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Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! What happens when the hierarchy of addiction shifts, and the only way in is through the back door? And what happens when the person you trust to guard your dignity sells it to the highest bidder—or simply pockets the cash while you’re distracted by his charm? In this second half of The Lying Liars Who Lied When They Said They Loved You, Tommy II moves from domestic humiliation to criminal co...

Chapter 12 starts with Tommy, as every day started with Tommy when Tommy was in my life, on a day when we are most certainly trying to be the friends we thought we had been. but that day soured and his attempt at making it right were wrong and nothing was right again after that.

Original Music from The Lying Liars Who Lied When They Said They Loved You So, you loved the music in the episode? There's a story there, too. The Lying Liars Who Lied When They Said They Loved You features lyrics by DJ Staxxx and arrangements and production/arrangement by B. Floore, using AI-assisted music production through Suno. These songs are built from the real, unedited writings of a remarkably talented freestyle rapper whose notebooks became an unexpected part of the story. During the events that inspired The Lying Liars, a collection of notebooks was left in the author's possession. Between meticulously calculated FAFSA figures, elaborate buy-one-get-one grocery lists, and passages reflecting periods of intense paranoia were page after page of original freestyle lyrics by an artist, DJ Staxxx. The lyrics captured not only the complicated life of an individual, but also many of the complications that face the men within The Lying Liars - mental illness, su…

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. What happens when the straight guy who uses gay dating apps for drugs and validation singles you out as his personal safe space? And what happens when you let yourself believe that being useful is the same thing as being loved? In this episode of The Lying Liars Who Lied When They Said They Loved You, a chaotic three-day bender uncovers the unspoken rules of transactional intimacy, internalized shame, and the cruel art of the "clean b...

So, you loved the music in the episode? There's a story there, too. The Lying Liars Who Lied When They Said They Loved You features lyrics by DJ Staxxx and arrangements and production/arrangement by B. Floore, using AI-assisted music production through Suno. These songs are built from the real, unedited writings of a remarkably talented freestyle rapper whose notebooks became an unexpected part of the story. During the events that inspired The Lying Liars, a collection of notebooks was left in the author's possession. Between meticulously calculated FAFSA figures, elaborate buy-one-get-one grocery lists, and passages reflecting periods of intense paranoia were page after page of original freestyle lyrics by an artist, DJ Staxxx. The lyrics captured not only the complicated life of an individual, but also many of the complications that face the men within The Lying Liars - mental illness, substance abuse, homelessness, and more - while demonstrating the incredible tal…

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Luke and RJ: Lies About Rejection, Boundaries, and Getting What You Want What happens when someone who barely knows you suddenly decides they hate you? And what happens when someone who knows you far too well refuses to take no for an answer? In this episode of The Lying Liars Who Lied When They Said They Loved You, two very different encounters expose the strange, sometimes cruel ways people negotiate rejection, intimacy, and personal ...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Danny Boy and Ray: Lies We Tell About Our Brothers One brother punches two men in their own home. The other shows up to apologize. Somehow, neither encounter goes quite as expected. When Tommy introduces Danny Boy, he presents him almost like a gift: another handsome, dangerous man who might be persuaded to stick around if the drugs are free and the company is accommodating. Danny Boy is volatile, casually homophobic, sexually provocat...

A borrowed truck. A first date with no destination. Three failed hookup spots, a Walmart parking lot, a boat ramp full of drunken rednecks, an angry father, and one universe that seems absolutely determined not to let two men have sex. Ricky starts as a late-night attempt to end a dry spell and turns into something much stranger: a story about borrowed confidence, drugs, bad timing, missed chances, and the version of another person we can carry around long after the actual relationship has disappeared. Years later, Ricky suddenly appears online again. This time there’s a car, there’s gas, there’s money—and finally, there’s nowhere else they need to be. Except neither of them is quite the person who showed up that first night. Funny, messy, explicit, and unexpectedly tender, “Ricky” is about the date that never quite happened—and why some almost-relationships stay with us anyway.

