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Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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A special sister/brother treat! Charlotte Dennett discusses her book The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter's Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil (Foreword by brother Daniel C. Dennett) about the mysterious 1947 death of their father Daniel C. Dennett II when he was an American spy in the Middle East. Then we talk with her brother, the atheist philosopher Daniel C. Dennett III, about his new book Just Deserts: Debating Free Will.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:17.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:23.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.4 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:00.9 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and this is radio for the rest of us, those of us who are not religious secularists. And that includes me. I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Free Thought Radio, and co-president with Annie Laurie of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:10.4 | This is the September 9th, 2021 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:16.4 | Grant Blaschka, who's with Audio for the Arts. |
| 1:19.7 | That's a recording studio. |
| 1:20.8 | He's our engineer today. |
| 1:22.6 | He's producing the show in our recording studio |
| 1:25.4 | in the Stephen Yule Friendly A friendly atheist studio in Freethad Hall, |
| 1:29.8 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:35.3 | And Freethot Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:40.0 | which works to keep religion out of government, put it in its place, and as a free thought association of like-minded individuals with more than 35,000 current members. |
| 1:50.5 | If you are a member, thank you. If not, you can find out more information and join us at ffrf.org. |
| 1:58.5 | Today we have a real treat. |
| 2:01.1 | We have a Dennett doubleheader. |
| 2:04.4 | In the second half of the show, we're going to talk with the famous philosopher Daniel C. Dennett. |
| 2:10.2 | He's the author of numerous books, which many of you listeners have already read, including Breaking the Spell, which led him to being called one of the four horsemen of atheism. |
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