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The Secret Room | True Stories

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The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

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

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Leah was partners with the mastermind of a thriving drug operation. No one knows about her decade long spree and how it all came crashing down.

BETTER HELP
Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/secret.

DIPSEA
Get a 30 day free trial when you go to DipseaStories.com/SECRET.

PICTURES
See the grow house where Leah quickly pulled herself together when the police came by. Also pictures of Leah and Aaron a few days before his death.

They are waiting for you on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Handle: @secretroompod.

THE SECRET ROOM | UNLOCKED
Leah details her dealings with the FBI after Aaron died and about accusations they had been funding a terrorist organization!

The Secret Room | Unlocked is yours when you support your favorite indie podcast that could with a membership at patreon.com/secretroom.

ALL OUR SPONSORS
See all our sponsors and their offers, many of which are still valid: secretroompodcast.com/codes

FACEBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Join our fan run Facebook Discussion Page! Just ask to join, all are welcome. :)

PODCAST TEAM
Today we say goodbye to Shadow Producer Lefty Marcucci, who's off to another podcast. Don't let the door hit you buddy. And make us proud in your new corner of the podverse!

Producer: Susie Lark. Shadow Producer: Lefty Marcucci. Hashtag Flipper: Alessandro Nigro. Sound Engineer: Chet. Music and Theme: Breakmaster Cylinder.

YOUR SECRET
Do you have a pernicious secret to share? Click "Share a secret" at secretroompod.com.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Thanks to Dipsy for supporting the secret room. Dipsy is an audio app full of short, sexy

0:05.8

stories and guided sessions designed to turn you on and help you get in touch with yourself.

0:13.8

Get a 30-day free trial when you go to DipsyStories.com slash secret.

0:20.9

And thanks to BetterHelp. BetterHelp is affordable, private online counseling, for 10% off your

0:26.2

first month. Go to BetterHELP.com slash secret.

0:31.0

Hey, what's your secret? So my secret is that I recently moved to the Bay Area and I decided

0:40.5

to Uber to the grocery store to get dinner because I was pretty hungry. I was hungry and

0:44.8

tired. And so I got to the grocery store and I didn't really feel like anything conventional,

0:50.4

so I ended up getting ice cream. I Ubered all the way back home and I opened the ice cream

0:58.9

almost right away and was shocked to find that the safety lid was pretty much already

1:05.3

open. It was half open even though it appeared to be closed at first glance. I was so irritated

1:13.2

and tired and hungry. So I decided to eat the ice cream anyway. And it caused me so much

1:21.2

stress because everything was going through my mind. I was like, you know, I could get

1:26.0

COVID, I could get herpes, I could get HIV. I don't know what's in this ice cream. Luckily

1:33.4

for me, I already have herpes so I couldn't really just get it from ice cream. When I was

1:38.3

halfway through the ice cream, I kind of thought, why didn't I just scoop off the top

1:42.4

layer? That would have saved me from so much. But by the time I had gotten like halfway

1:47.5

through the ice cream, I noticed the top left corner of my lip was burning. It was irritated,

1:54.7

it was itchy and I was freaking out. And I was hoping this was just a placebo effect,

2:00.0

but I really felt something and then I go in the mirror, you know, it looks normal, but

2:04.8

when you really, really looked close, it was just a tinge redder than the other parts

2:10.9

of my lip. Oh my gosh. The ice cream was delicious and so I finished it even the next

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