Ready to ruin Thanksgiving 2021? We can help with that, with this Encore edition of our Mayflower episode.

Give it a listen while you prepare your famous Green bean casserole and then bring it up over dessert. Guaranteed to make the holiday memorable!

Fake it till you make it is generally good advice, but maybe not when you lie about crashing a plane and you end up lying so well that every one assumes you’re a war hero and then they make you spy on the U.S. President. Luckily if it all falls apart you could always go with your backup plan of writing racist & anti-semitic books for kids.

We’ll be back with a new episode next week, but until then if you haven’t listened to this episode in a while (or ever) now is the perfect time to make it happen. You’ll leave knowing KFC’s real eleven herbs and spices, which in the case of Colonel Sanders’ life just so happen to be various combinations of chaos and felonies.

Beyoncé is famous enough to go by one name, but if she was a famous as Jonathan Taylor Thomas she would go by three. And if JTT was as famous as today’s hero he’d go by three names long enough for them to be combined back into one until people forgot he was a person at all and just used his visage as a way to mark the changing of the seasons.

In honor of continued decorative gourd season, this week's hero is one of the creepiest (grossest) heroes in a while.

(and yes, Audrey absentmindedly called him Edward like 10 times in this episode, give her a break, she's sensitive)

Shockingly, the man who named a company, school, foundation, bank, and town after himself turned out to be a violent control freak. Not so shockingly, he was also very racist.

This week’s hero was a man who wanted to control the narrative of his life in the same way he controlled the narrative of his novels, and he didn’t care who in his life he had to manipulate in order to make it happen.

This week's hero is yet another only slightly better-than-average aviator whose superstardom was manufactured by a major media company. Known best for his transatlantic flight and personal tragedies, what Charles Lindbergh really wanted to be known for was his "superior" genetics.

There are untold numbers of pioneering female aviators who defied societal pressure at the turn of the 20th century and became incredible pilots who pushed the boundaries of flying, and ushered in the age of commercial airlines. Then there’s Amelia Earhart.

Home run record holder. Procurer of Blackmarket sheep-testicle-derived steroids. Amateur wrestling referee. What can’t this week’s hero do? Well, stay faithful to his wives for starters.