Culture Rot, Classic Rock, and Why the Roller Coaster Is Apparently Racist (Ep #1314)

**The Clay Edwards Show – Episode 1314**

Clay and Creston (the Legion of Doom) kick things off with some wrestling nostalgia before diving into Jackson’s water fight. Mayor John Horn says the city deserves control of its water system again. Clay’s take: they already tried the “black-owned and operated” approach under Lumumba and managed it into the ground. The rest of the state and country are still footing the bill while the same crowd wants the money back in the general fund for vanity projects and friendly nonprofits. Elections have consequences.

From there they get into culture rot—how rap went from storytelling to requiring street-cred receipts for drug dealing and violence, and why Clay thinks the government propped it up while starving rock music. They also cover Led Zeppelin finally licensing “Stairway to Heaven” for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia movie after she personally pitched Plant and Page, plus the broader argument that classic rock is getting squeezed out of the mainstream.

Later they hit AI’s real-world impact after Kroger announced 3,000 corporate layoffs as it leans into the technology, and why Clay says people should stop running from it and start learning how to use it instead. They close with the question of the day—favorite Halloween movies—and Ben Crump’s latest claim that a fatal roller coaster accident was an act of racism.

Unfiltered takes on Jackson, culture, wrestling, music, and whatever else gets under the skin.