Bad Apples #6 – Lost Boundaries – UI #247

Useless Information Podcast

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Society & Culture, Comedy, History

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

My wife, Mary Jane, joins me to discuss the 1949 movie Lost Boundaries, the screen adaptation of the lives of Dr. Albert and Thyra Johnston, the New Hampshire couple who passed as white for nearly twenty years. You can watch the movie Lost Boundaries on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z26VL_0EQks and the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/LostBoundaries. Home to Keene: The Reunion of Lost Boundaries can be seen on New Hampshire PBS: https://www.pbs.org/video/home-to-keene-lost-boundaries-reunion-ismos9/ Images, links, and transcripts for this podcast can be found at https://uselessinformation.org/bad-apples-6-lost-boundaries-podcast-247/ You can follow the Useless Information Podcast on these platforms: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uselessinformationpodcast X (Twitter): https://t.co/7pV2H8iXJV Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlipSideofHistory/ The Useless Information Podcast is a member of the Airwave Media podcast network. Visit https://www.airwavemedia.com/ to listen to more great podcasts just like this one. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.9	Everyone, I hope you're doing well.
0:07.1	Today I have something a little different from you, something a little out of the norm for this podcast,
0:12.3	and that is that my wife Mary Jane is going to join me to discuss the 1949 film Lost Boundaries.
0:19.1	It is produced Louis de Rochman's screen adaptation of the true story of Dr. Albert
0:23.9	Johnston and his wife, Thira, and how they pass as a white couple for nearly 20 years.
0:30.5	Now, if you haven't done so already, I encourage you to go back and listen to the previous
0:34.4	episode of this podcast.
0:35.7	I titled That a White Lie, and that may help to put
0:38.6	some of what we discuss into better context. So Mary Jean and I sat down to record this the other
0:45.5	day. It was on Sunday, and not only do we talk about the movie, but we also briefly discussed
0:50.3	the 1989 documentary in which both Thyra Johnson and her son Albert were interviewed.
0:55.5	That was very, very interesting. So after you listen to us talk about both productions,
1:00.6	if you'd like to watch one or both of them, what I'll do is I'll place a link to the films in
1:06.5	both the show notes for this episode and also on my website, uselessinformation.org.
1:13.2	Anyway, enough of me blabbing on. Let's roll the tape.
1:17.5	Useless information.
1:22.8	Did archaeologists discover Noah's Ark?
1:26.0	Is the rapture coming as soon as the Euphrates river dries up?
1:29.6	Does the Bible condemn abortion?
1:31.5	Don't you wish you had a trustworthy academic resource to help make sense of all of this?
1:37.9	Well, I'm Dan Beecher, and he's award-winning Bible scholar and TikTok sensation, Dr. Dan McClellan,
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