GUEST: JAZZ SINGER TOKELI
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2010
⏱️ 43 minutes
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TOPICS: BILLBOARDS, CITY PRAYER, AND ATHEIST JAZZ
This week Freethought Radio hosts Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker interview the award-winning California jazz vocalist Tokeli and talk about her career and life as an atheist Mom. Listen to clips from Tokeli's CD "Where Do You Start?," including "The Nearness of You," "I've Got the World On a String," and "As Time Goes By." Also hear two TV news stories about FFRF's blitz of 20 new billboards in Tampa, Florida, and an update on the city prayer controversy in Aiken, South Carolina.
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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. |
| 0:13.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:18.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine all the people For us only sky, For faithless listeners, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:56.7 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 0:59.7 | This is the weekend of August the 14th and 15th, 2010. |
| 1:05.8 | I got an email a couple days ago from a listener who said he just started listening a few |
| 1:10.4 | a couple months ago, |
| 1:11.3 | but he went back and listened to all the podcasts, and he said, I did it. |
| 1:14.8 | I listened to all 233 podcasts of your show. |
| 1:18.4 | Well, that is being faithful. |
| 1:20.1 | I think that would take you like a month, a solid of listening. |
| 1:23.4 | This show, Free Thought Radio, is broadcasting and streaming from the progressive talk, the Mike 92.1, right here in Madison, Wisconsin, which is the home of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:37.5 | The show also airs in Atlanta, in Anchorage, in Grand Rapids, and Monterey, and podcasting throughout the cosmos. |
| 1:47.9 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:52.5 | and we're the nation's largest association of atheists, agnosticers, skeptics, |
| 1:58.8 | whatever you like to call yourselves, we all disbelieve in the |
| 2:01.7 | same God, is our joke. And we also work to keep state and church separate. And we have been a national |
| 2:07.8 | organization since 1978, actually originally got off the ground in Madison, Wisconsin in |
| 2:14.3 | 1976, back when I was a college student with my mother, Anne Gaylor. |
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