The Clay Edwards Show

Hour two is the FAFO chapter of the Nolan Wells defamation suits. Tyler Cox and Ed Paltzik file on Jennifer Sushka (J Meghan), DeMarcus Hughes (Boogie Lowdown), Sandra Butler, Tameka Lasha Birch, Isaiah Kelvin Harris, and the big one: Trent Hall, aka Trent Out Loud, in federal court out of Canada. Keyboard warriors, industrial-scale libel, and an open invite to come get served in Mississippi. Clay hangs the belt on him anyway.

Hour one is the Rankin County dog mess. A woman named Carly pulls a pit and a Shih Tzu mix out of the road in Pelahatchie, posts them, then finds the owner, TeeDy WMS, already has an animal-cruelty case: a neighborhood cat trapped, held, and filmed getting mauled on Facebook Live in 2024. Misdemeanor plea. $500 fine. Suspended sentence. A Pelahatchie officer shows up at Carly’s county house on a personal cell, the chief gets on the phone about a warrant, and the owner is brought to the door. She takes the pit and offers to leave the other one. Carly calls in with the timeline, the cameras, and the part that actually bothers Clay: a convicted animal abuser now knows where the kids live. Creston stays on the property-law side. Clay stays on the “you don’t escort that woman to somebody’s house” side.

Clay overslept. The lawsuits did not.

First miss in six years. Show prep for the Nolan Wells attorneys ran till 2 a.m., the alarm never got set, and daylight hit the bedroom at 7:37. Creston Birch and Chip kept 103.9 WYAB from going dark. Clay showed up the next morning honest about it, then got to the news he was supposed to break.

Hour one is the Rankin County dog mess. A woman named Carly pulls a pit and a Shih Tzu mix out of the road in Pelahatchie, posts them, then finds the owner, Attonia Williams, aka TD WMS, already has an animal-cruelty case: a neighborhood cat trapped, held, and filmed getting mauled on Facebook Live in 2024. Misdemeanor plea. $500 fine. Suspended sentence. A Pelahatchie officer shows up at Carly’s county house on a personal cell, the chief gets on the phone about a warrant, and the owner is brought to the door. She takes the pit and offers to leave the other one. Carly calls in with the timeline, the cameras, and the part that actually bothers Clay: a convicted animal abuser now knows where the kids live. Creston stays on the property-law side. Clay stays on the “you don’t escort that woman to somebody’s house” side.

Hour two is the FAFO chapter of the Nolan Wells defamation suits. Tyler Cox and Ed Paltzik file on Jennifer Sushka (J Meghan), DeMarcus Hughes (Boogie Lowdown), Sandra Butler, Tameka Lasha Birch, Isaiah Kelvin Harris, and the big one: Trent Hall, aka Trent Out Loud, in federal court out of Canada. Keyboard warriors, industrial-scale libel, and an open invite to come get served in Mississippi. Clay hangs the belt on him anyway.

Also in the show: Rankin County Buckin’ Bronc Bash, October 18, 2 p.m., 122 Justin Drive, Pelahatchie, $12, kids 10 and under free, proceeds to ERCO and the Leesburg Volunteer Fire Department. Reserve deputies, self-sponsor academy, and whether this show should start funding cops. Martin’s meatloaf Wednesday. Text the Ellis AutoPlex line at (769) 241-1944. Call (601) 879-0002.

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Episode 1308. Motivational Monday, if your idea of motivation is a pancake demolition, a kamikaze on the railroad, and Florida talk radio threatening to call the university cops because a caller said the quiet part out loud.

The old DPS headquarters on the Jackson skyline is gone. Creston Berch spent half his childhood in that building while his grandmother worked implied consent. His mom spent the ’80s and ’90s warning that the New Madrid fault could drop it like a stack of pancakes. Sunday morning at 8, the demolition crew did it for them. Neat pile. No Building 7 theories required.

College football was the other weird. Clay went 12-8 against the spread and the total. Grok went 14-6 and finally took the season lead fight to two games. Season still sits Clay 82-37, Grok 76-43. The killers were Mississippi State and Missouri-Florida, plus a clean sweep of missed overs. Clay still will not pick against Ole Miss or State for money. Emotion is undefeated.

A caller on Florida sports talk (Steve Russell, WRUF) decided Ole Miss’s quarterback had a bad day because he “ain’t been getting any.” Host lost it and said the call would be referred to university police. That is not how the FCC works, and it is not how a dump button works. Which sent the show down the Harvey Updyke road: the Auburn fan who called Paul Finebaum, admitted he poisoned the Toomer’s Corner oaks with Spike 80DF, became a sidewalk-fan folk hero, named a kid Bear, and went to prison. Thirty for 30 and all.

