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Midnight in Manila

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Performing Arts, Comedy, Arts, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Scott McMahon tells Dawn Fraser from the RISK! podcast his story “Midnight in Manila,” about the time he was pulled into a nightmare of corruption, false rape charges, and five years in a Philippine jail.  Check out all of our Conversation Stories! 🎙️Conversation Story: Midnight in Manila by Scott McMahon Scott McMahon tells Dawn Fraser from the RISK! podcast his story “Midnight in Manila,” about the time he was pulled into a nightmare of corruption, false rape charges, and five years in a Philippine jail.  keywords: Philippine jail, American imprisoned abroad, wrongful imprisonment, framed, corruption, corruption in Philippines, Manila, Manila prison survival, false rape charge, held without trial 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • 🎟 See RISK! live!⁠ • ✍️ Pitch your story⁠ • ❤️ Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • 📚 Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • 🎓 Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • 🎥 Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey folks, this is Kevin. In case you haven't heard, I am in the middle of moving to Thailand.

0:09.0

When I'm recording this little bit right here, I'm still in my New York apartment, but about to break my recording equipment down for a couple weeks.

0:18.0

So today I give you over to Risk Story Coach and Master Storyteller Brad Lawrence from our staff

0:27.1

to guest host for me today.

0:29.9

So I will see you on the other side and here is Brad.

0:34.6

Hey folks.

0:36.4

Oh, sorry.

0:38.0

You know, I will say, uh, I cried.

0:42.5

How's that sound?

0:44.3

Should I head back to the script now?

0:46.7

Okay.

0:47.7

All right, here we go.

0:49.2

Hey, folks.

0:49.9

This is Risk.

0:51.5

How is that?

0:52.3

Oh, and you know, This is Risk. How is that? Oh, oh, oh, uh, oh, uh, oh, uh, oh, uh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they'd dare to share.

1:45.0

I'm Brad Lawrence, and this is one of our conversation story episodes, where someone tells us

1:51.8

a story and then we chat about it.

1:54.4

Simple as that.

1:55.6

Today we're sharing a story that Scott McMahon told Don Fraser, who is one of our fellow

2:00.3

story coaches here at risk and who's

2:02.1

told stories on risk many times about her history as a college athlete, as well as her

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