The Clay Edwards Show

**Clay Edwards Show – Short Episode Summary**  *(Wednesday, October 28, 2026)*
Edwards opens with Dave Rubin’s dystopian clip of a Democrat-socialist future (AOC as president, property seizures, Muslim Brotherhood turning on “queers for Palestine”) and urges voting straight against the party. He notes independents like Ty Pinkens and Benny Foster splitting Democrat votes and rejects race or identity as excuses for failure: “If you’re oppressed in 2026, it’s because the person in the mirror is oppressing you.”
Quick sports: Mississippi State’s losing streak, Camario Taylor’s season-ending injury, and Edwards admitting he’s become a fair-weather Bulldogs fan who watches less football.
Main segment: Jackson sits at 75 homicides and #1 nationally (53.1 per 100k). He predicts ~105 by year’s end due to the coming holiday “murder season” and uses a stadium analogy to show the scale.
Nolan Wells update: The defense fund is at ~$379k and aiming for $1 million. Edwards says Tyler Cox, Ed Paltzic, and the others are suing the content creators who kept calling them murderers, claims the fund will be taken in judgments, and again calls out Christine Wansley for feeding the narrative.
He covers Paul Miller (Gypsy Crusader) landing on the SPLC hate watch and treats it as a badge of honor, then notes Lumumba’s sentencing was delayed to November 20 (he still appears November 5). Edwards predicts short time for Lumumba, more for Jody Owens, and says Jackson still lacks a worthy villain now that the “studio gangsters” are gone.

**Podcast Description (Ep #1322):**
Clay is joined by criminal defense attorney (and former Hinds County ADA) Shaun Yurtkuran for a wide-ranging hour-plus covering culture, music, and Mississippi politics.
They kick things off with Jay-Z headlining the Super Bowl halftime show and the broader decline of hip-hop booking dominance—contrasted with rock’s resurgence, the last true classic-rock headliner (The Who in 2010), and the case for finally getting Metallica, Garth Brooks, or George Strait on America’s biggest stage. Clay also remembers Scott Weiland on the anniversary of his death and pushes back on the “rock is dead” narrative with big festival proof points.
From there it moves into the Cindy Hyde-Smith vs. Scott Colom Senate race, Trump’s stop in Corinth, the AI-video dust-up involving Mike Hurst and the Mississippi GOP, and why both sides are dumping serious money into a state that usually isn’t a national battleground. Shaun weighs in on campaign tactics, weak candidates, and the petty online/sticker warfare surrounding the Hinds County DA race (including the “bag man” accusations aimed at him).
Also covered: the still-mask-required lesbian bar in Massachusetts that imploded over one mask-optional Saturday, the short-lived White House press-secretary drama and the “what do you call someone with a law degree who never passed the bar?” question, and the WNBA’s latest self-own (championship elimination game tip-off at lunchtime on a Thursday because the bigger arena was already booked).
Straight talk, local perspective, and zero filter.

**The Clay Edwards Show – Episode 1321 (Hour 2)**  **Guest: Bennie Foster, Independent Candidate, Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District**
Clay sits down with Bennie Foster, the independent running to unseat longtime incumbent Benny Thompson (and Republican Ron Eller) in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District. Foster, a Jackson native and businessman, walks through his background—from a house fire that moved his family, time on Lynch Street, Callaway, a track scholarship to Jackson State, years in Atlanta and Miami, and his return five years ago—and why he believes the district’s problems are a leadership failure, not destiny.
They cover the Delta’s poverty, failing schools, food deserts, and hospital closures; the reality that over 330,000 registered voters sat out the last midterm (more than double the combined vote total); and why the “independent splits the vote” line is a party-machine myth when so many people have already checked out. Foster lays out shared conservative values (guns, life, smaller government), the work already underway through the Blueprint business incubator and a nearly $11 million workforce grant his wife secured, and the practical plans (health kiosks, local food partnerships, business formation help) that don’t require waiting for a congressional seat. The conversation ends with the red ants/blue ants analogy and a clear pitch: if the numbers and the values line up, this is the chance to reimagine the district. Full platform at electbennyfoster.com.

**The Clay Edwards Show – Episode 1321**  **Guests: Zach Servis (full show) & Bennie Foster (Hour 2)**
Clay and Zach dig into the takeover of once-rebellious subcultures—hard rock and metal, NASCAR, wrestling, comics, and gaming—by the same rainbow-supremacy crowd that treats politics as identity and “not political” as an attack. From James Hetfield’s “we’re not gonna tell you what to believe” moment to the left’s meltdown and NASCAR Twitter’s reaction to vaccine skepticism, they unpack how culture got captured, why the Overton window keeps sliding, and how organized activism beat disorganized complaining. Also on the table: Kenneth Stokes’ push to rename part of Medgar Evers Boulevard for Cohen Wiley, the Rodney Hinton Jr. conviction, and the role of government-backed entertainment in pushing certain narratives while private prisons cashed in.
Hour two brings in Bennie Foster, the independent running in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District against longtime incumbent Benny Thompson and Republican Ron Eller. Foster, a Jackson native and businessman, lays out why he’s running as an independent, his background from Callaway and Jackson State to Atlanta and back, and the case that District 2’s problems—Delta poverty, failing schools, food deserts, and closed hospitals—are a leadership failure, not an inevitable fate. He and Zach break down the numbers (hundreds of thousands of non-voters), the “you’re splitting the vote” myth, shared conservative values (guns, life, smaller government), and the on-the-ground work already underway through the Blueprint business incubator and related programs. Electbennyfoster.com has the full platform.
Straight talk on culture, accountability, and whether an independent can actually move the needle in a district that’s been locked down for decades.

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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.