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GraveYard Tales

234: 3rd Man Syndrome

GraveYard Tales

Adam Zero

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science, History

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

This week we take a look at a phenomenon called 3rd Man Syndrome. Have you ever heard of this? Have you ever experienced 3rd Man Syndrome? 


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Sources

http://www.thirdmanfactor.com/

https://www.themanual.com/outdoors/third-man-syndrome-explained/

https://www.npr.org/2009/09/13/112746464/guardian-angels-or-the-third-man-factor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_man_factor

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Alright, Matt, so what do you call a med student who graduated online?

0:06.3

I don't know, doctor. A Google doc or a web MD? Your choice.

0:22.0

Good evening everybody and welcome to the graveyard. Thank you for joining us tonight.

0:27.6

My name is Adam and my name's Matt. Now we'll have a tombstone or settle into your casket and get comfortable

0:36.2

because this is graveyard tails.

0:44.5

Oh, right everybody here we are again Matt. How you doing tonight brother?

0:49.6

Man, I'm doing pretty good. Good. Good. So before we get into it, I don't know if you...

0:56.1

I was sitting here eating these things before you got on the peanut butter filled pretzels.

1:02.3

Yeah, I realize it's probably not the best thing to eat before we start recording because it's

1:06.5

like all in my mouth and... Man, they drive my mouth out. Yes, so bad. Yep. So eat the album or something.

1:16.0

Yes, like no, so I may be sitting here and I'm gonna water. But I love them dude.

1:22.8

It's like a addiction and the name Uts or whatever it reminds me of the Utsi, the Ice Man.

1:29.9

So I mean, even more of a reason to eat. I don't even know. Is that a regional thing?

1:35.2

The Uts, pretzels? No, the Utsi, the Ice Man. That's that body that they found up in

1:43.2

Alps or something that was preserved Stone Age guy and concluded that after research

1:52.3

he'd been there for thousands of years or whatever and he had been attacked. He was in a battle

1:58.1

and got shot in the back by arrows and like they can track what he was eating and his movement up

2:04.5

and down the mountain due to what was in his stomach. And then he died on the top of this mountain

2:10.3

and got frozen. So everything was safe. Okay. I remember this story. I did not remember that being

2:17.7

the name. Yep. So let's see the Ice Man Utsi. So I don't know why I remember that so much, but

2:26.8

because that's what you know, having a mind like a still trap. That wealth of useless knowledge

2:32.0

right there. But speaking of a wealth of knowledge, go over to podbelly.com and you can find a

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