Tommy first appears on a street corner. What begins as a sexual transaction becomes something harder to define: part friendship, part rescue attempt, part addiction, and part story the narrator tells himself about what Tommy needs - and what he might still be able to save. But Tommy is not always abusive. Sometimes, he is affection and a caretaker in his own right, and sometimes he is unexpectedly intimate and suggestive. But when you think it's going right, and you think you've got yourself ...

Everyone lies - especially those we calls our friends, and even more those we our lovers. Everyone is an asshole for it, and no one will apologize or change. In a double chapter featuring two of the shortest character vignettes in the The Lying Liars Who Lied When They Said They Loved You universe, we meet the narrator's car guy - Solomon, or Sol (no one calls him that) - piece by piece dismantling the narrator's car because of a boy, and then we meet the once-powerful now-porcine Kerry whose enthusiasm over two 'pussies' on a dating app rather than the two penises in his bedroom causes the narrator go flaccid and stale. None of these people are interested in each sexually or romantically - and barely platonically - but yet, here they are, doing drugs together and exploding their own disaster onto each other's lives and calling it just another day. Disaster means attention, and all attention is good so long as they get your name right, after all. Or, so you tell yourself. …

In this chapter, an ambiguous meet up with a 21-year-old named Sully falls apart through absurdity, misplaced expectations, unfulfilled needs, and one ex boyfriend in desperate need of a warm place on a frozen night. What begins as an act of charity unravels into a study of transactional intimacy, where warmth is currency and connection is a performance staged for an audience of one. The coat isn’t just fabric; it’s a relic of a life the narrator can no longer claim, offered to someone who will...

These Are the Lying Liars That Lied When They Said They Loved You | A Podcast & Upcoming Novel by Berry Floor When a charming guest named Donnie cleans your apartment, folds your laundry, and promises round three, do you trust the sudden shift in your luck—or do you check if your car keys are still on the counter? In this episode, the past and present collide in a non-linear exploration of trauma loops, codependency, bad choices, and the desperate search for human connection. From toxic exes t...

Tyrone - or, Ty, or Ty-Ty, or even TyTy, I had been given all four names in our initial conversation - was a local 10 scrolling through a dating app - a gorgeous 23-year-old with a jawline and a talent for treating men like an endless supply of free rides and gas station runs. In Chapter 2, a late-night drive for a quick dopamine fix turns into a highway masterclass in self-deception. As the demands pile up and the power dynamic shifts, the hardest lie to face isn't the one being told to you—it...

What starts as a broken-down car in the summer heat quickly turns into a masterclass in distraction. A simple trip for dope spirals out of control as a parade of chaotic strangers - a panhandler named Cupcake, a shirtless conspiracy theorist, and a slick new plug named Georgie - take over the apartment. But while the narrator is busy managing the madness, the real game is being played right under their nose. The Lying Liars Who Lied When They Said They Loved You is a fictionalized, semi-autobi...

Before Tommy was Tommy to me, he was just another rumor drifting through Jacksonville's streets, a beautiful panhandler with a talent for making people believe exactly what they wanted to believe. In the first chapter of Tommy's story, small favors become habits, boundaries become invitations, and the lies that seem harmless enough to ignore begin quietly making themselves at home. Lying Liars Who Lied When They Said They Loved You is a fictionalized, semi-autobiographical novel and podcast. N...

"It is one thing to be rejected. It is another to be rejected retrospectively." A raw, cynical, and uncomfortably humorous look at what happens when the romantic facade fades and the pathetic reality takes over. This is the official prologue to The Lying Liars Who Lied When They Said They Loved You, a fictionalized semi-autobiographical project by B. Floore being shared as a podcast, chapter by chapter. Every chapter is another man. Every episode is another study in how we lie to ourselves a...