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🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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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. |
0:09.0 | I'm Clyde Lewis. |
0:11.7 | And this is Ground Zero. |
0:18.3 | The numbers to call tonight, 503-225-0-860. That's 503-2-2-5-0-860. |
0:23.6 | That's 503-2-2-5-0-860. |
0:29.6 | I have a confession to make. |
0:32.1 | I haven't, I mean, some people who know the show, some people that know my background, |
0:36.8 | remember the 9-11 attacks, |
0:40.2 | the attacks on New York. And at that time, I was so dismayed over what happened in New York |
0:48.7 | that I had thought, or I was thinking about leaving the radio, leaving Ground Zero. And the reason why I thought about it was because |
0:56.5 | first of all, the name was ground zero long before they called New York ground zero. I knew a lot of |
1:02.7 | people were giving me criticism saying change the name, change the name, change the name. And I just |
1:06.5 | got furious with it all saying how is this happening to my country? |
1:11.9 | Who was behind it? |
1:12.9 | How did they get through security? |
1:14.4 | All these things were going through my mind. |
1:15.7 | I thought, there's no way in hell that I'm going to be able to report this story. |
1:19.7 | There's no way in hell I'm going to be able to do it. |
1:21.9 | I was just thought, this is beyond my pay grade. |
1:25.2 | And I, you know, and I just, and so what I did is I abandoned everything and I said, |
1:29.5 | I'm taking two weeks off to rethink things. |
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