The Clay Edwards Show

Shaun Yurtkuran jumped on for the rest of hour 1 and the top of hour 2 to break down the Cindy Hyde-Smith vs. Scott Colom Senate race. They covered the record early voting, the Black Votes Matter ground game, and whether Mississippi could actually flip a seat that hasn’t been truly contested in decades. Colom’s ad team got credit for running circles around everyone else (Halloween spoof, Medgar Evers closer, the whole package), while they questioned why Cindy never seems to catch fire with voters even though she votes the right way. They also hit the difference between campaigning and governing, one-party rule complacency, and the messy Hinds County DA race sideshow before Malcolm Johnson called in to stir the pot. Straight talk on a race that has people nervous for the first time in a long while.

**The Clay Edwards Show – Episode Description**
Jackson was a killing field over the weekend (again). Double homicide and multiple wounded at a nightclub, plus mass shootings in Dallas, Birmingham, and elsewhere. Clay opens solo with a scorched-earth take on culture rot, black-on-black violence, selective outrage, and why the “justice for” crowd stays silent when the body count is their own.
Shaun Yurtkuran joins for the rest of hour 1 and the top of hour 2 for a deep dive into the Cindy Hyde-Smith vs. Scott Colom Senate race. Record early voting, Black Votes Matter ground game, Colom’s slick ads (Halloween spoof + Medgar Evers closer), and whether Mississippi could actually flip. They break down campaigning vs. governing, why Cindy doesn’t fire people up, one-party rule problems, and the Hinds County DA mudslinging (Gwen Ago, Lisa Ross, Republican stickers, and the address drop drama).
Then Lisa Ross herself calls in during the second segment of hour 2. Clay and the attorney go at it live — Anthony Fox case, residency, tax dollars, political transparency, stickers, and who gets to opine on Jackson. Entertaining, pointed, and no punches pulled.
Clay closes the last two segments solo with the Tucker Carlson “nuke Pickaxe Mountain in Iran” report, a practical prep reminder, political fatigue, and a final “get out and vote but don’t just fill in blanks” message ahead of election day.
Classic Clay: accountability, local reality, and zero interest in the “positive solutions” that never show up.

Jackson was a killing field again this weekend. Double homicide plus a half-dozen wounded at a nightclub on Halloween night, stacked on top of mass shootings in Dallas, Birmingham, and elsewhere. Clay opened the show by running the body count and asking the obvious question nobody else will: can black folks not just have fun without shooting each other? He called out the culture rot, the sacred gas-station memorials, the selective outrage that stays silent when the victims look like the shooters, and the refusal to drag their own killers out of their houses. No “positive solutions,” just the reality that until the internal body count gets the same energy as the outside ones, none of the rest of it is serious.

Lisa Ross called in mid-show to address the Hinds County DA race drama after trading shots with Shaun all weekend. She defended her right to weigh in on Jackson (business there since 2003, pays taxes, eats and shops in the city) even though she lives in Madison County, pressed for accountability on the Anthony Fox prosecution, and questioned why Gwen Ago won’t own her political affiliations while Republican stickers keep appearing on her signs. Clay pushed back on the stickers as election meddling and noted that locking up a good cop tends to look a certain way politically. It stayed civil-but-pointed the whole way — agree-to-disagree with actual substance instead of the usual online yelling.

Halloween night and the usual body count rolls in from Dallas, Birmingham, and Jackson. Same cities, same crowds, same result. 6 dead and 30 injured in mass shootings because certain groups of Black people still can't gather for fun without turning it into a shootout. Media will call it gun violence. The rest of us see the pattern clear as day. Until the people in these communities start holding their own accountable instead of blaming everyone else, the next holiday just resets the scoreboard. FAFO.
 

