Making Good Trouble
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We cover a range of state/church news on the federal and state levels. We announce FFRF's Scopes Trial Centennial celebration to be held in Tennessee in July. After hearing the irreverent Monty Python song, "Every Sperm is Sacred," we memorialize the life of former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, an ardent proponent of feminism and democracy and author of the book Make Trouble, by replaying our 2018 interview with her on Freethought Radio.
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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 Imagine all the people living for today Hello and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:58.9 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:00.4 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:01.9 | We are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:06.3 | This is the January 30th, 2025 episode. |
| 1:10.7 | Leo Costello is our producer, and Toriels with Audio for the Arts is our engineer, recording |
| 1:16.7 | in the Stephen O'L Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethad Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom |
| 1:23.7 | from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:27.0 | FreeThat Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. FreeThat Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Emphasis |
| 1:32.0 | and From, which works to keep religion out of our U.S. laws in public policy to support our |
| 1:39.0 | secular constitution, and also representing those of us who are personally free from religion. That's a growing group |
| 1:46.6 | in America. Join us at fFRF.org. We were very sad to learn of the death of Cecil Richards last |
| 1:54.7 | week. Cecil was former president of Planned Parenthood, an abortion rights advocate, and a strong supporter of state church |
| 2:02.9 | separation. We spoke with Cecile on this show in 2018, and today in her honor we'll hear a portion |
| 2:09.7 | of that interview. And, Dan, I think you have a joke for us this week. I do have a joke. |
| 2:14.9 | There was a guy, a Christian, who was praying to God, saying, God, for you, how long is a million years? And God said, a million years for me is about a minute. And the guy said, really? Well, how much is a million dollars to you? And God said, well, to me, a million dollars is like a penny. And the guy said, well, |
| 2:37.0 | dear God, can I have a penny? And God said, sure, just a minute. |
| 2:43.2 | In a minute. Yes. That explains why prayers are never answered, maybe. |
| 2:48.4 | This week, we're celebrating the birth anniversary of the composer and |
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