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

The numbers call tonight 503-2-2-860. That's 503-2-2-5-0860.

That's 503-225-0860.

Hope you guys had a fine weekend.

I did practically nothing.

It was too hot to go outside.

It spent a lot of time inside, writing, reading, you know, watching a lot of old TV shows.

I'm just waiting for the new ones to come out.

I just, you know, I'm, I'm a Netflix junkie, it seems like.

Because that's all I do is I go to Netflix and see if there's anything new I can watch.

But what I did do, though, is I was, for some reason, there seems to be this

Star Wars thing going on.

Like, I bought what some, what was it?

I bought some Coke Zero in a case.

And every one of my cans has Darth Vader on it.

I don't know why. I don't know what's going on. I mean, I don't know what, if there's an anniversary of Star Wars that I'm overlooking. I mean, may the fourth be with you has already happened. So I don't really get what's going on. So I've just figured maybe what I would do just for, you know, to kill some time. I watched a little bit of the Mandalorian. The Mandalorian, I think, is a great show. It's a, you know, Star Wars spinoff. It's Disney, but, you know, we'll forgive him for that. But in the meantime, it's, it's a well-done show. In fact, I think a lot of people looked forward to it because that was one of the things that, you know, we had promised to was more Star Wars shows, more in-depth stuff. And

I was reminded of a scene, and I really love this scene because it says a lot, actually it kind of

sums up what I want to talk about tonight. But in the Mandalorian, there's a scene where two characters are talking with an Imperial Admiral.

His name is Valem Hess.

And they were curious as to why planet systems were surrendering to the empire or the new order.

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