Clyde Lewis
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Clyde Lewis is a talk radio
Talk radio
Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live...
personality and actor. He is the creator and host of Ground Zero, a talk radio show dealing with paranormal
Paranormal
Paranormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...
and parapolitical topics.
His writings have been featured in UFO Magazine and Chris Fleming
Chris Fleming
Christopher Fleming is an American medium, paranormal researcher, television personality, and public speaker. He has written numerous articles and produced various print and online publications on the topics of paranormal activity and psychic phenomena.Fleming has appeared on several...
's Unknown Magazine, and he has appeared on Sightings and Strange Universe.
He has appeared in the movies Nightfall (1988), which he co-wrote with director Kevin Delullo; Cage in Box Elder (2000); and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV (2000), in which he provided the voice of the Toxic Avenger.
Radio career
1982: KBBX, a gospel station in Bountiful, Utah, as a producer and engineer.1985–1989: K-LITE 93 FM in Salt Lake City, Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
, as producer for the John and Dan Show,
1989–1991: Short stints at KZHT, KMGR, and KJQN, also in Salt Lake City.
1992: Hiatus from broadcast radio, during which he taught classes at the American School of Broadcasting and also published a horror fanzine called B-Lame, which he continued through 1994.
1993–1995: Returned to the former K-LITE, which had become Z-93, where he resumed producing the John and Dan Show. He created his own show, "In the Pink", where he synchronized Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
music with sound effects and movie soundtracks.
1995–1997: KCNR, Salt Lake City, where he was a CNN
CNN
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regional correspondent, reported for Metro News, co-hosted the show Drive-By Radio with Rick Emerson
Rick Emerson
Rick Emerson , formerly known as Rick Taylor, is a radio personality most known for The Rick Emerson Show, currently broadcasting daily from , and has been broadcast in Portland, Oregon, in one form or another, since 1997. The show was nationally syndicated for a period from 1998-2001 by NBG Radio...
, and began Ground Zero, the show he is best known for.
1997–1999: KBER, Salt Lake City, continuing Ground Zero.
1999–2001: Moved to Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
to produce the Rick Emerson Show during its year-and-a-half syndication. Ground Zero became syndicated March 12, 2000 on the NBG Network until 2001. Its flagship station was Portland's KXL.
2001–2005: KOTK, Portland, Oregon, continuing Ground Zero. KOTK became Max 910 in 2004, and changed its format in 2005, removing Ground Zero from terrestrial radio.
2005–2009: Lewis continued Ground Zero in the form of a weekly presentation called Ground Zero Lounge at a Portland nightclub, Dante's, which was recorded and broadcast over the Internet.
2009–2011: Ground Zero returns to terrestrial radio on Portland's KUFO FM on December 13, 2009, broadcasting from 10 PM to 12 AM on Sundays. In April 2011 KUFO changes their format to talk and merges with KXL.
2011–present: Ground Zero returns to terrestrial radio on Portland's KXL AM/FM on April 11, 2011, broadcasting from 9 PM to 12 AM Monday to Friday.
Ground Zero Radio
Ground Zero is a show whose scope includes paranormal, political, and entertainment topics.The show began in 1995 as KULT Radio at KCNR. One week later, under pressure from those who disliked the name, he changed it to Ground Zero. Two weeks after that came the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was a United States Federal Government complex located at 200 N.W. 5th Street in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. The building was the target of the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995, which killed 168 people, including 19 children...
in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma city
Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.Oklahoma City may also refer to:*Oklahoma City metropolitan area*Downtown Oklahoma City*Uptown Oklahoma City*Oklahoma City bombing*Oklahoma City National Memorial...
, after which he was pressured to change the name again, but refused. The AM talk station programed the show on Sundays before two nationally-syndicated paranormal radio shows—Art Bell
Art Bell
Arthur W. "Art" Bell, III is an American broadcaster and author, known primarily as one of the founders and the original host of the paranormal-themed radio program Coast to Coast AM. He also created and formerly hosted its companion show, Dreamland...
's Dreamland and Michael F. Corbin's Paranet Continuum
Paranet Continuum
The ParaNet Continuum was a popular nationally syndicated talk show that aired every Sunday night from April 18, 1994 to 1999, and intermittently to 2002. Hosted by the late investigative journalist Michael Corbin , the show explored subjects such as UFOs, mind control, alleged alien abduction,...
.
When the show moved to KBER, it became the top-rated show in its time slot in Salt Lake City.
Lewis was investigated by the FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...
after his remark during the broadcast on March 25, 1997, a night marked by a full moon, that “This would be a great night for some cult to commit suicide.” That same night, 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult committed suicide at Rancho Santa Fe in California. Lewis had no connection with the cult; his remark had been a grisly coincidence.
