've been in Christ for 20 years, you shouldn't look like you did 10 years ago.
	Because we should constantly be renewing ourselves and becoming more and more like Christ.
	Are we perfect?
	No.
	Are we ever going to be perfect?
	No.
	But we should be like Him more every day.
	And the Bible says that obedience is better than sacrifice.
	And so if we're obedient to His Word and we're changing to be like Him, then we're going to just be blessed beyond measure every single day.
	So anyway, welcome to Jesus, Guns, and Babies for the third time.
	This is one of my favorite authors in America, maybe in the world, because, I mean, you're going to be all over the world.
	C.R. Stewart with Brutfield series.
	Thank you for having me.
	Great to be back again for the third time.
	I feel very honored.
	Very honored.
	Thank you.
	Well, I'm so glad to have you.
	And when we talked, it was like, oh yeah, let's get you back.
	My nephew loves your books.
	My son does too, but he's a little younger, so I'm having to read it to him.
	But my nephew has read every one of your books, and he asked me last week, my family calls me Candy, and he was like, Candy, when is Mr.
	Stewart going to come out with the next book?
	I was like, baby, I don't know, but I'll reach out to him.
	So anyway, I'm so excited.
	He's going to be more excited than me, but I am so excited.
	So let's talk about, maybe we should go and talk about the Brit Field Series and bring them up today a little bit, a little bit of history in case this is the first time they've heard you.
	And then let's talk about the new bit.
	Yeah, that'll be fun because a lot of exciting updates to things that are happening.
	But real quick, originally from Newport Beach, California, back east, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 16 years.
	I did my undergraduate in British Literature, European History, which will probably explain a lot about the Britfield series.
	And then went on to post-grad and then graduate school.
	Was an investment banker, if you can imagine, for years.
	Bored, just dying to do something creative.
	I think we're all born creative and I think we're all dying to do something creative.
	And so had the idea for Britfield and Lost Crown about 12 years ago.
	And I was at this boring seminar, Providence, Rhode Island, and I started just to doodle and did a circle, three lines, a basket, a boy and a girl, and I wrote the boy in the balloon, and you can see it right behind me.
	And I just thought, you know, that would be kind of fun.
	You know, I thought, like, it could take place in present-day England, start up in Yorkshire, Northern England, about this orphan, Tom, 12 years old, been an orphan his whole life, been at Weatherly for six years.
	And this is the year he's going to escape, but he's not going anywhere without his best friend Sarah.
	And so somewhere along the lines of Common Air, Hot Air Balloon, but they're relentlessly chased by the illustrious Detective Gowerstone.
	So it took me four years, 2,500 hours to produce book one, which is now a seven-book series.
	I want to pause you for one second, and I want to say one thing about this book, because I am still reading this book where I'm almost done, and we read it at night before we go to bed, but when you were telling me about the book in the first interview, and you were like, oh, it's a hot air balloon, I'm like, I mean...
	Hot air balloon, okay.
	I'm not real intrigued by that.
	And growing up, you know, I was an 80s kid, 90s kid.
	I thought, hot air balloon, that's kind of...
	A lot of stories had hot air balloons.
	Listen, this whole story is amazing.
	It is amazing.
	I believe it's inspired by God.
	I believe you're so creative and you're gifted, Chad.
	I'm telling you, this...
	This story is like nothing I've ever, ever, ever read.
	And my seven-year-old is so enthralled with this hot air balloon.
	Now he wants, and you have this beautiful imagery of, and I don't want to give the book away, but there's this whole imagery of all these hot air balloons in one spot, like multiple hot air balloons.
	I can just like see it in my mind's eyes.
	I hope the movie will do it justice because in my brain it's gorgeous and overwhelming and just you know how when you read a book you see it for yourself and my seven-year-old he's like that's my favorite part mama so that's his favorite part so far is all these hot air balloons and but I just wanted to say that because maybe somebody else is like me and you're talking about hot air balloons they're like hot air balloons listen It is amazing how the whole thing happens and I won't tell you because you're going to read it for yourself but when they
	find this balloon everything that happens with this balloon it's like can happen in real life.
	It's not supernatural where it couldn't happen but it is supernatural because God we're spiritual beings and physical bodies and He presents opportunities to us that are supernatural whether we realize it or not.
	So because this is real and it can really happen like Legit happened, but it had to have been supernatural because everything happened coincidentally, which I don't believe in coincidences, to make a perfect plot and plan to get them where they had to go, right?
	And so anyway, I just wanted to say that because I didn't tell you that before because I didn't want to be like, ugh, try a hot air balloon.
	Listen, it's amazing.
	It's the best hot air balloon story I've ever...
	I couldn't have ever thought it would be that wonderful.
	So I just wanted to say that.
	No, that was great.
	And I love that it's anchored in simplicity in some sense.
	You know what I mean?
	Tom's goal and Sarah's goal was to escape from Weatherly.
	Is to get to London.
	Why London?
	Why not?
	It's the greatest city in the world.
	So it's kind of a simple goal.
	But along the way, you get this whole royal mystery.
	It's all these people they bump into, those quote-unquote, I call them Christendipity, you know, because it's not really serendipity.
	And then I just use simple things like the hot air balloon, and I make it spectacular and extraordinary.
	And I think there's something that's so fun and exciting about a hot air balloon in the sense of whenever you're driving and if you ever see one up in the sky, you're like, oh my gosh, that is so cool.
	Still, it holds that sort of mysticism, if you will, that excitement.
	And you're wondering, like, what's it look like up there?
	What are they seeing?
	What are they going through and stuff?
	And so that's kind of why I picked it as just sort of a vehicle.
	I think it's also there's a lot of dichotomy against it.
	It's like you have the freedom.
	Here's these two orphans that have been trapped in this horrible place, whether the orphanage.
	And they get in this hot air balloon, which is sort of the epitome of freedom, right?
	I mean, it's just like you're floating up in the air, yet you really have absolutely no control, and you're at the mercy of the weather and propane.
	And so, yeah, so you're just about getting to the point where, oh yeah, and then there's the helicopter scene, and then you're getting to Oxford.
	Oxford's fun.
	Oxford's a great pivoting point.
	They meet Professor Hainsworth.
	And then Windsor's midpoint, that's my favorite.
	I think in the entire book.
	But anyway, so I wrote it.
	We launched it officially August 2019, 10 years from concept to launching it 2019.
	We started a national tour and I drove 9,000 miles, visited 23 states, presented over 200 schools in front of more than 40, 50,000 students.
	And so that was really exciting and It was everything from private, to public, to Catholic, to Christian, to homeschool, to you name it, even a homeschool forum in Reno, Nevada, or Carson, Nevada.
	And I saw it all, you know, four through eight, sometimes two, three, four hundred students in an auditorium, and we were really there to inspire them about creativity, independent thinking, Individuality, that they're all born with talent, and they're all born with ideas, and really just get them excited about reading and about writing and about storytelling and stuff like that.
	So it's been extraordinary.
	And since we launched it, it's been one of the most awarded books in children's fiction to date, if you can imagine.
	It's in the top 1% of all books ever published within the same time frame, and kind of outselling most of the other ones.
	We'll Our goal is to outsell Harry Potter in the next eight to ten years, which we will actually do and accomplish.
	And we're the complete opposite of the Harry Potter, where Harry Potter's all about witchcraft, you know, demonology, cultism, all that kind of stuff.
	Britfield's about family, friendship, loyalty, and courage.
	And as you said, what's great about the series is it's anchored in reality.
	I try to make the scenes as authentic as possible.
	There is no mysticism.
	There is no magic.
	There's no demigods, no superheroes, none of that.
	And I was reading a comment the other day.
	Someone had read book two, Britfield and the Rise of the Lion, which takes place in France.
	It's now six months later.
