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Ear Hustle
Ear Hustle & Radiotopia
4.9 • 21.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
From obsessive body-building to extreme tattoos and other transformations: stories about the ways people in prison think about and try to change their bodies. Plus: “the California body,” explained.
This episode was scored with music by Antwan Williams, David Jassy, Dwight Krisman, and Derrell Sadiq Davis.
Big thanks to Warden Andes, Lt. Berry, and Sgt. Graves at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center; Acting Warden Padilla, Associate Warden Lewis, and Lt. Avina at the California Institution for Women; and Warden De La Cruz and Lt. Vogel at the Central California Women’s Facility for their support of the show.
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| 0:00.0 | We've got a special guest with us today, our senior editor, Amy Stand-in, who just got her AARP. |
| 0:09.2 | What the hell? |
| 0:10.5 | She's our senior editor. |
| 0:11.8 | Oh, hey Amy. |
| 0:13.7 | He's right. |
| 0:14.4 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:16.1 | Amy, could you tell the good folks just a little about all the things that you do for ear hustle? |
| 0:21.3 | Sure. Well, I'm all the things that you do for ear hustle? Sure. |
| 0:22.4 | Well, I'm in the studio whenever you guys track, whenever you guys record narration, like right now. |
| 0:28.6 | I get to help out a lot with the writing and shaping of episodes with the two of you. |
| 0:34.3 | After this, the three of us are going to San Quentin to do some interviews. |
| 0:38.5 | That should be fun. |
| 0:40.2 | Also, speaking of San Quentin, I run an internship program, and I also have something I call |
| 0:44.6 | an open class where we bring in guests from the outside to teach incarcerated |
| 0:48.4 | people about storytelling. |
| 0:49.7 | And then the live shows. |
| 0:51.3 | It's the other big piece, right? |
| 0:52.7 | We all work shaping those shows together, writing them, figuring out what they're going to look like and sound like, and bringing those shows into prisons to show to incarcerated people and also doing workshops on storytelling at different prisons around the country. |
| 1:07.7 | So, yeah, it's basically I get to work on all of the fun stuff and none of the not |
| 1:13.0 | fun stuff. What is the not fun stuff? It leads that to Bruce. That will remain a secret. |
| 1:18.6 | And the reason that we have Amy here is to make the point that none of those things she mentioned |
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