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🗓️ 29 May 2025
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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor joined us to discuss his book The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul
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0:33.1 | The blood-curdling threat of the blob. Well, way back, Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his |
0:39.9 | scene because the blob was supposed to eat them. |
0:42.5 | But he kept spitting him out. |
0:44.2 | Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. |
0:46.7 | Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest. |
0:51.0 | Eric, the Texas! |
0:55.2 | Folks, I often claim to be excited on this program about my guest. |
1:01.2 | Usually, I'm lying. |
1:03.0 | It's just show business. |
1:04.4 | I'm not excited at all. |
1:05.7 | I'm just pretending to be excited. |
1:08.2 | But right now, actually, I'm genuinely excited. Listen, I'm often excited. But right now, |
1:18.3 | I've got to tell you, this is a big one. Right now, I'm going to speak to someone. He's a doctor. |
1:23.9 | His name is Michael Egnor. He's a professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at the State |
1:29.2 | University of New York in Stony Brook. He has written a book. This is a big deal. This is right up my |
1:36.3 | alley. So I really am so excited about this. The subject of the book, many scientists and doctors |
1:42.0 | say that there's no such thing as the soul, that there's no part of us that persists beyond death. Now, most of the book, many scientists and doctors say that there's no such thing as the soul, |
1:44.7 | that there's no part of us that persists beyond death. Now, most of us know that's nonsense, |
1:51.3 | but we are not medical doctors and we can't speak about it in the way that my guest right now |
1:57.7 | can speak about it. Michael Engor has written a new book. He makes the case |
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