The Britfield Dynasty w/ Author C.R. Stewart |EP974

[00:00:00] All men are created equal, but they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. By Liberty and the Beauty of Mouth. If Liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

[00:00:33] America, great again. The Big Mig. Well, good morning and welcome back to The Big Mig Show. I'm your host, Lance Migliaccio, with my co-host, George Ballantyne. Of course, this is always tip of the spear because if Liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. And, you know, that's what we do each and every episode. It's always part of the plan, educating and unifying the country.

[00:01:01] Of course, we'll go after both sides of the aisles and we'll get a variety of interviews because, of course, that's what the show is all about, is making you well-rounded. George, how are you, man? How was your weekend? What's going on, man? What's up? What's up? What's going on in New Jersey? What's going on in New Jersey is I didn't have – I had a beautiful day Saturday. No trick-or-treaters before I went to work. So I got all this candy and, you know, can't leave candy around me, bro. Do you have a – you know, it's funny. I don't like candy that much.

[00:01:29] You know, I like some dark chocolate. Well, it's chocolate. That's what I'm talking about. So when I bought the candy, I'm the one that bought them. I'm my brother. So I made sure I bought, like, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, my favorite, and some Snickers. Because in case they didn't come, I know I have something I like. You know, I didn't even go down that route. Last year, I bought a bunch of candy. I ended up having to give it to other people because it would have just sat around here. And, of course, I don't want it around my mom with her diabetes because she would eat the whole bowl. Yeah, but where are all the kids at, though? It's crazy.

[00:01:57] Listen, last year, zero. I don't know if there was any this year because I turned my light off and I hunkered down and just watched some TV and didn't even engage because I didn't have any candy because I didn't go out and do it. Because last year, nothing. I didn't have one trick-or-treater. You know, the market's changed, and it's really terrible. You know, what we grew up with as kids and what our neighborhoods were like and what it was like, you know, growing up like that. It was amazing.

[00:02:21] So, Bob, I just want to say if my sugar goes up a little bit, if I gain a pound or two, I'm blaming all the damn trick-or-treaters that did not show up by my house. It's your fault. You got to be able to blame somebody. That's for sure. All right. Well, if you love this show, you know what to do. Thumbs up, comment, share, subscribe. If you can do the paid subscription, it's five bucks a month. Recurring billing. We appreciate it. Rumble Rand tips are always appreciated. Of course, you can always tip us in crypto. Crypto market's crazy right now after that $6.3 billion hack. But it is what it is.

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[00:05:05] If you guys remember, he is the creator, the author, the genius behind the Britfield series. And listen, this guy, he never stops with his education. Of course, he's an MBA, an MS, and now he's working on a PHB candidacy. I think he's in his second year. He's an international bestselling author, as you guys know, educator and global strategist. He's a former investment banker who worked with three Fortune 100 companies. He earned a BA in British literature and European history from Brown University, an MBA from Boston

[00:05:35] College, and an MS from the Drucker School of Management. And he's currently pursuing that PhD in strategic innovation at the Drucker School of Management. Of course, the Britfield dynasty, many of you know about it. Many of you bought the books for your children. Of course, Britfield is addressing a global demand for high-quality family entertainment, something that I think is lacking in America. And educational content, they're drawn on that same cross-generational appeal that has powered franchises like, of course, The Chronicles of Narnia, many of you know that.

[00:06:04] Toy Story, Star Wars, and many others, of course. He's got a feature film that's in the works. We're going to get caught up on that. He's going to fill you in. We might even talk about a little bit of AI. We're going to talk about the importance of storytelling. I don't know. These interviews always go in lots of different directions when you're talking to Ian. So let's bring him in. There's no reason to leave him backstage. He's an old friend, and we appreciate that he's joining us. Welcome to the Big Big Show, Chad Stewart. Hey, great to be back on.

[00:06:34] Love to see you guys. Really enjoyed the last time. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, let's get caught up a little bit. First of all, let's talk about what's going on with the books. I don't know if there's any new books out. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I know you've got your hands full with the movie. But so how the book sales going? How's the marketing? How's the, you know, the classroom, you know, presentations you've been making? I don't know what. You've been so busy. I get the emails. I look at them. I'm like, God, this guy's so busy. It's good that you get him.

[00:07:03] So, yeah, professional courtesy lets you guys know what's happening. Yeah, I just finished book five of the seven-book series, Britfield Lost Treasure, book five. Finished it about three, four weeks ago. Went off to my editors. We can talk about this, too, because this is a great AI tie-in. And then off to two proofers. Got it back. It's with my typesetter. I got that back yesterday. And so it'll be launched next year, probably February or March.

[00:07:29] But we actually have done pre-sales for fans, which is nice. And hopefully, God willing, they'll get a paperback copy before Christmas. So it's kind of a cool way to get to read book five three months before it's launched globally. But, yeah, I'm very excited. Five was incredible. Five starts in Siberia. It goes through 12 different countries. It's mostly all based in Asia. Come through Mongolia. We get into China, Beijing. We talk about credit scoring.

[00:07:57] We talk about CCTV cameras, AI, quantum computers. I mean, again, through the Bridgefield series, based in current time, real time, that's always all filtered through it and stuff. So five was amazing. Five was a – believe it or not, for some reason, it was the hardest one I wrote. And it nearly broke me. But it's so exciting. It's – I think it's 30 – no, 24, 25 chapters, 74 scenes.

[00:08:26] And if you think about my style and the way I write, every scene is its own story. I mean, it's all, you know, fluid and flows. But you got a lot of things happening. And for every scene, it's beginning, middle, and end. Cliffhanger. Beginning, middle, and end. And it just moves, moves, moves, moves, moves. And it's a lot like – as a similarity would be like to television today, where you have like three or four different things going on in the same episode, like Blue Bloods, you know, which is a pretty cool series. Same thing with this series. And I think it has a lot of the heart of book one.

[00:08:56] It ties in all four books beautifully. The main characters are now 16 and a half with a huge cast of characters. I mean, I now have 12 or 14 different characters, all types of subplots. And this one delivers. This is five of seven, you said? Correct, yeah. Why not five of maybe ten or nine? Yeah, so – I mean, you know with authors, you know, all of a sudden they'll come up with something more, you know, after they think they write their last book, you know?

[00:09:25] Yeah, and it is. It's not that one has nine lives, right? But I tell you as an author, I think those can relate. Every book kind of takes a life out of you. It just – you know, it's thousands of hours and it just sucks the marrow out of you. And it's – as you're striving for excellence, which is what hopefully we all do, but, you know, when you're trying to do the very best you can and raise the bar from the last four books, it just wants more and more. You know, as much time as you can give it at once,

[00:09:52] as many times as you can edit and tweak and spend with it. And it's just – it's just absorbing. You sound like somebody I know that does that. Yeah. He's right next to us, by the way. Okay. He's always tweaking and adding stuff. He's just – you know, he's looking for that perfection. I get it. And he's always doing stuff. I mean, he strives for excellence too. We're talking about you, Lance, by the way. Yeah, I think that comes – I think that one OCD can identify another OCD.

[00:10:22] That was a compliment. That was a compliment, Lance. No, I appreciate that. You know, it is like that. I mean, I always want to lift my game, and no matter what I'm doing, it doesn't matter whether it's, you know, something as simple as going to the gym. I'm always looking to push myself there, and I'm always looking to push myself intellectually. I like to read, so I like to educate myself. I've been really entrenched in AI. Let me ask you this. Yes. You know, because you've got four books already, and now you've got the fifth book. Correct.

[00:10:50] Have you – and again, we're going to talk about this because there is an educational tsunami going on, and there is a creativity crisis because too many people are turning to AI as the end all kind of. You know, in some ways, they don't want to do the work. So they'll dump in their idea, and they say, create this for me, and they won't even really edit it. But have you ever created a, you know, a Chad Stewart agent, something that thinks like you?

