Speaker 1: School of humans.
Speaker 2: Men will literally do anything to cheat on their wives,
Speaker 2: including innovate air travel and doing the first solo NonStop
Speaker 2: flight across the Atlantic Ocean, whomest.
Speaker 1: Am I alluding to, well none other.
Speaker 2: Than Charles Lindbergh Lucky Lindy, as he was called. Other
Speaker 2: pilots had crossed this ocean, the first being two Brits
Speaker 2: in nineteen nineteen, but they went a shorter distance between
Speaker 2: Newfoundland and Ireland. The flight took sixteen hours, and they
Speaker 2: had the emotional and physical support.
Speaker 1: Of each other.
Speaker 2: Lindburgh, on the other hand, he was all alone on
Speaker 2: that flight in nineteen twenty seven and traveled a longer
Speaker 2: distance from New York to Paris.
Speaker 1: It took him thirty three and a half hours.
Speaker 2: And I know the most pressing question on everybody's mind.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you are all wondering this. That flight was
Speaker 2: long as hell. How did Lucky Lindy use the toilet
Speaker 2: while flying that plane? And maybe you're like Gabby, that
Speaker 2: was actually not my first question, but this question was
Speaker 2: on the mind of many esteemed people like myself, For example,
Speaker 2: the British monarch King George the Fifth. After Lindbergh completed
Speaker 2: his flight. King George invited Lindbergh to England to fly
Speaker 2: his personal plane.
Speaker 1: He was like, yeah, buddy, get your.
Speaker 2: Cock in that cockpit. And during that visit, King George
Speaker 2: was like, so there's one thing I want to know,
Speaker 2: how did you pee? Lucky Lindy's plane was called the
Speaker 2: Spirit of Saint Louis, which, honestly.
Speaker 1: That has a terrible vibe or a.
Speaker 2: Plane, the Spirit of Saint Louis, what is it? Drunk
Speaker 2: and didn't graduate from high school. But the Spirit of
Speaker 2: Saint Louis could fit one person. There are no flight attendants,
Speaker 2: no snacks, no more. And of course the plane didn't
Speaker 2: have a bathroom. So our Charlie boy Lindbergh told the
Speaker 2: King how he relieved himself. His pilot chair was made
Speaker 2: out of wicker and he'd cut a hole in it
Speaker 2: below which there is a funnel leading to an aluminum
Speaker 2: can where waste of any sort could be stored. So, Fellas,
Speaker 2: I hope you never feel ashamed of peeing sitting down.
Speaker 2: It's what revered cultural figure Charles Lindbergh did. I mean,
Speaker 2: sure he was doing it because he had certain space constraints.
Speaker 2: But if anyone ever questions your masculinity because you sit
Speaker 2: down to pe admonish them by saying, don't bother me,
Speaker 2: I'm making a transatlantic flight that will show them. Before
Speaker 2: he landed on that historic flight, though lucky Lindy got
Speaker 2: rid of his waist by dumping it somewhere over the
Speaker 2: French countryside. But anyway, this episode is not about pissing. No,
Speaker 2: it's about cheating. When Lindbergh completed that flight in nineteen
Speaker 2: twenty seven, he became a celebrity, a global sensation. Basically,
Speaker 2: he was the Taylor Swift of the nineteen twenties, not
Speaker 2: just because he became a huge star, but because he
Speaker 2: traveled by plane with significant greenhouse gas emissions. But the
Speaker 2: problem with planes, as I alluded to earlier, is that
Speaker 2: they take you places. Specifically, they can take you places
Speaker 2: far away, far away enough from your wife, but you
Speaker 2: can land in the arms of another woman, or, in
Speaker 2: Lindberg's case, the arms of three ladies in Germany, to
Speaker 2: the theme song this is American filth and I'm Gabby wattsy week,
Speaker 2: I tell you a filthy story from American history. This
Speaker 2: week's episode Cheating Charles Glenn Burgh d Do Do Dig
Speaker 2: Do Do Do did do.
Speaker 1: Excuse me. First, in order to cheat on your wife,
Speaker 1: you must acquire a wife to cheat on. So let's
Speaker 1: talk about that first.
Speaker 2: Glennburgh was a twenty five year old bachelor when he
Speaker 2: completed that transatlantic flight.
