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I'm Clyde Lewis and this is Ground Zero.

The number is to call tonight 503-2250-860 or 866-536-7469.

That's toll-free. It's the last show of 2022 tonight.

Kind of nervous, right? We're kind of nervous moving into the new year.

And of course tonight's show is the year in reverse. We'll be hearing from David

Jenner. It's coming up in the next hour.

And I got to thinking about reverse speech. I got to thinking about

reversals in general, having everything go in reverse rather than forward.

And I thought to myself, there's an old trick in talk radio.

That if you want to get the phones to ring, all you got to do is say something that is

reverse of what everybody knows to be true or thinks is true.

It's like when you talk about the Mandela effect, Mandela effect, you say something and say,

well, that's not what it is. It's this. No, it's this. You don't argue about it.

I mean, it's like a talk show host can do a whole show on whether or not the toilet

people should roll over or roll under. It's the reverse or the forward or that's the thing.

Is that reverse or rolling under? Is that preferable or not preferable? That's been,

talk show hosts have done that before. They said, so how do you roll your toilet paper?

This is the right way to do it and people go, no, no, no, wait a minute. I'm going to call

until this guy and there's also the question of squeezing the toothpaste tube in the middle

or the reverse flattening from the bottom up. Now, I was always taught that if you really want calls,

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