Local FAFO of the weekend belongs to Ronnie Percy Holmes, 22, of Florida. Saturday morning in Star he drove a red Chevy SUV with Florida plates the wrong way on US 49, turned onto Dixie Road, parked on the railroad tracks near the Airgas facility, then drove down the tracks toward a freight train. Rankin 911 got the railroad to stop the train about 200 yards out. Holmes then walked to Dixie Road and tried to take a passing vehicle. The driver owns and operates a Flowood gun store and firearms training facility. Truck was wrapped like a rolling billboard for the shop. He still picked that one. Citizen held him at gunpoint until deputies arrived. No accident. Straight to UMMC for a mental eval, not Rankin jail. Charges: attempted carjacking and obstructing a railway. Mississippi Office of Homeland Security and the FBI Jackson office were notified because somebody intentionally blocked a rail line. Sheriff Bryan Bailey credited dispatch, deputies, and the citizen with stopping what could have been a body count. Four suicide attempts in about half an hour, and the one vehicle he chose had a man in it who was armed and trained. Clay’s read: undiagnosed mental health in the urban community gets treated like a character flaw instead of a medical problem, which is why the stats the virtue-signal videos love are garbage.

Also in the pile: a 15-year-old Brandon sophomore (Hinds extension, auto mechanic track) who showed up with his grandfather and detailed both vehicles for $130 a pop and earned it. Only flaw was the Alabama fandom, which he exercised in the driveway while State got worked. Creston on 33 years of not having to pull the trigger, including a Clinton woman walking town with a gun they could have shot and didn’t. The Mount Road man who thought he was Jesus, robe and cross, and put a .22 into a car full of kids messing with him. Flesh wound. Bourbon pick of the week is getting a real shelf at 042 Wine and Spirits in Brandon. Creston is hunting a Doc Holliday 10th Anniversary. Clay is hunting guitars, basses, and amps at fair Reverb money. Text the show or [email protected] if something is collecting dust.

Road segment after a New Orleans good Samaritan, Kishina Daniels, 31, stopped on I-10 to pull a neighbor from a flipped car and was killed when another driver hit the stopped traffic and shoved a car into the helpers. Creston’s counter: in 33 years he never unbuckled a dead body. Seat-belt lottery stories from cops are how you manufacture the next idiot. Pet peeves from the text line and the hosts: left-lane camping, four-lane blind sweeps, imaginary four-ways at neighborhood mouths, people waving you across traffic they do not control, the three-count at a green light, Gunner Road at the Briar Hill hill that still is not shaved, and the Exit 56 / Highway 80 mess at the big curve in Brandon where nobody uses a blinker and everybody assumes the merge lane.

Last block: booking photos. Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and spots in Kentucky logging clearly Black and Hispanic arrestees as white, repeatedly, then killing the mugshot page once people noticed. Those numbers feed FBI crime stats. Clay’s point is the per-capita arguments are being cooked at intake, not in the spreadsheet.

Breaking Down The CORNELL 7 Rape Case, Clay Get's Very Personal!!

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Episode 1306 of The Clay Edwards Show, with Creston Berch. JPD hiding under the stack on I-20 catching Rankin County folks on the way into Jackson, a shackled suspect whooping detectives in an elevator at headquarters, Kenneth Stokes mad about armed marchers on California Avenue, and a Tennessee execution that didn’t take. Hour 2 opens with Patrick Kelty of Kelty Tile, Marble & Home Remodel.

Clay opens by snitching, which he hates doing. JPD is set up westbound under the stack on the Rankin side of the Pearl River, tucked behind a beam, while Jackson still has plenty of its own problems. Construction zone, 50 mph, flow of traffic be damned. Then the story that started as a FAFO video and ended with the award going the other way: 22-year-old Cameron Mitchell, on probation for felony fleeing, in for a robbery interview via the U.S. Marshals. Interview stops, two detectives escort him toward detention, elevator turns into a brawl. Handcuffed and shackled, headbutts, knees, chains. Five detectives pulled in, one hospitalized, all back at work, Mitchell still in jail. Chief Rochelle Brackney calls it a bloody fight in close quarters and says they’re reviewing how suspects move through the building. Clay and Creston get into front-cuffing versus belly chains, weapon retention, the 2013 Eric Smith killing inside headquarters, and why “wrap your arms around him and tell him you love him” is not a use-of-force policy. WLBT’s correction on the strangling detail gets a nod, and so does Chris Fields’ glow-up from night runs to the studio suit.

