Ryan Lochte confuses Canadian Thanksgiving with a Jewish holiday

Ryan Lochte, Olympic swimmer and American heartthrob turned liar turned dancer, has once again provided us an answer for the question, "What would Ryan Lochte do?"

In an interview with New York Magazine, Lochte mistook the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur for Canadian Thanksgiving.

During the interview, Lochte's publicist informs him that it's Yom Kippur. Lochte asks her about it, and she tells him that "it's the Jewish Day of Atonement."

Lochte becomes puzzled, and asks, "Wasn't it just their Thanksgiving two days ago?"

His publicist corrects him, explaining that he's thinking of Canadian Thanksgiving.

And, while this moment is not particularly relevant to his confusion of the holidays, it is certainly of note that immediately following that conversation, Lochte realized he'd been butt-dialing people as they spoke.

In his defense, he's not entirely off-base with the concept of a Jewish Thanksgiving. Sukkot began last night, which some regard as a kind of Thanksgiving.

However, Yom Kippur, a day of fasting and atonement is definitely not Thanksgiving. He'll have to wait another year, but now he'll know exactly what to atone for.