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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and Whipper podcast. Have you

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Speaker 1: ever had to lie for your partner? This is a

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Speaker 1: story of a former stockbroker. His name is Chris Ridgway Right.

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Speaker 1: He put millions of dollars of clients money into unauthorized

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Speaker 1: investments and pocketed more than one point five million dollars

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Speaker 1: in secret commissions. But he told his estranged wife via

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Speaker 1: a series of text messages, to lie to regulators if

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Speaker 1: questioned about signatures that he allegedly forged. Right, So, she

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Speaker 1: had no idea. She's a state o mum based in

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Speaker 1: Queensland with no detail in understanding of the financial system.

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Speaker 1: But she was then told biassic that you're on company boards,

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Speaker 1: you've got signature. We've got signatures here saying that you

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Speaker 1: are a part of these companies. She had no idea.

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Speaker 1: I'll go through some of the text messages that were

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Speaker 1: intercepted by him who is ex wife. Just remember that

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Speaker 1: I've looked after you and protected you and the kids

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Speaker 1: all my life. Now I need you to help and

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Speaker 1: protect me from my evil ex boss, and that he

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Speaker 1: has stirred up. You don't have to lie, You just

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Speaker 1: got to say I don't know and be vague and

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Speaker 1: confuse them. You are a smart girl, She said, I

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Speaker 1: have to meet with the regulators. They have loan documents

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Speaker 1: with my signatures that is forged. What do I say

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Speaker 1: to them? I don't want to lie.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember signing that.

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Speaker 1: He said, say that you can't remember, as it was

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Speaker 1: a long time ago and you signed a lot of

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Speaker 1: papers over the years. Then she wrote back and said,

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Speaker 1: but mum's signature is forged too.

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Speaker 2: Sorry about that, threadgaway here, Sorry about that. We needed

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Speaker 2: your mum on that as well. Her house is down

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Speaker 2: a security.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, he's just gone on. You just need to

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Speaker 1: say that you were asked to sign it. But she

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Speaker 1: said I wasn't And he said, well, just tell him

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Speaker 1: that you sign it and didn't pay much attention. She said,

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Speaker 1: but that will be a lie, he said, we'll be

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Speaker 1: confident about it.

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Speaker 2: You're missing the point. Like I've always said, a white lie,

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Speaker 2: the white liear day or whopper a week, that's what

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Speaker 2: you can roughly get away with. The white lie is

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Speaker 2: kind of like, yeah, it's just going to make life

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Speaker 2: easy for everybody if we don't admit to that. And

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Speaker 2: then a whopper is something where you might talk about

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Speaker 2: your your offshore account the Cayman Islands or something.

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Speaker 1: If you have been in a partnership before and your

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Speaker 1: partner has asked you to lie, I mean, we are

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Speaker 1: going down the criminal road here, aren't we. You can

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Speaker 1: remain anonymous.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't worry too much. You've got to support your

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Speaker 2: partner no matter what the situation is. So if a

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Speaker 2: crime's been committed by your loved one, well then you're

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Speaker 2: in it with them.

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Speaker 1: Well remember I did this to BJ. Remember after our

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Speaker 1: ten years of our anniversary. That's right. I went through

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Speaker 1: the ten key elements to a successful marriage and one

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Speaker 1: of them was loyalty. So we set up a couple

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Speaker 1: of fake cops. Do you remember that. That's right, set

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Speaker 1: up a couple of fake cops. And then I rang BJ.

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Speaker 1: And this was the phone call. Honey, Honey, you are

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Speaker 1: about to get on the door by a policeman that

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Speaker 1: night that I was down in Adelaide for Laneway Festival Friday,

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Speaker 1: Feb second. Baby, you need to tell him that I

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Speaker 1: was with you. Okay, I wasn't in Adelaide. I was

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Speaker 1: with you and the family here in Sydney. Scaring me,

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Speaker 1: scaring me? She well, can I just say she was.

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Speaker 1: She did very well because she didn't lie for me.

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Speaker 1: She was just vague, She was just a little bit.

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Speaker 1: This was the response at the door when the fake

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Speaker 1: cops rocked up.

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Speaker 2: Looking into talking to her about the incident happened in Adelaide.

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Speaker 2: The incident occurred on February second.

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Speaker 1: Was he in Sydney or Adelaide? I remember?

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Speaker 2: I don't know whether it was home in Sidea or

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Speaker 2: Adelaide on that day. I can't remember, and you can't

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Speaker 2: remember any details from that night. I can't remember that.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty good, didn't we got the audio of when

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Speaker 2: you revealed it to her?

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Speaker 1: We don't. We're not allowed to play that, but we do.

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Speaker 1: But I didn't cut it up.

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Speaker 2: Oh that moment was amazing. Gest did you find that

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Speaker 2: in the season?

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Speaker 1: Those days are gone? The old heart rate on my

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Speaker 1: wife is not allowed to get up to those limits anymore.

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Speaker 2: That's generally the prank going in radio land.

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Speaker 1: Here's the prank.

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Speaker 2: Still got a life, feels like there's a tiny heartbeat.

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Speaker 1: The fitzy stitch. You'll make a way in there somehow.

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Speaker 2: So that's where you get me.

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Speaker 1: We can only do it on each other.

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Speaker 2: I suppose I suppose when you step outside, the prank

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Speaker 2: call doesn't work, to surprise anybody is considered cruel. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we stitched up your wife when she gave her phone

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Speaker 2: number to a block without his shirt off in the street.

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Speaker 2: That was interesting.

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Speaker 1: The other one as well. There is still a video

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Speaker 1: that I have of my wife on a BMX after

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Speaker 1: a wedding awesome. She goes down a massive hill and

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Speaker 1: she goes over the edge of this it's like half

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Speaker 1: a cliff over the with the BMX in her wedding dress.

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Speaker 1: It's an amazing Yeah, we should do. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: sell it as in an n f T. Do you

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Speaker 1: remember an f T? Remember those so long ago?

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Speaker 2: We should You know what we should do is we

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Speaker 2: should have a list of the pranks that have never

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Speaker 2: gone to wear due to sensitivity, and we bring it

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Speaker 2: up once a month and we check in on the

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Speaker 2: list if we can play it.

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Speaker 1: Now, we've got, we've got, we've got the moment we

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Speaker 1: don't revealed when you revealed to DJ it was a

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Speaker 1: stitch up about the cops. Here we go, Oh no, right, honey, honey,

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Speaker 1: oh no, but it was trust no exercise I couldn't cost.

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Speaker 2: They weren't cops that should.

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Speaker 1: We do the break? Probably?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no no.

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Speaker 1: That was audio that was awesome because what I think,

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Speaker 1: that's why we don't

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Speaker 2: Know you're listening to The Whip, a podcast