Michelle Tafoya on the "Complete and Utter Ambush"
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Peach Fish Productions
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's Saturday, and that means it's the Saturday show, where we bring you one from the vault |
| 0:08.3 | and one from the week. |
| 0:09.9 | From the week, I will give you my thoughts on how Donald Trump, egging on Iranian protesters, |
| 0:16.9 | was a lot like Stephen Miller egging on ice agents, even though one is good and the other, |
| 0:23.4 | you know, ice agents have been tasked with a difficult job, but I least a couple of them |
| 0:32.2 | have acted with excess. So I'm not going to be normative. I'm not going to say good or bad. |
| 0:37.3 | But my point was, |
| 0:38.4 | what was bad was the irresponsible nature of the advice emanating from the administration. So that |
| 0:44.5 | was that. I believe I heard that on Tuesday. From the vault, well, I noticed this announcement |
| 0:50.8 | from Minnesota for a Senate run. |
| 1:01.3 | Michelle Tafoya was a longtime sideline reporter for Monday night football and other football properties. |
| 1:02.2 | And I interviewed her in 2022 when she left football and went into podcasting. |
| 1:08.0 | And as part of that interview, I wanted to pin her down a little bit on what she actually |
| 1:12.3 | thought because there was a lot of vagueness. |
| 1:14.0 | I guess she was, I don't know, there was a couple possibilities. |
| 1:17.2 | She's wanting to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. |
| 1:20.6 | Didn't exactly know or wasn't able to quite define what her ideology was at that point. |
| 1:26.7 | Or maybe you could say now that she's running |
| 1:28.4 | to be a Republican senator, she has to get more in line with current Republican orthodoxy. |
| 1:34.2 | But I do remember asking her a number of questions where her answers were, you know, I'm just |
| 1:39.5 | asking questions and I don't want to be in lockstep with the dominant ideology. We did |
| 1:44.1 | talk a lot about |
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