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This is the Tom Hartman program.

And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace,

freedom and the American way, Tom Hartman here with you. I just have to tell you this funny story.

My best friend for 40, 50 years, for a long, long time, at least 40 years, lives in New York City.

His name is Jerry Schneiderman. And back in the 80s or in the 70s actually, when it was all Ma Bell,

you know, we had just basically one phone company. And Jerry wanted to have a

fax line put in his house because everybody was getting a fax line, you know, and he was running a

business, a small business. And in fact, that's how I met him originally, we did business together.

And the phone company, he wanted to have it unlisted because it was just a fax number.

And so he called up and they said, yeah, that'll cost you $0.50 a month to have it unlisted.

And he's like, wait a minute, you don't have to pay to print the ink in the book.

It costs you less money if I'm unlisted, but you're charging me more. This isn't right. So,

so anyhow, he hung up and he called back and he said, I'd like to order a regular phone line.

And they asked him what his name was and he said, my name is Izzy, Izzy, why?

Unlustay, UNLISTED. Izzy unlisted. And they took the order and they, everything was cool.

And a month or so later, somebody from the phone company calls up doing their best

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