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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 2701 The Dangers of Losing Normal Childhoods

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Wallace Thompson was 15 years old when he began writing The Field Game Field Guide, which the back cover describes as "more than just an instruction manual for our favorite childhood games; it is a journey into the unspoken rules of our everyday lives. Calling on years of childcare experience and his own unconventional childhood, author Wallace Thompson teaches us that if you learn how to be a good sport, in and out of games, your relationships will improve and your life will become easier."

Book Discussed:
The Field Game Field Guide: A Guide to Sportsmanship and Life

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Show notes for Ep. 2701

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0:00.0

Get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the elites don't want you to know.

0:08.9

You're listening to the Tom Woods Show.

0:18.6

Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. It is episode 27001 of the Tom Wood Show. And I'm very happy to have with us today, Wallace Thompson, who is the author of this book right here, the field game field guide, a guide to sportsmanship and life. I got to know about this book. And by the way, this is super important for a zillion

0:38.2

reasons. I mean, a zillion. This is not aimed exclusively at boys, but you know there's a lot of

0:43.5

complaints these days that boys don't get to be boys and run around, whatever. It's a lot of

0:47.7

running around going on in this book. But beyond that, there's some discussion in here about

0:52.7

what happened when during formative years kids

0:55.9

weren't out playing like what did that actually do to them the parallels between good sportsmanship

1:02.8

that's learned through traditional play and leading a good life and a successful and fulfilled life

1:08.7

but also i mean the idea of the book here,

1:12.9

of course I'll let poor Wallace,

1:14.6

who's patiently standing by describe it to you,

1:17.5

is that there's so much to be learned

1:20.3

in what we think of as simple things,

1:24.0

especially when we're young.

1:25.6

And these are things that are being neglected and lost

1:28.6

now this is my editorializing from how much screen time kids are on they're on some

1:35.0

screen or device all the time instead of out doing these old childhood things and I know

1:40.5

this sounds like boomer complaining about the young people.

1:44.5

It's not that.

1:46.0

In this case, it's a young person who's concerned that we make sure to emphasize what we would lose if we neglected these things.

1:55.0

And that it's more than just athletic ability that would be lost.

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