Guest: Ernie Harburg

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 April 2013

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week we celebrate FFRF's victory in Jackson, Ohio. The Jesus painting in the high school was taken down! We also celebrate the April 8 birthday of Yip Harburg, the famous nonbelieving lyricist ("Over the Rainbow," "April in Paris," "Paper Moon"), by catching up with his son Ernie, who tells us that his Dad's socially minded legacy continues through the activities of the Yip Harburg Foundation.

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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.
0:44.3	Imagine all the people living for today Yeah
0:58.0	Somewhere over the rainbow
1:06.0	Way up high.
1:19.6	There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.
1:31.2	Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true
1:42.9	Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and did you know that the number one all-time
1:48.4	favorite song from a movie is Over the Rainbow and that it was written by an atheist
1:55.7	lyricist. So we'll talk some more about that on today's show. I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, Atheist of the Airwaves,
2:04.3	and this is the April 6th, 2013 broadcast of Free Thought Radio.
2:09.4	We broadcast a stream from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin.
2:14.1	We also broadcast in Columbus, Missouri, Ithaca, New York, and Inverance, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Monterey, California.
2:21.4	We also podcast to the universe.
2:24.8	But we don't want to preach only to the unconverted.
2:27.9	So if you have a favorite radio station in your area, why not suggest they pick up free thought Radio. We want to broadcast not only to the
2:36.2	unmasked masses, but to reach people who have never heard religion publicly critiqued
2:41.6	and held to the standard of reason. Free Thought Radio is the production of the Freedom
2:47.6	from Religion Foundation, FFRF, and we're the nation's largest association of
2:53.3	Freethinkers, Atheist and Agnostics, with over 19,000 members in North America, and we work to
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