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The Way the World Works: A Tuttle Twins Podcast for Families

The Way the World Works: A Tuttle Twins Podcast for Families

From the trusted team behind the Tuttle Twins books, join us as we tackle current events, hot topics, and fun ideas to help your family find clarity in a world full of confusion.

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314. What Was The Nuremberg Trial?

After the terrible things that happened in WWII, the Nazis were put on trial for their crimes against humanity.

2022-06-24
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313. Why Did We Even Lockdown for Covid?

For two years we were told we needed to lockdown to lessen the impacts of Covid. Now, a new study from a very important university shows that the lockdowns did almost nothing to keep us safe.

2022-06-22
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312. What Does Each Branch of The Government Do?

2022-06-20
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311. Has It Been A Winter of Severe Illness And Death?

The government has been spreading misinformation, trying to scare people into believing that severe illness and death is happening because people refuse to get vaccinated. But is this really true?

2022-06-17
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310. Is There Ever a Good Reason for Censorship?

Covid has led a lot of alleged free speech advocates to call for censorship when they don?t agree with what?s being said.

2022-06-15
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309. Why Should We Do Difficult, Meaningful Things Instead of Taking The Easier Route?

We should always aim to do things in our life that are meaningful, instead of doing things that give us the quickest results.

2022-06-13
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308. How Do We Know What's "Right" without The Government Telling Us?

A lot of people who love big government think we need it so that individuals know what is "right" and what is "wrong." But government is the last place we should look to as a moral compass.

2022-06-10
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307. Who Controls Our Information?

We are bombarded with so much information these days. And even though the internet allows us to get a lot of different perspectives, there is a small group of people who have decided which information is ?correct.?

2022-06-08
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306. Why Is Reading So Important?

There is nothing like curling up with a good book. But why is reading books of all types so important?

2022-06-06
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305. What Are Interest Rates And How Do They Affect Us?

Interest rates might seem like a complex concept to grasp. But anyone who buys anything needs to understand.
2022-06-03
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304. Is Inflation A Good Thing?

Inflation is skyrocketing over the past several months. While this is bad news for the economy, some economics are trying to say that inflation is actually a good thing.

2022-06-01
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303. What Is The Draft?

In a free society, should the government be able to make individuals go off to war and face the possibility of dying? Unfortunately, the government has done this with something we call the "draft."

2022-05-30
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302. Why Is It Wrong to Make Children Share?

Kids are taught from a very early age that they need to share with others in order to be good members of society. But is this a really a good thing? When kids are taught that everything they own must be shared in order for us to live in a "fair" society, it opens the door to socialism.

2022-05-27
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301. What Does The Rainbow Fish Get Wrong?

The "Rainbow Fish" is a best-selling kid's book. While the book has beautiful illustrations, it has a dangerous message that teaches kids a dangerous message about giving away what is theirs to make other people happy.

2022-05-25
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300. What Does "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie" Teach Us about Government?

If you give a mouse a cookie, they are going to want some milk to go with it ... if you give the government a little bit of power, they are going to want even more.

2022-05-23
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299. Does Every Entrepreneur Start Out As A Success?

Failing is important to succeeding. And even the most successful entrepreneurs had to fail before they become wealthy and successful.
2022-05-20
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298. What's The Problem with Only Caring About The Short-Run?

To make good choices, you have to understand both the long-term consequences and the short-term consequences.

2022-05-18
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297. Do We Have The Right to Other People's Labor?

People seem to think that they are owed the work someone else does. They demand that successful people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos give people their money, which is really their time and labor,  without having to do any work for it.
2022-05-16
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296. What Is The Great Reset?

A lot of politicians want to use the pandemic to usher in a new kind of world that gives governments more power and hurts individual liberty.

2022-05-13
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295. What Does The Lorax Get Wrong?

The Dr. Seuss story, "The Lorax" is a classic. But the book gets a lot of things wrong when it comes to environmentalism and capitalism.

2022-05-11
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294. What Is Brain Drain?

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2022-05-09
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293. What Are Your Goals for 2022?

2022 is here! Brittany and Emma talk about their new year goals and give you some ideas for goal setting for the year ahead.
2022-05-06
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292. How Can Kids Practice Responsibility?

Self-responsibility is one of the most important elements of building a free society.

2022-05-04
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291. Why Is It Important To Tell The Truth?

It's really easy to tell little white lies. But having integrity and building strong character means doing your best to always tell the truth.

2022-05-02
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290. What Does It Mean To be A Patriot?

What does it mean to be a patriot these days? Emma and Brittany discuss.
2022-04-29
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286. Do We Need Safe Spaces?

