She Wanted a Book Moved to Another Shelf; and She Got Canceled
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Julie Mauck is a real estate agent in Georgia. She’s a mother of four and a grandmother of one. She’s cares about kids. She learned about some books in her local library’s children’s section. And she spoke up in favor of moving the books to the adult section. For that, she was canceled and had to rebuild her career. Julie and her lawyer, Jonathan Vogel, update Michele on her case. 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. Learn More about “The Michele Tafoya Podcast” here: https://linktr.ee/micheletafoya Subscribe to “The Michele Tafoya Podcast” here: https://apple.co/3nPW221 Follow Michele on twitter: https://twitter.com/Michele_Tafoya Follow Michele on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realmicheletafoya/ Learn more about the Salem Podcast network: https://salempodcastnetwork.com/
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| 0:00.0 | I think part of it is just that misery loves company, right? |
| 0:04.4 | And they're easy targets. |
| 0:06.2 | These adults who have probably never fit in much in their lives, you know, see them as easy targets. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast. |
| 0:18.8 | Julie Mock and Jonathan Vogel are my guest today. |
| 0:22.1 | Julie Mock was a real estate agent, mother of four, who thought that there were some books in her |
| 0:28.3 | community library that weren't appropriate for children. She did not ask the library to take the books |
| 0:33.8 | out. She asked them to move them from the children's section into the adult section |
| 0:38.9 | because they were graphic sexually. There was a hearing at which she was heckled by a number of groups. |
| 0:46.8 | Barely got to speak, but it got worse from there. It only got worse from there and her life had to |
| 0:53.1 | change dramatically. Jonathan Vogel is her life had to change dramatically. |
| 0:58.1 | Jonathan Vogel is her attorney representing her in court. |
| 0:59.8 | They are still in court. |
| 1:03.8 | And she's just trying to get her life back. |
| 1:08.3 | This is an amazing story, but it's also not the only one of its kind. |
| 1:12.1 | But I wanted to bring it to you because Julie is a great representation of what's going on with cancel culture still in America. And we're going to hear her story |
| 1:18.5 | and we're going to hear about their defense and where they stand. But before we go any further, |
| 1:21.7 | let me please and humbly ask you to hit that subscribe button. Wherever you're watching |
| 1:25.9 | or listening, there is a way to subscribe. It's free. Can't hurt you. It just means that it's going to be in subscribe button. Wherever you're watching or listening, there is a way to subscribe. |
| 1:27.8 | It's free. |
| 1:29.0 | Can't hurt you. |
| 1:29.9 | It just means that it's going to be in your feed all the time. |
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