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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 784 The Road to Serfdom -- What Kids and Adults Can Learn from It

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Connor Boyack, creator of the Tuttle Twins children's books series, has just today released the latest title in the series, based on F.A. Hayek's classic book The Road to Serfdom. We discuss themes from that book -- themes most adults could stand to hear, and that Connor is helping convey to children.

Show notes for Ep. 784

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 784.

0:03.5

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.1

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.6

Folks, I've just released another free e-book, this one called Education Without the State.

0:20.7

Grab your copy at no-education.com or by texting the word

0:26.3

educate to 33444. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Very glad to be joined once again by my old friend

0:34.5

Connor Boyack, who is president of the LaBartas Institute in Utah, which is a state-level public policy think tank.

0:43.2

And for today, we're going to be focusing primarily on his other major project, which is the Tuttle Twins series of books.

0:51.8

Connor is the creator of that series.

0:53.9

This is a series of children's books

0:55.6

aimed at teaching libertarian ideas by taking a libertarian classic and turning it into a children's book.

1:03.5

And he's done this for Bostiats of the Law. He's done it for the book by G. Edward Griffin,

1:09.0

The Creature from Jekyll Island, about the Federal Reserve.

1:11.3

You can believe that. He's managed to do that. Economics in one lesson by Henry Haslett and so on.

1:16.8

Well, today is the release day for the fifth book in that series based on Hayek's book, The Road to Surf Him.

1:23.7

So even if you don't have any children, you have no intention of buying children's books, you're still going to enjoy this conversation because it's not just about kids, it's about these major ideas in this important work.

1:35.3

So the Tuttle Twins version is called The Tuttle Twins and the Road to Surfdom.

1:40.7

But theirs is spelled S-U-R-F-D-O-M for reasons we will get into in a moment.

1:47.1

Connor, welcome back to the show.

1:48.7

Thanks, Tom. Great as always to be with you.

1:50.4

So you did not take my advice.

1:52.1

You did not title the book, The Tuttle Twins Built the Roads.

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