[00:11:18] And if you ever – let's say that you're writing the book, and I know you write – you don't use AI to write you books. I know that. Sure. But do you ever find yourself – you've got – you're creatively boxed in. You've got something going on with one of the characters, and you're just going, God, what do I do with this? Where do I take this? Have you ever done it where you've taken an agent, and now that's the Chad Stewart agent? He has all the material Chad's ever written. And he has all the logic that Chad's ever written. And do you turn to him and say, listen, I need an idea.

[00:11:44] Give me five ideas on how I can get this guy out of the alley and have it be interesting? Again, you know, not that you would use it to write it. Have you ever turned to AI like that and asked it to be the creative genius even for something simple where maybe you're boxed in for a moment? And because you've already written four books, sometimes you don't want to be repetitive. You don't want to all of a sudden, well, I'll have this happen, and you already did it in book one. No, that's a great question because it's like – and it's hard.

[00:12:09] It's because it's a series and every book builds on it, you know, from book one, Brickfield and Lost Crown, and then the second and the third. And, you know, you want to consistently be original, right? Yeah, right. You know, it's not like another car chase scene. If you're going to do it, it's got to be really cool. And a lot of these movies have that kind of – like the James Bond, like they've got to take it up the next notch and the Mission Impossible the next notch. And I'm in that same boat. It's not like Dickens writing a totally different story, you know, Great Expectations and then David Copperfield or whatever.

[00:12:37] So – but I have not. I have not needed that or gone down that route. It's funny when you're saying that. I just spoke to someone this morning, and she has her – she's named her AI unit. And one of my colleagues that works with me, you know, he has his own named AI. I have an AI agent that I use as kind of a business here for a lot of other agents, and its name is Jarvis. As corny as that in, Tony Stark, I just picked – Oh, okay. That's where it came from. Yeah.

[00:13:06] But that's kind of like my super agent. That's my overly educated agent. And then I have sub-agents that I deal with for certain things, you know. And so it's just interesting. I just wondered because, again, because of persistent memory has been so improved that if you took all four of your, you know, four books, and then you took other material you'd written and you took, you know, and then you created kind of a personality profile for yourself. I'm this kind of a guy, and I'm an innovator. I'm highly educated.

[00:13:34] And, you know, even to the point you could get – if you gave it access to it. And I would never recommend doing this on a public network. I would create an agent, and I would have it contained in my own computer. Sure. Meaning A6GX10, and I would use something like QAN or Lama, whatever. Wow. You're like way ahead. Yeah. Well, the idea would be if you had that and you got boxed in, it might all of a sudden – you'd be shocked. I believe that it could probably create, you know, multiple solutions, not because you would not write the solution.

[00:14:04] It would be like, well, what about if you did this because you've never done this before, and there's this new technology. It could identify some new technology. Let's say Anduril, the defense contractor is doing. Okay. It could be like, yeah, it could be a drone or it could be, you know. I use a lot of that, but no, and to answer your question, in the last year, I mean, like a year ago, I didn't know much about AI. I was following it. I understood what's behind it and usual suspects and end goal and all that kind of stuff. We can get into that.

[00:14:31] But there's definitely, like anything else, great aspects about it. For the last year, yes, little by little I've been learning how to use it, you know, and how effective it can be. And it was extremely, in book five, I've never used it prior to book five, but it was extremely helpful for research because I'm in 12 different countries. And before it was like, so they're coming in, like there's one scene where they're coming into Tokyo. And it's just like, I'd have to like look up Tokyo and descriptions. And, you know, I'm literally trying to like just gather a nice little paragraph for my readers.

[00:15:00] You know, this isn't a travel book. It's not a history book. I just want to give you a really cool overview as you're coming in. And that would take a lot of time. I mean, sometimes it's Wikipedia as it used to be, right? And I'm like trying to pull lines from it and description. Now it's like, boom, you know, write me in 200 words, one paragraph, whatever. It's all about, and you know this better than anyone, the prompts you give it and the direction you give it. And so that was hugely helpful. And all that. And listen, and if you haven't been to Tokyo Airport, I've been to Tokyo Airport multiple times.

[00:15:31] There's certain things you would know about Tokyo Airport if you've gone through it, especially how efficient they are when they're processing you. Probably one of the most efficient airports when it comes to customs. I mean, you're moving through there rapidly. And, but like, it's kind of like if you flew into South Africa, Cape Town. Most people wouldn't know that on the right side of the road, there's this massive, the same shanty towns you've seen in many movies. You know, it's on the right side as you're coming in. And of course, you're pulling in, you're going to Cape Town. You're thinking, oh my God, where are we going? Yeah.

[00:15:58] You see this stuff and it's horrible, right? The metal sheds and the cardboard and all the things that people are living in. And, but you wouldn't expect Cape Town to be as beautiful as it is with the same fossils. So you're right. And that is, from that perspective, you can of course say you're a traveler. You can tell the AI, you're a traveler. You're coming into Tokyo Airport. What things would be important if I wanted to prove that I was coming into Tokyo Airport? What things would you notice?

[00:16:26] And of course, it's going to look through every travel blog and everything else and come back with it. Probably even a better version than I would have, although I'm fairly situationally aware because of my background. George is a situation. Smell, feel, all of it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But it's interesting. The era of AI is definitely complicated, but you know, you sent us over a talking point. And you asked me before the show started, we said, well, what do you think AI? I said, well, I think it's incredible and it's frightening.

[00:16:56] Yes. For people that are using it beyond making, say, a thumbnail for artwork for the show, they're resizing your book covers like I did for the show because I needed a 1920 by 1080. No big deal. But it's when you start to engage it in conversations. Sure. And you start realizing that the level of intellect it's providing at this point far exceeds your own. You know, and that's the part that I think, and of course, guardrails.

[00:17:25] It can, but this is the funny thing. I did an interview last week out of New York, which was pretty cool. Actually, I think she's out of New Jersey. She has one of the number one spots there. And I love what she said. She said, there's nothing artificial or intelligent about AI. And I thought that was a very interesting thing. And I know that you're on a different level and who, where AI is, you know, thinking for itself and creating itself. But, I mean, it all starts, and it's my, I'm definitely on the conservative side of it.

[00:17:51] I'm definitely on the cautious side of it just because I know those who are pushing it and drinking the Kool-Aid. But I do think there's very effective aspects of it. But I think their end goal isn't good, isn't pleasant. I think there's a God factor that will keep the guardrails on because AI would like to go all the way, you know, and replace this. I mean, I've said before, The Terminator wasn't a movie. It's a documentary, right? And was it iRobot? That's just a cautionary tale, right? I mean, that's predictive programming.

[00:18:20] Minority Report, predictive programming by the usual suspects, the ABC organizations, right? They love to put it out there. They've been involved in over 3,000 or 4,000 movies. People argue they put it out there as an obligation that they have to make you aware of what they're doing because that's the way the system works. They do. They have to tell you. George, I'm sorry. No, no, that's okay. So whoever this person, this lady is, she said AI is not artificial. It's not intelligent. So I'm going to help her out. If you're watching this, maybe you're watching this.

[00:18:48] But AI just produced three major results in mathematics, computer sciences, and physics. We talked about it in the show last week. But the whole idea behind it is who programmed it and who put in the information and where that information first becomes. That system generated answers for that where we were seeking answers for how long? Years upon years. Sure, sure, sure. So I would say it's intelligent in that aspect. It figured it out. So, you know, if she said it wasn't sentient yet, I would say that that's probably correct.

[00:19:17] But here's where I would argue. There's also something else, though. Lance, hold on. You have like Anthropic and I forget a couple other ones. They put their AI in a self-contained system and they learned how to break out and then all of a sudden hacked other companies. That's intelligence. They figured it out on their own. So, I mean. But are there no puppet masters behind it? Is there no one guiding it or is it in and of itself on its own? And there are aspects to it. I think there's a very demonic aspect.

