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!, 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.)
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