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"Opinion is NOT Dominion" (Saturday September 13, 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: We'll do it, making mornings the first thing today the
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media at a right, Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 2: We'll do it long, Jeward said, steal me every day,
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least for work. When the son comes up, drops a
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pear to scoop. Joe has everything a dream do all
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the Joss said, needs no one that Joe's as smiled
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he all the AIGs.
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Speaker 3: Let them be.
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Speaker 4: Joe, thank you for letting us be of service to
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you on this, said Charlie Kirk.
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Speaker 5: Because he was an extremist or a fascist, or a
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threat to democracy or inciting violence, or any of the
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other reasons that they're now trying to put out on
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X and TikTok and everywhere else, they murdered him because
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he was effective.
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Speaker 6: Amend to that.
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Speaker 4: That is the great Nick fredis also a member of
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the influencer community, if you will, the host of the
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Making the Argument podcast and is always said inspired by
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what Charlie was able to do with turning Point USA
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and email came in earlier in the program. We had
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made the case, made the point about his effectiveness and
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how he was able to undo all this time and treasure.
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What are you talking about? Time and treasure? Trillions of
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dollars spent indoctrinating Who's doing the indoctrination. What we have
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the testimony of Soviets talking about how Khrushchef's campaign to
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tear down the United States from the inside was real.
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Jury Benjamin Off nineteen eighty four confesses to the fact
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that three generations of American children had been educated at
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the hands of Marxists. If you take that in conjunction
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with a calendar, you realize that. But one of the
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more uncomfortable things I might ever say to you on
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the radio is Joe McCarthy was right. Joe McCarthy said
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there were communists infiltrating the American society, and he wasn't wrong.
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He might have been wrong thinking you can arrest communism
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out of a society, because what that did is it
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created this idea that, you know, us versus them, forcing
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journalists like Murrow to take him on lest friends of
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his get arrested, because we don't like any who wants
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to get arrested. And Murrow, failing to be a journalist, didn't.
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It was so hell bent on taking up the cause
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of his friends who might be arrested for being a
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communist or being whatever it may you know their fears
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were He missed the journalistic point, which was McCarthy was right.
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He might have been dead wrong about how to deal
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with it, but he wasn't wrong about what he was seeing.
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And if Murrow was half the journalist's history makes him
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out to be, he would have known that. Maybe he
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did our first things this morning, so we may discuss
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thoroughly at four three four eight eight two four two
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one seven. Erica Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk, spoke to
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constituents through her husband's social media and said, the evildoers
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responsible for my husband's assassination have unleashed a movement more
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Governor Spencer Conk said during a news conference Friday morning
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they had arrested Tyler Robinson in southern Utah and that
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through discussions with family members, found that he had become
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more political in recent years, though left out what type
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of political, because the social media world is now saying
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that there is a possibility that he was an adherent
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to the.
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Speaker 6: Nick Fuente's movement.
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Speaker 4: So when he says political, leaving open the door to
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Speaker 1: Qu on a need to know basis, because you need
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to know the first thing today?
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Speaker 6: How can you how can you.
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Speaker 4: Not list the guitar heroes of the Trans Siberian Orchestra.
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Speaker 6: And the greatest of all time.
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Speaker 4: And my dear friend Al Petrelli, who in the studios
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of one oh three point nine they're on Long Island
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told me, uh, and Captain Kevin in the day they
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were going off to do was going off to do
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a Christmas album.
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Speaker 6: A Christmas album. Wow.
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Speaker 4: Started a movement, you know. And the only thing I
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can really draw to is I also have a dear
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friend as a uh, you know, the author of the
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Christmas Jars and Jason Affright and the Trans both uplifting
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as a way we need this morning, And as I said,
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we have tickets to give way to this amazing show
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with the guitar hero of it, Joel Hochstra on with
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us on the Newsmaker's line, Joel, So what's coming on?
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Speaker 19: We've got that great Ghost to Christmas Eve story on
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the front half this year, which is, you know, musically
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a greatest hits or a best of if you will.
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So if you've never seen us before, it's a good
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year to hear all the popular songs, all the songs
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that put us on the map and made us who
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we are today. And and you know, we have obviously
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an incredible production. As always, we're always thinking bigger and
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better and yeah always and in the back half it's
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the twenty fifth anniversary of the Beethoven's Last Night records.
