The Clay Edwards Show

**Clay Edwards Show — Sept. 16, 2026**  Sports, FAFO, Fortune, and why “just comply” still isn’t optional.
Clay and Creston Berch bounce from content-creation reality to Saturday’s slate, then land on the cases that actually move the needle in Mississippi.
Clay’s unsolicited seminar: if you’re getting into this to get rich in 90 days, you’re already cooked. Love the topic enough to do it free for a decade, treat radio (or whatever your real job is) as the ship and social as gravy, and never build a lifestyle on an algorithm that can vanish after one mass-report. Fake sponsors first so the next guy doesn’t have to be first. Niche beats “influencer.” Local Jackson news paid the bills; national sports clips pay YouTube.
Football: LSU at Ole Miss is the Magnolia Bowl again in Oxford — scheduling quirk from the nine-game slate and Texas/Oklahoma addition, not a conspiracy. Night game, ABC, GameDay on site, extra security, and a rumor the President might drop in. Clay says raise hell in the stadium, keep your hands to yourself. Dabo isn’t getting fired midseason no matter how ugly the portal/NIL adjustment looks; Belichick at South Carolina this weekend will still light the effigy if Clemson loses. State vs. South Carolina: Clay takes the Bulldogs straight up. Best-looking squad since Leach’s last year, Camarillo Taylor the most dynamic QB since Dak, Zach Arnett back as DC after the grown-up “no bridge too burned” call. Seven-to-nine wins and another Dak-type year isn’t crazy if they survive the gauntlet.
FAFO of the week: three burglary suspects out of Greyhawk in Gluckstadt lead Madison and Rankin on a multi-county chase that ends with them bailing into El Potrillo in Flowood. Listeners thought ICE was raiding a Mexican restaurant. It was just three guys who picked the wrong county to break into a house. Not the usual suspects. Rankin K-9 and inter-agency work closed it without a wreck or worse.
Tasia Fortune: Jarquez Ratliff, a Black man, is charged. Jasmine Crockett’s “modern-day lynching” presser has gone quiet. Online comments insist “our kind don’t do stuff like this” and that he couldn’t have gotten her in the tree without a fire truck. Clay’s point: the same crowd would never say that if the suspect were White. This was never justice for Fortune or Nolan Wells. It’s revenge math for Carmelo Anthony.
Traffic-stop segment with 30-year retired Clinton PD Creston Birch: the “talk” Black parents supposedly have that White parents don’t. Clay’s version of the talk is “license out, hands on the wheel.” The no-comply, “I want a supervisor,” camera-phone lottery is self-inflicted and aimed at the Ben Crump payday. Force continuum, explain-the-stop vs. ID-first training, fake seizures, mental-health calls versus knives — experience still beats the viral script.
Different show. Sports, culture, crime, and the same refusal to swallow the narrative. Same time tomorrow.

the viral Texas-Ohio State crowd shot, H-1Bs, assimilation vs. neighborhood takeover, and why “just enforce the law” still makes half the room clutch pearls.

An old friend texts Clay at 9 p.m.: you’re making money but you sold your soul. You’re a loser. You’re not the same Clay from 15–20 years ago.
Clay’s answer: I sure hope I’m not. That Clay was a partyaholic club promoter who woke up broke on his parents’ couch at 34 watching the truck get repoed. Growth isn’t selling out. Talking about the people who actually commit the crime around here isn’t selling out either. Culture rot is two words, not a conspiracy.

**Clay Edwards Show — September 15, 2026**  Guests: Creston Berch (in studio) & Zach Servis (Hour 2)
An old friend texts Clay at 9 p.m.: you’re making money but you sold your soul. You’re a loser. You’re not the same Clay from 15–20 years ago.
Clay’s answer: I sure hope I’m not. That Clay was a partyaholic club promoter who woke up broke on his parents’ couch at 34 watching the truck get repoed. Growth isn’t selling out. Talking about the people who actually commit the crime around here isn’t selling out either. Culture rot is two words, not a conspiracy.
One year to the day after Trump signed the Memphis Safe Task Force memo, the scoreboard is ugly for the “positive solutions” crowd:
- Homicides down 26–44%  - Carjackings cut nearly in half  - Violent crime down ~36–40%  - 11,700 arrests, 2,000+ illegal guns, 1,200+ known gang members  - Beale Street and downtown measurably better than a year ago (still not Disneyland at 2 a.m.)
Jackson’s numbers are heading the other direction. Homicides up roughly 30–39% year-to-date after years of decline from the 2021 bloodbath. Solve rates are high. The shootings haven’t stopped. Auto theft and business robberies are ugly. JPD is short-staffed and everybody knows it.
Should John Horhn pick up the phone? Should Tate Reeves? Zach Servis (calling from Texas) and Creston Berch break down why both parties keep finding reasons not to. Politics over body count. Again.
Also in Hour 2: the viral Texas-Ohio State crowd shot, H-1Bs, assimilation vs. neighborhood takeover, and why “just enforce the law” still makes half the room clutch pearls.
No positivity theater. Just the numbers and the part nobody wants to say out loud.