Speaker 1: Though, are you called a bachelor that young of an age?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: He was a playboy, he flew a plane and now
Speaker 2: he's gonna wet that Willie, I guess. But you know,
Speaker 2: he was a famous guy. I'm sure the ladies were
Speaker 2: going wild for him and Lindenbergh as a person, he
Speaker 2: was reserved and withdrawn a law at the time, but
Speaker 2: he was also kind of a condescending little bitch, just
Speaker 2: a little bit in a really sadistic sense of humor.
Speaker 1: Like one time back in his airmail piloting.
Speaker 2: Days, as a joke, he filled up the glass of
Speaker 2: one of his fellow pilots with kerosene. The pilot drank
Speaker 2: it and nearly died, and it's like, yeah, boys will
Speaker 2: be boys and boys will do pranks, but that one
Speaker 2: went a bit far. Another time, he put a shit
Speaker 2: ton of laxatives in a fellow pilot's food and then
Speaker 2: the pilot produced a ton of shit.
Speaker 1: But blah blah blah character flaws.
Speaker 2: After his big Boy flight, Lindbergh was famous, so he
Speaker 2: was doing what famous people do, making public appearances. He
Speaker 2: was touring around the country giving talks on aviation, working
Speaker 2: in aircraft design, and flying goodwill missions to various nations
Speaker 2: in Latin America. At the end of nineteen twenty seven,
Speaker 2: he went down to Mexico and there he met up
Speaker 2: with the US's ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Morrow, And while
Speaker 2: he was down there, he met Ambassador Marrow's daughter Anne.
Speaker 2: Anne was twenty one at the time and down in
Speaker 2: Mexico visiting her dad while on break from college. Anne
Speaker 2: was introverted in shy and she was at Smith College
Speaker 2: studying writing. And being introverted in shy can make some
Speaker 2: people think you're very mysterious. And Charles Limberg.
Speaker 1: Was like a wuga.
Speaker 2: I like this lady, and Morrow also had a little
Speaker 2: a wuga in her as well when she looked at
Speaker 2: Charles Limberg. But she was also kind of nervous, afraid
Speaker 2: he was this huge star taking an interest in her,
Speaker 2: she wrote in her diary meeting Charles, who by the way,
Speaker 2: was six to two, not bad, She wrote, he is
Speaker 2: taller than anyone else. You see his head in a
Speaker 2: moving crowd, and you notice his glance where it turns
Speaker 2: as though it were keener, clearer, and brighter than anybody else's,
Speaker 2: lit with a more intense fire. What could I say
Speaker 2: to this boy? Anything I might say would be trivial
Speaker 2: and superficial, like pink frosting flowers. I felt the whole
Speaker 2: world before this to be frivolous, superficial, ephemeral. After that,
Speaker 2: they went on two dates and got engaged, and they
Speaker 2: finally got married in May nineteen twenty nine. Anne was
Speaker 2: first a writer, but soon she became Charles's co pilot.
Speaker 2: She also learned how to fly solo, and in nineteen
Speaker 2: thirty she was the first woman to get a glider
Speaker 2: plane license. Since their first date, Charles and Anne Lindbergh's
Speaker 2: coupling made the public go goo goo for gossip.
Speaker 1: Everybody wanted to know everything about them.
Speaker 2: They were the it couple of the time, kind of
Speaker 2: like Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey or p Diddy and
Speaker 2: Baby Oil.
Speaker 1: And Anne.