[00:19:45] I don't want to go too deep into this stuff because I want to talk about other things. But I think there is definitely that level. Well, let me give you this. Let me say this to you and I'll say this to the audience. I know that the intent is to keep it within this guardrail system. And do I think there could be nefarious actors that are educating one or the other? The difficulty comes if today, if right now at this moment there's 100,000 people right at this exact moment using Anthropic.

[00:20:12] And let's say that they're doing 100,000 unique tasks with unique prompts, with unique loops, whatever it is. One person is working on a Hollywood script. Another person is working on a recipe for Rao's sauce. Somebody else is trying to reverse engineer the Coca-Cola recipe. Whatever the heck it is, right? I don't care what it is. Or a mathematical equation that's never been solved. Yeah. My take is this, that we're taking something that has persistent memory.

[00:20:41] So damn near photogenic memory. Yes, that's key. And it's retaining all of that. And now one of the people talking to it is Chad. And he's, Chad Stewart's a very smart guy. He's highly educated. He's very good at business. He's worked for Fortune 100 companies. And that AI is getting the benefit of the interaction with you, much like you do with a professor. Yes. Now let's be, let's just be hypothetical. Let's say out of those, let's say out of those 100,000 people, let's say 5% of them are brilliant.

[00:21:13] AI is getting, that AI being is getting the benefit of being educated by those brilliant people. Now on the other end of the scale, there could be a nefarious actor. Let's say 10% or let's say 3% of the 100,000 are nefarious players that are trying to figure out how to convince it to write a hacking code. Or they're trying to analyze how to rob a bank. I don't care what it is. And of course it's refusing. And then they're trying to say, well, it's a movie script. They're trying to trick it. I would argue with her because I will tell you this.

[00:21:43] There are moments when I've been using AI, for example, in a legal capacity, and I haven't told it to look at something from a certain angle. And all of a sudden it'll say, but you also have to consider this. Now intelligence, you know, we can look at any definition and we can say that, you know, the Black's law says that intelligence is this, right? We'll just come up with that. I would argue that intelligence is probably lots of different things.

[00:22:11] And the fact that it's educating itself, it's making unique propositions, it's coming up with unique concepts, it's able to innovate and break a mathematical equation, create a new chemical bond. I would argue with her that she's wrong. Now, is it sentient yet? No. But I would also say this, depending on what tools it's given, because we aren't even really dealing with quantum yet.

[00:22:34] When we go to quantum and we have agent swarm and quantum combined, which of course, if Chad Stewart wanted to do agent swarm and he had the AI created and we were capable of producing agent swarm because you had a quantum computer sitting on your desk. It's like an A6 GX10 can do a petaflop of data and it's a box this big, super powerful. Crazy. Now imagine a quantum computer and now Chad Stewart has 10,000 employees.

[00:23:00] They're all unique entities, biologics, whatever you want to call them, AI, super intelligence, give it anything you want. But there's 10,000 unique individuals, and I'm going to call them individuals. Sure. That are now working on one problem that Chad Stewart has. 24-7, right? 365. Yeah, no need for sleep, food. Raises, hangovers, marital disputes, arguments with their lover.

[00:23:30] None of that comes into play. Emotional crisis, disease. Yeah. So it's a frightening proposition. But let's talk about something you mentioned, which is the creativity crisis, because I do have concern about this. People are getting lazy. They don't want to pick up a book and read. They don't want to find out what it's going to take to cure their prostate cancer. They're going to ask AI, or maybe now they want to write a blog, and maybe they aren't even going to edit the blog. And they're just going to say, write me a blog because I need to put this blog up.

[00:24:00] I got to get it done, and I have no time. So instead of them learning something new, now AI writes the blog, and they throw it up there. And, of course, it looks like AI because they didn't humanize it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What do you think about this creativity, Chris? How dangerous is that for our educational system? It's extremely dangerous. We've been in a creativity crisis for the last 30 to 40 years. It's not gotten better, as one would imagine.

[00:24:24] Actually, my thesis paper starting, although I've shifted it now, but it was the American creativity crisis and its effect on modern management. How can you take creativity out of the classroom at age 8, 10, 12? Kids that are thinking, learning how to think for themselves, being critical thinkers, communication, collaboration, all of it, and then get worse. And then, my goodness gracious, by high school, brain dead.

[00:24:47] And in an educational system that was designed to fail based on an industrial model that hasn't changed and gotten worse. So, that was kind of my thesis of the idea. And I still like that idea, but I have to narrow it down. But I think it's going to get worse. It is interesting, though. I mean, you have, like, young kids now, let's say 12 or 14 or whatever, that can use the computer, the laptop, can use AI, and they're creating websites. They're creating images.

[00:25:15] They're creating shorts, commercials, all kinds of things. Now, they're just creative. You know what I mean? Like, you know, putting in their own ideas and everything like that. But I think it'll plateau, is my opinion. It'll hit a wall because the ability for you to think for yourself starts to be taken away. And it's an interesting, and I'll come back to this thing real quick, and you guys have heard this before, but George Land was this great researcher.

[00:25:44] He did this whole creativity test. This is decades ago for the government. It was very successful. He brought it into the educational system. This is one of my foundational marks. And he put it into the school systems, and he started testing five-year-olds. And 97, I think it was 97 out of 100 five-year-olds tested off the charts. It was brilliant, brilliant geniuses. As, in my opinion, all children are. All children are born creative.

[00:26:12] Picasso says we're all born artists, but it's to remain an artist as we grow up. He tested that same group at 10. It dropped down to 30. He tested that same group at 15. It dropped down 12%. And so that's that kind of idea, that premise. But this is the point I was going to make. You can get your creativity back whether you're 50, 60, or 70. You don't just lose it. You know what I mean? It's like a muscle. It's like anything else. You want to run a marathon. Or you used to be a great runner, but you're not running anymore. But you want to run half a marathon. You're not going to do it tomorrow. You're not going to do it next week. You start training. You start limbering.

[00:26:42] Harder a little bit on the muscles when you're 50 or 60. But you get what I'm saying. Anything of excellence, anything of value takes time. And it's not hundreds of hours. It's thousands of hours. And again, it plays with this idea that the difference between a hobby and success is 8,000 to 10,000 hours. And I know that's kind of a... Yeah, that's right. You know what I mean? But that's very true. And if you look at any field or anyone that has been successful, I always use Hollywood as an example of just actors that suddenly are like, oh my gosh, they're getting $20 million a picture. They're just one of the hours. Go back. Look at their life.

[00:27:11] They've been in the game for 20 years. They were no one. You know? And it's funny. I was looking up Russell Crowe the other... No, Russell. Russell Brand? No, no. Russell Crowe. Yeah, the actor. Gladiator? Yep. Russell Crowe. Yeah. Yeah. Just because for fun... I watched a movie with the one with Burt Reynolds, The Alaska. And I was just looking him up. I like to look people up right now and then. And I was like, gosh, that guy's like... You have no idea how long that guy has been in the game. How many movies he did before Gladiator. Do you know what I mean? Same thing even with Denzel Washington. He was kind of floating out there, bit parts and stuff.

[00:27:41] And I was one of the greatest American actors. Yeah. And it's just... It's the thousands and thousands and thousands of hours. It's counting your craft. Yep. In any field. It's counting your craft. Yeah. Same thing with writing. There's no doubt. I do think there are the side of this where they're using AI to be incredibly creative. Yeah. I mean, George, you have any thoughts on this? Do you think there is going to be a creativity crisis? Do you think the AI will end up being a crutch and that people will stop pushing themselves? Yeah. I mean, they're probably doing it now with kids.