**Title Suggestions**- Gay Jokes, Retards & Double Standards: Clay & Shaun Go Full Unhinged- Gen X Doesn’t Get Offended: The JD Vance Joke, Tallarico & Why It’s Still Okay- “You’re Just a Man Who Cut His Weenie Off”: Clay & Shaun on Trans, Gay Jokes & the Rules- We Defeated the Woke: Why Gay Jokes and Calling People Retards Are Back on the Menu- South Park Rules Still Apply: Clay & Shaun on Offense, Pride Events & Hypocrisy
**Podcast Description**
Clay and Shaun Yurtkuran go full free-range on whether gay jokes are still allowed, if it’s okay to call your buddy gay when he isn’t, and whether “retard” is still fair game for adults. It starts with JD Vance’s line about not being James Talarico and the predictable meltdown that followed. Shaun (Gen X) is unbothered. Clay has never stopped making the jokes. They both point out that the same people clutching pearls over Vance had no problem with years of Trump-is-gay couch jokes, Lindsey Graham bits, and South Park’s Big Gay Al.
The conversation keeps going. Men make fun of other men. It’s a machismo thing. The second you ban it, it gets turned up to eleven. They dig into the double standard that says you can’t joke about certain protected groups, but everything else is open season — until a conservative might be gay, then it’s reeducation time. Shaun and Clay also separate actual gay people from the trans agenda, with Clay arguing that “you’re just a man that cut his weenie off” is still accurate and that pride events don’t need to be kid-friendly. They touch on the old right’s anti-gay reputation versus the new right, antisemitism from both sides, and why Gen X could survive the nineties without losing their minds over a joke.
It’s the kind of conversation the show gets accused of being afraid to have. They’re not.

**Title Suggestions**- The Wienermobile Rolls Into Town: Hotdoggers Nora & Caroline Take Over the Show- Nacho Dog Nora & Cookout Caroline: Life Inside the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile- Weenie 500 Drivers Drop In (And Bring the Big Weenie With Them)- How to Become a Hotdogger: The Wienermobile Girls Explain Everything- Lefties, Get Ready: The Wienermobile Interview You Didn’t Know You Needed
**Podcast Description**
Clay sits down with two actual Oscar Mayer Wienermobile drivers — Nacho Dog Nora and Cookout Caroline — who are rolling through town this week. They’re hotdoggers, they go city to city making people smile, and yes, they will be the ones racing in the Weenie 500 at Indy. The Wienermobile itself is a custom forward-cab box chassis with a Chevy V8 Vortec, and these two know it inside and out.
They break down the job: applications open every November, you need a bachelor’s degree, a love of travel, and the ability to talk to strangers all day. Roughly 5,000–7,000 people apply every year. Their current run is the Sizzling South team; one is from Pennsylvania on her first Southern swing, the other is from Georgia. They talk about discovering seafood in Louisiana, real barbecue in Kansas City, and why every stop turns into chaos the second people spot the giant hot dog on wheels.
They’re in town until Monday morning. The Wienermobile will be parked at the station around noon today if you want pictures, a wiener whistle, or just to see the thing in person. Clay keeps it mostly professional… until the end, when the weenie jokes finally win.

**Title Suggestions**- Red Baron Stood Up for the Blue Collar Guy (And the Internet Lost Its Mind)- Employee of the Month: The Red Baron Pizza Guy Who Told the TikTok Pranksters to Kick Rocks- $400K for a Working Dad: How Red Baron Handled the Viral Prank the Right Way- The Overnight Shelf Stocker vs. the Content Creators (Spoiler: He Won)- FAFO for the Influencers: Red Baron Makes Their Employee Employee of the Month
**Podcast Description**
Clay digs into the viral clip of a Red Baron pizza employee stocking shelves overnight when a couple of content creators decide to mess with him. They film themselves pretending to Apple Pay him or steal $20, treating a working man like a prop for views. He’s got multiple kids at home (some adopted), a mortgage he can barely cover, and another shift starting in a few hours. He’s not laughing. He tells them straight: this isn’t a joke, his life is hard enough, and he doesn’t have time for their crap.
The expected ending was the company hanging him out to dry and the store banning him. Instead, Red Baron posted that he’s still there, he’s got a fan club (including them), and he’s officially employee of the month. The post exploded past five million views. A GoFundMe for the guy cleared $400,000. The pranksters got ratioed and, by some accounts, lost their accounts.
Clay’s take is simple: this is how you handle a controversy. Stand behind the person actually working. It isn’t left or right, Christian or anything else. It’s right and wrong. Hardworking people on the edge don’t need random influencers treating their job like a skit. If you’re buying grocery-store frozen pizza this weekend, Red Baron earned the business.