Speaker 2: Obviously, I feel like for most people this would be
Speaker 2: the case. She found this really uncomfortable. She wrote about
Speaker 2: what it felt like to be surrounded by so much
Speaker 2: press all the time. She was like a deer hunted
Speaker 2: by smiling, smirky, sure of themselves, relentless hunters. And then
Speaker 2: at home, Charles himself was a little overpowering. He could
Speaker 2: be mean and controlling. His life became her life. At
Speaker 2: the dinner table, he would bring Anna to do list,
Speaker 2: but she also ended up doing to his kids. Over
Speaker 2: the course of their marriage, they had six children, but
Speaker 2: the press started going extra crazy Charles and Ann in
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty two because of a terrible tragedy. The Limburgs
Speaker 2: were living on a lavish est day in New Jersey,
Speaker 2: because we all know that's where you go when you
Speaker 2: become famous New Jersey. And in nineteen thirty and bird
Speaker 2: their first child, little Charles Lindbergh Junior. But on March first,
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty two, someone crawled through the window of the
Speaker 2: nursery where the little twenty month year old babe was
Speaker 2: sleeping and kidnapped him. The kidnapper left behind a ransom
Speaker 2: note demanding fifty thousand dollars. The note had a lot
Speaker 2: of spelling errors and featured this odd cryptic symbol at
Speaker 2: the bottom of the page. Obviously, any child being kidnapped
Speaker 2: is a big deal and should be taken seriously, but
Speaker 2: because it was a Limburg baby, everybody went berserk, especially
Speaker 2: after the baby was found dead with his skull cruestion
Speaker 2: on May twelfth. There was a huge hunt for the
Speaker 2: kidnapper that went all the way to the top. Even
Speaker 2: President Roosevelt got involved later on in the investigation when
Speaker 2: he took office in nineteen thirty three. Eventually, a man
Speaker 2: was arrested for kidnapping and child murder, put on trial,
Speaker 2: found guilty, and executed by electric chair. This whole episode
Speaker 2: was dubbed the crime of the Century, even though I
Speaker 2: mean it was the nineteen thirties, so there was a
Speaker 2: lot more century left, so perhaps they were a bit
Speaker 2: premature in their assessment. Now, any marriage has difficulties surviving
Speaker 2: when you're raising children, but then your child dies, it
Speaker 2: would make sense that afterwards Charles and Ann had some
Speaker 2: marital issues That would totally make sense. But the two
Speaker 2: stayed together and even while the trial was happening, they
Speaker 2: had another son, and just to lower everyone's heart rate,
Speaker 2: they did have five children total who survived, and none
Speaker 2: of them were kidnapped.
Speaker 1: Okay, just so you guys know that they had this
Speaker 1: second son.
Speaker 2: And in the aftermath of the kidnapping of Charles Junior,
Speaker 2: the crime of the century, the Lindberghs were understandably overwhelmed
Speaker 2: by the press, so much press.
Speaker 1: So many people bothering them.
Speaker 2: So in nineteen thirty five they decided to move to Europe.
Speaker 2: They lived in England, they lived in France, but one
Speaker 2: of the places where they really wanted to live was Germany.
Speaker 1: And you want to be thinking, why the fuck.
Speaker 2: Would you move to Germany in the nineteen thirties, because
Speaker 2: you I remember, that was when this guy named Adolf
Speaker 2: Hitler was in power, freaking Hitler. And here's the thing
Speaker 2: about the Limburg's that's real messy, is that both Ann
Speaker 2: and Charles frickin' loved Germany. They loved the culture, the
Speaker 2: technological advancements, they loved the company. They even thought Hitler
Speaker 2: was doing a great job and described him as a
Speaker 2: very great man, like an inspired religious leader. And in turn,
Speaker 2: the Nazis loved the Limburgs. Ann and Charles attended the
Speaker 2: Olympics in Berlin as special guests in nineteen thirty six,
Speaker 2: and then the Nazis gave Charles a medal for his
Speaker 2: contributions to aviation. The Nazis and the Lindbergh sitting in
Speaker 2: a tree kill I and g we love it. The
Speaker 2: Limburgs loved Germany so much that in nineteen thirty nine
Speaker 2: they were about to move into a house in the
Speaker 2: suburbs of Berlin. But alas the Nazis Hitler were committing
Speaker 2: genocide and war broke out, you know, that little World
Speaker 2: War two, and the Limburgs were like, drat, I guess
Speaker 2: we have to go back to the United States. Now,
Speaker 2: the stupid United States. That's not nearly as awesome as freakin' Germany.
Speaker 2: When the Limbergs got back to the US, they brought
Speaker 2: that hazad Germany energy with them. But the problem with
Speaker 2: that energy in the United States and in general, was
Speaker 2: that Germany was a fascist country, committing heinous atrocities and
Speaker 2: attacking the United States's allies. And Charles Limberg in the
Speaker 2: US he became a big spokesman against the US.
Speaker 1: Entering the war.
Speaker 2: He was like, we need to practice some isolationist stuff
Speaker 2: because Germany is super technologically advanced. Hitler is an amazing leader.
Speaker 2: The US should just not bother getting involved and Limberg
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I'm saying all this stuff to like
Speaker 2: pert he the United States, right, America, first, the way
Speaker 2: to protect ourselves is to not get involved with the war,
Speaker 2: because again, Germany is freaking amazing. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: a lot of the stuff he was saying was a
Speaker 2: little sympathetic to fascism and a hint anti Semitic, And
Speaker 2: Lindberg was also out there defending Germany. She wrote a
Speaker 2: booklet called The Wave of the Future, and the United
Speaker 2: States government was like, this is fascist propaganda.