Lewis moved to Portland, Oregon at the behest of Rick Emerson, his former co-host on Drive-By Radio, to produce Emerson's new syndicated show; his last KBER broadcast was May 16, 1999. Ground Zero was subsequently picked up by the NBG Radio Network.
The show lost its syndication in June 2001, after Lewis claimed on the air that the pending execution of Timothy McVeigh would result in a terrorist attack on United States soil, an eventuality that could, he suggested, be averted by keeping McVeigh alive long enough to extract information from him about existing terrorist cells in the country. Advertisers pulled their support, and NBG dropped Ground Zero after a contract dispute. Lewis wrote about the broadcast and the subsequent September 11 attacks in his essay "America's 911".
Ground Zero moved to Portland's KOTK. His producer from 2001–2002 was a former NASA
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
contractor, Daniel Cascaddan. Other producers included Aaron Duran
Aaron Duran
Aaron "Geek in the City" Duran is an American writer and media producer in Portland, Oregon, of Mexican and Italian descent. He is the host of , webmaster of , and a regular guest on the Cort and Fatboy Show and The Rick Emerson Show...
, with whom Lewis created the spinoff show News at Ground Zero, to which Sadie Gregg contributed.
MAX 910 went off the air due to a format change in 2005, ending Ground Zero's broadcasts on terrestrial radio for four years.
Ground Zero aired on "Krocks Radio One", an Internet radio station on Fridays from 10pm to 1 am from August 2009 to December 2009. This show was discontinued due to taking the news position at 750 KXL. Krocks Radio One continued to air the live shows from KUFO and aired replays of the show throughout the week.
In December 2009, Ground Zero returns to terrestrial radio on Portland's Rock FM 101.1 KUFO-FM on Sunday nights. In taking on an additional freelance news position at 750 AM KXL, Lewis has had to discontinue his weekly event, Ground Zero Lounge. In November 2010, Clyde Lewis severed all ties with KROCKS Radio One due to undisclosed differences.
The radio show successfully continued on KUFO for 4 months after the online split from KROCKS. At 8 AM on March 15, 2011, KUFO's rock format was flipped to a simulcast of KXL-AM's lineup of news and conservative talk show hosts, including Portland-native Lars Larson's "Northwest Only" and national shows. The former KUFO website released a farewell message, and all of the stations personalities were fired. Clyde was already a feelance reporter for KXL and was asked to continue Ground Zero 5 nights a week. On April 1st, 2011 It was announced Clyde Lewis was returning to KXL, the Portland flagship station where he was first syndicated. He is now on Monday Through Friday 9:00 PM til Midnight.
Some of the guests who have been interviewed on Ground Zero:
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orbiting around the moon and authored a book about the Green Children of WoolpitGreen children of WoolpitThe green children of Woolpit reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, some time in the 12th century, perhaps during the reign of King Stephen. The children, brother and sister, were of generally normal appearance except for the green colour of their skin. They spoke in an...
Dark Side of the Rainbow
While hosting his show "In the Pink", Lewis was among the first to begin synchronizing Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the MoonThe Dark Side of the Moon
The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in March 1973. It built on ideas explored in the band's earlier recordings and live shows, but lacks the extended instrumental excursions that characterised their work following the departure...
with the movie The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs...
, creating what is now known as Dark Side of the Rainbow
Dark Side of the Rainbow
Dark Side of the Rainbow – also known as Dark Side of Oz or The Wizard of Floyd – refers to the pairing of the 1973 Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon with the visual portion of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. This produces moments where the film and the album appear to...
.
Don’t! Buy! Thai!
In Ground Zero's early years, Lewis was involved with the Don't! Buy! Thai!Don't! Buy! Thai!
Don't! Buy! Thai! was a campaign initiated in the early 1990s by child welfare advocate and author Andrew Vachss to boycott goods and services produced in Thailand until its government introduced formal and practical reforms to significantly curtail the prostitution of children.The organization of...
campaign. The campaign was a boycott of Thai goods and services. It was headed by Andrew Vachss
Andrew Vachss
Andrew Henry Vachss is an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths...
, a child protection advocate, and its goal was to bring about stricter laws in Thailand concerning prostitution of children. An opponent of the boycott, Sean Parlaman
Sean Parlaman
Griffith Simmons Parlaman III , who often referred to himself as “Sean Parlaman”, was a self-proclaimed activist who, before his death, sought to raise awareness regarding the trafficking and prostitution of children into Thailand...
