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The Secret Room | True Stories

29. How My Father Met the Bee Gees

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

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

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Co-host Dahlia Beta just learned a secret long held by her father. She files this report today, for the secret room.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Ben. We have to take a little time off for this episode.

0:03.6

So we're refeeding one that you guys really liked. If you're binging and you've already heard

0:08.1

Dahlia's interview with her father about how he met the Bee Gees. You're already in on that secret.

0:13.2

Go ahead and skip to episode 30, which is about a woman who drives the getaway car for her ex.

0:19.6

You heard me. Otherwise, hang on, this one's really good and you can get to my Club Dox husband next.

0:26.6

Hi, live. I'm my ethnicity all the time. I'm half Japanese and half Jamaican. I'm Filipino.

0:35.4

I'm a Cambodian, no, I don't know. I say so. Yeah, I say a lot of Bob Indonesian.

0:42.0

Because nobody really knows what Indonesia is. So whenever I feel like not giving people small talk,

0:47.4

like, oh my god, where is that? What do you guys speak? I hate those questions. So I just like,

0:52.4

yeah, I'm Filipino.

1:09.5

Hey, everyone. It's Ben and welcome to the secret room. We often have different views of

1:14.2

our parents than the outside world. Us. We know them as our fathers and mothers. They're the people

1:18.9

who nurtured and taught us. It has we age and get to the stage of life our parents were in when

1:23.6

we were kids. There's a reckoning like how do they do all that? Or gee, I guess I'm an adult now.

1:30.2

And while the stories you hear about your parents younger days can be at odds with the view we have

1:34.6

of them as the responsible people who put food on the table and button you up for school in a cold

1:39.6

winter morning. But yeah, they're still people. And they had lives before you ever showed up.

1:46.2

Dalya Baita just learned a secret long held by her father. She files this report today for the secret room.

1:54.0

When I was growing up, we had this picture of my dad from when he was in the Air Force around

1:57.6

the time of the Vietnam War. He's wearing like, you know, the top gun Air Force jumper fatigues thing.

2:06.0

And he's sitting in a chair, relaxing. He's got a cigarette in hand. And he's just having a great

2:13.1

time. It looks really cool. So I always knew he was cool. But when I was talking to my family

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