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I'm Clyde Lewis.

And this is Ground Zero.

The numbers call tonight, 503-2-5-0-860.

It's 503-2-2-0-860.

I dreaded having to open the show today, not because I don't enjoy being with you.

I do.

I enjoy every minute we have, every hour we have together on this program.

But it's not always easy to lose a coworker or someone who you over a short up period

amount short amount of time short period of time you fall in love with and and you feel

his enthusiasm and his love for what he did and what he does and how he was always there, always dependable.

For those of you that don't know, we got word that I guess it was Tuesday,

that a former producer of ours, Carlos Sanchez, passed away.

And he was only with us for a short time because he was, he developed health

problems. And even though, even though he came in sick sometimes and he came in, I mean,

we're talking really sick, he wanted so badly to do the show and to participate and he'd always you know we'd do on beyond zero

and he always be shy because of what we talked about he was a really good man a really good

Christian um and uh very kind uh very just full of life and full of love.

And it's really difficult that we hear of his passing because one of the things that he did before he passed away is he came in and we all said hello and we hugged him and and we said the door's still open for you

if you want to work for us he says no he says i'm dying and we didn't want to believe it but

when we held each other we hugged and embraced all of us hugged him We felt that he was, we knew that he was losing weight.

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