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I think people can expect some off of that record
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and holy and yeah, I know there's some music that
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hasn't been performed in over a decade that we're going
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to be playing. So we're excited. It's it's good to
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be just fresh enough. Is that delicate balance between having
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that element of tradition for everybody that this is the
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tso I know in love and also like not not
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wanting to make it mundane in the same exact show
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every year, so we try to reinvent it for people.
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Speaker 4: And as the lead guitar man, and you and Chris
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do such a great job on tour, and of course
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Al Petrelli, they the evolution that I think Tso you know,
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when we when history is written of rock and roll,
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there's the TSO is going to have a special place
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that that link between you know, just Chuck Berry and
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you know three chords and you know a backbeat to
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this elevation and you talk about doing Beethoven's Last Night
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and and there's so much of just the Christmas albums
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are classically thorough and and I've talked to music teachers
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and they say that the greatest part is to show kids. Look,
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that's a guitar player who's playing something that probably here
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to before TSO came along, was the harpsichord or the
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harp or the piano. And you know, in these concertos
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for electric guitar, nobody would have ever imagined it before
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you guys put it out on the stage. And I
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can't believe it's been twenty five years since Beethoven's Last
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Night was released. That's that's stunning to me. But to
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your credit that next step in the electric guitar. Your
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fingerprints are all over at Joel Hostra.
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Speaker 19: Oh, thank you so much. I mean, Paul O'Neill's vision,
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I think was to have something that.
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Speaker 20: Brought people together.
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Speaker 19: So the music is even as such, I mean, it's
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obviously i'd say rock at the core, but the theatricality
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of it is unique. Certainly the influence of classical music
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that you're speaking about, and I think at times there's
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even R and B influences on some of the materials.
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So there's a lot there. There's a lot there to
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bring people together. As they cliche, we go, there's something
17:02
in the show for everyone, right, But it really does
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ring true with TSL. I think it's amazing how people
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can watch the show and there's different things for different
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people that they really gravitate towards. I think our older
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audiences really loved the story, puts them in the holiday spirit.
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Speaker 20: The kids love the visuals of it.
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Speaker 19: Man, all the pyro and the laser light show happening,
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and all the performers on the hydraulic lifts out performing
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over the crowd and running through the crowd, playing directly
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for them. A yeah, Guys like me are just like, hey,
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this is a cool rock concert.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's all it is everybody, and it is
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really you know, what we all need each year.
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Speaker 6: It seems like every year.
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Speaker 4: We need it more and more and more, Joel, I
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appreciate it and moreover even then, you know, we appreciate
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the opportunity to give some of this away to the
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folks who tune in to First Thing Today and all
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the towns. You're going to be playing in Belmont for
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our friends the Long Island News Radio. But go online
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to Joe Thomas in the Morning dot com and Joel
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you have a great morning, get get into the rehearsal
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space and let's get ready to go you two bye
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bye four three four eight eight two four to two
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one seven this morning. I want to pick up on
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an email that came in on Friday's show, Craig Rucker
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c fact also worked very closely with Charlie Kirk. Obviously,
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the reaction the remnants of this email from earlier in
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the show.
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Speaker 6: Joe, thank you.
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Speaker 4: For pointing out the obvious national call for vigils in
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the name of Charlie Kirk, but reminding us that many
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people have lost their lives to horrific violence since then
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my neighborhood, as well as doing a vigil that will
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include a arena Zaretzki, But I don't know if that
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was the original thought. Well, and certainly when you lose somebody,
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and it's not like when doctor King was killed. He
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wasn't the only black man killed that day, probably not
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the only black man killed in Memphis that day, but
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the point being was that, you know, the movement was
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big and needed to come together, and I think it's
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important for that. But even as we mentioned earlier in
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the program, the young people killed in Minneapolis, the dozens
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killed in Chicago every night, and all across the country.
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But I brought this up on Friday's program, that we
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are in a world where opinion has been weaponized to
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gain dominion. And I don't know if it's a Jeffersonian
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concept or not, but and how we roll on this
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program is.
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Speaker 6: That you have a right to speak, you have.
