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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, it's me your friend Josh, and for this

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Speaker 1: week's s Y s K Selects, I've chosen our episode

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Speaker 1: on cop Cross or cop Craw. We never actually really

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Speaker 1: figure it out in this episode Syndrome. It's about an

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Speaker 1: astoundingly interesting mental disorder where a person believes the people

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Speaker 1: in their life have been replaced by impostors. And this

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Speaker 1: episode contains the dorkiest line I've ever uttered. Yes, Wow,

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Speaker 1: indeed enjoy. Welcome to Stuff you should know, a production

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Speaker 1: of My Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. I'm pretty sure the

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Speaker 1: person with me is always is Charles W. Chuck Bryant,

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Speaker 1: cap grasp. Yeah, I think it's cup Craw because it's

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Speaker 1: a Frenchman who was the first person to describe Jerry.

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Speaker 1: Just call it crap Cross. We're all kinds of screwed up,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not going to say cop crawl the whole time,

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Speaker 1: so we'll just say kept grads obnoxious. Yeah, that's what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like, we're not in Quebec, that's right, um right.

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Speaker 1: This is basically are our Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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Speaker 1: episode past that unless we do one on the invasion

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Speaker 1: of the body snatchers. That's kind of the deal, though.

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Speaker 1: We're talking today about a very very strange and once

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Speaker 1: thought to be very uncommon and rare disorder um a

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Speaker 1: delusional disorder, a delusional misidentification disorder, to be specific, where

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Speaker 1: the sufferer believes that the people in his or her life,

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Speaker 1: people very close to him, have all been replaced by impostors,

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Speaker 1: that they're there, Like I'm looking at you right now, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: and you look just like Chuck, and you're doing a

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Speaker 1: great job with the voice and everything, but like I

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Speaker 1: don't want to say it, and I don't want to

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Speaker 1: look you in the eye, but like you're obviously not Chucking.

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Speaker 1: What's going on? We all feel that about each other occasionally,

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Speaker 1: but imagine like that all the time, Like, how would

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Speaker 1: you just not lose faith in the reality of anything

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Speaker 1: if you thought, first of all, how are people? How

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Speaker 1: are they coming up with great impostors like this? Who

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Speaker 1: is they? Why are they doing this? Why you? Is

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Speaker 1: it just you? Or is the whole world impostors? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's like there's a lot of really weighty questions

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Speaker 1: involved with this, and as a result, science has been

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Speaker 1: trying to really figure out the mystery behind it and

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Speaker 1: has failed thus far. Yeah, and you know we we

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Speaker 1: already should say. It's not only difficult on the person,

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Speaker 1: but it's difficult on the person being misidentified as well.

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Speaker 1: And you don't really don't hear a lot about that.

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Speaker 1: I read a bunch of articles on this and only

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Speaker 1: one said, and don't forget if someone if your wife

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Speaker 1: thinks that you're an impostor, it's really tough on you

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Speaker 1: so this is actually kind of a newish phenomenon as

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Speaker 1: far as description goes. UM Dr cop Craw and Dr

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Speaker 1: Rebu last show, UM described Madame m who believed that

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Speaker 1: she had as many as eighty husbands, all of them

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Speaker 1: the same, looking the same, but they were all imposters

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure at the time they thought, what this

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Speaker 1: lady is just nuts, But then the more people did research,

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Speaker 1: all psychiatric patients have cap craw And you can probably

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Speaker 1: at large. And where you really see it though, is

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Speaker 1: in Alzheimer's patients. The statistic was between two and thirty

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Speaker 1: percent of Alzheimer's patients possibly suffer from cop crop or

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Speaker 1: crab grass. But it isn't that just Alzheimer's. No, not

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Speaker 1: like you're accusing your husband, your wife, your son, your

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Speaker 1: of your emotions going off. Yeah, with the idea being

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Speaker 1: the opposite of studies of um cap cross syndrome. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: basically like they're looking at a picture of a complete stranger, right,

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Speaker 1: emotional response. Here's the thing. They recognize the face enough

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Speaker 1: this is an imposter. That's what they think is going on. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: That is a full memory. With cop Craw, people who

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Speaker 1: strange phenomenon. In this case, if you have that disconnect

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Speaker 1: aware of all this stuff. Yeah, and I mean imagine

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Speaker 1: And Um, they found that it's it is co morbid

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Speaker 1: Glenn Miller version of the mood, and I feel really guilty. Um. Again,

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