Fire, Reign, Threats, Trolls, and Freedom of Speech: Wildcard Wednesday
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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So Cal is burning. Trump wants Greenland. Pierre Poliviere wants Canada. Mark Zuckerberg finally wants free speech. It’s Wildcard Wednesday.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tofoia podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | It is Wild Card Wednesday on this Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 is starting out like quite something. |
| 0:24.0 | Like maybe we expected it to. |
| 0:25.5 | It's exciting. |
| 0:26.3 | It's dangerous. |
| 0:27.0 | It's sad. |
| 0:27.8 | It's scary. |
| 0:28.5 | It's thrilling. |
| 0:29.5 | It's depressing. |
| 0:31.5 | But I just, I still feel a positive sense of the air. |
| 0:35.8 | What I'm going to do today is look over some of the most |
| 0:38.7 | interesting, fascinating sound from the last week. Some of it's older, but it's still relevant, |
| 0:45.7 | and I'll get to that for important reasons. Wow, we're seeing a lot going on, not just in America, |
| 0:51.9 | but to the north in Canada and all around the world. |
| 0:56.2 | We would be remiss if we didn't start with Southern California. |
| 0:59.6 | The Pacific Palisades is an area that's near Malibu, a kind of sandwiched between Brentwood and Malibu. |
| 1:05.8 | Yes, it's known as a very high-income neighborhood. |
| 1:09.2 | And so the fact that there are wildfires there right now |
| 1:11.7 | might make people think, well, they can all afford it. It's just a terrible way to think. |
| 1:19.5 | Many years ago, the Berkeley Hills and Oakland Hills, the very expensive homes in the Berkeley |
| 1:25.3 | Hills burned down in a very similar kind of situation. |
| 1:30.8 | It is tempting and easy to go, well, these people will be okay. They're all millionaires. |
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