215. The Digital Heist

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

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

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Zane executed an intergalactic heist with an early form of digital currency. It’s a sprawling adventure of rocket ships and asteroid mining he’s kept secret for two decades.

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PICTURES

See pictures from Eve Online, and the garage where it all went down. Also, Zane, Mick and Dan pose for an iconic pic. See also Cairo the parrot and mom’s dog hamming it up, and the famous picture of Zane on his pilgrimage to CCP HQ in Reykjavik.

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THE SECRET ROOM | UNLOCKED

Trouble, from episode 212 “His Name Was Trouble,” is back for an exclusive interview with Susie. Episode 212 was the story of the mixed-race psychiatric nurse who fell in love with her patient Trouble, who happened to be a ranking member in a white supremacist gang. He tells us what Angela might have gotten wrong in her interview with Ben. He also tells us about his relapse after prison, and how he won over Angela’s dad. Host: Susie Lark.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi Ben. My name is Zane and my secret is that my friends and I carefully executed a
0:05.0	heist with an early form of digital currency. It was a sprawling adventure that I looked
0:09.5	back fondly on and no one ever found out. Today the secret room presents the digital heist. So I remember walking in his dorm one day and seeing it's like a wall of screens, you know, and my brother in the middle of it, tabbing through his operation.
0:35.7	It was wild, man.
0:36.7	It was absolutely just wild.
0:38.3	Please join me in thanking our new sponsor Home Chef.
0:44.3	For a limited time, Home Chef is offering our listeners 18 free meals,
0:48.4	plus free dessert for life, and of course, free shipping on your first box.
0:53.0	Go to Home Chef.com slash Secret.
0:56.0	The Secret Room is also sponsored by Better Help Therapy online.
0:59.0	If you want to live a more empowered life,
1:01.0	therapy can get you there.
1:03.0	Visit BetterHelp.com slash secret today to get 10% off your first month. Today my guest Zane will tell us about an intergalactic he's executed with the help of his crew, but at what cost?
1:22.0	It's a sprawling adventure filled with friends and
1:25.1	foes and it required certain strategy. Let's get started.
1:30.8	Hi Zane and welcome to the secret room.
1:35.0	Hi Ben, thanks for having me.
1:37.0	You're going to take us on a crazy adventure that took place largely in-world, right?
1:42.0	And what I mean is in a virtual reality world.
1:45.0	Yeah, that's correct.
1:46.0	It's similar to episode 144, right?
1:49.5	I want to give a shout out to that episode.
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