After rapping out all the HAG news that’s fit to print, Chris and Josh dive into the recently aired ESPN doc “The Last Dance” and suggest that Michael Jordan’s story fits the traditional hero’s journey. Like Jordan, the heroes of history are often complex and multi-dimensional figures, except when it comes to certain officially approved national heroes, who by comparison seem one-dimensional and stiff as statues. What gives? Chris pulls Thomas Jefferson out of the shadows of national myth to reveal a more complex, contradictory, and uncomfortable version of the Sage of Monticello. Pulling the borders off the Jefferson story, Josh expands our view to a global stage to explore the irony that the seeds of freedom and liberty planted by racists, imperialists, and slaveholders, eventually “grew where they had not been intended.” Follow us @HistATG on Instagram and Twitter