The Clay Edwards Show

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**Podcast Description**
Clay sits down with Jason Miller of Raven 6 Rising Lost Pet Recovery—the guy who shows up with a truck full of generators, monitors, and thermal drones when your dog or cat disappears and the usual “post it on Facebook and pray” plan isn’t cutting it.
Jason started in TV and wildlife production back when drones were brand new, moved into agriculture and thermal work (finding deer, mostly), and got into pets after locating a missing boxer in under an hour. Now he runs a legitimate mobile command operation across Mississippi: fly at night when the heat signatures pop, lock onto the animal with white-hot thermal and a spotlight so there’s zero doubt it’s yours, drop a GPS pin, and guide the owner in. Sometimes the animal comes straight to them. Sometimes it’s in full fear mode and bolts, which is when the trappers get the call. Time is the whole game—every hour they stay out multiplies the search radius.
They cover the real-world stuff: why most people still don’t put a collar with their number on the dog, how microchips only help if they’re registered and current, why a proper GPS collar (he likes the Fi) beats an AirTag, and the ugly side of lost-pet posts—scammers using AI to fake photos of your animal in their truck and demand money. Jason’s rule is simple: if they won’t meet you in person, they don’t have the pet.
There’s also the Linus story (the yellow Lab taken by the Tylertown tornado, missing ten days, found after eight hours of flying over matchstick debris—Fox Weather even picked it up) and the ongoing threat of a DJI ban. Jason’s been flying them since they existed; he’s not interested in grounded $100k-plus rigs or law enforcement and search-and-rescue teams suddenly left without the best tools available because of lobbying and China concerns. He also talks about building a fund so people who can’t afford a search still get one when they need it.
If your animal is missing, do the basics first (flyers, neighbors, vets, pounds, cameras), then find Jason on Facebook under Raven 6 Rising Lost Pet Recovery. He’s not free—this is real equipment and real hours—but if the pet is family, it’s worth the call.

Clay opened with a detailed shout-out to Capitol Police after they helped change a flat for his girlfriend on the Jackson side of the stack. She was headed north on 55 in front of the Herrin-Gear Autoplex, just before the High Street exit, when she hit a pothole and blew a tire on her Honda Accord. The car had low-profile 19-inch wheels, which made the situation worse.
Clay called ahead so officers could stage with blue lights while he was en route, mainly to reduce the chance of her getting rear-ended. Officers Crockett and Teague were first on scene. They tried to change the tire, but the spare was missing—Clay said the previous boyfriend had kept it. His own spare from the truck wouldn’t fit because of the Honda’s deep-well lug nuts, and the officers’ tools didn’t match either.
Major Sim Shanks happened to drive by, stopped, and called Master Sergeant Denton, who arrived in a heavy-duty Ram (Clay called it a prime mover) equipped with a battery-powered impact wrench and a floor jack. Denton got the spare on quickly. Clay then took the damaged tire back to Rankin County and got it replaced at Gleason’s in Pearl, where he said the crew treated him well even though he was only buying one tire.
Clay was clear that changing flats is not part of the job, but the officers went well beyond what he asked for. He posted about it and directly addressed the expected “bootlicker” comments, saying that if it were someone’s mother, girlfriend, wife, or daughter stuck on the side of the road in Jackson, most people would be glad the officers stopped and helped. He framed it as a straightforward good experience worth talking about, especially since negative interactions tend to get all the attention.

The bourbon pick of the week is Wild Turkey Rare Breed, a barrel-proof step up from the standard Turkey 101. Creston walked through it on the show: it runs around 115–116 proof straight from the barrel, carries noticeable cinnamon notes, and is generally easy to find on shelves. Clay, who is more of a shots guy than a slow sipper, immediately compared it to a fancier Fireball. Creston pushed back that it is meant to be sipped and enjoyed, though he conceded it can still be taken as a shot.
They briefly covered the usual whiskey rituals—swirling, smelling, aerating—with Clay skeptical that most people doing it know why and not just mimicking what they have seen. Creston noted there is also a green-label rye version with a higher rye mash bill for anyone who prefers that profile. The bottle shown was not guaranteed to be the exact one in stock at O42 in Crossgates, and Clay said he was checking with Brad on current inventory in case they needed a Plan B.
It was framed as getting into “whiskey weather” heading into football season, even if the previous day had still been in the 90s.

Clay announced he is sitting out the Hinds County DA race entirely. He said an email asking him to weigh in forced the issue, and after thinking it over he decided he is too conflicted to comment fairly.
His best friend and personal attorney, Sean Yurtkuran, is involved with Gwen’s campaign as an adviser. Clay has also known Gwen’s father, Monty, for more than thirty years; the two families go back to when Clay was a kid eating at Monty’s locations, including the old South Jackson spot near Whitten Junior High. At the same time, Clay remains disappointed in Gwen’s handling of the Anthony Fox case and does not feel he can support her because of it. Out of respect for Sean, he also does not want to attack her.
The result, he said, is that he will neither endorse nor criticize anyone in the race. He acknowledged that some listeners will call it the easy way out, but he would rather be transparent about the relationships and the conflict than pretend they do not exist. He recommended that people do their own research on the candidates’ records and platforms instead of relying on what others tell them.
He also noted that he has become more cautious about jumping into local races in general. Early on he was quicker to pick sides; now he is more aware of how many listeners are personally connected to candidates and how much weight the microphone carries. Because he does not live in Hinds County, he added that he is not sure it is even appropriate for him to take a strong public position on the race. So he is opting out.

