The Clay Edwards Show

**Clay Breaks Down Scott Colom Beating Cindy Hyde-Smith: Unforced Errors, the “Pick Another Protein” Viral Moment, and Why Enough Republicans Crossed Over**
Clay digs into the Mississippi Senate race and why Scott Colom is almost certainly headed to Washington as the junior senator. He reads Russ Latino’s take that Colom’s lead has held, the affidavits are counted, and Democrats had a strong night while Colom ran a well-financed campaign. Clay’s read: Hyde-Smith mostly ran on “I’m the Republican, so you have to vote for me,” which used to be enough but isn’t anymore. The “pick another protein” line (and the earlier lynching comment) became national punchlines—people in New York and Paris were quoting it—and she got bad advice on town halls, AI ads, and basic messaging. Plenty of disenchanted Republicans held their nose and crossed over rather than keep defending stuff they didn’t want to spin. Clay doesn’t trash her personally but says the campaign left a lot of people exhausted. If Colom wins, Clay says he’ll give him a chance and pull for him to deliver for Mississippi, because if the new senator fails, the state fails.

Mr. Willie (elderly black war veteran from Mississippi who’s lived through real 1950s/60s racism) called the show during the Ole Miss sorority girls discussion. His take: people need to start listening to their grandparents more than their parents. If someone walked by making monkey sounds at him, it never would’ve crossed his mind to get upset—because he’s not a monkey and they didn’t come from monkeys. His dad taught him to let people say what they want as long as you know they’re not telling the truth (the truth hurts). Only when they put their hands on you do you have a right to get upset. Clay notes Willie has seen actual Klan cross-burnings and real violence, not the modern digital-lynching / cancel-culture version of “racism,” and that a lot of people today should be embarrassed by how weak the outrage is over stuff like this. Willie and his wife are still in Chicago and hoping to get home soon.

**Clay Edwards Show #1330 | Ole Miss “Monkey Sounds” Meltdown (Wrong Girls Doxxed), Culture Cult Overreaction, Hyde-Smith vs. Colom Breakdown + Shad White for Governor**
Clay announces the show is going fully solo after thanking Creston for his time in the studio—better radio when it’s just one host talking to the audience instead of bouncing off a co-host. Then he digs into the Ole Miss sorority girls video that set the internet on fire: three white girls walking past an apartment making monkey sounds and gestures. The culture immediately identified the wrong girls (Alpha Phi members with similar names), blasted them, and ran with it until the sorority dropped a clear press release: those girls are not members, never were, stop circulating their names/photos/info. Clay reads the release, notes the fake arrest videos already circulating, and calls out the usual jump-to-conclusions + guilt-by-association response. He also shares Nikki James’ post agreeing that black people acting wild in public every day doesn’t get the same energy, plus the broader double standard on outrage (Kohen Wiley, black-on-black violence vs. this). Willie (elderly black veteran who’s seen real 1950s/60s racism) calls in to say this modern stuff wouldn’t have even registered with his generation.
Later: Senate race update. Clay reads Russ Latino’s take that Scott Colom is almost certainly the next junior senator, notes the “pick another protein” moment and other unforced errors that cost Hyde-Smith, and argues a lot of disenchanted Republicans crossed over. He also drops that Shad White officially announced for governor and will be on the show tomorrow at 8 AM. Quick mention of the 15-year-old white kid (Austin Payne) beaten to death by four black teens in Georgia while the media stays quiet, plus a short note on YouTube thumbnail/title feedback he got.
Timestamps roughly:- Solo show / Creston thanks- Ole Miss video + wrong girls + Alpha Phi statement- Nikki James post + double standards rant- Willie call- Hyde-Smith / Colom + Russ Latino- Shad White governor announcement- Austin Payne mention
 

