ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 20th February, 2025

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; it's another spill over episode, this time filled with lies! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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From the ZM Podcast Network, it's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to a Little Bit of Pod, and today it's an overflow Little Bit of Pod from our topic today. When you got too deep into the lie. Oh, Jesus. So many juicy messages. You know, one of the messages, and I was going to say it on air, but then I was like, oh, you know, people go through these things. Someone's message saying, I got married four years in. This is a woman married to a man four years in and realized I'm gay.

It's 10 years later and I'm still in the relationship and still in the closet. And not just like I realized maybe I've got other feelings. Like, realized I'm fully gay. Life's too short. Life's too short. Life's too short. Was that text from the 1950s? Yeah. Or because it's so weird that like these days you'd be like, I don't know, just do it.

Oh no, I have a friend who did this. She had baby, house, partner, engaged, everything. And then she was like, oh my God, this is why I've been so unhappy in my life. I'm a fucking lesbian. And then she went and did it. She's missing the minge. Yeah. She went and did it.

Like happiest, best version of herself I've ever seen it was very difficult to leave that life yeah when you're in it when you're in it seems overwhelming anyway my dad loved christmas cake and i attended to make one for him and it all went horribly wrong and the week before christmas i had to go and buy one from the store i iced it myself however and played it off as my own and he said it was the nicest christ Christmas cake he'd ever tasted. I didn't have the heart to tell him he died the following year, and I never did get to make it right. My bad. Hey, he died happy.

We don't need to worry about that. Yeah, no, he did. That's absolutely fine. We call those ones little whites. It's okay. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Like, he died just being like, my kid is a great baker, and they baked that for me knowing I loved that.

That's special. That's a special memory. My son has ADHD and knowing I loved that. That's special. It was made with love. My son has ADHD and full on lies. He's eight years old. He told his clients that over the summer holidays he went to Turkey and Lionel Messi is his uncle. Turkey. What a weird thing to say. I wanted to see those balloons. The hot air balloons. He loves those.

I'd love to see those hot air balloons. I don't know if I'd go on one. I've never been on a hot air balloon. No, I'd like to see them. Read that one underneath the one it's just like this is based on the bell gibson story out of australia if you don't know it watch apple cider vinegar my stepdaughter convinced everyone that she had a brain tumor she made up a whole story including having a live-in nurse the high school believed her and would she would post photos taken during chemo which she took visiting random people in hospital people thought i was in denial and I would say there's nothing wrong with it. In the end, my husband and I felt like we were going mad until it finally all came out.

Like being gaslit. Yeah. Yeah. So it came out and then you're kind of. So if you're saying my stepdaughter and then you say my husband and I. So his daughter, right, is the one who's putting on this performance. What the heck? But where do you even start with that?

Like you're a psycho? Yeah, I don't know. Just this story, the Belle Gibson story, is really interesting because it kind of delves into her relationship with her mother. Right. And she kind of couldn't get her mother's attention

and her mother had mental health issues. Oh, so that's what causes? Yeah, she kind of starts it when she's young as an attempt to get attention. This happened right here in New Zealand. A woman from Australia moved to a small town here. She was a photographer. She was super lovely.

Super lovely. And really well liked. For some reason, she made up that she had terminal breast cancer. Reaped the benefits of a kind community. Even went as far as to spend lots of time with someone who had had a double mastectomy. Alarm bells rang for her when she had no pill containers, wasn't losing any hair, and didn't know the name of her oncologist. She was out at a fundraiser night that the community had put together

for her right here in our small town. Fucking hell. Fuck, that would be wild to have been there. Oh, my God. Wild to have been there. I had a guy at work who told everyone his girlfriend had cancer, which she then died from so he could have time off work. Turned out to be a lie when he was busted when we saw her driving around

fit and healthy. You can't kill someone. You can't kill someone. No. I mean, if you're at a street, you have to say you've got Nan's funeral. You know, Nan died nine years ago, but you just wanted, you know, three days for a festival. Yeah.

Absolutely. Oh, Nan's. I'm more than happy if I'm ever a grandfather to die multiple times. Oh, I'll sacrifice a Nan and a Pop. Oh, yeah. Mine are all gone. Yeah. My mate, who's female, missed her brother's 21st to go partying.