	And she said, it's remind me a lot of James Bond, but with more characters and a purpose.
	I love that.
	Like more of a purpose than just James Bond.
	It's like this book is like this fast-paced action series.
	But it's got all these great characters, and it's got a purpose to it and stuff, and I think it does.
	So anyway, since then, we launched Book 2, Britfield and Rise of the Lion, takes place in France in July 4, 2021.
	In September 2022, we launched Britfield and the Return of the Prince.
	Book 3 takes place in Italy.
	Tom and Sarah are now 14 years old.
	That's 575 pages.
	And as you can see, we're sort of traveling the world, and in every book, they're one year older, which is a lot of fun.
	And now we're getting ready to launch in about two months, September 2024, Britfield and the Eastern Empire.
	Tom and Sarah are now 15 years old.
	There's a third person, Hunter, who's 13.
	I introduced Hunter in book three.
	I don't want to give anything away, but it's pretty cool.
	And so I'm really excited.
	I'm obviously excited about book four.
	It's a huge pivoting point for us.
	The series will continue.
	Book five will be in Asia.
	Book six will be in South America, and then book seven will come back to the United States.
	And then Thomas will be 18 years old.
	And at that point we've got a seven book series.
	Every book will be followed by a major motion picture.
	We're moving into pre-production now for the first of seven major motion pictures.
	This is a finished Third draft polished script for the movie.
	This is about a year and three months worth of work, about a quarter of a million dollars.
	That's what a quarter of a million dollars looks like.
	Very expensive.
	But we're excited.
	So we have that moving.
	We just launched the series in Britain, of all things.
	And fun to share the news with you, because two weeks ago we literally just launched in Britain.
	So now Britfield and Lost Crown, the trilogy, is rolling out across Britain from Scotland to Wales and all the way down to Down south, and going out to all the bookstores, retail library, and schools.
	We've got a publicist that we've hired that's going to be marketing it, and then we've been doing campaigns on our end, and then I'm probably planning a trip over there three to four weeks in September into October, starting up in Yorkshire.
	There's like three or four schools that are literally close to where quote-unquote Weatherly is, and then just do a whole tour Of Britain and maybe even a little bit in Ireland.
	And that's going to kick off 18 months worth of world tours.
	We're going to do eight weeks in Eastern Europe.
	Poland will be our beachhead there.
	We're just about to lock in the international rights to South Korea, which is pretty cool.
	And South Korea is our beachhead to Asia.
	We're about to sell the rights to Japan.
	And then we have about other 18 countries that we're locking it in.
	We're negotiating right now for the global rights.
	For the audio version and the global rights for the e-book version, which would be incredible.
	So those are kind of some updates.
	We have more, but that's kind of a quick overview, and then we can dig in and go any direction you want to.
	So do you have it already translated into Korean?
	No, what happens is it's just like Poland.
	We sold the rights to a prominent...
	They're actually, I think, the most prominent publisher in Poland.
	So we sell the rights to them, and then they...
	Translate it into Polish and so it's nice because number one we don't have to do anything and number two who's better at translating it into Polish than they would.
	It does beg the question, though.
	I think I'll have to learn Polish and then be able to read it.
	Because it's like, you know, there's some humor in the book, especially being British.
	You know, there's some dry humor, some moments and stuff, and you don't know what's lost or captured and things like that.
	But I think the story's there.
	But it's exciting.
	I mean, for us, Poland is big because Poland's our beachhead for Eastern Europe.
	And I think the Ritfield series will do extraordinarily well in Eastern Europe.
	Will do very well in Hungary.
	Will do well in Romania.
	And Czech Republic.
	In fact, we've already got a publisher there that's interested.
	I think we'll do great in Lithuania.
	We've got a publisher that's interested there.
	Estonia.
	So we have all these different really cool countries.
	That's our beachhead there.
	And then South Korea.
	Again, an amazing country.
	Really a leader.
	A lot of Christians, too.
	A lot of conservatives.
	And so that's our beachhead for Asia.
	And so this is, you know, we've mapped this thing out for 10 years.
	So it's not like we're...
	I'm out in Southern California.
	San Diego, so it's not like we're sitting here focused on California or even the United States.
	We are, but it's our beachhead.
	It's just one country, and it's always been a global series.
	It's a timeless classic.
	You know, our youngest reader's seven, oldest reader's 93 years old.
	55% of our reading audience are adults.
	We get feedback all the time.
	It's really cute.
	I got a letter.
	Actually, about five weeks ago from a 13-year-old, and she's read book one like five times, loves it, loves the whole series, asked me all these questions like, is the committee real and are secret societies real?
	And she's waiting about book four.
	Then she asks me, she goes, what's Tom's middle name?
	I don't know.
	I have to think about that stuff.
	So I just sent her this package.
	I was delayed.
	I'm usually good about getting back and stuff.
	And her mom sent me this email like a week ago and said, oh my gosh, she goes to the post office every day.
	She goes, could you just send her something?
	I felt so bad.
	So I sent her this like awesome care package, signed poster, all this information.
	It was so cool.
	Her mom was like videoing it.
	You know what I mean?
	Oh my Just excited.
	And it's just, I'm saying that to say that the excitement that this series is bringing to kids is unlike anything I think any of us have seen before because it's real.
	You know what I mean?
	You can't get all psyched and motivated with the Hunger Games, kids killing kids or Or, you know, Harry Potter, which is just, you know, witchcraft and just a disconnect from reality.
	And it's like 90% of the stuff out there is a disconnect from reality.
	It makes kids feel less than they are because they don't have superpowers because they're not supernatural or all those types of things.
	And it's just like, you know, here's Tom and here's Sarah, just average kids and stuff that, that compliment each other.
	And they, they use their wits.
	They use creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration.
	Sometimes they fail and they learn from their mistakes.
	And it's just such a beauty and a harmony Throughout the entire series and it's just anchored in friendship, family, loyalty, courage, hope, and faith.
	It's nothing like it.
	Like you said, there's just absolutely nothing like it out there on the market.
	I didn't know that when I was writing it.
	This is definitely a God thing.
	I'm grateful for the success it's had.
	It's been a tremendous amount of work.
	You're looking at 25, 30,000 hours since this thing started.
	You're looking at millions of dollars that's been put into this thing.
	We're going for a global phenomenon.
	We're trying to raise the bar now in literature.
	Among other areas, education.
	We're trying to bring creativity back to education.
	We're trying to impact films and media.
	We think the first movie will be one of the most successful films in cinematic history, so that's exciting.
	Well, I want to say, like, all that, and me being a Christian, and I love the Lord, and I love the supernatural so much because that's where we pray, and that's where we hear from the Lord, and we hear the voice of the Lord.
	And so when I'm reading it, and when I'm looking at, and I haven't, I'm going to I have a month left of summer, so I'm going to finish these other books so that I can intelligently talk to you about this.
	But as I'm reading, and I know, and I've done two interviews with you already, and I want to get into some of the manuscripts and things in the amount of time.
	Because your time, and helping authors and writers to see the amount of time and energy spent here.
	Because last time we were here, you were talking about, you know, The manuscript for the movie.
	And then you were still working on book four.
	So I didn't want to get there.
	But I want to go back really quick.
	And I want to touch on what I see as a Christian and as a mother.
	When I'm reading and I'm seeing this.
	Versus, you know, I love the Twilight series.
	And I ended up burning them all.
	Because it was like an obsession.
	I love them so much.
	And I even read the first two bits of Harry Potter.
	And then was like, no.
	This is well written.
	But it is demonic.
	It is evil.
	And so, and then, you know, of course, Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe, I love that.
	But like you said before, there's still a supernatural component that's coming out that looks like it's not.
	You have to have something extra, more than yourself, to get it accomplished.
	But still, Chad, as I'm reading your book, and I'm seeing, and I hear you talking about it, We're created with gifts.
