Hello, it's Jim Clemente and Francie Hakes with a special message about a new show that I'm hosting on Wondery called Locked Up A Broad.

In each episode, people tell their harrowing stories of being convicted of crimes and jailed in foreign lands, or kidnapped and held hostage in war-torn countries.

These are definitely worst-case, worst-case scenarios. They're truly frightening situations.

Yes, no best cases here.

But it is fascinating to hear how they manage to survive these ordeals.

In the first episode, Minot Express, Billy Hays tells us about being imprisoned in Turkey for smuggling hashish.

Al-Rastone even made a movie about it. But that was the movie. This is the real story.

I even had the chance to interview Billy Hays recently, and he told me the whole story behind the story of how he escaped a Turkish prison.

He even told me that he went back to Turkey years later. You have to hear his story to believe it.

And now, in his own words, here is Billy Hays.

The first time I smoked marijuana, everything about my body said,

Oh, that's good. I like that.

To those who hadn't lived through the 60s, I pity you. It was just free love, which was a wonderful concept.

And I fully took advantage of it.

Patrick was one of my best friends in the 60s. He was a writer and a dreamer.

And we instantly hit it off. I mean, the two of us saw the world in the same light.

He was the guy that we would send out to pick up girls. He was so smooth.

Women just fell all over him. We'd like put him on a leash, send him off to a crowd of women,

and he'd tackle two or three of them and bring them back to us. Great guy to have.

I almost finished college when I had just enough, and I needed to get out and explore the world,

so I can experience life so I can write about it.

I needed money, so for about two months, I got a job at the Milwaukee County Hospital.

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