GUEST: 82-YEAR-OLD FREETHINKING FARMER/BILLBOARD BENEFACTOR

Freethought Radio

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2010

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week Freethought Radio hosts Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker will parse the godly tenor of Glenn Beck's D.C. rally, discuss other news developments and interview an 82-year-old Wisconsin farmer about why he dreamed up and paid for FFRF's billboard, recently defaced in Watertown, Wis., saying "Enjoy Life Now: There Is No Afterlife." The show will also air comedian Steve Martin's "atheist hymn."

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:14.7	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:18.8	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
0:41.3	imagine all the people
0:46.3	living for today The Black Robe Regiment is back again today.
1:03.2	That's a chilling excerpt of Glenn Beck's revival meeting last Saturday in front of Lincoln Memorial.
1:10.3	Happy September to our irreverent audience.
1:13.6	More on Beckin a bit.
1:15.5	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and welcome to Free Thought Radio.
1:18.1	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:21.6	This is the Labor Day weekend of 2010.
1:26.2	And we hope you're not having to labor over Labor Day weekend.
1:29.5	You know, 21 years ago today, you Annie Laurie were literally in, not in labor, but in
1:38.7	delivering, right, on September the 4th, 1989.
1:41.8	Which was, was a labor, was actually was Labor Day.
1:44.1	Yeah, actually, it was an emergency C-section, so I wasn't in labor, but I did manage to crack a joke about it being a very appropriate day to give birth before they put me under.
1:54.5	So, happy birthday to our daughter, Sabrina, who turns 21 today.
2:00.1	Sabrina was a little more than six weeks early, and she weighed under three pounds, but
2:06.6	today she's a college student, and when that traumatic emergency happened, we didn't invoke
2:13.5	some supernatural power to get us through it.
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