The Tom Woods Show, episode 654.

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Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here.

We've got a grown-up topic today, even though it's going to revolve around a children's book.

And in particular today, we're talking about different ways government

can hobble competition and can benefit established interests. So we've seen that, for example,

obviously, in the way municipalities have dealt with Uber or the way food trucks are treated,

and on and on down the line. There are a lot of

examples. And today, I'm welcoming back to the show, Connor Boyack. Now, you may recognize

Connor's name from previous episodes in which he's come on and very often talked about

his children's book series, the Tuttle Twins series, where he's done

books that are beautifully illustrated and that convey to a very young audience a lot of the

important ideas of libertarianism. So he did one based on Bastiazza the Law. He did one based

on I Pencil by Leonard Reed. He did one on

the Federal Reserve of the Tuttle Twins and the creature from Jekyll Island. Well, now, the fourth book

is the Tuttle Twins and the Food Truck Fiasco. So very important and interesting stuff. This is a way

for kids to, you know, start to understand what really goes on in the world, frankly, but in a way that's entertaining and not sledgehammer, not a sledgehammer sort of style, a little bit more subtle than that. Conor is also the president of the Libertus Institute, a Utah-based think tank.

Connor, welcome back to the show.

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