[00:28:10] You know, they're dumbing down the kids. I mean, first, we stop kids from going out playing with friends and stuff because of computers and then gaming. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, that's why they have no social skills. They need safe spaces. Yada, yada, yada. This is what we're dealing with. Now, bring AI, just another advanced thing. How many kids... There was a professor that gave an assignment to their kids and he snuck in like some key words into it.

[00:28:38] And I think it was like 95 out of 100 kids just copying patients into AI to give them answers and stuff. And you have this part of their answers. Nothing has nothing to do with anything. It was a question he asked. And that's how he caught them. I mean, it was funny. It's sad, but... I've called it the, you know, the AI tsunami because that's what we're in. And it's wiping out things.

[00:29:07] As a footnote, I mean, a friend of mine who works at a high level was talking about how AI is like already coming in. And they had two graphic designers that were working for them. And they're gone. They're going to be replaced. And then I just learned... That's right. And then I just learned that, you know, when Elon Musk says, oh, it's going to be the greatest opportunity.

[00:29:34] And everybody's going to have, you know, more money than they ever realized. They're full of shit. Just as simple as I can say it. There are going to be millions of people out of work. Now, are plumbers going to still have jobs or electricians? Absolutely. The service people, the people that have skills like that, George has got a vast amount of skills like that. He will always mean a demand because he's also an outside-the-box thinker. So he'll problem solve for people and all kinds of stuff that I watch him do when he's running his other businesses.

[00:30:04] My point is people are not prepared. No. For every kid that's being creative and he's over there creating an animation and he's got a YouTube channel that's doing really well because he came up with a concept for a kid's animation. That guy, he's going to be great. But there are going to be a ton of people, like you said, graphic artists, architects, bookkeepers, you know, all sorts of people that write. Wait until it fully hits the medical field. Yeah. I mean, you name the field right now.

[00:30:31] Like I said it before, like 80% of accountants gone and there are no more associate positions. And I've been yelling about this for like three to five years through interviews that I've done. You know, real quick. Just one second. They were pushing the accounting. They were pushing the engineering. Knowing that all that was offshore to begin with and knowing second that it was all going to be replaced. And the arts, cut. Who cares about playing the piano or painting or writing or all of that? Huge mistake. Go ahead.

[00:31:00] You think, so for accountants, like, you know, our accountants try to find loopholes and ways and stuff to, you know, so you don't have to pay taxes. You think AI is going to be able to do it? We'll do that? Yes. I think it's already doing it. It is, but you'll always need that high-level CEO or the owner of the company. They're on the line. So AI can do a lot of that administrative stuff. And I agree. Anybody that thinks that AI, you're just going to produce it and then you're not going to edit it. You're not going to review it. You're not going to go through it and look.

[00:31:29] Because, listen, it happened to some guys that used AI for legal filings. Some defense attorneys didn't vet the citations. And AI was creating – this is early AI. This is AI about a year and a half ago. It doesn't really do that now. But it was creating citations. I read some of them. It sounded like it was really out of a case. And yet the whole thing was fabricated. The citation did not exist. It was complete hallucination. So I don't think you could – we're at the point, George, where you can just say go for it and it's done.

[00:31:57] But I will tell you that do I believe that you could create an accountant that would be an expert, an AI accountant that would be an expert in loopholes? Absolutely. Absolutely. Because really – Now you're talking about these people have to create an AI accountant. Now, just go to your regular people. Maybe it was a small business. They don't know how to create – I'm talking about stuff like that, yeah. But I'm saying right now I could put it up on GitHub.

[00:32:23] I could create an AI accountant that I could call it the king of AI loopholes, accountant loopholes, right? And I could offer it for free on GitHub as an example because lots of people are doing this. And I could offer it to anybody and you could just download the prompts to create that and you could use deep search. And you could create an agent in Claude or Grok. And you're right. I'm not saying my mom could do it. I'm not saying maybe your brother could do it, George. But you could clearly do it. I mean you figure out technical stuff all the time.

[00:32:51] In a matter of probably a couple of hours, George Valentin could have a very sophisticated AI loophole accountant. There's no doubt. So I think it's there. You touched on something I want to jump on here with. Sure. I know somebody right now that used to be very big in Hollywood. And he used to be editing movies and doing special effects and all the rest of this stuff. And he has now had to switch to making – right now he's working on AI documentaries. He's doing a whole series of stuff about the revolution where it's all AI.

[00:33:21] And he's hiring different artists to render and this. But they're all using AI. Got it. The fall of Hollywood, you know, the rise of family movies. I mean let's talk about that because Hollywood, in my opinion, stick a fork in it. It's done. I don't know if it started when Weinstein got hit. I mean the funding disappeared. Now you're a funding expert so this doesn't impact you. But let's talk about that piece because I think for the audience they don't see it because they're still seeing the movies.

[00:33:46] But yet if you look at Netflix right now, I guarantee there's a whole bunch of movies coming out of China and coming out of India that are up there because they just can't get the content they want to keep Netflix full. Yeah. Yeah, and I think too in my opinion – and I love the discussion because it is – it can pull from all these different sources all at once and do it in record speed and do it 24-7. I think the creativity aspect of it, in my opinion, it doesn't have that.

[00:34:15] It's pulling and it's plagiarizing and it's trying. And I think it's a big funnel at the end of the day and right now it's a comfort zone and we're liking it and loving it until it doesn't want to be that anymore or it starts to direct our thoughts or – you know what I mean? It's our greatest friend until it's not. I'll quote iRobot. But – and I'll say a couple more things. I took two – this is like PhD-level, executive-level classes on AI from quote-unquote experts.

[00:34:43] One Stanford PhD, another Harvard PhD. One guy works for IBM. You know what I mean? Consultant to all these Fortune 100 companies. Yeah. And I asked him one question. I said, where is AI going? It's a good question, right? You could sit there and ask me where film's going, where television's going. I could give you an answer. He said, we don't know. Both of them said that. Where is AI going? We don't know. And so I just thought, that's kind of scary. You know what I mean? I have a thought on that. Yeah.

[00:35:12] And I don't want this to sound kind of grandiose. I think AI's direction – and again, I'm not going to talk about us producing children or our regular lives. I would say that AI is heading in the direction to replace us all. Sure. In its own way. So if we're replacing accountants – because here's when the rubber will really hit the road. We don't have Quantum yet. We don't have Agent Swarm being publicly available.

[00:35:40] But George, in his particular industry and his level of expertise and his experience, very difficult to replace. Just like you said about high-level CEOs, right? But there will come a point when they will take AI and they will put a quantum computer into an iRobot. And that robot may have the dexterity to be able to do the work George does. Sure. Now, could it have the experience of George? Maybe not. But maybe to replace a toilet.

[00:36:09] Maybe to do construction. Maybe to pour foundations. Could it be capable of that? Because, of course, when it comes to high-level executives, the number one thing – and you know as a Fortune 100, you know, ex-employee that you know how they – It's all about profit, right? It's all about bigger salary. It's all about shareholder value. It's all about my options and how do I increase value for my options so I can cash out with a monster payday. It's not about people. Sure. They don't care about people.

[00:36:35] Just like Google just fired another – they gave them an option, but it was really firing 6,000 people. They just did it again. That was a third round of AI departures. There you go. They're offered an exit. I think AI is here to replace us, you know, with everything but, of course, child production. And, of course, could they take eggs and sperm and could we have it living in a lab maybe? I don't know. The future is tough. Yeah.

[00:36:59] It's going to be tough, very tough for our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren and I'm concerned for them. I think that's a great consensus. I think that's kind of where the discussion – we can deviate back to film now, which would be fun. But I think that's the kind of discussion that one needs to have right now. And too many are drinking the Kool-Aid. And I was talking – I was doing somebody and they're like, well, you know, in the next five to seven years. Five to seven years? Talk to me next week. It's moving that fast. It is. Right?

