Anthony Godby Johnson's guest appearances

Anthony Godby Johnson

Swindled

Strange Country

Anthony Gignac

Bernie Madoff

Joseph Smith

Jim Bakker

Brian Wells

Sylvia Browne

Jack Parsons

Lizzie Borden

Martin Shkreli

Brittany Smith

Mark Leonard

Wyclef Jean

Jackie Mitchell

Victor Lustig

Boston Corbett

OwlTail

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68. The Ghost Writer (Anthony Godby Johnson)

Hey Dash Hounds, it might be helpful to grab a pen, some paper, some alcohol as Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly take you on the winding, confusing tale of Anthony Godby Johnson. In the early 1990s, Johnson was or was not a teen who was or was not abused who did or did not write a memoir about him suffering or not suffering from AIDS. Understand? Luckily, Beth and Kelly's newest intern is here to help, and get in a few zingers. Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands Cite your sources: Friend, Tad. “Virtual Love.” The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2001,  www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/11/26/virtual-love-2. Hart, Hugh. “'LISTENER' TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LIES.” SFGATE, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2012,  www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/LISTENER-TELLS-THE-TRUTH-ABOUT-THE-LIES-2514539.php. “Heartbreak Hoax.” Performance by Keith Olbermann, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, 4 Aug. 2006, www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdanXu2GDFw. “HERST.” Chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2018, www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-10-31-0010310077-story.html. INGRASSIA, MICHELE. "The Author Nobody's Met - Is a young boy's book hard truth--or a ruse?." Newsweek, vol. 121, no. 22, sec. Lifestyle, 31 May 1993, p. 63. NewsBank: America's News, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=NewsBank&amp;docref=news/0EC05F448BCB1AAF. Accessed 9 Nov. 2020. “Is This Boy Real? A Hoax? A Woman Pretending She's Two People?” Https://Www.kltv.com, 22 July 2006,  www.kltv.com/story/5184115/is-this-boy-real-a-hoax-a-woman-pretending-shes-two-people/. Landsberg, Mitchell. “Searching For - And Finding - A Mystery Boy.” AP NEWS, Associated Press, 26 May 1993,  apnews.com/article/95e9b4755c085d38065c09fe0c6030cf. Merali, Zeeya. “This Twist on Schrödinger's Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory.” Scientific American, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2020,  www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-twist-on-schroedingers-cat-paradox-has-major-implications-for-quantum-theory/. “Plymouth Psychologist Pleads Guilty to Medicaid Fraud.” Everything Armistead, 3 Mar. 2009,  amanidreamtup.blogspot.com/2009/06/plymouth-psychologist-pleads-guilty-to.html. Rothe, Anne. Popular Trauma Culture: Selling the Pain of Others in the Mass Media. Rutgers University Press, 2011. “Tony Fraginals: Interview with Ben Young.” Flatpack Festival, 1 May 2020, flatpackfestival.org.uk/news/tony-fraginals/. “Tony's Scrapbook.” Welcome to Tony's World., www.tonyfraginals.com/scrapbook. Vargas, Elizabeth, et al. “Searching for Tony.” ABC News, ABC News Network, 19 Jan. 2007,  abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2784838&amp;page=1. Young, Ben (director). “Tony Fraginals.” 2019, www.amazon.com/Tony-Fraginals-Oprah-Winfrey/dp/B08JSMC37Z.

Hey Dash Hounds, it might be helpful to grab a pen, some paper, some alcohol as Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly take you on the winding, confusing tale of Anthony Godby Johnson. In the early 1990s, Johnson was or was not a teen who was or was not abused who did or did not write a memoir about him suffering or not suffering from AIDS. Understand? Luckily, Beth and Kelly's newest intern is here to help, and get in a few zingers. Theme music: Big White Lie by <a href="http://www.acastofthousands.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Cast of Thousands</a> Cite your sources: Friend, Tad. “Virtual Love.” The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2001, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/11/26/virtual-love-2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/11/26/virtual-love-2</a>. Hart, Hugh. “'LISTENER' TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LIES.” SFGATE, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2012, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/LISTENER-TELLS-THE-TRUTH-ABOUT-THE-LIES-2514539.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/LISTENER-TELLS-THE-TRUTH-ABOUT-THE-LIES-2514539.php</a>. “Heartbreak Hoax.” Performance by Keith Olbermann, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, 4 Aug. 2006, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdanXu2GDFw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdanXu2GDFw</a>. “HERST.” <a href="http://Chicagotribune.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chicagotribune.com</a>, 29 Aug. 2018, <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-10-31-0010310077-story.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-10-31-0010310077-story.html</a>. INGRASSIA, MICHELE. "The Author Nobody's Met - Is a young boy's book hard truth--or a ruse?." Newsweek, vol. 121, no. 22, sec. Lifestyle, 31 May 1993, p. 63. NewsBank: America's News, <a href="http://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=NewsBank&amp;docref=news/0EC05F448BCB1AAF" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=NewsBank&amp;docref=news/0EC05F448BCB1AAF</a>. Accessed 9 Nov. 2020. “Is This Boy Real? A Hoax? A Woman Pretending She's Two People?” <a href="Https://Www.kltv.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Https://Www.kltv.com</a>, 22 July 2006, <a href="http://www.kltv.com/story/5184115/is-this-boy-real-a-hoax-a-woman-pretending-shes-two-people/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> www.kltv.com/story/5184115/is-this-boy-real-a-hoax-a-woman-pretending-shes-two-people/</a>. Landsberg, Mitchell. “Searching For - And Finding - A Mystery Boy.” AP NEWS, Associated Press, 26 May 1993, <a href="http://apnews.com/article/95e9b4755c085d38065c09fe0c6030cf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> apnews.com/article/95e9b4755c085d38065c09fe0c6030cf</a>. Merali, Zeeya. “This Twist on Schrödinger's Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory.” Scientific American, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2020, <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-twist-on-schroedingers-cat-paradox-has-major-implications-for-quantum-theory/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-twist-on-schroedingers-cat-paradox-has-major-implications-for-quantum-theory/</a>. “Plymouth Psychologist Pleads Guilty to Medicaid Fraud.” Everything Armistead, 3 Mar. 2009, <a href="http://amanidreamtup.blogspot.com/2009/06/plymouth-psychologist-pleads-guilty-to.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> amanidreamtup.blogspot.com/2009/06/plymouth-psychologist-pleads-guilty-to.html</a>. Rothe, Anne. Popular Trauma Culture: Selling the Pain of Others in the Mass Media. Rutgers University Press, 2011. “Tony Fraginals: Interview with Ben Young.” Flatpack Festival, 1 May 2020, <a href="http://flatpackfestival.org.uk/news/tony-fraginals/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">flatpackfestival.org.uk/news/tony-fraginals/</a>. “Tony's Scrapbook.” Welcome to Tony's World., <a href="http://www.tonyfraginals.com/scrapbook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.tonyfraginals.com/scrapbook</a>. Vargas, Elizabeth, et al. “Searching for Tony.” ABC News, ABC News Network, 19 Jan. 2007, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2784838&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2784838&amp;page=1</a>. Young, Ben (director). “Tony Fraginals.” 2019, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tony-Fraginals-Oprah-Winfrey/dp/B08JSMC37Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.amazon.com/Tony-Fraginals-Oprah-Winfrey/dp/B08JSMC37Z</a>.

Strange Country Ep.168: Anthony Godby Johnson