Why can't Jesse Watters and Gayle King be friends?
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
A photo posted by Gayle King of a selfie she took with Fox News host Jesse Watters went viral. People on the left lambasted King for associating herself with the conservative firebrand. The reaction reflects what is wrong with the American Left: they can't stand it when people of different backgrounds get along. That's just one story in this Wildcard Wednesday episode. We also hear from Hakeem Jeffries, a masked Zohran Mamdani, and a man calling for the killing of "47."
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 | Hey, hey, hey, hey, hello again, and welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle |
| 0:13.3 | Tafoya podcast. It is Wild Card Wednesday, and you never want to miss a Wednesday podcast. |
| 0:19.1 | So please subscribe. Just hit subscribe wherever you're watching, Rumble, YouTube, |
| 0:23.3 | Spotify, Apple Podcasts, wherever you stream your pods. |
| 0:27.3 | Just hit subscribe. |
| 0:28.1 | Doesn't cause you anything. |
| 0:29.1 | It just make sure that you get them all. |
| 0:31.4 | Today we're going to go all over the map with a lot of stuff that really spoke to me. |
| 0:37.1 | And we'll make it short and sweet. |
| 0:39.0 | But the stuff that I'm showing you today really hit me in some way or another. |
| 0:42.6 | So without further ado, we're going to get right to it. |
| 0:45.3 | This one was inspired by someone who said to me recently, okay, come on. |
| 0:52.2 | When are we going to get real about free speech? Do we want it or do we not want it? |
| 0:56.6 | And I said, what are you talking about? And they said, well, you know, people getting fired for saying that Charlie Kirk deserved to die. And wait, wait, wait, wait. Let's remember that free speech means you can say that and you're not going to get thrown in prison, you're not going to get thrown in jail or |
| 1:13.2 | arrested, but there might be consequences at work. So, on the other hand, going on over in the UK is a very |
| 1:23.9 | different matter indeed. Now, Kier Starrmer, the prime minister, says he's all about free speech, |
| 1:31.2 | but there have been some egregious, and we've shown you a couple, examples of people getting |
| 1:36.9 | actually arrested or approached by police and moved along for saying things, for praying |
| 1:46.2 | silently, and in this |
| 1:48.1 | case, for wearing the |
| 1:50.0 | star of David. Watch this police |
| 1:51.7 | interrogation of Amanda Sagan is in the |
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