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🗓️ 27 December 2025
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There's a scientific reason you might be wired to think, "they all look alike to me." That concept was at the heart of a bizarre, extended interaction Amy and T. J. had with a woman who approached them at the airport yesterday. The stranger claimed she and her husband thought T. J. was former President Barack Obama. Then, things got uncomfortable.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.2 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:15.4 | It is Saturday, December 27th, and no ma'am. |
| 0:20.3 | I am not Barack Obama. And no, ma'am, I am not Barack Obama. And no ma'am, I don't often get |
| 0:25.3 | mistaken for Barack Obama. It's just you who can't tell one light-skinned brother from another. |
| 0:33.1 | And with that, welcome to this y'all all lookalike episode of Amy and T.J. Robs, not the episode we planned on |
| 0:41.3 | doing necessarily, but is this a fun, funny topic? Y'all all look alike. We've all familiar |
| 0:47.1 | with that, right? Yes. And look, I think it's only, it's funny in that it's alarming and all you can do is laugh at a certain point, |
| 0:55.9 | because what are you going to do about it? |
| 0:57.2 | I mean, your other choice is to be angry and offended, which is well within your right, |
| 1:03.0 | but you chose to laugh. |
| 1:05.2 | Yeah, and we are going to get into that, what you just said. |
| 1:09.4 | What do you do about it? |
| 1:10.6 | There is something that can be done about it. So folks, ask that, what you just said. What do you do about it? There is something that can be |
| 1:12.0 | done about it. So folks, ask yourself, have you ever found yourself in that position to where |
| 1:17.5 | you mixed up a couple of folks from a minority group? A couple of Asian women. You can't tell the |
| 1:22.1 | difference. A couple of black guys. You don't know. They all look alike. Have you done that? |
| 1:25.8 | Now, I'll ask you first, before we get |
| 1:27.5 | into this incident that prompted this episode, do you think you have ever done that before? Maybe not even said it to somebody's face, but even maybe internally or you mixed up to people. I'm sure I have. Yes. I mean, I can't think of a specific example, but I would never say, oh no I've never done that I'm sure I have and a lot of people have and some people will |
| 1:47.6 | immediately point to example, but I would never say, oh, no, I've never done that. I'm sure I have. |
| 1:46.0 | And a lot of people have, and some people will immediately point to racism. And this is what |
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