Hey there, Shankar here. I want to tell you about a new show we are launching. It's called

My Unsung Hero, and it's inspired by the segment at the end of every Hidden Brain episode

where we thank someone who helped us. Here's the reason we started the new show. For

years, you've told us that the unsung hero segment at the end of our episodes is one of

your favorite parts of the show. So we wanted to give you the opportunity to share your unsung

heroes with the world. I put my elbows on one of the windows and completely lost it,

just sobbing. A person came up, put their hand on my left shoulder, and just left it there.

No words, just presents. He just stood with me. He stood there with me for maybe 20 minutes.

We didn't have any conversation, but he just...

My first response was to say, I'm fine, I'm fine, I got this. And she looked at me with

the most assertive, strong look on her face and said, I'm helping you.

My Unsung Hero is designed to be an antidote to the despair so many of us feel when we turn

on TV news or scroll through social media. The stories in this show will remind us of the

many ways people are brave, generous, and kind.

She took my hand and she leaned in forward real close to me and she said, Tony Ludlow,

I expect greatness from you. And I'd never heard anybody challenge me with that kind of

thing in my whole life.

Each week we'll share a story about a moment when one person helped another in a time of

need. And we'll show you how these acts of heroism, some big, some small, transform someone's

life.

You could have done nothing, you could have just driven away. So I would say thank you,

thank you for saving my mother's life, thank you for preserving her dignity.

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