The Long Shadow
The Secret Room | True Stories
Ben Hamm
4.5 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Robert's family never told him a secret about his childhood. It was a secret he only learned at 35 years old. It had a profound impact on his life.
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THE SECRET ROOM | UNLOCKED
Ben interviews a woman about a high risk pregnancy, quintuplets, and a secret decision she and her husband have not shared with her kids.
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PODCAST TEAM
Producers: Susie Lark and Luna Patel. Hashtag Flipper: Alessandro Nigro. Sound Engineer: Chet. Music and Theme: Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to HelloFresh for supporting the secret room. |
| 0:03.2 | Go to HelloFresh.com slash secret12 and use code secret12 for 12 free meals, including |
| 0:10.2 | free shipping. |
| 0:11.9 | Thanks also to Fields. |
| 0:13.6 | Fields has me feeling my best every day, and it can help you too. |
| 0:17.8 | Become a member today by going to Fields.com slash secret, and you'll get 50% automatically |
| 0:23.7 | taken off your first order with free shipping. |
| 0:26.6 | Hey, what's your secret? |
| 0:30.8 | So when I was a teenager, I would get really annoyed with my little sister. |
| 0:35.0 | You know, she was my little sister. |
| 0:36.9 | Sometimes little sisters are brats. |
| 0:39.1 | And she had this pink teddy bear that she carried around with her everywhere. |
| 0:42.5 | It was like her little sidekick. |
| 0:44.4 | She'd talk to it all the time, and she'd make it talk back to her in this high-pitched |
| 0:48.2 | voice. |
| 0:49.2 | This bear was always around. |
| 0:51.1 | So sometimes when I was just so annoyed with her that I couldn't take it anymore, and |
| 0:55.1 | she would leave the house, I would take out my frustrations on this bear. |
| 0:59.7 | I would throw it against the wall. |
| 1:01.9 | I'd squash it between my hands as hard as I could. |
| 1:04.5 | I'd push its nose into its face. |
| 1:06.4 | I'd sit on it. |
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