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Freethought Radio

Guest: Todd Stiefel

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6578 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

IN THE NEWS: FFRF complains about Clemson University's proselytizing football coach. Saudi Arabia declares "atheism = terrorism" and other countries threaten the death penalty for nonbelief. After hearing many freethought connections to Shakespeare and Prokofiev (born April 23), we talk with activist and philanthropist Todd Stiefel of the Stiefel Freethought Foundation.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,

0:14.7

Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.

0:18.8

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.

0:40.3

Imagine all the people living for today. Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Galar, and happy spring.

1:00.1

The real reason for all the seasonal celebrations this weekend,

1:04.0

the egg hunting, the bunny, all obviously fertility, festivals signaling,

1:10.0

spring, however late it has been to come to Madison, Wisconsin.

1:13.9

And I'm here too. I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.

1:18.4

This show, by the way, Annie Laurie, is the end of eight complete years of broadcasting of Free Thought Radio.

1:25.4

Well, congratulations.

1:26.6

We started in the end of April in 2006.

1:29.4

This show today is April the 19th, 2014 broadcast of Free Thought Radio.

1:35.1

And this show, as all you regular listeners know, is produced at.

1:38.4

And we broadcast from Madison, Wisconsin, the Mike 92.1, it's WXXM.

1:45.8

We also stream from the station using IHeart Radio.

1:49.4

And we also then broadcast the same weekend in other stations in New York, state, in Michigan,

1:56.8

in the state of Missouri, in California, and in Texas.

2:00.5

And if you're a podcast listener, you can go to the stream at WXXM.

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And if you're not a podcast listener, then sign up through iTunes to hear Free Thought Radio.

2:09.9

Free Thought Radio is the production, the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

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