I Ran from the Law

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Ben Hamm

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Eric tells Ben the deep seated reason he developed significant contempt for the law. It led him to challenge cops in hair-raising ways. Now, 40 years later, Eric tells his surprisingly emotional secret and where it led him.

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0:00.0	Hi, Ben. My name's Eric, and my secret is I ran from the law. And not just once. I did it for years and made a habit out of challenging authority in ways that might surprise you. I'm here to tell my story of how I got in and out of situations with the law and where I ultimately landed.
0:23.4	Hey, everyone. Welcome to The Seeker Room. I'm Ben Ham. Today, my guest, Eric, joins us with a
0:28.3	surprisingly emotional secret about his relationship with the law. After a life-defining moment,
0:34.5	he lost trust and found reckless ways to challenge authority,
0:38.0	his adventures even taking him to Mexico.
0:40.6	Eric's secret is up right now.
0:42.3	Here we go.
0:45.1	Hi, Eric, and welcome to the secret room.
0:47.7	Hi, Ben.
0:48.8	Great to have you here.
0:49.8	Your secret is one of the, not sure quite how to say it, but maybe the kind of the broader secrets
0:54.6	we've had. And it's that you had a youthful contempt for authority, right? That is correct. And that
1:01.3	led to many run-ins with the law? Unfortunately, yes. Okay. And you have held the secret for 40 years,
1:08.7	and now you're ready to tell. I never even told my family.
1:12.6	Oh my gosh. Okay. Well, thank you for stepping up here in the secret room and being willing to share.
1:18.4	We're going to look at it from a number of angles and find out ultimately where it led you.
1:23.3	Yeah. So given that this is a story about your youth, let's dial back to your early 20s
1:31.1	where you first developed this contempt for the law.
1:35.2	Sure. I always stay at home and was attending college. And I had to work to pay for my college, so I was working a lot.
1:45.9	Both my mom and dad, they were in the hospital a lot.
1:49.8	And at this point in time, my mom was in intensive care.
1:54.4	She had been dealing with ongoing health issues.
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