Guest: Madison cartoonist Mike Konopacki
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2010
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The co-hosts remember John Lennon. Dan and Annie Laurie speak with Madison cartoonist and illustrator of People's History of American Empire (co-authored by Howard Zinn). Mike talks about his exhibit at the FFRF national convention in Madison over Halloween weekend. The exhibit shows the perils of living in "One nation under god."
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:14.7 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:19.1 | 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 Today would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday, so Imagine is a fitting tribute. |
| 1:01.7 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:04.7 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:07.7 | John Lennon's birthday was October 9th, and this is the weekend of October 9th and 10th, |
| 1:13.6 | 2010. |
| 1:14.6 | And we're here in the studio also with Brian Chirvani, our engineer-producer. You want to say |
| 1:20.6 | hello, Brian? |
| 1:21.6 | Hello, Brian. |
| 1:22.6 | Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming from the Progressive Talk, the Mike 92.1, Madison, Wisconsin, airing also in Atlanta, Anchorage, Grand Rapids, Monterey, and podcasting everywhere. |
| 1:36.0 | This show, Free Thought Radio, is the weekly production of the National Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:42.1 | We, of course, are in favor of freedom for and freedom of religion, |
| 1:45.9 | but our group is composed of atheists and agnostics and other types of non-believers who |
| 1:51.8 | think it's very important to keep religion and government separate. So we educate and we |
| 1:56.8 | broadcast and we litigate. And we'll be talking about some of that litigation later. |
| 2:01.8 | We have the pleasure of an in-studio guest today, Mike Conopacky. |
| 2:06.8 | He'll be joining us on the second half of Free Thought Radio. |
| 2:10.0 | Mike is a Madison institution. |
| 2:11.8 | He's been drawing labor cartoons since 1978, |
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