This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.

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

Hello you friendly neighborhood atheist, godless, heathen, hell-bent agnostic.

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is Freethought Radio.

The weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, the nation's largest association of freethinkers. That means atheist,

agnostic, skeptic, non-believer. And we also work as a state church watchdog. Today is July 16th,

2011, and I hope someday, I hope today you will join us in our work. This broadcast is

originating from the Mike 92.1, Madison,

Wisconsin, Free Thought Radio streams from this station, and we are broadcasting also in Atlanta,

Grand Rapids, Monterey, New York City, and of course podcasting. And you may have noticed I'm flying

solo today. Neither God nor Dan Barker is my co-pilot.

Unfortunately, Dan is having a recurrence of kidney stones that fell to him earlier this year.

His third bout this year, he has two stones remaining.

I don't know if he'd want me to go into all the particulars,

but I do hope that he'll

soon be convalescing and be back with us. And that will be with the help of modern medicine

and copious amounts of lemonade, which is what the doctors are all prescribing these days instead

of cranberry juice for kidney stones. And Dan told me to tell you that he's cursing the so-called

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