The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – The Trooth About The Tooth: The Beginning Santa And His #1 Elf Kindle Edition by Barry Fillier

Episode Date: December 31, 2024

The Trooth About The Tooth: The Beginning Santa And His #1 Elf Kindle Edition by Barry Fillier Amazon.com tooth-trooth.com Come with Santa on a new adventure as he journeys to Fairyland. With the help of Mother Nature and the forest fairies, Santa is introduced to the magical powers of the Tooth Fairies who turn baby teeth they collect, into fairy dust. With the magic of fairy dust, Santa and his reindeers are able to fly around the world and visit more children every year. This is how Santa is magically able to deliver gifts to many home, with or without chimneys

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Today we have an amazing young man on the show. He's a multi-book author, and we're going to be talking about his latest books. They're kind of, well, this one right here is going to be kind of Christmassy. We're going to talk about that and some of the other things that he does. The book is entitled The Truth About the Tooth, santa and his number one elf by barry phillier we're going to be talking with him on the show about his book series his multi-book series i should say and all that good stuff he's also known as bear phillier he's a self-published author of children's books about the tooth fairies and how they turn the teeth into fairy dusk and

where they get the money to put under the pillow. He's not a dentist, but he is a Canadian motion picture pioneer, which means he's been in the film industry for over 50 years. He worked with distribution and marketing, contracting films to play in theaters across Canada, representing studios such as Paramount, MGM, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, and independent film distributors in managerial positions. Some of the films he represented were The Godfather, 9 to 5, Working 9 to 5, now it's stuck in my head,

Stir Crazy, and A Praise of Older Women. In addition, he operates his own company in the video retail market, supplying video stores with support products. Welcome to the show, Barry. How are you? I'm good. Yourself, Chris? Barry. How are you? I'm good. Yourself, Chris? I am excellent as well. I'm just ready for Christmas here at this point, two days away.

Give us your dot-coms. Where do you want people to find out more about you on the interwebages in the sky? www.tooth-trouth.com O-O-T-H-R-O-O-T-H-R-O-O-T-H-R-O-O-T-H-R-O-O-T-H-R-O-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H-R-O-T-H- book it's about how saint nicholas became santa with the help of the tooth fairies and he has he arrives home one morning is how it opens to and greeted by his number one and only elf lorenzo who happens to be italian and they start discussing about the fact that as time goes by and more villages have children and he wants to visit all of them, that is going to be impossible. So he suggests that they go to fairyland and meet with Mother Nature and the fairies of the forest.

Lorenzo, being Italian, pronounces St. Nicholas with an Italian accent, St. Nicholas. St. Nicholas. Yeah, so it sounds like Santa Claus. Ah. So at the end of the story, the tooth fairies interpret that as Santa Claus, and there's an express wall, like a bank express wall,

where they send the fairy dust off to all the mythical characters that use magic. Nobody has explained magic, but magic is made from fairy dust made from baby teeth wow you mean i could have kept my baby teeth ground them up and sold this off like a pound of meth or something i don't think the tooth fairies will buy them but they do leave the money and where they get the money to put under the pillow is they use the fairy dust to heal small animals of the world who get injured or sick in trade for the money that they find. Oh, that's good.

It's being used for good. And so that's how that comes about. And this is actually a prequel to the original book, which I will get to. And at the end of the story, Lorenzo and St. Nick are discussing that they should move to the North Pole, because it's more central to get around the world, since they're going to be getting fairy dust. And they discussed that at that time, we'll have to add more reindeers to go further and so lorenzo volunteers to build the express wall for them so that that way they can add names of other characters that need to use magic oh so you can't explain how all these different parts and characters work together huh yes yes yeah and the characters in in the books are I I think they're equal

to any of the Disney ones mm-hmm well it's a kind of cool that works and then and then that explains how Santa gets down the chimney because he's kind of or in without a chimney oh I thought he just climbed in through the window but that's probably some our apartments you know we we had we had a santa one year call call on the window but then he took all the presents i've heard of that i might have maybe one of my parents called the police anyway isn't that the grinch that's probably the grinch yeah that's definitely there's a of those Grinches running around stealing those Amazon packages off of things.