**The Clay Edwards Show – Episode 1294**
Clay was one bad night away from missing the show and still showed up. That’s the energy.
Mississippi State rolled a Big Ten team on the road and looked like a program that actually wants to go bowling. Ole Miss handled business. Southern Miss did not. Clay vs Grok college football picks stay close: Clay still leads the season 37-11 to 34-14 after another strong week picking winners. Over/unders tried to ruin everybody. This weekend’s real question is simple — whose game is the must-win? State at South Carolina for bowl hopes, or Ole Miss at home in the spotlight. Murderers’ row is coming either way.
Then the main event. Tasia Fortune’s hanging death in Jackson produced an arrest: 51-year-old Jarques “Jock” Ratliff, Black male. Not the roving white supremacist gang the activists and some media spent days implying. Police say they interviewed 15 people, spent hundreds of hours, and more arrests may be coming. The boyfriend/person of interest was already locked up on a gun charge. Chief Brackney’s presser left more questions than answers.
Russ Latino’s post lays it out clean: Trey Reed at Delta State had video, texts, and two autopsies pointing to suicide. Corey Zukadis — the white homeless man found hanging the same day — got treated like a footnote. National and local outlets still reached for Mississippi’s lynching history before the facts were in. The “cavalry” (Black Panthers, BLM affiliates, Fred Hampton types) showed up in small numbers, held signs, chanted in front of Medgar Evers’ house, offered water nobody asked for, and never made it to the “white neighborhoods” they promised. Screenshot of their own flyer got reverse-image-searched back to an old protest. Classic.
Also in the mix: Sophie Cunningham’s new photos and the left’s instant race-bait attempt that MAGA simply does not care about. A Chris Benoit comparison nobody asked for. The “it’s only racist if White people say it” screenshot. And a Gen X checklist that still checks every box.
Facts over feelings. Narrative over evidence. Same as it ever was.
Creston Berch in studio. No sugar. No filter.

**Clay Edwards Show – Same Energy**
Lindsey Clancy almost walked on insanity. The pink shirts came out. The panels came out. Then Oprah put a doctor on and the room full of sad-faced women started cheering.
The pitch was not subtle. Have the same passion for women who don’t look like Lindsay. Who don’t have her access, her education, her melanin, her privilege. There are women of color in prison for the same thing and you’ve never heard their names. Give them the pink shirts too.
Clay translated it in real time: Black women should get to kill their babies and not go to jail either.
That is the whole argument. Not “fix postpartum care.” Not “the healthcare system failed.” Equity in getting away with it. If the white nurse almost skated, the next woman of color deserves the same off-ramp.
Shaun’s point cuts cleaner than the cheering: child sexual abuse is real and evil. It still doesn’t give James Hutto a license to murder old women. Bad things happen to people. That is not a coupon for homicide.
Clay’s line is the same one he’s used on Clancy from day one. Sane people don’t do this. Crazy people who do it still belong in a prison, not a ward with better lighting. Charles Manson wasn’t running a therapy group. Once the kids are dead, the excuse rotation — postpartum, the meds, the doctor — is just three ways to say it wasn’t her fault.
One guest said the quiet part on a nationally famous couch. The audience clapped. That is the standard they want.

**Clay Edwards Show – The Holdout**
Lindsey Clancy killed her three kids. Massachusetts gave the jury an insanity off-ramp wide enough to drive a truck through. Nine women and two of the three men were ready to take it.
One man was not.
He was the only person of color in the room. A Black man. After they watched Clancy’s interview, he even admitted he had reasonable doubt — then refused to sign off on not guilty by reason of insanity anyway. The nurses on the panel walked him through the meds and the toxicology. He didn’t care. The women started filling out the forms. He still said no.
Now they’re on camera calling him arrogant. He “didn’t take anything anybody said.” Gayle King had to sit down when she found out the holdout was a Black man. An Oprah panel then cheered a doctor arguing Black women who kill their children deserve the same energy Clancy almost got.
Clay’s take is simple: that dude had his head on straight. He did it for those kids. He didn’t bow. And the people losing their minds over it just told you everything you need to know about who they thought he was supposed to be.
One juror kept a child killer from walking on a technicality. The rest of the room has been explaining why that was the wrong call ever since.

