The Clay Edwards Show

Episode 1306 of The Clay Edwards Show, with Creston Berch. JPD hiding under the stack on I-20 catching Rankin County folks on the way into Jackson, a shackled suspect whooping detectives in an elevator at headquarters, Kenneth Stokes mad about armed marchers on California Avenue, and a Tennessee execution that didn’t take. Hour 2 opens with Patrick Kelty of Kelty Tile, Marble & Home Remodel. C...

**Jamie Creel (Shelter Insurance) sits in with Creston Berch.** First hour is the unsexy stuff nobody wants to talk about until it’s too late. Jamie’s old player’s dad dropped dead of a heart attack at 51. No warning. Family left picking up pieces they didn’t even know existed. Life insurance, a will, a simple sheet of paper with the passwords and policies, video walkthrough of everything in the h...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders ran a reelection ad making a white dude named Brad on a beanbag with a VR headset the face of Arkansas welfare fraud. Young white men are among the least likely groups on SNAP. Per capita numbers tell a different story. They picked the one face guaranteed to piss off their own base instead of just putting the policy on screen. Friendly fire. Consultants who don’t talk to act...

Kratom is next. Two Ole Miss students dead after S-Max / pseudo-7OH tablets — concentrated, lab-tweaked alkaloids, not leaf powder. Clay’s been on the “don’t ban it, regulate it” side for years. He’s sitting this one out. If gas-station product is killing kids, conscience matters more than the fight. Doctors and lawmakers are already lining up the next ban. Listen to why the “natural doesn’t mean...

Scott Gilbert (Michael Reinwald’s attorney) and Shaun Yurtkuran break down yesterday’s Capitol Police trial in the Jalen Lewis shooting. Steven Frederick — not guilty. Reinwald — hung jury. Lynn Fitch immediately declined to retry. The state’s theory was imperfect self-defense manslaughter plus “acting in concert.” A car coming at you is a weapon. Unmarked vehicles don’t make officers the aggresso...

**The Clay Edwards Show – Capitol Police Verdict, Sarah Huckabee’s SNAP Ad, Kratom Fallout, and Mr. Belding** Hour 1 with Creston Berch and Zach Servis. Hour 2 with Scott Gilbert and Shaun Yurtkuran. Dennis Haskins — Mr. Belding — died at 75. That one landed different than it would have twenty years ago. Midlife talk, Motley Crüe tour shirts, Guns N’ Roses opening, grandmother still hanging on at...

**The Clay Edwards Show – Ep. 1303**   Co-host: Creston Berch Clay overslept Friday. Body finally called timeout after two weeks of four-hour nights. Chip and Creston held it down. Today we catch up and then some. Ole Miss walked into the perfect letdown game at Florida and got stomped. Defense still can’t stop the run. They’re sitting ninth in the AP, 12th in the coaches poll with an open date th...

I REALLY CRAPPED THE BED WITH TODAY'S SHOW (Ep #1302)

**The Clay Edwards Show — Come Debate. Leave 1619 at the Door.** I keep hearing I won’t sit down with Black content creators. I have. I’ve been on their shows. What I will not do is chase grown men to argue on a show with my name on it. Open invite: conversation, not a debate-club stunt. You want the chair, take it. Two rules. No slavery. No civil rights greatest-hits from before I was born. That...

Zach wrote a song because he got tired of the same line: you ain’t from here, you didn’t grow up here, why don’t you just move to Madison. He played it on the air. “From Here.” It’s going on the album. 817 to the 769. White boy raising a family in the blackest city in America. Dirty cops, youth in detention, Uncle Ray’s, work in the cut since 2016. They’d love him if he had more melanin, wrote a c...

**The Clay Edwards Show — I Made Zach Find Something Positive About Jackson** I told Zach Servis he had five seconds before we came back from break: name one good thing happening in Jackson that isn’t a restaurant or a museum. Person, place, crew, whatever. Just don’t give me the usual “great people” cop-out. He came with Lock Ward, Roger Parks, and the Friday cleanup crews still picking up trash...

Two Ole Miss students found dead. Packaged kratom at both scenes. Parent-group rumors of a new synthetic called Cyclorfin (or cyclorphan) supposedly stronger than fentanyl and coming up from Louisiana. Clay’s been a long-time kratom user and isn’t ready to pin two deaths on it without tox. He wants it regulated and sold like medical marijuana, not banned and left to gas-station chemists.  

