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The Allusionist

75. Ear Hustling

The Allusionist

Helen Zaltzman

Words, Entertainment, Education, History, Etymology, Helen Zaltzman, Linguistics, Arts

4.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re going inside to open up the unofficial dictionary of San Quentin state prison, compiled by Earlonne Woods of Ear Hustle podcast.

Content note: this episode contains some Adult Terms.

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This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Salzman, scream, language screams, wheel scream

1:30.0

for ice cream. In today's episode, we are going inside. Inside San Quentin State Prison,

1:37.0

to visit my radio-toping sibling show, Ear Hustle, made by Erlund Woods, who is incarcerated

1:42.6

at San Quentin, and Nigel Port, an artist based in San Francisco. Content note, there are

1:48.6

a few instances of strong language and strong imagery in the episode, Gurdewol Leines.

1:56.6

On with the show. My name is Erlund Woods, and I am a co-host of the podcast,

2:10.6

Sada San Quentin, called Ear Hustle. And what does Ear Hustle mean? Ear Hustle means a lot of things now,

2:17.6

but it mainly means like ease dropping on other people's conversations, listening in. Somebody

2:25.6

might tell you, like if you're standing there and you're listening, somebody might be like,

2:28.6

hey, man, roll your window up. Like what that means, hey, man, get out of my conversation. That's what that, you know.

2:37.6

There's a lot of vocabulary specific to being here in San Quentin, right? Correct. But presumably when you arrive here,

2:42.6

you're not given a dictionary with it. No. So we started to compile one. B is for blurbred.

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