Solstice Cheer

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4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week we present a musical medley of irreverent and celebratory secular holiday songs by Tom Lehrer, Tim Minchin, Roy Zimmerman, Dan Barker, Tahira Clayton, Addison Frei, Brent Michael Davids, Steven Phelps, Ken Lonnquist, and the London Humanist Choir; and we hear agnostic orator Robert Ingersoll's 1897 recitation of "What I Want For Christmas."

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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
0:41.3	Above us only sky
0:47.3	Imagine all the people
0:57.0	living for today Yeah Ah
0:58.0	Ah
0:59.0	Ah
1:00.0	.
1:01.0	And Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome Free Thought Radio and happy Astronomical New Year, although our show next week will be our New Year's show.
1:34.3	We've actually passed the Astronomical New Year with the Winter Solstice on Monday.
1:39.3	And I hope you're all hunkering down in these darkest days of winter and these darkest days of the
1:45.4	pandemic and staying safe. And I'm Dan Barker. This is the Free Thought Radio show for December 24th,
1:54.7	2020. Buzz Kemper is engineering this show from his recording studio near the Wisconsin State Capitol.
2:03.1	His studio is called Audio for the Arts, while Annie Laurie and I are hosting remotely from
2:09.6	Audio for the Aparts, which is what we call our Safe at Home studio a few miles away.
2:15.6	Actually now for the 39th week in a row. So, Buzz, how are you surviving
2:22.0	there? Do you have any plans for the holidays? I don't. I'm hoping at some point to be able to
2:27.4	safely see my mother, who is 100 years old now. But other than that, I'm just going to be,
2:34.0	you know, hunkering down and doing the safe thing. Wow. But other than that, I'm just going to be, you know, hunkering down and doing the safe thing.
2:38.1	Wow, 100 years old.
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