SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Doppelgängers: Hey you, you're me!
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What is the episode’s main focus on doppelgängers and why are they fascinating?
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I think I even say in the episode that I remember learning about doppelgangers from those time life books about the paranormal back when I was a kid. Well, fast forward to when I'm a grown up, aka now. I was really glad to learn that they're an actual thing. There are people walking around who have a twin that they're in no way related to, and the stories behind them tend to be very interesting. I'm out, this is the last one for me, so let me say thanks for listening to our playlist.
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Uh yeah, you know, Emily showed me that article that informed part of this episode the other day. Yeah. And we'll get to it, but I started looking at this photographer's doppelganger photo series
Yeah.
And boy, some of those are crazy similar.
Yeah, what about the two bears with their shirts off?
Yeah. Those guys struck me
as extremely close.
The uh the two women with the bangs and the black tank tops looked like identical twins to me. I could not tell them apart.
Yeah, I I feel like we shouldn't tease anybody anymore. There's a guy, and like you said, we'll get to him um in a little bit, but or he'll figure in in a little bit, I should say. But he's a Montreal, I guess a Quebeccois photographer, Francois Brunel. And for twenty years he's been uh assembling pictures of doppelgangers. People who already knew they had a doppelganger and wrote in doppelgangers he's looked for and found on the street. and he brings them together into his studio and photographs em together. But he does some like really cool stuff with it. It's not just like here, you stand here and you stand next to him. The way that he poses them, addresses 'em and everything, it like It creates like a sense of intimacy between them and it makes you think you're looking at identical twin photos.
Yeah. I mean, you know, some of 'em people favor one another. And then when you have them styled to look alike and posed alike that informs what you're seeing. But a a handful of them it was They look so much like identical twins that it's just it's weird to think that you could walk down the street one day and meet someone who looks exactly like you.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the episode’s main focus on doppelgängers and why are they fascinating?
0:00–7:49
2
How did photographer François Brunel’s “I’m Not a Look‑Alike!” project inspire the conversation?
7:49–14:22
3
What historical anecdotes illustrate the eerie power of seeing your double?
14:22–23:52
4
Where does the word “doppelgänger” come from and how has its meaning changed?
23:52–30:38
5
What did the recent genetic‑facial‑recognition study reveal about look‑alikes?
30:38–43:08
6
How reliable is modern facial‑recognition AI when faced with doppelgängers?
43:08–53:50
7
Which brain region lets us spot faces instantly and why does it matter for doppelgängers?
53:50–58:05
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