This is free thought radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker, and Annie Lori Gaylor.

Imagine there's no heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today It is the season to be outspoken in a jolly sort of way.

So a warm hello to all you heretics and iconoclasts.

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.

And I'm Dan Barker.

Fala la la la, lots of free thought in the news this month.

I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves.

And welcome to Free Thought Radio, your antidote to the religious right.

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in the United States of atheists and agnostics, working to keep state and church separate.

And we're delighted to say we'll be joined on the second half of our broadcast today by the hilarious

and really smart comedian and actress Julia Swinney.

And she's just released her one woman's show into a DVD. The scathingly brilliant

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