Final Exit

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week, we track a tsunami of (mostly bad) bills in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Texas, Iowa, West Virginia and North Dakota. After hearing sneak previews of some of FFRF's other shows — "Ask an Atheist," "Freethought Matters" and "We Dissent" — we talk with Brian Ruder, president of the board of the Final Exit Network, which offers people who are unbearably suffering an intractable medical condition the option to die legally and peacefully.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:19.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:21.6	It's easy if you try.
0:27.6	No hell below us, above us only sky imagine all the people living for today.
0:59.2	Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:59.7	Welcome.
1:02.0	I hope you're holding up.
1:06.0	We are learning what it's like to be in the midst of a coup.
1:13.5	So far, bloodless, here in the United States, much of it fueled by Christian nationalism. So it's a pleasure to be among rational thinkers and supporters here on Free Thought Radio and podcast. So
1:19.1	thanks for listening and for caring. And I'm Dan Barker. Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the
1:26.0	Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:28.6	This is the March 6th, 2025 episode.
1:32.7	Leo Costello is our producer and Tori Neels with Audio for the Arts as our engineer,
1:37.9	recording in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall.
1:43.7	Free Thought Hall is the national office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:51.0	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:55.5	We have over 42,000 members as of this broadcast.
2:00.6	We should be 50,000. If you are a member, thank you. And if not,
2:04.8	please sign up. If you ever wondered about the need for joining together to work for the
2:10.7	separation of church and state for a reason to prevail for free thought, you should know this is
2:15.4	the time now. So you can go to ffruf.org, and there's a
2:19.5	donate link where you can join as a member. And joining as a member is the most helpful thing.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Freedom From Religion Foundation, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Freedom From Religion Foundation and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.