She told her parents she was supporting a friend through an abortion. Her parents were like, okay. And then her friend's name got confused for another one who was a bit more prominent in the community and it all got out of control, and it ruined a few lives and friendships. Shake my head, shake my head. Glad we can laugh about it now, but a little white lie can turn into a raging bushfire.

Yeah, totally. Oh, my God, I just Googled that. You know the text you read out before about the small town? Oh, I didn't say the small town before, but if it's in the news, it was in Fox Glacier. Oh, no, this was one that was in Timaru. A Timaru woman who fainted cancer admits a further $30,000 deception. Oh.

Chuckle Fox Glacier in there. Goodness. Give a littles and fundraiser evenings. Yeah. On my first date with my, oh, no, you read that one. No, that was the Italian one. Oh, no, no, no. This one's different.

On my first date with my now husband, we went to a really fancy restaurant. I hated all the food, but he loved it and romanticized the date and how great it was. He'd tell everyone how great it was there. When we got engaged, he thought it would be special to go back to where we had our first date. I had to break it to him that it was yuck. I didn't like anything on the menu. And this lovely special memory he had was completely ruined. Oh.

But you're still together, right? Yeah. ruined oh but you're still together right so that yeah yeah um i once replied uh when my then boyfriend said he couldn't imagine not liking his partner's parents 15 years later a wedding three kids and a dog i still tolerate my in-laws while pretending they're great but they're actually pretty fucking a lot of a lot of people have to tolerate their you just have to do that that's a lie you just keep up with suck that one right up um oh that's the birthday one we had before there's so many of them and they're like you know a few lines each so i'm a high school english teacher who once caught their student

lying about their grandmother's death to cover up the fact that he hadn't completed his assignment suspicious of the liar called his father to offer my condolences safe to say grandma was alive and well and dad was absolutely livid oh i bet he. Dad was very happy for this child to receive a not achieved in NCEA. I love this. I lied to my uni mates in first year saying, I don't like Glee. Got found out when my YouTube kept suggesting Glee songs and videos.

I was the big scary guy on my floor until all of that came out. I don't fucking listen to Glee. I don't fucking listen to Glee. Let's go. I don't listen to that. I told a friend that I had a- Just a small town boy living in a lonely world. Is that right?

Yeah, I was supposed to say small town girl. Small town girl, yeah, because I'm a world rising- He's a city boy. Boy born and raised in South Detroit. That's right. I told a friend that I had a baby. We were both in high school, and we used to speak on the phone after school, and I would play fake baby cries in South Detroit. That's right. I told a friend that I had a baby. We were both in high school and we used to speak on the phone after school and I would play fake baby cries in the background.

What? What the fuck? What the fuck? To make it seem like I had a baby at home, eventually she found out it was a lie. Honestly, I can't even remember how. And then she must have said something to a teacher because then my parents found out. What do you do? What are you gaining from that?

What do you do as a parent, though, when you find out that your kid's been spinning big? Well, I tell you what would have happened in the 90s. We would have got a fucking hiding. Oh, shit, yeah, you did what? And being from the phone. No phone, if you're going to use that to tell your lies. No fax machine for two months. No faxing, no phone.

Don't even think about plugging in that mode and we'll hear it. Beep. When I was four years old, I was using a razor blade in the bath to sink my toys and cut them. Oh, yeah. Little shit. Is that the first serial killer? I cut my bum on it and I blamed it on my dad. My dad overheard me telling the story 20 years later and got really mad

as evidently my parents nearly got divorced over the fact. Oh my God. Shit. That is really full on. What the fuck? My best friend lied about who the father of her child was. I was the only one that knew And when people started asking I couldn't lie to them

Stressed me out And it wasn't even my secret I just Absolutely cracked under the pressure Just the burden of having Someone else's secret Just I know what you guys

You're getting hot You're getting hot with all the lies Getting hot with all the lies And the Fucking 42 degrees The faulty air conditioning Fuck we sweat on this show eh We

We pour our blood sweat and and tears into this show. If you're listening to this and you're just thinking, I'm having a good time with my friends, we are suffering in here! It's like your friends living in bloody central Queensland!