I'm going to be writing a book about the Grinch as well. And when I talk to you about the original book, then I can bring that into play. Okay. Tell us about the other books in the series as well. The third book in the series

is how Jack Rabbit became the original Easter Bunny. And it happened that Jack was out. He was born in around Easter, and he's out playing and feeding, and he starts to munch on something at the edge of a cliff and falls off the cliff and breaks his leg. Just as that happened, Bucky, one of the tooth fairies, and by the way, all the tooth fairies are named after the mouth, by the way. This particular fairy's name is Bucky.

He happened to arrive just as that happened, and he's visiting his mother, Bonnie Rabbit, to see if she found any money when he uses a fairy dust to heal his injured leg. Then after he's injured, he starts to ask how and why. And Bucky explains what they do with the teeth to him. They turn it into fairy dust. And that's why he's visiting his mother to see if she found any money for the Tooth Fairies. Oh, wow.

Bucky then asks, can I get fairy dust to pay it forward? And Bucky says, I'll go back and ask the rest of the fairies, which he does. And there's scenes where he's having a meeting with the other Tooth Fairies. And they agree to add him to the express wall to send him fairy dust wow and that's how jack became the original easter bunny i didn't know there was like a whole fairy dust ecosystem economy here going on oh yeah there is it's like a whole international federal reserve bank of fairy dust well other books say they build castles but how many can they build that's true or it becomes a star in heaven but so does grand their grandmother and grandfather looking down on

them you know i have fairy dust in my coffee in the morning yeah is it called bailey's yeah good one there i like that thank you yeah it's called bailey's if i don't drink it straight out of the bottle yeah some mornings are like that around Thank you. Yeah, it's called Bailey's. If I don't drink it straight out of the bottle. Yeah. Some mornings are like that around here. No, Bailey's on the weekend. Wait, you're only supposed to drink on the weekend? Not during office hours? No, I'm diabetic, so I try to control things.

Yeah, you got to watch that. Lots of sugar in that, Bailey's. Tell us about yourself. I mean, we kind of, I read your bio. When did you start writing and what made you interested in writing children's books my my daughter who's this goes back a ways i asked me what does a tooth fairy do with the teeth and where do they get the money and i told her i'd give it some thought and that's about a week later I started to put together and pen it out and then

published it originally with when my granddaughters on my on my wife's side because she's my third marriage anyways on my wife's side and after they were born and when they were I revisited when they were five and seven and and actually McKenna my grand oldest granddaughter is a little girl in the book which I will explain when I get to the book on the original story and published it with one publishing company found out I didn't own the illustrations so I republished it with another company just last year in November, as well as the next two books. And I've got a third book completed as well, which is How the Piper's Flute Became Magic, which I'll be publishing with the help of the Tooth Fairy.

And so I republished it with them. And at the same time, within a few months, I published the next two books. That was last November. But it didn't time out for Christmas on the Christmas book, so I held off on the marketing until this year. And on the Jackrabbit, that marketing, I'll start this coming Easter. Oh, wow. So you kind of did it to explain it for your daughter. Were you writing before i mean was this something that just came out of the blue where you're like more or less came out of the blue because of my background in the film industry

if i have to sell a film like i had one film called the passover plot very controversial with the catholic church so in order to get a theater to put it on screen, I would have to pick what I thought was the best scene out of the film to convince him that based on his audience and demographics of his town, that it would be worthwhile just to put it on screen, even if it was only for three days. Oh, wow. So as you know in the film

industry there are road shows which is a Godfather, 9 to 5, Stir Crazy, Love Story, True Grit, so on. But then there's the B titles that are picked up at film festivals that the studio will release which is anywhere up to 12 films a year or more back before video. And so our job was, my job was to get as many of my titles on screen with the maximum number of play, amount of play days or weeks. For example, The Godfather had a minimum of three weeks in any of the small towns. Larger towns was even longer. So even down to three days to get all your films. So it was very competitive when you're dealing against 11 other major studios at the time.

