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The Secret Room | True Stories

62. Decorum

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

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

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Today’s show explores how people behave, or shouldn’t behave, in very different situations. We hear tales of operating rooms, a vibrator and food.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you to Ship Station for supporting the secret room. Right now try a ship station for free for 30 days and get an additional month free.

0:08.6

Only if you use my promo code secret. Ship Station makes ship happen.

0:16.6

Hey Alex have you got a secret form though?

0:18.8

I do indeed yes. So about two years ago I was in Thailand and an island called Copipi.

0:25.3

Alright so quite a run it. We'll get to that.

0:27.3

And I got back to my big 24 bed dorm and I need a wee bath hot now. I'll do it.

0:33.3

I'll be fine. And I woke up about 3am and I'm absolutely covered in wee.

0:36.9

I've completely pissed myself. So I'm like okay what I do? I stink out of wee. I'm covered in wee.

0:42.9

So what I do I get out. I get out of there so I'm shocked I've got to buy some more juice.

0:46.9

So I'm like oh no no. I spilled orange juice on my bed. Oh no.

0:50.1

Did anyone figure it out? No no no no. The guy I was going travelling with was on my top bank.

1:00.9

He fully believed me and I got told and I got back and he was like mate I had no clue.

1:05.3

Like fully believed me and I was brilliant.

1:21.0

Hey everyone it's Ben. Today's episode Decorum delivers three secrets in three chapters.

1:29.5

Each secret is distinct from the others except that they share one common thread.

1:33.9

Today's show is about how people behave or shouldn't in very different situations.

1:39.8

Ahead in chapter 2. So I took a train from Fryberg, Germany to Basel, Switzerland.

1:47.3

Then I went from Basel to Amsterdam. Amsterdam to Atlanta.

1:52.4

Then Atlanta to Chicago.

1:55.8

After her tedious journey our confident millennial enjoys unexpected scrutiny

2:00.9

at an airport security checkpoint in Chicago. A very intimate item she has in her suitcase

2:06.6

is picked up on X-ray and pulled for bomb residue detection.

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