It's That Time of Year
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Hear about the visit to Freethought Hall of the legendary actor Ed Asner (Lou Grant, "Up"). This week's show is an antidote to traditional Christmas music. We play a number of funny, irreverent (and sometimes positive) Winter Solstice songs, such as "O Isthmus Tree" by Ken Lohnquist, "Solstice Song" by Kristin Lems, "Christmas Carol" by Tom Lehrer, "Blah Blah Bethlehem" by Ian Assersohn, "Christmas is Pain" by Roy Zimmerman and "White Wine in the Sun" by Tim Minchin.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.3 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.3 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people |
| 0:41.3 | Living for today |
| 0:50.3 | And we are going to say Merry Christmas again. |
| 0:56.0 | Merry Christmas. |
| 0:56.9 | So Merry Christmas. |
| 0:58.9 | And we at Free Thought Radio are going to say, |
| 1:02.5 | Happy Winter Solstice again. |
| 1:05.0 | Of course, that was President Trump. |
| 1:07.6 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and welcome to Free Thought Radio and our Winter |
| 1:11.8 | Solstice Edition. |
| 1:13.3 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:14.7 | This is the December 19th, 2019th show. |
| 1:19.5 | The winter solstice, the real reason for the season, is this Saturday, December the 21st. |
| 1:26.3 | So this is our Freeth Holiday edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:31.2 | Buzz Kemper is engineering and producing this show in the Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio |
| 1:35.9 | in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:42.3 | And Freethought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:49.4 | which is a 501C3 educational nonprofit established in 1978 nationally. |
| 1:56.0 | And we've grown from the original two or three members. |
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