This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.

Imagine there's no heaven.

It's easy if you try.

No hell below us, above us only sky

imagine all the people

living for today.

Have yourself a merry little solstice season.

I'm Annie Laurie Galer.

And I'm Dan Barker, and like Annie Laurie, I'm a friendly neighborhood atheist.

This is the December 22nd, 2012 broadcast of Free Thought Radio.

That means already we'll have a little bit more sunlight today than we had yesterday.

And then every day from here on a teeny bit more until we finally get to the summer solstice.

And then that astronomical cycle, that yellow yo-yo of the sun going back and forth, it will begin anew.

So, the winter solstice season is a natural holiday.

This show is produced at, and we broadcast from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin.

Free Thought Radio streams from here, and we podcast a few days later,

and we also are broadcasting this weekend in a number of places,

including Columbia, Missouri, Grand Rapids, in Ithaca, and Inverins, and Monterey. And I think in Grand Rapids you hear us in the middle of the week.

And Columbia, they do it in the middle of the week. That's right.

As well. Free Thought Radio is the week production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

We have two purposes. Most of our members are atheists and agnostics and other types of non-believers. We work to keep state and church separate, and we also work to educate the public about the views of us non-believers.

So today for the non-holy natural holiday, we'll relax and celebrate with a little irreverent music, mostly among the news.

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