The Tom Woods Show, Episode 2223.

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the Case for Session, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities.

Welcome back, Ryan.

Hi Tom, it's great to be with you.

You know, I saw you of course in Phoenix a couple of weeks ago for the Meas Institute conference.

And you used a phrase that I like very much, which is status quo bias in your remarks.

And just the other day, I had on my show, Somebody from the Greater Idaho Movement.

And I titled that episode in a way that didn't make it immediately obvious that the episode

was about the border between Oregon and Idaho, because I had this funny feeling nobody would

care about that. And yet in a way they should, because if we manage to have some success on

small matters like that, like the border between Oregon and Idaho, not the creation of a new state

or the succession of an existing state. But just a small change like that, then it opens their

minds to other possibilities. Because suddenly the lines drawn within the United States are no longer

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