52 weeks in a year. How do you get all yours played, including the Holdovers? Got to make all those money and tickets for those, too. And while in the industry, I did win two sales drives. Wow. including the Holder Horse. Got to make all those money and tickets for those too. And while in the industry, I did win two sales drives. Congratulations. Thank you. And now you're an author.

Now I'm an author. Yeah, I did write one other book in the video industry. When I left the film industry, I went into the video industry and started with a company that was a wholesaler of the video, beta and VHS. And I wrote and designed the first retail video magazine in the industry in Canada. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah.

And then as part of the supplies, when I went into the supply business, I also wrote a manual on how to repair VHS and beta tapes, splicing, supplying the equipment, and how to rebuild the cassettes. Some of the cassettes had a security screw, and I wrote on how to remove that security screw without damaging the shell. Oh, wow. And sold it with splicing equipment. Quite the interesting stuff. What was that old thing from, what was that old thing from with splicing in film? It was from Fight Club.

Used to call it the cigarette burn? Yeah, I suppose. Actually, that's how I started in the film industry as a reformed reviser, splicing and repairing the film, the sprockets, as well as assembling the reels when they first came in. And so that, you know, 1A to 1B and so on. Yeah. I think

there's some sort of signal in the film that tells when you have to put on the second roll or something like that. It's in the movie Fight Club, so I don't know if it's true or not. It's kind of interesting. I think that's what Tyler Durden used to do in the second role or something like that. It's in the movie Fight Club, so I don't know if it's true or not. It's kind of interesting. I think that's what Tyler Durden used to do in the film. He would splice film together, and he would do inappropriate things.

That's some funny Fight Club lore there. So you did that, and now you do these books. Now, you mentioned, I think to me before in the green room, that you have a whole lot of prequels and other books you want to work on. Tell us about some of that. Yeah, I'll be writing an additional 16 to 20 prequels. As I explained with The Truth and Nothing, the Jackrabbit and the Santa one,

that it ends up on how they got on the express wall so the when we get to book one book one has all the characters on it so the rest of the stories are about how that character got his name on the express wall wow to get the fairy dust. So they're actually prequels. What I'm hoping to have happen is to get a studio interested in book one, which we'll get to that explanation, and then look at and, say, have it on Prime or Netflix as the original and then the subsequent stories as prequels. I'll compare it to Aesop's Fables type of thing. So they all refer back to Book One.

Yeah. I mean, it's kind of interesting you've tied them all together. Yeah, which makes the story infinite, which will never end because children lose 20 teeth between the age of approximately 4 to 12 and there's a child that loses a tooth every second of the day or every half second of the day throughout the world it's a lot of teeth that's a lot of teeth yeah that's a lot of magic i remember i got i think we got a quarter for a tooth or something yeah now it's around anywhere up to 20 or more yeah i i i think

i dated a gal and she had a daughter and she gave her i don't remember what it was five bucks or something at the time it was like a long time ago and i was like what i got ripped off it's inflation that's what it is yeah inflation what a what. I mean, I try and give my teeth, I take my teeth out now since I'm 57, they're all falling out on their own. And I put them under my pillow and no one seems to want adult teeth. That's because there's too many teeth that you put under the pillow. Oh, that's kind of Mountain Dew mouth. It must've been those years of doing meth that probably caught it for caught me don't do

math kids that's just a joke i never did that it seems like i did but yeah like maybe maybe you should do a you maybe you should do a book series on what they do with adult teeth or yeah maybe maybe old people tease when they you know they pull your teeth and give you uh uh what's the dentures you know no they just send you home and keep it. They send it to the tooth fairy. See, I knew I was getting cut out somewhere by the little man here. I knew there's a racket going on somewhere with these freaking teeth. I was like, I want to know who the thing is. I was lucky, though.

