The Right Note
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Dan Barker announces the publication of his new book, Free Will Explained. After hearing about FFRF in the news and complaining about a Tennessee pastor who sexually molested a high-school girl and then apologized to his church to a standing ovation, we learn the connection between the anniversary of Otis Redding's "Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay" and Dan Barker's piano playing. Then, after hearing world-renowned classical pianist Jarred Dunn play Chopin, we speak with him (on the phone from Poland) about his freethought views, and about the views of Chopin.
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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 |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.0 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:51.9 | Welcome to Feed That Radio. |
| 0:53.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:58.9 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. Well, we're both friendly neighborhood atheists, aren't we? |
| 1:07.0 | This is the January 11th, 2018 edition of Free Thought Radio. Our engineer is Buzz Kemper. |
| 1:11.5 | And you heard his voice announcing. He's been announcing since 2006 for us, and he doesn't get any older, do you, Buzz? He's producing the show in the control room in the Stephen Yule-friendly |
| 1:18.0 | atheist studio in Freethought Hall. Free Thought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion |
| 1:24.4 | Foundation in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:34.5 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, that stands for the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:45.5 | And we are entering Dan our 40th anniversary year in 2018, and the group went national in April of 1978. |
| 1:48.8 | So we're going to be doing a lot of celebrating about that, |
| 1:51.4 | and just an early heads-up. |
| 1:59.3 | And FFRF since 1978 has served as a national free thought association. |
| 2:02.8 | Today we are the nation's largest with over 30,000 members. |
| 2:04.9 | I think it's 31,000. |
| 2:06.4 | Well, yes, over. |
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