September 27, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show delivers a compelling mix of breaking news, cultural analysis, and political commentary, with a strong focus on law enforcement, media bias, and the future of conservative influence. The hour opens with discussion of Miami potentially hosting the Donald Trump Presidential Library, a symbolic move that underscores Florida’s emergence as the epicenter of the Republican Party. Clay and Buck highlight the significance of Trump’s legacy and contrast it with President Biden’s struggling post-presidency prospects, including reports of difficulty securing paid speaking engagements and donor support.
The hosts revisit the ICE facility shooting in Dallas, emphasizing the politically motivated nature of the attack, which included anti-ICE messages engraved on bullets. They explore the broader implications of left-wing political violence, tying it to inflammatory rhetoric from Democratic leaders. Vice President JD Vance’s powerful statement condemning the demonization of law enforcement is played and endorsed, followed by a passionate response from Senator Rick Scott of Florida, who calls for national support of law enforcement and criticizes Democrats for fostering hostility toward officers.
Senator Scott also addresses the looming government shutdown, blaming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for obstructing budget negotiations. He supports Senator Ron Johnson’s proposal to maintain government operations using previous funding levels, arguing it’s better than halting essential services. Scott also updates listeners on the confirmation process for Trump administration nominees, revealing that Democrats are systematically blocking appointments, forcing Republicans to change Senate rules to push through over 100 nominees.
The hour includes a deep dive into the Jimmy Kimmel controversy, with Clay and Buck analyzing Nexstar and Sinclair’s decision to pull the show from local affiliates. Senator Scott calls Kimmel “toxic” and praises networks for making business decisions that reflect audience values. The hosts argue for a return to balanced late-night comedy, suggesting that shows like Colbert and Kimmel have become vehicles for Democrat propaganda rather than genuine humor. They propose relocating late-night programming to cities like Nashville to escape the ideological echo chambers of New York and LA.
Clay and Buck also explore the FCC’s equal time rule, questioning why political comedy shows on public airwaves aren’t held to the same standards as news programs. They suggest that if market-based solutions fail to restore balance, regulatory enforcement might be necessary to ensure fair representation of political viewpoints.
Additional segments include listener talkbacks from Alaska, humorous reflections on COVID-era restrictions in New York, and a lighthearted moment featuring Buck’s impersonation of Andrew Cuomo. The hour closes with a preview of future discussions on media fairness and regulatory reform.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in Clay, Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us as we were rolling
through the Wednesday edition of the program. Senata Rick Scott
of Florida will be with us at the bottom of
the hour. Speaking of Florida, Buck, did you see the
news that your new hometown of Miami has set aside
two point six acres to potentially be the location for
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the Donald Trump Presidential Library.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
That's some plot twist that.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
If you had told people, you know, even a decade ago,
was coming, they never would have anticipated it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I moved to Miami and suddenly it is just a
shining beacon of freedom in America. Not a surprise, Clay,
This is not an accident.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And I also think, by the way, this is a
really good move by Ron DeSantis. Remember last couple of years,
a lot of the DeSantis and Trump people going back
and forth, and they may still be occasionally fighting. I
haven't seen it in a long time in our mentions,
but this is Ron DeSantis being like, hey, Trump is
now one of the greatest presidents, certainly of the twenty
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first century. I think now Trump is competing against many
other decades for historical legacy and is by far the
most consequential political figure of the twenty first century. Ye,
I don't even think it's close at this point. And
so some presidential libraries, Joe Biden's, I don't will anybody
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even go visit. Maybe kids in elementary school because they
get out of school for the day. But can you
imagine being like, hey, what are you doing this weekend? Oh,
I'm gonna go to Wilmington or wherever it is in
Delaware and go to Joe Biden's presidential library. I don't
even know that he's gonna be able to raise enough
money to build it. They may just, you know, turn
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the Biden Beach Mansion into the presidential Library and not
even worry about it. But there is talk. I'm kind
of laughing about it, but there is talk that Biden
can't get paid. Nobody will pay him to come speak.
There is substantial difficulty. I saw a quote where they said, well,
we think the donors will eventually come around.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Really no, I don't. I don't think so. This is
why the brilliance of Hunter Biden's paintings is what the
family should be able to fall back on. I mean,
Hunter is really the van the vn go of our era,
and so why doesn't that just, you know, five hundred
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thousand of painting should be easy. I don't know what
the big what the big hold up is. So that's
one bit of news I wanted to share with you.
The Ice news.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Of course, we started the show with that the shooting
took place anti Ice written on the bullets. No ICE
agents actually hit. Reports that the guy fired into a van,
didn't even know exactly what he was aiming at necessarily
inside the van, or thought the van was loaded down
with ICE agents. Two people killed, he killed himself, is
the reports that I have seen, but no one who
(02:59):
He killed one and killed himself. Two fatalities told, two fatalities,
one self inflicted. Okay, okay, I thought there were two
fatalities one more with him.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Am I wrong? No, I'm asking you. I thought you're
updating this.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
No, I think it was two. He killed two people
and killed himself.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
What I thought? Right?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So killed two and killed himself? Okay, yes, a team
let us know if that's change or we got that wrong.
The other bit of news that I think is is
circulating out there, certainly is the Jimmy Kimmel return and
Jimmy Kimmel came back last night. I couldn't even see
it because it's not airing in my market of Nashville,
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because Next Star has preempted it. As about a twenty
five percent of the nation is not getting the Jimmy
Kimmel Show right now, either on Sinclair or on the
or on the Next Star affiliates. But I thought that
he would apologize directly and without equivocation.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
He did not. I thought that some of the things
that he.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Said were well said, and I will play this because
he thanked me for standing up for free speech, among others.
This is the part of his monologue where he started
cut seven.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Maybe most of all, I want to thank the people
who don't support my show and what I believe, but
support my right to share those beliefs.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Anyway. Who's who will or I never would? I will imagine.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Right, Ben Shapiro, Clay Travis, Candice Owens, Mitch McConnell, Ran Paul,
even my old pal Ted Cruz, who believe it or not,
said something very beautiful on my behalf.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said. I am thrilled that
he was fired. Oh the way.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
No, not that the other part.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
But let me tell you, if the gun gets in
the business of saying saying what you the media have said,
we're going to ban you from the airwaves if you
don't say what we like, that will end up bad
for conservatives.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I don't think I've ever said this before, but Ted
Cruz is right.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Okay, So there are other parts who may play a
couple of more cuts here. Here's what I would say
in response to that, I Buck's gonna get floor?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Is yours? Buddy? Go for it?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, But here's what I would say. I hope and
I think that Jimmy should address and directly apologize. I've
said that before for the phrasing and what he said
on last week's show. But going forward, as opposed to
looking backwards, going forward, what I think should happen.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Is I think that this whole world.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Of left wing comedians and comedians and quotation marks, because really,
the comedy show, when it's only directed in one direction,
is not actually comedy. It's propaganda. I think that if
we're going to have late night comedy shows, they should
have guests that reflect the entire spectrum of American life.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And this is one of the things that you understand
why this is not You understand why this is not possible, right.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Well, I think it's because they have decided, in the
wake of Stephen Colbert getting ratings, that that is what
people want in late night television.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
The opinion that is, I'm of the opinion, Clay, that
the audience has been trained and the audience has expectations
that they will not be subjected to anyone who offends
their lib sensibilities, and they are little snowflakes and they
will scream and melt if that's so. This is what
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you're saying is again, I agree with you. What you're
saying is rational, but there's just no way that's going
to happen because whatever, what what how many people watch
Kimmel Show right now? A million? Like a million is
that's what I thought. It's like a million people. Nine
hundred and eighty thousand of that million would would not
be okay with anybody. You know, Steven Miller is a
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brilliant guy and actually really funny. If Steven Miller was
on the Jimmy Kimmel Show one time, there would be
a complete freakout from his existing audience, right, I mean,
that they can't. Meanwhile, we've we're just so used to
this that we're like, whatever, just put somebody on. If
they're funny, I'll watch if they If they're not, I won't.
