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This is a podcast from Rover.
The Truth Booth.
If you've got a secret you've been sitting on
that nobody knows about,
but you've decided it's time to get it off your chest,
join us in The Truth Booth.
I'm so nervous.
I get so nervous.
If you're nervous, you imagine how Jake feels.
Good morning, Jake.
Good morning.
Nice.
They're calling from across the Tasman. This is a trans Tasman secret.
You had to move countries after this or what? No, no, no, I haven't gotten down that path yet.
Jake, give us the top line of this secret, just a little tasty morsel, an introduction if you will.
I was a mail stripper for years in Aussie and New Zealand,
but there's something I used to get asked to do
that if ever came out could absolutely ruin lives.
Wow.
Okay.
Did you have any regrets about the thing that you've done?
The truth bomb?
There was always regret after the first one
and every single time once I did it, it's always regret.
Okay wait, before you tell us what it is, because I'm dying to know, you said the first time and then the time after that.
How many times do you think you did this thing?
12. 12 times, okay. You're in the truth booth, Jake. As a stripper, what did you do 12 times
that nobody knows about that would ruin lives
if they found out?
I got paid to have sex with the brides,
to be on their hands party.
Oh, wow.
He was paid on occasion to have sex
with the bride the night before.
But who's paying?
Yeah, who was paying?
Like the bridesmaids or the bride, Jake?
Both.
Wow.
Wow.
You can see how that would destroy life.
So many questions.
One last spin, eh?
You think this would happen to the men, right?
This is the thing, you think, oh yeah, the groom, he may have had a couple,
but you don't.
As a woman, this is shocking.
Oh, wait, don't do these. You got any questions? We'll put them don't. As a woman, this is shocking. Oh, wait, I don't do these.
You got any questions?
We'll put them to Jake next and find out how this happens.
Is it still happening?
And is anyone else curious to see
how much money you can make doing that?
Yeah, I'm desperate to know.
It's next, with the Truth Booth on the edge.
The Truth Booth.
If you've got a secret you've been sitting on
that no one knows, we would love to hear your truth bomb in the truth booth.
We've just heard from Jake who was a stripper.
I'm not sure if he still is, but he earned a lot of money doing it.
He just told us that he was paid to sleep with brides before the wedding.
Wow.
Now, Jake, I mean, how many times were you propositioned for extra services?
Uh, 12 times.
12 times.
And in a sort of average amount, what are you charging for the extracurricular stuff?
I was charging anywhere between five grand to 10 grand.
Must be good.
I couldn't charge that.
That's a good friend.
She missed by the minute.
That's $1,000 each. It is five girls.
Jesus.
Wait, so how does it happen, Jake?
So you strip at their hens do or something and then they catch fields, they proposition you
and then you go, it's gonna be five grand
and they go sure.
Yeah, anywhere between five grand to 10 grand.
Wow.
That's good money.
How many of the brides that you slept with
then went on and got married to their husband
and are now keeping that secret?
All 12?
Yeah, all of them.
Wow.
What are you doing now out of interest?
I work in the healthcare sector now, so I'm a nurse.
Oh my goodness, helping people also?
How long did it take you to develop any sort of guilt about what you were doing?
Or did you ever feel guilty?
Oh, I felt guilty straight away after the first one.
And the second and the third and the fourth and first.
Yeah but it's like consenting adults. It's two adults who are, you know, it's like
we don't blame Jack. Have you seen them in public, any of them in public after it?
Like any of the 12 you've been like passing by and be like oh yeah we shagged. Yeah a couple.
Oh at times they've been by themselves and we decide to like keep in contact so that way
the husband doesn't find out or work out
and all kind of stuff.
And then we might bump into each other again
with the partner or the husband, my aunt.
So how do you guys know each other?
And then we say that we knew each other from work and stuff
and then we go from there.
That's not really lying, I guess,
I mean, technically it's the truth.
If I was you, I'd be emailing the woman and being like I want another 10 grand or something.
I'm blowing this wide open.
Does it feel better getting it off your chest Jake?
I mean for those that are listening to this going, oh man I got a secret, just like Jake's.
Would you recommend sharing it? Does it feel better?
I do feel better getting it off my chest but these things do happen.
I do feel a bit uneasy as well,
because you never know,
it's hard to recognise my voice.
Wait a minute, I know that guy.
I ran into him with my wife the other day,
and she said they know each other from work.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's ran into her before.
No thanks, Jake.
Man, what a closet that is.
12 people can fit in that one.
And I, as a woman, that's so shocking to me.
Yeah.
If you're having your hands do like a week
before the wedding, like cheating a week before
To be fair, he's just doing he's just doing the coin
Yeah, I mean, Jake's just doing what he's doing
He's not the one who's then going and committing his life to somebody else and doing all his vows like seven days later
What about the friends though? Like my friend
I can't imagine where my friends approach a stripper and say hey and then like get together to
You know, you were single at the time, eh Jake? approach a stripper and say hey and then like get together to you know.
You were single at the time eh Jake?
Yeah I was single at the time.
I'm now happily married so.
Oh does your now wife know about your escapades that you just shared with us?
Oh she does.
Oh yeah good on you.
You're an open book now.
Yeah I respect that about Jake.
Yeah good on you Jake.
Thanks so much for sharing that.
That would have taken a lot of guts.
Cheers mate. that about you. Yeah, good on you Jake. Thanks so much for sharing that. That would have taken a lot of guts.
Cheers mate.
Cheers, thank you.