The Clay Edwards Show

Russell Latino (representing Bart Edmonson Jr. and family) follows. Bart wasn’t even supposed to be out there that day—he did two favors and got labeled a murderer by internet activists, a doctored audio “expert,” and a misidentified high-school photo. Five demand letters already out. More coming. Two credible death threats already produced FBI arrests.

Tyler Cox (counsel for three of the four) joins from the coast. He walks through how his clients cooperated fully—phones handed over to the FBI with passwords, they testified under oath to the grand jury without lawyers in the room, and they asked to be invited. Diverse 22-25 person grand jury, lower probable-cause standard, sequestered, only official evidence. They still found nothing. Lawsuits for the defamation and threats are moving.

**The Clay Edwards Show – Nolan Wells Grand Jury No-Bill: The Aftermath, Not the Kid**

Creston Berch and I break down last night’s Jackson County grand jury decision: unanimous no true bill. Nolan Wells’ friends will not be charged. Zero probable cause. The viral “three white boys plus one Black boy went to Horn Island and only three came back” story was false from the jump.

Tyler Cox (counsel for three of the four) joins from the coast. He walks through how his clients cooperated fully—phones handed over to the FBI with passwords, they testified under oath to the grand jury without lawyers in the room, and they asked to be invited. Diverse 22-25 person grand jury, lower probable-cause standard, sequestered, only official evidence. They still found nothing. Lawsuits for the defamation and threats are moving.

Russell Latino (representing Bart Edmonson Jr. and family) follows. Bart wasn’t even supposed to be out there that day—he did two favors and got labeled a murderer by internet activists, a doctored audio “expert,” and a misidentified high-school photo. Five demand letters already out. More coming. Two credible death threats already produced FBI arrests.

This episode is not about Nolan Wells the person. It’s about what happened after: the narrative, the money, the race-grift playbook, and the people who refused to bend the knee. The playbook just got written in Ocean Springs.

If you stood on the side of evidence instead of the mob, you were right.

**Five Vowels, Zero Impulse Control, One New FAFO Champ**

18-year-old Octavius Tremont Wilson — five vowels, you cannot make it up — decided Vaught-Hemingway during Ole Miss-LSU was the place to throw hands with stadium security that looked exactly like cops. Video everywhere. Half a million views and climbing. Booked in Lafayette County by 8:30.

Thousands allegedly snuck in with no tickets. Somebody at the gate was taking $20 or a gate got overrun. They were told to go sit at the top and stay out of sight. Pretty safe bet this kid was one of them.

They’ve already wrecked high school football in half the rural minority towns around here — cancelled games, daytime kickoffs, empty stands — because nobody can act right. Now that same energy showed up in an SEC stadium with chandeliers under the tents. High culture meets culture rot. The phones probably saved him. No cameras and that crowd might have introduced him to the balcony.

Not charged with hitting a cop. Yet. Still the weekend’s undisputed FAFO grand champion. The four-plus-vowel technique remains undefeated.

**State Comes From 16 Down and Remembers How to Win on the Road**

Mississippi State gave South Carolina a 16-point head start and still won 42-34. Scoreboard lied. It was a three-touchdown game. First road SEC opener win since they beat LSU in an empty stadium in 2020. Back-to-back road wins for the first time since 2014. First time ranked since Mike Leach was still here. They’re sitting at 24.

Camario Taylor looks like the real thing as a second-year starter. Blind side still needs work. Jeff Lebby’s bunch boat-raced Minnesota on the road in Big Ten country, then handled a team State fans have owned for most of a lifetime. South Carolina, Kentucky, the usual suspects — those are the games they’re supposed to win. This one counted.

Missouri with Austin Simmons and Drinkwitz is next and might be the hardest game on the slate so far. Then Alabama, a bye, LSU, Oklahoma, Texas. Nobody’s handing out participation trophies. Seven wins is still a damn good year after the drought. Payroll’s closer to the second tier than people think. Evaluating talent still matters more than the checkbook.

2014 Mississippi Mayhem energy is back in the building. Don’t get cute. Don’t get comfortable. Just keep stacking them.

Best College Gameday Signs From Ole Miss Vs. LSU 

**Ole Miss Sends Lane Home and the Grove Almost Ate Itself**

Ole Miss beat LSU in Oxford. Hate week lived up to the name. GameDay signs were filthy: Release the Kiffin Files, The Lane is a Ho spelled in Coonass, corn dogs everywhere, and the winner — Lane bent over with a corn dog in his mouth that said no hoe goes hungry. One guy Venmo’d $18k just to buy beer and a ticket.