My grandfather, I think it was my grandfather. I'm pretty sure it was my grandfather. He sat me down one time. I think I was like 12 or 14. He goes, yeah, I'm going to tell you something, but you can't tell your brother and your siblings. Because I was the oldest. And he goes, yeah, I should probably warn people. If you have kids listening right now, there's no kids listening to this show.

But I would hope not. Jesus. No. I mean, we have you know whatever i mean if you have kids you know do the ear thing say earmuffs so my my grandpa told me that there was no santa claus and that my parents were santa claus and stuff and he goes and i go oh really and he goes yeah the tooth fairy too so he told me you, he blew the lid on it. Usually it's a friend that spoils it.

Yeah. He told me that. And he goes, you know, don't tell your siblings. You know, I did. Yeah, you told them. I told them. My brother cried like a pansy. He was so upset. He was so turned about it.

And I just laughed. And if you knew my little brother he's he was kind of a kid i thought i thought one yeah yeah he was something about that middle child that you know doesn't have attention and has to act out it's it's a middle child thing the but yeah so i blew that whole thing up but i'm glad you've tied it all together yeah i was i was for a long time i was like you know what is this racket where someone's paying for my teeth this seems cool who's making money here where's the where's the where's the you know where's the angle well no i look at it from the standpoint that children have great imaginations and i want to keep that happening or keep that going because today's children's

children with imagination are tomorrow's inventors scientists i won't say politicians though you'd have to be soulless i don't know what that means i'm just picking on politicians we have some great politicians have been on the show. But we only invite the ones that try and be bipartisan and be decent. So what haven't we talked about in the series? Let's talk about what's coming up. Any future books we want to profile? Yes.

As I said, the next book, The Pied Piper, is penned. Just the illustrations have to be, I have to break it down for the illustrations per page. If you look at the back of the book, it lists all future tooth stories, which is Cupid, Frosty, the Snowman, Tinkerbell, the Sandman, Jack Frost, Forest Fairies, Mother Nature, Fairy Godmother, Pinocchio, Wands, Leprechauns, Wizards, Rudolph, Good Witches, Crown Decay, and the Evil Witch, which I'll get to in Book 1. In addition, Mother Nature, she's got four daughters, so I can write four stories. Oh, yeah. Okay, I'll just write Mother Nature. Yeah, oh yeah. Spring.

Oh, duh. Summer. Winter and autumn. I've met Mother Nature. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Spring. Oh, duh. Summer. Winter and autumn. I've met those chicks. See, not many people know about her daughters. I'm not into the winter one. She's kind of ugly for me. I'm not.

No, it's not my style. I used to enjoy winter for snowmobiling and ice fishing. I like the outdoors, but getting too old now for that. Yeah, I grew up in california on the beach and in santa monica and me and snow don't go well together yeah i don't do skiing either ever since ever since that incident with with the sheriff's husband sunny i i heard about that i'm like yeah i'm not going any trees that's not that's not how i'm going out man about eight years ago but don't ski anymore but it was fun i enjoyed it i live in utah part of the year and i mean people always have ski injuries especially as they get older i'm like

yeah i'm gonna stay home i going to sit on the beach somewhere. That's what we prefer to do. I'm not into that winter daughter. I avoid her. I block all her calls. I don't get any of her Snapchats anymore. Although I do get in my snowblower out in my driveway and the neighbors as well. I'll send you my address so you can come over.

All right. All the way from Canada. But I like the summer. Summer's my favorite daughter of Mother mother nature she's my favorite unless i'm visiting you in vegas then it's a little different there i love vegas actually this relative of mine the caesar's palace was designed after his home in palm springs really uh-huh and he he was one of the managers at vegas and he got into it with sinatra oh really it's dangerous work to get into a sinatra he has friends you know yeah oh i know but he knew the rat pack and all of them yeah such a great story i miss the days of

of the mob owning vegas you get a $9 surf and turf. Yes. Nowadays, the corporation is just. Oh, the price for a meal is outrageous now. Oh. Although, I'd love to go back to Vegas, even just to visit the mob museum. Oh, the mob museum is great. I haven't been in it, but I've passed by it a bunch of times. I need to stop in there