Another arrest in the Tasia Fortune case. Jackson police now have 25-year-old Ernest Lloyd Jr. charged with murder and a warrant out for a third suspect. The “roving band of white supremacists” story that some people were banking on is dead. Two Black men are in custody for a hanging death on Road of Remembrance. Clay, Zach, and Creston walk through why the original narrative never added up — the...

**The Clay Edwards Show — Zach Servis & Creston Berch** Another arrest in the Tasia Fortune case. Jackson police now have 25-year-old Ernest Lloyd Jr. charged with murder and a warrant out for a third suspect. The “roving band of white supremacists” story that some people were banking on is dead. Two Black men are in custody for a hanging death on Road of Remembrance. Clay, Zach, and Creston w...

Russell Latino (representing Bart Edmonson Jr. and family) follows. Bart wasn’t even supposed to be out there that day—he did two favors and got labeled a murderer by internet activists, a doctored audio “expert,” and a misidentified high-school photo. Five demand letters already out. More coming. Two credible death threats already produced FBI arrests.

Tyler Cox (counsel for three of the four) joins from the coast. He walks through how his clients cooperated fully—phones handed over to the FBI with passwords, they testified under oath to the grand jury without lawyers in the room, and they asked to be invited. Diverse 22-25 person grand jury, lower probable-cause standard, sequestered, only official evidence. They still found nothing. Lawsuits f...

**The Clay Edwards Show – Nolan Wells Grand Jury No-Bill: The Aftermath, Not the Kid** Creston Berch and I break down last night’s Jackson County grand jury decision: unanimous no true bill. Nolan Wells’ friends will not be charged. Zero probable cause. The viral “three white boys plus one Black boy went to Horn Island and only three came back” story was false from the jump. Tyler Cox (counsel for...

**Five Vowels, Zero Impulse Control, One New FAFO Champ** 18-year-old Octavius Tremont Wilson — five vowels, you cannot make it up — decided Vaught-Hemingway during Ole Miss-LSU was the place to throw hands with stadium security that looked exactly like cops. Video everywhere. Half a million views and climbing. Booked in Lafayette County by 8:30. Thousands allegedly snuck in with no tickets. Someb...

**State Comes From 16 Down and Remembers How to Win on the Road** Mississippi State gave South Carolina a 16-point head start and still won 42-34. Scoreboard lied. It was a three-touchdown game. First road SEC opener win since they beat LSU in an empty stadium in 2020. Back-to-back road wins for the first time since 2014. First time ranked since Mike Leach was still here. They’re sitting at 24. Ca...

Best College Gameday Signs From Ole Miss Vs. LSU 

**Ole Miss Sends Lane Home and the Grove Almost Ate Itself** Ole Miss beat LSU in Oxford. Hate week lived up to the name. GameDay signs were filthy: Release the Kiffin Files, The Lane is a Ho spelled in Coonass, corn dogs everywhere, and the winner — Lane bent over with a corn dog in his mouth that said no hoe goes hungry. One guy Venmo’d $18k just to buy beer and a ticket. LSU dropped something l...

**Pearl PD Puts Another One in the Trees** Zachary Brooks, 29, face-and-neck tattoos, Simon City Royals starter kit, decided I-20 westbound through Pearl was a good place to run dirty. Pearl attempted a stop. He rammed two patrol cars. They PIT’d him into the concrete in Clinton. He swallowed the meth on the way down, hit UMMC, and picked up felony fleeing, aggravated assault on a cop, a Louisiana...

**Pride Orgs Keep Getting Busted and Nobody’s Allowed to Notice** Alabama Pride president Desmond Turner is in cuffs on sexual misconduct and child abuse charges. Again. The thing they swear never happens just happened again. We draw the line everybody pretends doesn’t exist: being gay is not the same thing as running kid-friendly drag shows on museum lawns, putting half-naked adults next to child...

**Mississippi Mayhem 2.0, Five-Vowel FAFO, and Another “It Never Happens” Arrest** State comes from 16 down on the road and finally looks like they belong. Ole Miss sends Lane Kiffin home with a loss in Oxford. An 18-year-old named Octavius Tremont Wilson (five vowels, naturally) decides stadium security at Vaught-Hemingway looks like a good place to throw hands. Thousands allegedly snuck in. Grov...

Football heavy on the topics today, but we also squeezed in some more traditional topics to go along with it.