There are some actions in today's show that can be considered animal cruelty.

Hi Ben, my name is Dustin and I kept a childhood secret from my dad for 30 years.

I was a dumb kid who did something cruel, but it led me to the most heartwarming moment of my life.

Today the secret room presents on the backs of turtles. I'm Ben Han.

I look over at my brother and he's got this grin on his face and you're like keep quiet.

Yeah and he goes hey look it's one of those turtles.

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Today Dustin joins me in the secret room. He's going to share a story about his larger than life

dad turtles and Star Wars action figures. It's a journey that will evoke wildly disparate emotions

and we start right now. Hi Dustin welcome to the secret room.

Thanks good to be here. You kept the secret from your dad for 30 years right?

I did. Well we're going to find out why you kept it for so long and then why you told it

but I thought we should start by just talking about where you grew up because that has a lot to do

with the story. It does. I grew up in a suburb of Corpus Christi Texas called Flower Bluff. It's just

right on the Corpus Christi Bay and if you head out to Padre Island then you would have to drive

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