Playback: The Man Who Stole My Year

The Modern Mann

Matt Hill

Society & Culture, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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What’s it like when the person you’re closest to in the world isn't who you think they are? Elizabeth* spent a year dating a man who provided only sketchy details about his life, but ingratiated himself into her friendship circle, her family and her home. In this interview with Olly, she reveals how it felt to discover he was living a double-life, and how it’s affected her trust ever since... This episode first appeared in March 2017. Now with an update from Elizabeth and remastered, we have paired this episode with our May 2024 episode, My Real Identity. Go listen now! *we have changed her name to protect her identity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So retrospectors, what historical events are we ticking off on this week's run of today in history?
0:05.0	On Monday, the anniversary of the day, Ozzy Osbourne and a bat came face to face on stage.
0:10.0	On Tuesday, we go back to the future with a potted history of the DeLorean.
0:14.0	On Wednesday, why is the Pope guarded by those guys in floofy hats?
0:19.0	On Thursday, how the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ended up in Cleveland.
0:23.0	And on Friday, was Henry VIII really an asshole, or was it just the result of a jasting
0:27.5	accident?
0:28.3	We discussed this and more on today in history with the retrospectors.
0:31.9	10 minutes each weekday, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.2	Hey man fans, Oli Mann here with a modern man playback for you.
0:40.1	The episode that we launch into your feed on the last Friday of each month
0:44.2	with something juicy from our extensive back catalogue.
0:47.7	A rerun to make you laugh, cry, think all the things we've been doing on this show
0:52.2	ever since 2015.
0:56.0	And as regular listeners will know, we try to present these monthly reruns as a pair with our latest episode. So if you've
1:02.4	heard our May 2020 edition already, then you will remember Patricia's amazing story of being
1:09.7	raised in a white Canadian family and then tracking down her
1:12.8	biological parents in Korea with lots of twists and turns, although no spoilers here if you
1:18.8	haven't heard it already. The episode from our archive that it most reminded me of wasn't
1:25.0	actually perhaps the obvious choice our various conversations that we've done
1:28.4	about adoption. Relevant though, those would obviously be. What it reminded me most of was the story
1:34.5	that we put out in 2017, The Man Who Stole My Year, because in this interview which you're
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