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I'm Annie Laurie Gaylorant this is Freethought Radio

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streaming live from Madison Wisconsin and podcasting on July 21st, 2007.

And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist, back with Freethought Radio,

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Did you hear that, you know, they were doing, you know, they can do heart transplants and liver

transplants and what other kind of transplants?

Kidneys and things.

Well, I just found out there's a brain transplant you can get now. I called Stanford University and I thought, are you kidding? Can you really transplant brains? And they said, yeah. And I said, well, how much does it cost? And they said, well, it depends what kind of a brain you've got. And I said, well, what do you mean? They said, well, a high school teacher brain is about $8,000 an ounce if you want one of those.

And a surgeon's brain is about $10,000 an ounce.

And a pilot's brain is about $11,000.

And, you know, different prices for different brains.

And I said, well, what would a minister's brain cost?

And they said, a minister's brain would cost about $20,000 an ounce.

And I thought, $8,000 for a teacher and $10,000 for surgery,

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