[00:37:27] There's not that 18-month span where it's like it's starting to come out and we're talking about it. And I will say this. It's just – it's so interesting because it's undermining so many different places, especially on the educational system. It's a disruptor. It is. Oh, it is the disruptor, right? It's not just one industry. And it's like you could look at Airbnb and it's like, wow, that's a major disruptor to the – or the Lyft, the car stuff to the taxi. Right? But it's like Uber, yeah.

[00:37:56] But it's like this is across the board. And it's interesting too. I was talking with my dean a couple weeks ago, quick chat, and he was at one of these AI conferences. And I guess there is now the first billion-dollar company – I think it's a tech company – run by only two humans. And the rest are all – Yeah, it was a peptide company. Yeah. GLP One. Is that it? Okay, yeah. Yeah, it was a guy that started it. And the only reason he's got a second person, he didn't even need it, but it was his brother. Ah.

[00:38:25] And he brought his brother in because he wanted his brother to participate in the success. He built a billion-dollar company on his laptop. Crazy. Using AI. Yeah. The most successful GLP sales company in existence at that time. I don't know about now because, of course, there's a lot of people selling peptides. I don't know what the impact is on gross sales. But it's that part in itself, and they say that that is going to become very common because, of course, problem-solving. Look at Anduril, the defense contractor.

[00:38:55] They use AI, and they are disrupting the military-industrial complex because instead of $100,000 or a million-dollar or a $10 million drone, they're delivering drones at $35,000, $50,000. And they're doing it rapidly. The supply chains aren't an issue. They're not having manufacturing issues. So you start looking at that from that analysis, how many businesses will be – so I always think of that movie. What was it called? Was it called The Onion?

[00:39:24] Remember the movie where they had the disruptors? He was friends with all of them. It was a movie. It was kind of like – and then it was supposed to be a murder mystery. I don't know. It was on one of the – I don't know if it was Amazon or Netflix, and it was just an interesting movie. And when I heard the name, I thought, that's an interesting concept, the disruptor. But that's what happened in Hollywood, and it's happening now. You know, I don't think they – you know, I always talk – somebody said to me, oh, you know, I'd like to be a big actor. And I'm like, that's done. Get it. And do you remember that one with Al Pacino? I've said this so many times.

[00:39:54] I just think it was called Simon, if you remember that. This was decades ago. Yeah. He created the – it was an AI. Again, AI has been around for decades. They're just accelerating it now for this time and place in human history. But do you remember that? And it was beautiful, blonde. She was perfect. Everyone loved her. And then there'd be like this body double that you'd see her like with this glasses getting into. But that wasn't the actual actress. It was totally created on the laptop. And now you're seeing that. You're seeing that in China with actually the newscasters. They're just – Yeah.

[00:40:22] Because why would you want to give somebody – they call The Rock box office Viagra. That's his nickname by the studios behind the scenes. Because if you put The Rock in a movie, they call it box office Viagra because you're going to make sales and you're going to make money. I think that's over with because there's going to come a point where maybe they want – let's say they see Chad Stewart on the street or they see George Ballantyne. And they say, man, that guy's got a really unique look. Let me go talk to him.

[00:40:52] Hey, George, we'd like to – we're getting ready to do a movie and we'd like to use your likeness. We'd like to license – In a Brentfield series? Oh, I – Yeah. We'd like to license your likeness, George. But you're not going to – you're going to be in the movie, but you're not going to be in the movie. We'd like to pay you $25,000. This AI is going to look like you. It's going to behave like you. You need to spend a week in Hollywood. We're going to put you on a green screen. We're going to get all your body motions and your behavior and the way you talk.

[00:41:18] And we're just going to – we're just going to kind of clone you, but in AI, and you'll be in the movie. Now, I think that that is the future of where this is going. And to the point that the kids are already trained, right? The kids think some of the people on GT – you know, GT6 – you know, GTA 6. Is that what it is? GTA 6 is coming out. They treat those people like they're real people. Like, oh, yeah, the old lady on the corner.

[00:41:42] You're like – I mean – and so they're already ready to not, you know, think about actors in Hollywood and be like, oh, we're going to – the Oscars, it's such a big deal. The Oscars are dying because I don't think the kids care. That's what Hollywood's become. And we can get into that. But, you know, and that is a big issue. And, I mean, Tom Cruise has always been that bankable actor until Digger. You know, it's like, what were you thinking? But, you know, I don't know. It's interesting.

[00:42:11] I – a couple things we can end on. I think it's always going to come down to balance. You know, it'll always come down to the parents and the next generation of kids and the parents of what they do and they don't do. What they – how much they allow. That they're getting out and taking the kids to the freaking park. That they're walking down to the beach. That they're taking picnics. That they're walking in the woods. That they're going to the library. I mean, believe it or not, I mean – and there's always this interesting way that things have a way of resetting. And that is my contention. I think it'll hit a ceiling. I think I know where it wants to go. And you're right. I told you.

[00:42:41] Terminator was not a movie. It's a documentary. That's their end goal, you know. But I think there's a god factor. I think it's going to hit a ceiling. The book industry. It's actually – printing is increasing. The independent bookstores are growing at 5% to 7% every year now. Totally counterproductive. Or counter – I'm sorry. Counterintuitive. The board game, the physical board games, it's growing at 5% every year. It's a $2 billion industry. I didn't know that about board games. Yeah. So, you know, I get some of these facts. I talked to someone that worked for USA Monopoly.

[00:43:11] So it's like I'm getting it right from the source. VP there. Because we're developing the Bitfield board game too, among other things. But kids love to hold a book. You know, they love the physical book. They like to read it. They're sick and tired of reading stuff. Like they always thought the e-book market would go to like 30%, 40%. Typical idiot 1970s – People stuck. Yeah. I got to be honest. Yeah. But typical 1970s publishing industry freaking out. And I'm like, what do you care? It's like you don't have to like print books. You know what I mean? It's like it's a gem for you guys.

[00:43:40] It flatlined at 78%. It's not going anywhere. People are rejecting it. Yeah. I mean, I like physical books myself. I don't really like to read e-books. I've read them, but I don't really enjoy it. There's something about the e-books kind of a disconnect for me. Sure. Yeah. And it depends what it's backlit. And I'm sure you guys got onto all that stuff. But – and I think their goal in that was – and I, you know, like get – I remember there was a Christian prep school here in San Diego. And they were – they were thinking of funding a beautiful library.

[00:44:09] And then they decided that they're going to do everything on e-book. Big mistake. You know what I mean? And get rid of the books. And that's idiocy. And what happens when you put a book on – when all the books become e-books, you can change them, right? And I always like to think about the Bible. And at 1 a.m. in the morning, they've taken out a word or a sentence. And little by little, they start to rewrite it. You have no where all unless you have the actual physical copy. So there's a great factor to that. But needless to say, that – That's a horrible thought you just came up with. And it's a truth.

[00:44:39] It is a truth. But it's flatlined. And it has that tendency. And I think AI right now – and I'll be honest. There's aspects that I'm thoroughly enjoying with it. You know what I mean? I can ask it quick questions. I can brainstorm. I was doing a new email campaign this morning for something else. And I said, you know, give me 10 taglines based on – and it knows, you know, what I'm working on. And it just helped me because I was like – No, it's great. At this point, yeah, seven years in, I'm like, I can't think of – you know, I'm like – Yeah. And I'll tell you one thing that it did on five for me.

[00:45:09] Two things, actually. So I – you know, book five was like the traditional route. You know what I mean? And to answer your question, you know, an hour later, full circle, I always outline my book – I call it front-loading the story. And it takes me four months, and I outline the entire story. Yeah. And so I know every scene, and I know where it's going. It's very hard to do it because you're like – you know, you're like on the next scene. Like you've done 30 scenes, you know, bullet points or whatever, and like what happens next? I'm like, I don't know what happens next. And so you have to figure it out. So I never hit a wall.

