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Ground Zero Media

Clyde Lewis

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Over the past decade, “griefbots” and deepfake avatars have become commonplace, allowing the bereaved to chat with simulations of their dead loved ones. Virtual reality revives not only the deceased’s image, voice, or way of conversing, but a virtual simulation of their physical selves. Now, some researchers believe the technology could also help treat prolonged grief disorder, a diagnosis that has been applied to individuals whose grief severely interferes with their daily life for at least a year. Would this artificial form of psychotherapy eradicate the notion of grief? Is our destiny to become one where we will no longer have emotions organically? Could this be evidence that the digital world is overtaking the spiritual world? Listen to Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis M-F from 7-10 pm, pacific time on groundzeroplus.com. Call in to the LIVE show at 503-225-0860. #groundzeroplus #clydelewis #griefbots #virtualreality #counseling

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0:00.0	You are about to listen to a sample of Ground Zero.
0:02.6	If you'd like to hear the podcast in its entirety, sign up at Ground Zeroplus.com.
0:08.3	I'm Clyde Lewis, and this is Ground Zero.
0:18.1	The numbers to call tonight, 503, 225.0.860.
0:23.7	That's 503-2-2-2-5-0-860.
0:33.1	Just had a nice weekend of rest and relaxation.
0:37.0	I hope your weekend was fine.
0:40.2	Got caught up in some of the movies that I've been wanting to see.
0:43.8	I saw Spinal Tap 2.
0:46.9	It was great.
0:47.9	I love Spinal Tap.
0:48.9	That's one of my favorite movies.
0:50.8	And they did a great job in bringing the fun never never ends with spinal tap too so i got a chance
0:57.2	to see that and then i was watching a number of horror films and and there's one that i watched
1:02.1	that i forgot how good it was and that was sky captain and the world was tomorrow it was just
1:08.3	it was just somehow airing on mg Plus and I was thinking, gosh, this movie
1:13.1	is great. I mean, I didn't think the critics liked it all that much because it was,
1:19.8	you know, because it was one of the first films that used CGI. And so that was the, that was the problem I think the critics had with it.
1:29.4	But it had had Guineath-Paltrow in it and, you know, had a lot of great actors in it.
1:36.4	And, you know, like I say, it was just really cool.
1:39.5	I mean, I like the old movie look.
1:41.4	It was great.
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