{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The Best of RISK! #35","description":"This episode brings together two of the most gripping conversations in the show's recent run: a man who survived an extended stint in a Philippine jail on fabricated charges, and a medical student whose addiction and grief turned out to be more entangled than she had ever let herself understand.\n\n(Content note: accusations of sexual assault, child abuse, false imprisonment)\n\n\n\nScott McMahon went to Manila for a construction job, ended up befriending a Belgian neighbor, and got pulled into a nightmare when that neighbor's wife turned the Philippine justice system against him. What followed was five and a half years in a maximum-security cell with 300 men, corrupt cops showing up every six weeks with a cash demand, and a family he could only see through a chain-link fence. It is one of the most staggering survival accounts this show has ever aired.\n\n(Content note: addiction, overdose death)\n\nChelsea Dalsey was a medical student with a photographic memory, a habit she couldn't shake, a...","author_name":"Risk! Storytelling Podcast","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/1143584-risk-storytelling-podcast","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/28011805/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}