Speaker 1: Even Charlotte's Web author E. B.
Speaker 2: White got involved and called her a fascist tramp and
Speaker 2: everything that she was saying was absurd. And then when
Speaker 2: Pearl Harbor was attacked in nineteen forty one, the Limburg's
Speaker 2: finally conceded and we're like, yeah, I guess the US
Speaker 2: shouldet involved, you know whatever. After all of that, the
Speaker 2: Limburgs were no longer in the good graces of the public,
Speaker 2: and their reputations were forever stained throughout their lifetimes. But
Speaker 2: the fact that they there were fascist sympathizers, anti Semitic
Speaker 2: and thought Hitler was awesome. That can do a thing
Speaker 2: or two to your reputation. After the war, they kind
Speaker 2: of kept to themselves, but their reputations did recover a
Speaker 2: bit and kept writing, and in the nineteen fifties she
Speaker 2: wrote a proto feminist book called Gift from the Sea
Speaker 2: that became an instant bestseller and also became foundational to
Speaker 2: a lot of American women's lives. It was received so
Speaker 2: well that people started forgetting about the whole and drooling
Speaker 2: over Hitler thing. In the decades after the war, Charles
Speaker 2: Limberg kept flying around the world, innovating tech and promoting
Speaker 2: air travel.
Speaker 1: And today when you hear his name, you're probably like, ha.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the plane guy, not that guy who thought
Speaker 2: that Hitler was awesome. And Charles Limberg he died in
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy four, leaving behind a huge legacy of aviation
Speaker 2: and he's still a major figure in American history today.
Speaker 2: But he actually left behind even more than that, because
Speaker 2: after he died, it was discovered.
Speaker 1: That he was a bit of a serial cheater.
Speaker 2: And he didn't just have one secret family, he had three.
Speaker 1: As we like to say in American filth, what a
Speaker 1: guy be.
Speaker 2: Right back after these soothing advertisements, So we're finally at
Speaker 2: the part where we talk about how Charles Lindberg is
Speaker 2: a cheater. But to add some more hot goss to
Speaker 2: this episode, it was actually Anne Lindenberg who cheated first.
Speaker 1: How exciting. So after World War Two, Charles and Ann
Speaker 1: were having some relationship issues and I'm not trying.
Speaker 2: To sympathize with these Nazi apologists or whatever, but they
Speaker 2: had been through a lot. There was the constant public scrutiny,
Speaker 2: the kidnapping and death of their first son, hanging out
Speaker 2: with Nazis and then being vilified because they were literal villains,
Speaker 2: then the war, and after the war, Anne had a
Speaker 2: traumatic miscarriage. She was feeling bad, so she started seeing
Speaker 2: a psychiatrist. Charles got really pissed off about this. He
Speaker 2: was like, how dare you see a psychiatrist? Why would
Speaker 2: you need psychiatric treatment? That's for weak people. But also,
Speaker 2: I don't want you to be doing that because then
Speaker 2: you're gonna start sharing intimate knowledge about our marriage with
Speaker 2: some rando. I don't like that one bit, because remember
Speaker 2: Charles Limberg, he was a bit of a control freak.
Speaker 1: But Anne went.
Speaker 2: Anyway, and Charles kind of stopped talking to her and
Speaker 2: they began sleeping separately. A few years later and published
Speaker 2: her best selling book. And then a year after that,
Speaker 2: she started sleeping with her doctor, whoa major hip.
Speaker 1: Of violation right there.
Speaker 2: I think that's like rule number two, don't sleep with
Speaker 2: your patience. And that affair lasted for about three years.
Speaker 2: And the year after that affair started, Charles Lindberg started
Speaker 2: his own Now, some people might be quick to be
Speaker 2: like hey and had an affair, ergo, Charles was totally
Speaker 2: justified in getting some of his own hanky panky on
Speaker 2: the side. But I will contend that it is never
Speaker 2: good to cheat. Wow, so brave of me to say.
Speaker 2: And also, what we're about to hear about are the
Speaker 2: known affairs of Charles Lindberg. But that man was flying
Speaker 2: around the world a lot, so who knows what shenanigans
Speaker 2: he got into over the course of his lifetime. Yes,
Speaker 2: I am throwing major shade and conjecture at this man
Speaker 2: because he was mean, controlling, manipulative, and he would just
Speaker 2: do whatever the heck he wanted and be away from
Speaker 2: home for months and months, and then he would come
Speaker 2: back to his family and be a little bitch to
Speaker 2: discipline his kids. He'd be like, this isn't a democracy,
Speaker 2: this is a dictatorship.
