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The Secret Room | True Stories

21. Ben's Challenge

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

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

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In honor of the 60th Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution we offer this encore story about a brave man and a phone ringing in the dead of night.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone it's Ben. So I asked his sister. I said okay can you tell me about

0:05.6

named-day being in prison and sure I've got kind of big and said I didn't know

0:10.3

you kids knew about that. I don't know if I should tell you and I said well my dad's

0:15.2

day and you can't hurt him and you know me and me stay and you can't hurt her

0:18.9

so she's okay I'll tell you. That's from next week's fresh story on the secret

0:23.4

room but today it's October 23rd 2016 and I'm outside enjoying a sunny fall

0:29.8

day. The weather was a lot like this exactly 60 years ago in Budapest the

0:35.2

day the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 rose. In honor of that anniversary

0:39.8

Dali and I wanted to bring you this encore presentation of the secret room. I'm

0:44.4

Ben Ham and I'm Dali Abeda. We're your hosts as we navigate the deep waters of

0:49.2

humanity and listen to the stories no one ever tells. You were entering the

0:54.1

secret room. Yeah so this happened last week on the podcast. Well does your dad

1:01.2

or mom have any secrets? Okay I don't know I guess they're secrets so I could

1:09.9

go ask. Yeah. I'm gonna go take this challenge. I'm gonna go to my mom and I'm

1:16.6

gonna say mom tell me a secret for the podcast. I sounded excited right after

1:22.1

all Dali is father revealed that he was a bad ass. He sold pot to the beach he's

1:26.0

in the 70s so cool but later the reality of asking my mom for a secret started

1:31.4

to sink in. What was I in for? She wasn't in Tokyo in the 70s so I knew she

1:36.4

couldn't have been Dali's dad's drug mule. What if something got out of the

1:39.8

bottle I could never put back in? I felt I might be on dangerous ground. Hey

1:47.0

Dali it's Ben. Hi Ben how's it going? Well I'm about to call my mom to

1:52.0

get a secret for the podcast but I'm a little bit nervous and I'm worried that

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