Episode 1,112 of The Clay Edwards Show (Friday, December 5, 2025) – Episode Summary

Clay opens the show reacting to the breaking news that Netflix has won the bidding war to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery’s studio assets (including HBO and the Max streaming service) in a roughly $72 billion deal. He calls it one of the worst possible outcomes for fans of quality entertainment, predicting that Netflix’s track record of low-effort originals, abrupt endings, and heavy ideological slant will now infect iconic Warner franchises. He laments the loss of Taylor Sheridan (creator of Yellowstone, Tulsa King, Landman, etc.) from Paramount and worries that further media consolidation will kill competition in both film and professional wrestling (pointing to WWE’s existing Netflix deal and the risk that AEW loses its TV home).The bulk of the first hour is spent on hard-hitting cultural and local-crime commentary:Strong criticism of rap/hip-hop culture and its decades-long negative impact on segments of the black community, arguing that stereotypes are earned, not given, and that “race reality is not racism.”

Detailed breakdown of a recent car theft and shootout in an upscale, predominantly black Gluckstadt subdivision allegedly committed by four young men from Jackson. Clay compares their mugshots to “Somali pirates” and argues this is the exact reason today’s real-estate market in the Jackson metro is driven almost entirely by one factor: how far you can move away from high-crime areas while keeping a reasonable commute. He insists good black families can never fully escape the criminal element in their extended families or social circles, especially around holidays.

Second hour shifts to national stories: Celebration of the Trump administration’s aggressive military action against fentanyl-laden narco terrorist speedboats, calling it “the war on drugs done right” and mocking Democrats who are defending the traffickers.

Breaking coverage of the arrest of January 6 pipe-bomber suspect Brian Cole Jr., a black Democrat with apparent ties to activist circles. Clay hammers CNN for repeatedly calling the suspect “a 30-year-old white man” while his photo was on screen, and calls out local media (specifically WLBT) for completely ignoring the story because it undermines the “white supremacist insurrection” narrative.

Other quick hits: David L. Archie caught on video throwing punches at a St. Andrews private-school basketball game (the same security guard who went viral getting punched at last year’s Mistletoe Marketplace brawl took the hits again).

Strong condemnation of Candace Owens for what Clay calls unhinged, attention-seeking accusations that Turning Point USA staff and leadership were complicit in Charlie Kirk’s murder. He reiterates his long-standing opinion that Owens is a grifter who monetized being “the acceptable black conservative” and has now gone off the deep end.

Throughout the episode Clay maintains his signature unfiltered, no-sugar-coating style: blunt on crime, culture, media consolidation, the drug war, and political grifters, while repeatedly telling listeners he speaks this way “because I love you and have to live around you.” The show closes with Clay promising to “land the plane” strong and return Monday.