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The Secret Room | True Stories

77. I Secretly Recorded My Boyfriend

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

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

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Jo hopes her boyfriend never discovers that she records him. Because if she did the world she’s constructed with those recordings would collapse in an instant.

Production support: Susie Lark and Dahlia Beta

Street Secrets: Bobbi Jo Valdez

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, do you have a secret?

0:02.0

Yes, I have a secret.

0:04.0

It's about my recent wedding.

0:06.0

I had over 85 envelopes at the wedding.

0:08.0

All perfect, beautiful wedding gifts.

0:10.0

However, my best friend and his family got my information wrong.

0:16.0

His parents used their best friends last name instead of my last name.

0:21.0

So I can't cash that check.

0:23.0

And then he used my wife's first name and my last name.

0:27.0

I don't really know how to tell him that my wife's not changing her name.

0:31.0

So what are you going to do? Are you going to tell them?

0:33.0

I think I'm just going to hope that they realize that I didn't cash their checks and suddenly send me a new one.

0:39.0

I hope you do get your the checks.

0:42.0

God, I do too. It's expensive wedding.

0:44.0

Well, congratulations and thank you for the secret.

0:48.0

Thank you.

0:57.0

My name is Jo and I secretly record my boyfriend.

1:07.0

And you will not believe what I do with the tapes.

1:11.0

And where are you located?

1:15.0

Nottingham in England.

1:17.0

In the Midlands, yeah.

1:19.0

She has a rather unique way of showing the love she has for her boyfriend.

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