**Clay Edwards Show – Episode 1293**  9/11, twenty-five years later. First responders still dying. A hanging in Jackson that the usual suspects tried to turn into a lynching. And a Massachusetts jury that couldn’t bring itself to call a child killer a child killer.
Clay, Creston Berch (30-year Clinton PD, retired), and Shaun Yurtkuran sit with the anniversary that never really ended. Creston was standing in a car dealership lobby when the second plane hit live on TV. Shaun had just gotten out of the Marines and spent the day in a Jefferson Street apartment watching Fox News with eight friends until midnight. Clay woke up to the second impact, then watched 99 Jams keep spinning hip-hop while every other station in the market flipped to the news. That moment, he says, is when the culture war started for him.
They talk about the 9–10,000 additional deaths from the pile, Flight 93 and the two unarmed fighter pilots who were prepared to ram it, Bush on the rubble, and what the day would have looked like if everyone in those towers had a smartphone and a live stream. They also cover the first big public gathering after the attacks: WWE SmackDown in Houston, paid for by Mattress Mack so the city wouldn’t eat the overtime.
Then they pivot to two local/national cases that keep revealing the same double standard.
Tazia Fortune was found hanging behind an abandoned house on Road of Remembrance. The lynching narrative got national oxygen. Clay broke that the state crime lab and DPS have now turned the completed autopsy over to JPD and the Hinds County coroner. Cause of death is not expected to match the story that’s been sold. JPD and some local media spent weeks blaming the state for the delay. The state’s response: we finished it; y’all asked for every extra test.
Lindsey Clancy: the holdout juror who refused not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity was a Black man. The women on the jury are publicly furious he wouldn’t go along. Gayle King had to sit down when she heard it. An Oprah panel then cheered a doctor arguing that Black women who kill their children deserve the same “energy” Clancy got. Clay, Shaun, and Creston don’t buy the postpartum-plus-meds-plus-doctor excuse as a get-out-of-prison-free card.
No station IDs. No sponsor reads. Just the conversation.

**The Clay Edwards Show – Episode 1,292**  with Creston Berch
Fred Hampton Gun Club is rolling into Jackson this weekend talking “justice for hangings and lynchings.” They’re calling it a state of emergency. They’re posting about cave beasts, peckerwoods, burning the racist state to the ground, and “coming to a white neighborhood near you.” Operation FAFO. Gear up. Wear all black. Email for the secret location.
Clay and Creston unpack the screenshots, the out-of-town organizers from Maryland, the double standard nobody wants to say out loud, and what would happen if the roles were reversed and a bunch of guys who look like Clay posted the exact same thing.
Also: Jackson Police Chief finally speaks on the Tacey Fortune case after weeks of silence. Autopsy wrapped four weeks ago. “A lot of misinformation out there.” She hesitates to call these serial incidents. Meanwhile an uninvited activist from Arkansas storms city council talking lynchings and name-drops every hanging death she can find.
Plus the usual: black-on-black numbers versus the lynching fantasy, Stockholm-syndrome race relations, and why some folks need a white devil so badly they’ll invent one.
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**Activist interrupts Jackson City Council over a “lynching problem” that the facts still haven’t produced.**
Celina Charles drove down from Little Rock, skipped the public-comment signup, and hijacked Tuesday’s meeting to accuse city and state leaders of ignoring what she called a lynching epidemic in Jackson. She named Tasia Fortune and Demartravion “Trey” Reed, demanded answers, and kept talking while Council President Vernon Hartley banged the gavel. Police Chief RaShall Brackney walked her out. No cuffs. Mission accomplished: scene made.
**What’s actually on the record**- Tasia Fortune, 29, mother of four, found hanging from a tree behind a vacant house on Road of Remembrance on Aug. 3. State medical examiner completed an autopsy weeks ago; results still not released to JPD. Chief Brackney says the case has been worked as a homicide from day one and warns against calling these “serial” race incidents. A person of interest, Terrence Anderson, was already locked up on a felon-in-possession charge after an argument with Fortune.- Trey Reed, Delta State student, found hanging on campus in September 2025. State ME ruled suicide. Family and activists still reject it.- Rasheem Carter (Taylorsville, 2022) also gets folded into the same narrative.- Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes wants the U.S. Attorney in the Fortune case and keeps invoking Emmett Till. He has no federal response yet.
Charles says she’s coming back for a march Friday focused on Fortune, Reed, “and all these lives.” Flyer has a hashtag and no location. Downtown Jackson is the default. South Jackson, West Jackson, and Northside Drive—where the bodies actually pile up—are not on the itinerary.
Jackson remains one of the deadliest cities in America, overwhelmingly Black-on-Black. Officials sat on a simple public statement for a month while the lynching rumor did the work of keeping eyes off the homicide spike. Brackney finally said the quiet part: a lot of misinformation, don’t treat these as a connected racial campaign. That should have been the first presser, not the one after an out-of-town activist crashed council.
False lynching claims don’t just waste oxygen. They torch whatever’s left of race relations and give every actual killer a convenient fog.