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Speaker 4: A responsibility to speak truthfully, but you don't have a
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right to be listened to. I think it's good manners
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to listen to people. Charlie Kirk seemed to think, you
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know what, if we listen to people and let them
20:22
speak their Marxism, people will look at it, hear it,
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and it really is the Socratic method. Okay, everyone should have,
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you know, an equal amount. Let's gameplay that out. You
20:38
think everyone should have a right to a home. And
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we've played the clip. Do we still have the Tim
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Kaine clip of him saying everyone rights come from government.
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Speaker 6: Because his.
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Speaker 4: Whittery is based in John Locke just the same way,
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the Enlightenment place where Jefferson get that's it that God
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endowns us with our rights. But government then must promise
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if government doesn't choose to protect those rights, then they've
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we've granted them. It's how the authoritarians, especially the Catholic ones,
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sleep at night. But opinion getting weaponized to be dominion
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is how you wind up with the very real possibility.
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Speaker 1: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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the second most famous Thomas and Charlotte's with.
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Speaker 10: Something wrong with the world today.
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Speaker 13: I don't know what it is.
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Speaker 25: Something's wrong with us.
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Speaker 6: You ain't kidding.
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break down the news for you each and every weekday morning,
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and on Saturday mornings as well, because your Saturdays are
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really not any different than a Monday or a Thursday.
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Speaker 6: Right, You've got work to do.
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Speaker 4: I was Erica Kirk addressing his fans and followers and
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turning point USA and the news media speech. I couldn't
29:22
give if I had to, and my friend Ellen had
29:26
asked me. I did not because we had been working
29:30
at one point on having a Charlie Kirk event in
29:33
the college town that flags the station, and the arrangements
29:37
were very tight for security on there. But apparently his
29:40
wife and kids were in the crowd when this happened,
29:45
and I can only imagine. I mean, I know what
29:47
happened when my son watched he was three or four
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years old. The second plane fly into the World Trade
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Center Tower.
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Speaker 6: Live on TV.
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Speaker 4: Because it was just live on TV the Governor Conx
30:01
of Utah.
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Speaker 14: Yesterday, a family member of Tyler Robinson reached out to
30:05
a family friend who contacted the Washington County Sheriff's Office
30:09
with information that Robinson had confessed to them or implied
30:13
that he had committed the incident. This information was relayed
30:17
to the Utah County Sheriff's Office and seen investigators at
30:20
Utah Valley University. This information was also conveyed to the
30:24
FBI investigators reviewed additional.
30:28
Speaker 4: So this is his press conference yesterday after announcing the
30:31
arrest of.
30:31
Speaker 14: Robinson, arriving on UVU campus in a Great Dodge Challenger
30:35
at approximately eight twenty nine eight sent with.
30:38
Speaker 4: That car, by the way, the same thing Charlottesville in
30:43
twenty seventeen.
30:44
Speaker 14: Light colored shorts, a black hat with a white logo,
30:47
and light colored shoes. When encountered in person by investigators
30:51
in Washington County on September twelfth in the early morning hours,
30:54
Robinson was observed in consistent clothing with those surveillance images.
31:00
Investigators interviewed a family member of Robinson, who stated that
31:04
Robinson had become more political in recent years. The family
31:08
member referenced a recent incident in which Robinson came to
31:11
dinner prior to September tenth, and in the conversation with
31:15
another family member, Robinson mentioned Charlie Kirk was coming to UVU.
31:20
They talked about why they didn't like him and the
31:23
viewpoints that he had.
31:25
Speaker 4: Now, I'm going to pick up on that turn of
31:27
a phrase, and I understand, these are lawyers and lawyers
31:31
on top of lawyers, and they're trying not to taint
31:36
the jury poll as it were. But when you take
31:39
Governor Conx's statements and Erica Kirk's statements, and my own
31:47
personal experience with the organizers of the dumpster fire known
31:52
as Charlottesville's Unite the Right rally, the Dick Spencer's, the
31:56
David Dukes who was.
31:57
Speaker 6: Pulling the strings behind all that.
31:59
Speaker 4: You sure you saw all the videos of Charlottesville in
32:02
twenty seventeen, Well, you know, the organizers of Charlottesville twenty
32:07
seventeen portended that they were conservatives. Remember, they even chose
32:12
a title, they picked a name, and they had a
32:16
name for their organization. It was Unite the Right. And
32:19
I said at the time, this is archive footage. You
32:23
can call these people unite the unicorns, and it doesn't
32:26
make it any more truthful than calling them unite the right.
