If I Only Had a Brain
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We celebrate the fact that U.S. church membership is now below 50 percent, complain about voter suppression by evangelicals, and announce a historic endowment for Secular Studies. After hearing the Dan Barker/Charles Strouse song "Poor Little Me," we talk with neuroscientist and freethinker (and creator of the Palm Pilot) Jeff Hawkins about his new groundbreaking book, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence.
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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 Living for today. |
| 0:58.4 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:01.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and happy April fools. |
| 1:05.2 | You probably know what Psalm 14 says, |
| 1:08.9 | The Fool says in his heart, there is no God. |
| 1:12.6 | But the wise person says it out loud. And I'm Dan Barker, co-host with Annie Laurie Gaylor of this show. |
| 1:17.6 | This is Free Thought Radio for April 1st, April Fool's Day, 2021. |
| 1:23.6 | It was one year ago on April 2nd, 2020, when the pandemic forced Annie Laurie and me to move the recording of the show from the Freedom from Religion Foundation Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in our national office in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, to this makeshift studio at our home a couple miles away. |
| 1:45.4 | Our engineer, Buzz Kemper, has been producing the show since that time from |
| 1:49.7 | Audio for the Arts, which is his recording studio near the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| 1:55.4 | So this is, today is Free Thought Radio's first, |
| 1:59.9 | coronavirus. And let's hope, but not pray, that this is our |
| 2:05.2 | only coronerversary. And we should also mention, I don't believe that we have mentioned, that |
| 2:11.2 | Stephen Yule, for whom the studio is named, died in February. We got rather belated news that he died in Arizona |
| 2:19.3 | at 90 and was a great benefactor, a great promoter and booster of Freethought on so many levels. |
| 2:26.3 | And we will very much miss him and send our condolences to his widow, Diane. |
| 2:32.3 | In a few weeks, we're going to be celebrating Free Thought |
| 2:35.7 | Radio's 15th anniversary. We started broadcasting in April 26, 2006. I'm sorry, 2006. |
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