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The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Wildcard Wednesday, Protest Edition!

The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Salem Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary, Society & Culture

2.4590 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The best sights and sounds from the Los Angeles “mostly peaceful” protests, including a couple of delightful rants from TikTok.  Plus a couple of fun surprises that will give you hope.

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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.

0:12.6

It is Wednesday.

0:13.4

That means it's Wildcard Wednesday.

0:15.1

And this week, it's special.

0:17.4

This is Wildcard Wednesday, L.A.

0:19.9

Riots edition. Okay. so many layers to these riots in Los Angeles,

0:26.6

how they started, why they started, who's protesting peacefully, and who's not. Because again,

0:32.8

just like Minneapolis in 2020, where I live, they tried to tell you, oh, these are mostly

0:37.4

peaceful protests as the city burned.

0:39.9

It's pretty much what's going on in L.A. Now, there were some peaceful protesters. I would probably

0:46.1

categorize this first soundbite we're going to play for you as someone who believed he was being

0:51.3

peaceful. Now, while he may have been being peaceful, he also kind of sounded silly.

0:58.1

Let's roll it, Misty.

0:59.5

We don't agree with the term illegal.

1:01.5

We're undocumented.

1:02.7

We've been here for thousands of years before you guys showed up, screw up everything.

1:07.2

We think we should organize together with the U.S. working class and fight together and create a very system.

1:13.6

We're anti-capitalist. We think socialism does work. Real socialism, not Venezuela, not Cuba, not any of that crap that they try to sell us in socialism.

1:23.6

And we believe it would be a more humane system that will take care of

1:28.5

most of all people's necessities. Is there a country we can look too to kind of model the

1:33.7

socialism idea? The only model would be Soviet Union the first four years. After that,

1:41.9

it became a mess. Sadly, there was a bureaucrat leadership that grew out of

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