I Got Banned from Tijuana
The Secret Room | True Stories
Ben Hamm
4.5 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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When you were a kid, how much mischief were you up to and how much did you hide from your parents? Did you commit robbery? Did you get into such sticky situations that you were legally banned from an entire city…in Mexico.
Today's guest Jannean is here to reveal the trials and tribulations of her youth, a childhood so reckless she wants the details she's about to share, to remain buried. But in a surprise revelation, at least one member of her family found out.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Ben. My name is Janine. I had many youthful misadventures, for example. I got banned from Tijuana, and I also robbed a local taco shop. I'm here to confess my secret pass. |
| 0:15.9 | Hey, everyone is Ben. Can we all consider what it was like to be kids for a moment? How much mischief were you up to, |
| 0:21.9 | and how much did you hide from your parents? Did you commit robbery? Did you get into such |
| 0:26.5 | sticky situations that you were legally banned from an entire city in Mexico? Well, my guest, Janine, |
| 0:32.2 | is here to reveal the trials and tribulations of her youth. A childhood is so reckless that she wants |
| 0:36.9 | the details she's about to share |
| 0:38.2 | to remain buried. But in a surprise revelation, at least one member of her family found out the |
| 0:44.0 | entire story you're about to hear. Let's get started. Hi, Janine, and welcome to the secret room. |
| 0:52.0 | Hi, Ben. Good morning. Good morning. I really appreciate you being here. Thank you so much for coming. Of course. You had a lot of misadventures growing up, including a heist at the local taco shop. That is correct. Well, we're here to hear all about your youthful misadventures. But before we get to that, I'd like to understand a little bit more about you and what led you to that unfortunate day. Absolutely. Okay, great. Yeah. I lived at home with my mom |
| 1:16.7 | and my dad and my brother. My mom was a very loving and caring mom. She worked full time at the local |
| 1:25.0 | grocery store down the road. So it was kind of a latchkey situation. |
| 1:31.6 | I'd get home from school and, you know, she'd be at work until, I don't know, 9 or 10 o'clock at |
| 1:35.8 | night. My dad was a truck driver. So he was gone for months at a time. And he would only be |
| 1:42.9 | home for like a few weeks and then he'd be back on the |
| 1:44.9 | road again. And what was he like? Well, my dad was a Vietnam vet. And after Vietnam, he became a truck |
| 1:52.2 | driver. He was his own boss and he moved furniture for a living. So he would drive cross country |
| 2:00.0 | and he'd be, like I said, |
| 2:01.1 | he'd be gone for months, home for, I don't know, a week or so, and then back on the road. |
| 2:05.9 | My dad was a super hard worker, very intense. He ended up with a drinking problem. He was also a drummer |
| 2:13.7 | and had his own band when he was younger. So as I was growing up, I always had a drum |
| 2:20.9 | set in my dining room and either him and my brother were playing it constantly. We'd always |
| 2:26.5 | have big parties. We'd have people coming over and a band playing, drinking, happening, |
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