I Was Born Black, Not Democrat | Wildcard Wednesday
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
From Elon to Ilhan and some voices you’ve never heard of! Some will infuriate you, some will make you hopeful. Tune in as Michele spins around the internet on this edition of Wildcard Wednesday.
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 | Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | It is Wednesday, Wildcard Wednesday. |
| 0:14.8 | We're excited. |
| 0:15.4 | We always are. |
| 0:16.6 | Before we go any further, hit that subscribe button. |
| 0:19.0 | Please, wherever you're listening or watching, Spotify, YouTube, whatever, wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | It doesn't cost you a thing. |
| 0:27.1 | We just love to have me on board for every episode so you never miss. |
| 0:30.4 | We've got some great interviews in our library and great interviews coming up. |
| 0:34.2 | And today is Wild Card Wednesday. |
| 0:36.2 | And let's just lay it out there plain and simple. Here we go. going to start with i don't know how old this video is but i think it's worth revisiting we know that elon musk is stepping away i'm not going to say stepping down stepping away from doge for a while and honestly i've been so tired of listening to people complain about Elon Musk trying to clean up the government budget, you know, trying to look at where we're wasting, frauding, and abusing tax money. |
| 1:09.4 | Yours. |
| 1:10.4 | So let's just revisit this clip. It was posted on X by Thomas |
| 1:15.2 | Soul quotes, which is a great follow by the way. And so this is plain and simple, Elon Musk on |
| 1:21.9 | what Doge is supposed to be about. And yeah, that people are not going to like it roll it misty there's certainly a lot |
| 1:29.3 | of work for a department of government efficiency um and uh there will be immense opposition obviously |
| 1:35.1 | to making government more efficient from entrenched interests that currently benefit from uh from uh you |
| 1:40.7 | know sucking away vast amounts of taxpayer money, they will not like the fact that |
| 1:46.9 | they're not getting it anymore. They will fight tooth and nail. So, but it's got to be done. |
| 1:52.9 | And like said, we're going to aim to, you know, reduce government spending, get government |
| 1:59.4 | out of people's lives as much as possible, and restore |
| 2:01.7 | freedom and liberty. |
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