Where are all the "Cease Fire Now" Protesters?
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Charlie Kirk gets the Medal of Freedom. Hostages are reunited with their families. And there is deafening silence from the "cease fire now" crowd. Plus a video so adorable you'll want to share it with everyone. It's 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. |
| 0:13.3 | It is Wild Card Wednesday. |
| 0:14.7 | And I want to remind you as I do every day to please hit that subscribe button wherever |
| 0:18.5 | you're listening or watching youtube spotify apple click |
| 0:21.6 | subscribe so you never miss an episode and it's free so what do you have to lose we'd love to |
| 0:26.4 | have you as part of our growing audience all right on wildcard wednesdays in case you don't know |
| 0:31.4 | i started to a spin around some of the internet and get some of the best video clips or most timely newsworthy |
| 0:39.4 | video clips or a combination thereof that I think sort of signify what's happened this |
| 0:45.7 | week. And so you're going to hear a wide swath of stuff. I hope it'll make you laugh and |
| 0:52.1 | cried. This one, I don't know, this one was just kind of cool. |
| 0:56.3 | Yesterday, Tuesday, was Charlie Kirk's what would have been his 32nd birthday. So, so young. |
| 1:02.4 | If you've turned 30 and you think, you know, you're old, you're not. 30 is very young. |
| 1:09.0 | And 32 is very young. So they took, the White House took this opportunity on what would have been his 32nd birthday to give Charlie Kirk posthumously the Medal of Freedom. And here is the announcement. I always love it when they make these announcements very formally. So let's play that for you. |
| 1:35.5 | The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to Charles James Kirk. |
| 1:40.4 | Accepting on behalf of Charlie is his wife, Mrs. Erica Kirk. |
| 1:47.0 | Charlie Kirk was one of the most influential American political figures of his generation. At just 18 years old, he founded Turning Point USA and grew it into the largest conservative youth organization in the nation. |
| 1:55.0 | For over a decade, he tirelessly traveled the country leading a movement to restore respect for our founding principles, |
| 2:03.8 | reawaken our national identity, and inspire a renewed spirit of religious devotion. |
| 2:10.8 | He was one of the great debaters and communicators of his time. |
| 2:15.1 | Despite receiving repeated threats, he remained undeterred and modeled courage, |
| 2:21.4 | logic, humor, and grace to the next generation. On September 10, 2025, at age 31, |
| 2:30.7 | Charlie Kirk was assassinated while addressing a group of students. |
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