Picking The Hill on Which to Die | Wildcard Wednesday
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Criminal illegal aliens. Boys competing in girls’ sports. Harvard and foreign funding. Where do you stand? Where does the rest of America — and the world stand? Take a spin around the internet on this Wildcard Wednesday. Seriously, this one is wild.
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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 | It's Wild Card Wednesday, maybe my favorite day of the week. Welcome everyone to a brand |
| 0:15.4 | new episode of the Michelle Tafoy podcast, the Wild Card Wednesday edition. Oh, we've got great |
| 0:20.1 | stuff today. So before I go any further, |
| 0:24.0 | click that subscribe button. Make sure you never miss an episode. We have so many good interviews coming |
| 0:28.8 | up and so many in the library. Just hit subscribe if you're on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, |
| 0:35.1 | podcast, wherever you get your podcast, just click subscribe so you never miss |
| 0:38.7 | an episode without further ado. The big story in America yesterday, one of them, because there |
| 0:45.1 | are so many going on, but this one at the Supreme Court, there is a Maryland case where I'll |
| 0:51.8 | just read this. It's called Mahmoud versus Taylor. A coalition of parents sought to |
| 0:57.4 | solidify the right to be informed and opt their children out of reading LGBTQ related material |
| 1:04.0 | in elementary schools. Elementary schools. So we're talking, you know, pre-K through sixth grade, which they argue |
| 1:13.1 | conflicts with their face. So this is a coalition of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim parents. |
| 1:17.8 | I think this is important with elementary school children in Montgomery County Public Schools |
| 1:22.7 | in Maryland. And they brought a suit against the school board after the board introduced new LGBTQ books |
| 1:29.5 | into the curriculum as part of the district's inclusivity agenda. Okay? So now what these parents |
| 1:37.6 | are asking for, the nut of this is, hey, if you're going to read these books out loud to the |
| 1:43.7 | group, I don't want my kid in there. |
| 1:46.1 | Because some of these books, they delve into topics of gender and sexuality that I don't |
| 1:52.3 | think my child is ready for or that don't comport with my religion. And by the way, if you're |
| 1:57.6 | going to read out loud to a class of, you know, second graders, couldn't we just read something else? |
| 2:03.7 | Does it have to be about gender and sexuality? That seems to imply that there's an agenda here. |
| 2:10.9 | Now, here's another important point. In, in, there's a like the sex and sex ed classes. I'll'll just i'll just shorten it to sex ed classes in |
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