	We're created in the likeness and the image of God who is the creator.
	Right?
	And so we don't need anything else.
	Just ourselves and Him.
	Right?
	So whenever these children are reading your books and they're seeing all these things happen.
	Right?
	Things go right.
	Things go wrong.
	But then things, God makes a way, right?
	And you don't even say that, but they can know their walk with the Lord and they can see, kind of like Job was, all these things happened to Job in the Bible.
	But in the end, He made it through and was closer to God than ever before.
	Right?
	So I see this like lining of the Lord in the Holy Spirit in your book without you even talking about Him.
	It's there.
	And I don't believe in coincidences.
	And so all these things that are happening, God orders our steps.
	My husband Ryan always says that righteous man's steps are ordered of the Lord.
	So there was a way for them to get out.
	There was a way for freedom.
	We just have July 4th.
	We all want freedom.
	We all want to be free.
	And so there's a way and a pathway to that victory and that freedom that we can do on our own with hard work and with expectation and a goal and a mindset to get there.
	God gives us every gift we need to get it done.
	So anyway, I just wanted to say that there is supernatural components of your book That are in the reader.
	It's not in your book.
	Your book gives them this manuscript of normalcy, but we know that we're supernatural beings.
	And so when we read it, we can make it what we want.
	And that's what makes it beautiful.
	You don't have to give all this other stuff And create it for the reader.
	Let us do it.
	It makes it so much more powerful.
	And so anyway, I just, I think, I know it's inspired by God.
	I know that God has given this to you because it is written beautifully.
	It's one of the best works of literature I've ever read.
	Just the way that you meet, you know, an adult can read it and be enthralled and a kid can read it and be enthralled.
	And that is supernaturally done.
	There's very few series that do that.
	That was wonderfully articulated.
	And yeah, the thread is there throughout.
	It's almost impossible for it not to be there, which is kind of exciting.
	And it's just so simple, too.
	There's just little simple things that happen along the way.
	Like if you remember when they first get out of the orphanage and it's like, you know, they're terrified and it's nighttime and it's cold.
	They have to track four miles to the train station where they're hoping to, you know, sneak on a train and get to London.
	And they bump in that little cottage, Wilbury, I think he is.
	He's like an angel.
	Yeah, really, right?
	And he takes him in.
	And gives him a hot meal and a brand new sweater.
	And my counselor in me is like, oh Lord, help him not be a pedophile.
	Help him not molest Sarah.
	Like in my brain, you know, like you would never write that in the book.
	But as a counselor and seeing that, you're thinking, oh Lord, they're in a stranger's house.
	I'm like, Lord, protect them.
	So I'm praying for these children as I'm reading this book, right?
	And so you take your own experience in your life and you're reading books.
	And you apply it there.
	So all of your readers can do that because of the simplicity and the, I mean, it's just a wholesome book that has, like, you're fighting for them the whole time.
	You're reading, you're fighting for them, and you're pushing, and you're wanting them to be successful, you know?
	Yeah, I think there is something very angelic about them.
	It's just, it's a beautiful little scene.
	It's very tiny and And then he goes, you know, it starts to rain and they're like kind of daunting.
	He's like, don't worry, I'll drive you to the train station.
	And as they're getting out, he gives Tom a 10 pound note, more money than Tom's ever seen in his entire life, and says, you know, take care of Sarah.
	And it's just so sweet.
	It's those little things that happen along the way.
	Which shows you how God provides.
	Yep, we all need that.
	We all need that bump, you know, when we're at that desperate moment or holding on to the end of the rope and someone comes along and helps.
	And I just, I mean, I love Professor Hainsworth, but I don't want to give anything away.
	But he is just this incredible father figure.
	But again, you know, I'm very authentic in writing it, you know, and so it's...
	I never try to suspend reality too much.
	I have a little bit of fun with the balloon, but most of it's all very authentic and the propane tank and how high it can go and the wind currents.
	I do all that research.
	I try to make it as real as possible.
	On that line, what you're saying is I think these books are harder to write because I often write myself into a corner because it's real, and I can't sit there and say, oh, what was that magic spell?
	Oh, yeah, say that, and then all of a sudden, boom, the wall melts away, or boom, gold coins appear in their hands.
	It's easier to do that.
	It has to be easier.
	Yeah, and so I just remember so many times, I'm like, gosh, how would I get out of here?
	And so I'm doing all this thinking as I'm writing the story to make it as real as possible, as authentic.
	I'm doing just deep research and things you can't begin to Fathom, you know, like book four, which we'll get into.
	We get into quantum computers, quantum mechanics.
	Wow.
	Quantum encryption.
	We get into one world digital currency, manipulation of the stock market.
	All this stuff is threaded in book four.
	Wow.
	When I say threaded, meaning it's not the main story.
	You know, it's about Tom and Sarah and this journey and trying to find the Britfields and all this kind of stuff.
	And then I have all these other cool characters and things going on, but it's very, very powerful.
	And it's so cool because kids of 12, 13, and 14 are picking up on this stuff.
	They're not stupid, right?
	And it's because I don't talk down to them.
	I don't write down to them.
	I write with them.
	I treat them.
	I elevate them, if anything.
	You know what I mean?
	And I think that's how the books are.
	I feel like I'm an adult that's writing exciting Bond meets Born meets Narnia books for adults that kids like.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, technically, obviously, it's for the kids and stuff, but I'm just saying that's kind of what it feels like.
	And I think that's why...
	Adults love it so much.
	I remember feedback from, you know, an 84-year-old woman in Canada says, I love this series.
	You know, this 50-year-old woman in the Netherlands that literally bought book three and had it shipped out there for like $40, $50.
	And she goes, I've never read anything like this.
	I love it.
	And so we're really having that impact globally and across the board.
	And I think that's what's fun about it.
	I think they're smart stories.
	They're sophisticated stories.
	They're well-researched stories.
	They're fast-paced stories.
	I don't dilly-dally with too much description.
	I don't waste time.
	Just to give you an idea, like with book four, but we'll get into it, is I spent four months just outlining book four.
	I had 80 scenes, and so four months of making sure every single scene was plotted the way that it needed to be.
	I was literally aiming for 450 pages.
	I came in at about 462 pages a year and a half later.
	You did good!
	Wow!
	And I just finished my first paper edit, which we can talk about, because it's very different from the laptop to paper.
	And that took five weeks, and I literally lost about 12 pages from an already tight story.
	Of just cutting away, if you will, just wasn't needed, or extra description, or it's too wordy.
	And so it's so tight.
	And I think that's part of that.
	But you know what?
	Don't do away with that.
	Like, keep those pages.
	Because I know, like, Stephanie Meyer with the whole Twilight thing, she kept making more money and more money and more money because she would come up with this stuff she'd already done and just, like, give it to the people.
	Like, oh, let me write it from this perspective.
	Let me show you this way.
	I actually wrote it this way and just for fun because I just couldn't get enough of the characters.
	And then here she has another book that she makes millions of dollars off of and the readers love it.
	So don't throw that stuff away because we want to read it later once it's like a phenomena.
	Yeah, I've got like this thick thing of all my paper edits stuff.
	It's pretty cool.
	So big boxes of it stuff.
	Here's the extended version.
	Here's the longer version that didn't make the cut.
	Yeah, it's interesting.
	I mean, again, it's just a word here, it's a sentence there, and it's just erratic and stuff, but it just tightens it, and it's always on the three-act structure.
	I come to writing from a screenplay or movie script background, and so it taught me lots of things.
	It taught me to enter on the action, leave on the action, taught me economy of words, taught me how to move the action to keep dialogue tight, and And so I think that's just it.
	I mean, that's why kids just get so sucked into it.
	It's not like there's a lull or, oh, okay, I could stop here.
	I just keep it going.
	And I layer it, too, chapter by chapter.
