Ringing in the New Year

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

After reporting on state/church issues in December, we listen to the freethinking Frank Loesser song "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" sung by Madison jazz vocalist Susan Hofer accompanied by Dan Barker on the piano. Then, FFRF Legal Director Rebecca Markert wraps up the year by telling us about FFRF's significant legal challenges and victories of 2022.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:09.3	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:13.3	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:19.9	It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky imagine all the people living for today
0:51.3	welcome to free thought radio i'm annie laurie gailar and happy new year and i'm dan barker and this Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and Happy New Year.
0:56.5	And I'm Dan Barker and this is our final show of the year 2022.
1:02.7	Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:07.5	And this is the December 29th episode of Free Thought Radio. Noah Gilfillon is engineering
1:15.3	today. He's with the studio Audio for the Arts. And he's actually in our studio today, the
1:20.6	Stephen Ool friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom
1:26.9	from Religion Foundation in Madison,
1:30.0	Wisconsin, while Annie, Lori and I are just recovering from COVID, and we're now negative,
1:37.5	and we are now feeling better, but we're still recording today from our kind of home-based
1:43.0	studio here in our home in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:46.1	Yeah, so we apologize for our voices, and we successfully evaded COVID for almost three years.
1:53.6	That was pretty good. It finally caught up with us. But as Dan said, we did test negative,
1:58.7	but we're just being careful today.
2:03.9	And again, I apologize for my voice.
2:08.2	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
2:21.2	And regular listeners know that FFRF is the nation's largest association of freethinkers, atheists, agnostic, skeptics, others who make their dissent known from religion.
2:22.3	We work to educate the public about that and also work diligently to keep religion out of
2:28.5	government, which is going to be one of the main topics today.
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