Type the name Thomas Flanagan into Wikipedia and the site asks a strange question: are you looking for a 19th-century Catholic canon, an Irish-Australian gold prospector, a jazz pianist, a Sons of Anarchy actor, or the pathological liar Jon Lovitz played on Saturday Night Live? This episode treats a single disambiguation page as its source material, a bulleted list of 11 entities sharing one name across more than 200 years, and asks what that mechanical flattening of identity reveals about migration, professions, and what it means to be notable.

We move from the church and gold-field Flanagans of the 1800s, whose lives trace the Irish diaspora from England to Australia to America, through the mid-century infrastructure wing of civil engineers, novelists, and political scientists, and into the modern entertainment wing of musicians, football ...