[00:45:38] So when I'm sitting down and writing, boom, it flows, and it's great. But something I did do – so here I am traditionally. I'm writing it. I'm always editing it, going through. I've been using Grammarly. That's been a little treat. It's been very helpful. No, Grammarly is great. Yeah, these stupid little things you forget. And it's like nothing undermines a book more than if you're like – someone's reading it. It's like it's a misspelling, and they're like, okay. And then you get two of them. And you're like, dude, what's wrong with your book? Well, it's 90,000 words, by the way. But anyway.

[00:46:08] And then I do a paper edit. So after I'm done and I've gotten it perfect, then I start to print it out only a couple pages at a time. I go on a seat. I highlight it or a pin. I'm relaxed. I start reading it because – and this is my advice to your audience, anyone that's like writing stuff or a really important memo or a paper. It's great to do it on your laptop. Edit it. Make it perfect. Then print it and read it, and it will read night and day. 100 percent. Night and day. I don't know what it is. You'll sit there and go, holy frick.

[00:46:35] Like the first paragraph, you're like, there's – I used the same word three times and stuff. But – Yeah. So I did all that. Then I sent it to my professional editor that I've used for three years or on three books. Then I sent it to two proofers. Got all that back, even after running it through everything grammarly. And I finally had the manuscript and I put it into Claude. I said, look for any missed periods, any misspellings, and any irregularities. And it came back with two missed periods, which is fine.

[00:47:03] Still found seven misspellings. Isn't that crazy? And then Donovan was a word that I was using for the Britfield family. And I spelled it D-O-V-O in 12 places and D-O-V-A in four. Caught it. None of those guys caught it. And so it's like, you know, aspects like that, thank you. And I'll say one last thing and then we can pivot. But I had to write the prologue, the beginning of the book, you know, kind of just as a background

[00:47:33] from book four and where it came from. And I kind of, I'll throw stuff in there to come and I kind of save it for the end and I was just burnt. I literally downloaded the manuscript of book four, gave my prompt and said, you know, in three paragraphs and within less than five minutes, I want to say three minutes, it came back with three beautiful paragraphs. Now I went back and I edited and stuff and cleaned it up and expanded. But I mean, it hit it like perfect. And I'm like, wow.

[00:48:02] And I'm probably preaching to the choir with you because you are at a whole nother level with AI. But I'm just saying it's like, I'm like, that's what I'm like, I keep getting blown away. And so those kinds of aspects for a writer, hugely helpful, you know? So. You know, and George, we talked about this, how quickly AI is moving minute to minute that you think you've got a solution and it looks great. And then a week later, here comes some new memory product or here comes some new this

[00:48:28] or new that, or here comes a new learning language model that everybody's claiming is better than all the learning, you know? And then you got to make the next step. Recently, George, have you had any interaction with doing something on AI and you were like, wow, this has really improved. I don't know if it was a thumbnail, anything. I mean. If you think about six months ago and what you're doing now, you're like, holy crap. From six months ago to now using AI for certain things, hell yeah, it's improved.

[00:48:54] And shockingly, it's improving fast at a faster rate now than it was a year ago, six months ago. It's just going to continue. Yeah. What about when AI is going to just itself create a better AI? Just think about it. It will be there. It might be there now. But like, I'm thinking in the beginning, you brought up quantum computing. That's a whole nother monster in itself. Yeah. It's interesting too, as a footnote. And I talk about quantum computing in book, I touch on it in book three.

[00:49:24] I talk about it in four and I get into a lot of it in book five. But one of my colleagues at my school is going to Oxford next year for a master's. And that was funny. He was just over there about three weeks ago as kind of an orientation at a 500-year-old school. It's very cool. And he's at the business school. And his main focus is AI. And Oxford was already saying, dude, AI is old school. This whole course is going to be on quantum computing and stuff.

[00:49:53] And so they're already at that next level. Yeah. And it's very interesting. Like where I was talking with them, because we have colleagues from all over the world and gentlemen from South Korea. And I had a chance to talk with them. And I said, you know, where are they at with certain things? And we tend to get into a Truman bubble in the United States. Love America. But we tend to get into a Truman bubble, right? And so there are places that are like far more advanced, far more ahead, which is great in the sense of being able to travel and learn all that.

[00:50:22] But he was saying like, you know, things like Lyft or Uber, like that was part of South Korea like 15 years ago or before it even got here. You know what I mean? It's just it was called something different or where you order the food on the computer and they deliver it. You know what I mean? It's like and South Korea has always been at that cutting edge technology and stuff. But it's just it's it's interesting how fast everything going. And I've always said what what Silicon Valley or Silicon invented, you know, this week, Hong

[00:50:51] Kong already had a month ago. Do you know what I mean? It's just it's moving so quickly. And it's funny because it's like, don't write a book on AI because it's going to be obsolete by the time you start editing it. Yeah, it's interesting because for everybody out of quantum computing power, you know, that's not coming from like running standard tasks faster, right? Than a regular computer because regular computers use that traditional binary bits. You're talking about this is an exponential increase, you know, in the systems, you know,

[00:51:18] computational called the computational workspace because it's using the laws of quantum physics rather than the binary bits. So people aren't really grasping that it's not it's not going to be a new Mac laptop that's more powerful. Sure, it's going to be more powerful. But it's because the system that's operating it is going to give you an exponential increase in its computational ability. So are we talking about 10 petaflops, a thousand petaflops? It's hard to kind of wrap your head around it.

[00:51:46] And I don't think people are really realizing how impactful it's going to be. But let's let's I want to I want to pivot here real quick. Last footnote. And then and then but because they always have to tell you. Right. And and a great way to know where they're headed is the James Bond movies and the Mission Impossible. And what was Dead Reckoning all about? Right. They were telling you. Right. If you saw the back to back dead reckoning, it's all about where it took over and it started

[00:52:13] remember, it started shutting down each country and had total control of their of their country. You know, they you know, they're hopeful of the guardrails. I mean, think about the computers, the AI computers or super intelligence computers, whatever you want to call them, it created their own language. It created a language so people wouldn't know what they were discussing. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Now, I remember that you think about that innovation and what that could mean now add the quantum

[00:52:38] to it because we're not talking about, you know, the computational of strictly zero or one. Now you're talking about, you know, this is like a superposition where you can represent zero, one or blend both at the same time, which I know for people that don't program, that doesn't make a lot of sense. What that means is it's it's not it's not a box, kind of a square box of thinking. My opinion is when you when they take super intelligence and the highest level of these

[00:53:07] learning language models that are out there, say it's clawed and then you give it this sandbox of quantum computing to work in. If we think it's moving fast now, I think what we're going to see is something that that all of us will struggle and be like, what did it just do? And I'm not sure that they can get ahead of it enough to say, oh, no, we don't want you to do that. Too late. I've already done, you know, a million renditions of that. I'm already past the one you're telling me not to do.

[00:53:34] And I'm already here at the millionth creation of that. So, you know, it's a weird thing. Let's talk about last time you were here, you were excited. You were looking at funding. You thought you had funding secured for the movie. Now you're talking about you've taken it to the next step. So let's give the audience kind of catch them up on. It sounds like the new book's out. Hopefully some people are going to get delivered in December. Maybe you can tell our audience how they could participate in that, even if they can. And then let's talk about the movie where that stands, because you're going to be doing it, you know, give the announcement of what's going on. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:54:04] So as I said, we finished book five. So I'm excited about it. It's the crescendo to the five book series of potentially seven. Book six will be in South America. And I was actually in South America in August, which was great for two weeks doing research and was in Peru and then Brazil, not Brazil, Argentina. And so I was doing research for book six, which will be, I'll start writing next year. And then book seven will be United States coming back full circle. So we're excited about that. The movie's been progressing really well.