**FAFO Friday: Gay Jokes, the Red Baron Pizza Guy, Double Standards, and the Wienermobile Rolls Into Town**
Clay and Shaun Yurtkuran open the show diving straight into the viral Red Baron pizza employee who got pranked by content creators while stocking shelves overnight. The internet (and Red Baron) responded by standing behind the working dad with multiple kids, turning him into employee of the month and lighting up a massive GoFundMe. From there the conversation shifts into whether gay jokes are still allowed, JD Vance’s James Talarico line, Gen X humor, and the double standards that say some groups can’t be joked about while everything else is fair game. They dig into transgender issues versus actual gay people, pride events and kids, the old right’s anti-gay reputation versus the new right, and the rise of antisemitism from both sides.
Shaun and Clay also get into Billy Corgan’s *The Magnificent Others* podcast with David Draiman (Disturbed) on Israel, the Marilyn Manson cancellation and friendship, the big 90s rock resurgence (Smashing Pumpkins, Candlebox, and the rest), people who confess on social media, and a quick look ahead at the races they’ll be watching on election night (Cindy Hyde-Smith, Bennie Thompson, Texas, and more).
Later in the hour the show takes a hard left into pure fun when two Oscar Mayer Wienermobile hotdoggers — Nacho Dog Nora and Cookout Caroline — join as guests. They’re driving the big weenie through the South, they’re in town today, and they’ll have the Wienermobile parked at the station around noon. Clay gets the full rundown on the job, the Weenie 500 at Indy, how to become a hotdogger, and why everyone should chase the thing down for a wiener whistle. Plenty of dad jokes and lefty jokes ensue.
Uncensored, unhinged, and exactly the kind of free-range conversation that only happens on FAFO Friday.

**Podcast Description**
Clay opens with the sudden wave of governments telling citizens to prepare for days (or weeks) without power, water, or help — from the UK’s “Be Ready” campaign to Japan, Europe, and the Pentagon’s new Fortress plan requiring bases to operate independently for 90 days. He skips the conspiracy rabbit holes and focuses on practical, cheap prep for a family of four to ride out roughly 30 days with no power or refrigeration.
Rough cost: $300–450 depending on what you already own. Core list includes rice/pasta/oats/beans/peanut butter/canned protein, water storage + purification tablets or bleach, manual can opener + small camping stove, LED lights/headlamps/power banks, NOAA radio, basic first-aid and prescriptions, hygiene/sanitation supplies, cash in small bills, and blankets/candles. He notes generators help but aren’t required for the bare-minimum version, and reminds listeners that most of this is useful for ordinary ice storms too. “When you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready.”
From there he pivots to the Nolan Wells autopsy. Jackson Jambalaya’s FOIA logs show the state medical examiner finished and released the report to the family in about 30 days — faster than average — undercutting claims that the process was deliberately slow. Clay files it under “tell me one thing that crew hasn’t lied about.”
Next up: youth sports parent behavior. He covers the Sugar Land, Texas softball game where a father (Keyarias Hall) allegedly hit another dad with a metal water bottle; video and court records contradict the self-defense claim, the wife lost her assistant-principal job, and Clay tags them as the week’s FAFO champs. He follows with the Florida three-year-old soccer phenom whose mom claimed cops were called because the kid was “too good.” Body-cam audio and the black coach/league official who actually called police paint a different picture: repeated pushing, parent aggression, and refusal to sub out a dominant kid in a recreational setting for five-year-olds. Clay’s takeaway: most youth-sports parents are fine; a loud minority are unhinged, and nothing on that field is worth jail, a job, or teaching your kid the wrong lesson.
He also weighs in on the Christa Pike case in Tennessee — two failed lethal-injection attempts. Clay supports the death penalty but says the double failure feels like a sign; he questions whether the state should keep trying and notes redheads require higher anesthetic doses. Listener texts split between “God’s will” and “bring back the firing squad.”
Other quick hits: congratulations to Mississippi State alum Brandon Woodruff and the Milwaukee Brewers on the World Series title, plus brief thoughts on the Pat McAfee campus drama. The through-line is accountability, local reality over viral narratives, and the value of staying prepared without going full bunker-prepper.