WEBVTT - Short Stuff: Third Man Syndrome

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, and welcome to the Short Stuff. I'm Josh and

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<v Speaker 1>there's Chuck and it's just us right now. But that's

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<v Speaker 1>okay because we have a third and fourth man with

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<v Speaker 1>us today in the form of Jerry and Dave.

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<v Speaker 2>That's right. I feel I sense their presence.

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<v Speaker 1>I do too, and they're guiding us on. They're saying,

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<v Speaker 1>come on, you guys, you can finish the short stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be a good one.

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<v Speaker 2>I can feel it, Chuck, I think we're gonna be okay.

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<v Speaker 1>We just demonstrated a really weird phenomenon pretty well, if

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<v Speaker 1>you ask me, I think we did a great job.

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<v Speaker 1>Just now everyone's saying so, but we just demonstrated this

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<v Speaker 1>weird phenomenon called the third Man syndrome. There's an author

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<v Speaker 1>named John Geiger who for some reason changed syndrome to factor.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's typically what it's called, this third man syndrome.

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<v Speaker 1>And like I said, it's weird. Chuck, take it away.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>It has nothing to do with the movie The Third Man,

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<v Speaker 3>which was good, great movie. And immediately when you sent

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<v Speaker 3>this along and I saw the title, I thought it

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<v Speaker 3>might have something to do with that. And it doesn't

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<v Speaker 3>have to be a man. It really should be the

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<v Speaker 3>third person syndrome. Sure, but it is this phenomenon that

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<v Speaker 3>has been talked about by many people over hundreds of years.

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<v Speaker 3>Where someone is in dire straits, oftentimes it's like somebody

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<v Speaker 3>sort of like a mountaineer or somebody in the wilderness

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<v Speaker 3>that's lost and struggling to survive.

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<v Speaker 2>But not always as we'll see.

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<v Speaker 3>And when they're at their sort of worse moment, maybe

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<v Speaker 3>worse low point, they get a third a sense that

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<v Speaker 3>someone else is there.

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<v Speaker 2>And again it's not always the third person.

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<v Speaker 3>If they're alone, it's just technically the second person, sure,

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<v Speaker 3>but it's just somebody there kind of urging them on.

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<v Speaker 3>But it's not just like, oh, I got this weird feeling,

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<v Speaker 3>Like it's a real serious, tangible thing.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Like whatever sense you have when there's somebody sitting

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<v Speaker 1>next to you and they actually are there is a

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<v Speaker 1>person sitting there, it seems to be the exact same

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<v Speaker 1>type of feeling and level of feeling and all that. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's not like this weird kind of like thought a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit here there. It's like sensing another presence. And

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<v Speaker 1>the first person to ever really kind of document this

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<v Speaker 1>was Ernest Shackleton, surely he was not the first person

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<v Speaker 1>to experience this, but he he was the first person

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<v Speaker 1>to write about it, and his experience is just nuts

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<v Speaker 1>in and of itself.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we talked about this guy before. It was a

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<v Speaker 3>British expedition to Antarctica in nineteen fourteen slash fifteen, trying

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<v Speaker 3>to get.

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<v Speaker 2>To the South Pole.

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<v Speaker 3>It was his third try and he's trying to establish

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<v Speaker 3>a base there and his ship got trapped in sea ice.

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<v Speaker 3>They tried to kind of ride it out, but eventually

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<v Speaker 3>the ice kind of came together, and I mean, this

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<v Speaker 3>just shows how forceful like creeping ice can be. It

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<v Speaker 3>kind of crushed the boat and they abandoned ship, set

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<v Speaker 3>up camp on other ice and stayed there initially for

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<v Speaker 3>four months on.

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<v Speaker 1>This ice, Yeah, waiting for the ice to break up

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<v Speaker 1>enough to try to make an attempt by whaling boat

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<v Speaker 1>over to Elephant Island, which is the closest island, and

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<v Speaker 1>they made it. They rowed for six days before they

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<v Speaker 1>reached Elephant Island, which was great. They weren't on the

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<v Speaker 1>ice anymore, but they were on a deserted island. And again, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking it's pretty cold too. And again this is

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen fourteen, they're not like, you know, picking up the

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<v Speaker 1>sat phone and saying like, hey, can somebody come get us?

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<v Speaker 1>Like they've got a real problem here. So they're stranded

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<v Speaker 1>on this deserted island, and the closest place where there's

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<v Speaker 1>other people where they actually can get in touch and

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<v Speaker 1>say hey, somebody come get us is a whaling station

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<v Speaker 1>on South Georgia Island, and that's eight hundred miles away.

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<v Speaker 1>So Ernest Shackleton says, got to keep going and whittles

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<v Speaker 1>down to a few men I think six, five or

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<v Speaker 1>six other people, and they actually rode eight hundred miles

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<v Speaker 1>from an arc to South Georgia Island.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so they get there sixteen days later.

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<v Speaker 3>It turns out they landed on the wrong side of

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<v Speaker 3>the island because the winds blew them off course, and

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<v Speaker 3>so this guy was undaunted.

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<v Speaker 2>Still he took two guys. I think you see where this.