	I usually got three parallel stories going within every chapter, each story maybe three or four pages.
	And that could be Tom and Sarah here, and then you got Kate and Oliver over here, and then you got Fontaine and Gower Stone over here.
	Some of the characters that you'll realize as you get more into the series and stuff.
	And so it's just kind of nice to keep it.
	And television does a lot.
	Really good television does that now where you've got like the series that you're watching and there's like three separate sections of characters, you know what I mean?
	And it's like it pops back on this and then ends there and then pops up back there.
	And it just makes it very interesting and you're kind of paralleling a lot of different things at once.
	Well, don't When I'm reading it and I'm thinking about everything you have going on, what I love the most of everything is that you don't have a political agenda there.
	And so everybody knows, like I'm a Republican, conservative Republican, everybody that watches my show knows that.
	You do not have any political agenda in these books, and I love that.
	I love that so much.
	You let the reader, you know, you can perceive it however you want to with your own, like I said, Christianity, or if you're another religion, or if you're, you know, a Republican, a Democrat, Independent, whatever, you can look at it and filter it through your own thing, but you don't have an agenda where you're thinking, hmm, You know what?
	He's a liberal.
	Or you know what?
	He's a Trumper.
	Or you know what?
	He is pushing this ideology down my throat.
	Never, not one time do you do that.
	And I love that so much.
	And that is what's going to reach everybody because we're so sick of divisive narratives being shoved down our throat through the media.
	But then now through books and movies and everything else.
	So I love that.
	Thank you for not doing that.
	And that makes it so much better and vast.
	Everybody can enjoy it.
	Well, thank you for that.
	And yeah, I mean, I keep it clean, if you will.
	You know what I mean?
	And I don't bring in that agenda.
	And I think that's what's very different also from most of the books out there.
	There's always that thread or here it comes.
	It just ruins it.
	Television's like that.
	Movies are like that.
	It's hard to watch anything anymore.
	Which is why we're working so hard because we want to elevate not only literature, we want to elevate television.
	We're working on two Britfield programs, so we'll be capturing that arena.
	And then the first movie, you know what I mean, that'll set this new bar of action, adventure, kids' stories, you know, live action stuff instead of all this superhero stuff or animated or whatever.
	And no, they're just agendas.
	It's just like kids growing up, you know what I mean?
	And I'm having so much fun with 4 because it's so...
	It's sort of my crescendo now, and of course, you know, an author should be progressing, one would hope, you know, and here I am, like, reaching, I don't know, 12, 14,000 hours, you know, as a writer, But it's just the characters are a lot more mature.
	There's just these issues of Tom and Sarah, like, getting in trouble now that they're 15.
	And it says that sort of teenager thing, you know, where Gowerstone and Detective Gowerstone and Fontaine are taking care of him.
	And it's like they're sneaking out.
	They're getting caught.
	And it's just, it's so real.
	You know what I mean?
	And I just love that.
	And it's not forced.
	It doesn't feel, like, awkward.
	It just feels so real because it's exactly what they do.
	It's like they kind of think they know everything now.
	And, you know, we just bring in And I think the main theme in book four is choices and circumstances.
	You know, the choices we make and the circumstances that happen.
	Sometimes good, sometimes bad, right?
	We make a good choice and hopefully a good outcome.
	And so that's kind of threaded throughout this whole book four too, Britfield and the Eastern Empire.
	What's nice about it too is I incorporate 10 countries now.
	And so whereas book one was in England, book two was in France, book three was in Italy.
	We start in Vienna, Austria.
	We head to Bratislava.
	We go up to Prague.
	Big scene in Prague at the castle where they're trying to break in to get something.
	And a Britfield artifact, kind of cool.
	And then a scene over in Berlin has a Cold War sort of feel to it.
	Krakow, Warsaw, Poland, the Baltic Ocean, Lithuania, Estonia, parts in Budapest.
	And then the main ending scenes is St.
	Petersburg, Russia, and Moscow.
	You're going to make kids want to go travel.
	You're going to make them want to go, and if they do get to go, if they're afforded that opportunity by their parents and they're able to go, they're going to be able, American, I'm talking about American children, because you're going to have children over there that even want to travel and do in Europe, but if they get to go, they're going to say, oh, this was in the book, and they went there, and they went there, and this is where they went, and so it's going to be awesome.
	If the fourth book was in America, I can totally see Tom look at Gower Stone and be like, bruh.
	Why did you do that?
	Right?
	Because that's what our kids say here.
	It's bruh.
	I'm so sick of hearing it.
	And I have teenagers, so that's what I hear all the time.
	So, you know, I'm like, did you call me?
	Do not call me bruh.
	Did you call me bruh?
	I'm sorry, mama.
	No, I didn't.
	I wasn't talking to you.
	I'm like, yeah, you better not be calling me that.
	So, but you know, it's just like this teenage attitude that you can like interweave into this book.
	I know it's going to be awesome.
	So tell me, you are, you're from the laptop to the laptop.
	Written, I guess, manuscript on the last, like, tighten it up.
	So when do you go to print?
	Or where are you?
	Do you have another write or, like, rewrite, whatever you call it?
	Yeah, I just started yesterday on the second and last paper edit.
	And this will be three weeks.
	And it's moving along very smoothly.
	And it's always a double read.
	I only print out about two pages at a time.
	So it's like I'm at my laptop, I'll print seven and eight.
	And it's like, it's in manuscript form.
	I've got a highlighter, a pen.
	I'll sit down at my chair, you know, where I'm relaxed, you know, a clipboard, and then I just start reading it.
	And it's, you know, I'm reading it to read it smoothly and fast.
	I'm like, don't like that.
	Too many words there.
	And, you know, I mark it up real quick, and then usually I'll go back, change it, print it again, read it again.
	And so I always like to say it's like combing matted hair.
	That I want to get through the whole thing without any stop, any word that bothers me, no sentence, everything.
	Everything needs to be there.
	It flows.
	It's not redundant.
	I haven't repeated something.
	I've been used to the same word three times in the first paragraph, that kind of stuff.
	So it's a very meticulous type of process, but it's so clean.
	And it just, it's like it irons out the book.
	So when you, the reader, come to it, it just flows.
	There's none of those speed bumps or barbed wire that I think a lot of stories have.
	It gets kind of cluttered or they're getting into all this description or a little bit of a tangent.
	You're like, what does it have to do with the story?
	Nothing.
	And it's hard because it's like, number one, this isn't a travel book.
	Number two, it's not a history book.
	And I've got to remind myself that.
	But no, I love that.
	I love that I'm inspiring the next generation of children, number one.
	But number two, I'm inspiring them to travel.
	And to get outside themselves.
	You know what I mean?
	That there is life beyond California.
	I say that because we have so much just in California.
	You have the beautiful beaches and the coastline.
	We have some of the world-class skiing at Mammoth.
	We have the desert.
	We have so much just in the state, let alone this country.
	And so do we in Georgia.
	You know, Georgia has mountains, and we have the beach, and we have, you know, farmland.
	And so it's very similar, Georgia and California, except Georgia's always been very conservative and red.
	But now Hollywood kind of moved into Georgia, so they're trying to California-rise by Georgia, right?
	So it's kind of this, but we had the same kind of landscape.
	So you're right.
	We want them to get out of here and want to go somewhere else and want to see the world because God's given us this beautiful place that we want them to go and see and visit and want to do that.
	My friend, actually, one of my best friends is right now.
	She's touring.
	She's been in Italy and Europe, and she's doing the whole thing.
	I mean, she's been there for like three weeks.
	And so there's several places you mentioned right here that she's been to.
	And so anyway, she hasn't read the books.
	I've got to get her to read them.
	She has a Ph.D. in counseling as well.
	And she has a...
	12, 13 year old.
	And so he would love the series.
