The Atheists Next Door
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In the News: FFRF reports on its successful commercial by Ron Reagan on CNN, salutes Robert Kastenmeier, a former member of Congress who died last week, and its March Madness complaints over basketball chaplains at state universities. After celebrating the birthday of Eric Idle (by playing two of his irreverent Monty Python songs), Annie Laurie interviews Harry Shaughnessy, president of the Triangle Freethought Society (an FFRF chapter), whose family was featured this month in a CNN online story about “The Atheists Next Door."
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:15.0 | irreverent views, news, music, and interviews. |
| 0:19.4 | 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. |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:59.3 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:03.9 | This is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:07.7 | the nation's largest association of atheists and agnostics, |
| 1:10.0 | working to keep religion out of government. |
| 1:13.4 | Join us today at ffrf.org. |
| 1:17.2 | And today is the March 28th, 2015 edition. |
| 1:23.1 | We're broadcasting from the Mike 92.1, progressive talk in Madison, Wisconsin, |
| 1:32.8 | streaming live 11 a.m. Central Saturdays through IHeart Radio. Thanks also if you're listening on WPRRR Grand Rapids, |
| 1:43.9 | K-E-O-S Bryant, Texas, KOPN, Columbia, Missouri, KRFI, Watkins Glen, and Ithaca, C-K-XU, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, and Radio Monterey. You may also be catching us |
| 1:47.5 | through podcast via Lipson.com, providers such as iTunes Wizard Podcast.com. And today my guest |
| 1:55.6 | on the second half of the show will be Harry Shaughnessy, who's the insouciant director of FFRF's most active |
| 2:03.1 | chapter, the Triangle Free Thought Society in Raleigh, Durham. Harry and his family were recently |
| 2:09.9 | featured in a CNN news segment that's very charming, and I'll be playing the segment |
| 2:14.7 | for you later when Harry joins Free Thought Radio by phone from North Carolina. |
| 2:19.4 | We'll also be celebrating the birthday of Monty Python, Python, Eric Idol, |
| 2:25.2 | playing a few favorite irreverent songs by him coming up in a few minutes. |
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