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<v Speaker 3>Is headed, even though the math is still wrong, and

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<v Speaker 3>they made the rest of the way on foot. It's

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<v Speaker 3>about eighteen miles or thirty kilometers and through some pretty

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<v Speaker 3>treacherous conditions, took about thirty six hours. They finally get

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<v Speaker 3>there and everyone ends up being rescued like that's the

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<v Speaker 3>good news. But this is that last push, is when

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<v Speaker 3>Shackleton feels the presence of this additional person urging them on.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, because this is like they've reached the limit of

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<v Speaker 1>their endurance and they're still going on. And so Shackleton

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<v Speaker 1>sensed it, but he never said anything about it until

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<v Speaker 1>he wrote his book South It was published in nineteen nineteen.

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<v Speaker 1>But he did say something to the other two people

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<v Speaker 1>who were with them. One was Captain Worsley, and Worsley said, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I had the same feeling, actually, and so did Crean,

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<v Speaker 1>the other guy on this expedition. They all sensed another person,

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<v Speaker 1>in this case a fourth person with them, kind of

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<v Speaker 1>basically comforting them to some degree. So that seemed, in

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<v Speaker 1>and of itself pretty cool. And I guess the word

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<v Speaker 1>of this got out because ts Eliot, he's frequently cited

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<v Speaker 1>as the person who who coined the term third man syndrome.

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<v Speaker 1>As far as I can tell, no one knows who

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<v Speaker 1>actually took this ts Eliot poem and turned it into

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<v Speaker 1>third man syndrome, but it actually it did come indisputably

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<v Speaker 1>from this ts Eliot poem from nineteen twenty two.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, So, well, the Wasteland was the poem, and he

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<v Speaker 3>again he was wrong in the math. He should have

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<v Speaker 3>called it the Fourth Man. But this is kind of

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<v Speaker 3>the funniest part. T. S. Eliot said that he couldn't

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<v Speaker 3>remember who who inspired this, like which expedition it was

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<v Speaker 3>when asked, you know why the number of people was

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<v Speaker 3>or not three?

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<v Speaker 2>Or three and night four rather exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm feeling a little poetic today, Chuck, do you

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<v Speaker 1>mind if I read this little This is from T. S.

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<v Speaker 1>Eliot's The Wasteland? Three words? Who is the third who

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<v Speaker 1>walks always beside you? When I count, there are only

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<v Speaker 1>you and I together, But when I look ahead up

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<v Speaker 1>the white road, there's always another one walking beside you,

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<v Speaker 1>gliding wrapped in a brown mantle, hooded. I do not

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<v Speaker 1>know whether a man or a woman. But who is

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<v Speaker 1>that on the other side of you? Answer me? Thank you?

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you? I say, we take a break and let

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<v Speaker 1>everybody in stunned silence absorb all that.

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<v Speaker 3>All right, We'll be right back, all right. So that's

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<v Speaker 3>the third man syndrome, Shackleton's version. But it's happened a bunch,

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<v Speaker 3>like we said. There was a collection by John Geiger

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<v Speaker 3>called The Third man factor that you mentioned earlier from

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<v Speaker 3>two thousand and eight where he dug up a bunch

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<v Speaker 3>of these stories and we're going to go through some

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<v Speaker 3>of them right now.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's quite quite a feat that

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<v Speaker 1>he got all these together because they were definitely few

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<v Speaker 1>and far between. One of the first ones that he

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<v Speaker 1>mentions is a guy named Frank Smyth who made a

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<v Speaker 1>solo attempt at his Summat everest. He would have been

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<v Speaker 1>the first back in nineteen thirty three, and he got close,

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<v Speaker 1>but he didn't make it, and he realized he had

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<v Speaker 1>to turn back. And his second man during this attempt

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<v Speaker 1>was so real to him that at one point he

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<v Speaker 1>actually turned to offer them food before he realized that

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<v Speaker 1>there was no one there. So, like, this can be

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<v Speaker 1>a pretty tangible presence, a tangible intangible presence essentially.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean I've seen this in movies, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>and they don't call it out as you know, third

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<v Speaker 3>man syndrome, but I've definitely seen these scenes, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>where there's an unseen person and they look and then

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<v Speaker 3>they're not there. You know. Yeah, it's but in a

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<v Speaker 3>comforting way, not like well I was gonna spoil that.

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<v Speaker 2>Nicole Kidman movie.

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<v Speaker 3>But I guess I won't do that right, not in

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<v Speaker 3>a horror movie kind of way, No, for sure. But

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<v Speaker 3>there was another guy, a climber again named Joe Simpson.

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<v Speaker 3>This is nineteen eighty five. He was climbing in the

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<v Speaker 3>Peruvian andyes, and he broke his leg, so he was

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<v Speaker 3>in really bad shape. And he wrote a book called

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<v Speaker 3>Touching the Void where he talked about obeying this voice

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<v Speaker 3>like guiding him, and a lot of times that's what happens.

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<v Speaker 3>It's not just like you can do it. You can

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<v Speaker 3>do it, but like go this way kind of thing.