These days, many people think we need to protect people, especially kids and young people, from anything unpleasant, or any point of view with which they disagree.

2022-04-27
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288. Why Are The European Covid Protests Important?

In Europe, the people are taking to the streets and protesting against Covid lockdowns. Europe may be across the globe, but Americans should be paying close attention
2022-04-25
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287. What Does "There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch" Mean?

You can't get something for nothing, but many politicians seem to think you can. Today, Emma and Brittany talk about the what it means when free market economists say "there's no such thing as a free lunch."

2022-04-22
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286. Why Is The Government Allowed to Take Our Stuff?

Even though individuals have a right to property, the government likes to find sneak ways to take our stuff. And they make it difficult, if not impossible, to get it back.

2022-04-20
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285. What Is Cause And Effect?

Nothing we do comes without a consequence. Understanding this is one of the keys to understanding the way the world works.
2022-04-18
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283. Should We Be Scared of Covid Variants?

We are two years into the pandemic and there seems to be a new variant every few months. Should we be scared of these new variants? And what can we do if the government tries to use these new strains to lock us down again?

2022-04-13
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281. What is Globalism?

Our economy works best when we trade with other nations. But some people fear that working with other countries will result in dangerous "globalism."

2022-04-08
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280. Why Is Exercise Such A Big Deal?

Understanding how the world works means understanding how to create a healthy, prosperous, and successful life. A large part of that is making sure we build good habits, like exercise.

2022-04-06
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279. What Have We Learned This Year?

2021 has been a crazy year. As we enter 2022, Brittany and Emma talk about some lessons we have learned about the way the world works in 2021.
2022-04-04
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278. What Is Maoism?

Today, Connor and Brittany dive into another scary "isms" and discuss how it's impacting American politics.

2022-04-01
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277. Are You A Domestic Terrorist?

Imagine your own country labeling you a domestic terrorist because you didn't think the way they wanted you to. Unfortunately, that's already happening!
2022-03-30
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276. What Does It Mean To "Follow The Science?"

The government loves to tell us that it is our duty to "follow the science" when it comes to things like covid. But when the government is in charge of the meaning of "science" they form a monopoly over information.

2022-03-28
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275. What's The Problem with China?

China is one of the most dangerous communists dictatorships in the world. But why should Americans be concerned about what's happening in a country so far away from ours?

2022-03-25
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274. What Is The Patriot Act?

After 9/11 our rights were threatened by a piece of legislation called The Patriot Act. In many ways, our world hasn't been the same since.
2022-03-23
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273. Why Is The United States Postal Service So Terrible?

The United States Postal Service is one of the biggest wastes of taxpayer dollars. It also shows how terrible it is when government's have monopolies over services that should be left to the free market.
2022-03-21
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271. What Was The Cuban Missile Crisis?

In the 1960s, the U.S. got very close to nuclear war with the USSR. But war was avoided in the nick of time, without any shots fired.
2022-03-16
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270. Are Economic Sanctions An Act of War?

When we think of war we often think of combat and shots being fired. But there are other actions governments use to aggressive against other countries. And even though they aren?t violent, they are still acts of war.
2022-03-14
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269. What Do Weapons Have to Do with Liberty?

The Russia Ukraine situation reminds us just how important the Second Amendment is here in America.

2022-03-11
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272. How Did The TV Strike Back Against War Propaganda?

The Vietnam War was the first war to occur as more and more families had televisions in their homes. And with people finally able to see how terrible war was from their living rooms, the antiwar movement began to grow,
2022-03-11
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268. What Should We Do About Russia?

The crisis between Russia and Ukraine has continued and a lot of people are wondering what the U.S. should do about it.
2022-03-09
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267. What Is The Presumption of Innocence?

In our American legal system, there is a principle that all people are innocent until they  are proven guilty in a court of law.

2022-03-07
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266. Why Is Self-Defense Important?

Today Emma and Brittany discuss why the right to self-defense is so important and how a recent court case helped solidify this right.

2022-03-04
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265. Who?s In Charge of What We Learn in Public School?

Right now, there is a battle going on between government teachers who think they should decide what children should be taught in schools. But kids do not belong to the government, and only families can make this decision.

2022-03-02
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264. How Does Public School Lie to Us About The Way The World Works?

Public school is supposed to teach kids how to prepare for life in the real world. But public, and many private schools teach mold children to live in an authoritarian system where they are just cogs in a machine.

2022-02-28
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263. What Is Cancel Culture?

Imagine losing your job, friends, and your reputation just because you said something someone else disagrees with. Unfortunately, this is happening more and more these days thanks to a phenomenon called '"cancel culture."

2022-02-25
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