“Coddling of the American Mind”
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Colleges and universities are producing a lot of miserable people. Only certain speakers are tolerated on college campuses. Only certain viewpoints are met with approval. Is it just a coincidence that suicide and depression rates are escalating? The film, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” based on the book by Johnathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, explores the fascinating journey’s of five college students. Michele interviews the film’s director and producer, and you’ll want to see the clips they discuss.
Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator.
Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter.
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| 0:00.0 | I thought that the only way that I was going to get ahead was by acknowledging my victim status in society. |
| 0:08.4 | And so in order to kind of compete and get the best grades, I sort of showed how much of a victim I was in order to impress my professors |
| 0:17.4 | in order to seem like I understood their concepts the best. Because they had, |
| 0:22.6 | they had me believing that the only thing I could turn to was my skin color and my sex. |
| 0:30.8 | You may have read the book, Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff. |
| 0:40.8 | It's worth your time. |
| 0:43.3 | You may also, may I suggest, want to watch the film by the same name, which is based on the book, |
| 0:49.6 | but actually involves real stories from real college students who experienced unbelievable things. |
| 0:57.8 | I can't recommend this film enough, especially if you've got kids or nieces and nephews, |
| 1:03.5 | grandchildren, whatever. This film will give you hope. It's bittersweet, but it's mostly sweet |
| 1:10.4 | in the end. And I really encourage |
| 1:12.3 | you to watch it. Before we go any further, please click subscribe wherever you're listening or watching. |
| 1:17.8 | This is a great conversation. We're going to include clips from the film. And I think that even if |
| 1:22.3 | you're just listening on audio, you will appreciate these clips from the film. I don't know that you |
| 1:26.0 | have to see them to appreciate them. |
| 1:27.9 | So stay tuned. |
| 1:29.8 | Coddling of the American Mind is a film you should get. |
| 1:33.9 | However you get it, you can see it on YouTube. |
| 1:36.2 | And their producers and writers and directors are next. |
| 1:42.7 | Courtney and Ted, I can tell you with all honesty, I watched your film in one sitting and started texting people. |
| 1:50.3 | You got to see this. |
| 1:51.4 | You got to see this. |
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