We just have a totally different mentality about this. But Clay,
(07:40):
they still cannot. It's like even Bill Maher tries to
tell his audience, guys, it's a better show if I
have right wingers on to give the other perspective, and
a lot of his people complain. Now, his audience is
a little different. They're not conditioned the same way they're
used to seeing Hitchens and Coulter and these people over
the years showing up on that show. But he still
gets a lot of he tells me that, or people
(08:01):
who are like, I never want to see a maga
person on your show, blah blah blah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And I'm unique maybe in this sense, because every time
somebody complains about anything that I do, I want to
do it more. So I'm a bit antagonistic in that way.
You know, if you complain to me because you don't
like something, that's not a very effective strategy because it
makes me want to do it more. And maybe that's
a little bit rare in our world. But you mentioned
(08:28):
Bill Maher. I think that's a great example. He has
probably the most influential talk show on television in America.
I think that's fair. Now I'm not counting actual political shows.
I think Bill Maher has the most influential comedy talk show.
Maybe I should have specified in America. I see the
clips from his show far more because I think people
like the conflict of ideas. I will just tell you
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south Park seems to be having a moment. I see
south Park clips everywhere, and it seems to me that
South Park tries to do a decent job of making
fun of everyone, and so I think there actually is
a there is a market if you try to treat
everyone the same. Now in the short term, I think
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you're right. I think there would be a revolt in
the short term. I think if you put on Nate Bargatsi,
and I'll just use him as an example, because he
is I think probably the foremost comedian in America right now.
In terms of his ability to draw an audience. I
think people would watch who Are Democrats and Republicans. I
think people go buy tickets for his show, Who Are
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Democrats and Republicans. I think he's in a political performer.
I think if you started a new show and you
made fun of everybody evenly, I think there actually is
more demand for that than maybe people think. I don't
know if Fox has ever talked about this. Fox back
in the day tried to get into late night game,
I mean the Fox Network, not Fox News, but it
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never really took off. I don't know why Fox wouldn't
try to do this now. Maybe they don't want to
compete with Gutfelder. I haven't had any conversations with the
executives at Fox about this, so I'm just kind of
walking through it in my own mind.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
But it seems to.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Me there's actually a desperate demand for someone who is
even handed and will dispense ridicule, as Johnny Carson did,
as Jay Leno did, as David Letterman did back before
he lost his mind, in an even handed fashion. I
think these people mostly just follow whatever direction the currents go.
And Stephen Colbert had tremendous success being a left wing
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idiologue politician who was doing a late night television show.
Everybody else was getting their ass kicked by Colbert, and
so they said, we have to in some way copy
what he does. And I think it hurt Falin the
most because I think Jimmy Fallon, if he had like
a spine, is actually the most apolitical of the of
the late night host and when he leaned over and
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ruffled Trump's hair, remember when that happened, I think that
he was utterly crushed by the result. I got another
idea for you, Buck, I think you have to move
these shows out of New York in LA. I think
you have to move late night comedy out of New
York and LA. I think if you did late night
comedy in Nashville, I think you would get a totally
different lifestyle. I think you would get a totally different comedian.
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I think you'd still get great guests, but I think
it would be more.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Middle of the road.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I think it's not only the host, it's the writing staff,
and it's the world they're surrounded by. You know this
because you lived in New York City. When you lived
in New York City, you were behind enemy lines. I
think it's harder to do a show that appeals to
the nation from New York in LA than it is
from Nashville or Atlanta or other parts of the middle
part of the Cincinnati or Columbus or Chicago for that matter.
(11:37):
I lived on the Colbert Block.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah. So a funny thing for me was that during
all of Colbert's stuff, I would see that audience. And
one of the funniest things during COVID to me was
when they brought it back, they would have the Colbert audience.
And like I said, I was on that block and
now I know where I lived in New York, and
I would see them every day for that show. And
they would have the people spaced out play on the
(12:00):
street with masks on outside. Yeah, six feet apart, masked up,
and I'm talking about when it was thirty degrees outside, okay,
waiting and waiting and waiting to go into a packed
theater so like, and they never thought that that was weird. Right,
you're going to sit inside the theaters they were two
(12:22):
hours with shoulders shoulder with everybody, but outside, just to
be insane, We're going to make you stand six feet
apart and freeze your butt off with a mask on
the whole time.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
When I came to New York City, when we had
started doing this show, and I got into the iHeart
elevators and the building we work in. Of the foot markers.
You hadn't seen foot markers, had you? I had never
seen foot markers before. And when I got on, some
of the people were facing the opposite direction because the
science that they thought they needed to follow was not
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only do you need to space yourself in an elevator,
some of the people in the back need to be
faced towards the wall. I thought, I'd like, did I
walk into a zombie apocalypse? Like are these people going
to turn around and like devour me? I walked on
and I was like, what is going on here? Because again,
where I live and you now live in Miami, I
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think to a large part because of COVID.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Where I live, we.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Did COVID for like six weeks and then everybody was like, yeah,
let's just get back to normal. And so this idea
that other people out there were sitting in circles in
public parks, or staring into walls in the elevator, or
walking around in hazmat suits. I'm like, I just never
experienced that lifestyle, thankfully. And I think if I had
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been living in that apartment that you lived in, I
would have gone crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I would have fun. Part that was the biggest apartment.
That was the biggest. I was almost like forty years old.
That was the biggest apartment in New York as an
adult that I had ever lived in. Clay's like, how
do you live here? I'm like this, this is spacious.
When I started my radio show, I think I was
in a three hundred square foot studio apartment, paying like
twelve hundred bucks a month for it.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Look, the only reason to live in New York City,
in my always humble opinion, is to experience New York.
Unless you're so rich that you have a huge, awesome
place to live. Most people live in small apartments so
they can experience the city. You just had to live
in the small apartment, I would have gone insane, Like
you couldn't even open windows.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, that's a real thing. That we had beautiful outdoor
space actually in that building, gardens and everything. There was
a roof and everything else. They shut those areas down.