	I actually probably need to gift it to him, but I'll get that to her too.
	But he just went to Europe with her for a week and then came home and then she stayed on and is doing more.
	But I think it's wonderful.
	We need more of this.
	more of this to push ourselves past just mindless literature, mindless watching TV and mindless scrolling, watching TikTok and watching videos.
	Right.
	And so this right engages you.
	And like you said, it, it makes you think critically and it makes you, there's nothing like holding a book with beautiful imagery that you get to do in your own brain, which I want to talk about that with the movie.
	Cause I know the movie is going to be, it's going to have to be part, like movies have to have another level than even the books, because we create things in our brain that's better than the movies.
	And so it's hard for a movie to really depict it well, right?
	The characters and like how Tom and Sarah look for me may not be how they look for you in your brain and you're the author.
	But real quick before we go there, let's finish talking about the book.
	When do you think you have a release date?
	September, you said?
	Yeah, probably end of September.
	Everything's moving smoothly.
	We're in the final stages of the cover for book four.
	So excited.
	It looks really, really cool and amazing.
	It's this big window and Tom and Sarah are around this table and there's architectural plans and hunters looking out.
	And it's a frosty, cold April morning, and they're in St.
	Petersburg, Russia, and you see the Hermitage, and then the famous church with the onion domes, and it's a bit of thunder and stuff.
	And it's just, it's very cool, because it's like, if you look at the different ones, like book one behind me, you can see it's a lot of fun.
	Tom and Sarah are 12.
	It's a fun adventure.
	And then book two, it's like the Eiffel Tower.
	You know, Sarah's falling off and Tom's grabbing her, but then you get to book three and it's a little more sophisticated, you know, so you got three people there, so you're like, who is that?
	And you got three of them and they're standing behind this big iron gate, that's St.
	Peter's Basilica.
	And I love it because there's something very simple about it, but very daunting, right?
	It's got, it's a powerful scene as the rain's coming down.
	And so it's fun to sort of Um, grow with the covers too, you know, where I'm not trying to go for the shock and awe, but like book one and kid hanging off a balloon.
	It's like, now it's just trying to be very cool and sophisticated and, and, and create really neat, has really neat Russian colors and it's that frosty morning and it's a little bit of thunder in the background and stuff, but it's like, it's, it's cool.
	So yeah, so the cover's done.
	I'll be working on the maps actually tomorrow.
	And then, uh, yeah, so yeah, I'll do my final edit and then within two weeks it'll go to My professional editor who I've been working with, Lori, I've been working with her for the last seven years.
	What's great is I'll probably, I'll be editing my last edit halfway through, halfway through, I'll send it to her, not to lose time, and then continue, right?
	And then by the time I get that back, I can get the rest to her, and then she'll give it one more pass.
	We've got a couple proofers, and then it will go to typeset, print, and it will be out.
	It's tight.
	You know what I mean?
	October 1st, September, October 1st, it's tight.
	But it's done, it's ready to go, and we'll be launching it globally.
	Very excited about it.
	How many hours are you spending a week right now on Britfield?
	Like, with everything.
	I mean, this book, but then, too, with doing the interviews and doing the movie stuff.
	70 hours a week.
	Yeah, I mean, 70 hours a week.
	I work Monday through Sunday, so...
	I know you do.
	That's why I asked how many hours are you spending, 70?
	And you're retired, right?
	You kind of retired from your career to do this as another career.
	Oh yeah, this is full-time.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	There is nothing else.
	Those bridges were burned a long time ago.
	So yeah, this is a huge undertaking, a huge movement.
	We said at the very beginning when we launched in August 2019, we said that Britfield's more than a book, it's a movement.
	And it's a movement in literature, literacy, creativity, education, film and media.
	And it's impacting all of those pillars that have been really taken from us and twisted.
	And it's unfortunate.
	And so instead of criticizing it, we're just offering something different, something better.
	I was so intrigued.
	I was so intrigued the first interview when you were saying all this and I was like, You know, he has this grandiose dream.
	Like, this is great, but can it really happen?
	And then I started praying into it.
	And I was like, Lord, you're with this.
	Like, you're going to bless this.
	And I was praying, praying.
	And so then the second time I had you on, like, I was, I believed with you, right?
	The first time it was like shock.
	This can't be as big as Harry Potter.
	Like, could it?
	I mean, could it?
	So, you know, you have all these thoughts and then it's like, no, it is.
	And God's in this.
	And it's going to be awesome.
	And it's just, I've just, even like since I've known you, I've watched how it's grown.
	And it is growing.
	And I'll ask random people that I interview like off the air or...
	That are interested in literature or like people in Georgia when I'm traveling and that we start talking about books with our children.
	I'm like, have you heard of Britfield series?
	And some of them are like, yes, they've already read it.
	And then some of them are like, no, but I'll look it up.
	It's great.
	You got to read it.
	Then they'll message back and say, thank you for sharing that.
	I actually had him on a couple of times.
	You should watch the old interviews.
	And so...
	You know, it really is.
	It's amazing.
	And it's such good writing.
	And I know how much work you put into it.
	I am curious.
	So do you really like the character Hunter?
	I didn't know about Hunter until now.
	So do you really like him?
	I do.
	I was writing a scene.
	It's funny you asked that.
	But I was writing a scene this morning at the beginning of book four.
	Not writing, I'm sorry.
	Editing.
	And Hunter's in it.
	And I was just laughing.
	And I think Hunter's now my favorite character.
	Really?
	He's good.
	He's the youngest of all the characters, but he's very smart.
	I don't want to give anything away, but there is a Britfield heir that's younger than Tom that we find out about at the end of 2 and then introduce him to 3.
	And so he's actually, which is really funny, and it's stated in Book 4 that he's kind of the voice of reason, this little 13-year-old, because he's very smart, you know what I mean, and very articulate.
	He grew up in all these different manor houses to be protected.
	I had private tutors, but he's never had that sort of, you know, friends and playing outside and stuff like that.
	And so he's very articulate, very smart, and he's got a great sense of dry humor and stuff.
	Now Tom and Sarah are 15, and they're a little bit reckless, you know what I mean?
	And taking these risks.
	And so Hunter cracks me up because he's the voice of reason.
	Should we really be doing this?
	You know what I mean?
	And he's thrilled to be along with them, as every young kid would want to be with the older kids and stuff.
	But he's the voice of reason, and he's probably my favorite character.
	He's very funny.
	And we'll just say stuff that's kind of spot on or dry humor or, you know, hey, thanks a lot for that, you know.
	And it's just, it's funny.
	There's great banter throughout the stories and especially, you know, as you get into three and then book four and stuff.
	Well, I will look forward to him.
	And see, my nephew hasn't mentioned him.
	So he just finished three maybe a couple weeks ago.
	So I'm going to be like, why don't you tell me about this new character?
	So I'm going to get on to him.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's really cool.
	It's fun to age them.
	You know, it's like six months now, later, and so Tom just about turned 15 and stuff.
	And so I always have to sort of come up with a device on how it's in every book that, you know, certain time has passed and they're older.
	And I've got a great device for the end of book four.
	And I can't wait until you read book four, because that'll be fun to talk about.
	Because book four is really It's incredible.
	It's a driving story.
	It's got so many subplots and character arcs.
	I spent a lot of time on the characters and blending that in, you know, and diving deep.
	And, you know, it's like, you know, you can only do so much with a 12-year-old.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, I remember, you know, comment a long time ago.
	It's like, well, there's not much of a character arc for Tom.
	And I'm like, number one, there is.
	But number two, he's 12 years old.
	You know what I mean?
	What are you going to do?
	Like, you know what I mean?
	Like, you overcame this.
	It's like, you know, so I always have that in there, but it's like as they age and they grow and you get to know these characters, I really was diving deep and asking questions and stuff.
