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The Secret Room | True Stories

42. Arson: A Love Story

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

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

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

“Not many people knew he was a drugging, drinking, bookmaking impregnator.” Kathy's husband may have burned down the house, but it's not all that went up in flames. This encore is presented while Ben is on vacay. But there's a new drop-in by co-host Dahlia Beta, so check it out!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following is an app-well presentation.

0:06.6

Why didn't you tell anybody?

0:09.9

I didn't want to tell anybody because it's a felony for sure.

0:15.7

And I didn't want him to go to jail and he needed the money.

0:22.2

Hey everybody, it's Dalia Beta, your second favorite secret room podcast host.

0:44.1

Then's off traveling in places like Cambodia, Vietnam and Hong Kong right now.

0:47.8

So we're going to let him have a little break and offer you this oldie but goodie from the

0:51.6

secret room archives and it's a good one.

0:55.0

And stick around after today's show.

0:57.2

Before Ben left, he and I had a little chat about my coming back to the secret room.

1:02.0

If you want to hear that, it's at the end of today's program.

1:05.0

I know you missed me.

1:08.7

Hi, I was married to a very nice man named Robert.

1:16.1

He was very attractive.

1:17.6

He was very charming and he just swept me off my feet.

1:23.1

Today in the secret room, we bring you a love story of sorts.

1:27.4

It's far from your traditional boy meets girl though.

1:31.4

You're here to tell a secret.

1:32.7

Yes I am.

1:33.7

We're going to learn about it a little bit later in the interview.

1:37.0

But there's some stuff that we need to cover to get to that point.

1:41.2

All right.

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