They made this is what I ever knew. I know,
You're sorry, you've got us on this COVID thing. They
made everyone sicker, They made it worse for your immune system.
(14:44):
They made it more likely you were going to get COVID.
It's not that they didn't do brilliant things. They did
all the wrong things and somehow we're just you know,
Kentucky voted for Bashier and Michigan voted for Gretchen Whitmer.
And yeah, and Cuomo Oh is trying to make a comeback.
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Welcome back into Clay and Buck. Let's get some talkbacks
here we have. I love that we are such a
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next summer week. I think you already committed to it
with either the governor or the Senator of Alaska, you.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Or Senator Sullivan, maybe the governor too. Laura, my wife, Well,
I've never never been, and I have heard that you've been.
It is an incredible trip. I want to put it
on the roster, maybe even do the show from up there,
but yeah, you totally should.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
It's a summer is amazing there, all right. Pam from Anchorage,
Alaska listens on k E and I Radio play it.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Clay, you don't even know I was listening to Buck
as that was going on with COVID. He was in
the belly of the vast and Buck just for all
times sake and the COVID manness. Can you do your
impersonation of Cuomo? You remember when you couldn't drink at
the bar, but you could if you ordered Quomo ship
you were permitted to have food and beverage with your
(17:05):
mask down. For a moment, I just need my impersonation.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Well, Pam, I remember Cuomo chips like it was yesterday.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I would pull up.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
The charts as I was telling everybody about Fauci and
the science, and then I would say to look at
this chart and I would get an Emmy for my
daytime press conference talking to you all like this.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yes, Clay, it was a madness that you, mister Tennessee.
You guys were all just hanging out with your country
music and your barbecue and your flags. Meanwhile in New
York City we were getting our trial run of communism.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
It was I would have lost my mind, and I
am so glad that I did not have to.
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Speaker 1 (18:55):
Welcome back in Clay, Travis, Buck Sexton Show appreciate all
of you. Hanging out with us. We're joined now by
Senator Rick Scott of Florida. We'll get into a bunch
of different stories from him. But Vice President jd Vance
just spoke about the shooting that occurred earlier today at
the Dallas ice facility, and this is what he said.
(19:16):
And then we will bring in Senator Scott because I'm
curious how he would respond to this.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Here is jd. Vance.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
When you go around and lie about our law enforcement
and you tell them that they're mistreating five year old girls,
what do you think is going to happen when Democratic
politicians incur doxing, when they encourage us to unmask ice
enforcement officers. What do you think is going to happen?
When the mayor of Los Angeles encourages violent protesters to
get in the face of our law enforcement. What do
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you think is going to happen. What's going to happen
is political violence, and political violence has gotten out of
control in this country.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
We got to stop it.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
We gotta condemn it. And that starts, unfortunately, at the
very top of the Democratic Party. If you want to
stop political violence, stop attacking our law enforcement as the gestapo.
If you want to stop political violence. Stop telling your
supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi.
If you want to stop political violence, look in the mirror.
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That's the way that we stop political violence in this country.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I agree with everything jd. Vance, Vice President of the
United States said there. I suspect that you do as well,
Senator Rick Scott. Your reaction to that here as we
start the interview with.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
You, absolutely, you know it makes you mad. When I
was governor, we lost fifty one members of law enforcement,
and you go to their funerals. This is these are
this is a family. Once their own personal family. Then
law enforcement is a family, and they unfortunately with under Democrats,
under Democrat rule, under Democrat writer, they attack our law enforcement.
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What do you want in your house? You you know
you want it smart. You want somebody to show up.
Who shows up with a You're not it's law enforcement.
You want to make sure your school is say for
your kid, I want to make sure safe. Go get
a job, you make it, make sure the restaurant safe.
Who does it for you? Law enforcement? You might never know.
So the Democrats have has got to stop this attack
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on law enforcement. I grew up in a country where
if my mom thought I would ever talk back to
a law enforcement or say something battle, I got the
biggest whipping in the world. I would never have done that.
I bring my grand kids when we see when they
see law enforcement, they thank them. That's what everybody in
this country ought to be doing. Say, thank God, somebody's
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willing to put on.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
The uniform and defend our freedom and defend their safety.
So these democratics got to stop this rhetoric. Princely hurt
dead kind.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Of Okay, Senator Scott, We're gonna have to have you
call back in because I don't know if you could hear.
I cannot hear what he said.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
This is one of those things where I just I
look around and I'm like, cell phones are never just
going to work perfectly, are they?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Like, I guess not.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I don't know what ago we would have thought, Hey,
the signals will eventually be flawless, like, but it's amazing
how often you can't have a normal conversation on a
cell phone.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Now, maybe Elon will fix that, you know, maybe Elon
will all have sat phones essentially. I remember that was
such a thing when I was overseas twenty years ago
at the Agency to have a satellite phone. I was like, ooh,
it was you know, sixteen dollars a minute or something
to actually talk to anybody on it. You would think
that we would get to a place where this stuff
would all work much more. We got them back. We
can hear them now because I want to hear what
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the good senator has to say.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Yeah, so we have got to stand up for our
law enforcement, and the Democrats have got to stop this.
Where don't their families want to be safe? Don't their
voters want to be safe?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
But Senator, let me ask you this. Hold on a second,
because because Gavin Newsom in California, I know that the
law doesn't go into effect until January, and I assume
that they're smart enough to know that they can't tell
federal law enforcement how they can tactically do their jobs
the state of California. But I mean, what message could
be more clear than what he's saying, which is the
governor of America's largest state, Gaven Newston I was telling
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everybody that these are basically fascist stormtroopers and they're hiding
their identities because there's something immoral about enforcing immigration law.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
Look, they might have a mask because They're scared to
death of people like Gavin Newsom as telling telling people
right to attack law enforcement, don't cooperate with them, get
in their face. I mean who I mean? Like, doesn't
Gavin Newsom care about the citizens of his state? But
I was governor of Florida. You know what I wanted.
I wanted every family to be safe. I wanted every
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business to be safe. I wanted every restaurant, every school
to be safe. So why didn't Gavin Newsom care about
the people in the state, about their safety? That's what
I don't get. You don't build a business, you don't
want your kids to go to school, you don't want
to live in a community that is unsafe. Support law enforcement.
It's real simple. They will defend your freedom and your safety.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
We're talking to Senator Rick Scott Florida a lot of discussion.
I was texting with Senator Ron Johnson a little bit
earlier about the potential for a shutdown. He's got a
piece up in the Wall Street Journal about ways to
end this conflict once and for all. What should our
listeners know about the latest battle over funding the government.
