Clyde Lewis

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Clyde Lewis
Born Louis Clyde Holder
(1964-02-22) February 22, 1964
Murray, Utah, USA
Occupation Talk Radio
Website groundzeromedia.org

Clyde Lewis (born Louis Clyde Holder on February 22, 1964) is an American talk radio host and conspiracy theorist. He is the creator and host of Ground Zero, a talk radio show dealing with paranormal and parapolitical topics.

Political positions and views

Lewis, talks about the possibility of numerous conspiracies and supernatural phenomena.[1] In a 2012 interview Lewis said beings from outer space have come to earth and "They are here to eat us...We are being farmed for our organs."[2] He also believes the moon landing in 1969 was faked.[2] Lewis says President Barack Obama was born in Africa and is therefore not eligible to be president of the United States. He says that Obama "was conceived during a CIA operation" to infiltrate "communists" because "communists were black at that time."[2] President George W. Bush was also a project of intelligence agencies, having been subjected to mind control in order to turn him into a "Manchurian candidate," according to Lewis.[3] Lewis speaks positively of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as reflected on his Ground Zero website: "Vladimir Putin has been instrumental in rebelling against the hostile encroachment of the World Government and has challenged Barack Obama on his decisions to embrace the new World Order."[4]

Lewis regularly cites weather control by the government or "rogue scientists" to manipulate global politics, once suggesting that Hurricane Sandy was created to help Obama by delaying the 2012 presidential election.[5] He says Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, "has every chance of being the Anti-Christ" and claims Men in Black once bombed his car "to scare him".[6]

Lewis often discusses end-of-the-world scenarios caused by everything from alien visitation to Ebola epidemics.[7][8][9] However, Lewis believes that there is no danger of climate change, which he says is a hoax.[3][10] Instead, Lewis claims that the scientific consensus on climate change is really a global conspiracy linked to Nazi ideals, and that efforts to combat climate change could lead to another Holocaust; this new Holocaust would be carried out by the UN's "green police force, carrying out the same old and tired lies that led to genocidal directives that killed millions of people 70 years ago."[11]

The idea that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting could have been a hoax or conspiracy (by using "crisis actors" posing as the parents of the murdered children and by using devices to beam homicidal thoughts into the shooter's mind) designed to facilitate government gun control has also been explored by Lewis.[12][13][14]

Lewis, who says he is haunted by demons, claims that his former mentor in radio, William Wolfgang Gossett, was in fact the fugitive airline hijacker known as D. B. Cooper.[3][15][16]

Radio

Ground Zero Radio

Lewis’ career in radio began in Utah in 1982. He started Ground Zero in 1995 in Salt Lake City. Lewis has produced Ground Zero programs online, on radio and on television.

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 in Oklahoma City, after which he was pressured to change the name again, but refused. The AM talk station programmed the show on Sundays before two nationally syndicated paranormal radio shows—Art Bell and Whitley Strieber's Dreamland as well as Michael F. Corbin's Paranet Continuum.[17]

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 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.[18] 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 2001–2004 was a former NASA contractor, Daniel Cascaddan.[19] Other producers included Aaron Duran, 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 radio for four years.

Ground Zero aired on "Krocks Radio One", an Internet radio station on Fridays from 10 pm to 1 am from August 2009 to December 2009. This show was discontinued due to his 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 returned to 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 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 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. The former KUFO website released a farewell message, and all of the stations personalities were fired. Clyde was already a freelance reporter for KXL and was asked to continue Ground Zero five nights a week.

On April 1, 2011, it was announced Clyde Lewis was returning to KXL-FM, the Portland, Oregon, flagship station where he was first syndicated.

On July 30, 2012, it was announced that Premiere Radio Networks had picked up nationwide syndication rights to Ground Zero. The show has been nationally broadcast on weeknights from 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Pacific time, beginning August 27, 2012. The show then continues from 10:00 pm - Midnight on KXL-FM in Portland.

Some of the guests who have been interviewed on Ground Zero:

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 Moon with the movie The Wizard of Oz, creating what is now known as Dark Side of the Rainbow.[20]

Television and Film

Year Title Role Notes
1999 Nightfall (Video) Johnson
2000 Cage in Box Elder Reid Freemartin
2000 Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV Toxie (voice)
2004 Remote Control (Short) Henry
2005 Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (TV Series documentary) - Conspiracy Theories (2005) Himself
2007 The Day Called 'X' (Documentary) Himself The documentary premiered at Willamette Week's Longbaugh Film Festival in Portland on March 31, 2007
2008 Wordspeaker (Short) Roger 'Mad Dog' Welles
2009 Diary-Ahh of a Mad Independent Filmmaker (Video documentary short) Himself
2010 Return to the Bermuda Triangle (TV Movie documentary) Himself
2012 Nightbumpers Narrator (voice)

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.