32:30
Because I had gone out of curiosity. These people seemed
32:35
to explode on the scene, no background, no history in Charlottesville,
32:41
governance or politics or anything like that, and I just
32:46
set off the spider senses. And there's more I learned
32:49
about them, the more I realized that they were. They
32:53
were Nazis. And it's not surprising that many of the
32:58
organizers of Charlottesville's twenty seven seventeen riots flew off to
33:02
Ukraine to hang out with the azof Battalion and hide
33:05
out there while the authorities were looking for them after
33:09
we lost two state troopers, pilots Burke and Bates, and
33:17
the activist Heather Hire. But back then I found myself
33:25
concerned for my health and welfare, much in the way
33:28
that I'm sure Charlie always was not from Black Lives Matter.
33:34
As a matter of fact, I was spared of vicious
33:36
beating on that fateful August Saturday by the president of
33:41
Black Lives Matter, who knew me and knew me as
33:43
somebody who though I might not have agreed with the
33:47
plans I agreed with some of the things that he
33:50
said were problems in his neighborhood. Couldn't argue with poverty
33:54
and that kind of joblessness. So there's a rumbling and
34:01
grumbling in the black mirror that is the social media
34:05
world that and left wing columnists are all over this.
34:11
So I'm really sort of warning you as a inoculation
34:16
to what you're going to confront, the idea.
34:19
Speaker 6: That this guy was maga.
34:23
Speaker 4: He wasn't, even if he wasn't adherent to these gropers,
34:28
even if you found himself aligned with Nick Fuintes and
34:33
the gropers, and much in the same way the Unite
34:38
the Right fakers that destroyed my city, my hometown of Charlottesville,
34:49
much in the same way the Westboro Baptists threatened my
34:52
family on September eleventh, two thousand and six, because they're
35:00
patriarch supported a country that allowed people to be gay.
35:06
It seems to me in my history, if I only
35:09
used my history, I would I would fall prey to
35:12
the idea that, well, every time I've been threatened with violence,
35:17
it's been with these unhinged, purportedly conservatives.
35:23
Speaker 6: They're not.
35:24
Speaker 4: And this is where Donald Trump isn't wrong, and you're
35:26
going to be hit with a lot of left wing
35:28
journalists and a lot of left wing propaganda saying Donald
35:31
Trump said these were left wing extremists, but this guy
35:34
may have been an adherent of Nick Fointes. Get news
35:38
for you, Nick Fuents is a left wing extremist. Anyone
35:42
who wants racial purity and wants the idea of anyone
35:46
who wasn't born here out of here. These are left
35:50
wing Marxists authoritarian beliefs. Nick Foindis is not a conservative,
35:57
but he himself I think divides though anecdotal to me anyway,
36:04
and your results can vary. The most damning bit of
36:07
evidence when he took to Rumble yesterday and felt compelled
36:11
to say this.
36:12
Speaker 26: This is a very delicate situation. This is a very
36:17
delicate situation.
36:18
Speaker 4: Hey, Nick, couldn't you say this is horrific and murder
36:21
and people shouldn't murder each other? What is this bovine
36:26
excrement about? Delicate situation? Do you mean delicate situation because
36:31
somebody who is on your mailing list is the guy
36:35
on the roof?
36:36
Speaker 6: Is that why it's delicate?
36:38
Speaker 4: Because I'll tell you something every time something like this
36:41
happens people like me are asked to disavow. Donald Trump
36:44
has always asked, do you disavow these people? Because you
36:49
put your red hats on and people think you're a conservative?
36:55
Speaker 6: What bothered me?
36:56
Speaker 4: Perhaps even most similarly, in twenty seventeen, these people were
37:00
celebrating Thomas Jefferson when they didn't agree with a single
37:03
damn thing Thomas Jefferson stood for. They just knew that
37:07
Antifa wanted to take down the statue, so that was
37:10
good enough for them because they defined themselves by what
37:12
they're against. But Nick's testimonies become even more damning.
37:17
Speaker 26: I fear that this is set off a chain reaction.
37:20
Speaker 6: Well why would you fear that, Nick?
37:23
Speaker 26: I pray to God there is no further violence. I
37:27
pray to God why that nobody else has hurt as
37:29
a result of this. I hope that it stops here.
37:33
It should stop here. To all of my followers, if
37:38
you take up arms, I disavow you. I disown you
37:42
in the strongest possible terms. I that is not what
37:47
we are about.
