The Clay Edwards Show

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.

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.

**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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