Speaker 8 (24:23):
Well, here's where it works. We only need a majority
in the hospital. We have to have sixty votes in
the Senate. Chuck Schumer, for whatever god forsaken reason, wants
to shut down government so some services will be stopped
beginning at midnight September thirty. He that's what he wants,
that's what he wants. He doesn't care. He wants to
shut down government. Well, Ron Johnson's proposing, which is really smart.
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Let's just make sure that we just keep funding government.
We should have done our budget bills, which we haven't
done again this year, which we should have done. But
if we don't, then we'll just continue to keep government
open and last year's funding which is too high. I
want to balance budget, but it's better than shut down
and shutting down government and shutting down services. And by
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the way, total workers, when they don't come to work,
they still get paid. How crazy is that? When you
don't go to work, you don't get paid. But federal workers,
which I love them, right, we have a shutdown, they
get paid. That doesn't make any sense. They don't get
paid until we go back to work. But they don't
come to work and they get paid. This makes no sense.
That's why Ron's Ron Johnson's proposal is very smart. They
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will never have the Chuck Schummer shutdowns.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Senator Scott, how is the confirmation process going in the
Senate for Trump nominees? We had, I think talk to
you about this a few months ago. There have been
a lot of concerns raised for those who are paying
attention that Democrats are doing everything except pull the fire alarm,
so to speak, to try to prevent nominees from getting through.
(25:55):
Has that process started to work a little bit more efficiently?
Are you getting Trump's picks in place? How's that been
going in the Senate side.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
It's like they don't They don't think that Trump should
have anybody work with it. So he needs to put
together a team. That's what presidents do, right. This is
the first time in the history of the country that
the opposing party of the president will do everything they
can to block all nominees. I don't care who who
the nominee is. And so what we've had to do
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in the Senate is we had to change the rules
because the Democrats are Democrats are blocking every every every nominee,
even nominees that they will vote for. They've been blocking.
They don't want to do so we've changed the rules.
We had quite a few of our nominees approved last
week that we will be back next week and we'll
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get my goal. I think the goal is we're going
to have over one hundred nominees done in the next
ten days. Uh so we've got to get Trump's nominees
done and we you know, unfortunately, but what Chuck Schumer's
doing with all these antics is he's saying that SIMATE
was was set up to force us to work together.
He's just saying, no way. You know, we don't ever
(27:08):
have to work together anymore because Chuck Schumer is going
to fight everything, and so we have to change the
rules to get anything done. Schumer needs to go.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
What do you think about the Trump Library? On a
positive side here, I mentioned this to Buck. He lives
in Miami. He's one of your constituents now, Senator. I
spend a lot of time in Florida as well. What
does it say about the state of Florida, the trajectory
of the country overall that a big city like Miami.
I think a lot of people listening to us right
now in Miami are saying, this is great, We're going
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to have the Trump Presidential Library here. What does it
say about Miami. What does it say about Florida.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
Well, Florida's become the center of the Republican Party. You
look at his whole team, So many of them, Pam Bondi,
Susie Wiles, so many of them come out of Florida.
So he and you know, as you know, the President
moved out in New York and moved down to Florida.
So you know, whether it's in Palm Beach, whether it's
in Miami, it's going to be. You know, it's going
to be in I can't imagine it's not going to
be in Florida. I know the piece of property they're
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talking about Miami. I was just down at the Freedom
Tower just the other day that they've completely recently redone.
That's where all the Cuban refugees were processed when they
were coming in the sixties and seventies. So I you know,
look wherever it is. I look forward to bringing my
grandkids there to see it.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
One last question for you, Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
The story surrounding that as we're talking to you, next
Star and Saint Clair Local affiliates are not carrying the show,
and they just said, you come out of the business
World Next Star is continuing to evaluate and we're engaged
in discussions. We want diverse interests of the communities we
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serve to be reflected and respected. What should happen here?
In your mind, what's the right solution?
Speaker 8 (28:53):
Well, I'll make a business decision. Jimmy Kimmel has become
just toxic. You know, his audience, audience has gone down.
People are saying they don't want to see it. Like
I remember when Johnny Carson had a show, uh and
and Jay Jaylen know they were funny, right they This
is just topsy with guys like Jimmy kimmeldoo. So I've
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never seen a show. I don't plan on watching a show.
I assume that they're making a decision. Is this good
for our audience? And is it fiscal Is it financially beneficial?
And think about it. If it's not, do you think
why would they keep him on the air? So and
I heard his audiences. His viewership has gone way down.
(29:38):
Uh So, I don't know why. You know, I'm not
gonna watch it. I know, I don't know why Republicans
would ever watch the guy. He just he doesn't I
mean what he what he said about uh, Uh, Charlie
Kirk was it was just completely inappropriate. It was I mean,
Charlie was a friend of mine. I did a show
most Mondays and for anybody to to say than what
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they said.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
So is just toxic appreciating here. Yep.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
Yeah, all right, Well it's going to get better. So
I'm very optimistic we're gonna make it better.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Thank you, Thank you all the work that he is doing.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Positive there, Senator Rick Scott with us, we'll come back,
we'll close up shop, have a little bit of fun
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All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. We're trying
to figure out the equal time rule over here and
how it applies to these different broadcast networks and what's
going on with all this stuff, because it's you got
to spend a lot of time on this to understand
where the ins and outs are. But I know that
it was brought up just a few days ago by
the FCC chairman, Brennan Carr, saying, hold on a second.
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The View is a political show, The View is on ABC,
the View is a broadcast network. Why is the View
not subject to FCC equal time? And I don't have
any I do not. I think that he asked the
questions which the only answer is it should be subject
to equal time. If that's a rule that we're going
to have.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yes, this is where I sit around, and it's one
thing to notice that things are broken in the country.
When it comes to discourse, and you and I sit
around a lot thinking about this, I feel like, and
some of you can say, you know what, Clay, you're crazy,
But I feel like if you give me an opportunity
to talk to a room full of Democrat voters, I
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can convince them that they're wrong about a lot of
what they believe in.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I understand that a lot of you are like, you're crazy, Clay,
you have no hope for that. They're not going to
listen to you. All those things can be true. You
can disagree with me, but I feel like a lot
of the things that we argue on this show, a
lot of left wingers have not been exposed to. They
haven't had to consider or have their own opinions challenged.
(33:46):
And when it comes to ABC, NBCCBS, we give those
public airwaves. Why would you allow Stephen Colbert to only
have left wing guest If he wants to have on
Tom Hanks and he wants to give political opinions, that's different.
But when you're putting on senators and presidential candidates, to me,
you should have to put the others on too.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Well. I'm I'm going through the rules now, and the
rules are are a bit of a tangled mess. But
and this is so you're suggesting that our government does
not have a coherent policy when it comes to uh yeah,
maybe a little bit, a little bit, a little possibility there.
I would say, there's the bona fide news program exemption.
(34:28):
So we are a news program that does a lot
of commentary, right, And I think that this is where, uh,
this is where a lot of different shows would be
clearly in the uh you know, clearly in the exempt
category because you say, well, I'm a bonafi, I do news.