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<v Speaker 3>And if you're in this situation after reading all this stuff,

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<v Speaker 3>I would be wise to go in whatever direction your

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<v Speaker 3>invisible person is telling you to go.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, obey the voice, I think is the upshot of

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<v Speaker 1>all this. Yeah, he was guided to safety by his voice.

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<v Speaker 1>And enough of these are mountaineers that I started to

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<v Speaker 1>think maybe the cold has something to do with this.

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<v Speaker 1>But this has also happened to other people who were

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<v Speaker 1>not in the colt, who were in totally different situations.

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<v Speaker 1>Very famously, out of the nine to eleven attacks, two

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<v Speaker 1>people who survived reported experiencing third man syndrome. One was

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<v Speaker 1>Ron Di Francesco, who was the last person out of

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<v Speaker 1>the South Tower before it collapsed. He was led down

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<v Speaker 1>while everybody else was going up and actually went through

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<v Speaker 1>flames fired like three stories of fire to get to safety,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was because he was being urged on. And

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<v Speaker 1>then there was another woman, Janelle Guzman McMillan, who was

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<v Speaker 1>actually trapped in the rubble of the North Tower and

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<v Speaker 1>she had a similar experience too.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and you know again it's it feels like it

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<v Speaker 3>might be like in the movie, like a family member

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<v Speaker 3>or something. And sometimes it seems like that can happen, Like,

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<v Speaker 3>I know, wasn't there one of these where Yeah, it

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<v Speaker 3>was a geologist who was on a cave dive and

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<v Speaker 3>lost her guideline with twenty minutes left in her air tank,

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<v Speaker 3>and she felt her husband, Rob, who had died, So

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<v Speaker 3>her dead husband had died in a diving accident a

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<v Speaker 3>few weeks prior, so he appears. So sometimes it's like

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<v Speaker 3>a known individual.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And Janelle Guzman McMillan I read she named. She

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<v Speaker 1>didn't think hers was a family member, but she considered

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<v Speaker 1>it a guardian angel and its name was Paul. So

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<v Speaker 1>they do get named sometimes even if you don't know him.

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<v Speaker 2>I would name.

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<v Speaker 1>Mine, what would you name yours?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. It depends.

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<v Speaker 3>I think it would hit me in the moment, but

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<v Speaker 3>it seems like the respectful thing to do and not

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<v Speaker 3>just say hey you, thanks.

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<v Speaker 2>For all that.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, Yeah, And just a little word of advice, if

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<v Speaker 1>you can't come up with the name, just go with Tim.

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<v Speaker 2>Tim.

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<v Speaker 3>That's pretty good scientifically, I mean you might be wondering, like, well,

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<v Speaker 3>what's happening here, and no, no one really knows. It's

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<v Speaker 3>kind of one of those things where they think it

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<v Speaker 3>may be some like hardwired innate instinct that just kind

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<v Speaker 3>of kicks in.

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<v Speaker 2>You know.

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<v Speaker 3>Obviously you can't study something like this, and if it

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<v Speaker 3>is hardwired, we may all have it, but you're just

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<v Speaker 3>luckily most of us aren't ever in that situation, you.

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<v Speaker 1>Know, right, Like you not only have to be in

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<v Speaker 1>this limit of your endurance life or death situation, you

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<v Speaker 1>also have to survive it to come back and tell

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<v Speaker 1>everybody about it too. So you would imagine like this

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<v Speaker 1>is a pretty small population of people, right, I mean, clearly,

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<v Speaker 1>just from the few stories that John Geiger was able

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<v Speaker 1>to collect, did you see the thing about the bi

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<v Speaker 1>cameral mind now hy theory. So remember our episode on

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<v Speaker 1>the bi cameral mind from Julian James, and basically, just

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<v Speaker 1>for people who aren't familiar, this is a hypothesis that

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<v Speaker 1>all the way up until like the Bronze Age, people

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<v Speaker 1>hadn't fully become conscious like we think of consciousness today,

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<v Speaker 1>and so the voices in their head that we call

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<v Speaker 1>an inner dialogue where we know we're talking to ourselves

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<v Speaker 1>to them, this was the gods speaking to them, guiding them,

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<v Speaker 1>instructing them. So this idea is the third man syndrome

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<v Speaker 1>is kind of this vestigial by cameral experience that people

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<v Speaker 1>used to have where what seems like something outside of

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<v Speaker 1>your mind is helping you, urging you on, guiding you,

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<v Speaker 1>but really it's just another part of your mind that

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<v Speaker 1>gets kicked in.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I love it, which kind of drives with the

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<v Speaker 3>first theory anyway. You know, it's not like that doesn't

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<v Speaker 3>cancel it out.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, No, there's no canceling going on here.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Good? Uh?

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<v Speaker 1>Are you got anything else?

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<v Speaker 3>Nothing else? Hopefully this instinct is within all of us,

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<v Speaker 3>because I wouldn't mind a pal urging me on in

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<v Speaker 3>the end.

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<v Speaker 1>For sure, yes, but hopefully no one listening ever, has

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<v Speaker 1>to experience it because it sounds like it's pretty rough

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<v Speaker 1>to get there. Agreed, Short Stuff is out.

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