and go. But the Mob Museum is literally a favorite. It was such a great time. But the fun part about Vegas is if you haven't been in five years, it changes so much. Yeah, no, I

haven't been. I used to go down there every year for the Consumer Electronics Show to look for products for the video retail market, as well as to the AVN show because they're video-related products, and

as well as the Video Software Dealers Association, we had our convention down there, as well as in Atlantic City. So I used to enjoy going down for that. And, you know, even staying at Caesars, not realizing I had a connection with an uncle to Vegas. Yeah.

You're even connected more with CES. So one of my friends is the CEO of CTA and CES, the CES show, Gary Shapiro. He'll be on the 2nd. So what is it? January 2nd, next week. He comes on the show every year for the past five or six years. We're friends on Facebook and LinkedIn. And he comes every year and gives us a preview of the CES show.

The new CES show, yeah. Yeah, and it is. And then starting, I think, a couple days ago, we did our first recording of one of the booths from the CES show, yeah. Yeah, and it is. And then starting, I think, a couple days ago, we did our first recording of one of the booths from the CES show. There's about five or six people we'll have on pre-show that are presenting there. So, yeah, we do the whole CES show, too. It's really fun.

Yeah. As we go roundabout, anything more we need to know about the books that I haven't touched on or teased on? Yeah, I'd like to go into the original book, if you don't mind. Please do. Which is The Truth and Nothing But the Tooth, remastered extended edition. And it's about a little girl named McKenna, who I mentioned was my granddaughter. She captures a tooth fairy while staying at her grandmother's house

when her tooth comes loose. And she captures a tooth fairy named Cal, showed for calcium. He's there to retrieve the tooth for his girlfriend, Rudy, who has been kidnapped by the cavity crew. Their job is to clean the teeth of cavities and but they want to turn the teeth all the teeth into cavities and take over fairyland and cause havoc the leader of that group his name is crown decay and he's got two beautiful yeah two beautiful assistants very very dangerous plaquette and gingivitis. Okay. And so McKenna insists that he tell her what they do with the teeth and where they get the money, which he explains.

As he's explaining, two other fairies arrive, Grunge and another one, and to make sure that he goes back to Fairyland. So he asked McKenna if she will go to Fairyland with him and give that tooth, because it's called the milk tooth, which is a more powerful magic tooth, very rare. And she agrees to go back to Fairyland with him and present it to rudy so they find rudy with the help of one of the cavity crew whose name is bicusp who's upset and bullied by the rest of the cavity crew and because he's got a pet lemur and they always tease him that he puts his socks on the wrong feet which is impossible to do so he confesses

to where they're holding rudy so they go to rescue rudy and as as they rescue rudy the crown decay and the cavity crew are banished from fairyland with the exception of the the lemur whose name is Flowrider and Bicusp. They get the job of Bicusp loading the machine with the teeth, and Flowrider gets the job of putting the bottles of fairy dust into the express wall, which shows all the mythical characters on it. Oh, wow. And also, if they go to my website, by the way, they'll hear a parody of a song by Meghan Trainor,

All About the Bass. I hired a seven-year-old girl to write it, to sing it, All About the Tooth. All About the Truth? The Tooth. All About the Tooth, instead of All About the Bass. Yeah. And I'm working on another parody, which is a scene where Crown Decay and the Cavity Crew,

Plakette and Ginger Vitus, are meeting with a witch named Grinelda, who has a book of potions and spells that they want. And Grinelda breaks into a parody of a song, don't you? Don't you wish your magic was black like mine? Don't you? I see. Don't you wish your girlfriend was black like mine? In the hopes that, you know,

a studio will pick up the original story, make it into a 90-minute animated film, and so I'm looking at some other songs. I don't know. I'm not a good enough writer to write a screenplay. But because of the storyline being a never-ending story with children losing teeth every second, a half second, this is a never-ending story. The prequels, referring back to the original book and what the tooth fairies do with the teeth and how I tie it in, could be made for TV specials like Santa the Beginning and Leprechauns, how they're able to hide their pot of gold. Cupid, how his arrows make people fall in love. I can tie that to fairy dust.

