The Great American Songbook
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2011
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The January 1, 2011 show, "Name that secular songwriter!" will be replayed (due to cohosts both being felled by ailments which are not life-threatening, but kept them from the studio this week). This is a chance to enjoy the enormous contributions of nonreligious composers and songwriters who have built the Great American Songbook if you missed the New Year's Show, or to enjoy a repeat performance.
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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. |
| 0:24.5 | This is Brian Traini, your producer for Freethought Radio. |
| 0:30.4 | For the first time since the show's debut, both Annie Laurie and Dan Barker are under the weather and unable to do a show for you today, but we do have a great show from the beginning |
| 0:34.8 | of this year featuring secular songwriters. |
| 0:38.3 | So enjoy the first ever encore performance of Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:57.9 | Happy Secular New Year. |
| 1:03.5 | And hey, it's a nice, unblemished year so far with no new state church violations yet. |
| 1:06.8 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:10.6 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:12.8 | This is New Year's Day. |
| 1:19.2 | This show is broadcasting on the weekend of January 1st and 2nd, 2011. |
| 1:29.6 | Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming from the progressive talk, the Mike 92.1, Madison, Wisconsin, airing also in several other cities across the nation, |
| 1:31.7 | and podcasting everywhere. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the National Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:39.6 | We are the nation's largest organization of atheists and agnostics. We started in 1978 as a national |
| 1:48.1 | organization, and today we have grown to more than, it's more than 16,000, close to 17,000 |
| 1:54.6 | if you count the subscribers and other supporters, more than 16,000 members nationwide. We work for two |
| 2:00.4 | things. The first thing we do is we work to keep state and church separate, and we do that through complaints, through legal activity, through lawsuits. And of course, you heard last year, April 15th of 2010, we won a federal lawsuit declaring the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional. And the second thing we do is we educate |
| 2:18.8 | the public about the views of non-believers, atheists, and agnostics. And that's what Free Thought |
| 2:24.6 | Radio is all about. And what do we have in store today? Well, today we're going to do a different |
| 2:30.0 | kind of a show, more relaxed and a lot more fun for a New Year's Day show. We're going to |
| 2:36.0 | have a show that is Name That Secular Songwriter. And Dan, don't you have a joke for us on that topic? |
| 2:46.1 | Yeah, we, you know, in past shows, we did a show a couple years ago on classical composers. |
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