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

The members call tonight 503--25-0-860.

503-2-2-5-0-860.

I woke up this morning and usually, you know, I wake up and i'm ready to go

little caffeine doesn't help right so i have a little cup of coffee

sit at my desk and want to put my ideas down on down type out my ideas think about my ideas

what do i do for the show.

And I was literally pissed off.

Let's just say that.

I was angry.

I was angry about, for one thing, I'm angry about the media.

I'm angry about many years, I mean, what, 30 years plus, that I've been doing my show.

And there's that moment in time where you look back and you say to yourself,

was it worth getting kicked in the face every time you open your mouth to try and tell the truth?

Was it worth the criticism? Was it worth the program directors taking the show off the air because

something they didn't agree with that I said? Or the misinterpretation or the idea that they

do not understand what the show is about, that the idea is about belief

systems, it's about analyzing everyone's belief systems, try to give a balance to those belief

systems, no matter how unpopular they are. See, one of the things that I always tell people, they say, well, do you believe this? Do you believe this? I say, well, I'm in search of a things that I always tell people they say well do you believe this do you believe

this I say well I'm in search of a belief I've always I have my basics you know I have a basic

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