I'm a news program, and I can have on whoever
I want as part of my news coverage. And that's
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an editorial decision. The comedy shows are not news programs
and they're on the public airwaves, right or are they
going to argue that they are news programs and then
give up the fact at their comedy shows. This is
where that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I think this is what I'm going to The market
based solution to me is if you did a show
that appealed to everyone, you would have a bigger audience,
everybody would make more money. That's a market based solution
your argument, and I think it's potentially true. I don't
know that it's true, is oh no, no, What would
now happen is whatever audience you do have, if you
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had a balance show, your actually audience would go smaller.
And so being a left wing comedy show.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
No, no, I don't mean interrupt, I'm just gonna say yes,
But Clay, I think you would have to burn down
the village in order to save it, meaning you'd have
to be willing to flush out your existing audience basically
entirely and build a new audience, which would be a
long and expensive proposition.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
So if the market based solution does not work, is
there a regulatory solution that would work? And that's where
I circle back around to if you're gonna have on
I don't know, Chuck Schumer to take shots next to
Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Show, why should that not
be considered political content and you not have to offer
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a seat to the equivalent of Chuck Schumer. Now, Republicans
might say, I don't want to go on Stephen Colbert,
it's a waste of my time. But to me, if
they're on the public airwaves and they're basically doing Democrat propaganda,
that should be seen as a violation of the law,
and if you can't get a market based solution i e.
Republicans by sneakers too, let's appeal to everyone. Why not
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using the standard of equal time to try to make
an argument that you are violating the law and the
auspices of the license that you have been given to
provide a full scope of representation.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
This to me is a fascinating question.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Maybe we need to dive into it tomorrow nerd out
on it a little bit, but I think it offers
a pathway to successfu
Welcome back in Clay, Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us as we were rolling
through the Wednesday edition of the program. Senata Rick Scott
of Florida will be with us at the bottom of
the hour. Speaking of Florida, Buck, did you see the
news that your new hometown of Miami has set aside
two point six acres to potentially be the location for
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the Donald Trump Presidential Library.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
That's some plot twist that.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
If you had told people, you know, even a decade ago,
was coming, they never would have anticipated it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I moved to Miami and suddenly it is just a
shining beacon of freedom in America. Not a surprise, Clay,
This is not an accident.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And I also think, by the way, this is a
really good move by Ron DeSantis. Remember last couple of years,
a lot of the DeSantis and Trump people going back
and forth, and they may still be occasionally fighting. I
haven't seen it in a long time in our mentions,
but this is Ron DeSantis being like, hey, Trump is
now one of the greatest presidents, certainly of the twenty
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first century. I think now Trump is competing against many
other decades for historical legacy and is by far the
most consequential political figure of the twenty first century. Ye,
I don't even think it's close at this point. And
so some presidential libraries, Joe Biden's, I don't will anybody
(01:28):
even go visit. Maybe kids in elementary school because they
get out of school for the day. But can you
imagine being like, hey, what are you doing this weekend? Oh,
I'm gonna go to Wilmington or wherever it is in
Delaware and go to Joe Biden's presidential library. I don't
even know that he's gonna be able to raise enough
money to build it. They may just, you know, turn
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the Biden Beach Mansion into the presidential Library and not
even worry about it. But there is talk. I'm kind
of laughing about it, but there is talk that Biden
can't get paid. Nobody will pay him to come speak.
There is substantial difficulty. I saw a quote where they said, well,
we think the donors will eventually come around.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Really no, I don't. I don't think so. This is
why the brilliance of Hunter Biden's paintings is what the
family should be able to fall back on. I mean,
Hunter is really the van the vn go of our era,
and so why doesn't that just, you know, five hundred
(02:29):
thousand of painting should be easy. I don't know what
the big what the big hold up is. So that's
one bit of news I wanted to share with you.
The Ice news.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Of course, we started the show with that the shooting
took place anti Ice written on the bullets. No ICE
agents actually hit. Reports that the guy fired into a van,
didn't even know exactly what he was aiming at necessarily
inside the van, or thought the van was loaded down
with ICE agents. Two people killed, he killed himself, is
the reports that I have seen, but no one who
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He killed one and killed himself. Two fatalities told, two fatalities,
one self inflicted. Okay, okay, I thought there were two
fatalities one more with him.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Am I wrong? No, I'm asking you. I thought you're
updating this.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
No, I think it was two. He killed two people
and killed himself.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
What I thought? Right?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So killed two and killed himself? Okay, yes, a team
let us know if that's change or we got that wrong.
The other bit of news that I think is is
circulating out there, certainly is the Jimmy Kimmel return and
Jimmy Kimmel came back last night. I couldn't even see
it because it's not airing in my market of Nashville,
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because Next Star has preempted it. As about a twenty
five percent of the nation is not getting the Jimmy
Kimmel Show right now, either on Sinclair or on the
or on the Next Star affiliates. But I thought that
he would apologize directly and without equivocation.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
He did not. I thought that some of the things
that he.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Said were well said, and I will play this because
he thanked me for standing up for free speech, among others.
This is the part of his monologue where he started
cut seven.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Maybe most of all, I want to thank the people
who don't support my show and what I believe, but
support my right to share those beliefs.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Anyway. Who's who will or I never would? I will imagine.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Right, Ben Shapiro, Clay Travis, Candice Owens, Mitch McConnell, Ran Paul,
even my old pal Ted Cruz, who believe it or not,
said something very beautiful on my behalf.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said. I am thrilled that
he was fired. Oh the way.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
No, not that the other part.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
But let me tell you, if the gun gets in
the business of saying saying what you the media have said,
we're going to ban you from the airwaves if you
don't say what we like, that will end up bad
for conservatives.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I don't think I've ever said this before, but Ted
Cruz is right.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Okay, So there are other parts who may play a
couple of more cuts here. Here's what I would say
in response to that, I Buck's gonna get floor?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Is yours? Buddy? Go for it?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, But here's what I would say. I hope and
I think that Jimmy should address and directly apologize. I've
said that before for the phrasing and what he said
on last week's show. But going forward, as opposed to
looking backwards, going forward, what I think should happen.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Is I think that this whole world.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Of left wing comedians and comedians and quotation marks, because really,
the comedy show, when it's only directed in one direction,
is not actually comedy. It's propaganda. I think that if
we're going to have late night comedy shows, they should
have guests that reflect the entire spectrum of American life.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And this is one of the things that you understand
why this is not You understand why this is not possible, right.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Well, I think it's because they have decided, in the
wake of Stephen Colbert getting ratings, that that is what
people want in late night television.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
The opinion that is, I'm of the opinion, Clay, that
the audience has been trained and the audience has expectations
that they will not be subjected to anyone who offends
their lib sensibilities, and they are little snowflakes and they
will scream and melt if that's so. This is what
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you're saying is again, I agree with you. What you're
saying is rational, but there's just no way that's going
to happen because whatever, what what how many people watch
Kimmel Show right now? A million? Like a million is
that's what I thought. It's like a million people. Nine
hundred and eighty thousand of that million would would not
be okay with anybody. You know, Steven Miller is a
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brilliant guy and actually really funny. If Steven Miller was
on the Jimmy Kimmel Show one time, there would be
a complete freakout from his existing audience, right, I mean,
that they can't. Meanwhile, we've we're just so used to
this that we're like, whatever, just put somebody on. If
they're funny, I'll watch if they If they're not, I won't.