37:48
Speaker 6: Why would you feel the need to say that, Nick?
37:52
Speaker 4: Unless there was some there there, and given my history,
37:57
I can't say that.
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Speaker 13: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely first thing today by Joe Thomas on the Tunk
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Media Network.
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Speaker 18: It's not.
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Speaker 4: A bet page four three four eight A two four
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two one seven is to join to join you on
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these Saturday mornings here. Uh for all the folks whose
44:40
weeks don't end just because it's Friday. Trust me, I
44:42
have friends who run Friday happy hour parties and like
44:46
nobody comes anymore. Yeah, because we're all working on the weekend.
44:52
And nothing gets me ramped up more than people who
44:55
pretend to be conservative just because they don't like the
45:00
way the left wing is working. I can received this email.
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We were telling the story of the early days of
45:06
the Obama administration and the Tea Party. Remember the Tea
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Party movement taxed enough already? You know everyone, you know
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everyone in the Long Island loud majority man. You know,
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the Tea Party was there ten years fifteen years ago.
45:21
And I was there at the onset of the Tea
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Party movement as well, taxed enough already, and the Tea
45:28
Party would show up and we would get tagged because
45:32
these people would show up with pictures of Barack Obama
45:35
with a Hitler mustache.
45:38
Speaker 6: Look at the incendiary stuff that the right wing fascist
45:43
Tea Party kooks are doing.
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Speaker 4: The signs were made and Mary wrote in saying, Joe,
45:49
you never said where those signs came from.
45:51
Speaker 6: I'm curious. They were made by the.
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Speaker 4: Linden LaRouche Society. You ever hear of Lindon LaRouche was
46:01
he didn't think Lenin went far enough. Lyndon LaRouche was
46:07
a Stalinist and he believed America.
46:12
Speaker 6: Was wrong to allow.
46:14
Speaker 4: People to have free speech and free association. Lindon Larouge
46:20
and the society that still lives in Lyndon Larousse's name
46:25
hated Barack Obama because they saw Barack Obama as this
46:29
populist democrat who was spoiling their attempts to drag the
46:33
party further and further.
46:35
Speaker 6: To the left. And he had.
46:40
Speaker 4: Promised the Linden Laruze Society he was going to do
46:43
all these things for them, and he hadn't done it
46:45
yet by twenty ten, of all things, and so they
46:49
had to do this fascist Oh, he's just Hitler. And
46:54
then they would show up at tea Party rallies and
46:57
the Tea Party would get tagged for what these left
47:00
wingers were doing it and nobody had the intellectual courage
47:03
to or curiosity even to go out and ask anyone, well,
47:06
who are these people? What are they all about?
47:10
Speaker 6: Who? Who? No, no, they just and who is Lyndon
47:14
LaRouche and all that.
47:17
Speaker 4: So when you see these groups that poor tend to
47:20
be conservative, ask them. You know about Locke and you
47:24
know the God given rights.
47:26
Speaker 6: And all men are.
47:28
Speaker 4: Created equal, because these are some of the same folks
47:32
that the Dixiecrats used to get the Jim Crow Laws
47:36
passed under the banner of conserving our.
47:40
Speaker 6: Way of life.
47:42
Speaker 4: Our way of life is all men are created equal,
47:45
all every single last one of them, regardless of color
47:50
of skin. The only thing keeping them from having those
47:53
rights defended is their citizenship. And all we want is
47:56
for them to become citizens. We love our new citizens
48:01
and if anyone doesn't, then you might know. Hey on
48:05
the Newsmakers On dear friend, Craig Rucker, the Committee for
48:09
Constructive Tomorrow work quite a bit with turning Point USA
48:13
and working on because certainly on a day when the
48:16
EPA says no more climate regulations, Craig, but I appreciate
48:20
you taking some time out and talking a little bit
48:24
about your work with Charlie kirk Well.
48:27
Speaker 27: Always a pleasure beyond Joe And Yeah, I was a
48:31
little more of a festive event with you and I
48:33
were out of New Orleans with the State Policy Network,
48:36
but boy crushed down to reality with this news. Yeah,
48:39
Charlie organization and Charlie himself was very supportive of what
48:44
we do, and we, of course were very supportive of
48:47
what they do. We have a collegiate's Arm that works
48:52
with young people at Sea Fact and our staff works
48:56
very closely with Turning Point. We often co sponsor events together.
