The Third Man Factor, Chapter One: "Who is the third who walks always beside you?"

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Imagine you are on the edge of death. You're summiting Everest, surviving on a space station, lost in the woods or losing consciousness after a car accident. Suddenly, a mysterious presence appears: "Keep going," it says, "take my hand. Stick around just a bit longer, and I will lead you home." This experience exists across cultures and time -- in the past, humans deemed it the intervention of the divine. Today, it's often called the "Third Man Factor." In the first chapter of this week's special two-part series, Ben, Matt and Noel explore the concept of a benevolent stranger appearing just in time to save your life -- then, once the danger has passed, disappearing without a trace.

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.9	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:11.9	A production of IHeart Radio.
0:25.7	Hello, welcome back to the show.
0:26.5	My name is Matt.
0:27.3	My name is Noel.
0:28.8	They called me Ben.
0:33.0	We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:35.0	Most importantly, you are you.
0:36.0	You are here.
0:39.4	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:46.8	Welcome back to the show fellow conspiracy realist. We might be embarking on a two-part episode this week.
0:52.7	We're not sure. We have a lot of thoughts about this. It's something pretty important to all of us. We wanted to begin tonight's exploration
0:55.0	with a question. Do you believe in guardian angels or do you know someone who does?
1:02.4	Jeez, that is a big question because it's like, you know, you could think of someone in your
1:07.2	life who looks out for you as like a corporeal embodiment of the idea of a
1:13.2	guardian angel. And you could certainly use that like as a stand in conversationally like so
1:17.3	and so my best friend is my real guardian angel. But then you have to think about it too from
1:22.2	the kind of more spiritual side. And that's where things get a little trickier to kind of parse out
1:26.3	for me anyway.
1:29.8	Yeah, and Matt saved my life a couple times actually. Same.
1:30.6	Same.
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