Hey there, it's Nick. While we're in our off season, we'll be revisiting some of our favorite

love radio episodes and featuring the work of other podcasts that I think you'll love.

Today, I wanted to play something from Radio Topia's Showcase. If you're not familiar with

the Showcase podcast, it's pretty different from how most other shows operate. They put together

a short series of maybe six or seven episodes with a completely different concept,

story, and creator for each one. So when you subscribe, you get a totally different show every

few months. Their newest series is called Secrets, and since we ended 2017 with our Secrets Hotline,

I thought it would be a good excuse to bring you their first episode. If you want to hear more,

you can search for a showcase wherever you get your podcasts or go to radiotopia.fm slash showcase.

Okay, here is the first episode of Secrets from Radio Topia's Showcase.

We all have them. Secrets, small little precious boxes of memories of something that can't be shared,

because then it would cease to exist as a secret and turn into something else.

This is a show about those secrets.

But even those secrets are by nature not something to be shared. They're all, of course, facts about secrets,

facts that will be good for you to have before we start. For example, study show that you have 13

secrets inside of you. Five of them are secrets that you never shared with anyone.

You don't keep secrets. You have them. According to the same studies, the thing that we keep a secret

the most is the fact that we want to fuck someone else than the person that we usually fuck,

for instance, a husband or a wife or a boyfriend or girlfriend or partner. Now even that thought

might be a break of trust, but it's also what makes us human. I have experienced things and events

that have turned into secrets. And so have you. Experiences that's born out of primal instincts

like lust or shame or anger. The only one who will ever hear everything is your own inner voice

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