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Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.

It is episode 2636 of the Tom Woods show. We've got our friend Callan Welsh with us today. And let's say he's the libertarian zoning guy, if there is such a thing. But I want to introduce him to you because he came on board the Tom Woods cruise and he'd been on board with me before

with Bob Murphy in the previous cruises. But he gave a short presentation during, let's say,

kind of an audience participation portion of the cruise. And it was on zoning and how zoning is

the worst thing government does, including war.

And he phrased it that way quite provocatively.

And I thought, well, I mean, look, he's a great guy.

We all like him, but he's obviously bitten off more than he can chew with that particular claim.

We sat there and listened and, well, doggone it.

I mean, it's way, way, way worse, the consequences of zoning than I thought.

And they're more far reaching and significant than I realized.

And so I at that point said, at some point in the future, you've got to come on the Tom Wood Show and talk to people about this because I didn't realize it and I bet some of them don't realize it either. So welcome to the show. It's an honor, Tom. I've been here since episode one and I'll be here for episode 100,000. I appreciate that. Thank you very much. All right. So

give me the background. First of all, we hear the word zoning a lot, but how do we actually define it? What is it?

And you've said that it's everywhere and it touches everything. So help us understand.

So every municipality in the country or just about everyone has a zoning code. And what that does is it divides geographical land areas into different zones.

So most zoning codes will have, for example, an R1 zone,

and that's a zone where only single-family houses are allowed to exist and nothing else.

And I don't have the stat off the top of my head,

but it's a shocking percentage of the land in the entire country

is zoned R1. Okay. Now, there are parts of the U.S. where there isn't zoning. Isn't it like,

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