This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.

Imagine there's no heaven.

It's easy if you try.

No hell below us,

above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today. Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and happy autumnal equinox.

And isn't it nice that there are no wacky religious takeovers of this natural event?

I'm Dan Barker, and the equinoxes, the vernal equinox, and the autumnal equinoxs are basically the time of year when sunrise and sunset are at the same time over the entire planet.

And then we use those as marking the beginning of the next season.

I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves.

This is the September 22nd, 2012 broadcast of Free Thought Radio.

We're produced in Madison, Wisconsin on the mic 92.1.

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In Ithaca, New York, in Atlanta, Georgia, in Columbia, Missouri.

They broadcast on Wednesday afternoons, in Grand Rapids, and in Monterey, California.

And this week, we're celebrating or marking the births of two free-thinking composers and songwriters.

Dan, you keep forgetting Ithaca in environments.

They're going to get a complex.

I put Ethica first. Did you hear that?

Oh, okay.

Yeah, we mentioned Ithaca twice today.

All right.

On September the 25th, 1906, Dmitri Shostakovich was born, an atheistic Russian composer.

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