Reason's Greetings – Remembering Christopher Hitchens
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2011
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Life goes on . . . without a Hitch. Tune in to listen to the immortal provocateur, Christopher Hitchens, in his own voice. Freethought Radio will play a quintessential excerpt of Hitchens' Emperor Has No Clothes Award acceptance speech before a national FFRF convention in 2007 in Madison, Wis. The rest of the show will be devoted to "Reason's Greetings," a recap of FFRF's whirlwind actions this past week putting up equal time displays to counter nativity scenes on government property. Bonus song: Dan Barker's expurgated-for-radio version of South Park's "Merry Fricken Christmas."
Wishing all listeners a very merry Winter Solstice weekend!
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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. |
| 0:19.0 | 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 |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:53.3 | Happy Winter Solstice weekend and Reason's Greetings. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and this is Free Thought Radio, offering slightly irreverent views, news, |
| 1:06.0 | music and interviews, and Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:13.3 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:16.0 | This is the weekend of December the 24th and 25th, 2011, and the winter solstice was just a couple days ago. |
| 1:25.2 | Free Thought Radio broadcasts and streams from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:32.0 | And we want to give a friendly shout out to listeners in Atlanta, Grand Rapids, Monterey, and New York City. |
| 1:37.7 | And a warm hello to our faithful, faithless podcast listeners. |
| 1:44.3 | Free Thought Radio is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:49.2 | which is a state church watchdog. |
| 1:52.1 | We've been especially busy this time of year. |
| 1:54.7 | We are the nation's largest association of agnostics, atheists, and other skeptics. |
| 2:00.4 | We don't care what we call ourselves, but as we like to say, we all disqualify agnostics, atheists, and other skeptics. |
| 2:00.9 | We don't care what we call ourselves, but as we like to say, we all disbelieve in the same |
| 2:06.5 | gods. |
| 2:07.5 | And we do dedicate this broadcast to Christopher Hitchens, the provocateur, the author, the |
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