Clay jumped on a Facebook post from a woman named Amanda in the Let’s Talk Pelahatchie Facebook group. Her dog Mickey had just been hit and killed on Rehobeth Road after being outside for only five minutes. She, her grandbaby, and the dog had just gotten up from a nap; the dog was hit right in front of her mailbox. She initially posted something raw about the driver rotting in hell, then walked it back while still clearly wrecked. Clay said he gets it—if you run over someone’s dog in their front yard and people see it, the least you can do is stop. He admitted he’s been on both sides of it: he once hit a dachshund that darted out in front of him and was messed up about it for a long time, and a mailman ran over one of his family’s dogs years ago.
That story led into the announcement that Jason from Raven Six Rising Lost Pet Recovery will be on the show Monday morning for both hours. Clay spent over an hour on the phone with him the day before after getting a flyer in his mailbox. The operation uses drones equipped with heat-seeking radar to find lost pets and livestock. It’s a business, not a free service, and Clay was clear that the cost reflects the technology and time involved. He plans to start raising money for a fund that can cover searches for families who can’t afford it on their own. Jason’s page is Raven Six Rising Lost Pet Recovery on Facebook (there’s another similarly named page that is not the same operation).
Clay said the conversation already went deep on drones, animal recovery, and even the DJI drone ban, and he expects Monday’s show to cover a wide range of topics while still centering on lost pets and the work Jason does. He’s treating it as one of the more interesting guest setups the show has had in a while.

Jackson’s police chief confirmed the department will not renew its contract with Flock Safety, citing privacy concerns raised by residents. The city plans to explore other license-plate reader options that can still feed into its real-time camera center, but the Flock system specifically is out.
Clay treated the decision as one of the dumber moves the current administration has made. He argued that Jackson is the last place that should be voluntarily discarding a crime-fighting tool when it already struggles with basic law enforcement capacity. He pushed back on the privacy fears that drove the non-renewal, saying most of the opposition is fear-mongering and that the same people worried about Flock are often the ones convinced data centers are going to drain the state’s water supply.
On the specific complaint that officers have used the system to stalk people, Clay said the cameras actually create a digital trail that makes it easier to catch and fire the ones who abuse it. Without the system, he noted, bad actors can still follow someone the old-fashioned way and leave no record. He rejected the standard “don’t trade freedom for safety” framing and flipped it: Jackson is trading safety for a version of freedom it largely already has. A camera on a pole, he said, doesn’t stop anyone from leaving their house; it just records tags. During COVID, Mississippi didn’t deploy cameras to force people indoors, and he pointed to his own prior experience in local law enforcement as evidence that the tool wasn’t being used that way.
Clay tied the decision back to the larger picture of Jackson’s policing problems under the previous administration—understaffing, pro-criminal leadership, and the resulting no-go zones in parts of the city. He said a place already short on effective law enforcement can’t afford to hand away automated tools and then claim it will simply “look at other companies.” He also noted that a lot of the cameras people call Flock aren’t even Flock units; they’re just ordinary license-plate readers on poles, and the real objection appears to be surveillance in general.
He closed the rant by telling listeners that if they truly hate being tracked, they should throw their phone out the window and switch to a carbureted car from before modern telemetry. For anyone planning to commit a crime, he offered practical advice: leave the phone, ID, and modern vehicle at home so the cameras (or lack of them) matter less. The hypothetical he used was blunt—if a family member were the victim of a violent crime and the suspect got away because the city had pulled the cameras over stalking worries, most people would suddenly want the system back. In his view, Jackson just chose the opposite priority.

**On this episode of The Clay Edwards Show**, Clay and Creston Birch break down the weekend’s college football slate (State at LSU, Ole Miss hosting Missouri) before Clay delivers a lengthy, unapologetic shout-out to Capitol Police for going above and beyond after his girlfriend blew a tire on the Jackson side of the stack. He names names, praises the response, and contrasts it with the usual “bootlicker” noise.
From there the show shifts into Clay’s ongoing guitar obsession—he’s got a hard-to-find early-90s Ibanez bass landing and plans to get proper Floyd Rose setup help from Shane Turnage—then pivots hard into the permanent disbarment of Chokwe Antar Lumumba. Clay frames it as the least of Lumumba’s problems and runs through the leadership failures, COVID-era mismanagement, and the broader dismantling of Jackson under the previous administration.
They also cover Clay’s decision to sit out the Hinds County DA race entirely (conflicts involving a close friend on one campaign and longstanding issues with the other side), a hit-and-run dog story that leads into Monday’s planned guest from Raven Six Rising Lost Pet Recovery, and a blunt defense of Flock cameras against the privacy pushback that led Jackson to drop the contract. Clay argues the city can’t afford to surrender crime-fighting tools when it already has too few of them.
The episode closes with dual FAFO awards (Lumumba’s disbarment plus an ADA arrested on a domestic violence charge) and a tease of a major upcoming announcement from the governor involving Capitol Police and the Department of Public Safety.
Straightforward, local, and light on patience for bad leadership or selective outrage.