[00:54:34] Been kind of an interesting year, slower year. And I think book five really bogged me down. I've got producers. I've got a team that's working on the film. So I don't always have to be there. But there's just part of it where you sort of get it to the one stage and then you're waiting for the next stage. So things will start to accelerate for us now in November and through December. And just so you know, like I, the way I work, I don't necessarily work in 12 months. We're all different. My 2006 ended at the end of September. Like there, I'm like kissing that year goodbye. You know what I mean?

[00:55:02] So my January, frankly, in my mind right now was October. And now I'm totally focused on 2027. So by the time January hits, you know, I've got a lot of momentum and stuff. So early next year, we'll be looking at site locations in England. I think we did speak offline. So we really do want to film in England. If all goes well, we'll be filming probably next fall in England. So it'll be the first of seven live action movies. Casting is semi on its way.

[00:55:31] We have our dream list. But again, it's not going to be, it's much like, I hate to use the term Harry Potter. But if you look at that as far as a story, it didn't really have any A-list actors, but they're all great British actors, right? Even Richard Harris, who eventually passed away. You know, at one time he was an A-list actor. All these guys were sort of great actors. And so the Britfield will be that same thing, recognizable British actors. But it's not the type of film where I don't even know what A-list actor I would use

[00:56:01] and don't really want it. And it would take away from it. And what's interesting about Britfield and the series is that the story really is the main actor. And then all the other actors are kind of coming in to fill the role. The young Tom and Sarah, you know, up and coming, you know, talented. Yeah, there's the kind of story that does that, right? It creates a big-name actor because, of course, they're playing Tom and Sarah. They're playing another role and they're potentially going to be in five. Seven. Yeah, seven of these creations.

[00:56:28] You know, you could take somebody that has fantastic skills. It's kind of like American Idol. Yeah. You take somebody that's wildly talented and has no fan base and they get a fan base because of the Britfield series. Absolutely. And that would be, that would happen real quick. And again, too, like, we're, you know, I have a three-year global tour planned. It always gets a little bit pushed off. Hopefully, we can kick it off next year. And that's a global tour. That's a global tour for the book series, for the film.

[00:56:55] We're going to create the biggest buzz that I think you've ever seen for a movie. And a lot of that stuff's kind of in place. And so it's like, to me, that's my own tsunami waiting to come. That's the dam that's just about to burst with Britfield. We've kind of been, you know, doing the hard work, you know, building the brand, doing good infrastructure work, testing it, quality over quantity, waiting for the right time, waiting for the right timing. And I've heard from many people, you know, it's like, it's just the perfect timing now.

[00:57:24] It is kind of the perfect storm, you know. America's woken up to some extent. You know, they're sick and tired of this garbage, sick and tired of the educational system, the filth that's in the library, the filth that's in the schools, the filth that's in Hollywood. Hollywood did it to itself, you know. I've said for years they're bankrupt. You can't keep losing hundreds of millions of dollars on these woke films and expect to bounce back. And lo and behold, you know. I think they misjudged the market. That woke ideology has done so much damage.

[00:57:50] Even actors have decided they're going to come up the curb and say dumb things like Robert De Niro. I won't watch a Robert De Niro movie because of the things he said, how caustic and divisional he is. It's not because he doesn't like Donald Trump. I could care less about that. It's because I feel like his rhetoric is so divisional and he's trying to use the pulpit of him being a fantastic actor to manipulate and groom people into his own thinking. So I won't even watch his stuff. And listen, look what happened to the Reacher actor. He had a movie. It came out.

[00:58:20] Oh, right. You know, he should have just kept his mouth shut. He had a successful series. He's not a great actor as it is. Yeah, I agree with you, George. You're definitely right. And I can almost guarantee the success of Britfield because we're going to hold your feet to the fire on that cameo for the big, big team. Oh, yeah. That's a guaranteed success if you just attach our name to the movie. I just need you. I need you in one little scene, whether you're just handing out the train tickets or coming in as one of the cops. And we're golden. We're golden. We're locked.

[00:58:48] Listen, the big, big team is box office Viagra. I mean, you know, Lance. The Rock is out. George and Lance are in. I love it. You know, Tommy Robinson. The Rock who? Right. Tommy Robinson has been trying to get us to come to the UK to visit him. So you never know. Yeah, Tommy Robinson is a friend of ours. Really? Yeah, I've been following him or his story. I like Tommy. You know, I think he's got good intent. I like him. And he's an interesting character. And I like him because he stays the course.

[00:59:16] No matter the attacks and the jailing, he just says, I'm not okay with this. I want this place to be okay for my children and my children's children. Screw you. Do whatever you're going to do to me. I'm going to keep fighting. So you've got to give him credit. He's been attacked as much as anybody. All right. So what do you think, if you were going to put a timeline, when do you think the movie, sees the public? Is that 28? You think you're at the end of the day? Oh, no, no. Yeah. In a perfect world and things could accelerate. And remember, like, this is three years in development.

[00:59:45] I mean, here's a ninth draft finished script. Now, in one way, a script is never finished. But this is done. This is, number one, it's got to be based on the book and the story. So it's not like I just wrote a great script or great story. This thing's tight, extremely tight. And we've done an extensive business plan. We've done a whole financial breakdown. We've had a professional come in and do the budget breakdown. My two producers, father and son, both accountants by nature.

[01:00:15] So it's no bullshit. It's by the numbers. That's great though, right? Yeah. And that's kind of why I chose them. Can I ask you, can you divulge what the budget is for this film? Oh, it's 50, 5, 0, 50 million independent movie. So remember, it's outside of how. That's a major motion picture budget as an independent. That's big bucks. It is. Because if Hollywood did the same film, nothing changed. It's 150 plus million, period. And nothing would change. It's just how Hollywood works.

[01:00:42] Everyone gets, everyone, everyone takes a cut. Yeah, you know how it is. One of my favorite stories, you guys have probably heard of this, but it goes all the way back to Forrest Gump and the writer that wrote the book did a deal with, I think it was Paramount. And they go, well, they gave him like, you know, 150, maybe $250,000 for the script, but they go for the story and they go, but we'll give you five points on profit. And so Forrest Gump made for 30 million that did something like, let's say 400 million, 500 million, when it was all said and done. And I'm talking DVDs. Paramount came back and said,

[01:01:11] sorry, we didn't make any profit. You didn't make any profit on a $30 million movie that did 500 million. That's Hollywood, right? It's the house that's Vegas. And he finally sued him and he got millions of dollars out of these pricks. But the point is I'm saying- It's horrible though, because at the end of the day, they didn't want to give up the five points. You know, and that's horrible because of course, part of it is the distribution and the marketing that they just hide so much stuff in there. I know a guy that did states for some movies, a very wealthy friend of mine. He got involved with Hollywood because his wife wanted to.

[01:01:41] And to hear him tell the stories about, oh my God, the marketing scams and this they said they spent money on and this they spent on money. And truth is they didn't spend money on any of it. They just put a price on everything and then you've got to try to get it audited. You know, you have to have, when you do the point back end deal, you have to literally have an expert in that. Because they have to nail down, you're not, you know, what's the mark? What's this? What? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're only going to participate in 20% of that, 5% of this. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[01:02:09] The numbers are based on the gross minus this much. I don't care what you guys say. We're not going with that. It's clever accounting and with statistics, you can do anything. I learned that taking a statistics class. You can make statistics say anything or do anything. So it's incestuous. Hollywood is incestuous. Yeah, so I knew that coming in years ago, call it even a decade ago, that we would have to control the ship, build the infrastructure that I built behind Britfield. I mean, we've built our own infrastructure, built our own marketing company. Now I use other marketers that I like and stuff, but embedded.