	So all that's kind of in book four, a lot more maturity, feelings a little bit between Tom and Sarah, which I love dancing around that, playing it, you know what I mean?
	That's just very subtle, but very powerful.
	It's got an ending that's going to shock So many people in a good way.
	But it's also got this really interesting ending.
	You're going to go, whoa, what?
	You're going to be blown away.
	And yet there's something so real about it that it's just like, well, what do you think is going to happen?
	So, again, it's being real to the story, real to what's happening and stuff.
	Well, I love Tom and Sarah equally.
	They both have a great personality, and I love them equally, and I love the protectiveness and having a protector, because as a woman, we want to be protected.
	Even as a little girl, you want to be protected by a man.
	That's in us, and I think that that's almost a way for our Father in Heaven to show us.
	He is He is protective of us.
	And so even little boys want to be protected too by their parents and by their father and their mother.
	But girls especially, that's why they just want to be protected.
	And so I just love their little relationship and the loyalty.
	Like you were talking about with friendship, loyalty is a rare thing in our society as a whole and maybe even in our world.
	It's a rare thing to have loyal people because people get jealous and they get vindictive and And it's hard for people to have their own goals and their own things, and when someone's successful, to be happy for them.
	And as I've sat here in this interview, you know, we're 42 minutes in, 43 minutes in, I have had tears in my eyes several times.
	I've been like wiping my eyes.
	I'm like, he's going to be like, why are you crying?
	And it's not crying.
	My eyes will tear up when I feel happy or when I feel, you know, the Holy Spirit.
	And so I've felt Holy Spirit several times when we've been talking.
	He's in this.
	And so it's going to touch so many children and for you to touch children and adults too, you know, adults too, but for us to touch children in a powerful, meaningful way with everything coming at them to destroy them from the transgenderism to the broken family to, you know, wanting to brainwash them into their devices and they're so succumbed here and they don't really understand social situations and they're depressed and they want to kill themselves and no hope and all the things, fatherless.
	For you to create something that gives hope and shows them how to be loyal and shows them how to overcome and to set goals and to be able to do the things that you would never be able to do, the unthinkable or unobtainable, and for you to be able to show them, hey, you can do it.
	You can put your mind over that and you can set goals and you can do it.
	It makes me feel teary-eyed, not in a good way.
	I like to say it's like, you know, schools are giving kids a fish for the day and they've got to come back tomorrow.
	And with Britfield, we're trying to keep, we're treating kids how to fish, how to think for themselves, how to approach problems, how to brainstorm with other friends, how to collaborate.
	You know, sometimes it's just going for it and failing and learning from it.
	Sometimes it's getting help.
	It's all in these books.
	You know what I mean?
	These are power-packed There's geography, art, architecture, history, culture in every single book.
	There's the four C's, like I've already said, creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration.
	And then the theme.
	If you were to ask me what is the number one main theme in the Britfield series, it's always family.
	It's always about family, the importance of family, what family means.
	And it's not necessarily, you know, birth and blood.
	It's people that are so tightly knit within your world that they are family.
	And, you know, you guys would do anything for the other person.
	You know what I mean?
	You'd lay down your life for a friend or for one of your family members and stuff.
	And that's just powerful.
	That's the driver.
	You can't go wrong with that kind of driver.
	And so it's like everything else I've talked about, you know, like book four really brings out, you know, a lot of stuff.
	I remember when people read book two.
	They got back to me and said, what are you, prophetic?
	Like, it was just incredible because so much stuff we were talking about with like D-Wave computers and transhumanism, you know, and combining, you know, science with bodies and stuff.
	There's a thread of that through book two and stuff.
	And we get into the committee and it's a lot darker and we bring in a lot of different stuff, but it's just like, no, I just do my research.
	You know what I mean?
	I just simply do my research.
	I've been re-educating myself and re-learning for the last 12 years.
	And so a lot of that stuff's threaded in there.
	But it's just, it's not the story.
	The story's about Tom and Sarah.
	It's about this drive to find the family.
	It's about everybody working together, sacrificing, coming close, sacrificing their lives.
	It's just powerful examples.
	But Chad, you are a singer.
	And so that's prophetically, you know, in the Bible people get all in weird about the prophetic and they're like, oh, they think that they can, you know, hear things.
	Okay, the prophetic has also been a seer and being able to see things ahead and know what's to come and having wisdom and applying it.
	And that's what you're doing.
	You have this whole, you know, manuscript and layout of this timeline of this story and you're seeing ahead and you're going back and forth and you're writing this beautiful thing.
	Of course you're prophetic.
	Of course.
	There's no way you could do that and not be prophetic.
	Stephanie Meyer with Twilight, she had prophecy.
	I think it was twisted.
	And the same thing with Harry Potter series, JK Rowling.
	It's twisted.
	But yes, as far as prophecy goes...
	You're seers.
	And so there's no way to write a series this complete, even The Hunger Games, even though that was twisted.
	But it was a victorious thing, even though it was demented to sacrifice or be killed on public stage.
	Still, it was a heroic thing, and there was all these elements of humanity in there.
	And that's what people want.
	They want something real and tangible that's like humanity.
	And that's why this series, it doesn't have to be the shock and awe of murdering humans, right?
	We don't have to do that.
	We can do something that's a lot more wholesome, but gives people hope because it's reality.
	And I haven't read this other piece that you're talking about, as far as the transhumanism and all that.
	But that's very real.
	And especially when you're talking about this last book, With a currency and the stock market and all of that, we've got this brick system that's trying to be shoved upon us and that's gaining a lot of ground and steam.
	And it's scary for America because I got my PhD 10 years ago and Dr.
	Ben Carson said, he spoke at my commencement and he said, if we lose the dollar as the world currency, we'd be a third world nation in three months.
	America can't understand that because we've always been the superpower and we've been so wealthy and so prosperous but it's so important that we pay attention to what's going on and so that is awesome that you put that there and so the children can start conceptualizing because that's hard.
	Economics and the the currency and stock market all of that stuff is very difficult to understand and so for you to present that in a way they can understand I mean, yeah, all the schools should want the kids to read that, so they start questioning and getting their mind wrapped around our economy.
	Yeah, we talk about that, where it's total control.
	It's a one-world digital currency that this committee's trying to push.
	They're going to crash the stock market, worse than, you know, the great...
	Depression.
	...market crash.
	Yeah, and then I talk about, I even thread in social credit scoring, you know, which is, you know, China's like a big proponent of it.
	China's always been the pilot program for the cabal, if you will.
	So I bring in that.
	I bring in social credit scoring and what that means.
	And it's just like, you know, if someone doesn't like you or you say something, you know what I mean?
	And all of a sudden it's just like, you know, you only get a loan and you can't get a loan.
	You know what I mean?
	It's like they control everything, you know, telling your paycheck isn't there.
	Or your gas bill isn't paid and it's like, or you can't get gas for your car and stuff.
	So I do it very lightly.
	I don't get deep into it because that's not what the book's about, but I touch on it.
	And so again, just educating my audience and the next generation of kids that they actually will hear about this stuff and be aware of it and that it's a dangerous thing.
	We talk about AI. I forgot about that.
	We bring in artificial intelligence and AI and the dangers of AI in book four and how it's gone off the reservation.
	And in the end, How human intelligence and human creativity defeats the AI. I thought that was very cool.
	Oh, I love it.
	Oh, I can't wait.
	That's going to be so awesome.
	So tell me, okay, so that's going to come out end of September, October.
	We'll be praying for that.
	And so tell me about the movie and where we are with it because I know my viewers are going to want to know because they've been kind of following this.
	So talk to us about that before we finish.
	I think we've got like five minutes.
	Sure.
	Yeah, I'm very excited about that.
	Really, next week is when I'll be shifting into it almost full time.
	It's been a long kind of, it's been a very interesting year.
