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115: Michael Scott Moore | What It's Really like to Be a Pirate Hostage

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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The Psychology of Being a Hostage

I was sitting on a lot of anger and it just got worse, obviously. I had a quick temper with the guards, which I had to restrain sometimes. Sometimes I felt murderous and sometimes I felt suicidal. They weren't very careful about their weapons. We were confined to one work deck on a 50 meter ship. The Somalis could go anywhere. So even if we could only see 10 Somalis at one time, we weren't sure that there weren't 30. And actually my guess is that there was probably one guard for each person and they were just stashed here and there. That certainly crossed my mind. But I wouldn't have been the person to lead it. It would

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