People talk about Paul McCartney being cloned.

It's like, did they know when he was a baby in 1940 in Liverpool?

We're going to need a second one of these lads.

And let's get this one cooking so then when we're going to talk about today, the fun ones about nefarious forces, secretly replacing famous people with clones.

For this collaboration, I hung out with the boys of the podcast No Such Thing,

a show where, in their own words, three best friends and journalists,

settle their dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research.

We'll learn about the different clone conspiracies and their origins, hear from an expert on the real science and ethical concerns behind cloning,

and chat about where these outlandish tales fit into the larger infrastructure of American

conspiracy theories. I'm your host, Chelsea Weber Smith, and this is American hysteria and

no such thing. I'm Annie. I'm Noah. This is Dev.

We're talking about clones, specifically celebrity clones and how many of them there might be

around us. We hear about these all the time. And this week we're joined by our special guest,

Chelsea, from American Hysteria. We're going to dive into it and kind of sort this out.

Mandy, do you want to run us through a few clone theories you've heard?

Yeah, sure. I mean, essentially pretty much every celebrity when they like lose a little bit

of weight, there's a new conspiracy about them being a clone. So all of the kind of classic ones, you've got Britney Spears,

clone conspiracies, you've got Jennifer Lopez, Jay-Z.

One of my favorites, an under-talked-about clone conspiracy is Gucci Main.

The rapper, he went to jail for some horrible crime.

I can't remember what it was. When he was released, he obviously was in much better shape, a lot less body fat percentage, you might say. And

immediately people were like, wow, they cloned him while he was in there. And then they've got this

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