	It's been a kind of a long year, I think, for everybody.
	We feel this heaviness.
	There's just something that's not quite right.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's like this reckoning coming.
	That would be my articulation of it.
	So I don't feel fear.
	I just feel that there's a reckoning coming, and a lot of good is coming.
	That's what I sense.
	But needless to say, plus with book four, you know, it's been so consuming.
	And I showed you the script, and it was last November.
	We had a professional scriptwriter, you know, worked in Hollywood, if you will, for 30 years, has done 30 or 40 different movies, adaptations and stuff.
	But by the third draft, he just wasn't quite getting it.
	I had to take over.
	Which was great because I had my background.
	I already knew what needed to be done.
	So that was in November of last year.
	And I took five to six weeks.
	And I don't have this time.
	Like, I don't have five weeks.
	You know what I mean?
	But I had to do it.
	And it's like, once you're in, you're just like, you know, you're sucked into it.
	I took it from 168 to 148 pages.
	So it brings the movie in right around two hours, 15 minutes.
	But that's a little bit why I've been delayed on the book and everything else and stuff.
	But with all of that said, now that I'm in my final polish with the book and the heat's off, my main focus is going to be shifting into the movie.
	So we're kind of excited.
	I just had a conference call with my producer last week We're gearing into our next phase.
	That next phase is going to be probably looking...
	We have our roster.
	We have the directors that we're looking at.
	Quite a few that you'd know.
	Very prominent directors and stuff that I think would be a good fit.
	Two-fold.
	One is they're used to taking successful books and making them into successful movies.
	Number two, they're also good with kids.
	Because this is a sort of children's movie, adult children's movie.
	But you have Tom and Sarah and they're aging and you have some others and stuff.
	So they've got to be good within that.
	We have to keep these actors.
	We have to keep them.
	So we've got to have a good relationship, right?
	It's going to be all relational, and I just felt that when you were saying that.
	It's important, because this is a relational book, and it's going to be a relational movie series, and they're going to grow together, and we're going to need a family atmosphere for them.
	Yeah, and we're psyched.
	I mean, whoever that director is, it's going to be the right director.
	I won't mention names, but you could probably figure out some of them.
	And then we have a lot of our actors, you know, and again, all of it will be cast British actors, so We're not doing American actors with a British accent.
	Again, I just want to keep the authenticity.
	We want to shoot in England.
	We're planning to shoot at least 50, 40, 50% in England.
	Because, again, too, a lot of the interior shots don't need to be necessarily shot there.
	It could be Eastern Europe.
	And you know how they do with the B-roll, the setup of a shot.
	It doesn't necessarily have to be in the country.
	I think it's really important to shoot in England, to be there, because it's just a great British movie.
	Book one is, right?
	Same thing for book two in France.
	It's the authenticity.
	It's celebrating the company, the company, the country, the people.
	That's what these books are all about, you know, and everyone's different culture.
	And it's just like, let's say, one's bad or good or right or wrong.
	It's just culture.
	It's just how they think and how they work.
	And these books are celebrating the world.
	They're celebrating history.
	They're celebrating people.
	And so to me, like, Britfield and Lost Crown has always been a great celebration to the British and, you know, lived off on over there for two years.
	And I love it.
	I love the history of it.
	I love the people and all of it.
	So it's not like bringing the bad out.
	It's bringing the good out.
	And so we're shifting into that pretty soon.
	I think our first major announcement would probably be the director once we lock that in.
	And that could happen sooner than later.
	A lot of inroads have already been made.
	A lot of offers are sort of starting to go out.
	We already have a major distributor.
	Again, at some point that'll come out, which is huge and they're the right fit for this.
	And Yeah, as we move into pre-production, hopefully we'll be filming in England next spring.
	It could happen that soon.
	I know you had mentioned 2025, so that's why I was kind of like seeing if we were still in that timeline.
	So we'll see.
	Yeah, I like to sort of shoot for that because everything that we do is just very different because we control everything, if that makes sense.
	We control the series.
	We control the publishing.
	We control the market.
	We control all of that.
	So everything is within our hands.
	So it's twofold.
	Nothing gets compromised.
	Number two, everything actually gets done.
	And so we're going to be filming the movie outside of Hollywood but using the aspects of Hollywood that we need.
	I hate to even use that word, Hollywood, because Hollywood's really dead.
	They're done.
	I like to talk.
	I mean, they've been bankrupt and they're finished.
	I mean, their stuff is just garbage and crap.
	So, but look, let's say the art of filmmaking.
	You know what I mean?
	And so, we'll be working with award-winning cinematographers, award-winning directors, great actors, and we'll be doing it on our own time, our own style.
	My producers, producer team, son and father and son, Andy's been in business for 40 years, came out of the industry as an accountant and then became a producer.
	So what you have is you have guys that are focused on the stringent qualities of filmmaking or business and don't allow things to go off the reservation, to be overspent.
	In fact, Andy used to be the fixer.
	We'd be hired and be brought into these films that were over budget and over time and clean it up.
	And that's really why it was one of the reasons I picked them.
	You know, it's not something that's going to escalate and be delayed and do all this kind of stuff.
	We're not putting up with that.
	We're not tolerating that.
	This is going to be the best possible film that we can make out there.
	We'll be true to the story.
	I'll already start writing the script for the second movie in February or March of next year.
	I was going to say, you're going to have that, the film, and the next, the fifth book of the series.
	Yeah, so it's like, I mean, the trigger for the second script, Britfield and the Rise of the Lion, will already be in motion in January, February of next year, with the intention of like, you know, once this thing's in the can, finished, and then it goes into post-production, you know, then we're already organizing, getting ready.
	And so the idea is really every 18 months to two years, a Britfield movie is I think we'll be doing the Britfield movie for about $40 to $50 million,
	which by Hollywood standards is about $120 million.
	So the same movie That we're making for $40 or $50.
	Hollywood we make for $120 because everybody lines their pockets and nothing gets done.
	Just like Washington, D.C. Gee, what else would that be like?
	Yeah, Hollywood really right now is just kind of like money laundering.
	You see some of these movies too, right?
	It's like a $200 million budget for like that.
	That crap, right.
	Yeah, someone's laundering money.
	Right.
	I think I saw that with The Fast and the Furious, number 10.
	Oh, yeah.
	It was a $300 million budget, and I'm like, are you kidding me?
	Like, boy, that's a lot of money laundering.
	And a lot of digital stuff, like not a lot of actual cars.
	So what costs so much money?
	Crazy.
	Exactly.
	But you know what, Chad, you do things with excellence.
	You're just an excellence that's like who you are.
	So I can't wait.
	It's going to be awesome, and I can't wait.
	I mean, I'm just all excited because when you finally get to boot seven, and you get to come into the movie here...
	In America, that I would take my boy, which I don't know, he's seven.
	I mean, he might be, I don't know, 12?
	I don't know how old he would be.
	But I'll get to take him to watch a day of filming or something.
	It'll be awesome!
	Just think!
	I mean, it's just crazy.
	And I was sitting here thinking, okay, how can I get you to come to Georgia?
	Like, what if we had a big family event with all the homeschoolers and all the public school, and we do it like in Atlanta or somewhere, like somewhere middle, and everybody comes, and it's this big thing, and you get to speak, and we get, you know, author, Georgia, famous Georgia authors to come.
	I don't know.
	I mean, I was just sitting here in my mind thinking, like, how do we push it in Georgia to make it bigger?
	But, you know, God is with you, and he is going to open doors no man can shut.
	And so I'm so excited for you.
	It's going to be amazing.
	And for us.
	I'm excited for us.
	Yeah, we'll have about 18 months of marketing for the first movie, unlike anything you've seen in Hollywood.
	There'll be a worldwide Britfield tour, call it a creativity tour, kicking it off ideally in September in Britain.
