If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother! Guest: Julia Sweeney

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🗓️ 30 April 2013

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Actress, comedian, author and atheist Julia Sweeney discusses her new book, If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother. Her hilarious yet poignant writings -- from one intriguing month of her life -- cover marriage, motherhood, adoption, Santa Claus, abortion, and the death of her brother, all in her uniquely humanistic and comedic way. We also hear the Malvina Reynolds song "The Judge Said," about the successful recall of a sexist Wisconsin judge (and hear about Annie Laurie dressed as a nun in 1977).

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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
0:41.3	imagine all the people
0:46.3	living for today Hello, iconoclasts everywhere.
0:59.0	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and welcome to Freethought Radio.
1:02.0	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, Atheist of the Airwaves.
1:07.0	This is the April 27th, 2013 broadcast of Prethaw Radio.
1:14.5	And this show is a landmark show.
1:17.1	For a couple of reasons.
1:19.2	Our very first show was on April the 29th, 2006, the last weekend of April of April of that year.
1:27.4	So today's show marks the beginning of our eighth year of broadcasting free thought
1:32.5	radio.
1:33.9	Oh, thanks, Dave.
1:35.6	Putting in that applause.
1:37.7	The beginning of our eighth year of broadcasting after seven, now seven complete years of
1:43.6	broadcasting. And this also happens to be our
1:47.4	365th show. You like numbers, Stan. So at 365 shows, if you wanted, you could listen to all of our
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2:01.9	Well, if you really want to do that, you can find all of our past shows archived at
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