Happy 2021!
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We celebrate the new year by saying farewell to the disastrous 2020. We play some comfort music and protest music by freethinking songwriters, performed (mostly) by freethinking singers. We hear Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Yip Harburg, Jerome Kern, Stephen Sondheim, and more — performed by Tom Lehrer, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell, Pete Seeger, Nina Simone, Elton John, James Taylor, Cher, Dan Barker and Shelley Segal.
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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. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 0:43.3 | Imagine all the people living for today today Imagine. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:00.2 | This is our New Year's Eve 2020 broadcast and podcast, |
| 1:03.9 | and all I can say is good riddance 2020, |
| 1:07.3 | 2021 promises to be an improvement. |
| 1:09.9 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:11.2 | This is the December 31st, 2020 edition of Free Thought Radio, New Year's Eve. |
| 1:16.9 | Annie, Lori and I are hosting from our Safe at Home studio in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:20.8 | And while Buzz Kemper is engineering from Audio for the Arts in downtown Madison. |
| 1:26.7 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:31.3 | FFRF's work during this pandemic year has never been more essential. |
| 1:35.5 | It's never been more obvious that we need to base actions on science, evidence, and compassion, |
| 1:41.0 | not alternate facts and prayer, |
| 1:43.4 | and never more obvious that we need to practice social |
| 1:46.5 | distancing between church and state. So don't just make it a New Year's resolution to join |
| 1:52.2 | FFRF.F.RF.org slash donate and help FFRF in our vital work so that reason and our secular constitution will prevail |
| 2:03.1 | in 2021. So we can finally celebrate. 2020 is over. On December 21st, we celebrated the natural new year, |
| 2:12.8 | the winter solstice. Today we're celebrating the calendar rolling over to 2021. |
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