Soldiers love Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Medal of Honor winner, Dakota Meyer, is the founder of the Substack page the BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front). He is unapologetic about his support for troops over generals, character over comfort, And service over politics. He tells Michele what he really thinks about Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.
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 | So every morning when I look in the mirror before I leave and every morning I come home before I go to bed, |
| 0:05.0 | I look in the mirror and I'm looking at myself and I say, what did you expect? |
| 0:09.0 | All the things going wrong or all the bad stuff that happened, like what did you really expect? |
| 0:15.0 | Like did you do everything you could? |
| 0:17.0 | Was it you or was it them, right? And usually it's me. |
| 0:20.0 | It was my expectations. It was my thoughts. It was my mindset. It was me going down a road that I knew I shouldn't have done. It was, you know what I mean? It was, it's usually all me looking in the mirror of who should take the responsibility of letting these types of people around me, of all that. And you know, and it's like like it's usually me and it's stuff i can control |
| 0:39.2 | and we've got to truly empower people to understand that they can make decisions i'll i'll tell you |
| 0:45.8 | this and i believe this with every moral fiber of my being i don't believe that we have a problem |
| 0:51.0 | in the world today that we cannot lead ourselves out of. |
| 1:04.3 | Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast. |
| 1:07.7 | Please hit subscribe wherever you're listening or watching. |
| 1:12.0 | We'd love to have you with us for every episode and it doesn't cost you anything. So why wouldn't you? Because we have |
| 1:17.1 | some wonderful guests. Dakota Meyer is one of them. He won the Medal of Honor for his actions |
| 1:24.4 | in Afghanistan. And he is the second youngest living Medal of Honor recipient, the third living recipient |
| 1:32.6 | for either the Iraq War or the War of Afghanistan. |
| 1:36.2 | He now has a sub-stack. |
| 1:38.5 | He is really going public with a lot of his experiences, his thoughts about mental health, PTSD, all kinds of things, |
| 1:47.6 | military, tries not to get political. But he shared some very interesting thoughts with us in this |
| 1:55.1 | interview about the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, and about some of the generals who have |
| 2:00.2 | been outspoken about Pete Hegseth. and about some of the generals who have been outspoken about |
| 2:02.0 | Pete Hegseth. So we're going to get into it with Dakota Meyer. Again, hit subscribe so you |
| 2:06.5 | never miss an episode. The man, the Medal of Honor winner, Dakota Meyer, is next. |
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