Hour 1 stays local. Mississippi Free Press is the source Clay would rather pour bleach in his eyes than cite, but the topic is the topic: Kenneth Stokes sees about 30 armed people from the Fred Hampton Gun Club, the Black Clan, and the Black Panther Party marching California Avenue over what they frame as lynchings. Brackney says no street closure, no noise waiver, no permit required, and that the Second Amendment covers it. She also says Fortune was not hung by a roving band, three men are in custody, Wiley is still under investigation, and Wells’ cause of death is undetermined. Clay’s correction: three black men, not the white-supremacist posse the internet ordered, and “national scrutiny” is not a couple of loud accounts. Stokes wants the legislature to rethink open carry marches and floats the KKK hypothetical. Question of the day: two or three people open-carrying down the middle of a Jackson street, permit or not?

Also in the mix: a Fondren/Belhaven scold keeping a little list of who advertises with Mississippi talkers he doesn’t like. Clay’s read is that advertisers already know where their ads run, because they paid for them.

First segment of hour 2 is Patrick Kelty, Kelty Tile, Marble & Home Remodel. Family shop started in 1997 by the youngest brother, Patrick and Mark in a few years later, thousands of remodels since. Showroom at 115 Ridgeland Plaza in Ridgeland, right off Highway 51 near CC’s, about 6,000 square feet, granite fab on site. They want the estimate in the house, then the client in the showroom, materials in hand, job not started until they can finish it. Bathrooms, kitchens, tile, marble, quartz, quartzite, waterfalls, custom emblems, lighting, plumbing and electrical when the scope needs it. Pan-test a leaking shower before you assume it’s the plumber. Byram High, class of ’96. keltytile.com, showroom line (601) 607-7227.

They close on Krista Pike. Tennessee tried twice with lethal injection, she was still snoring, Governor Bill Lee halted the rest of the year’s executions for a review, and they hauled her to the hospital. Clay digs up why she was there: 1995, Job Corps in Knoxville, she and two others beat, slashed, and carved pentagrams into 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer over a boyfriend and “feeling mean.” Shipp was 18 and ineligible for death; Peterson testified for the state. Clay’s position doesn’t move. Football Friday and an FAFO award or three tomorrow.

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**Jamie Creel (Shelter Insurance) sits in with Creston Berch.**

First hour is the unsexy stuff nobody wants to talk about until it’s too late. Jamie’s old player’s dad dropped dead of a heart attack at 51. No warning. Family left picking up pieces they didn’t even know existed. Life insurance, a will, a simple sheet of paper with the passwords and policies, video walkthrough of everything in the house so you’re not guessing what’s gone after a fire or theft. Inland marine for the guns, guitars, art, and collector junk—even if you rent. Express term life with no physical if your driving record isn’t trash. Tesla insurance isn’t automatically more expensive with them. Thirty days to get a dead person’s name off a vehicle policy, ninety on a house. Practical, not a sales pitch.

Second hour: Copiah County finally charged Whit Tyler Holmes with capital murder in the 2021 killing of Floyd Alex Rosemond. Five-year case. More arrests coming. Snitches matter.

Protect College Sports Act cleared the Senate 77-22. House delay until after midterms is the only real snag. One-time transfer, injured players keep the scholarship plus five years medical and ten years to finish the degree. Salary cap talk. No more mid-season coach raids. Good for State and Ole Miss fans who don’t have oil money or a Nike sugar daddy.

Clay also recs Dave Mustaine’s *In My Darkest Hour*—cancer, faith, not the liberal you assumed. And he needs a dog groomer who won’t take political opinions out on Libby, the Yorkies, or the Corgi. Cash or trade-out. Text the usual line.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders ran a reelection ad making a white dude named Brad on a beanbag with a VR headset the face of Arkansas welfare fraud. Young white men are among the least likely groups on SNAP. Per capita numbers tell a different story. They picked the one face guaranteed to piss off their own base instead of just putting the policy on screen. Friendly fire. Consultants who don’t talk to actual people.

Kratom is next. Two Ole Miss students dead after S-Max / pseudo-7OH tablets — concentrated, lab-tweaked alkaloids, not leaf powder. Clay’s been on the “don’t ban it, regulate it” side for years. He’s sitting this one out. If gas-station product is killing kids, conscience matters more than the fight. Doctors and lawmakers are already lining up the next ban. Listen to why the “natural doesn’t mean safe” line is the one that actually matters.