Ear Hustle Live! 2023

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

At the end of 2023, Ear Hustle embarked on its first live tour — a celebration of our 100th episode. Nigel and Earlonne shared favorite moments from the show’s history, and a few of our talented friends performed live. On the heels of our second live tour, we bring you a never-before-heard recording from that first tour: a show we did at the Lodge Room in Earlonne’s hometown of Los Angeles.

And West Coast Ear Hustlers! Stay tuned — we’re planning to bring our new live show to you soon.

Thank you to Al Schatz, our supremely capable tour production manager; to the good folks at The Lodge Room; and to The Just Trust for supporting our live shows.

You can find more music from Maserati-E here, and from Richie Morris and San Quentin Blue on their website. Pedro Gomes provided beautiful animations for the 2023 EH Live tour. And if you haven’t already tuned into Song Exploder — hosted by Hrishikesh Hirway, who led the round of This and That in LA — you’re missing out!

This episode was scored with music by David Jassy, Rhashiyd Zinnamon, and Antwan Williams.

Big thanks to Warden Andes and Lt. Berry at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center; Acting Warden Parker, Associate Warden Lewis, and Lt. Newborg at the California Institution for Women; and Warden De La Cruz and Lt. Williams at the Central California Women’s Facility for their support of the show.

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0:00.0	Nigel, it is so good to be sleeping back in my own bed.
0:07.0	Do the back problems.
0:10.8	Well, I was happy to get home, but honestly, Erlon, and I hope Rick doesn't hear this,
0:15.0	I could be on the road forever.
0:17.0	I loved it.
0:18.0	Why wouldn't Rick hear this?
0:20.1	To any listener that don't know, we just got back from a three-week tour across the South and the Midwest, 10 cities and three prisons. It was, what would I say? Epic. Amazing. Pretty epic. And I'm going to say a big success. It really was, Erlon. It was a blast, and there was so much to celebrate about what we all did together.
0:39.6	Yes, we got to kick it with listeners.
0:41.5	Yes, I love that.
0:42.5	We got to hang out and get advice and tell jokes.
0:46.1	And see so many cities and the countryside and places that are so different in California.
0:50.9	And a lot of corn.
0:52.3	You were obsessed with that damn corn. Oh my God.
0:57.9	Yes, I'm obsessed.
1:00.4	But it was such a success that I'm going to spill the beans on something.
1:04.6	Oh, yes, please do.
1:05.9	We're going to be taking this new show back on the road early next year.
1:10.7	Yes, a mini tour of cities and prisons
1:13.4	on the West Coast. And at each stop, we're going to do one of each, right? One show for
1:18.6	incarcerated people in local prisons and one show for the public. Exactly. And we're still
1:23.8	nailing down the details. So stay tuned. We'll have those on our website soon.
1:28.6	But in the meantime, we're going to share something with y'all that we've never shared before.
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