Speaker 1: Not a nice guy.
Speaker 2: I would cheat on his ass too, because he's so annoying.
Speaker 2: But here's how we know about what happened in Germany.
Speaker 2: So in two thousand and three, this was many decades
Speaker 2: after Charles Lindberg had died, three German siblings came forward
Speaker 2: and like, hey, we're the grown children of Charles Lindberg. Now,
Speaker 2: obviously this was a big deal. Everyone was like, what
Speaker 2: the hell the esteemed pilot and sympathetic fascist, American hero
Speaker 2: and American enemy Charles Lindberg had some extramarital children.
Speaker 1: No freaking way, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: The three German siblings, two sons, one daughter, said that
Speaker 2: they made this discovery in the nineteen eighties. The daughter
Speaker 2: had seen a picture of Charles Lindberg in a magazine
Speaker 2: article and was like, I recognize that guy. That's the
Speaker 2: same guy who would visit mom two or three times year,
Speaker 2: but he never said he was Charles frickin Lindburg. Then
Speaker 2: the three siblings found one hundred and fifty letters from
Speaker 2: Charles Lindberg to their mother that she had put in
Speaker 2: a pile of trash, Which makes me think I got
Speaker 2: to go through my mom's trash more often. What had
Speaker 2: happened was Charles Lindbergh was flying around all over the world.
Speaker 2: He was working as the director of Pan American Airlines,
Speaker 2: and he was also doing some undercover work for President
Speaker 2: Dwight D.
Speaker 1: Eisenhower.
Speaker 2: Both of these jobs let him scoot around the world
Speaker 2: with ease, you know, he was undercover, but he could
Speaker 2: also easily get under the covers with other women. One
Speaker 2: of those women was Brigitte Hessheimer. In nineteen fifty seven,
Speaker 2: she was thirty one and a hat maker, and that
Speaker 2: year she met Charles Lindberg and.
Speaker 1: They started their affair together.
Speaker 2: They had three children, and these were the people who
Speaker 2: came forward, But Brigitte and Charles never revealed to the
Speaker 2: kids that he was their dad.
Speaker 1: He provided for them financially for his entire life, but.
Speaker 2: On their birth certificates their father was listed as unknown. Instead,
Speaker 2: he would show up to their house two or three
Speaker 2: times a year under the pseudonym CAREW. Kent and be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just your mom's good friend, no more than that.
Speaker 2: And their mom was like, yeah, he's a famous writer,
Speaker 2: so don't tell any when he comes to visit.
Speaker 1: Just keep it on the DL. Also, his alias Carole
Speaker 1: Kent similar to Clark Kent. Is it not?
Speaker 2: And isn't that just like egotistical dumbass Lendberg to give
Speaker 2: himself the alias of Superman, and Lenberg seemed happy about
Speaker 2: having these kids outside of his marriage. He wrote to
Speaker 2: Brigitte when he got the news of her first pregnancy.
Speaker 2: He said, the news you send is wonderful and I
Speaker 2: am tremendously happy about it. I just wish I could
Speaker 2: be there with you now. Still there are bound to
Speaker 2: be hurt feelings, as there have been with the other lovers.
Speaker 2: The other lovers, what other lovers? Well, Brigitte's three kids
Speaker 2: weren't his only children across the Atlantic. He had two
Speaker 2: more sons. He had these children with a woman named Marietta,
Speaker 2: and who was Marietta Well, she was the sister of
Speaker 2: Brigitte Hessheimer. Yikes, But that's not all. He also had
Speaker 2: another son and daughter with his secretary, Veleska, who also
Speaker 2: lived in Germany. And Veleska might have been the one
Speaker 2: who had introduced Charles Lindberg to the sisters. So he
Speaker 2: at least had seven German children from three different women.
Speaker 2: And despite having that many relations in Germany, Charles Lindberg
Speaker 2: himself never learned German. He's like, why would I need
Speaker 2: to do that. I'm Charles Lindberg. They can just speak English.
Speaker 2: So the three women also knew about his other relationships
Speaker 2: in Germany and tolerated it.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'd be totally gross down if I had
Speaker 2: kids with a dude that my sister had kids with.
