A Better Life! Guest: Chris Johnson

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4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

What do "Winnie the Pooh" and the movie "Saving Mr. Banks" have to do with freethought? We will give you two different reasons. Then we talk with New York filmmaker and photographer Chris Johnson about his new gorgeous book of photography, A Better Life: 100 Atheists Speak Out on Joy & Meaning in a World Without God.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:14.8	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:18.8	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 Imagine all the people living for today Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh, chubby little cubby all stuffed with fluffies, Winnie the Pooh,
1:06.0	Winnie the Who?
1:08.0	Willie, nearly silly old bear. Yes, you are listening to Free Thought Radio, and I'm Annie Laurie Galar, and hello, fellow and sister
1:18.4	freethinker, atheist, agnostic, secularist, rationalist, materialist, as opposed to
1:25.9	spiritualist, or whatever you like to call yourself.
1:29.0	And this is a show for you, the non-believer. And Dan, why are we listening to Winnie
1:34.2	the Pooh? Well, keep listening to our show today and you will find out. I'm Dan Barker,
1:41.5	your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. And today is January the 18th, 2014.
1:47.9	We're broadcasting from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin, where this show is produced
1:54.5	by our capable engineer, Dave McCann.
1:58.3	And we also stream from the station, and we broadcast in other states around the country,
2:04.0	including Texas, Missouri, Michigan, New York, and California.
2:07.8	And we have about an average of 15,000 people who download the podcast.
2:13.7	We put the podcast up the following week.
2:15.8	The highest show we had was almost 30,000 listens. So
2:18.7	welcome to Free Thought Radio. And we are produced. This is the weekly production of the Freedom
2:24.8	from Religion Foundation, and I'm a co-founder of FFRF and our two official purposes to protect the
2:32.6	constitutional separation of church and state and to educate the public
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