It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here?

Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn.

In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics,

the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history.

So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. Listen on the IHeart

Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

What is a thought? Is it something physical? How can you hear a voice in your head? And whose voice is it

anyway? And what does this have to do with a small marine animal who eats its own brain?

Welcome to Inner Cosmos with me, David Eagleman.

I'm a neuroscientist and an author at Stanford.

And in these episodes, we sail deeply into our three-pound universe to understand some of the most surprising aspects of our lives.

Thank you. aspects of our lives. Today's episode is about thoughts.

We have them constantly, even for the best meditators, it's difficult or impossible to

stop the fire hose of words and images and

ideas. We all talk about our thoughts. We sometimes act on our thoughts. We draw them with little

thought bubbles and cartoons. But what in the world is a thought physically? So many years ago,

a person at a party begged me to watch the movie

called The Secret. So I watched it for 15 minutes, and I regret to say that I will never get those

15 minutes back. And I knew that this was the pinnacle of moronic when the first guy states,

quote, what most people don't understand

is a thought has a frequency. Every thought has a frequency. We can measure a thought. And so if

you're thinking that thought over and over again, you're emitting that frequency on a consistent

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