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 for the d20 system, Alien Invasion, has been developed by Michael Tresca. The gamemaster'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 mentioned Lewis in an article about off-the-wall conspiracies, citing his theory that Prince William is the Antichrist.[21]

Don’t! Buy! Thai!

In Ground Zero's early years, Lewis was involved with the Don't! Buy! Thai! campaign. The campaign was a boycott of Thai goods and services. It was headed by Andrew Vachss, a child protection advocate, and its goal was to bring about stricter laws in Thailand concerning prostitution of children.

The Toxic Avenger

Clyde Lewis voices the title character, the Toxic Avenger, and his nemesis, the "Noxious Offender", in the film Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV. Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Entertainment 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."[22] Lewis continues to support Troma Entertainment by making appearances at their promotions in Portland, Oregon, and at the TromaDance 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.[23][24] Lewis, McKee and Jim Colvill created "Klingon Karaoke", in which Colvill dressed in a Star Trek-inspired Klingon costume and performed well-known songs, such as "Bad to the Bone", "Born to Be Wild", and "My Way", translated into the Klingon language. Patrons often arrived dressed in costumes themselves. In 2003, Vancouver, Washington members of the Star Wars fan group, the 501st Legion, began to attend, dressing as stormtroopers, and one of them, styled The Singing Stormtrooper, sang cover songs as well. The heavy metal band Stovokor, 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.[25] 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's. 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!, which described the event as "karaoke night for whack jobs".[26] In December 2005, the Idaho Observer published Lewis's essay, "The Harm Principle"[27]

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.)

References

  1. ↑ http://www.talkers.com/tag/clyde-lewis/
  2. 1 2 3 "Clyde Lewis: Ground Zero Radio - ABOUT FACE Magazine - ABOUT FACE Magazine". Aboutfacemag.com. 2012-12-13. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
  3. 1 2 3 http://aboutfacemag.com/interviews/media/clyde-lewis-ground-zero-radio/
  4. ↑ http://www.groundzeromedia.org/fascist-clowns-from-outer-space/
  5. ↑ "Ground Zero Media's sets on SoundCloud - Hear the world's sounds". Groundzero.fm. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
  6. ↑ Gilles, Nathan. "Fertilized By Belief | Features". Portland Mercury. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
  7. ↑ http://aboutfacemag.com/interviews/media/clyde-lewis-ground-zero-radio/#.UFxKRI3N-Q4
  8. ↑ "HEALTH ($) CARE". Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis.
  9. ↑ "THE ALIEN KILL SWITCH". Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis.
  10. ↑ Lewis, Clyde (2010-01-10). "Seeking Intellectual Honesty About Global Warming | Ground Zero With Clyde Lewis". Groundzeromedia.org. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
  11. ↑ Lewis, Clyde (2011-07-22). "GREEN HELMET | Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis". Groundzeromedia.org. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
  12. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SH0oLuJZpI
  13. ↑ "Sandy Hoax: A Dose Of Grim Reality". Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis.
  14. ↑ Lewis, Clyde (2013-04-12). "Mental Hopscotch | Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis". Groundzeromedia.org. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
  15. ↑ http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/fertilized-by-belief/Content?oid=27317
  16. ↑ http://themountainnewswa.net/2012/02/23/suspects-in-the-db-cooper-skyjacking-sketches-pictures-and-comparisons/
  17. ↑ Arave, Lynn (1996-03-15). "KSL 1160 is named finalist for crystal radio awards". Deseret News.
  18. ↑ Arave, Lynn (1999-05-15). "'K-Talk' now available on the Web — Ground Zero Ends?". Deseret News.
  19. ↑ http://www.gungadan.com/CV.doc
  20. ↑ Frost, Bill; “Dark Side of the Rainbow: In the Pink with Dorothy at Ground Zero”, Weekly Wire, 21 July 1997.
  21. ↑ "The Truth Is Now Out There", Rolling Stone, September 8, 2005, p. 59.
  22. ↑ Kaufman, Lloyd, Make Your Own Damn Movie!: Secrets of a Renegade Director. Los Angeles: LA Weekly Books, 2003, ISBN 0-312-28864-6, page 244.
  23. ↑ "Set your phasers on fun" Portland Tribune, May 24th, 2002
  24. ↑ Jigar Mehta, "With a Song in Their Heart, Klingon Wannabees Star in Portland Bar", North Gate News Online(UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism), October 31, 2003.
  25. ↑ "Galactic Citizen addresses local issues'", Positively Entertainment and Dining, Volume 27, Number 9, September 23, 2003
  26. ↑ "Showtime : Penn & Teller: Bullshit! : Home". Sho.com. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
  27. ↑ "The Harm Principle: FEMA Unmasked", The Idaho Observer, Clyde Lewis, December 2005

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