We just have a totally different mentality about this. But Clay,
(07:40):
they still cannot. It's like even Bill Maher tries to
tell his audience, guys, it's a better show if I
have right wingers on to give the other perspective, and
a lot of his people complain. Now, his audience is
a little different. They're not conditioned the same way they're
used to seeing Hitchens and Coulter and these people over
the years showing up on that show. But he still
gets a lot of he tells me that, or people
(08:01):
who are like, I never want to see a maga
person on your show, blah blah blah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And I'm unique maybe in this sense, because every time
somebody complains about anything that I do, I want to
do it more. So I'm a bit antagonistic in that way.
You know, if you complain to me because you don't
like something, that's not a very effective strategy because it
makes me want to do it more. And maybe that's
a little bit rare in our world. But you mentioned
(08:28):
Bill Maher. I think that's a great example. He has
probably the most influential talk show on television in America.
I think that's fair. Now I'm not counting actual political shows.
I think Bill Maher has the most influential comedy talk show.
Maybe I should have specified in America. I see the
clips from his show far more because I think people
like the conflict of ideas. I will just tell you
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south Park seems to be having a moment. I see
south Park clips everywhere, and it seems to me that
South Park tries to do a decent job of making
fun of everyone, and so I think there actually is
a there is a market if you try to treat
everyone the same. Now in the short term, I think
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you're right. I think there would be a revolt in
the short term. I think if you put on Nate Bargatsi,
and I'll just use him as an example, because he
is I think probably the foremost comedian in America right now.
In terms of his ability to draw an audience. I
think people would watch who Are Democrats and Republicans. I
think people go buy tickets for his show, Who Are
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Democrats and Republicans. I think he's in a political performer.
I think if you started a new show and you
made fun of everybody evenly, I think there actually is
more demand for that than maybe people think. I don't
know if Fox has ever talked about this. Fox back
in the day tried to get into late night game,
I mean the Fox Network, not Fox News, but it
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never really took off. I don't know why Fox wouldn't
try to do this now. Maybe they don't want to
compete with Gutfelder. I haven't had any conversations with the
executives at Fox about this, so I'm just kind of
walking through it in my own mind.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
But it seems to.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Me there's actually a desperate demand for someone who is
even handed and will dispense ridicule, as Johnny Carson did,
as Jay Leno did, as David Letterman did back before
he lost his mind, in an even handed fashion. I
think these people mostly just follow whatever direction the currents go.
And Stephen Colbert had tremendous success being a left wing
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idiologue politician who was doing a late night television show.
Everybody else was getting their ass kicked by Colbert, and
so they said, we have to in some way copy
what he does. And I think it hurt Falin the
most because I think Jimmy Fallon, if he had like
a spine, is actually the most apolitical of the of
the late night host and when he leaned over and
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ruffled Trump's hair, remember when that happened, I think that
he was utterly crushed by the result. I got another
idea for you, Buck, I think you have to move
these shows out of New York in LA. I think
you have to move late night comedy out of New
York and LA. I think if you did late night
comedy in Nashville, I think you would get a totally
different lifestyle. I think you would get a totally different comedian.
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I think you'd still get great guests, but I think
it would be more.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Middle of the road.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I think it's not only the host, it's the writing staff,
and it's the world they're surrounded by. You know this
because you lived in New York City. When you lived
in New York City, you were behind enemy lines. I
think it's harder to do a show that appeals to
the nation from New York in LA than it is
from Nashville or Atlanta or other parts of the middle
part of the Cincinnati or Columbus or Chicago for that matter.
(11:37):
I lived on the Colbert Block.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah. So a funny thing for me was that during
all of Colbert's stuff, I would see that audience. And
one of the funniest things during COVID to me was
when they brought it back, they would have the Colbert audience.
And like I said, I was on that block and
now I know where I lived in New York, and
I would see them every day for that show. And
they would have the people spaced out play on the
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street with masks on outside. Yeah, six feet apart, masked up,
and I'm talking about when it was thirty degrees outside, okay,
waiting and waiting and waiting to go into a packed
theater so like, and they never thought that that was weird. Right,
you're going to sit inside the theaters they were two
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hours with shoulders shoulder with everybody, but outside, just to
be insane, We're going to make you stand six feet
apart and freeze your butt off with a mask on
the whole time.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
When I came to New York City, when we had
started doing this show, and I got into the iHeart
elevators and the building we work in. Of the foot markers.
You hadn't seen foot markers, had you? I had never
seen foot markers before. And when I got on, some
of the people were facing the opposite direction because the
science that they thought they needed to follow was not
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only do you need to space yourself in an elevator,
some of the people in the back need to be
faced towards the wall. I thought, I'd like, did I
walk into a zombie apocalypse? Like are these people going
to turn around and like devour me? I walked on
and I was like, what is going on here? Because again,
where I live and you now live in Miami, I
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think to a large part because of COVID.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Where I live, we.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Did COVID for like six weeks and then everybody was like, yeah,
let's just get back to normal. And so this idea
that other people out there were sitting in circles in
public parks, or staring into walls in the elevator, or
walking around in hazmat suits. I'm like, I just never
experienced that lifestyle, thankfully. And I think if I had
(13:41):
been living in that apartment that you lived in, I
would have gone crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I would have fun. Part that was the biggest apartment.
That was the biggest. I was almost like forty years old.
That was the biggest apartment in New York as an
adult that I had ever lived in. Clay's like, how
do you live here? I'm like this, this is spacious.
When I started my radio show, I think I was
in a three hundred square foot studio apartment, paying like
twelve hundred bucks a month for it.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Look, the only reason to live in New York City,
in my always humble opinion, is to experience New York.
Unless you're so rich that you have a huge, awesome
place to live. Most people live in small apartments so
they can experience the city. You just had to live
in the small apartment, I would have gone insane, Like
you couldn't even open windows.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, that's a real thing. That we had beautiful outdoor
space actually in that building, gardens and everything. There was
a roof and everything else. They shut those areas down.
They made this is what I ever knew. I know,
You're sorry, you've got us on this COVID thing. They
made everyone sicker, They made it worse for your immune system.
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They made it more likely you were going to get COVID.
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Clay, you don't even know I was listening to Buck
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the bar, but you could if you ordered Quomo ship
you were permitted to have food and beverage with your
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mask down. For a moment, I just need my impersonation.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Well, Pam, I remember Cuomo chips like it was yesterday.
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The charts as I was telling everybody about Fauci and
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Yes, Clay, it was a madness that you, mister Tennessee.
