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Sept. 8, 1974 was a momentous day in American history. Sure, it was the day that Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, but maybe more importantly, it was also the day Evel Knievel tried — and failed — to jump across the Snake River Canyon on a jet-powered motorcycle.

Evel Knievel is mostly a punchline these days, but 35 years ago, he was one of the biggest names on television. "It was a different time back then," sportswriter Leigh Montville tells Weekend All Things Considered guest host Rachel Martin.

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For a while now I've been arguing that we shouldn't look for consciousness in the brain. We haven't found it there, and we won't. Not because consciousness happens somewhere else, in the soul, say, or in the environment, or in the collective. But because consciousness isn't something that happens; it is something we do or make. And like everything else that we do, it depends both on the way we are constituted — on our brains and bodies — but also on the world around us.

Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking for dance in the legs.

More questions for the panel: Goofy Team Six, Board Game of Shadows, and Astronauts: They're Just Like Us!

Carl reads our panelists three headlines, they pick which one is real.

All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

Carl reads three news-related limericks: The Itch to Gamble, From Woof to Wool, and Embarrassment Is The New Black.

Our panelists answer questions about the week's news: Four-Legged Soldiers.

Carl reads three quotes from the weeks news: European Vacation, RSVP'ing the Grand Old Party and Rapture Redo.