, repeatedly accused Vacchs, Lewis and others of self-aggrandizement, defamation of the Thai people, and of being pedophiles themselves. He harassed them with emails, public Internet posts and phone calls. The attacks prompted Lewis to write "Sean Parlaman: The Truth About a Liar", in which he provides details of the accusations, as well as rebuttals by organizations for which Parlaman fraudulently claimed to be a spokesman. The question of the credibility of Parlaman's attacks became academic when he died in a fourteen-story fall from his Thailand condominium, a death suspected to be a suicide in reaction to charges brought against him for sexual assault on minors.
The Toxic Avenger
Clyde Lewis voices the title character, the Toxic Avenger, and his nemesis, the "Noxious Offender", in "Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV". Lloyd KaufmanLloyd Kaufman
Lloyd Kaufman is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor. With producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films, including The Toxic Avenger and Tromeo and Juliet. Kaufman also serves as...
of Troma Entertainment
Troma Entertainment
Troma Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz in 1974.The company produces low-budget independent movies that play on 1950s horror with elements of farce...
chose Lewis from a nationwide talent hunt after the voices of the costumed actors cast as Toxie in the second and third movies were received badly by audiences. "We decided to go back to what worked in the first place," he said, "[and] found the perfect match in Salt Lake City radio personality Clyde Lewis." Lewis continues to support Troma Entertainment by making appearances at their promotions in Portland, Oregon, and at the TromaDance
TromaDance
The TromaDance Film Festival is a free annual independent film festival organized by Troma Entertainment. Founded in 1999, TromaDance was originally held in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, operating concurrently alongside the Sundance Film Festival in order to showcase an independent...
Film Festival in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah. His voice will return for the future release of Toxic Avenger 5.
Klingon Karaoke
In 2002, Ground Zero began airing advertisements for a Portland bar, Bodacious Classics. In February of that year, the bar's owner, Ralph McKee, began holding Sci-Fi Night on Thursdays. Lewis, McKee and Jim Colvill created "Klingon Karaoke", in which Colvill dressed in a Star TrekStar Trek
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
-inspired Klingon
Klingon
Klingons are a fictional warrior race in the Star Trek universe.Klingons are recurring villains in the 1960s television show Star Trek: The Original Series, and have appeared in all five spin-off series and eight feature films...
costume and performed well-known songs, such as "Bad to the Bone", "Born to Be Wild", and "My Way", translated into the Klingon language
Klingon language
The Klingon language is the constructed language spoken by the fictional Klingons in the Star Trek universe....
. Patrons often arrived dressed in costumes themselves. In 2003, Vancouver, Washington
Vancouver, Washington
Vancouver is a city on the north bank of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington. Incorporated in 1857, it is the fourth largest city in the state with a 2010 census population of 161,791 as of April 1, 2010...
members of the Star Wars fan group, the 501st Legion
501st Legion
The 501st Legion is an international fan-based organization dedicated to the construction and wearing of screen-accurate replicas of Imperial Stormtrooper armor, Imperial officer uniforms, Clone Troopers and other villains and nefarious characters from the Star Wars universe...
, began to attend, dressing as stormtroopers, and one of them, styled The Singing Stormtrooper, sang cover songs as well. The heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
band Stovokor
Stovokor (band)
Stovokor is a death metal band from Portland, Oregon . Its five members are Bill Salfelder , vocals; Merlin Carson , lead guitar; Ward Young , rhythm guitar, Jason Lewis , bass guitar; and Jason Johansen , drums.-About:The band is named for Sto-vo-kor, the afterlife of Star Trek's fictional aliens...
, who also dress as Klingons, performed on occasion.
Lewis and Dr. Larry Johns, who ran the Portland Alien Museum, began a Tuesday night discussion group at Bodacious Classics in 2003, Ground Zero Live. It became the Ground Zero Lounge, a show performed at Portland's premiere night club, Dante's.
Ground Zero Lounge
Clyde Lewis's weekly discussion event, Ground Zero Lounge, was held at a local nightclub, Dante'sDante's
Dante's is a nightclub and live music venue in Portland, Oregon, United States, that opened in February, 2000. Since opening, the club has hosted numerous internationally-famous bands, solo-acts, troupes and performance artists....
. The spoken word show featured Ground Zero's traditional topics as well as current news about politics and the paranormal, and audience members were free to take the microphone and respond.
In 2005, footage was shot at Ground Zero Lounge for the purpose of featuring Lewis in the Conspiracy Theories episode of Penn and Teller's show, Bullshit!
Bullshit!
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! is an American documentary television series that aired from 2003 to 2010 on the premium cable channel Showtime. In Canada, the series aired on The Movie Network and Movie Central.- Overview :...
,
In December 2005, the Idaho Observer published Lewis's essay, "The Harm Principle"
Ground Zero Lounge held its final episode on December 7, 2009. It was discontinued due to scheduling conflicts involved in Lewis's return to terrestrial radio.