Oh, that explains it, fairy dust. Mother Nature and her four daughters, you know, add into that. Let's see. Frosted the Snowman, more Christmas ones. Jack Frost, Tinkerbell, the Sandman, forest fairies. I mentioned Mother Nature, Pinoc pinocchio leprechaun and in the case of prom decay and the evil witch how they interfere with mother nature and the four daughters didn't joe montana of scarface didn't he have some fairy dust that he used to market and sell in Miami?

I'm not sure. I know Disney did one about a hockey player. Say hello to my little friend. Anyway, I'm not sure that was fairy dust that was on his table. The marketing potential on book one, and I'll give you an example of a great potential marketing possibility, mcdonald's have the happy meal happy meals do not cause cavities but if mcdonald's were to take this on and give away all the characters they could also cross tie it let's say, Crest toothpaste by giving away a sample toothpaste with one of the characters on it, because kids collect each one of the characters from a movie. They can cross-promote it with

toothpaste and a toothbrush with the characters on it. Therefore, promoting good health, good hygiene. So it has that potential in the right hands and what i'm hoping is i'll get a studio interested in this project as well as a traditional publisher i'm retired i don't have a ton of money so it takes me a while to save up to publish a book and or even an investor now who did the artwork on these books the second publishing company did it and i do own the rights i made sure that was in the agreement and it's in each publication that i own the rights of the illustrations that's what you got to do it's

we you know we interview a lot of authors in the show from the big publishing houses. It's a learning curve. It's a learning curve for me. Yeah. It's a thing where people don't own their copyright. A lot of authors we talk to from some of the big houses. We love the big houses like Simon Schuster, Penguin Random House. I do own the rights to the ISBN, where I registered under my name. That's good.

You've got to have that. So I'm looking for, hopefully, get partners to move it forward. Yeah, we'll see if we can't get the word spread around there. So let me go out, give people a final pitch to order up your book, dot coms where they can find you and all that good stuff. Yes. It's www.troth.com, or they can look me up on YouTube, see my channel. I've got a Santa video, an Easter Bunny video, as well as another interview with another person. Also, if they look me up on Google, they'll see a lot. It's a wonderful time of year.

We love Christmas. There's Easter Bunny, there's Santa, you know, all sorts of good things. You know, it's good. And maybe kids can enjoy the stories before their grandpa ruins it. I hope so. I've had good reviews on the book so far. Yeah. I've not had any negative response for it.

In some cases of parents, it takes them back to when they lost their tooth, as it did with you. Yeah. I'm still, I'm calling my attorneys after the show and finding out. I want my due because I only got only got 25 you got to go back you got to go oh my now that we know you have a couple bucks per tooth i could have made like at least 50 bucks off my mouth as a kid instead of five dollars wasn't that your inheritance probably was actually as an adult don't tell my mom that she'll be like yeah there you already got your inheritance you got to teeth eh yeah or whatever i think she knocked my teeth out at one point no

she didn't i'm just teasing my mom's wonderful yeah but i probably deserved it i have to agree that i probably did deserve whatever i got i mean kids aren't they we're not always good all the time what can you say? But neither are parents, so I'm going with that. Anyway, thanks for coming by the show. We really appreciate it, Barry. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. And yourself, you and your family, or as many as there are, have a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year. You too. You too. Thank you. And we're in New Year's. We're right before Christmas in 2024, folks. So if you're watching this 10 years from now in February, please don't write a comment like,

it's not December yet. They do that all the time. It's crazy. Anyway, thanks for tuning in. Be good to each other. Stay safe. We'll see you guys next time. Order up the book wherever fine books are sold.

The truth about the tooth. The Beginning, Santa and His Number number one elf by Barry Fillier. Thanks for tuning in, everyone. We'll see you next time. Very good.