The Best Medicine
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
For our first broadcast of the summer, we hear actor John de Lancie (who played Q on "Star Trek: The Next Generation") deliver a very moving virtual commencement address to graduating seniors in the Secular Student Alliance. Then we speak with award-winning NYC stand-up comedian and author Leighann Lord, who comments on the bird-watching incident in Central Park, and about her thoughts on Father's Day in her "People With Parents" podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:15.2 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:19.2 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:25.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:32.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 0:43.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:59.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, Forward. |
| 1:03.0 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:08.0 | And this is the June 25th, 2020 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:13.9 | Noah Gilfellin is our engineer today. He's producing the show from the recording studio, |
| 1:19.6 | Audio for the Arts, while Annie Laurie and I are hosting from our improvised home studio |
| 1:26.0 | about three miles away in Madison, Wisconsin, |
| 1:29.3 | which is the headquarters of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:33.3 | So Noah, how do you feel producing our show number 13 remotely here? |
| 1:41.3 | You're feeling lucky. |
| 1:43.3 | So do people ever ask you if you enjoyed your cruise on the ark |
| 1:49.5 | oh yes yes so much so that in in the fourth grade i actually got teased so much i cried about it |
| 1:57.2 | but you got over it and you got over the superstition, too, it looks like. |
| 2:01.8 | Took a while, but yeah. |
| 2:04.1 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. And the |
| 2:10.1 | freedom from religion foundation has two purposes. To keep religion out of government and to educate |
| 2:16.8 | the public about non-theism. |
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