**The Hideaway Halloween Mass Shooting: JPD Hypocrisy, a Shady Promoter, and How to Actually Stop This**
Two JSU students are dead and half a dozen more shot at the Hideaway Nightclub on Halloween night. Jackson’s police chief held a press conference and spent most of it pointing fingers at Rankin County. Clay Edwards, who ran a nightclub in the same city for the same crowd for 12 years without a single shooting, breaks it all down.
In this episode he covers:- The fumbled 911 call hours before the shooting that went nowhere- The shooter, Eddie Collier (Rankin County kid with a long rap sheet who was already on probation)- “Fly Guy Debo,” the promoter tied to a previous deadly event who then tried to host a “Stop the Gun Violence” rally- The alleged $20-to-the-bouncer video- JPD’s selective outrage about “soft on crime” systems- Why Clay never had these problems and what the city could actually do about shady promoters
No hand-wringing. No “thoughts and prayers” only. Just the receipts, the hypocrisy, and a concrete plan to make it harder for fly-by-night promoters to keep getting people killed.
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**Clay Edwards breaks down the Hideaway nightclub mass shooting in Jackson on Halloween night — two JSU students killed, seven wounded, and a whole lot of predictable mess.**
This is not a radio clip and not affiliated with WYAB. Just Clay, no co-host, no commercials, talking through what actually happened at the Hideaway (a special-events venue, not a traditional nightclub) when Eddie Collier allegedly opened fire during a Halloween party.
Two victims — 20-year-old Loveday Poindexter and 18-year-old Jada Henderson, a first-year JSU student who had been on campus about two months — were killed. Seven others were shot. Collier, 22, from Brandon (Rankin County), was charged with two counts of capital murder and seven counts of aggravated assault. High bond on the assaults, no bond on the murders. He had a criminal history, was on house arrest with an ankle monitor he allegedly wasn’t charging, and had just gotten out of jail in early October.
### What’s covered- Full disclosure: Clay is longtime friends with the Hideaway owner and has done parties and concerts there. His daughter, girlfriend, and sister went to a daytime true-crime event at the same venue the weekend before and felt completely safe. He does not pretend this is simple.- The alleged $20 paid to a security guard (with a promoter’s involvement) so Collier could enter with a gun after the club was already at capacity.- The Lyft driver who called 911 around 9:30–9:40 p.m. reporting a group of armed men outside talking about killing someone. The shooting happened roughly four hours later (~1:10–1:30 a.m.).- The girl who said Collier hugged her and told her what he was about to do — and the no-snitch culture that followed.- Why a Rankin County shooter fits the pattern Clay has been calling “culture rot,” including the ghetto-inferiority-complex angle from the suburbs/counties.- Clay’s 12 years running clubs in Jackson and why real off-duty police (not just bouncers) are non-negotiable if you want to actually stop this.- The city shut the Hideaway down. Part 2 will cover the mayor and police chief’s press conference.
Clay also notes one of the promoters involved previously had a shooting at another event he hosted (a young girl killed at Grants Landing) and later tried to host a “stop the violence” protest.
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**Mississippi Senate Race Chaos: How a Voter Roll Screw-Up May Have Cost Republicans**
Clay Edwards and attorney Shaun Yurtkuran break down the Cindy Hyde-Smith vs. Scott Colom race and the massive affidavit ballot mess that followed. Roughly 17,000 affidavit ballots are outstanding after Experian data—used under a 2023 election integrity law—incorrectly flagged legitimate voters as inactive, including people who’ve voted consistently for decades. The problem was known after a Lafayette County test run, yet it still hit statewide.
They dig into who is responsible (Secretary of State’s office vs. local election commissioners), the low postcard response rate, why the usual 150 affidavits per county ballooned, and whether this was intentional or just a costly incompetence. Plus: the perfect storm of candidate quality, voter apathy, crossover votes, and third-party candidates that made the race so close, and what a challenge in the U.S. Senate would actually look like.
No conspiracy theories—just a messy, bipartisan data failure with real consequences.

