SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Doppelgängers: Hey you, you're me!

00:00:02 Speaker 1: 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, a.k.a. 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. 00:00:35 Speaker 2: Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. 00:00:45 Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here, too. And this is Stuff You Should Know, the day after Labor Day edition, which Chuck loves. 00:00:57 Speaker 2: 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. 00:01:12 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:01:13 Speaker 2: And boy, some of those are crazy similar. 00:01:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, what about the two bears with their shirts off? 00:01:21 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:01:22 Speaker 1: Those guys struck me as extremely close. 00:01:26 Speaker 2: The two women with the bangs and the black tank tops looked like identical twins to me. I could not tell them apart. 00:01:33 Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like we shouldn't tease anybody anymore. There's a guy, and like you said, we'll get to him in a little bit, or he'll figure in in a little bit, I should say. But he's a Montreal, I guess a Quebecois photographer, Francois Brunel. And for 20 years, he's been 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 them 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 and dresses them and everything, like it creates like a sense of intimacy between them. It makes you think you're looking at identical twin photos. 00:02:15 Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you know, some of them 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 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. 00:02:35 Speaker 1: Yeah. And I mean, like that is got to be pretty eerie. Luckily, one of the great things about social media is that people can post their random encounters. You got a phone …