LSU dropped something like $195 million between roster, the last guy’s buyout, and Lane’s contract to get their ass kicked in the Grove. Tate Reeves said it out loud. Clay says the hate wasn’t just about the yellow and gold — it was about the guy squatting on the sideline watching it happen. Corn-dog meter hit 11.

Ole Miss jumped out 24-7. LSU tied it. Golden went for two at the right time because he knows Lane. Final margin eight. Trinidad Chambliss looks generational, then dropped an F-bomb on Holly Rowe live. Kids heard it. Different perspectives exist.

Thousands allegedly snuck in. An 18-year-old with five vowels in his name fought stadium security that looked exactly like cops and was booked in Lafayette County before 8:30. Grove tents got turned into a Louisiana hurricane. ESPN’s drone damn near kissed a helicopter.

Florida next as road dogs. Jaden Ball is a problem. Run defense is the question mark. They didn’t storm the field this time because they expected to win. That’s growth.

Two schools that refuse to let the other pull away. Same story, different year.

**Pearl PD Puts Another One in the Trees**

Zachary Brooks, 29, face-and-neck tattoos, Simon City Royals starter kit, decided I-20 westbound through Pearl was a good place to run dirty. Pearl attempted a stop. He rammed two patrol cars. They PIT’d him into the concrete in Clinton. He swallowed the meth on the way down, hit UMMC, and picked up felony fleeing, aggravated assault on a cop, a Louisiana warrant, paraphernalia, two counts of destroying state property, and a couple of seat-belt tickets for the road.

Female passenger went with him. Civilian caught in the mix went to Baptist with minor injuries. No officers hurt. Clinton and Capitol Police rolled in like they always do when the dumb ones try to outrun Rankin County.

Pearl and Clinton don’t play. Jackson is the safe haven they keep running toward because leadership over there treats pursuits like the crime. Headline writers still act like the chase is the problem instead of the wanted meth head with a warrant who just tried to take out two squad cars.

Don’t ride dirty through Pearl. Don’t test Clinton. The quota is filled. He’s the new FAFO grand champion.

**Pride Orgs Keep Getting Busted and Nobody’s Allowed to Notice**

Alabama Pride president Desmond Turner is in cuffs on sexual misconduct and child abuse charges. Again. The thing they swear never happens just happened again.

We draw the line everybody pretends doesn’t exist: being gay is not the same thing as running kid-friendly drag shows on museum lawns, putting half-naked adults next to children, and calling it “inclusion.” Pattern recognition isn’t hate. It’s pattern recognition.

Jackson Pride does this every year on the two museums’ property with Capitol Police standing there and UMMC and the usual suspects writing checks. Photos that look like they belong in an evidence bag get published like it’s a family festival. If a straight white men’s group did 10% of this they’d be labeled a terrorist organization before lunch.

Churches that stay quiet, pastors who won’t call it what it is, and businesses that sponsor it all get the same question: how many more arrests before you admit what the agenda actually is?

No lectures. No “love is love” slogans. Just the receipts.

**Mississippi Mayhem 2.0, Five-Vowel FAFO, and Another “It Never Happens” Arrest**

State comes from 16 down on the road and finally looks like they belong. Ole Miss sends Lane Kiffin home with a loss in Oxford. An 18-year-old named Octavius Tremont Wilson (five vowels, naturally) decides stadium security at Vaught-Hemingway looks like a good place to throw hands. Thousands allegedly snuck in. Grove tents got wrecked. An ESPN drone damn near kissed a helicopter. Classic Mississippi weekend.

We run the tape on both games, the payroll arms race, why these two schools never stay more than a year apart, Trinidad Chambliss dropping an F-bomb on Holly Rowe live, GameDay signs that belong in a museum, and how many corn dogs of hate this rivalry actually measured. Florida next week as road dogs with Jaden Ball in the backfield is either a trap or a gift from the football gods.

Then the other FAFO winners: Zachary Brooks and his passenger eat a PIT in Clinton after ramming Pearl units, swallowing meth, and collecting a Louisiana warrant. Livingston Parish deputies pull 40 starving, injured pigs off a property. And the Alabama Pride president gets bagged on sexual misconduct and child abuse charges — again.

Also: why kid-friendly drag shows on museum grounds in downtown Jackson keep happening, why churches that go all-in on Celebrate Recovery sometimes lose the plot, and Trump finally tossing CNN, MSNBC, and Politico out of the White House like yesterday’s trash.

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