GUESTS: ANNE HELMS, DAUGHTER OF ANSEL ADAMS, WITH KEN HELMS
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2010
⏱️ 43 minutes
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TOPICS: ANSEL ADAMS & FREETHOUGHT; REMEMBERING ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Freethought Radio will interview the daughter of photographer Ansel Adams, who is a freethinker and Lifetime Member of FFRF, about her life, her famous father, what it was like growing up in Yosemite, current exhibits, and will also interview Ken Helms, a former Unitarian minister and FFRF Lifetime Member. In honor of 19th century "infidel" Robert G. Ingersoll's Aug. 11 birthdate anniversary, the show will play a clip from a famous 1950s movie that pays homage to Ingersoll, and play some of his famous poems set to music. Also featured: How FFRF is stirring things up in South Carolina!
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music and Interviews. |
| 0:12.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:16.0 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for the day. |
| 0:49.3 | August, greetings to all our atheist agnostic and open-minded listeners of any and every persuasion. |
| 0:58.9 | I'm Annie Laurie Geller, and welcome to Freethought Radio. |
| 1:02.2 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:05.3 | This is the weekend of August the 7th, 2010. |
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| 1:34.9 | Free Thought Radio is a weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Get that right, |
| 1:40.5 | not freedom of religion, which we're in favor of, but the name of our group is the freedom from religion foundation. |
| 1:46.3 | We are non-believers, mainly atheists and agnostics and other types of religious skeptics and doubters, |
| 1:52.7 | who are personally free from religion in our personal lives and who also think that the government should be free from religion at the official level. So we educate about |
| 2:03.0 | non-theism and we also work to keep state and church separate. And there are many famous |
| 2:09.3 | non-believers and I don't know how many of our listeners realize that one of the world's greatest |
| 2:15.6 | philanthropists, William Buffett, appears to be a non-believer. |
| 2:19.8 | And your mother, Anne, told me a joke on the phone last night. If he were doing our show instead of us, |
| 2:25.5 | he would be testing the mic, not by saying, testing, one, two, three, testing, one, two, three. |
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