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The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Wildcard Wednesday: Burning the Flag Edition

The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Salem Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary, Society & Culture

2.4590 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Free speech, College Football, and Valentina Gomez

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.

0:13.6

Please hit that subscribe button.

0:14.9

Wherever you're listening or watching, we'd love to have you with us for every single episode, especially these wildcard Wednesdays. They're

0:21.4

fun. What can we say? All right, this one is definitely a wild card. You don't know where we're

0:26.5

going to start and you have no idea where we're going to finish. And neither do I quite frankly,

0:29.8

but we're going to start with this tape that resurfaced on X recently. And it is of Donald Trump, I want to say 80s, mid 80s maybe, much younger Donald Trump.

0:44.0

And he's being interviewed by a woman who at one point you'll hear he addresses her as your honor,

0:49.0

but I have no idea who she is. We're trying to do the research and figure out who she is and we can't

0:53.2

figure out who she is. But this is a fascinating piece of tape because it's prescient. It's prescient.

1:01.8

Roll it, Misty. For some people, the ultimate goal in life has been becoming the president of the

1:09.1

United States. Would you like to be the President of the United States?

1:12.6

I really don't believe I would,

1:13.6

but I would like to see somebody as the President who could do the job,

1:17.6

and there are very capable people in this country.

1:19.6

Most people who are capable are not running for office.

1:21.6

Most men are frightened of politics today.

1:24.6

It is a shame, isn't it?

1:25.6

Yes.

1:26.6

It is a shame. The most capable people are not necessarily running for political office, and that is a very

1:32.8

sad commentary on the country.

1:34.8

They had major corporations and they had this and that, but they are not running for political

1:39.3

office.

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