Speaker 2: But who am I to judge? One time I hooked
Speaker 2: up with a ska musician, which is perhaps even worse.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Charles would visit a few times a year
Speaker 2: and go on his mistress tour of Germany. Writer Rudolph
Speaker 2: Schruck wrote a book about these affairs, and he said
Speaker 2: Lindberg would land in Frankfurt, drive south and visit Marietta,
Speaker 2: then Vilesca, and then continue on to Munich and visit
Speaker 2: Brigitte before returning to Frankfurt. He did this for fourteen years.
Speaker 2: The only thing that stopped these affairs was Charles Lindberg's
Speaker 2: death in nineteen seventy four, and a few days before
Speaker 2: he died, he wrote a letter to Brigitte from a
Speaker 2: ha spittle. He said, dear Brigitte, my strength is leaving
Speaker 2: me every day. It is very difficult just to write.
Speaker 2: All I can send to you and the children is
Speaker 2: my love. After Brigitte's kids confronted her about their discovery
Speaker 2: that Charles Lindbergh was their father, she asked them not
Speaker 2: to reveal anything until after her death, so they waited.
Speaker 2: She died in two thousand and one, which was the
Speaker 2: same year as Anne Lindberg's death, and that year in
Speaker 2: two thousand and one, the Hessheimer's approached the Lindbergh children
Speaker 2: before going public, and the Lindberg kids they had no
Speaker 2: idea that these affairs took place, and they also believed
Speaker 2: that Anne also had no clue about what was going on.
Speaker 2: After that, the Hesheimer's siblings parentage was confirmed with DNA testing,
Speaker 2: but the four other kids in Germany didn't want to
Speaker 2: come forward and their mothers also didn't want to talk
Speaker 2: about it. The Hesheimer siblings collaborated on a book with
Speaker 2: that writer Rudolph Schrock, and it came out in two
Speaker 2: thousand and five and talked about the whole thing. It
Speaker 2: included some of the letters, but it's a huge bummer
Speaker 2: because it's written in German, and much like Lindburg, I
Speaker 2: also don't know German, and the book hasn't been translated
Speaker 2: into English, which sucks because I want.
Speaker 1: All the hot goss. I guess I have to learn German,
Speaker 1: fly to Germany find the book. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Is it being suppressed by the lindberghs IDK. But for
Speaker 2: the Lindbergh kids in America, can you freaking imagine your
Speaker 2: mom just died and then you discovered your dad had
Speaker 2: a secret family, and it was like, JK, it's actually
Speaker 2: three secret families. That's insane, that's lunacy, especially after your
Speaker 2: dad was such a control freak your whole life. It's like, oh,
Speaker 2: are you so controlling just so that you can like
Speaker 2: compartmentalize your whole life dad. There's also some very unsubstantiated
Speaker 2: claims that Lindberg had even more affairs. Lucky lind was
Speaker 2: maybe getting low across the globe. Some people have suggested
Speaker 2: that he had an affair with a twenty year old
Speaker 2: American stewardess and then also with some women in the Philippines.
Speaker 2: The youngest of Charles and Ann's children is Reeve Limberg,
Speaker 2: and like her mom, she's also a writer, and she
Speaker 2: wrote this about her father's infidelities. I have the feeling
Speaker 2: that he was the only person involved with all these
Speaker 2: families who knew the full truth. And I keep thinking
Speaker 2: that by the time he died in nineteen seventy four,
Speaker 2: my father had made his life so complicated that he
Speaker 2: had to keep each part separate.
Speaker 1: From the other parts.
Speaker 2: I don't know why he lived this way, and I
Speaker 2: don't think I ever will know, But what it means
Speaker 2: to me is that every intimate human connection my father
Speaker 2: had during his later years was fractured by secrecy. Damn
Speaker 2: isn't that sad? Dad's really just be doing what I
Speaker 2: so heartbreaking, honestly so. Yet again we end American filth
Speaker 2: on a bit of a downer, But every week we
Speaker 2: learn a lesson from the episodes, and I think the
Speaker 2: lesson we learn here is don't let a man get
Speaker 2: on a plane unless you know where the heck he's
Speaker 2: going and what he's doing. You ground that motherfucker until
Speaker 2: he comes clean about whether or not he has a
Speaker 2: secret family. So, yeah, that's the lesson. Don't let men
Speaker 2: on planes. Cue the credits. American Felt is a production
Speaker 2: of School of Humans and iHeart Podcast. This episode was written, hosted,
Speaker 2: and produced by me Gabby Watts. Our theme song is
Speaker 2: by Jesse and Eiswanger, and our executive producers are Virginia Prescott,
Speaker 2: Elsie Croley, and Brandon Barr.
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