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

The number is to call tonight 503-225-0-860. That's 503-225-0860.

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

Tonight it's good to be here having an exhausting couple days

because it's just that seems it's so much going on in so many different ways

to present information to you. And one of the things I've always valued about what we do here

at Ground Zero is we give you, at least we hope, fresh opinions, fresh ideas. And we don't necessarily talk the way the mainstream speaks.

And I was thinking the other day about podcasts.

I was thinking about mainstream news.

I mean, I was just thinking to myself,

is anyone really enlightened by the choices we've got now with media? I'm talking about independent media. I'm talking about all media, podcast, talk radio. And I'm sure people have found their voice. A lot of people, of course, they find people they want to relate to and they talk to. But do they give you information in this voice you hear? Does it give you information you can use or are you just hearing the same

words over and over again and people just saying the same stuff, which of course means that

the propaganda is working. It's now infiltrated the independent media. And I worry because I seldom hear

people taking chances in their podcasts. And every podcast I hear being promoted on the radio is either a true

crime podcast or something along the lines of that or politics or, you know, I don't know.

I guess it's laziness. I guess that's the problem here. We've grown accustomed to outsourcing

our judgment. And a lot of people are waiting for the best of the most famous voices to tell us what to think.

I know it's comfortable.

It's quick, flattering to believe that we're following wisdom of people with giant intellects.

But perhaps it's precisely this habit, leaves us intellectually dependent.

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