Stephanie Wolfe's kitchen renos are finished and Karen Johnson-Diamond is causing water damage in her house. Yet they STILL found time to record this episode of Scamtime.
Hear all about the twists and turns of Marianne "Maire" Smyth and polka to the ponzi played by Jan Lewan
Stephanie grew up with Polka!!! Karen doesn't know when the Irish Constitution was written!
Things that will help this episode make sense;
THE blog! That Johnathan Walton wrote and Bob's ex-wife found
The Con (Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg)
Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson
Jan Lewandowski The Polka King
People crowding around him like Beatles fans!!!
The Polka King (2017 Movie with Jack Black)
The Man Who Would Be Polka King (2009 Documentary)
Hey! Why not REALLY give money to the Cystic Fibrosis Canada
The Irish Constitution was written in 1937
Scamtime Jingle: Paul Morgan-Donald
https://paulmorgandonald.com/
Scamtime Art: Stephanie Wolfe
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Karen and Stephanie are fascinated by the scams that pepole perpetrate, pass up, or place confidence in. Have you been suckered in? You are not the only one. Listen to this podcast and...we've got an island in florida we'd love to sell you.
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Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. This week Stephanie and Karen have a couple of fun little nuggets, and they are joined by good pal Trevor Leigh. Trevor has knocked the gold leaf and plaster off of an excellent scam and brings us the story of Jonathan Tokeley-Parry. (My goodness! Doesn't that just sound like the name of a fancy British gentleman dandy?)
Egypt!
Trunks of cars!
puppy scams!
Camels!
Things to help this episode make sense:
Camels
Botox
Camel Botox!

Look at these great links that Trevor sent us!
http://illicitculturalproperty.com/tag/jonathan-tokeley-parry/

Just Out Of Jail: A Smuggler's Story - Newsweek

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/31/nyregion/witness-in-antiquities-case-tells-of-a-smuggling-plot.html

https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/schultz/details.html

SCAMTIME is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network. Locally grown, community supported. This episode of SCAMTIME is sponsored by EPSB and Edmonton Community Foundation is helping us give a PodPower shout out to fellow podcasters "Is This For Real?"
SCAMTIME Jingle: Paul Morgan-Donald
https://paulmorgandonald.com/
SCAMTIME Art: Stephanie Wolfe
Find us on Twitter @scamtime
Find us on Instagram @fraud.broads
email us at @[email protected]

Thanks for your patience as we repaired this episode. If you downloaded it before 2022/10/04, please download this version.
It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives as actor/improvisers.
In this episode; Karen reels in the story of how pro football player Manti Te'o was catfished, and Stephanie 'points' us towards more about the American National Ballet scam, from the dancers' point of view
Sandwiches!
Horticulture!
Tippy Toes!
SCAMTIME is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network. Locally grown, community supported. This episode of SCAMTIME is sponsored by Edmonton Community Foundation and Alberta Blue Cross
SCAMTIME Jingle: Paul Morgan-Donald
https://paulmorgandonald.com/
SCAMTIME Art: Stephanie Wolfe
Find us on Twitter @scamtime
Find us on Instagram @fraud.broads
email us at @[email protected]

Sure, it's been over a year, but here's a trailer to tell you who we are and that we are proud to have joined the Alberta Podcast Network. Locally Grown, Community Supported
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