During the summer of 2010 Clyde brought back his live audience shows and presented them at a Masonic lodge in north Portland. The shows received a mixed response. The shows failed to capture the same enthusiasm as the lounge shows and were subsequently cancelled on October 29, 2010. A new bar opened in Portland to showcase Clyde's work in 2011. The Jack London bar, situated in the basement of one of Clyde's favorite bars "The Rialto" now features the Ground Zero Lounge once a month. The Rialto is said to be the bar where Clyde claims he met an M.I.B.(Man In Black.)
Other involvements
Lewis has appeared as a recurring commentator on cable television on two shows: Mad as Hell TV, hosted by Courtney Scott, and Outside the Box, hosted by Alex Ansary, both aired by Portland Community Media.Lewis was the subject of a 2007 documentary, "The Day Called X", about the Portland, Oregon, portion of his career. The documentary premiered at Willamette Week
Willamette Week
Willamette Week is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, United States. It features reports on local news, politics, sports, business and culture....
's Longbaugh Film Festival in Portland on March 31, 2007.
The Southern California band, Sons of Nothing, wrote a song called "Mr. Serious" about Clyde Lewis, included on their 2006 album, Clarity.
A role-playing game
Role-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...
for the d20 system
D20 System
The d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons...
, Alien Invasion, has been developed by Michael Tresca. The gamemaster
Gamemaster
A gamemaster is a person who acts as an organizer, officiant for questions regarding rules, arbitrator, and moderator for a multiplayer game...
's sourcebook, written by Tresca, features Clyde Lewis, Aaron Duran, and Sadie Gregg as non-player characters belonging to the organization "Ground Zero Radio". Lewis wrote the introduction to the book.
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
mentioned Lewis in an article about off-the-wall conspiracies, citing his theory that Prince William is the Antichrist
Antichrist
The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to a leader who fulfills Biblical prophecies concerning an adversary of Christ, while resembling him in a deceptive manner...
.
In October of 2007 Clyde was diagnosed with malignant double renal cell carcinoma. In order to save his life Clyde was told that he needed painful surgeries in order to remove his tumors. Fearing that he might die, Clyde decided to appear in a special farewell movie that he dedicated to his listeners. The film short "Wordspeaker" was written and directed by Vancouver Washington native Dennis Sparks. In it Clyde plays an aging talk show host who doesn't know when to give up. The ending was dark and sad and featured a performance of "Manon: Adieu notre petite table" by Sadie Gregg. The film is now featured on the Internet Movie Database.
In the winter of 2007-2008, Lewis underwent two surgeries to remove malignant tumors from both of his kidneys. In the spring of 2008 just months after Clyde had recovered from two kidney surgeries, he was notified that an old colleague, William Wolfgang Gossett was being investigated as a suspect in the D.B. Cooper case. Clyde rallied a team of investigators and joined the investigative team Tosaw, with lawyer Galen Cook to look for clues surrounding the infamous hijacker's jump near the Columbia River in Washington State.
In June 2010, a suspicious anomaly on a cancer scan raised the concern that his cancer had returned, but more accurate tests in November revealed that it was a thickening of tissues related to the kidney healing from surgery.
On October 24, 2010 Clyde appeared on the Learning Channel documentary "Return to the Bermuda Triangle."
On October 31, 2010 Clyde along with Illusionist Reed McClintock, Reverse Speech inventor David John Oates, and mad sceintist Dr. Jonathan Burgess attempted to contact the dead using a radio similar to "Franks's Box." Lewis claimed that he was trying to fulfill a dream not realized by inventor Thomas Edison. The on-air experiment was called "The Edison Enigma/Operation Friendly Ghost."
This was considered to be a world wide seance as people from all over the world claimed that their dead loved ones had spoken to them. Lewis also produced evidence of clear EVP during the experiement. The experiment was repeated the next week but was called off halfway through the show because many involved felt an evil presence in the room. Footage was shot in studio documenting paranormal activity during the broadcast. The Broadcast was simulcast on FATE radio and on 1670 Am in Casper Wyoming.
External links
- Ground Zero Radio
- Ground Zero Radio Nightly Podcast
- Clyde Lewis's IMDb page
- "Fertilized by Belief", Portland Mercury article by Frank Bures
- Fact sheet liner notes for the Sons of Nothing song "Mr. Serious"
- "The Lounge-lit Underbelly of Dissent: Cheap Suits, Simple Patriots and Jesus Camp" by Neil Zawicki
- Dee Snider KNAC interview by Krishta Abruzzini comments briefly on Clyde Lewis, the Moon landing and JFK