118. Promised Land

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Storytelling, Personal Journals, Story, Podcast, Stories, True, Society & Culture

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Spencer was determined to flee his home country as a teen. It’s a story of cunning and determination to make a better life.

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SECRET ROOM | UNLOCKED 118
Coming soon, Spencer's eye popping adventure in Hollywood where sex parties were his ticket into show business.

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PODCAST TEAM
Producer: Susie Lark. Shadow Producer: Lefty Marcucci. Sound Engineer: Chet. Music and Theme: Breakmaster Cylinder.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Thanks to Fields for supporting the Secret Room.
0:02.5	Fields has me feeling my best every day and it can help you too.
0:05.9	Become a member today by going to Fields.com slash secret and you'll get 50% off your first order with free shipping.
0:13.0	Hey, what's your secret?
0:15.0	One of my best friends in middle school and I've been learning about Egypt and history class and we were learning about King Tut.
0:22.0	And we kind of made this inside joke and we said, I hope you're really funny.
0:26.0	It's one day we got tattooed that said Tut.
0:29.0	So we each have a Tut in common.
0:31.0	Fast forward for the end of college.
0:33.0	She was going away to the military, which was a party.
0:36.0	And somebody having a show up with a party with say, Tattoo gun.
0:39.0	I had never tattooed before in his life.
0:41.0	Next thing you know, I found myself.
0:43.0	Pants down, laying on my dining room table, getting to tattooed on my last week.
0:48.0	Jared and I to this day have a Tut in common.
0:51.0	Oh.
0:52.0	Oh.
1:05.0	Hi, my name is Spencer.
1:06.0	My secret is I fled my home country when I was a kid.
1:09.0	I don't tell anyone why or how.
1:12.0	But today he'll share a remarkable story of cunning and determination when he was coming of age in the late 80s.
1:18.0	I was 16 when the secret took place here.
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