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

The numbers to call tonight 503-22-2-5-0-860.

That's 503-225-0-860.

I didn't mention this a couple weekends ago.

I went with my son Mitch to see Fantastic Four.

I've been a huge Fantastic Four fan for a long time, and we've always been waiting.

Fantastic Four fans have always been waiting for a movie that is going to satisfy us

because we haven't seen one that we really liked.

Well, I liked this one, more so because I felt that it was, I don't know how to put it.

It was, it was kind of a film that gave us a pseudo-religious message, okay, meaning

that there was a savior type of situation was happening with a little baby, a herald that comes in

and warns us of impending doom, something from space is coming to destroy the planet.

And this is something that religious texts and traditions have talked about for a while.

The heralds of the end of the world.

And in the case of the Fantastic Four, it was the Silver Surfer.

And then, of course, Galactus is the character from space that comes and tries to take over or destroy the planet.

So when you hear the heralds of the end of the world, typically,

what we're referring to are figures or events that are seen as precursors to a catastrophic or transformative event, always associated or often associated with the end of the age and the

return of a deity or the arrival of a deity, whether it be the return of a Messiah or the

arrival of Messiah. So these heralds can be specific individuals. They can be symbols. They can be

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