Best of 2019 #421

Thank God I'm Atheist

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4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A look back at the stories we covered in 2019: Saudi phone app for men to track "their" women (from 2/9/2019); foster agencies allowed to discriminate against LGBT community (from 2/3/2019); measles outbreak among Orthodox Jews in NYC (from 4/20/2019); the distribution of religious materials at Veteran Administration hospitals (from 7/13/2019); China harvests organs from religious and political prisoners (from 06/22/2019); members of attacked synagogue oppose death penalty for shooter (from 8/31/2019); and a discussion about the rise of antisemitism (from 5/26/2019). Happy New Year, everyone!!

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0:00.0	The Hey everybody it's going to be a very special show today. Thank God I'm atheist. I'm Frank Feldman. Dan Beecher is out of town and so I thought
0:29.1	why not since it is the end of the year why not do a clips show pick some of the best clips from the past year.
0:37.0	May have been a rough year I think for all of us 2019 one of the worst years on record I would have to say
0:46.9	at least for a while long while
0:51.5	Worst in decades maybe.
0:53.0	You could probably come up with some worse ones.
0:56.0	But I went back through the year,
0:58.0	picked out some stuff going ranging all the way back to the beginning of the year.
1:03.2	The format of the show today is going to be pretty much like normal.
1:06.2	We're going to have some news up front and then we're going to play on the second half of the show there's going to be a discussion from I guess it was back in May thereabouts
1:19.7	Where we were talking about you know some real problem facing this country.
1:24.4	And I feel like it was, it's worth repeating the discussion that we had because it's one of the
1:30.6	most alarming trends happening in America and throughout the world right now.
1:35.7	That's of course the rise of anti-Semitism. We've talked about it throughout the year and I think that it really warrants one more if not many more
1:46.6	examinations and discussions while while this continues to unfortunately be a horrible problem in our country.
1:57.8	And so that will be coming up second half of the show.
2:01.4	In the meantime, here's the news as of a while back.
2:07.0	That's all right.
2:09.0	All right, well Dan, I have a story here that is a little horrifying.
2:18.6	Uh-oh.
2:19.6	I'm bracing.
2:22.0	It sort of explains, well, mean we know why we we know why a woman would want to flee Saudi Arabia
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