Guest: Sam Brower author of Prophet's Prey

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2012

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Hear the new radio ad that Julia Sweeney recorded for FFRF. This week we talk about FFRF's retort to the Catholic Bishops' assault on women's healthcare, and about yet more illegal governmental prayer. Then we interview private detective Sam Brower, author of Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints.

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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.
0:25.6	It's easy if you try.
0:31.6	No hell below us, above us only sky
0:41.3	imagine all the people
0:46.3	living for today.
1:05.3	Hello, all you godless infidels.
1:10.3	I'm Dan Barker, and this is radio as secular as our Constitution. Good authors too, who once knew better words now only use for leather words writing prose.
1:34.3	Anything goes. That's the Count Basie Orchestra playing the Cole Porter song.
1:42.3	Anything Goes. Coal Porter, who was born on June the 9th.
1:47.7	Today is the June the 9th, 2012 show of Free Thought Radio.
1:52.6	And Cole Porter, we've talked about him a lot on this show.
1:55.3	Cole was an atheist, and he was gay.
1:59.1	He had to come out of two closets.
2:02.3	He was born in 1891.
2:21.5	So listen through the rest of today's show for more of Cole Porter's music. I'm Dan Barker, as I said. And usually the show starts with Annie Laurie Gaylor. And why is she not here? You might be wondering. Well, the gods have smitten her life, or if not the gods, because there are no gods,
2:23.5	maybe a little spider has done it.
2:30.5	Annie Laurie's wrist swelled up, apparently from a spider bite or some horrible insect bite.
2:36.5	She was in the emergency room more than once this week. Her left hand is swollen and painful and itchy. The doctor told her, don't go to work today. Don't come in. You need to
2:41.9	stay home and take it easy. So thank all of you, godless listeners, for not praying for Annie
2:48.1	Lori Gaylor as she recuperates from apparently the doctor suggested it might
2:52.5	have been a brown recluse spider, whatever that is.
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