# Captives Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/risk-962579/captives Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/risk-962579/captives.md Podcast: [RISK!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/risk-962579) Published: 2026-06-09T13:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.risk-show.com/podcast/captives/ Audio file: https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/swap.fm/track/6bpBPtHL977KJxLX2zPs/mgln.ai/e/485/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLSS6207643615.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/risk-962579/episodes/captives Duration seconds: 2750 ## Resource Two stories from people who found themselves in situations they didn't choose and had to figure out what to do from inside them. Guest-hosted by the captivating Cyndi Freeman. (Content note: references to torture) Sofia Javed is a Pakistani-American interpreter hired to work in Uzbek and Russian at Guantanamo Bay, where she is ordered not to sympathize with detainees and then immediately put to the test. What starts as a potential crisis in a cellblock turns on a single, surprisingly mundane demand. (Content note: physical abuse, domestic violence) Heather Minter grew up in an evangelical fundamentalist family that uprooted itself for the mission field in Papua New Guinea, leaving her and her brother in a boarding school dorm run by a cruel and volatile house father. The faith that held her together through childhood eventually came apart in college, and what filled the void turned out to be its own kind of trap. Leave your reactions and find episode details and music credits at risk-show.com/podcast/captives Be Part of RISK! šŸŽŸ See RISK! liveā  tonight! (Tuesday, June 9, 2026) in NYC. āœļø Pitch your storyā  ā¤ļø Support us on Patreonā  šŸ’µ Make a one-time donationā ā  via PayPal or Zelle to kevin@risk-show.com šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! bookā  šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with usā šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/risk-962579/episodes/captives/transcription-requests` ā€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/risk-962579/captives.md` ā€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.