BAM! The Car Just Blew Up!

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In our last episode, "I Robbed a Subway Sandwich Store," Kat tells how she got tangled up in the robbery of a sandwich shop one hair raising night. Today our

subway sandwich robbing heroine Kat is back with the high octane conclusion of her story. Part 2 opens with a bang. Literally. Listen to find out how Rachel's car blows up after the high speed car chase that ensued after the robbery.

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Gabi moves to the US on a student visa to go to a university, but her visa status is tied to her GPA. She ends up making some very poor decisions that put her visa in jeopardy and she's got to get creative to keep everything from blowing up in front of her parents. Host: Susie Lark.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Today, The Secret Room Presents, Bam, the car just blew up.
0:04.0	It's the conclusion to Kat's high-octane story we started last time, and I robbed a Subway Sandwich
0:09.1	Store.
0:10.1	Hi, Ben.
0:12.1	My name is Kat, and my secret is how I got tangled up in the robbery of a Subway
0:16.6	sandwich store, one hair-raising night that ended with an explosion. It's a night I'll never
0:22.2	forget that I can never share, except with you. I'm ready to tell my secret of one crazy night
0:28.5	of the 17-year-old. In our last episode, Kat and her crew were shooting hoops at the park when her BFF
0:34.1	Rachel said, I need money for gas. Chris and Rachel hatched a plan to rob a subway sandwich store.
0:39.7	So they drove to the next town and rolled up to the shop.
0:43.0	And wearing bandanas for disguise, the pair got out of Rachel's custom Honda Civic and...
0:47.8	Disappeared into the night.
0:49.4	They just walked right towards the subway.
0:51.6	And after the holdup, Rachel and Chris dove back into the Honda Civic and the crew took
0:55.4	off, only to be chased in hot pursuit by a minivan that was driven by the store employees
0:59.7	they just held up.
1:01.2	And I remember as we were weaving through and jerking around the neighborhood, CJ had crashed
1:07.3	the Honda into someone's backyard fence.
1:12.5	But everyone was okay and CJ got the civic started again.
1:15.7	And it was during this chaos, Kat had a somber moment of reflection.
1:20.4	I said, we're done.
1:21.6	I said, we're going to jail.
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