**The Clay Edwards Show — Post-Election Reckoning with Creston Berch & Jamie Creel**
Clay is joined by retired police officer Creston Berch and Jamie Creel for a no-filter breakdown of the midterm blue wave that hit Mississippi and the country. They dig into Cindy Hyde-Smith’s weak performance against Scott Colom—running almost entirely on “I’m not the Democrat,” the protein comment that landed badly, skipped key votes (including the Save America Act), and treating conservative voters as a guaranteed hold-your-nose bloc. Callers and the studio agree a lot of Republicans either stayed home or voted blue; an “R” next to the name is no longer enough.
Discussion covers the broader GOP problem of bad candidates and cuck conservatism, whether the right response is to go further right or try to ride the middle, and the long-term risk if Mississippi doesn’t redistrict (especially shrinking the Bennie Thompson district the way Tennessee handled Memphis). National angles include the election of a Muslim senator in Michigan with alleged Muslim Brotherhood ties and the larger shift that has people worried, the Iran war’s drag on the economy and voter mood, and the sense that Gen X got skipped while Boomers stayed in power.
Local heat includes Kenneth Stokes telling Muslim protesters at a Jackson City Council meeting to “take the rags off your head” and then doubling down—Clay’s take is that Stokes has the right enemies and the council meetings are better entertainment than most reality TV. They also hit black-on-black crime, police response times, and why certain politicians still refuse to talk to the state’s largest conservative audience.
Clay frames the results as short-term pain that might force a long-overdue reckoning if people stop settling for do-nothing candidates and start demanding real ones. Truth over optics, no commercial breaks, no station ID filler.

Clay’s not here for just declaring the Hideaway a nuisance and calling it a day. As a former Jackson club owner who never had a shooting inside his spot because he spent more on security than rent, he lays out the actual fix for these scandalous promoters: make them get a promoter license, put up a cash bond based on the building’s occupancy, prove special-event insurance, and hire real law enforcement (or retired LE) who will actually enforce the count and check for guns. No bond, no license, no party. If something goes sideways, they lose the bond and the license until they’re cleared. If they can’t afford to put skin in the game, they don’t need to be throwing events. Personal accountability over empty press conferences.

One of the best calls the show’s ever had. A black conservative caller (the Doctor) goes scorched earth on why no real conservative tells pollsters the truth, when he realized the media was full of it (the Obama cheerleading era), their favorite childhood-photo trick on Trayvon and local cases, why they ignore black-on-black crime, and how the schools keep kids uneducated so they’ll just believe whatever NBC or CNN says. Clay didn’t want to hang up.

**Election Day Reality with Zack Servis: Media Lies, a Scorched-Earth Caller, Hideaway Accountability, and Why Shutting the Club Down Ain’t the Fix**
Clay’s on a vibe and calling it early: red tsunami, full control, supermajority. Polls are mental warfare, the media’s running the same play they ran in ’16, ’20, and ’24, and history says they lose when they tell Republicans not to bother. Then a black conservative caller (the Doctor) drops one of the best calls the show’s ever had—media bias from the Obama era, Trayvon Martin photo tricks, schools teaching oppression instead of agency, and why the black-on-black crime the media ignores is the real story. Clay and Servis pick it up from there: race narratives don’t have to exist, personal accountability does, and identity politics is just another idol.
Servis (local politico and community activist) keeps it real on courageous conversations, why “my side good, your side bad” is a dead end, and how the culture of the Kingdom beats rainbow cowboy hats and political identity every time. They hit revivals, Fulton Sheen, why the rapture doctrine is newer than people think, and the hard truth that suicide doesn’t automatically punch a ticket to hell—salvation is faith, not works. Heavy, honest, and no sugar-coating.
Then they cleanse the palate with Jackson crime. Mayor Horn and Chief Bragney’s press conference on the second deadly shooting at the Hideaway (same promoter who had issues at Grant’s Downs) gets the full treatment: no real accountability from the city, promoters who treat security like an afterthought, and JPD telling venues to handle parking lots they don’t control. Clay lays out the practical fix instead of just declaring nuisance and shutting the place down—promoter licenses, occupancy-based bonds, required law-enforcement or retired-LE security, insurance, and actual security plans. If you can’t put skin in the game and follow the rules, you don’t get to throw the party. They also dig into the $100 million Model Cities money for JPD: earmark it, show the receipts in real time on the open-data portal, and stop letting general-fund games eat it.
Straight talk on election night energy, media propaganda, faith over politics, and a concrete way to deal with the promoter problem without pretending every venue is the enemy. Guest Zack Servis keeps the heat high and the excuses low.