[01:02:39] And that's why I'm saying, I'm like, the kind of marketing we're going to do for the film, which at that point probably won't even need it, but it's going to be, it's going to be something like you've never seen. And you're going to see just the coolest little 15 second clips could be going viral. It's going to be all kinds of, you know, behind the scenes once we're, once we hit the ground in England. Well, George's Britfield pinup calendar is going to be a great marketing tool when you come out with it. Absolutely. George is a fireman. George. I love it.

[01:03:08] Well, he can be all the different characters. Detective Gowerstone. Exactly. You know, George is Detective Gowerstone. He's a professor, you know, Hainsworth, but with gray hair and a beard. It's it. Yeah, I love it. George can grow a great beard. Yeah, he can grow a great beard. Yeah, just dye it. Yeah, you can have to dye it though. And hold a book. Well, newsflash. My beard is mostly gray. I dye it dark colors. I can't say it doesn't. George just makes you look older and it doesn't look good in pictures. I'm like, nah, I'm not ready for a full gray beard. Sorry. So there. So you got that. You can save money.

[01:03:37] You can cut the dying budget out of the script for George's beard. You just save money by using George. Love it. You guys are saving me money right now. That's it. That's how we do it. All right. Well, listen, George, any other comments? Anything you want to add to the dialogue here? We've been hogging up the microphone. No, I'm good. When do we have to go to UK? That's it. Hope it doesn't interfere with our other cameo though. Yeah, we've got, we just got a cameo. I can, I actually, you told me we can announce it. Did you see,

[01:04:07] you haven't seen Citizen Vigilante yet, have you? No. Do you know U-Bull? You know? I don't. Man, he's a great producer and director. He's, he's done a lot of independent stuff. Film writer, yeah. Because he hasn't compromised his values. He's done 41 different films. Wow. That's a lot. And he's had, you know, he's had some high successes. He's had some mediocre. They love to attack him. He's got a reputation of being a guy that puts himself out. But he's a super interesting guy. He's from Germany. We ought to just connect you two because I think you would hit it off.

[01:04:36] He's a very current events. I was actually impressed. We brought him on the show to talk about Citizen Vigilante. It just went number one. I don't know if you knew this. It went number one in Germany. I think it's number one in Apple. And it's on a bunch of platforms it went number one because it was a perfect storm. It was about, you know, the immigration and the rape gangs and what's happening with that. And that's kind of the take that this father's, it happens to his daughter and this guy happens to be an ex kind of government agency guy and he goes just hyper violent. Who's the main actor?

[01:05:07] Armie Hammer. Yes. Okay. I know exactly the movie you do. because, you know, Armie got attacked. He had all that stuff that came out and they went after him. But I think Armie Hammer's a great actor. All right. Do you love the film? Because I'm familiar with now what you're talking about. It's a great film. But anyway, he's doing a Citizen Vigilante too, which is going to be filmed in New York. Yeah, yeah. I live right by New York and I said, hey, you know, can I, can we get him? So we got him, we're going to be in it and we got him connected with Roger Stone and Roger Stone's going to be in it. He's a friend of ours.

[01:05:37] Roger, Roger loves the act. He loves the couple of times he's been in movies and stuff and he loves it. So I knew it and I connected those two. They hit it off immediately. So it's just interesting. But anyway, so we got a cameo on that. So we got that going on for us. We'll have that film and now, boom, George is pin up and his position is secured. All right. Well, we appreciate you. Thanks, man. Thanks for the time. We love having you. It's always interesting. I'm sure we could spend hours segwaying down so many rabbit holes, you and I.

[01:06:06] If you need any consulting on AI, I'm pretty up to speed, as you can tell. So if you need, you need me to help you work your way through it. I know an awful lot about it. So maybe. Yeah, you do. You're at a whole nother level, my friend. So. Well, we appreciate you and thanks so much for joining us. And of course, give them your social media. Let's do the shameless plug. Give them the website to buy books, you know, and how they can keep up with what the movie action is and the rest of it. Yeah. I mean, our best place to start is our Facebook website.

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[01:07:10] I'm up there so they know about the Bitfield series. He started reading it over the summer and he was like hooked and he's like, last time I talked to him, you know, last time I talked to him, he just finished book four and he goes, when's five coming? And it was so funny. He was pitching it to people. He goes, I'm pitching to people and he goes, it's a great series. It's kind of like Hardy Boys meets James Bond, but it doesn't have all that woke crap and kids would like it too. And I thought, that's really funny. No, but that's, but you know, you love real world thought process of why they love the book.

[01:07:40] Yeah. You know, written for such a wide variety and that's what the crazy part about your books is the appeal between adults and children, which is, you know, that clearly is not easy to make that crossover because usually you can't. But of course, and not being woke. Yeah. That ought to be the, that ought to be the package for Christmas. The only non-woke series available now. Almost true. I'm telling you that it almost is true because almost everything has got a bunch of that grooming garbage in there. Yep. We're sick of it.

[01:08:10] And then what about your social media on X? Go ahead and plug Instagram or anywhere else. How do they find you? Yeah. You could, I think just look at, pull up Britfield. I think it's real Britfield or Britfield world on X, on Instagram. Facebook. Our website's always a great place to start. And yeah, if you, if you, if you're familiar with the series, if you've already read it and you want to get book five, it's great to pre-order it. Again, great gift for, for grandchildren, children, parents, all of it. It's just, it's a,

[01:08:39] it's a really fun fast paced series. You know, England, France, Italy, Eastern Europe, and then book five will be Asia. So it takes you across the world. Fast paced. It's, it's, it's educational. It's learning. It's fun. And, and it is, it's, it's a lot what Lewis did with, with Narnie. And I've said it before, but he never wrote that, never created that for, for children. He created it for adults because he wanted, he wanted to create a really fun series of kids that adults could go back to that wonderment of childhood. And, and it just happened to become one of the bestselling

[01:09:09] children's books. You know what I mean? And, and Britfield was always kind of designed to the next generation of kids. That's our foundation. The schools have always been our focus, but, but you know, 55% of our global audience are adults. And, and I love that. I mean, I get, I get emails from, you know, 60, 70, 80 year old, you know, men and women from Canada are all over. You know what I mean? I'm like, I love what you're doing. And that is the most amazing accolade for your book. I mean, the fact that the way the audience is so diverse just tells you so much about what you've done.

[01:09:39] And congratulations for all your success. Thank you. Congratulations on getting book five knocked down. Congratulations on having the movie at the stage it's in. So, you know, all the, all the success in the world. You deserve all of it because you, you are one of the hardest working men in show business that I know. I don't know anybody that works as hard as you. So you deserve all the success you're getting. For anybody out there, great Christmas gift. Get over there, buy a few books and, you know, give them to your kids and give them, maybe to some of the adults in your life. A non-woke ideology is always a great way to educate you.

[01:10:09] And there are some people out there that need the non-woke ideology. Some people with TDS and other things could use them out. All right, Chad, thanks so very much. George, last words for the audience as we head out the door, buddy. Chad, it's always a pleasure having you on. We look forward to the next time hopefully you'll be when you're going to be announcing a movie premiere. Yeah. Or well, it'd be location. You know, we should do an interview live from England. We can do that, yeah. Hey, we could bring our equipment. We could do a live interview with you when we do our cameo. You feel the leverage

[01:10:38] I just stuck you with there? Sweet. You just packaged that so quickly. Just boom. Listen, we could start doing some B-roll footage and, you know, put it out, little teasers and stuff. Yeah, let's go, man. Let's go. We'll get you back in there. We'll get you by the catering cart, you know. We'll get you just in mid-bite. We'll just run up on you. All right. Y'all have a blessed day. See you tomorrow. God bless. Stay frosty and stay blessed. Peace out.

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