DOGE the Fed!
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
James Fishback is the CEO of the investment firm, Azoria. He was part of DOGE. He opposes and supports Elon Musk. And he is a champion for free debate. One of our favorite guests… and to think he once had a stutter!
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 was amazed when I found out recently that the SAT that I took in high school has now gotten |
| 0:05.1 | rid of America's founding documents as one of the things that they are testing for. Think about it. |
| 0:10.5 | No longer questions about the Constitution, about the Federalist basers, about the Bill of Rights |
| 0:15.0 | or the Declaration of Independence. And they did it because, quote, they said, it wasn't necessary for college or career readiness. |
| 0:22.9 | Think about that. |
| 0:23.5 | The idea that knowing about what rights you have, what rights are endowed by our awesome creator, the vigorous debates that took place about federalism in the early days, those are somehow not relevant to your role as an American citizen. |
| 0:41.9 | This is a brand new episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast. Don't forget to subscribe. Hit that |
| 0:46.6 | subscribe button wherever you're watching or listening, Spotify, Apple, YouTube Rumble. This guy |
| 0:53.0 | was in the room where it happened. He was with Doge, with Elon, with Trump. |
| 0:59.9 | He's also, I think, kind of a new, I don't want to say the father of debate, but let's just say he is a champion of free, true, open debate. |
| 1:12.8 | He's also starting a fund you can invest in that does not invest in, quote, woke companies, |
| 1:20.5 | DEI-based hiring companies. |
| 1:23.9 | You'll get an explanation for all of this. |
| 1:26.3 | It's not just a virtue signal, folks. This is |
| 1:30.5 | legitimate data. You're going to want to hear it. James Fishback is a Renaissance man. He's our guest |
| 1:38.0 | next. James, it's good to see you again. I haven't seen you for a while and a lot has transpired |
| 1:47.3 | in your life and in the life of this country since you and I last spoke. Let's start with a post |
| 1:54.0 | you recently put up about the Fed. You said time to Doge the Fed. What are you proposing? |
| 2:02.6 | Well, great to see you, Michelle. |
| 2:04.6 | Doge was the most ambitious effort in a generation to go in there, and by there, I mean, |
| 2:10.4 | government and find out exactly what the heck is going on. |
| 2:13.9 | I mean, we successfully did that at USAID. |
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