Clay Travis and Buck Sexton emphasized the significance of retaining AM radios in cars even after 2024. According to the hosts of the “Clay & Buck” show, AM radios will be eliminated by some car manufacturers, which they attribute to some Democrats’ intention to suppress conservative media.
“It’s important to us but important to the conservative movement and honestly all Americans because there’s a big safety component of this that Clay [Travis] dealt with recently,” Sexton said. “You have 80 million Americans who depend on AM radio every month. People are listening to baseball games, monitoring weather, listening to shows like this one.”
Travis said when driving into Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last week, he used AM radio to figure out what was happening with the weather. On April 12, certain areas of Ft. Lauderdale experienced rainfall exceeding 2 feet, with some locations receiving up to 3 feet of water during a rare 1-in-a-1,000-year storm. As a result, approximately 1,000 residents suffered severe damage, as reported by the state.
“For people that were in South Florida and experienced it (weather), this was the most rain that parts of Florida have gotten in 24 hours in the history of any kind of records,” Travis said. “So, I was going along fine, and I rely on Waze and Google Maps to try and get me around the best way they can.”
Travis reported that as the flash flooding worsened, he encountered issues with his navigation apps and had to rely on his AM radio to obtain emergency updates.
“I put it on the AM dial and started rotating it around to get emergency updates on what was going on,” Travis said. “If I hadn’t had an AM dial, I would have been screwed.”
“AM is the backbone of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) in this country,” added Sexton. “There is a reason why AM radio is there when everything goes down, like your cell phone and everything else. AM is the baseline mass communication tool. FEMA and first responders rely heavily on AM radio for public warnings to be delivered in emergencies. That’s because AM’s reach is unmatched, and it’s free. You can do something to stop this, and this show is asking you to mobilize as much as you can.”
