Happy 2018!
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
When U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) courageously resisted Trump's "smear against women" Tweet that she learned about during a Congressional bible study, Annie Laurie told Gillibrand: "The bible is even worse than Trump!" After hearing Iranian-born feminist and atheist activist Maryam Namazie's acceptance speech for the Hank Zumach "Freedom From Fundamentalist Religion" award, we listen to jazz singer Susan Hofer perform the (freethinker) Frank Loesser song "What Are You Doing New Year's?" that she sang (accompanied by Dan Barker on the piano) during FFRF's December 20 Winter Solstice party at Freethought Hall.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.4 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.4 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.9 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people Welcome to our only sky Welcome to the last free thought radio broadcast and podcast of 2017. It's time to be out with the old and in with the new, but there were many bad things about 2017, and I think we are approaching 2018 with some trepidition, but anyway, happy New Year. |
| 1:11.4 | And that's Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president with me of the Freedom for Religion Foundation |
| 1:16.0 | and co-host of the show, and I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:21.5 | This is the December 28, 2017 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:27.7 | And hi, guys, and happy solstice. I'm Buzz Kemper, engineering the show in the control room |
| 1:33.5 | of the Stephen Ewell friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, the national offices of |
| 1:39.3 | the Freedom from Religion Foundation here in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:43.3 | And you probably recognize Buzz's voice. |
| 1:45.0 | He's our announcer who has been announcing since we started the show back in 2006. |
| 1:51.0 | Wow. |
| 1:52.0 | Your voice hasn't gotten any older, but you still have that voice of God kind of... |
| 1:57.0 | Well, if any of you have read, I've listened to the audio book of my book, God, the most unpleasant character in all fiction, guess who plays the voice of God? |
| 2:06.9 | Guess who gets all the unpleasant lines? |
| 2:08.9 | Yeah, that must have been traumatic. |
| 2:10.9 | So you really were a voice deity, bus? |
| 2:12.9 | I was. |
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