	And then Eight to ten weeks in Eastern Europe and then Asia and then South America and just, I mean, planting seeds, getting people excited.
	I think it's going to be, and I probably have said it, but like a titanic moment at the theater.
	You know, it's going to be Star Wars.
	You know, back in 1977, you're going to see lines around the theater.
	You're going to see, finally, parents have something to go with their kids.
	It's not trash.
	Yeah.
	Number two, you're going to see kids that they're going to want to see it five, six, seven, eight times because they want to experience it and they want to experience it there.
	And I think it's going to be like it finishes and everyone's just sitting there almost in awe in their seats, not wanting to move, not doing anything because they can't believe what they just watched.
	They can't believe like the authenticity, the realness, it just fed their soul.
	It's kind of like the sound of music meets Star Wars.
	You know what I mean?
	It's Narnia.
	You know what I mean?
	It's so heartfelt.
	It's so real.
	It's so powerful.
	It's exactly what a movie should be.
	Something Hollywood can't do, you know, and never really have.
	And it's funny if you look at it at over 120,000 movies that have been made, more than that, but I think really the ones that have succeeded are just by accident, really.
	And it's not to say that everyone in the industry is bad.
	Of course not.
	But it's the upper echelon.
	It was all created to influence society and to take us to a darker place and get us away from God.
	That is what Hollywood is.
	That's what filmmaking is all about.
	Not about, but what they make it.
	And I just have been reflecting on it.
	You know, you have the Casablanca, and you have the Sound of Music, and you have these really cool classic movies you can watch a hundred times, and I think they're just accidents that happen to succeed.
	Like The Wizard of Oz that kind of was mocking government at the time, but we didn't know it.
	And that was in the red.
	That failed to make a profit.
	Now it's a classic.
	1946, It's a Wonderful Life.
	Huge failure.
	Box office failure.
	It was in the red.
	Tanked.
	In fact, it tanked the studio that Frank Capra put together with two other directors.
	And yet it's a classic.
	You know what I mean?
	But anyway.
	But no, we're excited about that.
	I mean, it's just the type of movie that just moves and it's exciting.
	And I can see kids on the edge of their seats.
	I can see you laughing and crying all within five or seven minutes.
	So happy.
	And every triumph that the kids have, Tom and Sarah, it's like a triumph that you have.
	And you just connect with them and you want to see them succeed.
	Meanwhile, and this is another thing you were saying about the God thing with the script.
	So I'm reading through the final draft of the script.
	In fact, I did a final polish in January.
	For ten days.
	I thought it would take four days.
	And the script is unbelievable.
	It's amazing.
	It's so beautiful.
	It's so layered.
	It's like within seven minutes, you start right on the action in the movie.
	Within seven minutes, there's the inciting incident.
	Tom's got to turn everybody in.
	Sarah gets captured.
	And so for the next 20 minutes is the great escape.
	It's all the other orphans trying to help everything, everything going wrong.
	And you're like, so you're like, here you are in the movie theater, and within 10 minutes, it's like you've got 20 minutes of pure action.
	30 minutes, end of act one, they've escaped.
	And you've got this dog went, you know, just trying to get to him.
	And you're just blown away.
	And I'm like, the movie's just started.
	You know, like, buckle your seatbelts.
	I can't imagine that being in 10 minutes, but I mean...
	No, I'm saying within 30 minutes.
	30 minutes, okay.
	I'm saying at the end of 30 minutes.
	30 minutes.
	20 minutes of pure action.
	Oh yeah.
	A pure movement of all these different scenes, all this stuff happening, being chased, you know, blah, blah, blah, this and that.
	The dog's running to the wall, trying to get through, you know, and finally, like at the end of 30 minutes, that's the end of act one.
	And I'm like, and it's like, that's more than most movies offer today.
	And like I'm saying, buckle your seatbelts, because it's like, this movie's just getting ready.
	And it's just so beautiful to see how everything is layered, and then the next scene, and then the train station, and then Gowerstone, and then the balloon, and then the takeoff, and then this, and then all of a sudden it's like...
	And the college campus.
	Yeah, and then Oliver that kind of pitches in and helps them, and this college student, and then bumping it, you know, and then being at the most desperate moment, which is actually, I think, midpoint in the book, or in the movie.
	And here's, you know, Sarah's sprained her ankle, and they're desperate, and the cops are coming, the whistles, and all of a sudden the door opens, and there's Professor Hainsworth, and it's just like, it's just touching.
	And then you get to Windsor Castle, and it's like layered, it's like, this is happening, and then this is happening, and all of a sudden this is happening, and gunshots fired here, and this is, it's got so much in the script.
	I mean, it's all in the book, but it's just, it really, It's marvelous.
	And I'm pulling back just going, wow, I didn't write this.
	This isn't me.
	This is incredible.
	That's what God does with creativity.
	His creativity in the people.
	That's what makes it amazing.
	I would say I'm so claustrophobic.
	So when they were escaping the orphanage, I was like, get out, get out, get out.
	That tunnel.
	Tom's cost above it.
	So Tom has to overcome His fear in order to progress and move on.
	See, I related with him.
	I was with him.
	I'm feeling your pain, dude.
	I'm feeling it.
	I love it too.
	Like, Sarah's afraid of heights.
	Me too!
	I'm both!
	That's why two things are great.
	Hearts and closed spaces.
	And so, you know, in order to escape, they've got to go into the hot air balloon.
	Oh my gosh, I would have been in a fetal position, you know?
	And she is.
	And she's like, yeah, she's all like freaking out.
	Like, Tom's like, oh my gosh, it's beautiful.
	And he's like, Sarah?
	You know, and she's like, I told you, I hate heights.
	Don't show me.
	Don't talk about it.
	I know.
	It was awesome.
	It was just so great.
	Everything was so, I mean, it was so great.
	It was like it was written for me.
	And that's how everybody feels that reads it.
	You know, you feel like it was written for you.
	So, and my little boy, like, he loves it.
	He's like, just two more pages.
	And he's like, falling asleep, right?
	It's nighttime.
	Falling asleep.
	I'm reading it for you.
	Love it.
	Just two more pages.
	I'm like, one more paragraph.
	That's it.
	One more.
	But anyway, tell everybody, they can get it.
	I know they can order it on Amazon, all the places they can order it.
	But then also, they can go to your website.
	Are you still signing?
	Are you having time to do that at all?
	Yeah, I'm still doing signing.
	So really take advantage of buying the books through the Britfield website.
	So it's obviously B-R-I-T-F-I-E-L-D dot com, Britfield website.
	It's a beautiful website, award-winning website.
	We have our tour on there.
	We have our theatrical play and production.
	We took this and turned it into a theatrical play for schools.
	But it's the best way to buy the books, you know, single or two or the trilogy, and probably within two weeks we'll have book four ready for pre-sale and stuff, and I'm still signing them, and that won't carry on too much longer.
	We'll just transition it.
	To one of our warehouses.
	So I won't be signing.
	So now's a good time to get the signed book.
	And you get a bookmarker and a sticker.
	It's kind of cool.
	Yeah, it's very cool.
	And the kids love it.
	And they're great gifts.
	Yeah, I gave them for Christmas.
	So y'all go right now and order while he still can do this.
	I'm just thinking about you having to write these next books and the movies and the video and the filming and all the things.
	I just don't know how you're going to do it all.
	But you will.
	You'll get it done.
	Yeah.
	So glad and honored to have you on.
	We can't wait and we'll come back maybe in six months and circle back around again and see where you are and what you're doing.
	But we're praying for you.
	Would love to.
	Yeah, we're praying for you.
	All my followers, we're all praying for you and wishing you the very, very best.
	We thank you.
	Thank you for having me back on.
	It's been great.
	All right.
	I'll see y'all next week on Jesus Comes a Baby.
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