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I'm Clyde Lewis, and this is Ground Zero.

The numbers call tonight 503-225-0-860.

That's 503-2-5-0-860.

As I was preparing the show, I'm right now preparing for a minor surgery on my leg.

It's going to be happening Friday.

I'm going to take tomorrow off and then the day after that off.

In fact, this is the, in the middle of a move.

We're moving again in our apartment.

So we're moving out.

In fact, they started packing out things today.

And so then tomorrow, you're going to work on some other things.

I'm getting ready for this leg surgery

I'm going to have hopefully it's going to alleviate some pain and some problems for my leg my right

leg and so you know when you start we hear you're going to have something done to you you read about

a lot of things and you start reading in the science journals and you start reading about

you know other things that could happen when you start reading about, you know, other things

that could happen when you have this done and how things have improved and, and, uh, and then,

of course, there are other things that contradict what you just read. And there seems to be like this

tug of war in medicine, this tug of war in science, where on one hand you read about this and

it's positive. And the other hand you read and this and it's positive and the other hand you're

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