Connor Boyack
Appearances
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Well, I think you're right. There's been a lot of pushback from parents with Snow White. This is just the latest of a long series of pushback that we've seen. I'm actually very hopeful that we're seeing a lot of families stepping up and saying, no, we don't want that stuff in our home.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
What parents have lacked in past years are resources that can help them teach their children good ideas, good principles that aren't being shared in the schools. They're not being shared on social media. And so fundamentally what the Tuttle Twins books are are a resource for parents to read alongside with their kids, simple and fun stories that introduce the ideas of human flourishing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
We're talking about the power of entrepreneurship, the importance of personal freedom, why merit is so important, right? Property rights, free markets, the ideas upon which America was built, but increasingly in America's schools, not only are these ideas not taught, if ideas like them are taught, they're quite opposite ideas. And parents then wonder as their kids march off to college,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
How did my child turn into this, you know, brainwashed social justice warrior? Well, it's because you haven't engaged your children's minds when they were younger. And that's what Tuttle Twins is trying to do to help parents engage their children with these ideas in a simplified, fun way. So they then go off to college or get on with their life.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
They've got a foundation of true principles to rest on.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Well, I think you raise an interesting point with your personal story that children are being bombarded with these types of ideas now. And when we started doing the Tuttle Twins in 2014 is when we published our first book. We had a lot of conservatives and libertarians and others say, wait, wait, let kids be kids. We don't need to talk to them about these big adult ideas.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
We can wait until they're getting close to voting age. And so we got pushback even from our own tribe for doing children's books, talking about these big adult ideas.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Of course, going through the crazy BLM and DEI and all the stuff that we have in the past few years, nobody on our side talks that way anymore because they see what the left is doing, that they have just this cacophony of content that they're pushing out, whether it's cartoons or books or online stuff. And so now I think increasingly parents recognize, whoa, my children's mind is
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
is like ground zero in an ideological battlefield. And if I don't give my child armor and weaponry and knowledge of the enemy, then my child will become a casualty. And so we live in a world where we can't just assume that we can talk to our kids later about these ideas. we need to engage them.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Frankly, we need to compete for their hearts and minds because they're being attracted and exposed by so many hostile ideas. Parents often have been caught in a trap because I'll tell you, Charlie, the biggest problem we run into is freedom-loving moms and dads who do want their kids to learn these ideas, but they, the parents, feel ill-equipped to explain and teach these ideas to their kids.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
They feel, the parents, increasingly that, well, I don't know how to talk to my kids about economics or history. I did bad at that subject in school, right, 20 years ago. And so that's where the Tuttle Twins come in. We say, you don't have any prerequisites. You don't need to know this stuff. Just read some fun storybooks with your kids.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
We got some discussion questions at the end so that you can have amazing conversations. I think you'll resonate with this, Charlie. I, as a passionate lover of freedom here in America, I don't feel that we're going to save our country at the Capitol. I don't feel that we're going to save our country in the courtroom, even though we ought to engage in both those places.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
I think that if we're going to save our country, it's at the family dinner table. We have to rebuild social fabric. We have to model for our children what civic engagement looks like, what critical thinking looks like.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
And to do that, we have to empower parents to do this on the daily, in their home, in that environment where we can incubate strong, entrepreneurial, critical thinking minds that can be the future of saving our country.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Well, my partner, Elijah, who's the illustrator of our books, he and I both had young kids at the time. And we are very passionate about freedom. And he had been working on like the Ron Paul campaign and I had been helping and we had been talking about like, hey, maybe there's an opportunity at some point to partner together.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Meanwhile, you know, I started a think tank, Libertas Institute, and I'm out there fighting for freedom and I wanted to share with my kids what dad does. You know, when I'm helping this farmer fight eminent domain so he can save his land, how do I tell my five-year-old what dad did all day? Right. Rather than, oh, I typed on a computer and simple stuff.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
I wanted to teach the substantive ideas, albeit at a simple level. So I did what any dad would do in my position. I literally went on Amazon and I said books that teach about property rights for kids. Right. Children's books about free markets. Keep in mind, this is 2013. There was nothing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
So as you point out, there's other children's series for adventure and, you know, ideas like kindness and honesty. But for economic ideas, civic and political ideas, historical stuff, there really was nothing. And so that was the spark. Elijah and I did a book. We had no vision of what it's become. It was just something we wanted for our kids. A lot of people bought it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
They said, when are you doing the second one? A series was born. And frankly, things didn't really explode until COVID with all the craziness that happened. Suddenly families were like, what's happening to my country? You know, all the freedoms that I guess I've been taking for granted are now under assault. And also I'm now a homeschooler apparently because all the schools are shut down.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
And so that was Tuttle Twins big moment to really break through and start selling, you know, a million books plus per year.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Yeah, so we have the books we've been talking about that have sold 6 million copies. We also have a cartoon with Angel Studios. It's free to watch. You can go to the Angel Studios app or TuttleTwins.tv. Charlie, the list that you share goes on. There's many more shows and books. are pushing these types of ideas.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
I'm actually less worried about that, though, because when freedom-minded conservative parents see content like that, right, it raises the red flag. They shut it down. They ban Netflix and unsubscribe in their home. I'm less worried about that because parents are more easily able to detect that. I'm more worried about what parents struggle to detect.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
And that's the sub-mediocre content in our textbooks used in classrooms across the country, K-12, that teach about government being the solution. And they do it in very subtle ways, right? They praise FDR. and claim that he saved the country from the Great Depression. They praise Woodrow Wilson and claim that the Federal Reserve helped stabilize the economy and stop massive swings in banking.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
These are things parents struggle to detect, and yet plant seeds to stay with these children and lead them down the path of supporting big government and ultimately Marxism. So what we're on guard for is not the big flashy stuff that – you know, make lists like that and give, get parents wrinkled. We're on the hunt for and helping parents detect the problems that they're not wise perceiving.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.