49:00
We are part of their conferences. We've brought speakers there.
49:05
We've also I myself had a tour of their facility
49:09
in Phoenix, Arizona when I was there a little over
49:12
a year ago that their staff took me through. So,
49:15
as I say, we have been working with them for years.
49:17
They're a great organization. Charlie's been supportive. And this hit
49:21
is like a lead balloon, you know, I mean it
49:23
was really it was a punch to the gut. We
49:26
could not believe that the left has become this unhinged.
49:31
That and I guess we should have saw it coming.
49:33
They did it with Trump, you see it with death threats.
49:37
We get them not infrequently, we blow them off. But
49:40
I'll tell you this much, we're not going to blow
49:42
them off quite as much as we used to based
49:44
on what just happened.
49:46
Speaker 4: Hey, Craig, I want to ask you know, as a
49:48
movement director, as somebody who has built ground swell and grassroots.
49:55
A dear friend of mine, he's transitioning from politician to pundon.
50:02
He is leaving the elected office that he holds in
50:05
Virginia to take on full time sort of a commentariat
50:08
role with his own podcast. His name is Nick Fretis,
50:13
and he posted the day of the shooting. He said, listen,
50:19
don't be kidded by anyone who tells you why Charlie
50:23
Kirk had to be shot. It was because he was effective,
50:27
and you've turned his facility, you've worked with him, you've
50:30
been effective as well. It appears yet again, although it's
50:37
what's interesting to me is is the shootings in Minneapolis,
50:41
also conducted by left wing activists who were upset that
50:47
things hadn't gone fast enough for them. These are almost
50:52
tantrum like from where I sit, from people who can't
50:58
bear to hear a differing viewpoint, never mind consider it,
51:03
even though that was exactly what Charlie was doing. And
51:06
something that I know that you do frequently with Sea
51:08
fact is just lay out what's there, lay out what's there,
51:12
and then see it and then discuss it. I'm not
51:15
going to tell you what to believe. I'm just going
51:17
to tell you what the facts are and you can
51:19
make up your own mind. But it just doesn't seem
51:22
like that's sitting well with folks.
51:25
Speaker 27: Now, And it's a shame because I remember in America
51:28
that was that way where you could have a civil discourse,
51:31
you know, famously Tip O'Neil and Ronald Reagan, Oh sure
51:37
during the day and have have cocktails at night together.
51:40
So that's the America that you know, I think needs
51:44
to be returned.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 27: Interesting, on the same day that Charlie Kirk goot shot
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doing a canvas event, I know, we at cea fact,
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we're doing a similar one in Rice University in Houston.
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We had a number of our students protesting Michael Mann
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are doing a demonstration. Now Michael Mann and as a noun,
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climate up, a renowned climate a farmist, and he's the.
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Speaker 15: Yes.
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Speaker 27: Well he was speaking at Rice University, but we politely
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went out demanded the debate. We were saying, just asking
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them questions, you know, as to why he wants to
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censor to science. Will he come out and debate. This
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is the type of thing that we think is within
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civil discourse. Our students were respectful, they were doing chance,
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but doing it orderly in the sense that you know,
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in the proper place he got permission, the police allowed
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them to do that.
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Speaker 4: I remember that that ryot and they were comparing it.
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They were actually there was video of that. Craig, I
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must run, sir, you have a great morning, all right,
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take care and thank you so long and thanks for
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all the fish.
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Speaker 12: Much of neck and spinal pain is caused by the
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compression of spinal nerves. According to doctor Jeff Fisher, an Irvine,
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California based chiropractor with more than thirty years of experience,
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this compression can stem from a chronic condition, acute injury,
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or simply aging. Traction is the most effective way to relax, stretch,
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and decompress the spine and surrounding muscles and ligaments of
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the neck and back. Doctor Fisher explains his inventions. The
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Fisher Traction Neck Device and Fisher Traction Low Back Device
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safely separates bones to eliminate pain and restore function so
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the body can heal naturally. The Fisher Traction devices are
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designed to restore the natural curves of the neck and
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with the use of a release strap. The devices are
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convenient and easy to use in the comfort of your home,
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and doctor Fisher's series of YouTube videos provides helpful videos
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and detailed instructions. For more information, visit Fishertraction dot com
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