You guys were all just hanging out with your country
music and your barbecue and your flags. Meanwhile in New
York City we were getting our trial run of communism.
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It was I would have lost my mind, and I
am so glad that I did not have to.
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Welcome back in Clay, Travis, Buck Sexton Show appreciate all
of you. Hanging out with us. We're joined now by
Senator Rick Scott of Florida. We'll get into a bunch
of different stories from him. But Vice President jd Vance
just spoke about the shooting that occurred earlier today at
the Dallas ice facility, and this is what he said.
(19:16):
And then we will bring in Senator Scott because I'm
curious how he would respond to this.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Here is jd. Vance.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
When you go around and lie about our law enforcement
and you tell them that they're mistreating five year old girls,
what do you think is going to happen when Democratic
politicians incur doxing, when they encourage us to unmask ice
enforcement officers. What do you think is going to happen?
When the mayor of Los Angeles encourages violent protesters to
get in the face of our law enforcement. What do
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you think is going to happen. What's going to happen
is political violence, and political violence has gotten out of
control in this country.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
We got to stop it.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
We gotta condemn it. And that starts, unfortunately, at the
very top of the Democratic Party. If you want to
stop political violence, stop attacking our law enforcement as the gestapo.
If you want to stop political violence. Stop telling your
supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi.
If you want to stop political violence, look in the mirror.
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That's the way that we stop political violence in this country.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I agree with everything jd. Vance, Vice President of the
United States said there. I suspect that you do as well,
Senator Rick Scott. Your reaction to that here as we
start the interview with.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
You, absolutely, you know it makes you mad. When I
was governor, we lost fifty one members of law enforcement,
and you go to their funerals. This is these are
this is a family. Once their own personal family. Then
law enforcement is a family, and they unfortunately with under Democrats,
under Democrat rule, under Democrat writer, they attack our law enforcement.
(20:53):
What do you want in your house? You you know
you want it smart. You want somebody to show up.
Who shows up with a You're not it's law enforcement.
You want to make sure your school is say for
your kid, I want to make sure safe. Go get
a job, you make it, make sure the restaurant safe.
Who does it for you? Law enforcement? You might never know.
So the Democrats have has got to stop this attack
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on law enforcement. I grew up in a country where
if my mom thought I would ever talk back to
a law enforcement or say something battle, I got the
biggest whipping in the world. I would never have done that.
I bring my grand kids when we see when they
see law enforcement, they thank them. That's what everybody in
this country ought to be doing. Say, thank God, somebody's
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willing to put on.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
The uniform and defend our freedom and defend their safety.
So these democratics got to stop this rhetoric. Princely hurt
dead kind.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Of Okay, Senator Scott, We're gonna have to have you
call back in because I don't know if you could hear.
I cannot hear what he said.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
This is one of those things where I just I
look around and I'm like, cell phones are never just
going to work perfectly, are they?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Like, I guess not.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I don't know what ago we would have thought, Hey,
the signals will eventually be flawless, like, but it's amazing
how often you can't have a normal conversation on a
cell phone.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Now, maybe Elon will fix that, you know, maybe Elon
will all have sat phones essentially. I remember that was
such a thing when I was overseas twenty years ago
at the Agency to have a satellite phone. I was like, ooh,
it was you know, sixteen dollars a minute or something
to actually talk to anybody on it. You would think
that we would get to a place where this stuff
would all work much more. We got them back. We
can hear them now because I want to hear what
(22:33):
the good senator has to say.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Yeah, so we have got to stand up for our
law enforcement, and the Democrats have got to stop this.
Where don't their families want to be safe? Don't their
voters want to be safe?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
But Senator, let me ask you this. Hold on a second,
because because Gavin Newsom in California, I know that the
law doesn't go into effect until January, and I assume
that they're smart enough to know that they can't tell
federal law enforcement how they can tactically do their jobs
the state of California. But I mean, what message could
be more clear than what he's saying, which is the
governor of America's largest state, Gaven Newston I was telling
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everybody that these are basically fascist stormtroopers and they're hiding
their identities because there's something immoral about enforcing immigration law.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
Look, they might have a mask because They're scared to
death of people like Gavin Newsom as telling telling people
right to attack law enforcement, don't cooperate with them, get
in their face. I mean who I mean? Like, doesn't
Gavin Newsom care about the citizens of his state? But
I was governor of Florida. You know what I wanted.
I wanted every family to be safe. I wanted every
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business to be safe. I wanted every restaurant, every school
to be safe. So why didn't Gavin Newsom care about
the people in the state, about their safety? That's what
I don't get. You don't build a business, you don't
want your kids to go to school, you don't want
to live in a community that is unsafe. Support law enforcement.
It's real simple. They will defend your freedom and your safety.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
We're talking to Senator Rick Scott Florida a lot of discussion.
I was texting with Senator Ron Johnson a little bit
earlier about the potential for a shutdown. He's got a
piece up in the Wall Street Journal about ways to
end this conflict once and for all. What should our
listeners know about the latest battle over funding the government.
Speaker 8 (24:23):
Well, here's where it works. We only need a majority
in the hospital. We have to have sixty votes in
the Senate. Chuck Schumer, for whatever god forsaken reason, wants
to shut down government so some services will be stopped
beginning at midnight September thirty. He that's what he wants,
that's what he wants. He doesn't care. He wants to
shut down government. Well, Ron Johnson's proposing, which is really smart.
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Let's just make sure that we just keep funding government.
We should have done our budget bills, which we haven't
done again this year, which we should have done. But
if we don't, then we'll just continue to keep government
open and last year's funding which is too high. I
want to balance budget, but it's better than shut down
and shutting down government and shutting down services. And by
(25:08):
the way, total workers, when they don't come to work,
they still get paid. How crazy is that? When you
don't go to work, you don't get paid. But federal workers,
which I love them, right, we have a shutdown, they
get paid. That doesn't make any sense. They don't get
paid until we go back to work. But they don't
come to work and they get paid. This makes no sense.
That's why Ron's Ron Johnson's proposal is very smart. They
(25:30):
will never have the Chuck Schummer shutdowns.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Senator Scott, how is the confirmation process going in the
Senate for Trump nominees? We had, I think talk to
you about this a few months ago. There have been
a lot of concerns raised for those who are paying
attention that Democrats are doing everything except pull the fire alarm,
so to speak, to try to prevent nominees from getting through.
(25:55):
Has that process started to work a little bit more efficiently?
Are you getting Trump's picks in place? How's that been
going in the Senate side.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
It's like they don't They don't think that Trump should
have anybody work with it. So he needs to put
together a team. That's what presidents do, right. This is
the first time in the history of the country that
the opposing party of the president will do everything they
can to block all nominees. I don't care who who
the nominee is. And so what we've had to do
(26:25):
in the Senate is we had to change the rules
because the Democrats are Democrats are blocking every every every nominee,
even nominees that they will vote for. They've been blocking.
They don't want to do so we've changed the rules.
We had quite a few of our nominees approved last
week that we will be back next week and we'll
(26:46):
get my goal. I think the goal is we're going
to have over one hundred nominees done in the next
ten days. Uh so we've got to get Trump's nominees
done and we you know, unfortunately, but what Chuck Schumer's
doing with all these antics is he's saying that SIMATE
was was set up to force us to work together.
He's just saying, no way. You know, we don't ever
(27:08):
have to work together anymore because Chuck Schumer is going
to fight everything, and so we have to change the
rules to get anything done. Schumer needs to go.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
What do you think about the Trump Library? On a
positive side here, I mentioned this to Buck. He lives
in Miami. He's one of your constituents now, Senator. I
spend a lot of time in Florida as well. What
does it say about the state of Florida, the trajectory
of the country overall that a big city like Miami.
I think a lot of people listening to us right
now in Miami are saying, this is great, We're going
(27:38):
to have the Trump Presidential Library here. What does it
say about Miami. What does it say about Florida.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
Well, Florida's become the center of the Republican Party. You
look at his whole team, So many of them, Pam Bondi,
Susie Wiles, so many of them come out of Florida.
So he and you know, as you know, the President
moved out in New York and moved down to Florida.
So you know, whether it's in Palm Beach, whether it's
in Miami, it's going to be. You know, it's going
to be in I can't imagine it's not going to
be in Florida. I know the piece of property they're
(28:06):
talking about Miami. I was just down at the Freedom
Tower just the other day that they've completely recently redone.
That's where all the Cuban refugees were processed when they
were coming in the sixties and seventies. So I you know,
look wherever it is. I look forward to bringing my
grandkids there to see it.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
One last question for you, Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
The story surrounding that as we're talking to you, next
Star and Saint Clair Local affiliates are not carrying the show,
and they just said, you come out of the business
World Next Star is continuing to evaluate and we're engaged
in discussions. We want diverse interests of the communities we
(28:47):
serve to be reflected and respected. What should happen here?
In your mind, what's the right solution?
Speaker 8 (28:53):
Well, I'll make a business decision. Jimmy Kimmel has become
just toxic. You know, his audience, audience has gone down.
People are saying they don't want to see it. Like
I remember when Johnny Carson had a show, uh and
and Jay Jaylen know they were funny, right they This
is just topsy with guys like Jimmy kimmeldoo. So I've
(29:17):
never seen a show. I don't plan on watching a show.
I assume that they're making a decision. Is this good
for our audience? And is it fiscal Is it financially beneficial?
And think about it. If it's not, do you think
why would they keep him on the air? So and
I heard his audiences. His viewership has gone way down.
(29:38):
Uh So, I don't know why. You know, I'm not
gonna watch it. I know, I don't know why Republicans
would ever watch the guy. He just he doesn't I
mean what he what he said about uh, Uh, Charlie
Kirk was it was just completely inappropriate. It was I mean,
Charlie was a friend of mine. I did a show
most Mondays and for anybody to to say than what
(30:00):
they said.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
So is just toxic appreciating here. Yep.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
Yeah, all right, Well it's going to get better. So
I'm very optimistic we're gonna make it better.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Thank you, Thank you all the work that he is doing.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
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All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. We're trying
to figure out the equal time rule over here and
how it applies to these different broadcast networks and what's
going on with all this stuff, because it's you got
to spend a lot of time on this to understand
where the ins and outs are. But I know that
it was brought up just a few days ago by
the FCC chairman, Brennan Carr, saying, hold on a second.
(32:43):
The View is a political show, The View is on ABC,
the View is a broadcast network. Why is the View
not subject to FCC equal time? And I don't have
any I do not. I think that he asked the
questions which the only answer is it should be subject
to equal time. If that's a rule that we're going
to have.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yes, this is where I sit around, and it's one
thing to notice that things are broken in the country.
When it comes to discourse, and you and I sit
around a lot thinking about this, I feel like, and
some of you can say, you know what, Clay, you're crazy,
But I feel like if you give me an opportunity
to talk to a room full of Democrat voters, I
(33:21):
can convince them that they're wrong about a lot of
what they believe in.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I understand that a lot of you are like, you're crazy, Clay,
you have no hope for that. They're not going to
listen to you. All those things can be true. You
can disagree with me, but I feel like a lot
of the things that we argue on this show, a
lot of left wingers have not been exposed to. They
haven't had to consider or have their own opinions challenged.
(33:46):
And when it comes to ABC, NBCCBS, we give those
public airwaves. Why would you allow Stephen Colbert to only
have left wing guest If he wants to have on
Tom Hanks and he wants to give political opinions, that's different.
But when you're putting on senators and presidential candidates, to me,
you should have to put the others on too.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Well. I'm I'm going through the rules now, and the
rules are are a bit of a tangled mess. But
and this is so you're suggesting that our government does
not have a coherent policy when it comes to uh yeah,
maybe a little bit, a little bit, a little possibility there.
I would say, there's the bona fide news program exemption.
(34:28):
So we are a news program that does a lot
of commentary, right, And I think that this is where, uh,
this is where a lot of different shows would be
clearly in the uh you know, clearly in the exempt
category because you say, well, I'm a bonafi, I do news.
I'm a news program, and I can have on whoever
I want as part of my news coverage. And that's
(34:49):
an editorial decision. The comedy shows are not news programs
and they're on the public airwaves, right or are they
going to argue that they are news programs and then
give up the fact at their comedy shows. This is
where that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I think this is what I'm going to The market
based solution to me is if you did a show
that appealed to everyone, you would have a bigger audience,
everybody would make more money. That's a market based solution
your argument, and I think it's potentially true. I don't
know that it's true, is oh no, no, What would
now happen is whatever audience you do have, if you
(35:23):
had a balance show, your actually audience would go smaller.
And so being a left wing comedy show.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
No, no, I don't mean interrupt, I'm just gonna say yes,
But Clay, I think you would have to burn down
the village in order to save it, meaning you'd have
to be willing to flush out your existing audience basically
entirely and build a new audience, which would be a
long and expensive proposition.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
So if the market based solution does not work, is
there a regulatory solution that would work? And that's where
I circle back around to if you're gonna have on
I don't know, Chuck Schumer to take shots next to
Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Show, why should that not
be considered political content and you not have to offer
(36:09):
a seat to the equivalent of Chuck Schumer. Now, Republicans
might say, I don't want to go on Stephen Colbert,
it's a waste of my time. But to me, if
they're on the public airwaves and they're basically doing Democrat propaganda,
that should be seen as a violation of the law,
and if you can't get a market based solution i e.
Republicans by sneakers too, let's appeal to everyone. Why not
(36:33):
using the standard of equal time to try to make
an argument that you are violating the law and the
auspices of the license that you have been given to
provide a full scope of representation.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
This to me is a fascinating question.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Maybe we need to dive into it tomorrow nerd out
on it a little bit, but I think it offers
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